20 March 2019 (Brussels, Belgium) – Over the last several years I have had the opportunity to meet with and interview numerous Microsoft executives at events like the International Cyber Security Conference in Lille France, the Munich Security Conference in Munich Germany, and the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona Spain.
Those people have included:
1. John Frank (Vice President for EU Government Affairs at Microsoft) who has been at the forefront of rethinking our approach to battling the rise of “Nation State Actors” — countries engaging in espionage, propaganda and/or disinformation campaigns — and the vast resources and capabilities at their disposal. My team and I are working on a multi-part video series that addresses these issues and you can see the “teaser” video here.
2. Yi Wei Charlie Han (Senior Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia) who has been at Microsoft for 12+ years with his focus on IoT device data, knowledge, and intelligence. We interviewed him at the Mobile World Congress three weeks ago about “the edge” — basically a term coined by enterprise folks to refer to computers and IoT devices (anything that isn’t the cloud) and how artificial intelligence is embedded into edge devices so they don’t have to talk to the cloud to do their job. And … for my e-discovery readers … how data is extracted from IoT devices for litigation purposes. That interview is in the editing room and will be out shortly.
But in this post, another Microsoft master: Nick Robinson, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Office 365. My team interviewed him at Legaltech 2019.
As I noted in a recent post, and as we discussed with Robert Childress of The Masters Conference, one of the reasons so much money is pouring into the e-discovery market is that e-discovery analytics has finally earned its place as a “staple platform” — business software applications that are becoming increasingly familiar to the world’s white-collar workers, and essential tools in a worker’s life.
What makes Microsoft particularly well served is the second major trend in e-discovery: in-place analytics. It is the new shift to keeping your information and content in the systems where it is utilised, and performing your analytics there and not exporting it. [It is the whole reason Google developed its mobile federated machine learning: you do the analytics right on the mobile device. The data never leaves your phone or tablet].
But this post is about Microsoft so let’s hear from Nick on why keeping your information and content in the systems where it is utilised is so important … and much, much more about Microsoft: