By Jon Flynn and Susanne Tedrick
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The podcast currently has 26 episodes available.
Don't miss the latest Azure for Sports Podcast episode, where we have a special guest from GitHub, Elizabeth Barrord. She will show us how GitHub Copilot can make our lives easier as developers by helping us write better code faster and with fewer errors. Watch us put GitHub Copilot to the test in a LIVE DEMO and see how it can help you modernize your applications!
To learn more about GitHub Copilot, the fantastic tool we used in the demo, visit: https://github.com/features/copilot
Join exceptional guest co-host Melinda Moyo-Turner as we speak to the amazing 318 Foundation. We get to hear from Founder, and WNBA Champion, Alana Beard, as well as 318 Foundation Program Director, Kristen Kelly.
Please consider donating to the 318 Foundation at the link below.
Foundation Link: https://www.318foundation.org/
Jon and Susanne are joined by Tinus Le Roux, the founder and CEO of CrowdIQ. In this episode, they discuss how the company, using computer vision and complementary technologies, delivers actionable insights to their partners about their crowd composition and behaviors. They also tackle the benefits and potential ethical implications of generative AI.
Jon and Susanne are delighted to welcome Ari Kaplan to the podcast! Ari is Databrick's Global Head of Evangelism, and a leading influencer in AI, databases, and sports analytics. “The Real Moneyball guy”, the popular movie was partly based on Ari’s analytical and scouting experiences innovating Major League Baseball, and later creating the Cubs and Dodgers analytics departments.
Ari is President of the Independent Investigation into the Fate of Raoul Wallenberg, Sweden's humanitarian hero. His background in
Ari was named Caltech’s “Alumni of the Decade”, Crain Chicago’s “40 Under 40”, and IBM’s “Data Science Celebrity”, and the History Channel made a documentary on one of Kaplan’s analytical investigations.
Jon and Susanne are joined by Beyond Sports co-founders Sander Schouten and Nicolaas Westerhof. In the episode, they discuss the genesis of Beyond Sports, as well as their recent collaboration with ESPN on Big City Greens, and their thoughts on how to make sports more accessible and engaging for younger audiences.
Sander J. Schouten
Nicolaas Westerhof
Jon and Susanne are joined by Chris Gordon, Principal Program Manager for Worldwide Media & Entertainment. Here they discuss how cloud technology transformed the landscape of live events in the sports industry and gaming, how modernizing live event production has benefitted fans, and teases something to look forward to in a future episode...
About Chris Gordon
Chris Gordon is a Principal Program Manager for Microsoft’s Worldwide Media & Entertainment Industry team. In this role, Chris focuses on assembling first and third-party partner capability into accessible solutions for Microsoft’s M&E global clients with a focus on media production, distribution, and fan engagement.
His industry experience also includes executive positions at EGT, a video compression company purchased by Arris, where he was responsible for the design, marketing and solution engineering of the company’s digital media video processing product lines.
Jon, Susanne and guest host Jake Switzer are joined by Anthony Brock from the Indiana Pacers. They discussed how customer experience data drives their business, how data and sustainability principles helped shaped the multi-million dollar renovation of the Gainbridge Fieldhouse, and their transition from a traditional data warehouse approach to a data lake house infrastructure, utilizing Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks. As a bonus, we express our mutual love of Dolly Parton.
About Anthony Brock
Anthony Brock is the Sr. Director of Customer Insights & Business Analytics at Pacers Sports & Entertainment. His career started in sales, then moved to founding a digital marketing firm. After four years in the startup space, he moved to global manufacturing at Endress+Hauser. He joined PSE nearly two years ago to lead the data/insights team. Since joining in 2021, Anthony’s team has restructured the data architecture to drive customer and revenue insights, while reducing operating costs. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Marian University.
For the last podcast episode for 2022, Jon and Susanne are joined by guest host Jake Switzer, and special guest, Jeremy Raadt! In this wide-ranging discussion, Jeremy talks about the key benefits and outcomes to the org. in migrating some of their systems to Azure, considerations for collecting and using data, and his thoughts on the next big thing - from a technology perspective - in baseball.
About Jeremy Raadt:
Jeremy Raadt (Senior Director of Baseball Systems) joined the Minnesota Twins eight years ago. With over 25 years of experience as a software engineer in numerous industries, from startups to biotech, he now gets to combine his love for baseball with engineering.
Jon and Susanne are joined again by renowned cloud data architect and author Jake Switzer. Here, Jake walks through a live demonstration, featuring a simple yet robust deployment of a scalable sports analytics framework on Azure. Check out the full architecture buildout at Microsoft Learn: https://aka.ms/az-sports-analytics
The podcast currently has 26 episodes available.