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Vij Rajarajan shared thisMicrosoft takes Privacy seriously and also helps organizations everywhere get Privacy right.Vij Rajarajan shared thisNow generally available—safeguard personal data and build a privacy-resilient workplace with Privacy Management for Microsoft 365. Learn more in this blog by Vasu Jakkal, CVP of Microsoft Security: https://msft.it/6049XFQL9 #PrivacyManagement
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Vij Rajarajan shared thisMicrosoft takes Privacy seriously and also helps organizations everywhere get Privacy right.Vij Rajarajan shared thisMicrosoft has the unique advantage of sitting at the center of the data economy, allowing us to see firsthand how complex it can be for our customers to stay ahead of their obligations in an increasingly complex regulatory landscape. Addressing the needs of our customers will be greatly aided by policymakers and governments that take action on their important conversations around responsible data use. We need durable guardrails on data use. At the same time, we equally need industry innovation and tools that better protect data and help organizations manage their compliance. At Microsoft, we will continue to invest in the solutions and tools our customers need to help them succeed in today’s environment. Today, we are announcing some exciting progress that I am eager to share. We are launching a new Privacy Management for Microsoft 365 solution designed to help organizations manage their regulatory responsibilities, simplify privacy management by proactively identifying and mitigating privacy risks, and build privacy-resilient workplaces. This new solution comes on top of our recently-launched Azure Purview, which provides a unified data governance solution to help our customers maximize the value of their on-premises, multicloud, and software as a service (SaaS) data. I’m proud of these innovations and the benefit they will provide our customers as they work to stay ahead of incoming regulation and become better stewards of the data they store, use and process. We will continue to learn from our customers and listen to the direction of our policymakers to help develop tools and solutions to enable our customers and partners to do their best work. Congrats to all our teams involved in this new, exciting launch!
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Vij Rajarajan shared thisSatya being spot on highlighting the value proposition of the product - Dynamics Customer Insights! Thanks Satya.Vij Rajarajan shared thisThere is an incredible opportunity for every organization to harness the power of connected data to become a true, AI-first company. Dynamics 365 Customer Insights delivers on this promise, unifying a company's data across sources to deliver a single view of customers and unlock new insights. In this video, Satish Thomas from our Dynamics team shows me how one of the world's oldest amusement parks is using this customer data platform to drive personalized marketing experiences for their guests.
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Vij Rajarajan shared thisFor those of you who have been curious about what I have been up to recently. The latest, exciting product from our team - Dynamics 365 Customer Insights. #dynamics365 #customerinsights https://lnkd.in/gcmvjDkMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights is now availableMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights is now available
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Vij Rajarajan shared thisThis is what I have been up to recently. Thrilled with the unveiling of the product.Vij Rajarajan shared thisExcited to announce Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights -- our newest addition to the Dynamics 365 AI product portfolio! Learn more about it here: https://lnkd.in/gBr-QEh or watch below video for a quick overview. #Microsoft #Dynamics365 #ai #customer360 #MBFParis
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Vij Rajarajan liked thisVij Rajarajan liked thisOver the last decade, I’ve worked alongside exceptional founders at Madrona—supporting their success and helping them take big swings. Now it’s my turn again. I’m starting an AI-native consumer travel company with the ambition to reimagine travel—and I’m building the founding team. In many ways, it feels like everything I’ve done has been building to this. My first job, freshman year of college, was as a tour guide in Mexico. It was an impactful introduction to what work could be—being immersed in a new place, meeting people from everywhere, and helping shape how they experienced it. From the very beginning, travel and entrepreneurship just felt like they fit. That path eventually led to founding a venture-backed consumer travel startup (team pictured), and I’ve been drawn back to travel ever since—across OTAs (Expedia), search (Bing), suppliers (Alaska Airlines), and startups (Farecast, Otto). This feels like the right moment to return—with conviction that this moment in technology creates a rare opportunity to reimagine travel from first principles. We’re early and ambitious, with strong backing, and we’re building a team that values leverage, modern tools, and moving fast. If you’ve ever wanted to work on a product at the intersection of AI, design, and human experience—and travel means something to you too—I’d love to connect. We’re actively hiring for these founding team roles: Head of Product Design Head of Product Engineering AI Software Engineer Operations Lead More to come. #TravelTech #Startups #Hiring #AI
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Vij Rajarajan liked thisVij Rajarajan liked thisI'm thrilled to announce that I have accepted a co-op position as a Dental Assistant at Greater Boston Smiles Pediatric Dentistry! I am incredibly grateful for this opportunity, which will allow me to gain valuable hands-on experience and continue growing toward my goal of a career in dentistry. I'm looking forward to joining the team in January! A huge thank you to my family and friends for their continuous support throughout this process. Thank you also to my co-op advisor, Jacqui Sweeney, for her mentorship and guidance.
