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How do you pivot from a record-breaking NFL career to transforming the investment space?  Marques Colston shares his compelling story of grit, adaptation, and leading with purpose. In this episode of Mitlin Money Mindset®, Larry Sprung sits down with Marques Colston, a Super Bowl champion and founding partner of Champion Venture Partners. Marques reflects on his journey from being an overlooked draft pick to a trailblazer in democratizing sports investments, emphasizing resilience, operational excellence, and accessibility for all investors. Marques discusses: His transition from NFL athlete to entrepreneur and the pivotal role of self-awareness The vision behind Champion Venture Partners and its focus on accessibility in investments The parallels between sports and business, highlighting discipline and risk-taking How fractional ownership and emerging sports are reshaping the investment space The significance of education and empowering new investors for long-term impact And more! Resources: Mitlin Financial   The JOY and Productivity Journal by Lawrence Sprung  Download Your Free Copy of the Couple's JOYful Money Guide Connect with Larry Sprung:  LinkedIn: Larry Sprung Instagram: Larry Sprung Facebook: Larry Sprung X (Twitter): Larry Sprung Connect with Marques Colston:  Website: Champion Venture Partners Website: Marques Colston LinkedIn: Marques Colston  Twitter: Marques Colston   Instagram: Marques Colston  LinkedIn: Champion Venture Partners  Instagram: Champion Venture Partners Facebook: Champion Venture Partners TikTok: Champion Venture Partners YouTube: Champion Venture Partners  About our Guest: A seasoned business leader, Marques's business career is shaped by the perspectives and lived experiences gained from his journey to becoming an unlikely NFL standout. Marques's journey from small school prospect through a decade-long NFL career taught him how success has to be earned everyday, and sustaining it at the highest level requires humility that allows you to be an active learner, curiosity to explore new ways to unlock value, and confidence built on preparation and repetition. This philosophy is the foundation of Marques's post-football journey as an entrepreneur, educator, financial advisor, and executive coach and strategic consultant for dozens of companies – startups to Fortune 100.  His diverse path is connected by the vision to empower underserved and underestimated communities, helping them envision and achieve beyond their current limitations.  CVP represents an opportunity for Marques to leverage his passion, skills, influence, and access to build a firm with the potential to build a legacy of doing well and good, by creating access to wealth building opportunities to a more diverse group of investors. Disclosure: Guests on the Mitlin Money Mindset are not affiliated with CWM, LLC, and opinions expressed herein may not be representative of CWM, LLC. CWM, LLC is not responsible for the guest's content linked on this site.  

The best employees have more options than ever, which means your employer brand matters more than ever, too. You need a strong employee value proposition (EVP), which has three parts: the internal culture people want, your own promotion of that culture, and what other employees say about you.https://swiy.co/go-talent-chooses-youI recently bought a book about cricket (Why? Because I'm a cricket tragic – and that's what we do!)I've never been any good at playing cricket, but for almost fifty years now, I've followed cricket – going to see it live, watching it on TV, listening on the radio, subscribing to dozens of cricket podcasts, and occasionally buying a cricket book.When I heard Jarrod Kimber had written this book about cricket, I bought it. Not because I buy every book about cricket – I don't – but because it was written by Jarrod Kimber. I have followed him for a while, I like the way he thinks, what he thinks about, and what other people say about him. Even without reading a sample of his book, Jarrod has a strong enough reputation I'm willing to buy it.That's what a business calls its customer value proposition (CVP): the reason people should buy from you.The same applies to future employees, and that's called your employee value proposition, or EVP. Why should they work with you?The best people have a choice of where they can work. As they are looking around, they assess organisations by their EVP. They don't use that phrase, but that's effectively what they do.So what do you project from the outside? What do the best people see that makes them even want to apply to work with you – and then to accept what you offer them?Your EVP is hugely important, and the way you create it has changed.In the past – pre-digital days – it used to be based on your premises, where you were located, what the office looked like, how they felt when they went in for an interview.Then, as we became more online, your EVP was defined by your website, your LinkedIn company page, the job ads you put out on SEEK, and your other public, outward-facing channels.Now, those things are still important, but it's also what other people – your current and past employees – say about you. People share their experiences in online forums, employer review sites like Glassdoor, Reddit threads, and so many other channels.If you don't have a strong EVP, it becomes much more difficult to attract the best people.Your EVP has three components:1. Culture: Do you even offer what the best people want in a workplace culture?2. Promise: How do you promote that culture to future employees?3. Reputation: How do they KNOW you keep that promise?That third part – which is largely driven by your employees, not by you – is just as important as the other two.When you get all three right, you become a talent magnet – especially to attract the best people.I'm running a public online presentation soon about your employee value proposition and becoming a talent magnet. It's free, it's public, and it's open to everybody. So register here, and feel free to invite other leaders in your team and your network as well.I'll see you in the future.Register for the virtual masterclass:https://swiy.co/go-talent-chooses-you Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Data is a key component to the agentic future of organizations and there is so much learn and understand in order for solution developers, admins, CIOs, CEOs, and CTOs, to have a successful deployment. Luckily, Nirav Shah, CVP of BAC (the org formerly known as Dataverse) joins the podcast to talk about how agents play a critical role in how organizations run, how customers can solve their business problems with Microsoft Copilot and agents, and what is an expert agent.  Nirav and former guest, James Olenik, spoke at Microsoft Build about this very topic! Check it out here: https://build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/BRK129?source=sessions   Also check out:  aka.ms/2025brk132 aka.ms/2025od817 aka.ms/2025brk125 aka.ms/2025brk159

Ever wondered how a Super Bowl champion pivots from the gridiron to the world of finance and venture capital? Join us as we dive deep with former New Orleans Saints superstar Marques Colston, co-founder of Champion Venture Capital. Discover the secrets behind his unlikely transition, the mistakes athletes and everyday individuals make in wealth management, and his how-to guide for building a lasting legacy. Marques shares his unique perspective on identifying game-changing opportunities in sports tech, real estate, and beyond, and reveals how CVP is democratizing access to this traditionally exclusive asset class for everyone. Don't miss this inspiring episode packed with insights on strategic diversification and the future of fan engagement—you can't afford to stay on the sidelines! In this episode, we're discussing… Early Financial Literacy is Crucial: Even during a successful athletic career, planning for the future and seeking sound financial advice is paramount for a smooth transition. Transferable Skills Drive New Ventures: The discipline, work ethic, and ability to connect with people honed in professional sports can be powerful assets in the business world. Strategic Investing Bridges Passions and Profits: Aligning investment strategies with personal interests, like sports, can create a deeper understanding and connection to opportunities. Democratizing Access to Exclusive Markets: Champion Venture Capital aims to break down barriers, allowing both accredited and non-accredited investors to participate in the lucrative sports investment ecosystem. Value-Driven Partnerships are Key to Success: Beyond capital, a strong team with operational expertise and genuine engagement with portfolio companies drives significant growth. The Future of Fan Engagement is Immersive: Expect groundbreaking technologies like VR/AR and enhanced data analytics to revolutionize how fans experience sports.    Resources from Marques Colston     LinkedIn | Instagram | Champion Venture Capital       Resources from Mike and Nichole    Gateway Private Equity Group |Nic's guide | Franchise With Bob  

Philipp Matthias Bregy wird Ende Juni von den Delegierten als einziger Kandidat zum neuen Präsidenten der Partei «Die Mitte» gewählt. Er übernimmt eine Partei, die zwar viel Einfluss, aber auch konkurrierende Flügel hat. Wie will er sie führen? Bregy ist zu Gast im Tagesgespräch. Bregy übernimmt das Amt von Gerhard Pfister, der die CVP mit der BDP fusioniert, in «Die Mitte» umbenennt und gegen links geöffnet hat. Wie wird Bregy diesen Kurs weiterführen? Kann er ihn als eher konservativen Walliser Politiker glaubhaft vertreten? Das sei zentral, sagen Politologinnen und Politologen, denn sie sehen das Wachstumspotential für «Die Mitte» in erster Linie im urbanen, progressiveren Umfeld. Philipp Matthias Bregy ist zu Gast im Tagesgespräch.

Ein Walliser, ein Walliser, ein Walliser. Wenn etwas sicher ist in der Schweizer Politik, dann das: Bei der Mitte (die ehemals als CVP bekannt war) spielt immer mindestens ein Walliser (oder eine Walliserin) eine wichtige Rolle.Den aktuellen Part wird nun Philipp Matthias Bregy übernehmen. Der Nationalrat und Fraktionschef der Mitte ist der einzige Kandidat für die Nachfolge von Gerhard Pfister an der Spitze der Partei.Bregy gilt als leutseliger Politiker, als einer, der gerne gute Stimmung hat und an allen möglichen Veranstaltungen dabei ist. Auf schweizerisch: an jeder Hundsverlochete. Das ist ein grosser Unterschied zu seinem Vorgänger Gerhard Pfister, der reservierter galt.Auch sonst wird Bregy sicher zu Beginn an seinem Vorgänger gemessen. Das Erbe von Pfister ist gross. Er hat die Partei umgebaut, neu benannt, zurück zum Erfolg gebracht. Wird Bregy dem gerecht werden können? Wohin führt er die Mitte? Und wofür steht er politisch?Das diskutiert das «Politbüro» in einer neuen Ausgabe. Zu Gast sind Raphaela Birrer, Larissa Rhyn und Fabian Renz. Gastgeber ist Philipp Loser. Unser Tagi-Spezialangebot für Podcast-Hörer:innen: tagiabo.chHabt ihr Feedback, Ideen oder Kritik zu «Apropos»? Schreibt uns an podcasts@tamedia.ch

Today's guest is Annie Pearl, CVP and GM of Azure Experiences and Ecosystems at Microsoft. As technology continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, artificial intelligence remains at the forefront of innovation for startups and large corporations alike. In this podcast, Annie delves into the rapidly transforming landscape of AI startups and the opportunities and challenges they present.Topics include:0:00 Startups prioritising responsible, integrated AI for rapid growth3:52 Why enterprises race to adopt AI responsibly through startups5:19 How Microsoft supports startups with tech, funding and enterprise matchmaking8:06 The role of Copilot driving major time & cost savings across enterprises9:46 Utilising AI tools boost employee satisfaction, retention and creativity10:22 Advice to start small with AI or go advanced - just start now11:17 Why AI in healthcare is exciting due to time savings & impact

Benefits of Ultrafiltration Presenter: J. Basha, CCP Ultrafiltration hit perfusion like a lifeline, giving us control over fluid overload when diuretics alone wouldn't cut it. J. Basha, CCP, leads this session to show why it's a cornerstone of my practice after 40 years. Basha will break down how ultrafiltration strips out excess water and solutes via semi-permeable membranes, while keeping proteins and cells intact. It's not just fluid removal—it's precision, reducing edema and even inflammatory markers. I'll recall a heart failure case where ultrafiltration got us off bypass when the odds were grim. You'll learn the types (conventional, modified, zero-balance), how to weave it into your circuit, and how to dodge pitfalls like hypotension. Perfusionists will find this essential; OR teams will see its teamwork value. Join us to harness ultrafiltration's power for better outcomes. Assessment of Patient Fluid Balance and Status Presenters: S. Patel, MD, J. Basha, CCP Fluid balance is perfusion's quiet MVP—nail it, and the case flows; botch it, and you're in chaos. Dr. S. Patel and J. Basha team up to decode this critical skill over a two-hour deep dive. They'll cover the tools—CVP, PA pressures, TEE, bioimpedance—and how to read them amid bypass's wild fluid shifts. I'll share my go-to signs, like venous oxygen saturation shifts, that scream trouble early. Expect actionable strategies: pre-op prep, intra-op tweaks, and post-op stability, with tips like using albumin for oncotic pressure. This is for perfusionists, anesthesiologists, and surgeons—it's a team effort.

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Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:38:14 +0000 https://sozial.podigee.io/21-new-episode 8fec0e2b6ff88c87c1faab6ab89b86ab Ein Nazi in der Sozialen Arbeit: Das kann sich kaum jemand vorstellen. Denn eine rechtsextreme Gesinnung geht von einer naturgegebenen Ungleichheit der Menschen aus. Aber müssen Sozialarbeitende zwingend politisch links sein? Diese Frage beschäftigt ZHAW-Dozent Konstantin Kehl, seit ein Student ihm mitteilte, dass er einige konservative Positionen vertrete, die nicht mit der Mehrheit seiner Kommiliton:innen übereinstimme. In der neusten Episode des Podcasts «sozial» diskutiert Kehl darüber mit Tobias Kindler von der Fachhochschule OST, der seine Doktorarbeit zum Thema Politische Soziale Arbeit («Social workers in the policy process») schreibt. Kindler verweist auf den Berufskodex, nach dem Soziale Arbeit eine normative Profession ist. Doch was bedeutet es für eine Gesellschaft, wenn es einen politischen Rechtsruck gibt? Wie viel «Rechts» müssen Sozialarbeitende tolerieren? Und inwiefern könnten sie sich an Rosmarie Dormann, die von 1987 bis 2003 für die CVP (heute Die Mitte) im Nationalrat sass, ein Beispiel nehmen? Literatur: Der Berufskodex Soziale Arbeit kann auf der Website des Berufsverbandes AvenirSocial kostenlos heruntergeladen werden. Kindler, Tobias & Kehl, Konstantin (2024): Policy Entrepreneurship in der Sozialen Arbeit: Drei Fallbeispiele aus der Schweiz. In: Schmidtke, Birgit; Kolbinger, Martin Lu & Molzbichler, Daniela (Hrsg.): Sozial - Innovativ - Nachhaltig: Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für die Sozialwirtschaft. Wiesbaden: Springer. S. 341-357. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42847-1_17 (kostenlos mit ZHAW-Bibliotheksaccount). Wollt ihr mehr über Soziale Arbeit hören und lesen? Wir informieren euch über News aus Forschung, Studium und Weiterbildung in unserem Newsletter – jetzt abonnieren. 21 full no politik,soziale arbeit,gesinnung,rechtsextrem,positionen ZHAW Soziale Arbeit

Guests: Kelly Xie, SPT Northwestern University - DPT 2nd year student zepei.xie@northwestern.edu https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-xie1/ IG: @kellyyxie Magon Liu, SPT 3rd year DPT student from Samuel Merritt University magon.liu@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/magoffnoton/ Links: https://www.aptaacutecare.org/page/Students https://groups.io/g/aptaacutecarestudents Guest Quotes:  You know that you are getting ready for an acute care physical therapy rotation when Kelly: “ when I learned all these foundations of PT and CVP skills in class.”  You know that you are on acute care clinical when: Magon: “ When your best friend is the gait belt and nursing.” Connect with our hosts and the podcast! Leo Arguelles (LEE-O R-GWELL-IS) largue2@uic.edu Twitter @LeoArguellesPT Interested in being a future guest? Apply to become our new co-host Join our team: Assistant Producer APTA Acute Care: Website Awards Journal Access Twitter @AcuteCareAPTA Facebook APTA Acute Care Instagram @AcademyAcutePT YouTube  APTA Acute Care Podcast APTA Acute Care Resources APTA Adult Vital Signs APTA Lab Values Document Webinar Recordings

If you're not a devotee of hot yoga, you might want to try it by the end of this one. Endorsing the many benefits is not hard for Nestor but let Yogini master Susan Selckman of Updog Yoga in Towson tell you about the flow of her studio and mat space just a block away from the CVP, where they convened on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to sweat out the small secrets of better health and a beautiful practice. Namaste. The post Susan Selckman of Updog Yoga in Towson finds Nestor to be a student of the heat and mat first appeared on Baltimore Positive WNST.

A seasoned business leader, Marques Colston's business career is shaped by the perspectives and lived experiences gained from his journey to becoming an unlikely NFL standout. Marques's journey from small school prospect through a decade-long NFL career taught him how success has to be earned every day and sustaining it at the highest level requires a humility that allows you to be an active learner, curiosity to explore new ways to unlock value, and confidence built on preparation and repetition. This philosophy is the foundation of Marques's post-football journey as an entrepreneur, educator, financial advisor, executive coach, and strategic consultant for dozens of companies – from startups to Fortune 100. His diverse path is connected by the vision to empower underserved and underestimated communities, helping them envision and achieve beyond their current limitations. Champion Venture Capital (CVP) represents an opportunity for Marques to leverage his passion, skills, influence, and access to build a firm with the potential to build a legacy of doing well and good, by creating access to wealth-building opportunities to a more diverse group of investors Listen in as Marques and Patrick dive into mindset shifts, creating pathways to build and preserve wealth, and the offerings of Champion Venture Partners through education and investment. Marques describes how the inspiration from his father, a renaissance man, planted the seed for his own hands-on entrepreneurial endeavors and how that has shown up in every aspect of his career. Marques shares his values, the power of a strong and complementary team, and what drove him to first get his Financial Planner licenses and then create the investment vehicle of CVP. At the heart of it all for Marques are 3 pillars – integrity, the team-win, and consistently showing up.

In this captivating episode of Think Millions, Dr. Alexa D'Agostino sits down with Kyle Alfre—former NFL player, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and yes, a beekeeper. Kyle is the Chief Maverick at Champion Management Co and a key principal at Champion Venture Partners (CVP), where he helps lead a $100 million private equity fund.From walking on to a college football team to signing four NFL contracts, Kyle's journey is defined by relentless drive, strategic risk-taking, and a mindset rooted in growth. But here's the twist—beekeeping has taught him as much about leadership and business as the NFL and venture capital ever did.Discover how the lessons from the hive—teamwork, structure, and knowing your role—mirror the essentials of scaling companies and managing investments. Kyle shares his investment philosophy, red flags in startups, and why betting on the right people matters more than just the numbers. This episode is packed with actionable insights for entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone chasing their version of success.Key Parts of the Conversation:Reconnecting with an Old Friend & Business Partner (0:00 - 1:37)The serendipitous story of how childhood friends reconnected after years apart to become business partners.The NFL Journey: From Walk-On to Professional Athlete (1:37 - 4:13)Overcoming injuries, working as a bouncer, and the obsession that fueled Kyle's path to the NFL.From the Gridiron to the Boardroom (4:26 - 6:59)How lessons from football—discipline, resilience, and salesmanship—translated into a successful venture capital career.Investment Philosophy: Betting on People, Not Just Numbers (8:55 - 15:45)What CVP looks for in startups: growth-stage companies, sports tech focus, and leadership teams who bet on themselves.The Art of Due Diligence (16:29 - 19:46)Insights into CVP's rigorous due diligence process and the red flags that cause immediate investor hesitation.Top 10 Lessons for Entrepreneurs (19:50 - 21:47)A rapid-fire recap of Kyle's most impactful business philosophies—from solving real problems to the importance of delegation.Business Lessons from Beekeeping (21:57 - 23:46)The hive as a metaphor for business: every bee has a role, just like every team member. Success comes from collaboration and knowing when to get out of your own way.Closing Thoughts & Takeaways (23:47 - End)Final reflections on betting on yourself, surrounding yourself with the right people, and yes—getting some sweet “honey” at the end of your hard work.Great Quotes from the Podcast:"Success isn't handed to you. It's chased down with grit, determination, and a touch of obsession.""You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of the problems you solve." – Elon Musk"Founders often struggle because they won't get out of their own way. Building a great product doesn't mean you know how to build a great company.""The hive only works if every bee knows its role. Business is the same—surround yourself with people who can do what you can't.""The most successful people bet on themselves—not with arrogance, but with unshakable belief in their ability to figure it out.""It's not just about numbers on a spreadsheet. It's about the people behind those numbers and their ability to execute.""If your pitch is 80 pages long and I still don't know what problem you're solving—that's a problem.""When Sam Altman pitched ChatGPT, he said, ‘We'll ask the AI how to make money.' Everyone laughed—except Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, who wrote him a check.""You can't grow a billion-dollar company with a million-dollar mindset.""If you do

In this episode of the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast, host Sherrod DeGrippo is joined by two expert guests to explore critical challenges in today's evolving threat landscape.  First, Sherrod sits down with Kelly Bissell, CVP of Fraud at Microsoft, to discuss the complexities of combating fraud and product abuse. Kelly digs into the unique challenges Microsoft faces, highlighting prevalent schemes such as crypto mining, tech support scams, and the exploitation of deepfakes. Kelly also shares insights into Microsoft's proactive approach, including recent Azure policy changes and efforts to detect and prevent fraud across its services, especially those attempting to use the compute power for crypto mining.  Later, Sherrod is joined by Priyanka Ramesha, Senior Threat Researcher on the Defender Experts team, to examine the rising risks of cloud-native attacks. They unpack why threat actors are increasingly targeting the cloud, exploiting its complexity, scalability, and common misconfigurations. Priyanka explains how attackers gain initial access through tactics like phishing, API exploitation, and OAuth abuse, and outlines their methods for credential theft, lateral movement, and data exfiltration.  In this episode you'll learn:       What crypto mining looks like in Azure and how Microsoft detects and prevents it  The five main areas of fraud and product abuse that Microsoft focuses on  How attackers exploit the complexity and misconfigurations in cloud infrastructures    Some questions we ask:         How long do crypto mining operations run unnoticed in a customer's environment?  What changes did Microsoft make to its policy regarding crypto mining?  Why are legitimate apps sometimes compromised and used in attacks?    Resources:   View Kelly Bissell on LinkedIn    View Priyanka Ramesha on LinkedIn   View Sherrod DeGrippo on LinkedIn     Related Microsoft Podcasts:                    Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson  The BlueHat Podcast  Uncovering Hidden Risks        Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts     Get the latest threat intelligence insights and guidance at Microsoft Security Insider    The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast is produced by Microsoft and distributed as part of N2K media network.  

In this episode, we sit down with Nick Edwards, Founding Partner of Champion Venture Partners (CVP) and former professional MMA athlete, to explore his transition from the fighting arena to the venture capital world. Nick shares how his athletic career and expertise in physiology and health tech led him to develop groundbreaking metabolic performance markers used by NFL, NHL, and NBA teams and Olympians.We dive into CVP's mission to democratize access to sports investment opportunities, making alternative assets accessible to all. Nick discusses CVP's strategic partnership with Sweater, Inc., aimed at bringing sports alternative investment asset classes to retail investors.Whether you're an aspiring investor, a sports enthusiast, or intrigued by innovative investment strategies, this episode offers valuable insights into the intersection of sports and venture capital. RESOURCESDo you need financing for your next home or investment property purchase? Click HERE to schedule a pressure free consultation call with our personal mortgage lender Travis David of CMG Home Loans. He will help assess your current situation and will work with you to map out a plan for the future! ** Looking to buy real estate WITHOUT bank loans, credit, or significant cash? Click HERE to schedule a call with creative finance coaches Jenn and Joe DelleFave. **If you enjoy the show, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping us land high profile guests to best serve our audience. Previous Guests Include:Brandon Turner, Tarek El-Moussa, David Greene, Tony J. Robinson, Mike Ayala, Jamie Gruber, Robert Croak, Mark Simpson, Chad “Coach” Carson, Heather Blankenship, Tim Bratz, J. Scott, Matt Faircloth, Michael Elefante, Devon Kennard, Paula Pant, Jake Harris, and Avery CarlSocial Channels:Instagram: instagram.com/wealthjuiceofficialYouTube: youtube.com/@wealthjuiceofficial**Disclaimer: The information provided on this podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. It should not be considered as financial advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any financial instrument or engage in any financial activity. The content presented here is based on the speaker's personal opinions and research, which may not always be accurate or up to date. Financial markets and investments carry inherent risks. Individuals should conduct their own research and seek certified professional advice before making any financial decisions. The links in the episode descriptions may include referral or affiliate commissions, and we may receive compensation from partner websites.

Die Mittepartei hat sich stark verändert. Die frühere CVP strich das "C" und damit die katholische Prägung aus dem Parteinamen. Und unter Präsident Gerhard Pfister bewegte sie sich etwas weg von den anderen bürgerlichen Parteien FDP und SVP. Nun sind gleich beide wichtigsten Posten der Mitte vakant. Weitere Themen: Mit einem Gesetz, dem das Repräsentantenhaus bereits zugestimmt hat, nehmen die USA all jene ins Visier, die dem Internationalen Strafgerichtshof ICC helfen, gegen Israels Regierungschef Netanyahu vorzugehen. Dieses Sanktionsgesetz ist so weitreichend, dass es die Existenz des ICC gefährdet. Der Schweizer Skiverband «Swiss Ski» macht sich Sorgen um die Zukunft. Die klimatischen Veränderungen und die kürzeren Winter, dürften auch den Skisport vor Herausforderungen stellen. Abhilfe schaffen soll das Strategieprojekt «Schneesport 2050", welches am Donnerstag präsentiert wurde.

Diesen Sommer will Mitte-Chef Gerhard Pfister zurücktreten. Damit beginnt das Rennen um die Nachfolge an der Spitze der Partei. Seit 2016 hat Pfister die Partei geführt. In dieser Zeit ist aus der CVP die Mitte-Partei geworden. Und sie hat mit der BDP fusioniert. Die weiteren Themen: · In Deutschland hat die Zahl rechtsextremer Straftaten einen neuen Höchstwert erreicht. Im letzten Jahr sind bis Ende November fast 34'000 solche Delikte gezählt worden, das sind 17 Prozent mehr als im Jahr davor. · In einem Elefanten-Camp in Thailand ist eine spanische Touristin ums Leben gekommen. Ein Elefant hatte sie angegriffen, während sie das Tier badete. Tierschützerinnen und -Schützer vermuten, dass der Elefant unter Stress stand. · Forschende in England haben in einem Steinbruch Dinosaurierspuren entdeckt. Die rund 200 Spuren seien etwa 166 Millionen Jahre alt. Ein Dinosaurier-Experte ordnet ein, wie aussergewöhnlich dieser Fund ist.

