#AskTheCEO Podcast

Connect with XentIT on the Azure Marketplace: https://bit.ly/3a1WRZy

Roopangi Kadakia is the Senior Vice President and CTO of XentIT, an Information Technology firm specializing in Cybersecurity & Compliance, Secure Cloud and DevSecOps, and Information Technology Resale & Integration Services.

As part of this discussion, we shared how their partnership with Microsoft, their use of Azure, and the Azure Marketplace has empowered them to scale and grow their business.

Connect with Roopangi:

Web: https://xentit.com/

Twitter: @XentIT

LinkedIn: XentIT

Email: [email protected]

Microsoft partnership opportunities for healthcare partners: [email protected]

Contact Avrohom:

Web: https://asktheceo.biz

Facebook: AvrohomGottheil

Twitter: @avrohomg

Instagram: @avrohomg

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

[00:51] The Healthcare Industry is in the midst of its digital transformation, with many Enterprise Health care companies moving their mission-critical applications to the Cloud. As you know, Healthcare is one of the most regulated industries in the United States. How do health care organizations that leverage Cloud stay up to date with compliance?

[01:40] Healthcare organizations need the following 3 things for good compliance: (1) good security (2) good governance (3) good monitoring.

[02:22] How do you define good governance in healthcare?

[04:54] The cybersecurity industry is currently experiencing a shortage of about 3.5 million people. We’re also constantly hearing about hospitals and healthcare facilities being shut down by hacks and ransomware attacks. Wouldn’t the cloud make health care providers more vulnerable? How can health care organizations stay up to date with Cybersecurity?

[07:39] Many healthcare organizations are having difficulty finding the right security skills.

[08:12] Healthcare organizations might actually become more secure by going to the cloud.

[09:48] How would a healthcare provider use your solution with Azure?

[12:10] How can customers find out more about the XentIT solution set, and procure it through the Azure Marketplace?

Roopangi: You can access it via this link: https://bit.ly/3a1WRZy.

[12:37] How has partnering with Microsoft helped XentIT scale and grow your business?

[14:05] How can people find out more about Microsoft partnership opportunities for healthcare partners?

Roopangi: For more information, you can send an email to [email protected].

[14:20] How do people connect with you?

Roopangi: You can visit our website at https://xentit.com/. You can also follow us on Twitter at @XentIT and email us at [email protected].

[14:53] Do you have any parting words of wisdom that you’d like to share with the audience?

#AskTheCEO with Roopangi Kadakia

Connect with SyTrue on the Azure Marketplace: https://bit.ly/2JqldQS

Kyle Silvestro is the founder and CEO of SyTrue, a company that leverages Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning to substantially reduce the time it takes for a healthcare expert to identify what is clinically or administratively relevant within a medical record.

As part of this discussion, we shared how their partnership with Microsoft, their use of Azure, and the Azure Marketplace have empowered them to scale and grow their business.

Connect with Kyle:

Web: https://sytrue.com/

Twitter: @clinicalNLP @SyTrueInc

Microsoft partnership opportunities for healthcare partners: [email protected]

Contact Avrohom:

Web: https://asktheceo.biz

Facebook: AvrohomGottheil

Twitter: @avrohomg

Instagram: @avrohomg

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

[00:49] We’re currently in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic where health care providers and payers are experiencing an exponential increase in their workload. The ramifications of this increase would be a proportionate exponential increase in the amount of data that will be generated. How are insurance companies digitizing the billions of new health records in order to convert them into useful data?

[01:16] The challenge we’re having is that data is being generated as images, which then needs to be converted to text, and from there to useful information.

[01:41] How much data is created in healthcare today?

[02:12] How has COVID-19 impacted the volume of healthcare data that’s generated?

[02:25] How do you handle this incoming influx of information?

[03:06] What is the challenge the World Health Organization is having regarding our medical data?

[03:12] The major challenge with our medical data is that you can only read so much data, so fast.

[03:43] How can Health Insurance companies leverage AI and analytics to help fight Covid-19 related insurance fraud?

