Technology continues to advance at an increasingly rapid pace, so how can you stay on top of it? Learn from those who are pioneering new technologies and promoting entrepreneurial spirit! The Connect podcast encourages people to join prominent thought leaders as they explore today’s most timely and important topics around technology and network solutions. Connect brings listeners an engaging program featuring luminaries and trailblazers—from private industry, the public sector, and professio ...
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Brought to you by METRO Magazine, METROspectives discusses all the latest topics impacting mobility, public transportation, the private motorcoach industry and more.
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Welcome to Defender, the podcast that brings you crowd-sourced physical security insights and commentary from leading industry professionals to help you protect lives, secure property, and defend against evolving threats. www.defendervideo.com
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Whether you want to plug into emerging technologies that will help you shape your business or tap industry expertise to unlock your partnership potential, don’t miss the CommScope Crosstalk podcast. The series airs every other Thursday and features the insights you need to gain the competitive edge in connectivity. Join host Mike Rearden as he chats with influencers, subject experts and telecom leaders to bring you insider strategies and best practices.
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Defender Rewind: From 1984 to 2024, AXIS Communications Continues to Innovate
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In this Defender Podcast Preview - Discover how Axis Communications is leading the way from traditional Video Surveillance to Visual Intelligence, providing businesses operational efficiencies unimaginable before advancements in chipsets, analytics and artificial intelligence. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subsc…
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Screen Time: Rethinking Video Games and Reimagining Education – Level 2
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Goals are a fundamental part of life, and not coincidentally, video games. Whether you’re looking to escape the dungeon, beat your last score or get to the next level, goals serve to challenge, focus and motivate us. These things are key to learning, success and tracking achievement—so can these concepts and technologies apply to education? In this…
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John Callahan: From 1984 to 2024, AXIS Communications Continues to Innovate
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In this episode of Defender, we catch up with a long-time friend and colleague, John Callahan, Director of the Southeast Business Area for Axis Communications. Dave and John discuss Axis Communications' history of innovation and their continued leadership in the physical security industry due to their unique approach. Axis Communications has a 40-y…
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Books and Transit Funding with Paul Comfort and Davey Kim
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Today, Paul Comfort, Transit Evangelist and SVP/ChiefCustomer Officer at Modaxo, and Davey Kim SVP/Principal, NationalTransportation Policy and Multimodal Strategy, at WSP USA, join METRO’sExecutive Editor Alex Roman. Topics include: · Paul’s “The New Future of Public Transportation”book. · The Federal Government’s Role in Funding PublicTransit. · …
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Screen Time: Rethinking Video Games and Reimagining Education
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What if students spent as much time studying as they did playing video games? Most parents blame gaming as a distraction from studies, and their kids condemn schoolwork as pointless. Is there truly a way to make both sides happy? And is gaming actually the common denominator? In this episode of Connect we go straight to the ultimate authority for a…
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Talking Differently About Public Transit with Mark Aesch
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Today, Mark Aesch, CEO/Founder of TransPro Consulting, joinsMETRO’s Executive Editor Alex Roman. Topics include: · How to think differently about publictransportation. · Moving away from the ridership question. · Finding the right story for your agency to tell. · The Rays The Mark Foundation. Make sure you're signed up for the METRO Express newslet…
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The Importance of Interoperability in Today’s Connected World
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Imagine, just a few years ago you installed state-of-the-art technology to solve your business needs, but now your needs have changed. What do you do? If you’re locked into a single solution provider, you have to hope that they have something that meets your needs, or possibly—and very expensively—you could replace your whole system. But does it ha…
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Preparing the Data Center for AI with Ken Hall and Host Mike Cooper
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Safety, Privacy, and the Five D's of Physical Security - with Kelly DeLeo of Axis Communications
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In 1984, Rockwell released the song “Somebody’s Watching Me”… a song about a guy who feels like he’s always being watched. But this was 1984… Fast forward to 2024, and there are cameras everywhere, making up a major element to a larger security apparatus we’ve all come to expect everywhere we go. We even have them in doorbells today. The interestin…
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The Future of Cybersecurity Education, Today: Real-World Learning and Partnerships
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We’re facing a huge shortage in cybersecurity professionals – nationally, we’re looking at 600,000+ jobs open. So, what are we doing to close that gap and educate the next generation of cybersecurity leaders? On this episode of ‘Connect,’ we’re happy to welcome Steve Zuromski, Vice President of Information Technology & CIO at Bridgewater State Univ…
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Going the Distance - Reaching beyond the Standards with Confidence
