People who inspired us in 2019
People all over the world are doing incredible things with technology. Akiyoshi Shinobu, a waitress in Japan, learned Power BI and Azure Machine Learning to improve her restaurant’s dining experience. Dr. Raymond Campbell of South Africa created a mobile health clinic that screens preventable diseases with an Azure-powered backpack. Chelsey Potts, an employee at PACCAR in Ohio, is learning new skills with mixed reality. Here are the stories of some of the people who have inspired us this year.
Dr. Raymond Campbell
South Africa
This doctor started a mobile health clinic to help people in rural communities get needed medical care.
Akiyoshi Shinobu
Japan
She went from waiting tables to teaching herself machine learning and data visualization to digitally transform the restaurant where she worked.
Gerardo
Mexico
This young boy is getting cancer treatment at Casa de la Amistad, which is using Power BI and Dynamics 365 to be accountable to donors and monitor treatment effectiveness.
Residents of Kiruna Stad
Sweden
People here are using HoloLens to plan the relocation of their entire city, which was built on top of an iron mine.
Chelsey Potts
Ohio, U.S.
This employee and other firstline workers at PACCAR are using the power of mixed reality to learn valuable new skills.
Martin Lee
United Kingdom
He started as a dispatcher but is now a software developer at Autoglass, where he used Power Apps to save money and make technicians’ jobs far easier.
Red Cross volunteers
U.S.
They respond where they are needed, and they use Microsoft Teams, Power Platform and other tech to focus on their core mission of alleviating human suffering.
Dr. David Kellermann
Australia
This university teacher in Sydney, Australia, uses Microsoft’s platforms to connect all his students, including those in his classroom and watching online.
Connie Sales
North Carolina, U.S.
This visual artist brings her creativity, words and “paint” to life with the help of her Microsoft Surface.
Michael Monthervil
Florida, U.S.
This U.S. Army veteran in Tampa Bay, Florida, uses the Xbox Adaptive Controller to speed his rehabilitation and connect with friends over video games.