[04:59] SyTrue recently launched a new offering on the Microsoft Azure marketplace, called SyHealth. Tell us about it and how it addresses some of the challenges we just discussed.

[04:59] How is SyTrue helping fight Covid-19?

[06:15] How can the public use your solution to fight Covid-19?

[09:46] How would a healthcare organization use your solution with Azure?

[10:57] How can customers find out more about the SyHealth solution, and procure it through the Azure Marketplace?

Kyle: You can access it via this link: https://bit.ly/2JqldQS

[11:22] How has partnering with Microsoft helped SyTrue scale and grow your business?

[11:49] How can people find out more about Microsoft partnership opportunities for healthcare partners?

Kyle: For more information you can send an email to [email protected].

[12:07] How do people connect with you?

Kyle: You can visit our website at https://sytrue.com/. You can also follow us on Twitter at @clinicalNLP or @SyTrueInc.

[12:34] Do you have any parting words of wisdom that you’d like to share with the audience?

#AskTheCEO with Kyle Silvestro

Connect with KenSci on the Azure Marketplace: http://bit.ly/2V1LBaJ

Sunny Neogi is the Chief Growth Officer at KenSci, a company whose platform allows healthcare organizations to tap into the vast amounts of data and transform them into AI-led insights.

As part of this discussion, we shared how their partnership with Microsoft, their use of Azure, and the Azure Marketplace have empowered them to scale and grow their business.

Connect with Sunny:

Web: https://www.kensci.com/

Twitter: @KenSci

Microsoft partnership opportunities for healthcare partners: [email protected]

Contact Avrohom:

Web: https://asktheceo.biz

Facebook: AvrohomGottheil

Twitter: @avrohomg

Instagram: @avrohomg

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

[00:46] Healthcare is starting to see major transformations with industry leaders increasingly embracing technologies such as cloud and Artificial Intelligence. What are some of the key data and infrastructure challenges that healthcare providers and payers deal with when starting out on their journey to innovate on the cloud?

[03:38] The new Healthcare AI will predict who will get sick and how to prevent it.

[04:47] In response to the rapidly growing amounts of electronic healthcare data, there is a new data standard to help simplify the management of health data called FHIR, which stands for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. Microsoft recently launched an ‘Azure API for FHIR’, what is it and how does it support healthcare innovation?

[07:20] Adopting standards for data will unlock the ability for doctors to compare your symptoms with many other people like you, over time, so that they can predict the future of your health and give you an opportunity to act upon it.

[08:00] Leveraging the Azure API for FHIR, KenSci recently launched a new managed service offering targeting healthcare organizations – SMART on FHIR based data & AI accelerator. Can you share some information on how this AI accelerator will help simplify the transition of data to the cloud for healthcare organizations?

[08:49] Transforming data to a standard format is an ongoing process. It’s not a one-time job.

[11:12] What are some of the key features that this offering will provide customers with?

[12:24] An advantage to having your data in a standardized format is the ease of applying business intelligence analytics to your data.

[14:45] Healthcare is the most regulated industry in the United States, and security and compliance around data privacy is a really big deal. Can you share some information on how Microsoft and KenSci together address concerns around security and data privacy with the FHIR offering?

[15:14] Healthcare data is our most precious data.

[15:20] In Healthcare, data privacy, data security, and data governance need to be established in the beginning. It’s not a post-facto thought process.

[17:23] How do people access and get started with this offering?

Sunny: You can access it via this link: http://bit.ly/2V1LBaJ

[18:52] How has partnering with Microsoft helped KenSci to scale and grow your business?

[20:33] How can people find out more about Microsoft partnership opportunities for healthcare partners?

Sunny: For more information, you can send an email to [email protected].

[20:53] How can people connect with you?

Sunny: You can visit our website at https://www.kensci.com/ or follow us on Twitter at @KenSci.

[21:17] Do you have any parting words of wisdom that you’d like to share with the audience?

[22:43] When you bring amazing partnerships together, magic happens.

Connect with ElectrifAi on the Azure Marketplace:

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Edward Scott is the founder and CEO of ElectrifAi, a company that leverages Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning via their suite of products to drive profit improvement, increased performance, and risk reduction.