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Have you ever been doing something and felt like there had to be a better way to do it? Staring at a current frustration thinking that someone should come up with product or solution to make things easier. Our daily lives continue to get better and better because smart people come up with new ways to overcome challenges. Leave it to the genius’ at …
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Powering the Future - A Conversation with Stephen Eaves, the inventor of Fault Managed Power
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What does VHS and Blu-Ray have in common? How about the Compact Disc and LC Fiber Connectors? What about asphalt roads and AC Power? What do they all have in common? They all had a competitor they beat out to become the quasi standard of their technology. Remember Betamax? HD-DVD? Digital Tape? What about DC Power? But what if we got one of them wr…
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Smarter and Safer: The Evolution of Network Video
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Network video cameras have gone from processing images at 3 frames per minute to providing real-time intelligence through deep learning—to say that that they’ve evolved is an understatement. Today’s cameras are helping to keep communities safer and make business operations more efficient, but how did we get here? And what does the future hold for n…
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Partnership Defined - When the whole is greater than the sum of its parts - With Jared Marcel, Boe-Tel TN Company
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The word “Partner” has become quite cliché these days. I’m not even sure people really know what it means anymore. It tends to be used haphazardly like the term “Trusted Advisor”, so we try to clearly define it by adding modifiers. In our industry we have channel partners, installation partners, design partners, supply chain partners. I don’t mean …
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Real Intelligence on AI: Insights from the Experts
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Artificial Intelligence is here. It’s already impacting your daily life, and it’s quickly evolving. So, what exactly is it (and what isn’t it)? How do you cut through all the hype? And how can you leverage it? In order to properly tackle the topic of AI, we required a panel of heavyweights. Accordingly, we’re pleased to welcome three esteemed indus…
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Flying Blind - How to Gain Valuable Visibility in your Network, with Shawn Clark
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The legend of the crystal ball is famous for giving people visibility into the future. What an amazing gift that would be. Clear visibility in general is a gift itself if recognized and utilized properly. Take the dashboard in a car, or the cockpit of an airplane, giving you clear visibility of what’s going on with the vehicle transporting you and …
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Choosing the Right Training and Enablement for your Team
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Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, once said, “The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay”. Famous entrepreneur, Richard Branson once said “Train people well enough so they can leave, but treat them well enough so they don’t want to.” Training is so critically import…
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Re-Connect: The Power of Collective Conversations
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There’s nothing like headline news with expert analysis, or game highlights by your favorite sports commentator. With that in mind, we’re kicking off Season 2 of Connect with the best of the best! Join us for more than just a retrospective, as we shine a spotlight on memorable moments, keen insights and major revelations from Season 1. In S2E1, our…
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Endless Innovation - SYSTIMAX 2.0 with Luc Adriaenssens
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SYSTIMAX 2.0 What is that? What does that even mean? Let’s not speculate with a poorly written introduction. Listen now and we'll get right to it.By Mike Rearden
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Doug Dreher: AI's New Role in Enhancing Physical Security for Critical Sites
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Discover the latest in security solutions for protecting critical infrastructure with our deep dive into the future of robotic guards in substations. In this insightful video, we welcome back Doug Dreher, a senior physical security engineer with a Fortune 50 company, who brings an impressive background in corporate security and military expertise. …
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Doug Dreher: AI's Role in Enhancing Physical Security for Critical Sites
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S2E1: AI's Role in Enhancing Physical Security for Critical Sites with Doug Dreher In this episode of Defender, we cover the future of security solutions for protecting critical infrastructure with senior physical security engineer Doug Dreher. With a vast background in corporate security and military expertise, Doug offers invaluable insights into…
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Innovation Defined - The Legacy of SYSTIMAX
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“A legacy of innovation”. It’s a catchy phrase, to be sure, but how can one determine if something is just marketing hyperbole, or an accurate way to describe one’s contributions to something? The best way is to talk with those responsible for such a legacy. In the ICT industry there are thousands of people responsible for contributing to impactful…
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Smart Hospitals, Lunar Data Centers, and A.I. with John Daniels, CEO of BICSI
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If there’s one thing we learned from the way the world responded to covid, it’s the fact that hospitals need to get smarter. I mean, it makes sense. Today we have smart phones, smart homes, smart cars, smart buildings… everything seems to be getting smarter. It’s only logical that we consider how to make our modern hospitals “smart”. The results ca…
