Episode 150 – Azure Quantum with Julie Love

Episode 150 – Azure Quantum with Julie Love

In Episode 150, Ben sits down at Microsoft Ignite with Julie Love, Senior Director, Quantum Computing at Microsoft, to talk all about quantum computing and the newly announced service Azure Quantum.

Sponsors

  • ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs
  • Opsgility – Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption
  • Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully
  • Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business

Show Notes

Julie Love – Senior Director, Quantum Computing at Microsoft

Quantum computing has potential for profound impact on our economic, industrial, academic and societal landscape. As director of quantum computing business development, I lead Microsoft’s engagement with enterprises, startups, and developers. I have a deep technical background in quantum computing, with a Ph.D. in quantum physics from one of the leading experimental quantum computing groups in the world at Yale and a BS in Physics from MIT. I have held a variety of strategic and operational roles at Microsoft and Adobe, and served as an advisor to two quantum computing companies along the way. I leverage my deep quantum expertise with experience building big platform businesses to develop our product strategy and drive engagement with Microsoft’s quantum platform.

About the sponsors

SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks.
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Everyone on your team is unique…so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod
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Episode 147 – All Things Microsoft Ignite with Anna Chu

Episode 147 – All Things Microsoft Ignite with Anna Chu

In Episode 147, Ben and Scott have a chat with Anna Chu, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft for the Microsoft Tech Community where they discuss Microsoft Ignite 2019 and all of the exciting announcements coming. The session catalog is out and you’ll want to listen for tips and tricks around how to get into the “must-see” sessions.

Sponsors

    • ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs
    • SaneBox – SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks.
    • Skill Me Up – Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn.
    • Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully
    • Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business

Show Notes

About Anna

As Microsoft 365 Product Marketing Manager, Anna is responsible for working across the Microsoft Tech Community (Launched Sept 1, 2016) and MVP communities to engage with the IT Pro audience. This involves driving partnerships between engineering and marketing that influence product roadmaps and leading community strategy to enable best practice sharing between customers – in turn facilitating a natural feedback loop between the people who build Microsoft Office products and services and the people who implement them. She is also the Community Strategy Lead for major Microsoft events such as Microsoft Ignite and Microsoft Ignite | The Tour.

Follow Anna on Twitter @_achu and LinkedIn.

A previous episode with Anna

About the sponsors

ShareGate Logo Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more.
Everyone on your team is unique…so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod
SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks.
Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription! https://www.sanebox.com/allthings
Intelligink.com Logo Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.
Episode 143 – Adoption Change Management for Microsoft 365 with David Callaghan

Episode 143 – Adoption Change Management for Microsoft 365 with David Callaghan

In Episode 143, Ben and Scott sit down with David Callaghan, Head of Business Change at FITTS, to talk about Adoption Change Management (or ACM) for Microsoft 365. We focus so much on technology, its easy to lose sight into why we deploy Microsoft 365 – to make our people more productive, which in turn makes our business successful.

Sponsors

  • ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs
  • Opsgility – Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption
  • SaneBox – SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks.
  • Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully
  • Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business

Show Notes

About David

David Callaghan MCMI is the Head of Business Change at FITTS and has been working in the field of Change Management for over five years. Since graduating from Reading University, he has helped many organizations (such as the UK Parliament, Whitbread PLC, and Jaguar Land Rover) lead business change activity. He is an active member of the Change Management Institute and holds practitioners’ certificates in change management from both PROSCI (Change Management Certification) and APMG (Change Management Practitioner).

About the sponsors

ShareGate Logo Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more.
SaneBox brings sanity back to your inbox by prioritizing what’s important, removing spam/junk, grouping newsletters together, and automating tedious tasks.
Sign up today and save $25 on any subscription! https://www.sanebox.com/allthings
As the leading global brand for enabling the Microsoft Cloud, Opsgility’s global Microsoft MVP and multi-certified Cloud Solutions Architect team has authored over twenty MOC Courses, the Microsoft Press Book Implementing Azure Solutions 70-533 and numerous Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks for Microsoft Partners. And for a limited time, you can get your team certified in the most exciting cloud business today with a 25% discount off instructor-led training prep courses for Azure and Microsoft 365! Visit https://opsgility.com/MicrosoftCloud to learn more.
Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.
Episode 147 – All Things Microsoft Ignite with Anna Chu

Episode 135 – Speaking at Microsoft Ignite! with Anna Chu

In Episode 135, Ben and Scott have a chat with Anna Chu, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft for the Microsoft Tech Community where they discuss Microsoft Ignite 2019 and Microsoft Ignite | The Tour and how you can get involved. They cover what is involved with becoming a speaker, the types of sessions Microsoft is soliciting content for this year, and more!

