Cloudbusting Podcast

This week Jez and Darren receive a special guest in Carla Arend who is IDC's Associate Vice President for Cloud Research in Europe. Carla and the team discuss the research results on the heals of the infobrief release which uncovers invaluable insights into the cloud native enterprise, sustainability in the clo*ud, the talent crisis, the role of the cloud in the connected world, the evolution of the CIO mindset and the financial quotient among other interesting topics discussed in this episode of Cloudbusting. It only takes a few flicks to fire up your favourite podcast app, press play and listen away.

Darren is on the spot this week with his two bosses on the show; Jez and Darren's client, Phil Parr, Cloud Platform Services Director at Unilever who graces our hot seat to tell us about Unilever's own story of migrating to the cloud. Yet another great transformation journey with its own unique tidbits we can all learn from. Fire up your favourite podcast app and listen away!

Welcome to this week's episode of CloudBusting! Our special guest, Sue Daley, Director of Tech Innovation at techUK joins Jez and Darren to explore the cutting-edge realms of future technologies. Join us as we delve into fascinating topics such as edge computing, open ecosystems, people skills, interoperability, data portability and many more topics on smart data, open banking and digital twin. Get ready for an insightful conversation that uncovers the transformative potential of these technological advancements. On your marks, get set, Go!

Welcome back to Cloudbusting! This week, Jez and Darren receive Tristan Gadsby, CEO of Alliants, the experts at enabling exceptional customer experiences in hospitality and retail. Together they dissect the topic around the added value that cloud generates which allows the delivery of seamless experiences to customers on one hand and drives intelligent business decision making on the other unlocking untapped revenue potential through the looking glass of clever unified data. A win-win-win all round. At your convenience, grab your air pods and give it a listen. 

This week Jez and Darren receive Doug Drinkwater, Director of Strategy at HotTopics for a sit down to unpick the ever evolving role of the CIO and talk about the challenges faced in this role seen from the lens of a seasoned business technology journalist. Doug unveils what it takes to step into this role, the skill set required, whether personality traits matter and what background they need to make them successful in an ever changing business landscape. Podcast alert; it's Cloudbusting time! Bookmark it if you haven't yet and get listening.

This week, Jez and Darren receive Anthony Levy, Founder & Chairman of Circularity First and discuss the real issues surrounding the progress of sustainability globally by unveiling how manufacturing products from an age old consumerist perspective in mind means pussyfooting around tackling the crucial issues required to reduce humanity's carbon footprint on the planet. Is the short time to product obsolescence manufacturers build into their products, FOMO and data hoarding adversely contributing to stalling badly needed progress in sustainability for future generations to come? Find out in this episode among many more eye watering topics. It's podcast time, press play and listen away!

Darren's on the spot this week with his two bosses on the show; Jez and Darren's client, Phil Parr, Cloud Platform Services Director at Unilever who graces our hot seat to tell us about Unilever's own story of migrating to the cloud. Yet another great transformation journey with its own unique tidbits we can all learn from. Fire up your favourite podcast app and listen away.

This week the Cloudbusting crew, Jez and Darren get chatting with Andy Barraclough, founder & CTO of Voxpopme about ChatGPT, its unmatched AI capabilities and the different sectors it has the potential to disrupt in the future. Press Play and listen in on some invaluable tips, tricks and use case ideas for inspiration. Whether you haven't heard of ChatGPT or are on your way to becoming an expert, this is a one-of-a-kind episode you wouldn't want to miss!

Cloudbusting is back with a bang starting with the first season of the year. A very exciting line up of guest speakers awaits! In our first episode we welcome Blake Janelle, Director of Architecture at Liberty Mutual Insurance who joins Jez and Darren to talk about Liberty Mutual's modernization journey to the cloud. Blake takes us through an interesting journey starting from its early days covering their challenges, learnings and key milestones along the way and concludes with how it panned out for them today. Make sure to spare some time, grab your headphones and give it a listen!

Join Jez and Darren in the last episode of this season chat with Jeff Barr, Vice President and Chief Evangelist and listen to him talk about his illustrious career at AWS, his retreat with Jeff Bezos on brainstorming the birth of AWS, how re:Invent was launched, his views on where the cloud market is today and where it is going, and a bunch of anecdotes about his personal experiences at AWS. Get as close as you can to hear it from an Amazon veteran give us a real feel about the culture inside AWS and get to be the first in the know!