First Friday Video Series
Every business is going through a transformation, seeking to leverage the latest advances in cloud computing, artificial intelligence and real-time data to create compelling and market moving experiences for their employees, partners and customers. What we have all discovered though is that digitizing your business is constrained primarily by company culture. You may need to break old habits, organize teams using new collaboration models, and encourage an agile methodology as you increase the velocity of how you bring new digital experiences to market. In this presentation, we will discuss Microsoft’s digital transformation and how what Microsoft learned through that process is helping their customers accelerate their journey. Areas of innovation such as Mixed Reality, IoT and AI will be discussed.
Speaker
Bob Familiar is the Director of the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in Boston.
The MTC is an innovation hub for Microsoft’s customers providing them the opportunity to engage and collaborate with Microsoft on their most challenging issues related to becoming a Digital Business. The MTC provides Envisioning Sessions and Strategy Briefings, Architecture Design Sessions, Hands-On Workshops, Hackathons and works with customers to design and build Rapid Prototypes for connected products and the application of augmented reality and artificial intelligence within business scenarios.
Bob is a software industry veteran with over 34 years of experience as a software developer, architect, consultant, evangelist and author of two books, ‘Microservices, IoT and Azure’ and ‘Business in Real-Time using Azure IoT and Cortana Intelligence Suite’. He is a frequent industry speaker on enabling businesses to realize the full benefit of digital transformation through the application of lean engineering.