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What does it take to run a successful AM business? In conversation with Brad Keselowski.

In this episode, Marcus Seibold and Dr Mohsen Seifi interview Brad Keselowski, the founder of Keselowski Advanced Manufacturing. Brad discusses the pain threshold and the need for corporate cover fire in AM, especially when tackling friction points for buyers and...

What does it take to run a successful AM business? In conversation with Vishal Singh

In this episode, sponsored by Siemens Energy, Marcus Seibold and Dr Mohsen Seifi interview Vishal Singh, Co-Founder and CTO at Link3D. He covers how to scale the AM business, minimise the risk of production and maximise output by applying learning...

What does it take to run a successful AM business? In conversation with Neil Mantle

Success in Additive Manufacturing goes beyond technology. It encourages new ways to think about business governance. Sponsored by Siemens Energy, Marcus Seibold and Dr Mohsen Seifi invite experts to discuss the economics, operational constraints, and the role of culture in...

Jett Oristaglio, DataRobot

Data Scientist Jett Oristaglio joins us to talk about Humble AI. Trusted AI and asks, What is everything you need to trust in AI for your life? He goes on to share that trust is not binary- it’s multi -dimensional...

Tom Kartanowicz, Financial Services Cyber Security

Tom Kartanowicz joins us and shares his thoughts on CISO Reporting, Prioritization and the evolution of the CISO journey.

Christine Vanderpool, Florida Crystals

Christine Vanderpool is an Executive Board Member for Cyber Security Hub. She was Inteligenca’s 2019 Woman Cyber Security Leader of the Year and Molson Coors’ CISO before being whisked away to the world’s larges sugar cane refiner- Florida Crystals (which...

Bob Turner, University of Wisconsin

Bob Turner- a friend and Board member of the Cyber Security Hub- as well as the University of Wisconsin-Madison CISO - was kind enough to make some time for an interview. The following is an overview of the past, the...

Suresh Chowdary, Nokia

During this digital summit panel, Suresh Chawdhary, head of security & privacy for Nokia, stresses the importance of a layered, multi-pronged cyber security approach to best protect from phishing and whaling. This layer defense mechanism moves away from a one-size-fits-all...

Jim Brady, Fairview Health Services

During this digital panel session, Jim Brady discusses real-time change in incident management. His extensive experience in a multitude of security roles throughout his career means he has seen a lot of changes in the healthcare cyber security field. Naturally,...

Jamal Hartenstein, Cyber Security Expert

Jamal Hartenstein is prior unified security management (USM) in military intelligence. He’s worked with the department of defense on military bases, as a part of joint task forces and has experience with every branch of service. He’s helped with cyber...

Robert Welborn, GM

Robert Welborn is the Director, Data & Data Science for General Motors. As he sees it, global corporate enterprise has- for the most part, seen data as a luxury, “we'll get to reporting when we get to reporting, we'll upsell,...

Max Just, Coca-Cola

Max Just has been talking about the Future of Work for quite some time. We now all know that the conceptualizing Max had been doing paid off in immediate fashion as the Future of Work is here. 

Elan Frank, Slack

Elan Frank from Slack joins us and shares that the tool began life as a side project of another initiative. It's grown to be a true alternative to email. Channel based messaging is built for the future of work and...

CX: David Campos, SertaSimmons

AIIA: AI BFSI Panel

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, and post-implementation...

PEX: Kristen Workman, Schneider Electric

CX: Fred Reichheld (Employee Engagement)

Fred Reichheld joins us again, this time to discuss employee engagement. The business benefit to ensuring a positive employee experience is because that translates to a positive customer experience. As Fred discussed last time, a good customer experience means an...

AIIA: Max Just/Julie Seitz (Future of Work)

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...

CX: Fred Reichheld (Customer Centricity)

Fred Reichheld, the creator of the Net Promoter System (NPS), joins us to discuss the task of building a customer-centric culture. Companies that do the best at enriching the lives of their customers are growing two-and-a-half times faster than their...

PEX: Gary Pilacinski, L.A. Care Health Plan

Gary Pilacinski, director of business process improvement engineering with LA Care Health Plan, discusses the importance of cultural transformational change. From start-ups to legacy organizations, Gary stresses how critical culture is for the success of an enterprise. One common stumbling...

AIIA: Roland Haefs, Henkel

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 transformation, which Roland details. In...

CX: Deena John, McDonalds

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 maximum value for the customer. End-to-end disruption means...

PEX: Karen Tilstra, Florida Hospital

Karen Tilstra is the co-founder of the Florida Hospital Innovation Lab. In this conversation, Karen emphasizes the intent of the Innovation Lab, which, not surprisingly, is innovation. However, the process to innovation is often overlooked. Karen describes it as a...