As part of this discussion, we shared how their partnership with Microsoft, their use of Azure, and the Azure Marketplace have empowered them to scale and grow their business.

Connect with Ed:

Web: ElectrifAi.net

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/electrifai

Twitter: @electrifai

Microsoft partnership opportunities for healthcare partners: [email protected]

Contact Avrohom:

Web: https://asktheceo.biz

Facebook: AvrohomGottheil

Twitter: @avrohomg

Instagram: @avrohomg

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

[00:48] Artificial Intelligence is very prevalent nowadays, especially in HealthCare, and providers are converting their data to digital format to leverage the benefits of the latest innovations in technology. What are the challenges health care providers face when trying to go digital?

[01:16] The principal challenge that providers and payers face is that their data is stored on many different systems.

[01:57] Essentially, the principal issue is the disparate disconnect of data across different systems.

[02:24] The second challenge providers face is that their data is frozen.

[03:09] How are we working towards finding a cure for Coronavirus?

[06:20] To leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in health care, you need to be able to access the data.

[06:32] How is ElectrifAi helping HealthCare providers through its Artificial Intelligence-based solution set?

[06:32] How health care providers can leverage Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to capture missed charges on their medical bills.

[08:40] With RevenueAI hospitals increase their billing to 6 times that of the cost of the solution, within 6 months.

[09:45] How health care providers can improve their procurement process using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

[15:05] Disparate disconnected data is one of the biggest problems in digital health.

[17:08] How would a healthcare provider use your solution with Azure?

[17:08] How can customers find out more about the ElectrifAi solution set, and procure it through the Azure Marketplace?

Ed: You can access our solution set via one of the following links:

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[18:26] How has partnering with Microsoft helped ElectrifAi scale and grow your business?

[19:13] How do people connect with you?

Ed: You can visit our website at https://ElectrifAi.net. You can also follow us on Twitter at @electrifai.

[19:30] How can people find out more about Microsoft partnership opportunities for healthcare partners?

Ed: For more information, you can send an email to [email protected].

[20:00] Do you have any parting words of wisdom that you’d like to share with the audience?

Connect with eCare21 on the Azure Marketplace: https://bit.ly/2TFOs78

Vadim Cherdak is the founder and CEO of eCare21, the leading Virtual Care platform for the delivery of Connected Health for patients with chronic conditions. Based in New Jersey and Florida, eCare21 is the first end-to-end solution for Virtual Care that creates a seamless workflow for delivering healthcare in the home to improve patient outcomes.

As part of this discussion, we shared how their partnership with Microsoft, their use of Azure, and the Azure Marketplace have empowered them to scale and grow their business.

Connect with Vadim:

Azure Marketplace: https://bit.ly/2TFOs78

Web: http://www.ecare21.com/

Twitter: @eCare21

Microsoft partnership opportunities for healthcare partners: [email protected]

Contact Avrohom:

Web: https://asktheceo.biz

Facebook: AvrohomGottheil

Twitter: @avrohomg

Instagram: @avrohomg

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

[00:51] The nature of Healthcare-based services is changing to what’s known as value-based care. First of all, what does that mean? Also, what are the challenges healthcare providers face with regard to shifting to a value-based care paradigm?

[01:07] Value-based care is a paradigm shift from caring for “sick” to caring for “health”.

[02:19] 20% of patients with multiple chronic conditions consume 65% - 70% of Medicare spending, the biggest demographic being seniors.

[02:30] Minimizing and preventing unneeded hospitalization of seniors can save a lot of money for Medicare, as well as families.

[03:30] People are healthier, and living longer than ever before, but we are not better off when it comes to chronic diseases.

[04:05] How is your company, eCare21, helping healthcare providers deliver value-based care?

[05:07] Starting from 2015, Medicare started adding payment codes to incentivize doctors to provide value-based care.

[06:35] While we can’t entirely eliminate personal caregivers and human interactions, we can leverage modern technology, such as wearables, to provide monitoring of vitals for when caregivers aren’t present.

