Notorious S-H-E Gabriella Hall

In this episode, we join Nicole Denil from Microsoft. She comes to talk to us about her journey, Smart Devices, and Security. What is Microsoft Azure? Microsoft Azure often referred to as Azure, is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers. Part of Microsoft Azure is Digital Twins. Azure Digital Twins is an Internet of Things (IoT) platform that enables you to create a digital representation of real-world things, places, business processes, and people. Gain insights that help you drive better products, optimize operations and costs and create breakthrough customer experiences.

In this episode, Nicole talks to us about career options within the tech industry that go beyond strictly STEM roles. She leads global sales for the Internet of Things and has a background in business. She advises learning as much as you can about the industry, not just the business aspect. As a general manager at Microsoft, she owns the relationship with Microsoft’s major customers and works to mainstream the Internet of Things. One incredible aspect of her work is that she has a global role and has had an opportunity to explore cultures around the world. Despite the globality of her work, she still has a strong sense of community within Microsoft and within her own life.

In this episode, we join Dr. Margaret Dominguez from NASA Goddard. She comes to talk to us about her journey, NASA, and optical engineering. What is optical engineering? Optical engineering is the field of science and engineering encompassing the physical phenomena and technologies associated with the generation, transmission, manipulation, detection, and utilization of light. She uses her optical engineering knowledge to work on space telescopes for NASA. She looks forward to the incredible future of the field of optics.

Today we are joined by Dr. Francine Berman, Director of Public Interest Technology, and Stuart Rice Research Professor at UMass Amherst. She has come to talk to us about her journey, the Internet of Things, and data gathering. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a deeply interconnected ecosystem of billions of devices and systems that are transforming commerce, science, and society.

In this episode, we join Tia Dubuisson of Belle Fluer Technologies. She comes to talk to us about her journey, AWS servers, and big data. What is big data? Big data is a term that describes large, hard-to-manage volumes of data – both structured and unstructured – that inundate businesses on a day-to-day basis. But it's not the amount of data that's important. It's what organizations do with the data that matters. Her company, Belle Fleur Technologies focuses on data, analytics & AI solutions to transform Businessnesses.