Jes Chapman is a Principal Cloud Solution Architect - Data & AI at Microsoft, where she works with customers every day to leverage their data for insights. Jes has been working with data for 20 years, spending the last 8 years at Microsoft and the last 2 years in the Financial Services vertical. She is a recognized industry expert, writing blogs, co-authoring books, and speaking at hundreds of events in the U.S. and internationally. Jes believes that quality data is the foundation of all business decisions today, including everything that goes into analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and AI. Outside of work you can find Jes hiking, trail running, cooking, and reading a lot of books