Tim Groulx is the global lead for AI and IoT at Avanade. He is a 25-year data and analytics veteran. He got his start during the internet boom working at Microsoft's first internet data center. Seeing floor-to-ceiling racks of hard drives feeding data to thousands of servers firmly planted the notion that data is the driver behind everything. The next couple of decades saw Tim developing internet services software at Microsoft, and then building data platform solutions for a few industry-leading companies. He landed in consulting about 15 years ago, and loves the ability to work with industry leading clients, driving innovation and transformation through the use of big data, analytics, AI, and IoT.