The outcomes of cloud adoption are formed dramatically by the individuals and cultures that function and innovate with expertise. The speedy tempo of technological developments we’re seeing on a worldwide scale is thrilling, but when there’s one factor that I like greater than expertise, it’s the individuals, the tales, and the life experiences that affect the way it’s used. To discover this additional, I just lately frolicked visiting a few of our most inspirational clients and leaders in our fast-growing cloud markets throughout Europe. Within the new video collection, Cloud Cultures, I’m excited to share these experiences and tales to offer a glimpse of how individuals world wide are utilizing expertise to enhance the world round them—together with how innovation converges with native customs, values, and methods of residing. These tales present firsthand how expertise and custom mix to kind cloud cultures.
Watch Episode 1: Cloud Cultures Poland out now.
Poland: An rising hub for innovation
Microsoft just lately launched a brand new cloud area in Poland Central, on April 25, 2023, to assist Poland’s rising standing as a hub for innovation in Central and Japanese Europe. Poland is nothing wanting inspirational—Poland is a dynamic nation with loads to show us concerning the transformative potential for embracing change, reinvention, and creating alternative.
Conversations with our clients and neighborhood leaders in Poland gave me a firsthand view of how a lot of an impression the historical past of Poland has on the current and future markets.
Resiliency is embedded into the DNA of Polish individuals. Geopolitical tensions, social upheaval, and adversity have impacted Poland considerably through the years—but Polish individuals have tailored and rebuilt repeatedly by way of all of it. This resiliency and talent to bounce again has given the Polish market a aggressive benefit. Polish clients tackle daring initiatives and strategy all the things with a nimble and entrepreneurial mentality. Companies in Poland develop and innovate shortly and courageously. There’s a way of fearlessness in Poland. When it comes time to behave, Poles soar proper in—courageously taking over new challenges, figuring out alternatives, constructing quick, and going through danger head-on.
How are Polish clients utilizing the cloud?
Beneath are just some of the Polish clients who’re on the forefront of digital transformation and have responded to the disruption attributable to COVID-19, the Ukraine warfare, and financial uncertainty as a must innovate:
- CCC Group: One in all Poland’s hottest shoe retailers went all in throughout COVID-19 by utilizing the lockdown and the cloud to reinvent themselves. They’ve totally remodeled from brick-and-mortar to totally omni-channel during the last 4 years. Be taught extra about how CCC is utilizing Azure Databricks and Knowledge Lake to drive extra insightful advertising campaigns right here.
- Nest Financial institution: A neighborhood financial institution that embraces a tradition of empowerment, by embracing errors, democratizing ideation, and disrupting an age-old monetary trade. Their focus is on constructing easy and safe digital providers and fee strategies on the cloud for small and micro-enterprise companies. One technique being cellular onboarding in below 10 minutes or much less with a selfie.
Bringing empathy and innovation collectively by way of neighborhood applications
On my journey to Poland, I had the chance to sit down down with Tanya Tkachenko, a girl who moved to Poland to flee the warfare in her residence nation of Ukraine to construct a greater life and new neighborhood for herself and her son. Upon arriving in Poland, Tanya shortly sought a brand new profession path and located the Cyber Trainees program, organized by the Kosciuszko Institute, a number one Polish non-governmental group (NGO) that equips college students with specialist IT abilities, certifications, and internships to permit them to seek out careers in cybersecurity—a dream trade for Tanya and a discipline that solely has round 14 p.c illustration by girls in Poland.
“The information that I acquired throughout that challenge makes me extra assured concerning the future. I misplaced my job in Ukraine and now I’ve an opportunity to take my profession in a unique course. We’re very pleased there was this chance for us, for Ukrainian girls to participate on this program as a result of it gave us an opportunity to maneuver on.”—Tanya Tkachenko
Our dialog left me feeling moved, humbled, and reminded of how crucial it’s to make expertise and the alternatives that come up from it inclusive and accessible for all.
Be taught extra
Expertise is a strong instrument, not by itself however due to the individuals and cultures that form it. As we transfer into this subsequent period of digital transformation, with AI on the forefront, our mission has by no means been extra necessary—to empower each particular person on the planet to attain extra. Everybody has a job to play in creating a greater world and at Microsoft we merely need to present the instruments and sources to take action.
Watch the Cloud Cultures: Poland episode immediately.