[08:53] How would a healthcare provider use your solution with Azure?

[09:37] How can doctors leverage mobile applications to deliver better care?

[11:26] Mobile applications and wearables enable doctors to scale.

[12:34] How can customers find out more about the eCare21 solution, and procure it through the Azure Marketplace?

Vadim: You can access it via this link: https://bit.ly/2TFOs78

[13:18] How has partnering with Microsoft helped eCare21 scale and grow your business?

[14:29] Connected Health is about building health.

How do people connect with you?

Vadim: You can visit our website at http://www.ecare21.com. You can also follow us on Twitter at @eCare21.

[16:12] How can people find out more about Microsoft partnership opportunities for healthcare partners?

Vadim: For more information, you can send an email to [email protected].

[16:40] Do you have any parting words of wisdom that you’d like to share with the audience?

Connect with cliexa on the Azure Marketplace: http://bit.ly/CLX-MFST1

Mehmet Kazgan is the CEO of cliexa, a company that leverages Artificial Intelligence via their suite of products to enable providers to collect clinical metrics and compliance data for quality reporting electronically; saving time and resources over the standard paper process.

As part of this discussion, we shared how their partnership with Microsoft, their use of Azure, and the Azure Marketplace have empowered them to scale and grow their business.

Connect with Mehmet:

Web: https://www.cliexa.com

Twitter: @cliexa or @mrkazgan

Azure Marketplace: http://bit.ly/CLX-MFST1

Microsoft partnership opportunities for healthcare partners: [email protected]

Contact Avrohom:

Web: https://asktheceo.biz

Facebook: AvrohomGottheil

Twitter: @avrohomg

Instagram: @avrohomg

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

[00:51] Artificial Intelligence is very prevalent nowadays, especially in HealthCare, and providers are converting their data to digital format to leverage the benefits of the latest innovations in technology. What are the challenges HealthCare providers face when trying to go digital?

[01:21] Some of the biggest challenges HealthCare providers face when trying to go digital are keeping up with administrative challenges and keeping up with the data.

[02:22] How is cliexa helping HealthCare providers through its Artificial Intelligence-based solution set?

[02:22] We collect the necessary information, and package it for the doctors, the way they would like to see it.

[02:53] For Artificial Intelligence to be effective in HealthCare, you need to have a valid data-set that you can apply, and have the system learn from it using machine learning, so that you can predict things for the doctors.

[03:33] Leveraging AI and Machine Learning during intake can increase HealthCare efficiency, by cutting doctor visit time by 10 minutes per patient visit!

[04:12] What is so innovative about cliexa? Doesn’t everybody collect data?

[06:02] Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Digital Health helps doctors cross-reference symptoms across all patients and demographics.

[07:04] Finally, a cure for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

[08:06] HealthCare should evolve, as the bacteria and viruses are evolving. This is why collecting the right data is so important.

[09:12] Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning can help eliminate unknown medicine side effects by analyzing large data feeds.

[09:35] How can Artificial Intelligence help better diagnose patients’ quality of life maladies?

[10:39] How can HealthCare providers leverage wearables to provide preventative care?

[13:06] Wearables are game-changers in HealthCare because if you can control the symptoms when they’re small, you might be able to avoid needing medication, or even invasive action, down the road!

[13:55] How would a healthcare provider use your solution with Azure?

[15:10] How can customers find out more about the cliexa solution set, and procure it through the Azure Marketplace?

Mehmet: You can access it via this link: http://bit.ly/CLX-MFST1

[15:50] How has partnering with Microsoft helped cliexa scale and grow your business?

[17:20] How do people connect with you?

Mehmet: You can visit our website at https://www.cliexa.com/. You can also follow us on Twitter at @cliexa.

[18:01] How can people find out more about Microsoft partnership opportunities for healthcare partners?

Mehmet: For more information, you can send an email to [email protected].

[18:22] Do you have any parting words of wisdom that you’d like to share with the audience?

I had the privilege of being interviewed by Reuben Dreiblatt, editor in chief at Faveeo, on some of the latest trends in Disruptive Technologies.

