Tales from the Cloud Felipe Andrade and Mike Davison

In this episode Mike and Felipe discuss Data Governance with a focus on Azure Purview, a Data Governance service soon-to-be Generally Available.

Purview implements initially the following components Data Map, Data Catalog, Glossary and Data Insights. Those components working together are powerful for any organization interested in understanding their Data Assets.

Data Classification and Lineage are also interesting capabilities that allow you to understand what type of data you have and how did it get to the consumption layer. 

More about Azure Purview here: Azure Purview for unified data governance | Microsoft Azure

Link for the pyapacheatlas implementation: wjohnson/pyapacheatlas: A python package to help work with the apache atlas REST APIs (github.com)

In this episode Mike and Felipe chat about Internet of Things and what we are seeing in the industry. We go deeper on the technical discussion as well.

In this episode Mike and Felipe received Khalil Alfar, Data & AI Customer Succes Lead for Microsoft Canada, to talk about the evolution of the Chief Data Officer Role. 

Khalil talks to us about the importance of Data Governance, Strategy and why companies need to understand in what stage they are before investing in this role. Different companies might need different approaches from a CDO perspective.

Books suggested:
The Chief Data Officer Handbook for Data Governance: Amazon.ca: Soares, Sunil: Books

Non-Invasive Data Governance: The Path of Least Resistance and Greatest Success: Seiner, Robert S.: 9781935504856: Books - Amazon.ca

Taraneh (Tara) Khazaei leads the National AI team for Microsoft Canada. She previously worked as an AI Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft and held Data Science positions at Financial Services Companies in Canada.

Tara talks to us about challenges she has seen in the industry around starting Data Science projects in the cloud and how the responsibility needs to be shared between different teams within a company. She also talks about what a day-to-day of a Data Science looks like and how to start on the profession.

In this episode we talked to Andrey Cavalcanti, Canada's Data & AI General Manager, about the challenges that Enterprises face when trying to modernize their Data Estate. Andrey talks about what he is seeing overall when talking to C-Level on Enterprises and what Microsoft is doing to help our customers.

In this episode we will interview a Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect Manager, Kevin Poulton.
Kevin has worked for companies like IBM, Gartner and is now at Microsoft where he leads the Data Solution Architects for Canada Central. Kevin shares his perspective on career and what he tries to get from candidates. He also shares his career path and what to look for when transitioning careers.
Spoiler: We talk a lot about Lifelong Learning and how having this mindset increase your chances. Here is a great resource if you want to learn more about Cloud and solutions Microsoft Learn | Microsoft Docs