The Data Binge
Welcome to the Data Binge Podcast, hosted by Derek Russell, a digital strategist in big tech helping enterprise businesses become empowered through data. This podcast focuses on providing perspectives on how Microsoft is positioning its cloud, AI, machine learning, and other data driven tech, across various industry verticals.
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 78
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2023
58 | Identifying Opportunities for AI - Advocacy, Execution, and Culture Change | Chat Mode Insights Series
Today's discussion features a LIVE interview hosted by Chat Mode, a system integrator focused on implementing conversational AI, located in Bellevue Washington. This particular LIVE discussion is par…
57 | A Culture of Creating Hope, Strength, and Joy | The Feedback Loop of Gratitude
Today's episode features Joe Forline. Joe is a Sr. Manager of Chapter Advancement at Make-a-wish America. Make-a-wish creates life changing experiences for children with critical illnesses. Founded i…
56 | The New Culture of Work | Bridging the Digital Divide
Today's episode is a Simply Tech LIVE interview featuring my co-host, Ali Mazaheri, and our special guest, Gina Loften. Gina is the Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft US, where she connects busine…
55 | Robotics, Machine Intelligence, and the New Era of Learning
Today's episode features Brandon Rohrer, Principal Data Scientist at iRobot. iRobot is an American robotics company that designs and builds consumer robots, including the Roomba, an AI powered autono…
54 | Personalized Learning for Every Child | Modernizations in Education with AI
Today's episode is a Simply Tech LIVE interview featuring my co-host, Ali Mazaheri, and our special guest, Elnaz Sarraf. Elnaz is the Founder & CEO of ROYBI, an investor-backed EdTech company that ra…
53 | Leadership, Navigating Fear, Finding Empathy | My Top 10 Learnings from 3 Years at Microsoft
Today's episode is a solo discussion, culminating the top 10 learnings I've pulled away from a little over 3 years working at Microsoft US. These learnings were the outcome of numerous collaborations…
52 | Hire for Character, Train for Skill | What Organizations Can Learn from Special Operations Forces
Today's episode is a LIVE recording of The Data Binge podcast, hosted on LinkedIn, featuring Mike Sarraille, and George Randle. the co-authors of "The Talent War: How Special Operations and Great Org…
51 | Leadership, Sustainability, and Solutions for Transformations in Manufacturing
Today's episode is a Simply Tech LIVE interview, capturing a new mini-series the program is doing on Transformations in Industry, Manufacturing. The episode features our guest co-host, Greg Vigil, In…
50 | Empathy - The Most Effective Journey to Innovations in AI
Today's episode is a Simply Tech LIVE interview featuring my co-host, Ali Mazaheri, and our guest, Ed Essey. Ed is the Director of Intrapreneurship & Incubation in the Microsoft Garage, a program tha…
49 | Advancing the Careers of Diverse Leaders | Management Leadership for Tomorrow
Today's episode features a dialogue with Kendra Crook, Sr. MBA Prep Coach at Management for Leadership for Tomorrow or (MLT). MLT is a non-profit organization specifically focused on changing the fac…
48 | "Data Science for All - Feeding the AI Economy
Andrew Strong is the Head of Business Operations at Correlation One, an organization headquartered in New York, focused on building technologies, programs, and frameworks that help companies find, ev…
47 | Authentic CEO Communications - Developing an Acute Understanding of the Multi-constituent World
Today's show is a Simply Tech LIVE interview featuring my co-host, Ali Mazaheri, and our guest, Caitlin McCabe. Caitlin has been at Microsoft for almost 11 years, and is currently the Sr. Director of…
46 | The "Why" of Creating a Show - A Starter Discussion to Podcasting & LIVE Streaming
Today's episode is a recording of a LIVE interview discussion, hosted on LinkedIn LIVE, featuring a program called "The Example Show" produced by Ryan Swanstrom. Ryan is a heavily credentialed Softwa…
45 | Re-imagining the K-12 Education Experience - Innovation, Tech, & Capital
Today's discussion features Ian Connell. Ian is an Investment Principal at Charter School Growth Fund, a non-profit focusing on making multi-year philanthropic investments in public charter school ne…
44 | Exploring the Realities of Racism Through Virtual Reality (VR)
Today's discussion features Courtney D. Cogburn and Jeremy Bailenson. Courtney is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Columbia University, Courtney is on the faculty of the Columbia Population R…
43 | **Happy Juneteenth** - Celebrating Freedom in 2020
This episode is recognizing today, Friday, June 19th, 2020, Juneteenth or otherwise known as Freedom Day. This State holiday, which is now observed by 46 states, originated from June 19, 1865, commem…
42 | Anchoring Humanity in Compassionate Conversation
Rodney Campbell and Keith Richardson are hosts of the More in Common Podcast, where their work around guest discussions, focuses on amplifying voices, and abstracting stories that leverage real human…
41 | Building AI to Reflect Our Diverse World
Noelle Silver is the VP of Digital Technology at National Public Radio (NPR), where she leads the engineering organization across initiatives ranging from the Alexa skills platform to mobile applicat…
40 | The (2) Most Important Financial Decisions of Your Life - Spend Less than You Earn & Invest Early & Often
Today's discussion, features, Jeremy Schneider, self-made multi-millionaire, retiree at 34 years old, and now founder of Personal Finance Club (@personalfinanceclub on Instagram), an organization bui…
39 | Enhancing the Virtual Meeting: Why Technology Is Not the Answer to Better Collaborations
Today's discussion features Matt Homann, CEO and Founder of Filament, an organization that designs, facilitates, and hosts collaborative meetings, conferences, off-sites and any type of human collabo…