Contact Reuben:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reuben-dreiblatt-93719558/

Twitter: faveeo

Web: https://www.faveeo.com/

Contact Avrohom:

Web: https://asktheceo.biz

Facebook: AvrohomGottheil

Twitter: @avrohomg

Instagram: @avrohomg

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

[00:28] How will the 5G rollout affect the Internet Of Things?

[01:18] 5G will enable us to scale mass deployment of IoT devices in every sector

[02:32] 5G will enable Connected Infrastructure for Smart Cities and Autonomous Vehicles V2X.

[03:40] 5G will make human-driven vehicles much safer – not just Autonomous Vehicles!

[04:00] Will TeleHealth enable doctors to perform surgery on Mars from Earth?

[04:59] We’re going to see the rollout of IoT increase exponentially, as a result of 5G going mainstream.

[05:05] Will older devices still function after 5G goes mainstream?

[07:20] 5G will influence the Manufacturing of IoT in terms of CyberSecurity.

[08:35] We are installing 127 IoT devices per second! With the number of exposed records per Data Breach rising each year, we need to focus on CyberSecurity to reduce our vulnerability. 5G will exacerbate this due to its scalability.

[08:59] An IoT device is an entry-point to your network.

[09:14] The Industrial IoT is especially vulnerable to Data Breaches due to having hundreds of thousands of Connected Devices on their networks.

[09:14] IIoT is extremely vulnerable to Cyberhacking because it’s challenging to apply & keep track of Cybersecurity patches to hundreds of thousands of disparate endpoints on a regular basis.

[09:26] Hackers need only a single open door to get in – we need to guard thousands of doors to keep them out! This presents a big CyberSecurity challenge.

[09:36] Today’s technology is already obsolete! How do we secure against the threats of tomorrow?

[10:50] 5G will influence the adoption of full-lifecycle patch management for the Internet Of Things.

[13:24] What excites you most about the future of AI and what do you fear?

[13:24] 5G is a gamechanger with regards to CyberSecurity, as billions of IoT devices will be deployed due to the new scalable network. This will require leveraging AI to keep networks secure.

[14:15] Frictionless & Fun - In the future Smart City residents will utilize NLP (Natural Language Processing) to query 5G enabled busses to determine the number of available seats or query a Smart Camera on the bacteria level of stored produce - among many other exciting applications!

[15:14] An exciting AI application is Conversational Commerce – if you’re out of coffee, your Smart Home coffee maker will replenish it for you!

[18:30] For Smart Home manufacturers AI is a gamechanger, as it converts the sale of IoT devices from a transaction, to a recurring revenue stream via a technology called Conversational Commerce.

[23:21] How do we mitigate fears of threat actors leveraging AI to cause us harm?

[25:00] We need women & minorities to help us fight the CyberSecurity war against evil applications of AI. Diversity and Inclusion is the answer.

[27:41] How do we encourage young women to choose careers in CyberSecurity?

[32:07] Will AI create more jobs than it destroys?

[34:27] You have to be willing to educate yourself if you wish to become impervious to AI Disruption.

[38:19] Is there a consensus on the importance of Data Privacy these days?

[42:11] Organizations that demonstrate prioritizing their customer’s Data Privacy will have a competitive edge in the marketplace, as they will have earned Consumer Trust.

You can watch this episode on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/us7Rpoxxx68

Robert Smith is the founder & CEO of Fan Health Network which provides enterprises with turnkey well-being programs, including fun challenges. They connect you directly to professional athletes, sports personalities, and celebrities who want you to improve your fitness, diet, and well-being.

Robert is also a Fox Sports Analyst and Former NFL Running back.

Narinder Makin is the founder and CEO of Healthper USA, a company that offers an engagement services platform that is used to create well-being programs and digital interventions. Healthper is the underlying platform on which the Fan Health Network programs are built on top of.

Narinder is a technologist and Innovator with a deep passion to solve problems for the masses.

