Cloud and Clear

We continue to celebrate Women's History Month with another special edition of Cloud N Clear, hosted by Orkideh Shahidi, VP of People Operations. Joining Orkideh are other SADA women leaders: Annette Davidson, Head of Talent and Development, and Meredith Mitnick, Training and Development Consultant. In this episode, we hear how they have helped SADA take great strides in the areas of training and development, diversity equity and inclusion (DEI); AND how they intend to "kick it up a notch".

Host: Orkideh Shahidi Guests: Annette Davidson & Meredith Mitnick

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Narine Galstian, CMO at SADA, hosts this special edition of Cloud N Clear to celebrate Women's History Month and International Women's Day. Women technical leaders at SADA join the podcast to share their experience of working in male-dominated high tech, and how they have navigated it. They share their varying journeys and stop on important moments that helped them become inspiring women tech leaders in the SADA family; like the importance of early mentorship and networking, and how culture plays an essential role in development. Discussion also delves into Google Cloud and how, with Workspace, is helping customers adopt this new hybrid remote working environment.

Host: Narine Galstian

Guest: Kelly Wright, Kristina Turley, Heather Tran

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Priyanka Vergadia, Senior Developer Advocate at Google Cloud, has a profound passion for helping people learn cloud computing through visualization and art. In this episode she reveals the value of visual thinking and how she found the perfect balance of art, design and technology at Google. Hear how she uses visualizations to help make tough business decisions, drive real value and create true understandings of cloud concepts.

Host: Miles WardGuest: Priyanka Vergadia

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Chris Schembra is the bestselling author of "Gratitude and Pasta: The Secret Sauce for Human Connection", chronicling his adventures as one of the most sought-after dinner hosts in the World. He's also the Founder and Chief Question Asker of 7:47, an advisory firm which helps companies give the gift of community and belonging to their VIP clients and partners. Chris joins to discuss how the pandemic has driven him to hyper-focus on the human connection in order to help transform leadership for a post-pandemic world.

Host: Tony SafoianGuest: Chris Schembra

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Part of SADA's 'secret sauce' is our PM team. This week's Cloud N Clear SADA's Head of PMO Sharif Naqib walks us through what makes our PMO organization not only unique, but best in class. Tune in to hear his methodology for building the PMO organization at SADA and getting customers to the market as fast as possible.

Host: Dana Berg

Guest: Sharif Naqib

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Lak Lakshmanan, Director for Data Analytics and AI Solutions at Google Cloud, joins this episode to talk about his experiences leading a team that specializes in building revolutionary software solutions for businesses using Google Cloud's data analytics and machine learning product. Tune in to hear how data science is getting increasingly easier and faster in the cloud and how companies can drive real business value from these advancements.

Host: Miles Ward

Guest: Lak Lakshmanan

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John Campbell joined SADA last year in a newly created role as the VP of Customer Success & Innovation to drive greater alignment in key SADA services that drive high customer satisfaction, retention and growth. What comes after the sale defines you as an organization, and in this episode, John does a deep dive on how he is reinventing SADA's Customer Success team in order to keep pace with the constantly evolving needs of companies from SMB to enterprise. Tune in to hear more about his history at Rackspace, staying relevant as a MSP in a cloud world, and his future plans for SADA's Customer Success team.

Host: Dana Berg

Guest: John Campbell

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There have been drastic changes in the healthcare industry over the past year as the world deals with immense challenges caused by the global pandemic. Healthcare industry experts Chris Sakalosky, Managing Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at Google Cloud, and Michael Ames, Senior Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences at SADA join this episode for a deep dive into Google Cloud's pandemic response, how it's helping to transform healthcare across the industry, and what those changes mean for the future.

Host: Tony Safoian

Guests: Chris Sakalosky & Michael Ames

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Nikki Harley, Director of Strategic Alliances at SADA, joins this episode just one week after the launch of the SaaS Alliance Partner Program to discuss how the program helps to better cater to ISVs and SaaS companies to help them scale and drive GCP consumption. Nikki reveals how she went about creating the program and her journey talking to partners and customers in order to better understand how SADA can fill in the gaps.

Host: Narine Galstian

Guest: Nikki Harley

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Lilah Jones is a technology leader, focused on helping organizations advance their digital agendas by making smart data decisions through transformative technological implementations. Now the Head of Corporate Sales for North Central US at Google Cloud, Lilah joins this episode to discuss enabling growth through change and thought leadership, and how both give a competitive advantage. Lilah also dives into the behaviors, habits and advancements that are at the core of what she stands for, as it pertains to her commitment in creating a diverse, progressive space within the tech community.

Host: Tony Safoian

Guest: Lilah Jones

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