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Vij Rajarajan liked thisHad an incredible time working with Sonal Ganu and Mihira Chandrakar on our research pitch: "Choices Powered by Voices: Designing Choice Structures that Click."Vij Rajarajan liked thisSo excited to have had the opportunity to participate in NextGenLab's Fall 2025 Research Pitch Competition alongside my amazing teammates, Kylah Rajan and Mihira Chandrakar! We placed Second Place for our proposal: "Choices Powered by Voices: Designing Choice Structures that Click." We introduced the idea of implementing AI and Machine Learning (ML) directly into Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices. We hope this can help nonverbal children, especially those who struggle with autism, beat the communication frustration caused by current AAC devices. #NextGenLab #AssistiveTechnology
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Vij Rajarajan liked thisBehind every personalized travel recommendation lies smarter tagging. Excited to share a blog I co-authored on how we’re transforming discovery at Tripadvisor.Vij Rajarajan liked thisCheck out this article to see how we have revolutionized the tagging system at TripAdvisor by implementing graph and Semantic Search technology! It's a pleasure working with Varuni G. Amir Afrasiabi Rad Sabreena Rajan Sonali Syngal Chuchen Xiong Rishabh Maheshwari and many other great colleagues to make this a reality! https://lnkd.in/eWTwie8PScaling our existing tagging system with Hybrid Graph-Semantic SearchScaling our existing tagging system with Hybrid Graph-Semantic Search
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Vij Rajarajan liked thisVij Rajarajan liked thisHere's a blog post I co-wrote about Tripadvisor's new semantic search engine! https://lnkd.in/gfndfFQWEvolving Tripadvisor Search: building a semantic search engine for travel recommendationsEvolving Tripadvisor Search: building a semantic search engine for travel recommendations
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Vij Rajarajan liked thisVij Rajarajan liked thisRetail is being reshaped at record speed from predictive to generative to agentic AI. The real opportunity isn’t in one-off wins, but in building connected, people-led experiences that feel seamless and even a little magical. At the 5th edition of Converge, we explored how Walmart is moving into a new phase — one where AI is infused into every touchpoint: empowering associates, strengthening supply chains and personalizing the customer journey. I had the privilege of speaking with Nandan Nilekani, whose work has shown what’s possible when technology is designed with purpose and scale in mind. Our conversation reinforced a key truth: the future of AI won’t be defined by features alone, but by how much people can trust it, embrace it and see it improve their daily lives. We’re just at the beginning of what AI can unlock — and the journey ahead is nothing short of transformative.