Er trat vor neun Jahren sein Amt als CVP-Präsident an mit dem Versprechen, er werde «nicht viel verändern». Es kam anders. Heute heisst die Partei die Mitte – und Gerhard Pfister, ihr Präsident, hat ihren Kurs geprägt, wie kaum ein anderer Präsident seine Partei. Nun tritt Pfister aus dem Amt zurück.Als er es antrat, stand er politisch noch eher rechts der Mitte. Aufhören wird er links davon. Warum? Wie hat er es geschafft, dass die Partei diese Bewegung mitmacht? Wie gelang es ihm, den Kurs der politischen Mitte so anzupassen, dass sie heute erfolgreicher dasteht als ihre grosse Konkurrenz, die FDP? Und was steckt hinter Pfisters überraschenden Rücktritt? Darüber spricht Bundeshauschefin Larissa Rhyn in einer neuen Folge des täglichen Podcasts «Apropos».Host: Philipp LoserProduktion: Mirja GabathulerMehr zum Thema:Pfister im Interview nach dem überraschenden RücktrittAnalyse: Er hat sein Versprechen nicht gehalten – zum Glück  Unser Tagi-Spezialangebot für Podcast-Hörer:innen: tagiabo.chHabt ihr Feedback, Ideen oder Kritik zu «Apropos»? Schreibt uns an podcasts@tamedia.ch

While we are on our winter publishing break, please enjoy an episode of our N2K CyberWire network show, The BlueHat Podcast by Microsoft and MSRC. See you in 2025! Yonatan Zunger, CVP of AI Safety & Security at Microsoft joins Nic Fillingham and Wendy Zenone on this week's episode of The BlueHat Podcast. Yonatan explains the distinction between generative and predictive AI, noting that while predictive AI excels in classification and recommendation, generative AI focuses on summarizing and role-playing. He highlights how generative AI's ability to process natural language and role-play has vast potential, though its applications are still emerging. He contrasts this with predictive AI's strength in handling large datasets for specific tasks. Yonatan emphasizes the importance of ethical considerations in AI development, stressing the need for continuous safety engineering and diverse perspectives to anticipate and mitigate potential failures. He provides examples of AI's positive and negative uses, illustrating the importance of designing systems that account for various scenarios and potential misuses.      In This Episode You Will Learn:       How predictive AI anticipates outcomes based on historical data  The difficulties and strategies involved in making AI systems safe and secure from misuse  How role-playing exercises help developers understand the behavior of AI systems    Some Questions We Ask:        What distinguishes predictive AI from generative AI?  Can generative AI be used to improve decision-making processes?  What is the role of unit testing and test cases in policy and AI system development?    Resources:   View Yonatan Zunger on LinkedIn      View Wendy Zenone on LinkedIn   View Nic Fillingham on LinkedIn    Related Microsoft Podcasts:     Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast   Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson   Uncovering Hidden Risks       Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yonatan Zunger, CVP of AI Safety & Security at Microsoft joins Nic Fillingham and Wendy Zenone on this week's episode of The BlueHat Podcast. Yonatan explains the distinction between generative and predictive AI, noting that while predictive AI excels in classification and recommendation, generative AI focuses on summarizing and role-playing. He highlights how generative AI's ability to process natural language and role-play has vast potential, though its applications are still emerging. He contrasts this with predictive AI's strength in handling large datasets for specific tasks. Yonatan emphasizes the importance of ethical considerations in AI development, stressing the need for continuous safety engineering and diverse perspectives to anticipate and mitigate potential failures. He provides examples of AI's positive and negative uses, illustrating the importance of designing systems that account for various scenarios and potential misuses.      In This Episode You Will Learn:       How predictive AI anticipates outcomes based on historical data  The difficulties and strategies involved in making AI systems safe and secure from misuse  How role-playing exercises help developers understand the behavior of AI systems    Some Questions We Ask:        What distinguishes predictive AI from generative AI?  Can generative AI be used to improve decision-making processes?  What is the role of unit testing and test cases in policy and AI system development?    Resources:   View Yonatan Zunger on LinkedIn      View Wendy Zenone on LinkedIn   View Nic Fillingham on LinkedIn    Related Microsoft Podcasts:     Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast   Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson   Uncovering Hidden Risks       Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts  

As researchers look for ways to reduce the need for animals in their studies, new alternative methods (NAMs) are an intriguing route to capture crucial safety data and help advance drug discovery and development – specifically, virtual control groups (VCGs).   Join Steve Bulera, CVP and Chief Scientific Officer for Safety Assessment and Toxicology at Charles River, as he discusses how VCGs can be a viable alternative to research models, what it would take for the industry to widely accept NAMs, and how they can revolutionize research for the future.Show NotesVirtual Control Groups  Sounds of Science E73: Virtual Control Groups Modernizing Drug Development with Virtual Control Groups Virtual Control Groups: A Data-Driven Novel Method Revolutionizing the Future of Safety Studies Charles River Laboratories Announces Development of Nonclinical Virtual Control Groups with Sanofi to Reduce the Use of Animals 

Lattice Developers Conference Key Insights! What's the latest in Edge AI innovation from Lattice Semiconductor? Hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead are joined by Lattice Semiconductor's CEO, Ford Tamer, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, Esam Elashmawi, and CVP of Product Marketing and Planning, Dan Mansur, for a conversation on Lattice Semiconductor's strategic growth, key announcements, and unique market position in the Edge AI sector on this episode of Six Five On The Road at Lattice DevCon 2024. Highlights include ⤵️  Ford Tamer's insights and experiences since joining Lattice. Lattice's growth strategy and the strengths driving this growth. Key product announcements and solutions introduced at the DevCon. The unique position of Lattice FPGA's in the burgeoning Edge AI market. An introduction to Nexus 2 and continued investment in small FPGAs.  

In this episode of Structural Heart Talks, Todd Brinton, MD, Chief Scientific Officer & CVP, Advanced Technology at Edwards Lifesciences, discusses Edwards' vision of future innovative technologies that elevate patient care and expand the possibilities of structural heart therapies. Brinton reflects on his journey from biomedical engineering to pioneering roles in MedTech, including his work at Shockwave Medical, and shares how these experiences shaped his mission to create impactful technologies for patients worldwide. The conversation dives deep into Edwards' evolving focus on structural heart failure and non-valvular structural heart therapies, emphasizing investigational programs that challenge traditional approaches and push the boundaries of interventional cardiology. Brinton highlights how Edwards fosters a mission-driven culture of collaboration, uniting engineering, clinical expertise, and market insights to tackle some of the most complex challenges in cardiac care. The episode also underscores the transformative role of mentorship in Brinton's career and his commitment to paying it forward by empowering others in the MedTech space. Drawing on personal stories, Brinton illustrates how embracing failure and leveraging diverse perspectives have driven innovation at Edwards, paving the way for new therapies that can improve care for patients globally. * Please note that this episode was recorded before the sale of Edwards' Critical Care business unit to BD, which closed on Sept 3, 2024. Thank you to Integer for sponsoring this episode of Structural Heart Talks. To learn more about how Integer supports medical device companies, visit www.Integer.net. Thank you for listening to the Structural Heart Talks podcast. Tune in and subscribe to the DeviceTalks Podcast Network wherever you get your podcasts and follow youtube.com/@DeviceTalks or the Structural Heart Talks on YouTube Podcasts to ensure you never miss an episode.

In this new Age of AI, enterprises now face unique challenges running AI apps in production. Hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman are joined by Microsoft Azure's Jeremy Winter Chief Product Officer and CVP, Azure Core, and Rani Borkar, Corporate Vice President, Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure at Microsoft for this episode of Six Five On The Road.

Midnight Ballot Dumps 90% for Democrats Trying to Steal Seats, Tucker Carlson, FEMA Skips Conservative Homes, Self-Deportation. 4 X Clips.    Midnight Ballot Dumps 90% for Democrats Trying to Steal Seats Peter St Onge, Ph.D.- Mass Deportations are coming, starting with criminals. The real fun will be self-deportations- Tucker Carlson- "Kamala didn't win any states that require voter ID laws” The top 10 countries whose illegal aliens entered the United States under the Biden Harris Admin FEMA Skipped Over Conservative Homes During Hurricane Relief   Midnight Ballot Dumps 90% for Democrats Trying to Steal Seats. BREAKING: Republicans Winning The House Still Projected By Experts, But The Democrats Are Trying To Steal Alex Jones @RealAlexJones 11-11-24 @OwenShroyer1776 Watch/Share the LIVE SHOW here: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1eaJbaqnlgvGX   Post Mass Deportations are coming, starting with criminals. The real fun will be self-deportations: Going by history up to 90% will self-deport. All we have to do is end the freebies and actually enforce the laws. Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge   Tucker Carlson- "Kamala didn't win any states that require voter ID laws, and she won all the states that don't require voter ID. What are the odds of that   Post This is so insane US Immigration Attorney breaks down “The top 10 countries whose illegal aliens entered the United States under the Biden Harris Admin as a percentage of their home country's population: 10) Colombia, .8% of the entire Colombian population enter the United States as illegal or inadmissible aliens under Biden Harris 9) Mexico, 1.1% 8) Ecuador, 1.6% 7) Venezuela, 2.7% of the entire Venezuelan population, including a large number of criminals and freed prisoners 6) El Salvador, 2.9% 5)Guatemala, 3.2% 4) Haiti, 4% 3)Honduras, 5.9% 2) Cuba, 6.1% 1) Nicaragua. 6.5% of the entire Nicaraguan population entered the United States as illegal or otherwise inadmissible aliens during the Biden Harris administration Most of these migrants crossed the border illegally, claimed asylum, and were released into the United States with a court date many years later. The rest were inadmissible aliens flown directly into the interior of the United States were ushered in with the CVP one app as part of an unprecedented mass parole program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans, also known as the CHNV program.“ Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes   FEMA Skipped Over Conservative Homes During Hurricane Relief In Florida, some FEMA workers were instructed to avoid and withhold aid from houses with Trump signs. This goes much deeper than this so-called “one-off situation.” The Comments Section with Brett Cooper Watch this video at-  https://youtu.be/MCDy1QpaI08?si=I8W_kUkVpPuV91Vu   ACU note- Brett Cooper is a rising star in the Conservative World. Subscribe for free today. 4.47M subscribers Nov 11, 2024 #TheCommentsSection #BrettCooper #DailyWire Read the full story: https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclus... Full videos used in this episode: https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1... https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1843... https://x.com/wokal_distance/status/1... Don't forget to like this video, subscribe to our YouTube channel, and ring the notification bell so you never miss a future upload!     / @thecommentssection   Become a DailyWire+ subscriber today to get exclusive weekly content! https://bit.ly/3UHJmVf Check out the Brett Cooper collection now: http://bit.ly/3On9jrP Follow Brett Cooper on social media: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/imbrettcoop... Twitter —    / imbrettcooper   Facebook —    / brettcooperdw   #TheCommentsSection #BrettCooper #DailyWire #Reaction #React #Politics #Culture #Entertainment #TikTok #tcs #otc #FEMA #conservatives #hurricane #aid #trump

In this episode of Unguarded, Kyle Auffray, former NFL player turned Venture Partner at Champion Venture Partners, shares his journey from the football field to the forefront of venture capital and business innovation. Known for his underdog story, Kyle reflects on what propelled him into the NFL without an agent, as well as the grit required to stay ready while balancing dual careers. Now a key figure in venture capital, he leads CVP's investment strategy and oversees the Comcast SportsTech Accelerator, where he helps top-tier startups scale and thrive. Kyle dives into the emotional aspects of career transition, the importance of ego management, and building a support network that can sustain the ups and downs of a high-performance career. He also discusses his approach to navigating contract negotiations, self-representation, and understanding the complex landscape of player unions. Kyle shares how he reverse-engineered his goals and found purpose in Champion Venture Partners, where he now encourages athletes to invest wisely and explore meaningful ownership. With insights on leveraging relationships, financial education, and aligning with the right partners, Kyle's story offers invaluable lessons for those looking to transition, grow, and invest in their future. Produced and edited by Víctor Revenga. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unguarded/support

In this episode of the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast host Sherrod DeGrippo is joined by Yonatan Zunger, CVP of AI Safety and Security at Microsoft. The conversation delves into the critical role of the AI Red Team, which focuses on identifying vulnerabilities in AI systems. Yonatan emphasizes the importance of ensuring the safety of Microsoft's AI products and the innovative methods the team employs to simulate potential threats, including how they assess risk and develop effective responses. This engaging dialogue offers insights into the intersection of technology, security, and human behavior in the evolving landscape of AI.     In this episode you'll learn:          Why securing AI systems requires understanding their unique psychology  The importance of training and technical mitigations to enhance AI safety  How financial incentives drive performance improvements in AI systems  Some questions we ask:         How does Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) work?  What are the potential risks with data access and permissions in AI systems?  Should users tell language models that accuracy affects their rewards to improve responses?  Resources:   View Yonatan Zunger on LinkedIn   View Sherrod DeGrippo on LinkedIn     Related Microsoft Podcasts:                    Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson  The BlueHat Podcast  Uncovering Hidden Risks      Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts     Get the latest threat intelligence insights and guidance at Microsoft Security Insider      The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast is produced by Microsoft and distributed as part of N2K media network.

Streamline threat detection and response across diverse environments with Microsoft Sentinel, your cloud-native SIEM solution. With features like Auxiliary logs for low-cost storage and proactive data optimization recommendations, you can efficiently manage high volumes of security data without compromising on threat intelligence. Leverage built-in AI and automation to uncover hidden threats and reduce investigation time from days to minutes. Rob Lefferts, CVP for Security Solutions at Microsoft, joins Jeremy Chapman to show how to migrate from existing SIEM solutions with built-in migration tools, ensuring seamless access to your security logs while maintaining investigative integrity.   ► QUICK LINKS: 00:00 - Microsoft Sentinel, modern Cloud SIEM 01:12 - Unified security operations platform 02:55 - Prioritize security updates 04:27 - Storage options 05:11 - Optimize data coverage and usage 06:17 - Protect against long-term persistent attacks 07:58 - Automation using auxiliary logs 08:59 - Manual effort 10:10 - Automation 12:07 - Migration 13:31 - Wrap up   ► Link References Get started at https://aka.ms/MicrosoftSentinel Find samples for the Playbook Logic App and the Function app at https://aka.ms/AuxLogsTIapp   ► Unfamiliar with Microsoft Mechanics?  As Microsoft's official video series for IT, you can watch and share valuable content and demos of current and upcoming tech from the people who build it at Microsoft. • Subscribe to our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MicrosoftMechanicsSeries • Talk with other IT Pros, join us on the Microsoft Tech Community: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-mechanics-blog/bg-p/MicrosoftMechanicsBlog • Watch or listen from anywhere, subscribe to our podcast: https://microsoftmechanics.libsyn.com/podcast   ► Keep getting this insider knowledge, join us on social: • Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MSFTMechanics  • Share knowledge on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft-mechanics/ • Enjoy us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msftmechanics/ • Loosen up with us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@msftmechanics

