The entertaining Genworth Financial team joins us from OPEX Week 2020 to tell us their enterprise’s transformation story—or journey, more accurately. Kathleen starts off by explaining her view of the company 15 years ago: “It was a very siloed

Ep. 145: Deena John, McDonalds

Apr 1st, 2020 21m 22s

McDonald’s senior director of innovation, Deena John, joins us to talk about digital transformation. While definitions vary, Deena describes digital transformation as “transforming through integration of technology” with the goal of generating

Ep. 144: AI BFSI Panel

Mar 27th, 2020 31m 27s

This BFSI Panel features key industry experts who share their strategies around pushing their organization into the future. They note that the technology available is user-friendly and rarely the barrier to entry. It is the mapping, the process

Ep. 143: Max Just/Julie Seitz (Future of Work)

Mar 20th, 2020 12m 24s

Max Just is accompanied by a special guest on this episode of Future of Work. Julie Seitz is an expert on all things workspace, which makes her the perfect partner for the topic of—you guessed it—the future of workspaces. While she notes that a

Ep. 412: Roland Haefs, Henkel

Mar 13th, 2020 23m 46s

Roland Haefs, with Henkel, discusses enterprise evolution and the shift from having purely transactional relationships to becoming a true business solutions provider. It takes strong leadership and an entrepreneurial spirit to pull off such a t

Ep. 141: Dimitri Popov, Mann + Hummel

Mar 6th, 2020 31m 15s

Dmitri Popov, global service management lead for Mann + Hummel Group, joins us today to discuss scaling RPA. Dmitri himself admits that such a process is painful, in part because of the few successful enterprise examples for which to model afte

Ep. 140: Deepak Subbarao (Unstructured Data)

Feb 28th, 2020 9m 32s

Deepak Subbaru joins us again, this time, to discuss unstructured data. The recent explosion in technology inputs has raised the bar for customer expectations. They want more, and they want it now. Requests are coming via phone calls, social m

Ep. 139: Heather King, SSON

Feb 21st, 2020 17m 56s

Heather King is the managing director for both the Shared Services & Outsourcing Network and the Intelligent Automation Division for the Americas. She oversees a team that puts on the dynamic events of relevant content for the industries of the

Ep. 138: Dr. Ayanna Howard, Georgia Tech University

Feb 14th, 2020 34m 21s

Dr. Ayanna Howard is a chair of the School of Interactive computing at Georgia Tech, an academic, and a startup founder. While her talents are as vast as her pursuits, she sums up their relation as interactive computing. In her words, “Interact

Ep. 137: Paul Bao, BitCherry

Feb 7th, 2020 16m 59s

BitCherry’s Paul Bao explains the blockchain process behind the platform’s commercial applications. Working similar to Amazon’s eCommerce model, BitCherry will offer a platform to buy, sell, and network goods using digital currency. Regulatory

Ep. 136: Blockchain Standards/Blockchain Island

Jan 31st, 2020 22m 17s

Malta, a small European island, is quickly becoming a blockchain hub, and thus, accurately nicknamed “Blockchain Island.” This panel discussion delves into blockchain developments, standards, and laws. Malta’s progressive, global view of blockc

Ep. 135: Tom Trowbridge

Jan 24th, 2020 20m 11s

Tom Trowbridge is the former president and one of the founders of Hedera Hashgraph, a distributed ledger technology. He is also an avid investor and advisor in the technology space. Hedera’s governing council consists of companies like Nomura,

Ep. 134: Kexin Xie, Salesforce

Jan 17th, 2020 35m 22s

Kexin Xie is a data scientist for Salesforce. Among other things, Kexin is responsible for building the engineering infrastructure, services, and frameworks that makes the Salesforce marketing cloud so powerful. In this conversation, Kexin disc

Ep. 133: Kenneth Farrugia, Bank of Valetta

Jan 10th, 2020 31m 12s

Kenneth Farrugia is the chief business development officer with the Bank of Valletta. Kenneth starts this conversation off with a bang, making the case that if banks don’t stay on top of the technological revolution, they run the risk of becomi

Ep. 132: Rida Mustafa, Walmart

Jan 3rd, 2020 40m 32s

Rida Moustafa is an experienced data scientist with a demonstrated history of working in the retail industry. Rida covers a lot of ground in this concise, informative conversation. He shares his story with us, beginning in 1995 with the big dat

Ep. 131: David Orban

Dec 27th, 2019 25m

David Orban, founder of Network Society Ventures, discusses the rapid acceleration of technology and its consequences. How we live, work, organize, and grow a business has changed. Decentralization is now a common path forward. David gives exam

Ep. 130: Dr. Timothy Renick, Georgia State Univ

Dec 20th, 2019 31m 38s

Dr. Timothy Renick with Georgia State joins us to talk about his implementation of predictive analytics within the university, including an AI enhanced chatbot. Since the deployment of these technologies, Georgia State is graduating 3,000 more

Ep. 129: Dario Izzo, European Space Agency

Dec 13th, 2019 35m 26s

Dario Izzo joins us from the World Summit AI to talk space. As the scientific coordinator the Advanced Concepts Team out of the European Space Agency, Dario is tasked with some serious undertakings. First, Dario summarizes ESA’s mission for us.

Ep. 128: Maneesh Verma, Lunar Zebro

Dec 6th, 2019 29m 51s

Maneesh Kumar Verma is the team leader and head of operations at Lunar Zebro. He’s also a lead robotics at Stellar Space Industries. In this conversation, Maneesh talks about the future of space exploration. In order to thoroughly explore place

Ep. 127: Stephen Donnelly, Spectral Energy

Nov 29th, 2019 28m 48s

The CIO of Amsterdam’s Spectral, Stephen Donnelly, joins us to talk energy. Spectral is “on the bleeding edge of the energy transition” as a tech developer and systems integrator. Steven outlines the pros and cons of each renewable energy resou

Ep. 126: Dan Jeavons, Shell

Nov 22nd, 2019 28m 8s

Dan Jeavons, general manager of Shell’s advanced analytics CoE, discusses the inevitability of digital transformation. To stay ahead of the curve, Shell created a team specifically for their digital strategy. First, they needed a plan. They lis

Ep. 125: Görkem Köseoğlu, ING

Nov 15th, 2019 23m 33s

Chief Analytics Officer for ING, Görkem Köseoğlu, talks data during this panel discussion. While modeling and analytics is not new in the banking sector, AI and machine learning has reinvented it. Görkem discusses his inspiration, motivation, a

Ep. 124: Transformation Impact Panel

Nov 8th, 2019 33m 50s

Digital transformation and its global impact is the topic at hand for this panel discussion. Dr Hamed Al Hashemi, Director, Strategy & Corporate Performance Division Department of Health – Abu Dhabi; Dr. Ismahane Elouafi, Director General of th

Ep. 123: Edda Blumenstein

Nov 1st, 2019 28m 57s

Edda Blumenstein is a Ph.D. researcher at Leeds University. In this episode, she discusses her efforts to "Identify how honest retailers are supposed to survive in this dynamic environment that is constantly changing at a speed never seen befor

Ep. 122: Anshuman Das, Warner Bros.

Oct 25th, 2019 38m 4s

The marketplace for third-party AI vendors is huge, but what is the right solution for your enterprise? Anshuman Das, the director of robotics and testing at Warner Bros., discusses the compay’s implementation of some of his favorite tools and