MS Connect Conference

Cloud services are now ubiquitous in data science and more broadly in technology as well. This week, I speak to Mark Souza, Tobias Ternström, and Corey Sanders about various aspects of data at scale. We discuss the embedding of R into SQLServer, SQLServer on linux, open source, and a few other cloud topics.

Guests

Mark Souza: Mark Souza is a Corporate Vice President and CTO of Microsoft Asia. The Office of the CTO for Microsoft Asia will help our customers with their journey to the cloud. This takes the form of removing barriers to cloud adoption as well as providing guidance on how our customers can accelerate their adoption of cloud services. Prior to this, Mark was CVP of Microsoft Worldwide Customer Success for four years, helping our customers successfully deploy on the Microsoft cloud. Mark also previously spent 20 years as part of the Microsoft Cloud + AI engineering organization.

Tobias Ternström: Tobias is a technology executive from Sweden living in Redmond, WA.

Corey Sanders: As Senior Vice President at CoreWeave, I help lead the development and execution of CoreWeave's strategic initiatives, with a focus on scaling innovation, enhancing market leadership, partnering with customers for purpose-built solutions, and driving sustainable growth in the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem.