Cloudbusting Podcast

As a partner at McKinsey, James Kaplan helps major institutions in financial services, health care and manufacturing transform their technology capabilities. In this week's episode, Kaplan joins Jez and Dave for an insightful conversation about "How to Get Value from the Cloud." 

Maggie Fox, Board Director Consultant, Smile.io (former COO), Global CMO and Digital Marketer shares her Five-Part Process for successful digital transformation. Whether it's your work or your customers, change is hard and you only get one shot at it. Maggie's five simple tips can help you get on the right path to digital transformation - and stay there.

This week's show explores challenges organizations face when recruiting tech talent, diversity and inclusion concerns within the tech industry and what some organizations are doing about it. 

Featured Guest:

Michael Aghataher - Principal Partner Development Mgr - AWS  Poonam Flammarion -  Head of Talent Academy - Cloudreach

John Culkin, Solutions Architect, joins Jez and Dave to discuss utilization of AWS Solutions. Culkin talks about the genesis of AWS Solutions and how they were born out of a need to accelerate innovation opportunities through rapid prototyping and turning to the cloud as a mission critical resource. 

The team’s healthcare journey continues with Diana Kennedy, Chief Technology Officer at Bupa, as they advance the conversation in "Modernization the Healthcare Sector pt 2: BUPA’s Transformation”

Listen in as they discuss technology adoption, digitizing at scale, the framework for transformation and the core pillars which underpinned their multi-faceted journey and a shift to a hyper-personalization platform.  

Transitioning an industry disruption into an exemplary case study, this episode reflects the competitive resilience of forward thinking enterprises and the promise of digital transformation. 

This week's episode centers around cloud adoption in the SE Asian market. Our guest, Bernd Nordhausen, a 30-year resident of Singapore, offers on-the-ground observations including data residency requirements, cloud unicorns and what's driving change in the expansively growing region. 

This week's show explores challenges organizations face when recruiting tech talent, diversity and inclusion concerns within the tech industry and what some organizations are doing about it. 

Featured Guest:

Michael Aghataher - Principal Partner Development Mgr - AWS  Poonam Flammarion -  Head of Talent Academy - Cloudreach

This week we are once again joined by Nikki Baird, VP Retail Innovation at Aptos. Nikki builds on her observations about the future of consumer retail experiences, from contactless shopping to a new “blended” digital purchase journey.

Join Jez and Dave as they explore some of the driving forces of omnichannel retail and technology challenges therein. 

The new season of @Cloudbusting is out, featuring an “Ask the Expert” panel. Enjoy this episode’s lively discussion about Google Cloud, Building Digital B2B Products and more. 

Our Guest Include:

• John Abel - Technical Director - Office of the CTO at Google • Nelson Wootton - CEO SaaScada • Dharmesh Ghedia - Senior Solutions Architect - Cloudreach

This week we are joined by Jo Peterson, VP of Cloud & Security at Clarify 360, and Maribel Lopez, Founder of Lopez Research for a deep dive into edge computing.

We discuss the business opportunities and innovations that are being driven by edge and speculate over the breakthroughs that will be made possible by layering edge with other technologies like Ai and 5G.