Social Sessions with Mike Gannotti – Jeff Willinger MVP

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Social Sessions with Mike Gannotti  Those who have been involved in the collaboration field for some time know Jeff Willinger. Jeff has been a familiar face on the Microsoft Conference circuit for years delivering great content from the stage and a friendly smile and warm conversation off stage. Jeff is working these days at Fujitsu Products Computing Peripherals and Scanners. In his role he is involved with customers looking to get data off of paper and into systems like the Microsoft 365 ecosystem for storage, classification, and re-use. Of late he has been actively working with Microsoft folks heading up the Project Cortex effort.

In this Social Sessions episode I talk with Fujitsu’s Jeff Willinger about moving to Southern Cal, fitness, knowledge management, Fujitsu scanning solutions, Microsoft’s Project Cortex, and even his playing basketball with a certain ex US President. It’s a fun and informative segment that I hope you will enjoy watching as much as I enjoyed recording.

 

Resources:

• Connect with Jeff Willinger on LinkedIn  
• Connect with Jeff Willinger on Twitter  
• Email Jeff Willinger 
• Fujitsu Products, Computing, Peripherals, Scanners   
• Introducing Project Cortex   
• From new Microsoft Teams experiences to the all-new Project Cortex—here’s what’s coming soon to Microsoft 365  
• Project Cortex Resource Center  
• Project Cortex Blog   

* The full unedited, machine learning, transcript can be read below.

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Michael Gannotti

 

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Michael Gannotti10:25 AM

And recording is beginning, so I’ll go ahead and kick this off.

No agenda, no takes and no rooms. Social sessions with Mike Janani.

Alright, an we are back with another social sessions after a two week hiatus and today I’m very excited to be welcoming. Mr Jeff will injure and Jeff do you want to say hi to everybody?

Willinger, Jeffrey10:26 AM

Hey Mike, I am beyond thrilled to finally reconnect with you. I mean we are reconnected, but this sort of.

I don’t know you and I have such a special relationship. Me in the Microsoft ecosystem, you know, so I’m super psyched that we are able to put this on the calendar.

Michael Gannotti10:26 AM

Yep.

I am I am too ’cause it has been way too long and just just by way of letting everybody know before we start into stuff. So this goes, will do a little flashback all the way to 09. Let me share a little little something.

And there we go.

That you and I might now I I don’t understand how is it that you look the same an I just look old these days.

Michael Gannotti10:57 AM

As pretty fun.

So getting ahold of Fujitsu, they want to learn more.

Willinger, Jeffrey10:57 AM

Yeah.

Oh yeah, so I figured you, it’s J will injure dot PDF you people on Peter Frank University at fujitsu.com.

Michael Gannotti10:57 AM

OK.

Willinger, Jeffrey10:57 AM

Twitter.

Michael Gannotti10:57 AM

Any resources, like links to the sum of the scanning pieces we’re talking about?

Willinger, Jeffrey10:57 AM

You know?

Michael Gannotti10:57 AM

That we could drop into the post.

Willinger, Jeffrey10:57 AM

Yeah, you know what? Um, I will give, because those are interesting URL’s so you know I.

Michael Gannotti10:57 AM

Yeah you’ll, you’ll shoot him tell me versus.

Willinger, Jeffrey10:57 AM

Yeah, you know it. Actually I think we’ve got FCPA. Let me just see if this works fcpa.com I think let me just look here real quick a cpa.com.

Yes, fcpa.com that’s it. Yeah, I didn’t run happy that we have that. It probably got that a long time ago. But yeah, FCPA dot projector computer products of America fcpa.com find out everything and what’s interesting for me, Mike is we don’t sell direct.

Michael Gannotti10:58 AM

No.

Boom

nice.

Willinger, Jeffrey10:58 AM

Sell through there. We basically a for a distribution channel, a channel Ingram Micro Tech data.

Michael Gannotti10:58 AM

Uh-huh

Willinger, Jeffrey10:58 AM

Companies like that, four of them, and then companies like CDW, Amazon, they buy from them who buy from us. So it’s an interesting channel for me.

Michael Gannotti10:58 AM

right gotcha.

Cool.

Willinger, Jeffrey10:58 AM

Ah, so.

Michael Gannotti10:58 AM

Well this pen great do we? We’ve got. We’ve got basketball with the press that’s I mean come on.

Willinger, Jeffrey10:58 AM

Super fun.

Yeah yeah, yeah.

It’s a, you know.

Michael Gannotti10:58 AM

Very good, I gotta ask you, what position did you play a in grown up?

Willinger, Jeffrey10:58 AM

I had grown up. I played small forward. I was always enamored with you guys like at Adrian Danley, Mark Aguirre. You know, I’m a big dude, so I’d like to back guys down. I always watch them and you know, back in the day, even now I do that little turn around, you know, back him in with my but and then turn around and do a little jump shot.

Michael Gannotti10:59 AM

Yeah.

Sure, I’m not as big as you, but I did play I played basketball as well. I thought was one and I liked. I like the physical. I always out jumped my height.

Willinger, Jeffrey10:59 AM

So that was my.

So with that.

Yeah, so as I got older make a IMA invented not invented by the three point shot became prevalent.

Michael Gannotti10:59 AM

Yeah.

Willinger, Jeffrey10:59 AM

Three shot, 3 point shot. Changed my life for the better on. I didn’t like to get his physical and for people that have played basketball with me, they know that I’ve never seen a shot I didn’t like.

Michael Gannotti10:59 AM

No.

Willinger, Jeffrey10:59 AM

So I love shooting and you know Wayne Gretzky said, you know, and look. I was always one of those guys. Make that.

Michael Gannotti11:00 AM

Right?

Yep.

Yeah.

Willinger, Jeffrey11:00 AM

You know, little bit later I have a nice my parents spent a lot of money on my teeth. I want to make sure that I kept them all so yeah, so there you have it.

Michael Gannotti11:00 AM

Capital.

Cool.

No, that’s that’s awesome. Well, thank you. So for all those who’ve been watching a, you know we’ll put all the lengths for Jeff. You will have those in the post will also have a link to Fujitsu in the post. Contact him. They’re doing some great stuff. He’s working with some great folks at corporate with Microsoft, like Chris McNulty and others. And he is the man. And besides, any dude who can put on an orange hat with a green shirt

Willinger, Jeffrey11:00 AM

Yeah.

I you know, I I it wasn’t planned. It definitely was not planned, but they haven’t.

Michael Gannotti11:01 AM

pops up.

Pops up

So with that will stop our recording. I want to thank everybody for joining us today until next time on social sessions. Have a great day, it is always chow.

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