Contact Avrohom:

Web: https://asktheceo.biz

Facebook: AvrohomGottheil

Twitter: @avrohomg

Instagram: @avrohomg

Connect With Robert:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-smith-51517657/

Twitter: @robert26smith

Web: www.fanhealthnetwork.com

Connect with Narinder:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/narinder-makin-68416922/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/healthper

Twitter: @narindermakin

Twitter: @healthper

Web: www.healthper.com

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

[01:26] Avrohom: Employer wellness programs are on the rise, with an average cost of $742 per employee, per year, according to a 2017 survey conducted by UnitedHealthcare. What are the drivers behind the growing trend of employer wellness programs?

[02:26] Avrohom: What are the challenges faced by companies looking to offer employer wellness programs?

Robert: Either you are just checking out whether to have a wellness solution or are coming from an existing well-being offering that had an anemic engagement or looking to extend a current well-being offering, we cover it all.

You can start with HUDDLE where you engage with the celebrities including Hollywood, TV and Sports personalities, and run a holistic challenge like Find Your Purpose & Get Moving or a Take a Hike Step Challenge that can be run independently or co-exist with your existing solution.

You can mature to a HEALTHY YOU program that includes personalization and complete program customization with challenges, coaching, branding, and incentives.

[12:49] Where did this idea, for Fan Health Network, come from?

[14:39] How has partnering with Microsoft helped you grow and scale your business?

[17:54] Avrohom: There is definitely a huge emphasis, nowadays, on healthy living as evidenced by the growing market on wearable technologies; which, according to a recent report by PRNewswire, is estimated to reach a market size of over $57M by the end of 2022. Besides corporate wellness, where else do you see Fan Health Network playing a role in the overall healthy living marketplace?

Robert: Fan Health Network envisions not only to increase the participation in device reported data through its integrated experience but also sustain the engagement through its rich influencer network and incentive capability.

At Fan Health, we believe that our engagement capabilities promote device adoption in workplace populations. It also drives to increase data collection for patient engagement solutions that are either Digital Therapeutics Interventions or Provider backed interventions.

[20:21] Avrohom: How do people connect with you?

Links to Azure Market Place:

1. Take A Hike Challenge https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/fanhealthnetwork.msmp_takeahike_01?tab=Overview

2. Healthy You https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/fanhealthnetwork.healthyyou_01?tab=Overview

3. Find Your Purpose & Get Moving Challenge https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/fanhealthnetwork.challenge_fpgm_01?tab=Overview

4. HUDDLE https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/fanhealthnetwork.msmphud_transact_01?tab=Overview

You can watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eiZi7--wzgA

Misha Rangel, the Senior Product Marketing Manager for IBM to share shared her insights on a recent IT Infrastructure spending study that was conducted by Forrester Research on behalf of IBM Systems.

The study can be accessed here: ibm.biz/Avrohom-HMC-Study

One of the key findings mentioned in the report is that on-premises solutions continue to play a key role in IT Infrastructure spending decisions, with 90% of IT decision-makers agreeing that on-premises infrastructure is a critical part of their hybrid cloud strategies.

Another key finding of the report is that IT decision-makers anticipate that more than half of mission-critical workloads and 47% of data-intensive workloads will be run either on-premises or in an internal private cloud within the next two years. This does not mean that organizations have stopped investing in on-premises. Misha goes into this topic in greater detail during our discussion.

Another key finding is that companies that delay IT Infrastructure upgrades are opening themselves up to serious vulnerabilities.

Misha Rangel has spent 13+ years as a product marketing leader for B2B technology companies.

Contact Misha:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/misharangel/

Twitter: @misharangel

Web: ibm.biz/Avrohom-HMC-Study

Contact Avrohom:

Web: https://asktheceo.biz

Facebook: AvrohomGottheil

Twitter: @avrohomg

Instagram: @avrohomg

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

[00:34] IBM just published the findings of an IT Infrastructure study conducted by Forrester Research. Can you help us understand, what are the current trends for IT Infrastructure spending?

[01:44] What’s driving the conversations around IT Infrastructure refresh?

[03:13] As you know, many companies are delaying upgrading their infrastructure, for various reasons. Be it budget cuts, lack of resources, or something else. What are the ramifications to delaying an infrastructure upgrade?

