{"id":58536,"date":"2020-12-02T19:51:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T11:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thursday-morning-conversation-with-microsoft-azure-global-cto-bill-chappell\/"},"modified":"2020-12-02T19:51:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T11:51:40","slug":"thursday-morning-conversation-with-microsoft-azure-global-cto-bill-chappell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thursday-morning-conversation-with-microsoft-azure-global-cto-bill-chappell\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Morning Conversation with Microsoft Azure Global CTO Bill Chappell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Thursday Morning Conversation features Bill Chappell, CTO of Azure Global and vice president of Mission Systems at <strong>Microsoft<\/strong>, one of the global giants of business, but a player that you wouldn\u2019t associate with <em>Via Satellite <\/em>until recently. We talk about Microsoft\u2019s aspirations to work with the satellite sector \u2014 this is really exciting stuff. Chappell says there has been huge interest in Microsoft about working on space-based initiatives, and he talks about how a software company like Microsoft can fit together with space and satellite companies (like Microsoft\u2019s work with <strong>SES<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Aside from satellite, we talk everything from the Detroit punk scene (which was new to me), to TV shows such as \u201cBreaking Bad,\u201d \u201cThe Good Place,\u201d and \u201cStranger Things.\u201d Chappell is also a big Beatles fan, and we find out which Beatles song he has been learning to play on his guitar.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Thursday Morning Conversation: Bill Chappell\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0m5WDIygV0I?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.satellitetoday.com\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-13602404_75=\"true\" id=\"530725144\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-12=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Via Satellite<\/em>\u2019s Thursday Morning Conversations are the newest way to learn about the latest news in the satellite industry. From interviews with industry leaders and discussions with newcomers in space and satellite to debates among&nbsp;<em>Via Satellite<\/em>&nbsp;staff and chats about the latest in sports and pop culture, TMC will be your go-to for a Thursday morning respite. Grab a coffee, sit back, and listen in every Thursday morning at 10:00 a.m. ET for the latest segment. And you can catch up on&nbsp;all of the previous TMCs right here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Thursday Morning Conversation features Bill Chappell, CTO of Azure Global and vice president of Mission Systems at Microsoft, one of the global giants of business, but a player that you wouldn\u2019t associate with Via Satellite until recently. We talk about Microsoft\u2019s aspirations to work with the satellite sector \u2014 this is really exciting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}