Today, Paul and Neil Hawkins discuss integrating sustainability into corporate innovation, focusing on blending value creation, project discipline, and collaboration to achieve long-term sustainability goals. An industry expert, Neil discusses his strategies and experiences from his extensive career promoting sustainable business practices. For 31 years, Neil was a key leader at Dow, ultimately serving as Chief Sustainability Officer and CVP, Environment, Health, & Safety for the last twelve years. He was the architect of the breakthrough “valuing nature” collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, and he integrated environmental and social considerations into the core of the Dow's business strategy and public reporting. He is widely recognized as one of the world's top sustainable business thought leaders. After Dow, as President of Michigan's Erb Family Foundation, a $350mm regional philanthropy, he focused on improving regional arts in the Great Lakes ecosystem, promoting environmental justice, and founding the Sustainable Business Network of Detroit. He served as interim CEO and President of the World Environment Center, facilitating a merger with Wildlife Habitat Council. He is President of Michigan Sustainability Associates, LLC and Research Advisor/Instructor at Harvard University in the Master of Sustainability ALM program. "Cultivate an environment where sustainability is not just a checkmark but a core value driving every stage gate process." ~Neil Hawkins Today on Innovation Talks: ·     Integrating sustainability into corporate processes is crucial: Embedding sustainability within every business process drives long-term success and profitability.·     Leadership and employee enthusiasm are vital: Effective transformational change hinges on support from both top leadership and committed lower-level employees.·     Addressing middle management resistance: The so-called "frozen middle" often resists change; successful strategies involve engaging and educating them.·     Early efforts yield financial and environmental returns: Dow's initial sustainability goals delivered a $4 billion return on a $1 billion investment, demonstrating clear economic benefits.·     Focus on expertise before implementation: Ensuring capable individuals are in place before integrating sustainability screens prevents ineffective practices.·     Continuous progress in sustainable innovation: Companies increasingly adopt sustainability strategies, illustrating an industry-wide shift towards more sustainable practices.·     Collaborative initiatives drive innovation: Partnerships with other industries and stakeholders can significantly accelerate sustainability goals.·     Listening to stakeholders enhances outcomes: Understanding internal and external stakeholder needs is essential for effective sustainability integration. Guest contact information: Follow Neil Hawkins on LinkedIn for updates on sustainability topicshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-hawkins-he-him-his-695a977?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_contact_details%3B9AeDqQXXSSSaugUSH2vRzQ%3D%3D Resources mentioned: Project Charter Bloghttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/trick-sustainability-consulting-projects-project-neil-neil-adhpe/ Value Proposition Blog for Sustainabilityhttps://www.wholeworks.com/blog/value-proposition-framework-sustainable-development Systems Change --- Breakthrough versus Incremental -- Systems Shifthttps://www.wholeworks.com/blog/value-proposition-framework-sustainable-development  Ready to Transform Your Innovation Strategy? If you're a product manager or innovator looking to streamline your processes and turn chaos into control, you won't want to miss this opportunity.Dive into our exclusive, free eBook on Innovation Ops strategies designed just for you.Learn the secrets to revolutionizing your approach and achieving success with clarity and precision.Download your copy today. Visit https://info.sopheon.com/innovationops-ebookStart your journey to becoming an innovation powerhouse now! This Podcast is brought to you by SopheonThanks for tuning into this week's episode of Innovation Talks. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | Stitcher | Spotify | iHeart Be sure to connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes on social media to help us reach more listeners like you. For additional information about new product development or corporate innovation, sign up for Sopheon's monthly newsletter, where we share news and industry best practices! The fastest way to do this is to go to sopheon.com and click here.

In this episode critical care nurse educator, Sarah Vance, discusses intra-cardiac pressures including central venous pressures (CVP), pulmonary artery pressures (PAP and PAOP), fluid responsiveness, and venous oxygen saturation (SvO2). Check out Nicole Kupchik's exam reviews and practice questions at nicolekupchikconsulting.com. Use the promo code UPMYGAME20 to get 20% off all products. Do you need help with your resume, interviewing, or need career coaching? Check out Sarah at New Thing Nurse: Get 15% off of her resume and cover letter templates using the promo code UPMYGAME Nursing students and new grad career services  Experienced RN career services NP career services

Yonatan Zunger, CVP of AI Safety & Security at Microsoft joins Nic Fillingham and Wendy Zenone on this week's episode of The BlueHat Podcast. Yonatan explains the distinction between generative and predictive AI, noting that while predictive AI excels in classification and recommendation, generative AI focuses on summarizing and role-playing. He highlights how generative AI's ability to process natural language and role-play has vast potential, though its applications are still emerging. He contrasts this with predictive AI's strength in handling large datasets for specific tasks. Yonatan emphasizes the importance of ethical considerations in AI development, stressing the need for continuous safety engineering and diverse perspectives to anticipate and mitigate potential failures. He provides examples of AI's positive and negative uses, illustrating the importance of designing systems that account for various scenarios and potential misuses.      In This Episode You Will Learn:       How predictive AI anticipates outcomes based on historical data  The difficulties and strategies involved in making AI systems safe and secure from misuse  How role-playing exercises help developers understand the behavior of AI systems    Some Questions We Ask:        What distinguishes predictive AI from generative AI?  Can generative AI be used to improve decision-making processes?  What is the role of unit testing and test cases in policy and AI system development?    Resources:   View Yonatan Zunger on LinkedIn      View Wendy Zenone on LinkedIn   View Nic Fillingham on LinkedIn    Related Microsoft Podcasts:     Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast   Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson   Uncovering Hidden Risks       Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts  

In this episode, Dr. Schmidt talks with JoAn Majors, CSP, CVP, RDA, on leadership and communicate skills. She is the author of several books, including "Permission to be Honest: Tough Talk on Soft Skills for Providers of Care and Their Teams." She shares ways to approach patients and have conversations about care needs, emphasizing the importance of asking the right questions and promoting a posture of curiosity. JoAn is the co-founder and content creationspecialist of The Soft Skills Institute, an AGDPACE National CE provider. She and her husband, Dr. Chuck Majors, a second-generation dentist, provide online content that is scalable, affordable, and predictable for maximum implementation and after-care. Listen now.

Get the latest agriculture news in today's AgNet News Hour, hosted by Sabrina Halvorson. On today's show, ag groups urge EPA to amend Endangered Species Act processes and the Bureau of Reclamation is seeking comments on proposed changes to CVP operation. Tune in for this and more of the day's agriculture news. 

This week's Wiser Loyalty series podcast with our hosts, Bill Hanifin and Aaron Dauphinee, looks at the good, bad and the ugly of select CVPs in the market place. These two partners of the Wise Marketer Group take on a new topic each month by tapping into one of the courses from the Loyalty Academy™ Certified Loyalty Marketing Professional™ (CLMP™) curriculum. They then provide their own perspectives and current market examples to bring that material to life for listeners.The month of July has been all about CVP and exploring certain constructs from the Loyalty Academy™ course on “How to Create a Winning Value Proposition” (#106). This week's episode capstones the months thoughts with a few specific market examples for who's aligned their loyalty program CVP to their brand's promise well, and a bit of a slight critique on those that could do better.Show notes:1) Bill Hanifin2) Aaron Dauphinee3) The Loyalty Academy™4) The Wise Marketer

Our hosts, Bill Hanifin and Aaron Dauphinee, return this week with the Wiser Loyalty series podcast for Let's Talk Loyalty. These two partners of the Wise Marketer Group take on a new topic each month by tapping into one of the courses from the Loyalty Academy™ Certified Loyalty Marketing Professional™ (CLMP™) curriculum. They then provide their own perspectives and current market examples to bring that material to life for listeners.For the month of July, they are exploring the Loyalty Academy™ course on “How to Create a Winning Value Proposition” (#106). This week's the two subject matter experts talk about the role of customer experience (CX) and it's importance within a brand's customer value proposition (CVP). The two discuss how CX interactions align with the benefits and actions that stem from operating a loyalty program, including providing real life examples that reinforce their perspectives. Show notes:1) Bill Hanifin2) Aaron Dauphinee3) The Loyalty Academy™4) The Wise Marketer

Personal branding is a crucial yet often misunderstood aspect of career development. Many professionals mistake personal brand for self-promotion or social media showmanship.This episode debunks these myths and reveals the true power of strategic personal branding. Featuring insights from two tech executives, Annie Pearl of Microsoft and Iska Saric of Meta, we pull back the curtain on how industry leaders craft and wield their personal brands to open doors, land dream roles, and shape their legacies.The episode provides actionable strategies to build an authentic and compelling brand that catapults your career forward.We also discuss:The critical distinction between reputation and brandWhy you don't need to become an influencerThe power of ‘peak roles' in accelerating your careerTailoring your brand story to specific audiencesStrategies for expanding your professional networkNavigating gender dynamics in personal brandingThe 30-minute per week method to brand-buildingReferenced:Annie Pearl, CVP at Microsoft: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anniepearl/Iska Saric, VP of Communications at Meta: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iska-saric-97210212/Crafting a compelling career story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Reh9wTUIYc&t=1078sWhere to find Nikhyl:LinkedInTwitter/XThreadsFind The Skip:WebsiteSubstackYouTubeSpotifyApple PodcastsTikTokDon't forget to subscribe to The Skip to hear me coach you through timely career lessons. If you're interested in joining me on a future call, send me a note on LinkedIn, Threads, or Twitter.Timestamps(00:00) Episode format(02:14) Why brand matters(04:47) Building a brand ≠ becoming an influence(08:14) Reputation versus brand(10:28) How to establish a reputation(13:55) Leveraging professional connections(18:08) The role that will transform your career(24:12) Crafting and communicating your brand(30:09) The "30-minute per week" method(30:49) Navigating(35:36) Key takeaways from this episode(35:56) How to get in touch

This is another week of the Wiser Loyalty series podcast, which is hosted by Aaron Dauphhinee, CMO of the Wise Marketer Group, and the CEO, Bill Hanifin. These leading loyalty marketers unveil constructs form the Loyalty Academy™ curriculum which leads to candidates achieving their Certified Loyalty Marketing Professional™ (CLMP™) designation. In this episode, they explore constructs for “How to Create a Winning Value Proposition” (course #106) and building upon last week's discussion on the importance of knowing your customer – in the sense of understanding the macro cultural trends that impact customer outlook, including considerations you need to take into account even before you get to data segmentation. This week explores the basic elements of creating a solid CVP at a top level. Noted are the “must haves” to creating an offer set that will engage customers and keep them interested over the long term in the opinion of these tenured loyalty experts.Show notes:1) Bill Hanifin2) Aaron Dauphinee3) The Loyalty Academy™4) The Wise Marketer

The Wiser Loyalty series podcast is hosted by Aaron Dauphinee and Bill Hanifin from the Wise Marketer Group. They tap into courses from the Loyalty Academy™ Certified Loyalty Marketing Professional™ (CLMP™) curriculum and bring that material to life with current market examples. In this episode, our hosts bring fresh content from The Loyalty Academy™ on “How to Create a Winning Value Proposition” (course #105). The “CVP” as we refer to it is the centerpiece of loyalty program strategy and an important piece of the broader customer strategy for your organization. Hear about what you need to consider when you strike out to create a value proposition that will gain the attention of customers and help you develop the valuable relationships you seek. The community of professionals who have earned their CLMP™ from the Loyalty Academy™ is nearing 1,000 individuals across 53 countries worldwide. If you would like more information on how to become part of the community leading this industry into the future, please visit LoyaltyAcademy.org.Show notes:1) Bill Hanifin2) Aaron Dauphinee3) The Loyalty Academy™4) The Wise Marketer

*Hosted by Radu Palamariu*In this episode, I interviewed Donna Warton, Microsoft's CVP of Supply Chain and Sustainability. She shares insights from her career progression across finance, Motorola, and Dell and now leading the supply chain for Microsoft's Windows and Devices division.We also discussed Microsoft's innovations in AI-powered devices, sustainability initiatives focusing on circularity and carbon reduction, practical applications of AI in supply chain management, and Microsoft's cultural approach to change and how they are structuring teams to adapt to the fast pace of innovation.Discover more details here.Follow us on:Instagram: http://bit.ly/2Wba8v7Twitter: http://bit.ly/2WeulzXLinkedin: http://bit.ly/2w9YSQXFacebook: http://bit.ly/2HtryLd

Sam Schillace is the CVP and Deputy CTO at Microsoft. Before Microsoft, Sam held prominent engineering roles at Google and Box. He has also founded six startups, including Writely, which was acquired by Google and became Google Docs. – In today's episode, we discuss: Sam's advice for future engineers What's next for AI How to develop technical taste The importance of asking “what if” questions Lessons on market timing Scaling a software company in 2024 – Referenced: Amazon: https://amazon.com Box: https://www.box.com/ Elon Musk: https://twitter.com/elonmusk Google Docs: https://docs.google.com Itzhak Perlman: https://itzhakperlman.com/ Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com Netflix: https://www.netflix.com Tesla: https://www.tesla.com/ The Innovator's Dilemma: https://www.amazon.com.au/Innovators-Dilemma-Clayton-M-Christensen/dp/0062060244 TurboTax: https://turbotax.intuit.com/ Uber: https://www.uber.com/ Walmart: https://www.walmart.com/ Workday: https://www.workday.com/ Writely: https://techcrunch.com/2005/08/31/writely-process-words-with-your-browser/ – Where to find Sam Schillace: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schillace/ Newsletter: https://sundaylettersfromsam.substack.com/ Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/sschillace – Where to find Brett Berson: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-berson-9986094/ Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/brettberson – Where to find First Round Capital: Website: https://firstround.com/ First Round Review: https://review.firstround.com/ Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/firstround YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FirstRoundCapital This podcast on all platforms: https://review.firstround.com/podcast – Timestamps: (00:00) Introduction (02:54) Lessons on market timing (07:30) Developing technical taste (09:51) Asking “what if” questions (14:03) Building Google Docs (19:32) The decline of Google apps (20:57) The Innovator's Dilemma facing Microsoft (22:53) The differences between Google and Microsoft (24:42) How to build a winning product (27:46) Becoming an optimist (29:12) Why engineering teams aren't smaller (32:00) Sam's prediction about AI (34:11) Capturing the value of AI (37:43) How you should think about AI (45:33) Advice for future engineers (48:18) What makes a great engineer (49:45) One thing the best engineers do (51:37) Microsoft's new leverage (56:01) Scaling software in 2024 (59:50) The future of AI across several sectors (64:28) What Sam and a violinist have in common

Today's interview is with Jeff Comstock, CVP of Dynamics 365 Customer Service at Microsoft. Jeff joins me today to talk about Co-Pilot for Service, the impact it is having on the agent experience and also customer/business outcomes, their experience trialling it extensively with their own customer service engineers, how their early adopter clients are leveraging Co-Pilot in Service, what they have done, the outcomes they achieved, how long it took them to achieve those outcomes and, finally, what are the big challenges that organisations need to tackle in order to fully realise the potential of leveraging Generative AI in customer service and experience. This interview follows on from my recent interview – Personalisation and the pink elephant in the room – Interview with Emma Springham of TSB – and is number 505 in the series of interviews with authors and business leaders who are doing great things, providing valuable insights, helping businesses innovate and delivering great service and experience to both their customers and their employees. NOTE: Today's episode is sponsored by Qualtrics, ahead of the annual gathering of experience leaders at Qualtrics X4 in London on June 6th. There you can hear about some of the best customer experience programmes from industry leaders and companies including Belron, Allianz and Adidas. You can register now at the Qualtrics website.

