Microsoft MVP | AI & Fabric Specialist for Business Transformation | Helping Enterprises Unlock ROI with Azure, Copilot & Power BI | Forbes Tech | Keynote Speaker | CEO, Onyx Data

Strategic Data & AI Leader | Microsoft MVP | Oxford AI Strategist 

I bridge the gap between technical complexity and Board-level strategy. With nearly 15 years of experience, I have delivered over £93M in revenue growth for global enterprises by transforming data estates into high-velocity strategic assets.

Global Authority & Scalable Insight: 

LinkedIn Learning Instructor: Author of "How to Build and Execute a Successful Data Strategy," an industry-standard framework used by 10,000+ global learners (4.5/5 rating). 
Industry Recognition: Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Forbes Technology Council member, and Gartner Community Ambassador. 
Academic Rigor: Currently calibrating enterprise AI risk and leadership at the University of Oxford (Saïd Business School).

The "Onyx Methodology" in Action:  I help organisations move past "AI Hype" to achieve Operational Utility. Whether leading a global practice of 60+ consultants or advising the C-suite on £200TB+ migrations, my focus is on de-risking technology investments to drive EBITDA.

Core Specialisms:  AI Strategy & Governance (Purview) | Microsoft Fabric & Databricks Architecture | Data Monetisation | High-Performance Team Scaling.

Let’s connect,  I’m focused on the intersection of AI Ethics, Enterprise Strategy, and high-stakes Data Leadership. Always open to discussing the future of our industry with fellow Partners and Architects.

Leon Gordon

Think of your Fabric Capacity like a Train. 

Licensing is the #1 confusion point I see with Microsoft Fabric.

You bought a capacity, but your team still gets "Upgrade to Pro" prompts. 

Why?

It helps to visualise it like a Commuter Rail System:

🎫 The Small Train (F2 - F32): Everyone needs an individual ticket (Pro License) to board and look out the window (view reports). It doesn't matter if you own the train; the passengers still need to pay.

🚄 The High-Speed Rail (F64+): This train is so large that the "Venue" subsidises the cost. Standard Pass holders (Free Users) can ride for free just to look out the windows. This is the "F64 Magic Number."

👮 The Conductor Rule: Regardless of the train size, you always need a special license (Pro) to actually drive the train or manage the passengers (share content/workspaces).

I created this cheat sheet to break down the 3 building blocks of Fabric licensing:

1. Capacity (The Engine): Your computing power.
2. Per-User (The Driver): The Pro/PPU seats.
3. The F64 Rule: When free users can finally see content.

Save this image. It will save you from overpaying for Pro licenses you might not need.

#MicrosoftFabric #PowerBI #DataStrategy #DataArchitecture #Azure

Microsoft MVP | Oxford AI Strategist | Interim Technical CDO / Head of AI & Data | Architecting Sovereign Governance & £93M+ ROI for Global Enterprise

81k | Director, Data & Analytics/ AI @ Gartner

Summary

Making state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence concepts accessible and profitable to professionals from any background for over 35 years!

Highlights
-  Veteran innovator with 3 decades of experience leading state-of-the-art AI and Analytics ventures
-  98% of students surveyed would recommend me to peers
-  Generative AI/ Agentic AI expert-  ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Perplexity, Lovable, n8n, more
-  Experienced AI instructor for Cisco, LinkedIn Learning, University of Pennsylvania, & Simplilearn
-  Senior AI Curriculum Advisor for Graduate School of Education at Ivy League university UPenn
-  Winner, International Society of Data Scientists Outstanding Voice Award
-  Social media leader with over 107k LinkedIn followers


Selected Clients
 
-  3M
-  Audi
-  Biogen 
-  Booz Allen Hamilton
-  Bristol-Myers Squibb
-  Cisco
-  Citicorp
-  Franklin Templeton
-  Gartner/ Evanta
-  Harvard Innovation Labs’ Experfy
-  IBM
-  International Olympic Committee
-  Los Angeles Times
-  Mercedes
-  Morgan Stanley
-  Royal Bank of Canada
-  St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital
-  Wells Fargo
-  US Homeland Security
-  US Veterans Administration 
-  Yale University

