ASM Connected

In this episode, Sales Director, Iain Tomkinson and Account Director, Stephen Dale meet Cate Trotter, the Founder and Head of Trends at Insider Trends. As a Top 100 Global Retail influencer, advisor and strategist, Cate advises companies such as Chanel, Sky, Nike, and Unilever on emerging trends in retail. Cate talks through how the retail industry has transformed over the last year and the changes expected in the years to come, how technology is changing the model of retail, transforming logistics and the use of retail spaces, and delivering Virtual Reality shopping.

Topics discussed in this episode:

6:19 - What has the retail sector learnt from the disruptions of the pandemic and how has it adapted?

10.36 - How big a role is technology innovation having in transforming the retail industry?

12:15 - Is it retail companies holding innovations back or is it consumers?

14:50 - How long do you get in the retail sector to capture and win a client?

16:25 - Is technology driving an omni channel approach in retail?

18:55 - What conversations should IT professionals be having with customers about innovative technology in retail for the next five to ten years?

24:24 - How will technology enhance the experience of physical retail spaces?

28:04 - The shift of technology involved in the supply chain in the background

29:53 - The future of the customer shopping experience. What does this future look like?

32:01 - VR shopping experience

Where to find us:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asm-technologies-limited

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ASMTechnologies

Website: https://asmtech.com/

Connect with Iain Tomkinson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iainjtomkinson/

Connect with Stephen Dale: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-dale-b6ba4b2/

Connect with Cate Trotter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catetrotter/

In this episode of ASM Connected, Sales Director Iain Tomkinson is joined by Gill Holloway, Operations Director EMEA at Insight. Gill and Iain discuss all things agility, digital innovation, and emerging technologies within the sector, the future of the working environment, and the sheer amount of unicorn companies coming out of the US.

Topics discussed in this episode:

2.14 - Adjusting to remote working.

10.40 - Should agility be driven by strategy or through the culture of the business?

13.06 - What does innovation mean to Insight?

16.54 - How do you innovate and be agile as such a large organisation?

22.16 - Is digital innovation led by traditional tier one vendors or are the emerging tech vendors disrupting the market?

28.31 - Cultural differences on how Insight adopts, promotes, and onboards emerging technology.

Resources:

21.37 - https://www.insight.com/en_US/home.html

27.16 - https://www.forrester.com/blogs/what-i-see-coming-for-the-channel-in-2020/

Where to find us:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asm-technologies-limited

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ASMTechnologies

Website: https://asmtech.com/

Connect with Iain Tomkinson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iainjtomkinson/

Connect with Gill Holloway: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillholloway/

In episode 5 of ASM Connected, Iain Tomkinson and Stephen Dale are joined by leading London Futurist, Speaker and Author Amelia Kallman. Amelia regularly consults brands, agencies, and governments on the impact of new technologies on the future of business and our lives. She forecasts global trends and behaviours, helping clients navigate innovation, build strategies, and deliver industry leading initiatives, specialising in emerging opportunities, as well as the risks of machine learning and AI, Big Data, IoT and XR. Recent areas of study include the future of the Metaverse, networking, tech responsibility, and the surfacing human rights issues of tomorrow. In this episode, we ask Amelia how the metaverse will impact business and why we need it. Amelia shares her thoughts on the coolest emerging products, innovators and ,market leaders today. Can VR/XR disrupt education, retail, finance and healthcare?

Topics discussed in this episode:

2.44 - Amelia’s journey to becoming a futurist

6.56 - What is the Metaverse, and do we need it?

11.15 - What are the uses in the corporate and the public sector for VR and XR?

17.31 - The vast scale of the gaming industry and how this will look in the future

19.54 - What will AR, XR and VR headsets look like in the future?

22.27 - The ethics of this emerging technology

28.17 - Advice for companies exploring the Metaverse

Where to find us:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asm-technologies-limited

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ASMTechnologies

Website: https://asmtech.com/

Connect with Iain Tomkinson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iainjtomkinson/

Connect with Stephen Dale: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-dale-b6ba4b2/

Connect with Amelia Kallman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amelia-kallman-28a19a41/

In episode 4 of ASM Connected Iain Tomkinson and Stephen Dale are joined by Matthew Griffin, the founder and CEO of the world futures forum and the 311 Institute. Matthew is regularly featured in the global media including the BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg, Discovery, Viacom and Wired, and is recognised as one of the world's foremost futurists who helps governments and investors lead an inclusive, sustainable future. 