Sponsors

  • Mover.io – Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck – with Mover!
  • ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs
  • Opsgility – Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption
  • Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully
  • Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business

Show Notes

About Anna

As Microsoft 365 Product Marketing Manager, Anna is responsible for working across the Microsoft Tech Community (Launched Sept 1, 2016) and MVP communities to engage with the IT Pro audience. This involves driving partnerships between engineering and marketing that influence product roadmaps and leading community strategy to enable best practice sharing between customers – in turn facilitating a natural feedback loop between the people who build Microsoft Office products and services and the people who implement them. She is also the Community Strategy Lead for major Microsoft events such as Microsoft Ignite and Microsoft Ignite | The Tour.

Follow Anna on Twitter @_achu and LinkedIn.

About the sponsors

ShareGate Logo Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more.
Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze.
Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck – with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info.
As the leading global brand for enabling the Microsoft Cloud, Opsgility’s global Microsoft MVP and multi-certified Cloud Solutions Architect team has authored over twenty MOC Courses, the Microsoft Press Book Implementing Azure Solutions 70-533 and numerous Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks for Microsoft Partners. And for a limited time, you can get your team certified in the most exciting cloud business today with a 25% discount off instructor-led training prep courses for Azure and Microsoft 365! Visit https://opsgility.com/MicrosoftCloud to learn more.
Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.
Episode 114 – Answering “Why Cloud?” with Sarah Lean

Episode 114 – Answering “Why Cloud?” with Sarah Lean

In Episode 114, Ben and Scott have a chat with Sarah Lean, a Cloud Solution Architect from Microsoft about why you should be looking at the cloud, thinking about how to approach the new terminology you’ll be exposed to, and how to govern your Azure environments.

Sponsors

  • Mover.io – Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck – with Mover!
  • Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox
  • Opsgility – Your Cloud enablement partner to help guide your organization through all phases of Cloud migration and adoption
  • Office365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully
  • Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business

Show Notes

About Sarah Lean

Sarah fell in love with technology at an early age and have made it her career. She has a deep and wide-ranging knowledge of a variety of best-in-breed technologies. In recent years she has started to focus and specialize in all things Cloud, especially Microsoft Azure. Sarah joined Microsoft as a Cloud Solution Architect in January 2018 and her focus is on helping organizations with their Data Center Transformations. Within her role, she gets to combine her 13+ years’ experience of managing and designing on-premises environments and her passion for Azure, helping customers start their cloud journey is an ideal role for her.
Sarah is a STEM Ambassador and is hopeful that sharing her story can help inspire the next generation into a STEM career.

In February 2017 Sarah founded the Glasgow Azure User Group, which is a community group that meets every two months and aims to bring together people who are looking to learn and network with their peers.

As well as running a user group Sarah loves to attend other groups and speak at them as well.

Sarah can be found on Twitter @techielass, GitHub at https://github.com/weeyin83, and her blog at https://www.techielass.com.

About the sponsors

Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze.
Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck – with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info.
As the leading global brand for enabling the Microsoft Cloud, Opsgility’s global Microsoft MVP and multi-certified Cloud Solutions Architect team has authored over twenty MOC Courses, the Microsoft Press Book Implementing Azure Solutions 70-533 and numerous Microsoft Cloud Practice Playbooks for Microsoft Partners. And for a limited time, you can get your team certified in the most exciting cloud business today with a 25% discount off instructor-led training prep courses for Azure and Microsoft 365! Visit https://opsgility.com/MicrosoftCloud to learn more.
Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT
Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.