I caught up with Zee Hussain, Senior Vice President Global Business - Finance, Healthcare and Industry Solutions, at AT&T Business, to learn about an AT&T Business initiative focused on the connected future of air travel, to discover how innovative, networked technologies are revolutionising the passenger experience, and what airports can do to sol…

I caught up with Sarita Rao, President of Integrated & Partner Solutions at AT&T Business, to talk about her new role, and the always-changing, ever-evolving technology ecosystem.Last time I spoke with Sarita back in April 2019 at the RSA security conference in San Francisco, she was in a very different role, so we kicked off with Sarita giving us …

I caught up with Alicia Dietsch, Senior Vice President of Business Marketing for AT&T Business, to talk about her role, the topic of Business of Human marketing, and a look back at the impact of the year that was 2021.We kick off with Alicia sharing a brief outline of what a “day in the life of Alicia Dietsch” is like in her role as Senior Vice Pre…

I caught up with Bernard Yee, who is the Region President for both Asia Pacific & Canada, at AT&T Global Services, on my podcast, to discuss his role, how Industry 4.0 is gaining very real momentum and why, where 5G is transforming manufacturing across Asia Pacific, how & why 5G is consistently powering intelligent Industry 4.0 infrastructure needs…

As online shopping rates remain high due to the impacts of COVID-19, sustainability is more important to Australian consumers than ever before.I caught up with Daniel Osborne, Marketing Director APAC at Manhattan Associates, Tom Ferrier, Founder, Greener, and Rob Hango-Zada, Co-Founder & Joint CEO, Shippit to get the inside scoop on a new research …

I caught up with Rupesh Chokshi, Vice President of AT&T Cybersecurity at AT&T Business, to get a preview of his two presentations for the upcoming 2021 AT&T Business “Business Summit” titled “Reinventing Reality”. AT&T Business are hosting their annual Business Summit in a virtual format this year, on October 27th & 28th, 2021 in American Central T…

I caught up with Stacey Marx, President, National Business & Channels, AT&T Business on my podcast, to discuss the recent success stories around how AT&T Business have worked with and supported their customers through the last 12 to 18 months now leading up to, and during the global #COVID19 pandemic.In her role as president of National Business & …

I had the pleasure of catching up with Aashu Virmani, Vice President & Client Partner, Communications, at Cyient.In this episode we discuss a range of topics such as 5G, industry 4.0, private networks, next generation network technology, and how leading organisations and Cyient customers, are leveraging Next Generation Networks and 5G to build priv…

I had the pleasure of catching up with Alex MacPherson, Director of Solution Consulting & Account Management at Manhattan Associates.In this episode we discuss a range of topics around supply chain, and in particular “micro-fulfilment”, the latest news around these topics, some amazing success stories Manhattan Associates have been able to support …

I had the pleasure of catching up with Val Bercovici, Founder & CEO at Chainkit, a Software-as-a-Service company that builds cyber security solutions, with a corporate mission to eliminate blind spots in cyber security and data privacy. Today we discuss Chainkit & Data Protection, Chains of Custody, and Blockchains - topics CXOs are unlikely to hav…

I caught up with with with Ken Grohe, President & Chief Revenue Officer at WekaIO, to talk about Weka the company, their WekaFS "file system", the Weka journey to date, news trends, challenges & opportunities for Weka and their ecosystem of partners, integrators, resellers and customers, and how 2020 has impacted life around WekaIO.We kick off with…

I caught up with with Jim Dworkin, Sr. Director of Cloud Business Unit at Intel PSG, to talk about the latest news, trends, insights and offerings around Field Programable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) from Intel and surrounding areas from Data Centres, Infrastructure from Servers to Networks, to the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Edge networki…

I caught up with Jason Inskeep, Director of the 5G Center of Excellence at AT&T Business, to discuss the latest trends, business & technology challenges and opportunities organisations should be talking about from within their board rooms down, both strategically and operationally.We kicked off with my usual "get to know you", Jason shared some ama…