After taking a near 20 year hiatus, Tracy Allegro returned to her painting with a zeal and dedication that hasn't let up since. Join us in a conversation on the importance of joy, how art never really leaves your life, and why you should pick up the paint brush again.Find Tracy Allegro: https://www.tracyallegroart.com/ https://www.instagram.com/Tracyallegroart/ Mentioned in the episode: CVP from Art2Life https://www.art2life.com/about-cvp/ Chairish art market: https://www.chairish.com/ Chateau Orquevaux: https://www.chateauorquevaux.com/ North River Art Fair: https://www.northriverarts.org/Festival-of-the-Arts Want a postcard print from me? Send me a dm on Instagram with your name and address~Brush Work Episode # 101Join the Summer Art Marathon: https://www.stephaniescott.art/brushwork/2024/5/7/summer-art-marathon Host and artist Stephanie Scott breaks down the practicality of the art career with topics including: sustainable creative practices, social media skills, and the mindsets to keep us in the studio. New episodes every Tuesday! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephaniescott.art/ Website: http://www.stephaniescott.art/brushwork Music by @winepot https://www.instagram.com/thewinepot/ Submit to Brush Work: https://www.stephaniescott.art/brush-work-submission Podcast Cover photo by Maryna Blumqvist https://instagram.com/picturemaryna

On this episode of the Six Five On the Road, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman are joined by Microsoft's Eric Boyd, CVP, Azure AI Platform, and Asha Sharma, CVP, Product, Azure AI Platform for a conversation on the latest innovations and insights from Microsoft Build 2024. Our discussion covers: The latest developments in Azure AI technology and how they're driving digital transformation Strategies for implementing AI solutions within various industries to optimize operations Insights into future AI trends and how businesses can prepare for what's next The importance of ethical AI and Microsoft's approach to responsible AI development Collaboration opportunities within the Azure ecosystem for developers and partners  

In today's episode we talk: The Las Vegas Challenge and Copenhagen Open results, Gannon Buhr's spit-outs, Kristin Tattar's 1000 rating achievement, and we give you an opportunity to win a free dyed frisbee. Enjoy, friends. We now have some merch! Grab your CVP shirts here and thanks for listening. https://b2842e-a7.myshopify.com/ ---CV Pod Links https://linktr.ee/courtesyviolationpo... ---Intro Song performed by Fascinus Rex https://beacons.ai/fascinusrex --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/courtesyviolationpod/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/courtesyviolationpod/support

Yo knuckleheads! On this episode we talk foot faults, OB calls and Erytang else that happened at the DGPT stop at Dynamic Disc Open. Oh Yea! We now have some merch! Grab your CVP shirts here and thanks for listening. https://b2842e-a7.myshopify.com/ ---CV Pod Links https://linktr.ee/courtesyviolationpod?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=d3334442-9483-42b0-aeff-abf5040c66a3 ---Intro Song performed by Fascinus Rex https://beacons.ai/fascinusrex --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/courtesyviolationpod/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/courtesyviolationpod/support

All-time Saints Wide Receiver Marques Colston is targeting a $100 million raise for his new sports tech fund Champion Venture Partners. CVP has a unique fund structure; they invest in cash flowing companies and their investors have the typical carry + upside you'd see in a traditional venture fund. However, since CVP offers a special operational consulting component to its portfolio companies, they issue profit sharing dividends to their LP base. That's a fancy way of saying investors are getting their money back faster because CVP is making money quicker from the companies they are investing in. Marques is onto something here… Disclaimer: Athletes and Assets, Inc. accepts no liability for the content of this video, or for the consequences of any actions taken on the basis of the information provided. Please invest responsibly and consult a financial advisor before making investing related decisions.

