 Hey everyone, this is Christian Buckley doing another MVP buzz chat, and I'm talking today with Tamash. Hello Hi. Hi, my name is Tamash. Yeah, for folks that don't know you. Who are you? Where are you? And what do you do? Okay, so my name is Tamash Christian. I am coming from Europe Slovenia capital Ljubljana I've been MVP for six seven years now and in the data platform so SQL Server database and stuff like that This is what I essentially do for the MVP But otherwise I do love machine learning and in statistics and data analysis. So this is where you know, really my heart goes boom boom boom There's a lot of there's a lot of exciting things that are happening in that space and kind of your world is bleeding over into the collaboration space because most of the newest features over in the collaboration stack so within teams and SharePoint and all those are all AI driven are all You know BI tools and other just cool automation stuff that's happening. There's a lot happening in the space Yeah, definitely. It's gonna be democratized You know, so it's if you probably have heard it the democratization of artificial intelligence or machine learning So this is you know the train that we will see in the next years You know following more and more so collaboration with different I don't know algorithms machine learning algorithms with tools like Teams or offices stuff like that. So this is gonna be a huge wave in in the next couple of years. Yes Yeah, I know I'm actually going through now and and a class power platform class and awesome I built my first chat bot last night and so playing around with different tools again Not not my space my marketing guy and the collaboration technology guy But going through I think it's important to just understand even though I'll never go and I may build some small things for myself for my team at work I mean, it's I'm not gonna go pursue a career within that space. Although there's a ton Just so many examples of you know opportunities that are around the power platform space But that space in general, I always like to point out so my my middle son much smarter human being that I am About to graduate in with his degree in atmospheric sciences. I tried to encourage him I said to to to do like a minor in data science and At the end I asked him he's about to graduate in December. I said, what's your regret about this? Is I you know, I would have if I could do it over again, I would have done more around data science I'm like, I told you I told you he picked up R and Python. I said, those are the skills Being able to go in there and read and manipulate the data is Critical across, you know, he's in weather science super exciting stuff. Yeah. Yeah, that's you know, but this is the future as well Yeah, yeah, very much so but I mean every industry Across multiple roles. There is a need for that every company is hiring data scientists that have these kinds of skills Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and you know, it doesn't stop with the weather. It just goes beyond that, you know So for instance, you would have like Village analysis data analysis, for instance, and you would have a bunch of software a bunch of hardware, you know Just to go through the landscape of different areas in the world just to have analysis of how people are building Houses, how they are living and stuff like and then you combine that with loads of different data like weather data like, you know Geo data or economical data and you have You know, so this is really the future, you know Collaboration between different, you know platforms people Mindsets and and bringing everything together with machine learning. It's gonna be separate Well, and there's a reason why Microsoft now and with the Viva is another great example of that a lot of what Viva is is It's really tools that are looking at different aspects of the employee experience and looking at the data and trying to understand You know, why are people doing those? What are the patterns the behaviors of? Collaboration and each of the different workloads and how can we like where is it working? Why is it working? How can we replicate that? How can we get better at when we onboard new employees that they are more effective? You know quicker within that process. That's what so much of it about it's all about Data science underneath at all. Sure. Yeah, and and you know human resources and Analysis surrounding human resources. It's it's it's again, it's emerging You know, I'm not gonna say industry But you know since we have so much data lying around, you know We can as you mentioned Microsoft Viva This is a perfect example where you see what people have felt, you know, what is their well-being? You know how they are proceeding with with the project when you combine everything that I mean again You can see why my project felt maybe because this person was disengaged or maybe he wasn't happy or she wasn't happy You know, all this is just put together and you have you know a lot of insights explained So that's yeah, the beauty. Yeah, well too much. How did you get into this space? Kind of what's your what's your background? so yeah Probably faculty just you know pushed me in this direction. So, you know statistics and mathematics And essentially I felt, you know, that there's interesting especially if you can put data and programming together and Sort of applied it to some to something And and this is how I ended basically just in this area of statistics. Yeah Well, it's very cool. And what was your path to becoming an MVP? What was that journey like? Yeah, so I've been in community long before become Before I became an MVP so as you know Doing local community user meetups and then we started the sequel Saturdays. I helped help there and then we also did the Python I'll use a group and then yeah six seven years ago I've sort of you know gotten an email on the first of I think it was first of October 2015-16 I got wow And yeah, this is essentially how I became you know, just you know slowly Whatever you learn you slowly give back to community try to you know persuade younger people younger generations talk to students You know talk to people who want to learn something new. So basically just sort of you know keep People together and then sort of you know, just energize them with the with the knowledge or the ideas Yeah, you brought up one of my favorite things like so I don't sequel Saturdays were huge The SharePoint people kind of stole the idea and what built that out there And I know that there's still a lot of those that are still called SharePoint Saturdays sequel Saturdays Collab days, there's Microsoft has now community days and different things out there But that is a great way for people that thinking, you know, I want to do more I want to get more involved is because as it one of the core