Age: 34
Technologist Director, TechSpark, Microsoft
Matt Adamczyk left Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters in 2019 to become the company’s technologist in residence at Green Bay’s TitletownTech. Five years later, he’s helped channel $7.3 billion in Microsoft investment into Wisconsin.
The De Pere resident and University of Iowa grad spent his early years building core infrastructure for Microsoft 365. Today he oversees a large portfolio of innovation work at Microsoft while remaining embedded at TitletownTech — one of his proudest achievements has been architecting the Microsoft AI Co-Innovation Lab to benefit Wisconsin businesses.
His mission for the next decade is to turn Wisconsin into an example of applied technology success.
“It has never been easier to learn new fields or to build new ideas into working concepts,” he says. “The difficult part is deciding what to spend time and effort on.”
Biggest fail: Never assume that the next problem that looks very similar to the previous problem will enable the same solution to drop in and work. That assumption once caused me to take down one of the largest global systems for several hours.
The region’s biggest challenge: AI is going to impact every business in radical ways over the coming years. It is democratizing innovation, but companies and individuals have to harness the tools to participate in the disruption and growth, or else risk being left behind.
I wish I’d known: that being the youngest in the room would continue to be the case for a long time, and that’s a great thing.
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