Charles Verdon (@chverdon) is a McGill MBA alum (2013), undergrad at Polytechnique in software engineering (2006). After his MBA, he joined Microsoft’s sales team for data platform, business intelligence and analytics products. As Solution Specialist for Eastern Canada, his role is to understand customer’s business challenges and translate them to technology solutions and guide those organization through key digital disruptions. Artificial intelligence, internet of things, blockchains are a few examples of technologies that will radically alter the course of whole industries, careers, and fundamentally how humans interact with technology. Charles has experience in the Transport, Retail and Banking industries and he’s passionate about analytics, activating a data-driven culture and by interactive data visualization.