Juan M. Lavista Ferres

July 1, 2023

AI is emerging as a powerful tool to aid in addressing some of the world’s most complex challenges. Our new specialization, AI for Good, aims to expand the community of people who are equipped to combine human and machine intelligence…

June 30, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the world, driving digital innovation, promoting experimentation, boosting efficiency, and accelerating progress across numerous industries. Open data is a critical component of this revolution, providing access to vast amounts of data necessary for building reliable…

June 28, 2023

CNME Editor Mark Forker was onsite at the Microsoft Innovation Campus in Redmond, Seattle, for a panel discussion that examined the impact Microsoft’s new AI integrations are going to have on reshaping our society. The panel was entitled; AI, from…

April 26, 2023

Join us for a fireside chat featuring Juan Lavista Ferres, VP, Chief Data Scientist and Lab Director of the Microsoft AI For Good Lab, and Carrie Stokes, USAID's Chief Geographer and Director of the GeoCenter on the transformative potential of…

March 31, 2023

Big Tech players have been investing in partnerships with large healthcare providers on AI endeavors for several years now. According to both sides in one such collaboration, the resulting synergy offers “immense potential” to improve patient access, care and outcomes.

November 7, 2022

World and business leaders are facing pressing climate issues as they gather in Egypt for COP27 – and are focused on ways to come together on action and implementation. At Microsoft, we see these days ahead as an opportunity to…

July 14, 2022

We often say that you can’t fix a problem you don’t understand. Today, Microsoft is releasing a new Digital Equity Data Dashboard to help create better understanding of the economic opportunity gaps in towns, cities and neighborhoods across the United…

May 26, 2022

Juan M. Lavista Ferres learned to code when he was 8 years old, and a few decades later his childhood interest in programming and technology evolved into a fruitful career—including a current stint at Microsoft of more than 13 years

May 13, 2022

One tragic fact about the nearly 1 million people who died of COVID-19 in the U.S. is that a huge share of them didn't have to. In Tennessee, 11,047 of the people who died could have survived if everyone in…