Decision Makers Guide to Microsoft Fabric: Generative AI
Tom Peplow discusses AI's impact on insurance, emphasizing IT leaders' role in leveraging AI, ethical frameworks, and addressing the skills gap.
About this talk
Decision Makers Guide
Welcome to the second part in a new series of interviews with real-world Decision Makers (CTOs, CIOs, Heads of / Directors of Software Engineering, Data & Analytics) about how they manage their strategic roadmap and evaluate new technologies to simplify their portfolio, deliver better outcomes for stakeholders, or give them a competitive advantage. In a 3-part interview we talk to Tom Peplow about his assessment of Microsoft Fabric. In this part we talk about the relationship between Microsoft Fabric and AI.
TLDR;
Tom Peplow, Principal & Senior Director Product Strategy at Milliman, chats with Ian Griffiths & Ed Freeman from endjin about how AI could impact the insurance industry. Tom believes that AI is going to impact the future of business, and that it is up to IT leaders to help their organisations leverage the power of AI to better serve their customers. He discusses the relationship between Microsoft Fabric and AI, and how organisations can create a trusted AI environment where they can experiment with their own data to build AI-powered solutions. Tom believes that a good strategic IT department should be thinking about how to federate information across their organisation and with the outside world in order to train a Copilot on top of that information store. He believes that people inside an organisation will be 10x more effective at their jobs if they have access to AI-powered tools, and that there shouldn't be any fear around this. However, Tom is quick to point out that IT leaders need to figure out mechanisms for enabling businesses to grow quicker, leveraging tech, and not look for reasons to slow it down. He believes that it is important to build ethical AI frameworks inside of an organisation, in order to provide guidance and protection around internal intellectual property. Tom acknowledges that there is a skills gap when it comes to AI, but he is optimistic that this will get exponentially easier to harness as the technology matures. IT leaders need to be proactive in helping their organisations leverage its power to better serve their customers.
The talk contains the following chapters:
- 00:00 Introduction
- 00:24 Empowering users and AI
- 01:32 Consuming corporate data with AI
- 04:05 Data isolation and protection in AI
- 06:48 Upskilling and AI
From Descriptive to Predictive Analytics with Microsoft Fabric:
Microsoft Fabric End to End Demo Series:
- Part 1 - Lakehouse & Medallion Architecture
- Part 2 - Plan and Architect a Data Project
- Part 3 - Ingest Data
- Part 4 - Creating a shortcut to ADLS Gen2 in Fabric
- Part 5 - Local OneLake Tools
- Part 6 - Role of the Silver Layer in the Medallion Architecture
- Part 7 - Processing Bronze to Silver using Fabric Notebooks
- Part 8 - Good Notebook Development Practices
Microsoft Fabric First Impressions:
Decision Maker's Guide to Microsoft Fabric
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