TL;DR: You can now buy tickets, apply to speak, or join the expo for the biggest AI Engineer event of 2024. We're gathering *everyone* you want to meet - see you this June.In last year's the Rise of the AI Engineer we put our money where our mouth was and announced the AI Engineer Summit, which fortunately went well:With ~500 live attendees and over ~500k views online, the first iteration of the AI Engineer industry affair seemed to be well received. Competing in an expensive city with 3 other more established AI conferences in the fall calendar, we broke through in terms of in-person experience and online impact.So at the end of Day 2 we announced our second event: the AI Engineer World's Fair. The new website is now live, together with our new presenting sponsor:We were delighted to invite both Ben Dunphy, co-organizer of the conference and Sam Schillace, the deputy CTO of Microsoft who wrote some of the first Laws of AI Engineering while working with early releases of GPT-4, on the pod to talk about the conference and how Microsoft is all-in on AI Engineering.Rise of the Planet of the AI EngineerSince the first AI Engineer piece, AI Engineering has exploded:and the title has been adopted across OpenAI, Meta, IBM, and many, many other companies:1 year on, it is clear that AI Engineering is not only in full swing, but is an emerging global industry that is successfully bridging the gap:* between research and product, * between general-purpose foundation models and in-context use-cases, * and between the flashy weekend MVP (still great!) and the reliable, rigorously evaluated AI product deployed at massive scale, assisting hundreds of employees and driving millions in profit.The greatly increased scope of the 2024 AI Engineer World's Fair (more stages, more talks, more speakers, more attendees, more expo…) helps us reflect the growth of AI Engineering in three major dimensions:* Global Representation: the 2023 Summit was a mostly-American affair. This year we plan to have speakers from top AI companies across five continents, and explore the vast diversity of approaches to AI across global contexts.* Topic Coverage: * In 2023, the Summit focused on the initial questions that the community wrestled with - LLM frameworks, RAG and Vector Databases, Code Copilots and AI Agents. Those are evergreen problems that just got deeper.* This year the AI Engineering field has also embraced new core disciplines with more explicit focus on Multimodality, Evals and Ops, Open Source Models and GPU/Inference Hardware providers.* Maturity/Production-readiness: Two new tracks are dedicated toward AI in the Enterprise, government, education, finance, and more highly regulated industries or AI deployed at larger scale: * AI in the Fortune 500, covering at-scale production deployments of AI, and* AI Leadership, a closed-door, side event for technical AI leaders to discuss engineering and product leadership challenges as VPs and Heads of AI in their respective orgs.We hope you will join Microsoft and the rest of us as either speaker, exhibitor, or attendee, in San Francisco this June. Contact us with any enquiries that don't fall into the categories mentioned below.Show Notes* Ben Dunphy* 2023 Summit* GitHub confirmed $100m ARR on stage* History of World's Fairs* Sam Schillace* Writely on Acquired.fm* Early Lessons From GPT-4: The Schillace Laws* Semantic Kernel* Sam on Kevin Scott (Microsoft CTO)'s podcast in 2022* AI Engineer World's Fair (SF, Jun 25-27)* Buy Super Early Bird tickets (Listeners can use LATENTSPACE for $100 off any ticket until April 8, or use GROUP if coming in 4 or more)* Submit talks and workshops for Speaker CFPs (by April 8)* Enquire about Expo Sponsorship (Asap.. selling fast)Timestamps* [00:00:16] Intro* [00:01:04] 2023 AI Engineer Summit* [00:03:11] Vendor Neutral* [00:05:33] 2024 AIE World's Fair* [00:07:34] AIE World's Fair: 9 Tracks* [00:08:58] AIE World's Fair Keynotes* [00:09:33] Introducing Sam* [00:12:17] AI in 2020s vs the Cloud in 2000s* [00:13:46] Syntax vs Semantics* [00:14:22] Bill Gates vs GPT-4* [00:16:28] Semantic Kernel and Schillace's Laws of AI Engineering* [00:17:29] Orchestration: Break it into pieces* [00:19:52] Prompt Engineering: Ask Smart to Get Smart* [00:21:57] Think with the model, Plan with Code* [00:23:12] Metacognition vs Stochasticity* [00:24:43] Generating Synthetic Textbooks* [00:26:24] Trade leverage for precision; use interaction to mitigate* [00:27:18] Code is for syntax and process; models are for semantics and intent.* [00:28:46] Hands on AI Leadership* [00:33:18] Multimodality vs "Text is the universal wire protocol"* [00:35:46] Azure OpenAI vs Microsoft Research vs Microsoft AI Division* [00:39:40] On Satya* [00:40:44] Sam at AI Leadership Track* [00:42:05] Final Plug for Tickets & CFPTranscript[00:00:00] Alessio: Hey everyone, welcome to the Latent Space Podcast. This is Alessio, partner and CTO in residence at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co host Swyx, founder of Small[00:00:16] Intro[00:00:16] swyx: AI. Hey, hey, we're back again with a very special episode, this time with two guests and talking about the very in person events rather than online stuff.[00:00:27] swyx: So first I want to welcome Ben Dunphy, who is my co organizer on AI engineer conferences. Hey, hey, how's it going? We have a very special guest. Anyone who's looking at the show notes and the title will preview this later. But I guess we want to set the context. We are effectively doing promo for the upcoming AI Engineer World's Fair that's happening in June.[00:00:49] swyx: But maybe something that we haven't actually recapped much on the pod is just the origin of the AI Engineer Summit and why, what happens and what went down. Ben, I don't know if you'd like to start with the raw numbers that people should have in mind.[00:01:04] 2023 AI Engineer Summit[00:01:04] Ben Dunphy: Yeah, perhaps your listeners would like just a quick background on the summit.[00:01:09] Ben Dunphy: I mean, I'm sure many folks have heard of our events. You know, you launched, we launched the AI Engineer Summit last June with your, your article kind of coining the term that was on the tip of everyone's tongue, but curiously had not been actually coined, which is the term AI Engineer, which is now many people's, Job titles, you know, we're seeing a lot more people come to this event, with the job description of AI engineer, with the job title of AI engineer so, is an event that you and I really talked about since February of 2023, when we met at a hackathon you organized we were both excited by this movement and it hasn't really had a name yet.[00:01:48] Ben Dunphy: We decided that an event was warranted and that's why we move forward with the AI Engineer Summit, which Ended up being a great success. You know, we had over 5, 000 people apply to attend in person. We had over 9, 000 folks attend, online with over 20, 000 on the live stream.[00:02:06] Ben Dunphy: In person, we accepted about 400 attendees and had speakers, workshop instructors and sponsors, all congregating in San Francisco over, two days, um, two and a half days with a, with a welcome reception. So it was quite the event to kick off kind of this movement that's turning into quite an exciting[00:02:24] swyx: industry.[00:02:25] swyx: The overall idea of this is that I kind of view AI engineering, at least in all my work in Latent Space and the other stuff, as starting an industry.[00:02:34] swyx: And I think every industry, every new community, needs a place to congregate. And I definitely think that AI engineer, at least at the conference, is that it's meant to be like the biggest gathering of technical engineering people working with AI. Right. I think we kind of got that spot last year. There was a very competitive conference season, especially in San Francisco.[00:02:54] swyx: But I think as far as I understand, in terms of cultural impact, online impact, and the speakers that people want to see, we, we got them all and it was very important for us to be a vendor neutral type of event. Right. , The reason I partnered with Ben is that Ben has a lot of experience, a lot more experience doing vendor neutral stuff.[00:03:11] Vendor Neutral[00:03:11] swyx: I first met you when I was speaking at one of your events, and now we're sort of business partners on that. And yeah, I mean, I don't know if you have any sort of Thoughts on make, making things vendor neutral, making things more of a community industry conference rather than like something that's owned by one company.[00:03:25] swyx: Yeah.[00:03:25] Ben Dunphy: I mean events that are owned by a company are great, but this is typically where you have product pitches and this smaller internet community. But if you want the truly internet community, if you want a more varied audience and you know, frankly, better content for, especially for a technical audience, you want a vendor neutral event. And this is because when you have folks that are running the event that are focused on one thing and one thing alone, which is quality, quality of content, quality of speakers, quality of the in person experience, and just of general relevance it really elevates everything to the next level.[00:04:01] Ben Dunphy: And when you have someone like yourself who's coming To this content curation the role that you take at this event, and bringing that neutrality with, along with your experience, that really helps to take it to the next level, and then when you have someone like myself, focusing on just the program curation, and the in person experience, then both of our forces combined, we can like, really create this epic event, and so, these vendor neutral events if you've been to a small community event, Typically, these are vendor neutral, but also if you've been to a really, really popular industry event, many of the top industry events are actually vendor neutral.[00:04:37] Ben Dunphy: And that's because of the fact that they're vendor neutral, not in spite of[00:04:41] swyx: it. Yeah, I've been pretty open about the fact that my dream is to build the KubeCon of AI. So if anyone has been in the Kubernetes world, they'll understand what that means. And then, or, or instead of the NeurIPS, NeurIPS for engineers, where engineers are the stars and engineers are sharing their knowledge.[00:04:57] swyx: Perspectives, because I think AI is definitely moving over from research to engineering and production. I think one of my favorite parts was just honestly having GitHub and Microsoft support, which we'll cover in a bit, but you know, announcing finally that GitHub's copilot was such a commercial success I think was the first time that was actually confirmed by anyone in public.[00:05:17] swyx: For me, it's also interesting as sort of the conference curator to put Microsoft next to competitors some of which might be much smaller AI startups and to see what, where different companies are innovating in different areas.[00:05:27] swyx: Well, they're next to[00:05:27] Ben Dunphy: each other in the arena. So they can be next to each other on stage too.[00:05:33] Why AIE World's Fair[00:05:33] swyx: Okay, so this year World's Fair we are going a lot bigger what details are we disclosing right now? Yeah,[00:05:39] Ben Dunphy: I guess we should start with the name why are we calling it the World's Fair? And I think we need to go back to what inspired this, what actually the original World's Fair was, which was it started in the late 1700s and went to the early 1900s.[00:05:53] Ben Dunphy: And it was intended to showcase the incredible achievements. Of nation states, corporations, individuals in these grand expos. So you have these miniature cities actually being built for these grand expos. In San Francisco, for example, you had the entire Marina District built up in absolutely new construction to showcase the achievements of industry, architecture, art, and culture.[00:06:16] Ben Dunphy: And many of your listeners will know that in 1893, the Nikola Tesla famously provided power to the Chicago World's Fair with his 8 seat power generator. There's lots of great movies and documentaries about this. That was the first electric World's Fair, which thereafter it was referred to as the White City.[00:06:33] Ben Dunphy: So in today's world we have technological change that's similar to what was experienced during the industrial revolution in how it's, how it's just upending our entire life, how we live, work, and play. And so we have artificial intelligence, which has long been the dream of humanity.[00:06:51] Ben Dunphy: It's, it's finally here. And the pace of technological change is just accelerating. So with this event, as you mentioned, we, we're aiming to create a singular event where the world's foremost experts, builders, and practitioners can come together to exchange and reflect. And we think this is not only good for business, but it's also good for our mental health.[00:07:12] Ben Dunphy: It slows things down a bit from the Twitter news cycle to an in person festival of smiles, handshakes, connections, and in depth conversations that online media and online events can only ever dream of replicating. So this is an expo led event where the world's top companies will mingle with the world's top founders and AI engineers who are building and enhanced by AI.[00:07:34] AIE World's Fair: 9 Tracks[00:07:34] Ben Dunphy: And not to mention, we're featuring over a hundred talks and workshops across[00:07:37] swyx: nine tracks. Yeah, I mean, those nine tracks will be fun. Actually, do we have a little preview of the tracks in the, the speakers?[00:07:43] Ben Dunphy: We do. Folks can actually see them today at our website. We've updated that at ai.[00:07:48] Ben Dunphy: engineer. So we'd encourage them to go there to see that. But for those just listening, we have nine tracks. So we have multimodality. We have retrieval augmented generation. Featuring LLM frameworks and vector databases, evals and LLM ops, open source models, code gen and dev tools, GPUs and inference, AI agent applications, AI in the fortune 500, and then we have a special track for AI leadership which you can access by purchasing the VP pass which is different from the, the other passes we have.[00:08:20] Ben Dunphy: And I won't go into the Each of these tracks in depth, unless you want to, Swyx but there's more details on the website at ai. engineer.[00:08:28] swyx: I mean, I, I, very much looking forward to talking to our special guests for the last track, I think, which is the what a lot of yeah, leaders are thinking about, which is how to, Inspire innovation in their companies, especially the sort of larger organizations that might not have the in house talents for that kind of stuff.[00:08:47] swyx: So yeah, we can talk about the expo, but I'm very keen to talk about the presenting sponsor if you want to go slightly out of order from our original plan.[00:08:58] AIE World's Fair Keynotes[00:08:58] Ben Dunphy: Yeah, absolutely. So you know, for the stage of keynotes, we have talks confirmed from Microsoft, OpenAI, AWS, and Google.[00:09:06] Ben Dunphy: And our presenting sponsor is joining the stage with those folks. And so that presenting sponsor this year is a dream sponsor. It's Microsoft. It's the company really helping to lead the charge. And into this wonderful new era that we're all taking part in. So, yeah,[00:09:20] swyx: you know, a bit of context, like when we first started planning this thing, I was kind of brainstorming, like, who would we like to get as the ideal presenting sponsors, as ideal partners long term, just in terms of encouraging the AI engineering industry, and it was Microsoft.[00:09:33] Introducing Sam[00:09:33] swyx: So Sam, I'm very excited to welcome you onto the podcast. You are CVP and Deputy CTO of Microsoft. Welcome.[00:09:40] Sam Schillace: Nice to be here. I'm looking forward to, I was looking for, to Lessio saying my last name correctly this time. Oh[00:09:45] swyx: yeah. So I, I studiously avoided saying, saying your last name, but apparently it's an Italian last name.[00:09:50] swyx: Ski Lache. Ski[00:09:51] Alessio: Lache. Yeah. No, that, that's great, Sean. That's great as a musical person.[00:09:54] swyx: And it, it's also, yeah, I pay attention to like the, the, the lilt. So it's ski lache and the, the slow slowing of the law is, is what I focused[00:10:03] Sam Schillace: on. You say both Ls. There's no silent letters, you say[00:10:07] Alessio: both of those. And it's great to have you, Sam.[00:10:09] Alessio: You know, we've known each other now for a year and a half, two years, and our first conversation, well, it was at Lobby Conference, and then we had a really good one in the kind of parking lot of a Safeway, because we didn't want to go into Starbucks to meet, so we sat outside for about an hour, an hour and a half, and then you had to go to a Bluegrass concert, so it was great.[00:10:28] Alessio: Great meeting, and now, finally, we have you on Lanespace.[00:10:31] Sam Schillace: Cool, cool. Yeah, I'm happy to be here. It's funny, I was just saying to Swyx before you joined that, like, it's kind of an intimidating podcast. Like, when I listen to this podcast, it seems to be, like, one of the more intelligent ones, like, more, more, like, deep technical folks on it.[00:10:44] Sam Schillace: So, it's, like, it's kind of nice to be here. It's fun. Bring your A game. Hopefully I'll, I'll bring mine. I[00:10:49] swyx: mean, you've been programming for longer than some of our listeners have been alive, so I don't think your technical chops are in any doubt. So you were responsible for Rightly as one of your early wins in your career, which then became Google Docs, and obviously you were then responsible for a lot more G Suite.[00:11:07] swyx: But did you know that you covered in Acquired. fm episode 9, which is one of the podcasts that we model after.[00:11:13] Sam Schillace: Oh, cool. I didn't, I didn't realize that the most fun way to say this is that I still have to this day in my personal GDocs account, the very first Google doc, like I actually have it.[00:11:24] Sam Schillace: And I looked it up, like it occurred to me like six months ago that it was probably around and I went and looked and it's still there. So it's like, and it's kind of a funny thing. Cause it's like the backend has been rewritten at least twice that I know of the front end has been re rewritten at least twice that I know of.[00:11:38] Sam Schillace: So. I'm not sure what sense it's still the original one it's sort of more the idea of the original one, like the NFT of it would probably be more authentic. I[00:11:46] swyx: still have it. It's a ship athesia thing. Does it, does it say hello world or something more mundane?[00:11:52] Sam Schillace: It's, it's, it's me and Steve Newman trying to figure out if some collaboration stuff is working, and also a picture of Edna from the Incredibles that I probably pasted in later, because that's That's too early for that, I think.[00:12:05] swyx: People can look up your LinkedIn, and we're going to link it on the show notes, but you're also SVP of engineering for Box, and then you went back to Google to do Google, to lead Google Maps, and now you're deputy CTO.[00:12:17] AI in 2020s vs the Cloud in 2000s[00:12:17] swyx: I mean, there's so many places to start, but maybe one place I like to start off with is do you have a personal GPT 4 experience.[00:12:25] swyx: Obviously being at Microsoft, you have, you had early access and everyone talks about Bill Gates's[00:12:30] Sam Schillace: demo. Yeah, it's kind of, yeah, that's, it's kind of interesting. Like, yeah, we got access, I got access to it like in September of 2022, I guess, like before it was really released. And I it like almost instantly was just like mind blowing to me how good it was.[00:12:47] Sam Schillace: I would try experiments like very early on, like I play music. There's this thing called ABC notation. That's like an ASCII way to represent music. And like, I was like, I wonder if it can like compose a fiddle tune. And like it composed a fiddle tune. I'm like, I wonder if it can change key, change the key.[00:13:01] Sam Schillace: Like it's like really, it was like very astonishing. And I sort of, I'm very like abstract. My background is actually more math than CS. I'm a very abstract thinker and sort of categorical thinker. And the, the thing that occurred to me with, with GPT 4 the first time I saw it was. This is really like the beginning, it's the beginning of V2 of the computer industry completely.[00:13:23] Sam Schillace: I had the same feeling I had when, of like a category shifting that I had when the cloud stuff happened with the GDocs stuff, right? Where it's just like, all of a sudden this like huge vista opens up of capabilities. And I think the way I characterized it, which is a little bit nerdy, but I'm a nerd so lean into it is like everything until now has been about syntax.[00:13:46] Syntax vs Semantics[00:13:46] Sam Schillace: Like, we have to do mediation. We have to describe the real world in forms that the digital world can manage. And so we're the mediation, and we, like, do that via things like syntax and schema and programming languages. And all of a sudden, like, this opens the door to semantics, where, like, you can express intention and meaning and nuance and fuzziness.[00:14:04] Sam Schillace: And the machine itself is doing, the model itself is doing a bunch of the mediation for you. And like, that's obviously like complicated. We can talk about the limits and stuff, and it's getting better in some ways. And we're learning things and all kinds of stuff is going on around it, obviously.[00:14:18] Sam Schillace: But like, that was my immediate reaction to it was just like, Oh my God.[00:14:22] Bill Gates vs GPT-4[00:14:22] Sam Schillace: Like, and then I heard about the build demo where like Bill had been telling Kevin Scott this, This investment is a waste. It's never going to work. AI is blah, blah, blah. And come back when it can pass like an AP bio exam.[00:14:33] Sam Schillace: And they actually literally did that at one point, they brought in like the world champion of the, like the AP bio test or whatever the AP competition and like it and chat GPT or GPT 4 both did the AP bio and GPT 4 beat her. So that was the moment that convinced Bill that this was actually real.[00:14:53] Sam Schillace: Yeah, it's fun. I had a moment with him actually about three weeks after that when we had been, so I started like diving in on developer tools almost immediately and I built this thing with a small team that's called the Semantic Kernel which is one of the very early orchestrators just because I wanted to be able to put code and And inference together.[00:15:10] Sam Schillace: And that's probably something we should dig into more deeply. Cause I think there's some good insights in there, but I I had a bunch of stuff that we were building and then I was asked to go meet with Bill Gates about it and he's kind of famously skeptical and, and so I was a little bit nervous to meet him the first time.[00:15:25] Sam Schillace: And I started the conversation with, Hey, Bill, like three weeks ago, you would have called BS on everything I'm about to show you. And I would probably have agreed with you, but we've both seen this thing. And so we both know it's real. So let's skip that part and like, talk about what's possible.[00:15:39] Sam Schillace: And then we just had this kind of fun, open ended conversation and I showed him a bunch of stuff. So that was like a really nice, fun, fun moment as well. Well,[00:15:46] swyx: that's a nice way to meet Bill Gates and impress[00:15:48] Sam Schillace: him. A little funny. I mean, it's like, I wasn't sure what he would think of me, given what I've done and his.[00:15:54] Sam Schillace: Crown Jewel. But he was nice. I think he likes[00:15:59] swyx: GDocs. Crown Jewel as in Google Docs versus Microsoft Word? Office.[00:16:03] Sam Schillace: Yeah. Yeah, versus Office. Yeah, like, I think, I mean, I can imagine him not liking, I met Steven Snofsky once and he sort of respectfully, but sort of grimaced at me. You know, like, because of how much trauma I had caused him.[00:16:18] Sam Schillace: So Bill was very nice to[00:16:20] swyx: me. In general it's like friendly competition, right? They keep you, they keep you sharp, you keep each[00:16:24] Sam Schillace: other sharp. Yeah, no, I think that's, it's definitely respect, it's just kind of funny.[00:16:28] Semantic Kernel and Schillace's Laws of AI Engineering[00:16:28] Sam Schillace: Yeah,[00:16:28] swyx: So, speaking of semantic kernel, I had no idea that you were that deeply involved, that you actually had laws named after you.[00:16:35] swyx: This only came up after looking into you for a little bit. Skelatches laws, how did those, what's the, what's the origin[00:16:41] Sam Schillace: story? Hey! Yeah, that's kind of funny. I'm actually kind of a modest person and so I'm sure I feel about having my name attached to them. Although I do agree with all, I believe all of them because I wrote all of them.[00:16:49] Sam Schillace: This is like a designer, John Might, who works with me, decided to stick my name on them and put them out there. Seriously, but like, well, but like, so this was just I, I'm not, I don't build models. Like I'm not an AI engineer in the sense of, of like AI researcher that's like doing inference. Like I'm somebody who's like consuming the models.[00:17:09] Sam Schillace: Exactly. So it's kind of funny when you're talking about AI engineering, like it's a good way of putting it. Cause that's how like I think about myself. I'm like, I'm an app builder. I just want to build with this tool. Yep. And so we spent all of the fall and into the winter in that first year, like Just trying to build stuff and learn how this tool worked.[00:17:29] Orchestration: Break it into pieces[00:17:29] Sam Schillace: And I guess those are a little bit in the spirit of like Robert Bentley's programming pearls or something. I was just like, let's kind of distill some of these ideas down of like. How does this thing work? I saw something I still see today with people doing like inference is still kind of expensive.[00:17:46] Sam Schillace: GPUs are still kind of scarce. And so people try to get everything done in like one shot. And so there's all this like prompt tuning to get things working. And one of the first laws was like, break it into pieces. Like if it's hard for you, it's going to be hard for the model. But if it's you know, there's this kind of weird thing where like, it's.[00:18:02] Sam Schillace: It's absolutely not a human being, but starting to think about, like, how would I solve the problem is often a good way to figure out how to architect the program so that the model can solve the problem. So, like, that was one of the first laws. That came from me just trying to, like, replicate a test of a, like, a more complicated, There's like a reasoning process that you have to go through that, that Google was, was the react, the react thing, and I was trying to get GPT 4 to do it on its own.[00:18:32] Sam Schillace: And, and so I'd ask it the question that was in this paper, and the answer to the question is like the year 2000. It's like, what year did this particular author who wrote this book live in this country? And you've kind of got to carefully reason through it. And like, I could not get GPT 4 to Just to answer the question with the year 2000.[00:18:50] Sam Schillace: And if you're thinking about this as like the kernel is like a pipelined orchestrator, right? It's like very Unix y, where like you have a, some kind of command and you pipe stuff to the next parameters and output to the next thing. So I'm thinking about this as like one module in like a pipeline, and I just want it to give me the answer.[00:19:05] Sam Schillace: I don't want anything else. And I could not prompt engineer my way out of that. I just like, it was giving me a paragraph or reasoning. And so I sort of like anthropomorphized a little bit and I was like, well, the only way you can think about stuff is it can think out loud because there's nothing else that the model does.[00:19:19] Sam Schillace: It's just doing token generation. And so it's not going to be able to do this reasoning if it can't think out loud. And that's why it's always producing this. But if you take that paragraph of output, which did get to the right answer and you pipe it into a second prompt. That just says read this conversation and just extract the answer and report it back.[00:19:38] Sam Schillace: That's an easier task. That would be an easier task for you to do or me to do. It's easier reasoning. And so it's an easier thing for the model to do and it's much more accurate. And that's like 100 percent accurate. It always does that. So like that was one of those, those insights on the that led to the, the choice loss.[00:19:52] Prompt Engineering: Ask Smart to Get Smart[00:19:52] Sam Schillace: I think one of the other ones that's kind of interesting that I think people still don't fully appreciate is that GPT 4 is the rough equivalent of like a human being sitting down for centuries or millennia and reading all the books that they can find. It's this vast mind, right, and the embedding space, the latent space, is 100, 000 K, 100, 000 dimensional space, right?