Matthew shares his experience, talking through the challenges our industry faces with climate change, how businesses need to adapt, and how emerging tech can help bring about solutions to a climate crisis. 

Topics discussed in this episode:

6.05 – Matthew’s clientele and project base

10.48 – How is technology helping to solve the climate crisis

27.57 – Is the IT industry agile enough to be able to take advantage of the innovation quickly enough?

37.18 – The importance of ESG initiatives for modern businesses

42.59 – What does the future look like?

Where to find us:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asm-technologies-limited

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ASMTechnologies

Website: https://asmtech.com/

Connect with Iain Tomkinson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iainjtomkinson/

Connect with Stephen Dale: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-dale-b6ba4b2/

Connect with Matthew Griffin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmgriffin/

In this episode of ASM Connected, Sales Director, Iain Tomkinson and Account Director Stephen Dale are joined by world-renowned Futurist, Speaker, International Bestselling Author, and media personality, Brett King. Brett has spoken in over 50 countries in recent years, at TED conferences, given opening keynotes for Wired, The Economist, IBM's World of Watson, CES and more. He advised the Obama administration on Fintech policy and advises regulators and banks around the world on technology transformation. They discuss all things emerging tech and innovation in the finance sector, plus the importance of agility, they touch on Brett’s 2016 book Augmented, weave their way through AI, genetics, machine learning and robots as part of the future of finance and Brett shares his advice for salespeople selling into banks and financial institutions around having conversations about innovative and emerging technologies for the next 5 to 10 years.

Topics discussed in this episode:

5.55 – What does innovation mean to you

8.48 – Brett’s 2016 book, Augmented

10.57 – How far can a smartphone connection go

18.53 – Does regulation constrain innovation, or does it drive us to find ways around it?

24.24 – Is the finance sector open to new technologies?

29.28 – What is the next thing banks should be looking at?

34.59 – Brett’s up and coming book, The Rise of Techno socialism

38.04 – Fear or embrace robots?

Resources:

https://riseoftechnosocialism.com/

Where to find us:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asm-technologies-limited

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ASMTechnologies

Website: https://asmtech.com/

Connect with Iain Tomkinson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iainjtomkinson/

Connect with Stephen Dale: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-dale-b6ba4b2/

Connect with Brett King: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettking/

Richard Potter, Director of Digital Strategy for Microsoft, joins our Sales Director, Iain Tomkinson where they discuss how a company as large as Microsoft innovate, how their work behaviours has had to change since the pandemic, and how hybrid workflows could transform the way we work in the future.

Topics discussed in this episode:

3.59 - What's the culture of innovation at Microsoft?

10.34 - How hybrid working will look in the future.

14.46 - How do large organisations such as Microsoft stay agile and keep innovating at pace?

18.22 - Looking to the future.

Where to find us:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asm-technologies-limited

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ASMTechnologies

Website: https://asmtech.com/

Connect with Iain Tomkinson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iainjtomkinson/

Connect with Stephen Dale: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-dale-b6ba4b2/

Connect with Richard Potter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamrichardpotter/

Topics discussed in this episode:

1.29 - Have channel roles changed forever after the pandemic?

4.14 - How the take up of emerging and innovative technology will impact the channel moving forward.

10.53 - The need to be agile today in the channel and who's getting it right and who's getting it wrong?

15.36 - Change of buying/ payment model to subscription based.

19.32 - Ecosystems, platforms, and marketplaces.

28.02 - The difference between the US channel and the European channel.

Resources:

3.32 - https://www.forrester.com/blogs/the-100-best-channel-podcasts-of-2021/

4.14 - https://www.forrester.com/blogs/what-i-see-coming-for-the-channel-in-2020/

Where to find us:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asm-technologies-limited

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ASMTechnologies

Website: https://asmtech.com/

Connect with Iain Tomkinson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iainjtomkinson/

Connect with Stephen Dale: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-dale-b6ba4b2/

Connect with Jay McBain: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaymcbain/