Conversations with Dez

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Daniel Krook, CTO IBM Code and Response & Call for Code, to talk about his academic & professional career, his role as CTO for both IBM Code and Response & the Call for Code project. Daniel gives us a walk through the journey so far as we approach the final judging for year two, as well as insights into the projects & winners from year one, background and overviews for each of the five finalist projects announced today to have made it to the People’s Choice voting round now hosted on TechCrunch. He also introduces us to the role of IBM’s Code and Response, and offers his thoughts around what the next year holds as year three of Call for Code draws near, and much more. For more info and vote visit http://j.mp/callforcode2019top5

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Chris Powell, Chief Marketing Officer at Commvault, to talk about his academic & professional career, his role as CMO at Commvault, his amazing recent trip to the South Pole and associated TED talk, the acquisition of Hedvig, the upcoming Commvault GO 2019 event, current challenges & trends around Data Protection, and much more. For more information on Commvault & Hedvig visit: http://bit.ly/commvaulthomepage

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with with Clara Hustad, Channel Director of the Manufacturing, Transportation & Consumer Packaged Goods Industries at AT&T Business, to talk about her academic & professional career, her role with AT&T, challenges & trends in the Manufacturing, Transport and Consumer Packaged Goods ( CPG ) industries & market segments, maintaining accountability in supply chains through technology, managing brand protection, security / cybersecurity challenges & data protection and much more. For more info visit the AT&T http://j.mp/attbusinesshomepage

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Greg Perry, Senior Capacity Assurance Consultant at Fluke Digital Systems (FDS), building on the key topics & themes from his previous guest appearance on the show, to talk about the latest new & emerging industry and market trends, challenges & opportunities around all things Connected Reliability, Predictive Maintenance, Capacity Assurance, Sensors, Data, Analytics, Cloud, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the Accelix framework & ecosystem and much more. For more info visit the FDS website at http://bit.ly/accelixhomepage

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with with Deborah Carbo, Director of Product Management, Broadcom Mainframe Division, to talk about her academic & professional career, her role with Broadcom's Mainframe division, Broadcom's Vitality & Associate Software Engineer (ASE) programme, Mainframe skills development, Broadcom's latest offerings, the future of the Mainframe, and much more. For more info on the Broadcom Mainframe offering visit http://j.mp/broadcommainframe

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with with Dan Rodriguez, a Vice President in Intel's Data Centre Group and the General Manager of Intel's Network Compute division, to talk about his academic & professional career, his role with Intel, Network Transformation, Compute at the Edge and Edge Computing, Intel's work with Communication Service Providers, Telcos & Operators, SDI / SDN, NFV, 5G and much more. For more information visit the Intel Network Builders portal http://j.mp/intel5Greadiness

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Kevin Clark, VP of Fluke Digital Systems, his latest appearance as our featured guest on the show, about the latest news from Fluke Digital Systems, further detail on the Accelix offering, data, sensors, IoT, predictive maintenance, connected reliability, remote monitoring, thermal imaging technology and much more. For more info about the Accelix offering please visit => www.accelix.com/

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Sai Gujja, Engineering Lead/Supervisor, Mainframe Security & Compliance & Greg Lotko, SVP & GM Mainframe Division, Broadcom, to talk about their academic & professional careers, their roles with Broadcom’s Mainframe division, and we also discuss the recent hype about a “Skills crisis” - to find out if it really is still a crisis, the work they are doing “doubling down” on skills development, their ASE & Vitality Residency programmes, the 2019 SHARE Pittsburgh event, and much more. For more information on the Broadcom Mainframe offering please visit https://www.ca.com/us/why-ca/mainframe.html

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Greg Perry, Senior Capacity Assurance Consultant at Fluke Digital Systems (FDS), to talk about his academic & professional career, his role with FDS, current and emerging challenges & opportunities in all things Connected Reliability, Predictive Maintenance, Capacity Assurance, Sensors, Data, Analytics, Cloud, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the Accelix framework & ecosystem, some example use cases, and much more. For more information visit the FDS website at http://bit.ly/accelixhomepage

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Peter Worndle, Expert - Network Function Virtualisation at Ericsson Digital Services, to talk about his academic & professional career, his role with Ericsson, current and emerging challenges & opportunities for telco’s & operators, 5G, Cloud & Cloud Native, Kubernetes, Docker, Containerisation, Cloud Models, security and much more. For more information visit the Ericsson Cloud Native page bit.ly/ericssoncloudnative