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Three New Year's Resolutions for the ICT Professional with Mike Rearden
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Making new year’s resolutions has been a timeless tradition that often gets a bad rap because so many people fail to follow through on them, and they experience disappointment year after year. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Today is a special episode of CommScope Crosstalk, as we talk about new year’s resolutions for the ICT professional.…
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Leading Locally AND Globally - BICSI's Global Impact in the ICT Industry. A Conversation with John Daniels, CEO of BICSI
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Elephants, ships and transcontinental railroads… to traverse the world in 80 days. It’s been a long time since Jules Verne dreamed up such a tale. Today, we can go all the way around the world using only fiber optic cable… and not in 80 days. More like under .8 seconds. One organization that spends a lot of time improving the ICT industry around th…
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Making the World a Better Place with iMasons. A Conversation with Dean Nelson
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Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple computer, once said “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” I believe most world changers remain relatively unknown to the rest of us unless we happen to be connected in some esoteric way. In our industry, we often bear witness to people incrementally changing the wo…
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Safety, AI, and More with Axis Communications' Anthony Incorvati
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Welcome back to METROspectives. Today, Anthony Incorvati, Business Development Manager, Americas, for Axis Communications, joins METRO’s Executive Editor Alex Roman from the APTA EXPO show floor. Topics include: Axis Communications’ product portfolio How AI can be a good fit for transit Finding what works best for a transit agency Tech and public t…
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Connecting the Dots of IoT with Andy Jimenez
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It seems like everything’s an acronym these days. We’re losing the art of conversation to shorthand abbreviations. And I’m not convinced we all know what we’re saying to each other. In the ICT industry, we talk about IT, OT, IoT, IIot, IoB, AI… it goes on and on… Today, we’re connecting the DoTs of IoT.…
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Part Two: Innovation and Partnerships with Vontas CEO Peter Aczel and Special Guests
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Welcome back to METROspectives. Today, Peter Aczel, CEO for Vontas; Jonny Simkin, CEO of Swiftly; and David Block-Schachter, Chief Business Officer at Transit, join METRO’s Executive Editor Alex Roman. Topics include: A first of its kind partnership between Vontas,Swiftly, and Transit How open APIs will make larger-scaleintegrations a reality How s…
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TEOTWAWKI - Three Macro Trends threatening the Status Quo in the ICT Industry with Ronna Davis
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It’s the end of the world as we know it… and I feel fine. We have seen more changes in the past three years than we likely experienced in the prior ten years… it’s tough to keep up for sure. Today, we’re facing three macro trends that are promising to bring even more changes, and if we don’t prepare now, we could end up getting left behind. Sound d…
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Carlos Francisco: Physical Security for the Data Center and Building a Corporate Security Program
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DEFENDER Podcast E5S1 with special guest Carlos Francisco. Carlos Francisco is a graduate of the University of Central Florida’s Criminal Justice program, a Certified Protection Professional, and a prior Law Enforcement Officer. In the last 23 years, he has led the security teams of some of the largest corporations in the world, including Walt Disn…
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From Server Room to Boardroom—The Strategic Role of Modern IT
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If you think IT is only about software upgrades and fix-it services, then it's time to reboot your thinking. Modern IT teams are at the forefront of technology—so if you’re not leveraging them, you’re overlooking one of your organization’s biggest assets. In this episode of Connect, we’re joined by Aaron Nielsen, Vice President of Information Techn…
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There’s absolutely no doubt, we live in a tech-driven world. So, if you aren’t keeping up with the latest technology trends, then you’re behind the curve. And while today’s jet speed journalism—based on digital media and a 24/7 news cycle—delivers information quickly, how can you be sure it’s reliable and complete? In this episode, we welcome veter…
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The Unique Challenges Facing Smaller Transit Agencies and More with CTAA’s Scott Bogren
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Welcome back to METROspectives. Today, Scott Bogren, Executive Director for the CommunityTransportation Association of America (CTAA), joins METRO’s Executive EditorAlex Roman. Topics include: What issues CTAA members are currently facing,including procurement and vehicle availability. New (and old) mobility approaches to betterserve communities. T…
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The SFF Battlefield - Choosing the Small Form Factor Connector of the Future, with Ken Hall
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The LC Connector won in the 90s. Today, there's a whole new battle going on. Join Ken Hall as he discusses the various SFF connectors, and why the MPO16 connector will be the dominant MPO connector for data centers in the future.By Mike Rearden
