Building a Tech Community: The Windows Insider Program with Dona Sarkar

Episode 106 of the Microsoft Innovation Podcast podcast, hosted by Mark Smith [nz365guy], titled "Building a Tech Community: The Windows Insider Program with Dona Sarkar" was published on June 24, 2019 and runs 46 minutes.

June 24, 2019 ·46m · Microsoft Innovation Podcast

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Summary

FULL SHOW NOTES https://podcast.nz365guy.com/106 Personal and professional background – growing up in Detroit, taking up computer science, working at Siebel, etc. Upcoming speaking engagement at a conference on digital inclusion Journey to working with Microsoft Career highlights in the past 14 years Being a woman in tech: changes she has seen, her thoughts on the topic How she encourages open-mindedness when people don’t come from a highly diverse background in a cor...

Episode Description

FULL SHOW NOTES
https://podcast.nz365guy.com/106

Personal and professional background – growing up in Detroit, taking up computer science, working at Siebel, etc.
Upcoming speaking engagement at a conference on digital inclusion
Journey to working with Microsoft
Career highlights in the past 14 years
Being a woman in tech: changes she has seen, her thoughts on the topic
How she encourages open-mindedness when people don’t come from a highly diverse background in a corporate team
About #DotheThing – what it is, her principle
Thoughts on encouraging students about the future possibility of careers that don’t even exist
The meaning behind #NinjaCat
Releasing code to the Insider Fast ring – wanting to have in cocreating product and making a better world using technology. Is it starting to flow over into other technology areas inside Microsoft?
Building a 16.5-million-people community – keeping the communications and the engagement level up; how they maintain the momentum year in and year out
Dona’s Ten Commandments for Community
Thoughts on the future of the Windows Insider Program
Advice to teams wanting to kick off a program from 0 and build a tech community

Books Mentioned

#DotheThing by Dona Sarkar – https://amzn.to/2J5DBhb

Resources

Windows Insider Program – https://insider.windows.com/en-us/
Ghana Digital Roadmap Conference – https://microsoftcaregh.com/2019/05/16/ghana-digital-roadmap-conference-microsoft-windows-insider-chief-dona-sarkar-shares-simple-yet-often-overlooked-insights-on-digital-inclusion/

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