Organizers of our formerly SharePoint Saturday Utah event like we love it when people step forward and say hey I'd love to help and be like hey, there's no shortage of stuff to do. We'd love to get people involved that way Yeah, that's true. And I myself have been for the first time in Collab days last year in Germany. So it wasn't just a year ago It was a huge event, you know, you know keeping in mind it was still a COVID, you know tough time And there was like two thousand three thousand people all over the world just flying into Düsseldorf, Germany Collab days and I've seen for the first time that people are developing, you know, you know small snippets applications for teams for for office for I don't know and just you know Bringing together again and data science and all those little devices for teams and stuff like it's just amazing Yeah, so so I was so happy that you know, those world should collide much more Austin Yeah, harder. Yeah. Well, and we're gonna see I'm it's exciting to see Events starting to pick back up again one of the things that I I keep asking friends that are participating events around the world I had friends that just participated in the the AOS Singapore and Malaysia events and so my first questions are like, you know, are people showing up? or you know, what kind of what were the best, you know, the the most the biggest Turnout for sessions like what are what are people interested in hearing about? Because it's just it's exciting to see that and As I'm starting to I think like I'm sure you're doing the same thing where I'm starting to now kind of go in refresh some different as abstracts and Send them out for in-person events for next year and yeah starting that process Exactly. Yeah, the same. So Yeah, we've been back online. So this year we do for instance data Saturday in Slovenia We do the last hopefully last year online so that next year we do it in person But otherwise a lot of events just started picking up in person and I'm totally up for it You know, I just yeah this year I'm doing still two I think or three But then the next year. Yes, it will be it's stuff like that So it's gonna be you know, super awesome to at least to hug people and and to chat with them to have you know go for a drink Yeah, it's it's amazing. Yeah, I'm always amazed at how Often I see people and I'm just like, oh, it's been great. I haven't seen you and they're like they're like actually We've never met in person. We've just just online through the web and I'm like, that's right Yeah, I was over in in England in June for an event And there were a number of people that it was like, oh, yeah, it's great to see you again It's like, no, actually it's the first time we've ever seen each other You tend to forget that but So with ignite behind us anything that was kind of stood out to you jumped out anything that you're really excited about So there was a couple of things for the sequel server, of course and and and data platform So database stuff like that. So everything being connected with the with the cloud and Azure You know, you let's say sequel commands and functions. This is you know, I'm super pumped and super hyped to be honest In terms of machine learning, there were a couple of novelties for the Asian machine learning services And also signups, which is again, you know, the the the data platform stuff But yeah, I've only seen it online. So I haven't been there in person. So yeah, but this was again You know, I was pretty much hyped because of the sequel server 2022 and that's it Yeah, it's it's As I'm starting to I mean I read through like the the book of news that Microsoft produces around the shows and and go through and I'll be honest I mean a lot of the Azure stuff and the announcements around it. I'm like, I Not really following a lot of it, you know, very closely except when it like around power platform or or with You know teams and SharePoint and drive in the emmer where there's things that impact that on the back end But yeah, so if anybody is wondering kind of what we're talking about if you just go search for book of news Microsoft 22 and you can see your passes It's like a collection of every press release and links to all of the formal blog posts and all things that out there So it's a great way to kind of recap all the formal announcements. Yeah Well, very cool. Well, so for folks that want to find out more about you or get in touch with you What are the best ways to reach you? Probably so I have a blog which I usually write about, you know, data analysis data engineering or Python and also github Probably I don't know probably those two would be most frequent which I'm, you know constantly updating also medium Yes, that's yeah, I'm looking at here in your blog right now at the WordPress blog and it goes writing about our functions Super exciting I'm gonna I was just thinking about it I'm gonna point my son to this because like he nerds out on this stuff. He's like he's the he just absorbs it Yeah, I started a series of useless our functions just in a way to get people on board of learning, you know Our languages it is but then I found out with myself every time I find or I start writing an article Which might be read a longer, you know, I have to think about it tested stuff stuff like that. I found myself Sorry writing this short Block posts of useless our functions. I don't know. It just suits me perfectly You know, you're underselling it when you call it useless. I know I know but this was the intent You know, this was the intense to do it Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, this is the way, you know, this I've been writing it for the past two years So this is how the series started. But yeah, I think at some point in time. I have to just drop it and say well forget Well, I'm happy if you know, you'll find the link over to Timosha's Blog and everything over in the buck the planet blog of course on the YouTube description as well So we'll point everybody to those resources To watch it was great meeting you and and hopefully are you gonna do the collab summit in May over back in I think it's in Düsseldorf again. Um, oh that part. I don't know. I think it was one was just it just happened In Frankfurt, I think right. Yeah, so that was the was that the power platform one Probably yes. So last year they sort of merged it the power platform and share points So now probably next year they will sort of decouple it and and but yeah, I'll definitely Submit and and we'll see. Yeah. Yeah, I know I just saw Otis one of the organizers was just over an event last month And he's amazing person. He's amazing person. Yeah. He's a good guy. Yeah. It was great to hang out with him and and Always fun to see Otis. So well Yeah, too much really really great meeting you and hope to see you next year one of these events Thanks for having me