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Welcome back to METROspectives. Today, Peter Aczel, CEO for Vontas, joins METRO’s Executive Editor Alex Roman. Topics include: The company’s product portfolio Its Innovative Solutions Award victory with Fresno, Calif.’s FAX How Vontas completed the FAX project in 10 months A sneak peak on what’s in store at APTA’s TRANSform & EXPO in Orlando, Fla. …
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Embracing Technology and Evolving Your Profession
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Afraid that you’ll be replaced by technology? Recent studies show a growing concern among workers. And while it may be the case with some jobs, history shows that new technology ultimately creates jobs, improves the way we work and helps us evolve in our professions. In this episode, we’re fortunate to host Tim McCreight, President of ASIS Internat…
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AI and the ICT Industry, with Bill Kleyman
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Are the machines going to kill us? In the movie Terminator, Kyle Reese explains to Sarah Conner that the machines got smart, saw humans as a threat, and decided our fate in a microsecond. Today, Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is becoming more advanced, and more useful, and as a result there is increasing concern about whether AI is truly a helper …
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Cat6A Cage Fight Between Evolving Needs and Existing Standards with Wayne Hopkinson and Trent Hayes
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Technology of Truth: The Art & Science of Investigative Interviewing
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Technology of Truth: The Art & Science of Investigative Interviewing When you think of investigative interviews, do you envision TV crime shows? Dark interrogation rooms with detectives slamming the table demanding the truth while leveraging tech like see-through mirrors, “hot lamps” and lie detector machines? That’s the stereotype from film and te…
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Staying Ahead of Constant Change - A BICSI Preview with Casey Adams
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If there’s one thing that remains the same in our industry, it’s the constant cadence of change. It can be tough to keep up. At CommScope, we have an extremely talented team of system engineers to help the rest of us stay up to speed. One of the best ways to learn from them is at industry events, such as the upcoming BICSI Fall conference in Las Ve…
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ICT Industry's Skilled Labor Shortage and BICSI's Response, with John Daniels, CEO of BICSI
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The ICT industry is experiencing severe skilled labor shortages. BICSI CEO John Daniels joins the podcast to discuss BICSI's response to these challenges and the many different initiatives BICSI is using to lead the industry through these challenging times. In addition, we discuss the upcoming BICSI Fall Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Send all co…
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Unlocking New Possibilities: Technology’s Role in Modern Retail
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Retail is a bellwether for consumer behavior, technology innovations and other trends. So, what new revelations have come from the industry over the past few years? How is technology contributing to success? And what lessons can other businesses take away? In this episode of Connect, Joe Coll, Vice President of Asset Protection Operations & Strateg…
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John Riotte: Inside Data Center Security Operations Centers
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DEFENDER Podcast E4S1 with special guest John Riotte. John's vast experience includes, serving in the US Army for 20 years, working for the DOD, DOE, and finally as a Global Security Data Center Area Security Manager at a fortune 50 company. John is also the author of the book: Your Range Card for Life: Military Management Techniques to Help You Co…
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Reaching the Dark Spaces on Your Campus, with Mungree Singh
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Please send all comments regarding CommScope Crosstalk to commscopecrosstalk@commscope.com.By Mike Rearden
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Mike Sannella: The of importance of relationships, delegation, and the right security
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S1E3: Exploring Physical Security Trends with Mike Sannella In this episode of Defender, we sit down with Mike Sannella, Security Manager at General Atomics and City Council Member for San Marcos. With over 20 years of experience in the security industry, Mike shares his insights on the latest trends, challenges, and solutions in the field. We star…
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Preparing for What’s Next: Education, Technology and the Workforce of the Future
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What’s the best way to prepare students for their futures? As technology advances, there’s no doubt that some of today’s jobs will cease to exist. But what new fields will emerge? And how can we prepare the next generation and in turn, business and industry, for future success? In this episode of Connect, Dr. Pamela Carr—educator, technologist and …
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Michael Marin: The key to security leadership, expectations, ASIS, and cybersecurity.
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DEFENDER Podcast S1E2 with special guest Michael Marin sharing his insights and experiences from his many years in the security industry. It will be a valuable resource for security professionals of all levels. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.defendervideo.com…
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Defender Preview: Integration Mastery: How Fortune 50 Drives Industry Change
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In this Defender Podcast Preview - Discover how Fortune 50 companies are leading the charge in driving industry change through integration mastery. This insightful video dives into the complex world of enterprise-level security solutions and the strategic planning behind integrating diverse technologies such as anti-drone systems, robotics, AI, the…
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