In this “Meet the Guru” discussion, you get to hear from Praba Santhanakrishnan, who has led the data & analytics strategy at Microsoft and drive a modern cloud-based distributed data warehouse platform for the Microsoft devices business for products such as Xbox, Surface and HoloLens.

What will you learn?

• What is machine learning,
• What is intelligent business, and many examples,
• What are the fields and subfields of machine learning and artificial intelligence,
• Who are the major players in the field,
• Who is hiring and what are they looking for,
• How can you navigate learning the appropriate skills,
• What to learn first, second, third…
• Do you need a certification, and if so which one(s),
• Is this field too complicated for you, or do you not know what you don’t know yet.
  

About our Guru:

Praba Santhanakrishnan is a principal software engineering lead in data engineering & data science active in the software and systems development field for over 25 years.  Praba has led the data & analytics strategy at Microsoft and drive a modern cloud-based distributed data warehouse platform for the Microsoft devices business for products such as Xbox, Surface and HoloLens.

About our Host:

Paul Siegel is an entrepreneur and an educator working towards technology professionals to transform them into world-class experts and business people into tech-savvy leaders. Paul is an inventor and patent (pending) holder in talent management software and has co-authored and/or edited over 30 books (check Amazon to see details).

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Meet the Gurus is a program sponsored by Starweaver and devoted to spreading ideas, knowledge and insights, in short form and typically talks of 30 minutes or less.

MTG is dedicated to technology, business, entertainment, entrepreneurship and design.  These are fields that have converged in powerful ways to change the way we live.

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