[00:20:14] Sam Schillace: Like it's this huge, high dimensional space, and we don't have good, um, Intuition about high dimensional spaces, like the topology works in really weird ways, connectivity works in weird ways. So a lot of what we're doing is like aiming the attention of a model into some part of this very weirdly connected space.[00:20:30] Sam Schillace: That's kind of what prompt engineering is. But that kind of, like, what we observed to begin with that led to one of those laws was You know, ask smart to get smart. And I think we've all, we all understand this now, right? Like this is the whole field of prompt engineering. But like, if you ask like a simple, a simplistic question of the model, you'll get kind of a simplistic answer.[00:20:50] Sam Schillace: Cause you're pointing it at a simplistic part of that high dimensional space. And if you ask it a more intelligent question, you get more intelligent stuff back out. And so I think that's part of like how you think about programming as well. It's like, how are you directing the attention of the model?[00:21:04] Sam Schillace: And I think we still don't have a good intuitive feel for that. To me,[00:21:08] Alessio: the most interesting thing is how do you tie the ask smart, get smart with the syntax and semantics piece. I gave a talk at GDC last week about the rise of full stack employees and how these models are like semantic representation of tasks that people do.[00:21:23] Alessio: But at the same time, we have code. Also become semantic representation of code. You know, I give you the example of like Python that sort it's like really a semantic function. It's not code, but it's actually code underneath. How do you think about tying the two together where you have code?[00:21:39] Alessio: To then extract the smart parts so that you don't have to like ask smart every time and like kind of wrap them in like higher level functions.[00:21:46] Sam Schillace: Yeah, this is, this is actually, we're skipping ahead to kind of later in the conversation, but I like to, I usually like to still stuff down in these little aphorisms that kind of help me remember them.[00:21:57] Think with the model, Plan with Code[00:21:57] Sam Schillace: You know, so we can dig into a bunch of them. One of them is pixels are free, one of them is bots are docs. But the one that's interesting here is Think with the model, plan with code. And so one of the things, so one of the things we've realized, we've been trying to do lots of these like longer running tasks.[00:22:13] Sam Schillace: Like we did this thing called the infinite chatbot, which was the successor to the semantic kernel, which is an internal project. It's a lot like GPTs. The open AI GPT is, but it's like a little bit more advanced in some ways, kind of deep exploration of a rag based bot system. And then we did multi agents from that, trying to do some autonomy stuff and we're, and we're kind of banging our head against this thing.[00:22:34] Sam Schillace: And you know, one of the things I started to realize, this is going to get nerdy for a second. I apologize, but let me dig in on it for just a second. No apology needed. Um, we realized is like, again, this is a little bit of an anthropomorphism and an illusion that we're having. So like when we look at these models, we think there's something continuous there.[00:22:51] Sam Schillace: We're having a conversation with chat GPT or whatever with Azure open air or like, like what's really happened. It's a little bit like watching claymation, right? Like when you watch claymation, you don't think that the model is actually the clay model is actually really alive. You know, that there's like a bunch of still disconnected slot screens that your mind is connecting into a continuous experience.[00:23:12] Metacognition vs Stochasticity[00:23:12] Sam Schillace: And that's kind of the same thing that's going on with these models. Like they're all the prompts are disconnected no matter what. Which means you're putting a lot of weight on memory, right? This is the thing we talked about. You're like, you're putting a lot of weight on precision and recall of your memory system.[00:23:27] Sam Schillace: And so like, and it turns out like, because the models are stochastic, they're kind of random. They'll make stuff up if things are missing. If you're naive about your, your memory system, you'll get lots of like accumulated similar memories that will kind of clog the system, things like that. So there's lots of ways in which like, Memory is hard to manage well, and, and, and that's okay.[00:23:47] Sam Schillace: But what happens is when you're doing plans and you're doing these longer running things that you're talking about, that second level, the metacognition is very vulnerable to that stochastic noise, which is like, I totally want to put this on a bumper sticker that like metacognition is susceptible to stochasticity would be like the great bumper sticker.[00:24:07] Sam Schillace: So what, these things are very vulnerable to feedback loops when they're trying to do autonomy, and they're very vulnerable to getting lost. So we've had these, like, multi agent Autonomous agent things get kind of stuck on like complimenting each other, or they'll get stuck on being quote unquote frustrated and they'll go on strike.[00:24:22] Sam Schillace: Like there's all kinds of weird like feedback loops you get into. So what we've learned to answer your question of how you put all this stuff together is You have to, the model's good at thinking, but it's not good at planning. So you do planning in code. So you have to describe the larger process of what you're doing in code somehow.[00:24:38] Sam Schillace: So semantic intent or whatever. And then you let the model kind of fill in the pieces.[00:24:43] Generating Synthetic Textbooks[00:24:43] Sam Schillace: I'll give a less abstract like example. It's a little bit of an old example. I did this like last year, but at one point I wanted to see if I could generate textbooks. And so I wrote this thing called the textbook factory.[00:24:53] Sam Schillace: And it's, it's tiny. It's like a Jupyter notebook with like. You know, 200 lines of Python and like six very short prompts, but what you basically give it a sentence. And it like pulls out the topic and the level of, of, from that sentence, so you, like, I would like fifth grade reading. I would like eighth grade English.[00:25:11] Sam Schillace: His English ninth grade, US history, whatever. That by the way, all, all by itself, like would've been an almost impossible job like three years ago. Isn't, it's like totally amazing like that by itself. Just parsing an arbitrary natural language sentence to get these two pieces of information out is like almost trivial now.[00:25:27] Sam Schillace: Which is amazing. So it takes that and it just like makes like a thousand calls to the API and it goes and builds a full year textbook, like decides what the curriculum is with one of the prompts. It breaks it into chapters. It writes all the lessons and lesson plans and like builds a teacher's guide with all the answers to all the questions.[00:25:42] Sam Schillace: It builds a table of contents, like all that stuff. It's super reliable. You always get a textbook. It's super brittle. You never get a cookbook or a novel like but like you could kind of define that domain pretty care, like I can describe. The metacognition, the high level plan for how do you write a textbook, right?[00:25:59] Sam Schillace: You like decide the curriculum and then you write all the chapters and you write the teacher's guide and you write the table content, like you can, you can describe that out pretty well. And so having that like code exoskeleton wrapped around the model is really helpful, like it keeps the model from drifting off and then you don't have as many of these vulnerabilities around memory that you would normally have.[00:26:19] Sam Schillace: So like, that's kind of, I think where the syntax and semantics comes together right now.[00:26:24] Trade leverage for precision; use interaction to mitigate[00:26:24] Sam Schillace: And then I think the question for all of us is. How do you get more leverage out of that? Right? So one of the things that I don't love about virtually everything anyone's built for the last year and a half is people are holding the hands of the model on everything.[00:26:37] Sam Schillace: Like the leverage is very low, right? You can't turn. These things loose to do anything really interesting for very long. You can kind of, and the places where people are getting more work out per unit of work in are usually where somebody has done exactly what I just described. They've kind of figured out what the pattern of the problem is in enough of a way that they can write some code for it.[00:26:59] Sam Schillace: And then that that like, so I've seen like sales support stuff. I've seen like code base tuning stuff of like, there's lots of things that people are doing where like, you can get a lot of value in some relatively well defined domain using a little bit of the model's ability to think for you and a little, and a little bit of code.[00:27:18] Code is for syntax and process; models are for semantics and intent.[00:27:18] Sam Schillace: And then I think the next wave is like, okay, do we do stuff like domain specific languages to like make the planning capabilities better? Do we like start to build? More sophisticated primitives. We're starting to think about and talk about like power automate and a bunch of stuff inside of Microsoft that we're going to wrap in these like building blocks.[00:27:34] Sam Schillace: So the models have these chunks of reliable functionality that they can invoke as part of these plans, right? Because you don't want like, if you're going to ask the model to go do something and the output's going to be a hundred thousand lines of code, if it's got to generate that code every time, the randomness, the stochasticity is like going to make that basically not reliable.[00:27:54] Sam Schillace: You want it to generate it like a 10 or 20 line high level semantic plan for this thing that gets handed to some markup executor that runs it and that invokes that API, that 100, 000 lines of code behind it, API call. And like, that's a really nice robust system for now. And then as the models get smarter as new models emerge, then we get better plans, we get more sophistication.[00:28:17] Sam Schillace: In terms of what they can choose, things like that. Right. So I think like that feels like that's probably the path forward for a little while, at least, like there was, there was a lot there. I, sorry, like I've been thinking, you can tell I've been thinking about it a lot. Like this is kind of all I think about is like, how do you build.[00:28:31] Sam Schillace: Really high value stuff out of this. And where do we go? Yeah. The, the role where[00:28:35] swyx: we are. Yeah. The intermixing of code and, and LMS is, is a lot of the role of the AI engineer. And I, I, I think in a very real way, you were one of the first to, because obviously you had early access. Honestly, I'm surprised.[00:28:46] Hands on AI Leadership[00:28:46] swyx: How are you so hands on? How do you choose to, to dedicate your time? How do you advise other tech leaders? Right. You know, you, you are. You have people working for you, you could not be hands on, but you seem to be hands on. What's the allocation that people should have, especially if they're senior tech[00:29:03] Sam Schillace: leaders?[00:29:04] Sam Schillace: It's mostly just fun. Like, I'm a maker, and I like to build stuff. I'm a little bit idiosyncratic. I I've got ADHD, and so I won't build anything. I won't work on anything I'm bored with. So I have no discipline. If I'm not actually interested in the thing, I can't just, like, do it, force myself to do it.[00:29:17] Sam Schillace: But, I mean, if you're not interested in what's going on right now in the industry, like, go find a different industry, honestly. Like, I seriously, like, this is, I, well, it's funny, like, I don't mean to be snarky, but, like, I was at a dinner, like, a, I don't know, six months ago or something, And I was sitting next to a CTO of a large, I won't name the corporation because it would name the person, but I was sitting next to the CTO of a very large Japanese technical company, and he was like, like, nothing has been interesting since the internet, and this is interesting now, like, this is fun again.[00:29:46] Sam Schillace: And I'm like, yeah, totally, like this is like, the most interesting thing that's happened in 35 years of my career, like, we can play with semantics and natural language, and we can have these things that are like sort of active, can kind of be independent in certain ways and can do stuff for us and can like, reach all of these interesting problems.[00:30:02] Sam Schillace: So like that's part of it of it's just kind of fun to, to do stuff and to build stuff. I, I just can't, can't resist. I'm not crazy hands-on, like, I have an eng like my engineering team's listening right now. They're like probably laughing 'cause they, I never, I, I don't really touch code directly 'cause I'm so obsessive.[00:30:17] Sam Schillace: I told them like, if I start writing code, that's all I'm gonna do. And it's probably better if I stay a little bit high level and like, think about. I've got a really great couple of engineers, a bunch of engineers underneath me, a bunch of designers underneath me that are really good folks that we just bounce ideas off of back and forth and it's just really fun.[00:30:35] Sam Schillace: That's the role I came to Microsoft to do, really, was to just kind of bring some energy around innovation, some energy around consumer, We didn't know that this was coming when I joined. I joined like eight months before it hit us, but I think Kevin might've had an idea it was coming. And and then when it hit, I just kind of dove in with both feet cause it's just so much fun to do.[00:30:55] Sam Schillace: Just to tie it back a little bit to the, the Google Docs stuff. When we did rightly originally the world it's not like I built rightly in jQuery or anything. Like I built that thing on bare metal back before there were decent JavaScript VMs.[00:31:10] Sam Schillace: I was just telling somebody today, like you were rate limited. So like just computing the diff when you type something like doing the string diff, I had to write like a binary search on each end of the string diff because like you didn't have enough iterations of a for loop to search character by character.[00:31:24] Sam Schillace: I mean, like that's how rough it was none of the browsers implemented stuff directly, whatever. It's like, just really messy. And like, that's. Like, as somebody who's been doing this for a long time, like, that's the place where you want to engage, right? If things are easy, and it's easy to go do something, it's too late.[00:31:42] Sam Schillace: Even if it's not too late, it's going to be crowded, but like the right time to do something new and disruptive and technical is, first of all, still when it's controversial, but second of all, when you have this, like, you can see the future, you ask this, like, what if question, and you can see where it's going, But you have this, like, pit in your stomach as an engineer as to, like, how crappy this is going to be to do.[00:32:04] Sam Schillace: Like, that's really the right moment to engage with stuff. We're just like, this is going to suck, it's going to be messy, I don't know what the path is, I'm going to get sticks and thorns in my hair, like I, I, it's going to have false starts, and I don't really, I'm going to This is why those skeletchae laws are kind of funny, because, like, I, I, like You know, I wrote them down at one point because they were like my best guess, but I'm like half of these are probably wrong, and I think they've all held up pretty well, but I'm just like guessing along with everybody else, we're just trying to figure this thing out still, right, and like, and I think the only way to do that is to just engage with it.[00:32:34] Sam Schillace: You just have to like, build stuff. If you're, I can't tell you the number of execs I've talked to who have opinions about AI and have not sat down with anything for more than 10 minutes to like actually try to get anything done. You know, it's just like, it's incomprehensible to me that you can watch this stuff through the lens of like the press and forgive me, podcasts and feel like you actually know what you're talking about.[00:32:59] Sam Schillace: Like, you have to like build stuff. Like, break your nose on stuff and like figure out what doesn't work.[00:33:04] swyx: Yeah, I mean, I view us as a starting point, as a way for people to get exposure on what we're doing. They should be looking at, and they still have to do the work as do we. Yeah, I'll basically endorse, like, I think most of the laws.[00:33:18] Multimodality vs "Text is the universal wire protocol"[00:33:18] swyx: I think the one I question the most now is text is the universal wire protocol. There was a very popular article, a text that used a universal interface by Rune who now works at OpenAI. And I, actually, we just, we just dropped a podcast with David Luan, who's CEO of Adept now, but he was VP of Eng, and he pitched Kevin Scott for the original Microsoft investment in OpenAI.[00:33:40] swyx: Where he's basically pivoting to or just betting very hard on multimodality. I think that's something that we don't really position very well. I think this year, we're trying to all figure it out. I don't know if you have an updated perspective on multi modal models how that affects agents[00:33:54] Sam Schillace: or not.[00:33:55] Sam Schillace: Yeah, I mean, I think the multi I think multi modality is really important. And I, I think it's only going to get better from here. For sure. Yeah, the text is the universal wire protocol. You're probably right. Like, I don't know that I would defend that one entirely. Note that it doesn't say English, right?[00:34:09] Sam Schillace: Like it's, it's not, that's even natural language. Like there's stuff like Steve Luko, who's the guy who created TypeScript, created TypeChat, right? Which is this like way to get LLMs to be very precise and return syntax and correct JavaScript. So like, I, yeah, I think like multimodality, like, I think part of the challenge with it is like, it's a little harder to access.[00:34:30] Sam Schillace: Programatically still like I think you know and I do think like, You know like when when like dahly and stuff started to come Out I was like, oh photoshop's in trouble cuz like, you know I'm just gonna like describe images And you don't need photos of Photoshop anymore Which hasn't played out that way like they're actually like adding a bunch of tools who look like you want to be able to you know for multimodality be really like super super charged you need to be able to do stuff like Descriptively, like, okay, find the dog in this picture and mask around it.[00:34:58] Sam Schillace: Okay, now make it larger and whatever. You need to be able to interact with stuff textually, which we're starting to be able to do. Like, you can do some of that stuff. But there's probably a whole bunch of new capabilities that are going to come out that are going to make it more interesting.[00:35:11] Sam Schillace: So, I don't know, like, I suspect we're going to wind up looking kind of like Unix at the end of the day, where, like, there's pipes and, like, Stuff goes over pipes, and some of the pipes are byte character pipes, and some of them are byte digital or whatever like binary pipes, and that's going to be compatible with a lot of the systems we have out there, so like, that's probably still And I think there's a lot to be gotten from, from text as a language, but I suspect you're right.[00:35:37] Sam Schillace: Like that particular law is not going to hold up super well. But we didn't have multimodal going when I wrote it. I'll take one out as well.[00:35:46] Azure OpenAI vs Microsoft Research vs Microsoft AI Division[00:35:46] swyx: I know. Yeah, I mean, the innovations that keep coming out of Microsoft. You mentioned multi agent. I think you're talking about autogen.[00:35:52] swyx: But there's always research coming out of MSR. Yeah. PHY1, PHY2. Yeah, there's a bunch of[00:35:57] Sam Schillace: stuff. Yeah.[00:35:59] swyx: What should, how should the outsider or the AI engineer just as a sort of final word, like, How should they view the Microsoft portfolio things? I know you're not here to be a salesman, but What, how do you explain You know, Microsoft's AI[00:36:12] Sam Schillace: work to people.[00:36:13] Sam Schillace: There's a lot of stuff going on. Like, first of all, like, I should, I'll be a little tiny bit of a salesman for, like, two seconds and just point out that, like, one of the things we have is the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub. So, like, you can get, like, Azure credits and stuff from us. Like, up to, like, 150 grand, I think, over four years.[00:36:29] Sam Schillace: So, like, it's actually pretty easy to get. Credit you can start, I 500 bucks to start or something with very little other than just an idea. So like there's, that's pretty cool. Like, I like Microsoft is very much all in on AI at, at many levels. And so like that, you mentioned, you mentioned Autogen, like, So I sit in the office of the CTO, Microsoft Research sits under him, under the office of the CTO as well.[00:36:51] Sam Schillace: So the Autogen group came out of somebody in MSR, like in that group. So like there's sort of. The spectrum of very researchy things going on in research, where we're doing things like Phi, which is the small language model efficiency exploration that's really, really interesting. Lots of very technical folks there that are building different kinds of models.[00:37:10] Sam Schillace: And then there's like, groups like my group that are kind of a little bit in the middle that straddle product and, and, and research and kind of have a foot in both worlds and are trying to kind of be a bridge into the product world. And then there's like a whole bunch of stuff on the product side of things.[00:37:23] Sam Schillace: So there's. All the Azure OpenAI stuff, and then there's all the stuff that's in Office and Windows. And I, so I think, like, the way, I don't know, the way to think about Microsoft is we're just powering AI at every level we can, and making it as accessible as we can to both end users and developers.[00:37:42] Sam Schillace: There's this really nice research arm at one end of that spectrum that's really driving the cutting edge. The fee stuff is really amazing. It broke the chinchella curves. Right, like we didn't, that's the textbooks are all you need paper, and it's still kind of controversial, but like that was really a surprising result that came out of MSR.[00:37:58] Sam Schillace: And so like I think Microsoft is both being a thought leader on one end, on the other end with all the Azure OpenAI, all the Azure tooling that we have, like very much a developer centric, kind of the tinkerer's paradise that Microsoft always was. It's like a great place to come and consume all these things.[00:38:14] Sam Schillace: There's really amazing stuff ideas that we've had, like these very rich, long running, rag based chatbots that we didn't talk about that are like now possible to just go build with Azure AI Studio for yourself. You can build and deploy like a chatbot that's trained on your data specifically, like very easily and things like that.[00:38:31] Sam Schillace: So like there's that end of things. And then there's all this stuff that's in Office, where like, you could just like use the copilots both in Bing, but also just like daily your daily work. So like, it's just kind of everywhere at this point, like everyone in the company thinks about it all the time.[00:38:43] Sam Schillace: There's like no single answer to that question. That was way more salesy than I thought I was capable of, but like, that is actually the genuine truth. Like, it is all the time, it is all levels, it is all the way from really pragmatic, approachable stuff for somebody starting out who doesn't know things, all the way to like Absolutely cutting edge research, silicon, models, AI for science, like, we didn't talk about any of the AI for science stuff, I've seen magical stuff coming out of the research group on that topic, like just crazy cool stuff that's coming, so.[00:39:13] Sam Schillace: You've[00:39:14] swyx: called this since you joined Microsoft. I point listeners to the podcast that you did in 2022, pre ChatGBT with Kevin Scott. And yeah, you've been saying this from the beginning. So this is not a new line of Talk track for you, like you've, you, you've been a genuine believer for a long time.[00:39:28] swyx: And,[00:39:28] Sam Schillace: and just to be clear, like I haven't been at Microsoft that long. I've only been here for like two, a little over two years and you know, it's a little bit weird for me 'cause for a lot of my career they were the competitor and the enemy and you know, it's kind of funny to be here, but like it's really remarkable.[00:39:40] On Satya[00:39:40] Sam Schillace: It's going on. I really, really like Satya. I've met a, met and worked with a bunch of big tech CEOs and I think he's a genuinely awesome person and he's fun to work with and has a really great. vision. So like, and I obviously really like Kevin, we've been friends for a long time. So it's a cool place.[00:39:56] Sam Schillace: I think there's a lot of interesting stuff. We[00:39:57] swyx: have some awareness Satya is a listener. So obviously he's super welcome on the pod anytime. You can just drop in a good word for us.[00:40:05] Sam Schillace: He's fun to talk to. It's interesting because like CEOs can be lots of different personalities, but he is you were asking me about how I'm like, so hands on and engaged.[00:40:14] Sam Schillace: I'm amazed at how hands on and engaged he can be given the scale of his job. Like, he's super, super engaged with stuff, super in the details, understands a lot of the stuff that's going on. And the science side of things, as well as the product and the business side, I mean, it's really remarkable. I don't say that, like, because he's listening or because I'm trying to pump the company, like, I'm, like, genuinely really, really impressed with, like, how, what he's, like, I look at him, I'm like, I love this stuff, and I spend all my time thinking about it, and I could not do what he's doing.[00:40:42] Sam Schillace: Like, it's just incredible how much you can get[00:40:43] Ben Dunphy: into his head.[00:40:44] Sam at AI Leadership Track[00:40:44] Ben Dunphy: Sam, it's been an absolute pleasure to hear from you here, hear the war stories. So thank you so much for coming on. Quick question though you're here on the podcast as the presenting sponsor for the AI Engineer World's Fair, will you be taking the stage there, or are we going to defer that to Satya?[00:41:01] Ben Dunphy: And I'm happy[00:41:02] Sam Schillace: to talk to folks. I'm happy to be there. It's always fun to like I, I like talking to people more than talking at people. So I don't love giving keynotes. I love giving Q and A's and like engaging with engineers and like. I really am at heart just a builder and an engineer, and like, that's what I'm happiest doing, like being creative and like building things and figuring stuff out.[00:41:22] Sam Schillace: That would be really fun to do, and I'll probably go just to like, hang out with people and hear what they're working on and working about.[00:41:28] swyx: The AI leadership track is just AI leaders, and then it's closed doors, so you know, more sort of an unconference style where people just talk[00:41:34] Sam Schillace: about their issues.[00:41:35] Sam Schillace: Yeah, that would be, that's much more fun. That's really, because we are really all wrestling with this, trying to figure out what it means. Right. So I don't think anyone I, the reason I have the Scalache laws kind of give me the willies a little bit is like, I, I was joking that we should just call them the Scalache best guesses, because like, I don't want people to think that that's like some iron law.[00:41:52] Sam Schillace: We're all trying to figure this stuff out. Right. Like some of it's right. Some it's not right. It's going to be messy. We'll have false starts, but yeah, we're all working it out. So that's the fun conversation. All[00:42:02] Ben Dunphy: right. Thanks for having me. Yeah, thanks so much for coming on.[00:42:05] Final Plug for Tickets & CFP[00:42:05] Ben Dunphy: For those of you listening, interested in attending AI Engineer World's Fair, you can purchase your tickets today.[00:42:11] Ben Dunphy: Learn more about the event at ai. engineer. You can purchase even group discounts. If you purchase four more tickets, use the code GROUP, and one of those four tickets will be free. If you want to speak at the event CFP closes April 8th, so check out the link at ai. engineer, send us your proposals for talks, workshops, or discussion groups.[00:42:33] Ben Dunphy: So if you want to come to THE event of the year for AI engineers, the technical event of the year for AI engineers this is at June 25, 26, and 27 in San Francisco. That's it! Get full access to Latent Space at www.latent.space/subscribe