[03:13] Companies that delay IT Infrastructure upgrades are opening themselves up to serious vulnerabilities.

[04:54] Security doesn’t stop at the software level. Hardware has a security component, as well.

[05:21] One of the things the Forrester study talks about is that we’re seeing growth in Public Cloud spending across all types of workloads. Does this also refer to mission-critical workloads, or are there any kind of workloads where, perhaps, an on-prem or a hybrid cloud configuration might be a better choice?

[10:25] Where can people go to learn more about the Forrester IT Infrastructure study?

ibm.biz/Avrohom-HMC-Study

[11:02] How do people connect with you?

[11:36] Do you have any parting words of wisdom to share with the audience?

[11:40] Being consistent with IT Infrastructure refreshes can make a big difference with regards to preventing risks and threats to a company.

[12:17] Maintaining consistent IT Infrastructure refreshes is like going for an annual checkup at your doctor.

Debra Ruh is a Global Disability Inclusion Strategist, Market Influencer, internationally recognized keynote speaker, published author, branding expert, successful entrepreneur, and an exceptional mother. She is the host of the popular program: Human Potential at Work.

Contact Debra:

Web: https://RuhGlobal.com

Twitter: @DebraRuh

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Contact Avrohom:

Web: https://asktheceo.biz

Facebook: AvrohomGottheil

Twitter: @avrohomg

Instagram: @avrohomg

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

[00:43] We are at the cusp of the mainstream adoption of 5G, which will enable us to massively scale up our install base of connected devices. When thinking about IoT, there will be so many applications for Smart Homes, Smart Industries, and Smart Cities. This also means that there will be lots of competition for IoT manufacturers (and this is not necessarily limited to the field of IoT), which means that they have to really understand what their customers want, and HOW they’re using their products, in order to stay ahead of the game. What are the challenges that manufacturers have about understanding how people use their products?

[01:23] Many manufacturers assume one size fits all.

[01:23] Listening to your customers about how they use your technology gives you a competitive edge in the marketplace.

[05:35] How do Diversity and Inclusion apply to Autonomous Vehicles?

[07:05] Technologies like autonomous vehicles enable seniors and people with disabilities greater independence.

[07:05] One of the key benefits emerging technologies offers seniors is the freedom to age in place, on their own terms.

[08:52] How can technology help seniors and people with disabilities?

[09:00] Smart Home technology enables people with disabilities to live independently while keeping them safe.

[12:30] Smart Home technology can ensure that seniors are taking their pills!

[14:27] Emerging Technologies, such as Autonomous Vehicles and Smart Homes, can give seniors back their independence and dignity.

[15:49] CyberSecurity and hacking are topics that dominate today’s social media discussions. Can you help us understand, what are the CyberSecurity challenges for seniors and people with disabilities?

[21:07] How can we protect seniors and people with disabilities from online predators?

[21:07] A great resource to educate seniors about the Cybersecurity pitfalls of the online world is Scott Schober’s book, CyberSecurity is Everybody’s Business.

[21:07] The world is changing so fast that we have to keep educating ourselves about the latest technologies.

[22:00] Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba once said: “Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult.” As the world is changing, what obligations do corporations have to show that they care more about people than profits?

[22:36] Many corporations are realizing that Tech For Good and complying with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can also be good for profits.

[24:35] Younger generations have vowed that they won’t do business with companies that don’t make a difference in the world.

[25:53] Diversity and Inclusion is good for profits!

[26:04] By valuing Diversity and Inclusion you turn your employees into your most vocal fans.

[26:11] Mattel programmed Barbie with AI to speak to girls about employment options. Unfortunately, things did not go as planned when Barbie told girls to choose careers in Fashion, as opposed to becoming a computer scientist! It turns out that they programmed their programmer’s inherent biases into the AI.

[29:00] How do people connect with you?

[30:09] Do you have any parting words of wisdom to share with the audience?

[34:42] We have to care about all people. We need to understand what it means to be human, and how do we celebrate that.