M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund

Had a great time attending the #GenAI Summit by GPT DAO in Santa Clara this weekend with Vivek! It’s incredible to be surrounded by some of the amazing folks in the GenAI space, diving into great conversations with investors and discovering a whole wave of new startups pushing boundaries in AI. Can’t wait to bring some of these insights back to AdaptsAI as we work to modernize enterprise applications and reduce maintenance costs. My favorite session was the fireside chat between Michael Stewart and Pradeep Nair. Here’s to innovation and growth in the world of GenAI! #GenAISummit #GPTDAO #AdaptsAI #Innovation #AI

What a fantastic day today hosting a group of The Wharton School MBA students at our Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus! We had the opportunity to host students focused on the big-tech track as well as on the start-up track. Great to combine both cohorts! We kicked off the day with an overview of the Microsoft Garage by Linda Thackeray followed by a hands-on #copilot workshop. The students got to use the Microsoft Copilot to generate a customized coffee mug assisted by Ann Marie Gizelle Baylon! Mike Gaal was next on the schedule. Mike shared great information about what it's like to work with growth-stage companies, and managing a multi-billion-dollar business. He also had great insights on how to remain authentic in a position with great responsibility and authority. We stayed on the theme of start-ups with our next speaker: Jason McBride, J.D., M.A., M.A.. Jason shared how M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund selects investments, and got a lot of student questions. He even was kind enough to host a break-out session to share more information. After a short break, Carolina Bogado Gomez and Dmitriy Bromberg shared more about hiring at Microsoft, and what opportunities MBA students have at Microsoft. We closed off the sessions with a career panel with 5 distinguished Microsoft employees: Gerald Tiu, Kirkland Jue, Subhav (Bob) Mital, Dmitriy Bromberg and Ria Patel. One of the students, Shrunothra Ambati, moderated the panel wonderfully and had fantastic questions for the students. It was great to connect more with the students during lunch and a campus tour! Thank you to all students for attending! cc: Srini Ambati

Join us on October 30th at 1 p.m. CST for our special webinar, Women Leading Cyber. This event will spotlight outstanding women driving innovation in cybersecurity. Our panel will share insights on diverse perspectives' crucial role in addressing evolving threats and building resilient teams. We’re excited to feature: - May Mitchell, CMO at HUMAN - Tracey Mills, VP of Public Sector & Healthcare Sales at CrowdStrike - Katie Boswell, AI Security Lead & DEI Champion at KPMG US - Moderator: Abigail Maines, CRO at HiddenLayer Register today and help shape a more inclusive cybersecurity future 👇 https://lnkd.in/gkPSKWX8 #WomenInCyber #WomenInSTEM #WomenInBusiness #WomenWebinar #CyberMonth

Thank you Mark Patel, Zina Cole and McKinsey & Company for inviting me to the #RealWorldAi Summit at the beautiful #SundanceMountainResort in Utah. It was an incredible opportunity to share, to learn, to meet, and participate in three days of open discussions with some of the best tech minds in the industry about solving REAL WORLD problems with #Ai and delivering REAL value. This was not just another Ai event (there are so many!) but an intimate, invitation-only gathering of a very special community from around the globe coming together once a year to have open and real conversations and learn from each other. Kudos to Mark and Zina for creating this wonderful community of accomplished and talented professionals, all with incredible minds and with diverse backgrounds!! During the first night, there was a power outage (which meant no Wi-Fi, no cell service, no electricity) that lasted well into the morning but that didn’t stop this group from carrying on. Thomas M. Siebel of C3 AI kicked things off with a fireside chat literally in front of the fireplace as the sun started to rise. Tom is a legend in the world of tech and has been working on enterprise Ai for many years, long before Ai became a thing and I was really impressed by his honest, straight talk and willingness to share his POV on all things Ai and some of the problems that society is struggling with today. The rest of the event was packed with terrific speakers and content and too much to distill into a single Linkedin post but here are a few that stood out: “Delivering across the Ai ecosystem” panel with Deepesh Chouhan from NVIDIA, Mark Huntington, PhD from PhysicsX, Ali Arsanjani, PhD from Google, Joris Poort from Rescale. “Living with robots” panel with Brian Donnelly from Boston Dynamics, Don Burnette from Kodiak. “Visions of the AI future” panel with Michael Stewart from M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund, Sheila Gulati with Tola Capital, Upal Basu with NGP Capital, Deepak Krishnamurthy of Gaia Ventures “Chasing Ai: Scaling compute” panel with Beltir G. Çağlar Dayanik from Intel Corporation, chowdary yanamadala from Arm “Ai and sustainability” panel with Lodewijk Wurfbain from Nedamco Africa, Vivek Mital from VegaMX Inc., and Simon Mulcahy formerly of Salesforce So much to absorb and process but my top takeaways: 1. The brilliant minds in the room were evidence that we humans are capable of building incredible things and we can solve the critical problems facing us today. 2. This human potential juxtaposed with the stunning landscape that surrounded us reminded me that no matter how capable humans are, we can never be as beautiful or as perfect as nature, and we must do more to protect our home planet. 3. The importance of being part of a trusted community where people are free to be open, share and learn from each other, especially when many are working remotely. What an incredibly mind opening and restorative experience! Thank you again Mark Patel and Zina Cole!!