Partial Skills Inventory
 
-  AIOps
-  Accountable AI/ Ethics
-  Anomaly Detection
-  Anthropic/ Claude
-  Artificial Intelligence
-  AWS
-  Brokerage Firms
-  Client Management
-  Consulting
-  Compelling Presentations
-  Compliance Regs and Frameworks
-  Curriculum Development
-  Dashboards
-  Data Storytelling
-  Data Visualization
-  Education
-  Explainable AI
-  Feature Engineering
-  Financial Services
-  Fraud Detection
-  Gap Analysis
-  Generative AI
-  GitHub Models
-  Google Cloud
-  Google Gemini
-  Insurance
-  KPI's and Metrics
-  Lovable AI
-  Machine Learning
-  Microsoft Azure
-  MLOps
-  Model Ensembles
-  Nano Banana
-  OpenAI/ ChatGPT
-  Orange Data Mining
-  Perplexity
-  Postgres SQL
-  Professional Development
-  Research
-  Retail
-  Retention and Attrition
-  SPSS
-  SQL Server
-  Underwriting

T. Scott Clendaniel

🔬 #ArtificialIntelligence 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴- 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗼𝗿?

The Terrible Facts:
- Artificial Intelligence needs a lot more experts.
- Tons of qualified professionals aren't getting hired.
- The expectations of hiring managers are just out of control.

If you're a hiring manager, please STOP looking for an entire department in just one employee.  It simply doesn't work that way.  You need a team.

Personally, I find the job search to be truly dreadful. It is exhausting, soul-crushing, depressing, dispiriting- actually, I will run out time before I run of negative emotions on this topic!  

But I hold out hope that one day everyone else will figure this out!

Please follow me for more analysis! 

- T. Scott Clendaniel

#AI Training for Executives | 108K LinkedIn Followers

It’s been a while since I started my role at Nautilus-AI.com as a Chief Learning Officer, but I wanted to share this update with everyone.

🔬 #ArtificialIntelligence: 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗼 𝗬𝗢𝗨 "𝗔𝗜"?

Our friends at GiGadgets researched something extraordinarily fun!

AI isn't the only place where innovation occurs.  Sometimes, the very desks we use to work with GenAI, Machine Learning, or any of the rest of AI occurs can show us remarkable creativity.

Take a look and smile!

- T. Scott Clendaniel

🔬 True Wisdom via Michael Tchuindjang!

Cybersecurity Thought Leader | Bridging Academia & Industry | Mentor for Startups & Aspiring Cyber Pros | Board Member Driving Cyber Impact | Associate Lecturer in Cybersecurity

Boardroom AI Strategy Meeting (2026 Edition) 



CEO: Who are we?
Boardroom: CEOs

CEO: What do we want?
Boardroom: AI!

CEO: AI to do what exactly?
Boardroom: We don’t know

CEO: When do we want it?
Boardroom: RIGHT NOW

If you’ve ever sat in a boardroom lately, this probably feels uncomfortably familiar.

AI has become the new magic word:

Replace “digital transformation”

Upgrade from “blockchain”

Stronger than “cloud-first”

Don’t get me wrong, AI is here to stay.

But AI without a clear problem, data readiness, risk assessment, or ethics is just… expensive enthusiasm.

Real innovation starts when we ask better questions:

What problem are we solving?
What risks are we introducing?
Who is accountable when AI fails?
Are humans still in the loop?

Otherwise, we’re not building AI strategies, we’re just speed-running confusion with a GPU 😄

Credits to @Cyber Writes ✍.

#ai #cybersecurity #security #leadership #aihype #responsibleai #jobs #hiringandpromotion #hiring #techhumor #humor #memes #klex

🎉 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗰 𝗧𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲! 

Here is the magic of video!

Generative AI can build entire new worlds.  This is one I absolutely love.  Mini planets made from elements in the period table:


𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀

▶ 1.  Copper
▶ 2.  Mercury
▶ 3.  Calcium

▶ 4.  Magnesium
▶ 5.  Palladium
▶ 6.  Uranium

▶ 7.  Arsen
▶ 8.  Lead
▶ 9.  Chlorine

Happy Chemistry

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🔬 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 #AI: 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗘𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆!

Picture this: you’re holding a cube. It’s got 8 corners, 12 edges, and 6 faces. 

Add the corners and faces, subtract the edges, and you always get 2. Every time. That’s Euler’s Polyhedron Formula—V - E + F = 2. It works for a cube, a pyramid, even a soccer ball.

So why does that matter? Because it’s a reminder that under all complexity, there’s structure. Euler didn’t just find a number—he found a pattern that connects everything.

That’s how I think about explaining AI. The goal isn’t to drown people in details; it’s to show the structure beneath the surface. When you connect data (edges), decisions (vertices), and outcomes (faces) just right, people get it.

The best teachers—whether they’re explaining geometry or generative AI—make the complex feel simple and the simple feel profound. That’s how real understanding sticks.

Happy Learning,

T. Scott Clendaniel

🔬  #GenAI- 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀!

CNN's are the basis for many tools, including most of the computer vision, image, and video generation for Generative AI.  Here's how to teach it to your team.


𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰𝘀

A convolutional neural network (CNN) is a regularized type of feed-forward neural network that learns features by itself via filter (or kernel) optimization. This type of deep learning network has been applied to process and make predictions from many different types of data including text, images and audio.

Convolution-based networks are the de-facto standard in deep learning-based approaches to computer vision and image processing, and have only recently have been replaced -- in some cases -- by newer deep learning architectures such as the transformer. Vanishing gradients and exploding gradients, seen during backpropagation in earlier neural networks, are prevented by using regularized weights over fewer connections.

For example, for each neuron in the fully-connected layer, 10,000 weights would be required for processing an image sized 100 × 100 pixels. However, applying cascaded convolution (or cross-correlation) kernels, only 25 neurons are required to process 5x5-sized tiles. Higher-layer features are extracted from wider context windows, compared to lower-layer features.


𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗡𝗡'𝘀

▶▶   image and video recognition
▶▶   recommender systems
▶▶   image classification
▶▶   image segmentation

▶▶   medical image analysis
▶▶   natural language processing
▶▶   brain–computer interfaces
▶▶   financial time series

CNNs are also known as shift invariant or space invariant artificial neural networks, based on the shared-weight architecture of the convolution kernels or filters that slide along input features and provide translation-equivariant responses known as feature maps.  Counter-intuitively, most convolutional neural networks are not invariant to translation, due to the downsampling operation they apply to the input.

Via Wikipedia ==> https://bit.ly/4126GDT

Happy Learning,

T. Scott Clendaniel

🔬 "𝗜𝗳 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗜 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝘀 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗕𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻!"

Okay, so Richard Feynman wrote the original quote about Science in general, not about Artificial Intelligence specifically.  So I confess.  I took a wee bit of dramatic license!

But UNILAD captured this fantastic video of Tatiana Erukhimova in here element teaching Physics.

And quite frankly, AI has a lot more possibilities for interactive content!

So no excuses!

And if you need help, reach out to me directly!  🤗 

- T. Scott Clendaniel




🎥 credits UNILAD/ Texas A&M University

🔬 #AI #Education:
Introducing 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 demo- with 𝗣𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗜𝗘𝗦! 🐶🐶🐶

In the world of AI, Reinforcement Learning is truly a star, and the basis of things like self-driving cars/ autonomous vehicles.

It contains a few elements:

▶  Problem to be solved
▶  An agent, who is observed trying to solve the problem
▶  Reward/ penalty functions
▶  Scoring system

Just like these adorable puppies, who serve as our agents, trying to learn how to reach the treats, our agents try to figure out the problem.  Each puppy's success or failure is recorded, and the reinforcement learning system eventually solves the puzzle!

Enjoy!

T. Scott Clendaniel

🔬 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲!

The art of surprise will help your learners stay intrigued as you go through your training!


𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆?  Tell me in the comments below!

Please make sure to #SAVE and #REPOST so your followers can take advantage of the advice!

- T. Scott Clendaniel

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