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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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