About Kathleen Mitford:Kathleen Mitford spent her career crafting strategies and empowering employees to ensure top-notch customer experiences. As the CVP of Global Industry Marketing at Microsoft, she's proud to work alongside their partner ecosystem to help customers in all industries create the future with solutions across the Microsoft Cloud designed to solve their industry's unique challenges and unlock opportunities. Microsoft's mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more aligns with her own purpose, and she's thrilled to be part of a company that values inclusivity, empathy, and a growth mindset. She's a passionate advocate for advancing diversity and equity and promoting greater inclusion of women in science and technology by encouraging diverse perspectives, embracing our differences, and supporting a sense of belonging for all. In her free time, you'll find her gardening, running, and adventuring with her husband and two kids.Things You'll Learn:Microsoft is focused on empowering healthcare organizations with the tools and technologies to unlock the potential of their data and harness the power of AI to drive better operational insights and patient care.Microsoft stands apart through its foundation of trust with customers.By prioritizing customer data ownership, security, and privacy, and offering comprehensive solutions, Microsoft is committed to being a trusted advisor in healthcare transformation.Microsoft emphasizes responsible AI practices and supports customers in developing a strong data strategy, foundation, and responsible AI implementation.The power of data in healthcare is unparalleled. Kathleen Mitford highlights how Microsoft's cloud and AI solutions are driving operational insights and improving patient experiences.Resources:Connect with and follow Kathleen Mitford on LinkedIn.Follow Microsoft on LinkedIn and visit their website.

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