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Utsav Pandya
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Vinod Pulluru
entomo | adeahub • 2K followers
Just wrapped the 7th Perplexity AI Business Fellowship session featuring Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks, in conversation with Aravind Srinivas. Ali's refreshing candor about AI's enterprise impact, dropping some uncomfortable truths about enterprise AI that every engineering leader needs to hear: - "The only reason the AI bubble hasn't burst is inference-time compute" - not actual breakthroughs - When Databricks plugged advanced reasoning models into enterprise applications? "Barely any boost." The problem isn't intelligence but context - is "C" California or Celsius? - Success formula: unique data + distribution channels. Nothing else matters. - AI revolutionizes coding, which represents just 20% of engineering time. The other 80%? Human meetings and alignment work which AI can't touch. - Biggest blocker? Not capabilities but evaluation frameworks. "We have no way to measure reliability" in specialized enterprise contexts. This mirrors what we're seeing in healthcare AI - where reliable assessment frameworks are critical when patient outcomes are on the line. As I noted in my analysis of BVP's Healthcare AI Index (https://lnkd.in/gy3P7zdU), success isn't about algorithms but workflow integration and evaluation rigor. For engineering teams, the path forward isn't chasing fancier models but solving the semantic understanding and evaluation challenges that remain stubbornly human. #EnterpriseAI #EngineeringLeadership #HealthcareAI
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Zeenat Patrawala
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Peter J. Zisterer
Self Employed - Freelancer • 1K followers
Excellent perspective from Jeetu Patel at Cisco. The point about trust is particularly important. One dimension that I believe deserves even more attention is the difference in speed between machines and humans. AI systems operate at machine speed, while governance, decision making, and oversight still largely happen at human speed. That gap creates a completely new category of risk. When AI systems are connected to critical infrastructure, financial systems, or core operational platforms, even a small error, misalignment, or manipulation can propagate at machine scale and in milliseconds. Humans often only realize what happened after the system has already executed thousands or millions of actions. That is why trust, guardrails, and strong oversight are so critical. The real challenge is not only building powerful AI systems but designing governance models that can keep pace with machine speed. As Professor Suraj Srinivasan from Harvard Business School recently put it: “the faster the car, the better the brakes needed”
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Jose del Barrio
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Very happy to share that Vinay Rao is joining Samaipata as an Operating Partner. Vinay brings deep AI expertise built over decades at the frontier, including senior roles at Anthropic and Google, where he worked on real product and security challenges. He understands not just what these systems can do, but where they break. He is based in San Francisco and serves as CTO of ROOST.tools, a non-profit developing open source infrastructure aimed at improving safety standards across online platforms in the tech ecosystem. After joining our Annual Summit and leading a session on some of the toughest questions in AI today, including reliability, misuse and misalignment, it became clear that he could bring immense value to our community. We wanted to bring his expertise closer to our founders. As an Operating Partner, Vinay will mentor founders of our portfolio companies on critical decisions from day one. In early stage companies, choices around AI architecture, security and governance define speed, defensibility and long term risk. For our founders, having Vinay involved at those moments will make a real difference. Welcome to the team, Vinay. Excited for what is ahead! Thank you to Cinco Días for the coverage. More information in the link in the comments (in Spanish).
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Mohamed Hamdy
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At AWS re:Invent — after an inspiring set of announcements from Matt Garman, Swami Sivasubramanian, and Ruba Borno discussions during Partner Advisory Board and executive sessions — I came away with a clear takeaway: AWS is accelerating its leadership in enterprise AI by delivering a comprehensive, end-to-end ecosystem for building, deploying, and scaling AI — not just in proof-of-concepts, but in production-grade, secure, and industry-specific applications. With new innovations such as NOVA 2, NOVA Forge, NOVA Act, KIRO Autonomus, Agent Frontier and AI Factory, AWS is providing everything customers — and their partners — need to successfully operationalize AI. In other words: AWS is handing you the full recipe to bake your desired “AI meal,” with proven ingredients, clear instructions, and safety guards baked in. This, I believe, represents a major leap forward for the “agentic AI” ecosystem. With these tools, organisations can finally transition from experimentation to scalable deployment — turning ideas from prototypes into real-world, impactful solutions. At Bexprt, we’ve set out from Day One with exactly this goal: to enable rapid, low-cost, secure development of industry-specific AI agents. The announcements at re:Invent bring us one step closer to realising that mission — and I’m excited to actively contribute and steer this transformation. These are truly revolutionary times. The future of enterprise AI looks promising indeed. Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS Partners #AWS #AWSreinvent #AgenticAI #EnterpriseAI #AIFactory #NOVA #CloudInnovation #DigitalTransformation #AIatScale #TechLeadership
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Morsy Cheikhrouhou
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Manish Balakrishnan
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