I caught up with George DeCandio, Chief Technology Officer - Mainframe Software Division, Broadcom, and Peter Wassel, Director of Product Management & Strategy - Mainframe Software Division, Broadcom, to talk about the latest in Mainframe DevOps and what Broadcom are doing to help their Mainframe clients unlock the value of their Mainframe applicat…

I recently caught up with Martha Delehanty, Chief People Officer at Commvault to talk about her role, the amazing journey she and the company have had through in year 2020, and what it has been like to start a exciting new role with an amazing company like Commvault, right at the point where the #COVID19 global pandemic hit, and be faced with the b…

I recently caught up with Per Kroll, Senior Director of R&D, Broadcom Mainframe Division, to talk about #AI Ops, Mainframes and connecting Mainframes to the Cloud, the latest news and trends within the Mainframe and related tech and business markets, and what's new inside the Mainframe Division of Broadcom, in particular, the world of Research and …

I recently caught up with Rupesh Chokshi, Assistant Vice President, Edge Solutions Product Marketing Management at AT&T Business, to discuss the latest news, trends and offerings from AT&T Business around Edge, Software Defined Infrastructure ( SDI ), Software Defined Networking ( SDN ), network function virtualisation (NFV) and SD-WAN technologies…

I caught up with with Alexis Crowell, IOT Marketing Global Lead for Data Platforms Group at Intel Corporation, to talk about the latest news, trends, insights and offerings from Intel in the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and Edge market sectors globally.Our conversation kicks off with Alexis sharing some fun anecdotes and insights in…

I had the opportunity to catch up with Sebastian LeFebure, Managing Director for France & Southern Europe, Manhattan Associates, to discuss the shifting world of retail in a post-pandemic world.In this fireside chat podcast conversation we discuss a range of key business & technology topics around the current state of the rapid evolution & innovati…

I caught up with Vikas Sinha, Vice President, Global Customer Experience & Strategic Alliances for Broadcom’s Mainframe Software Division to talk about the latest news and trends, his role, and business unit, and the exciting new offering from Broadcom's Mainframe Software Division called "Win No Fee".We start out with a 30,000 food "point of view"…

I caught up with Rod Cruz, General Manager, Healthcare Solutions, at AT&T, to talk about Consumerism in Healthcare, Digital Health technology & the Patient Experience, the Connected Ambulance with combined FirstNet, 5G and IoMT, and more.Rod is no stranger to the show, in fact it was exactly one year since Rod was last on the show, and we had almos…

I caught up with Manoj Nair, General Manager, Metallic, to talk about his role at Metallic, what a day in the life of the GM of Metallic entails, and some of the latest trends and insights from the great work he and his team at Metallic are doing with partners and customers in the world of software-as-a-service (SaaS) data protection and more.In th…

I caught up with Dr. Emma Fauss, co-founder & CEO of Medical Informatics Corp. (MIC), to talk about her her role at MIC, their business and it's relationship with Intel, and the amazing work both MIC and Intel have done in response to the COVID19 global pandemic to help hospitals cope with challenges related to the pandemic which most have never ha…

I recently caught up with Chip Mason (Lead, Mainframe Security Product Management) & Mary Ann Furno (Offering Manager, Mainframe Security) from the Mainframe Division of Broadcom, to talk about the latest news, trends, insights and solutions around Mainframe Security, Education, and the drive to deliver more agile and integrated DevOps and Continuo…

I recently caught up with Erin Rohlfs, a Industry Solutions Architect for Retail, Restaurant & Hospitality for AT&T Business at the 2020 National Retail Federation (NRF ) "BIG Show" on Manhattan island in New York City, New York, in the USA, to get the latest news and updates, trends and insights around Retail, Resturant and Hospitality markets and…

I caught up with Val Bercovici, Founder & CEO at Chainkit, a Software-as-a-Service company that builds cyber security solutions, with a corporate mission to eliminate blind spots in cyber security and data privacy. In this show we discuss the every present and increasingly mission critical topics of Cybersecurity, Cyber war, and the over arching th…

