{"id":3813,"date":"2021-10-22T16:40:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T11:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/?p=3813"},"modified":"2024-11-15T14:20:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T08:50:15","slug":"microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2021\/10\/microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been a couple of months since my last blog post, and I&#8217;ve been busy settling into a new role at work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As some of you may know, I recently joined Microsoft India as an Industry Advisor, to help top-tier clients leverage Cloud &amp; Enterprise solutions. Needless to say, it is a huge organization with an exciting canvas, and has the potential to &#8216;make a dent in the universe&#8217;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft&#8217;s mission is to &#8220;<em>empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more<\/em>&#8220;. I&#8217;m sure you will agree that with a mission statement like that, one cannot help but feel stoked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a sample of how the last two weeks have transpired&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Got introduced to key partners at the annual Partner Leadership Conclave 2021 in an intensive two-day expo <\/li><li>Participated in the Microsoft Global Hackathon 2021 as an Business Strategy advisor, collaborating with colleagues across the globe on a &#8216;Hack for Society&#8217; &#8211; the team is trying to build a solution that makes it possible to digitally donate to those in need, especially the homeless and un-banked<\/li><li>Attended insightful sessions by thought leaders in industry, academia, and government on how\u00a0interdisciplinary research\u00a0and\u00a0Technology\u00a0can impact society, as a part of the Microsoft\u00a0Research Summit 2021<\/li><li>Completed the requisite Training modules, and am now Microsoft Certified on Dynamics 365 (CRM) Fundamentals <\/li><li>Attended a Masterclass on Accessibility tools already built into Windows 10, Office 365 and Microsoft Edge, that can be used by folks with learning or comprehension disabilities<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, all this is in addition to internal catchups, technology deep-dives and the day-today operations of the job!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sure, you need to juggle your task lists and manage your time efficiently to make it all work. But, that&#8217;s a small price to pay for the breadth of exposure involved, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a couple of months since my last blog post, and I&#8217;ve been busy settling into a new role at work. As some of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,11,14],"class_list":["post-3813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-quality","tag-technology","tag-work"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3813"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4923,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions\/4923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}