SSON: Gerald Lackey, GAF

Gerald Lackey, VP of Business Optimization and Agility at GAF, discusses their 18-month journey into their current transformation. Gerald is no stranger to enterprise transformations, having participated in a few himself, but he outlines a few unique strategies GAF is...

AIIA: Dimitri Popov, Mann + Hummel

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...

CX: Todd Gilliam, Comcast

Todd Gillam joined Comcast a decade ago—when the word “Comcast” was met with severe negativity. During the first part of our conversation with Todd, he laments over those dark days and discusses the progress they made the first five years...

PEX: Peter Van Den Heuval, Shell

Peter Van Den Heuval, product manager with Shell, is better known internally as Peter PI. In this conversation, he explains the origin story of his nickname, a nod to Shell’s use of OSIsoft’s PI System data infrastructure. Shell has been...

SSON: Tomorrow Today Ep. 4

On this episode of “Tomorrow Today,” Barbara Hodge discusses the power of continuous education. With the turn of the decade, Barbara decided to make some changes to her own learning path. She is fully open to, and expects, new insights...

AIIA: Deepak Subbarao (Unstructured Data)

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 media,...

CX: Uzair Rashid, CVS Healthcare

Uzair Rashid, with CVS Healthcare, explains the importance of structuring innovation. Uzair brings a unique perspective to CVS, a Fortune 10 healthcare innovations company, because prior to CVS, he spent many years as a consultant. He understands how to level...

PEX: Steven Remsen, Intel

Intel’s Steven Remsen made the cross-country trip from Portland, OR to Orlando for OPEX Week. We caught up with him to discuss process mining. Steven starts out with a quick history of a few special algorithms before noting the strengths...

SSON: Reka Mishra, SVB

Reka Mishra is the managing director of the transformation office for the SVB Financial Group. She lays out the basics of mergers and acquisitions before diving in on operational excellence. For M&A;, it is imperative to have a target operating...

AIIA: Heather King

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...

CX: The Genworth Financial Team

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 organization....

PEX: Joe Jordan, Edward Jones

Joe Jordan joins us from OPEX Week in Orlando. As the director of operational excellence for Edward Jones, Joe sought inspiration from the hit TV show Shark Tank to give a platform to the innovative minds of Edward Jones. If...

SSON: Adrian Terry, GM Financial

Adrian Terry, VP of GM Financial’s OpEx function, discusses their unique approach to IT and RPA. Initially, IT had some processes they wanted to automate. From there, a pilot was developed. It soon became clear that the broader organization could...

AIIA: Dr. Ayanna Howard, Georgia Tech University

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...

CX: James Dodkins

James Dodkins, Customer Experience Expert and heavy metal enthusiast, discusses the parallels between the two. First, he touches on the cyclical nature of refining a product to please its audience. Whether it’s music or tech, improving upon the output based...

PEX: Angie Fearn, TD

Angie Fearn comes to us from OPEX Orlando to discuss diversity of thought and its importance for enterprise. While diversity has become a loaded buzzword, Angie refocuses its compass around the way different people come with their own set of...

SSON: Tomorrow Today

Barbara Hodge reflects on 2019, identifying the trends that shaped the decade. Data, self-service, and automation has affected us all. A new awareness of personal data and its power—for good and for evil—came to light, for example, with the Cambridge...

AIIA: Paul Bao, BitCherry

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 roadblocks make penetration in the U.S. difficult,...

AIIA: Blockchain Standards/Blockchain Island

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 blockchain implications has allowed Blockchain Island to progress...

AIIA: Tom Trowbridge

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, Deutsche Telecom,...

AIIA: Kexin Xie, Salesforce

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 discusses how the power of predictive...

CX: Max Just, Coca-Cola + Julie Seitz, United

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...

PEX: Pamela Wolfe, NASA

NASA’s Pam Wolfe joins us to discuss their RPA journey, which started over two years ago in their Shared Services Center. Establishing RPA governance across NASA has taken time, strategy, and strong support across the agency. In many ways, NASA’s...

SSON: Lee Coulter, IEEE

In this episode, IEEE’s Lee Coulter discusses the notion that the future of every successful company will depend on its transformation into a technology services business—even the local pizza joint. This far-reaching conversation covers the entirety of the current “data...

AIIA: Kenneth Farrugia, Bank of Valetta

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...

CX: Juan Araya, (Lessons Learned)

Juan Araya discusses structuring for scale from the eyes of the disruptor and disruptee—both of which Juan knows well. Juan reminds us that before making any actionable change, an end goal must be set. Next, Juan discusses the role speed...

PEX: Robert Welborn, (Myths Part 2)

Robert Welborn joins us again for the second part of autonomous vehicle myths. During this discussion, Robert compares the vast and critical differences between the capabilities of today’s math and the necessity of developing tomorrow’s math before fully autonomous vehicles...