I caught up with Lisa Spelman, Vice President and General Manager of Intel Xeon Products and Data Centre Marketing at Intel Corp. to talk about her her role at Intel, current trends and the latest product announcements from Intel.Lisa is corporate vice president in the Data Platforms Group and general manager of the Xeon and Memory Group at Intel C…

I had the pleasure of catching up with both Zee Hussain, Senior Vice President of Global Business, across Finance, Healthcare, Sports & Entertainment and Industry Solutions at AT&T Business and Patrick Hale Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer at VITAS Healthcare, to talk about the launch of the AT&T and VITAS Healthcare Virtual Rea…

I had the pleasure of catching up once again with Stuart McIrvine, Director, Product Management for Mainframe Security and Compliance; Mainframe Database Tools at Broadcom.This is Stuart’s second guest appearance on the show. I also had the pleasure of catching up with Stuart recently in Pittsburg at the SHARE Mainframe user group event in America.…

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Janet Giesen, Vice President of Operations and Programs for Metallic, a Commvault venture, to talk about SaaS Data Protection and considerations for remote workers.This conversation begins with a quick 30,000 foot point of view introduction to Metallic, what it is, where it fits with data protection & w…

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Ulf Jönsson, Head of NFVI Portfolio Strategy Management at Ericsson, to talk about Network Function Virtualisation ( NFV ).In particular, what NFV is, why it is needed, where it fits in the grand scheme of the future of modern software defined infrastructure & software defined networks in the telco & ca…

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with with Nic Charrington, founder & creator of Bio Blast, a fundraising mobile phone game app, created in the record time of just two weeks, as a fund raising effort to raise much needed funding for the National Health Service coping with the COVID19 global pandemic.Nick is an entrepreneur from Bristol, wha…

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Lauren Valenti, Senior Manager, Customer Advocacy & Mainframe Education in the Mainframe Division of Broadcom, to talk about her academic & career path, her role at Broadcom within their Mainframe division, current business & technology trends, and the very real need Broadcom have see and addressed, to …

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Anne Chow, Chief Executive Officer at AT&T Business, to talk about AT&T's response to the COVID-19 global pandemic, both with their own challenges throughout AT&T and AT&T Business, as well as their customers and challenges being faced by their customers organisations.This amazing discussion covers the …

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with both Folke Anger, Head of Solution line Packet Core, and Thomas Kinnman, Head of Solution line OSS, for Ericsson Digital, to talk about recent 5G launches, who is leading the way in the race to get us 5G ready and 5G Core, what the 5G core is, why it is important, Network Slicing, Security, Data Analyti…

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Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Bill Saltys, Senior Vice President of Alliances & Paul Vian, Senior Vice President of Sales, from Apps Associates, to discuss their latest research report based on a survey which polled 300+ IT professionals with influence and decision-making ability who use Oracle for their primary business application…

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Michael Colaneri, VP of Retail, Restaurant, & Hospitality, AT&T, on his second appearance on the show, to talk about the latest market updates, trends, and industry challenges around Retail and Hospitality, the latest updates from AT&T, and how technology is continuing to impact Retail, Restaurants & Ho…

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Vishal Ganeriwala, Senior Director Product Marketing, Workspace Services, for CITRIX, to talk about his academic & professional career path, his role at Citrix, how Citrix are working to improve the Employee Experience, and deliver solutions focused on the Future Of Work, while ensuring customers have t…

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Liam Quinn, Senior Vice President, Client Solution Group, for Dell Technologies, to discuss their new "Realising 2030" report in which Dell Technologies Research Explores the Next Era of Human-Machine Partnerships. This fireside chat also delves into hot topics such as Hyper Connectivity around 5G, and …

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Amit Midha, president Dell Technologies APJ & head of Global Digital Cities, and Luke Halliday, CIO Melbourne Airport, to discuss the newly released “Future of Connected Living forecast” report, and the importance of Digital Cities (DiCi) for our lives, specifically about how emerging technologies are i…

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Daniel Krook, CTO IBM Code and Response & Call for Code, to talk about his academic & professional career, his role as CTO for both IBM Code and Response & the Call for Code project. Daniel gives us a walk through the journey so far as we approach the final judging for year two, as well as insights into…