Digital: Disrupted

In this week's episode, Paul connects with TJ Jiang for a conversation focused on data sprawl in the age of remote work. The two dive into the challenges that come along with the vast amount of data that organizations are dealing with today. Additionally, TJ shares his experience from going from a developer to a leader of a public company and why servant leadership is so important. Follow TJ on LinkedIn and follow Rocket Software.

In this week's episode, Paul sits down with Charles Fan for a conversation around optimization and the power of Big Memory. Charles Fan is the CEO and co-founder of MemVerge, the inventor of the world’s first Big Memory technology to scale out DRAM and Persistent Memory. The fundamental thesis of MemVerge is that all applications will run in memory only. Charles received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Follow Charles on LinkedIn and be sure to follow Rocket Software on Twitter.

In this week’s episode, Paul is joined by Jon Boggiano for a conversation around modernizing legacy processes to experience true innovation, and they discuss how companies can balance efficiency and innovation to stay competitive. Jon is the Chief Innovation Officer at Everblue, a platform that provides online exam hosting, proctoring, registration and membership management for certification standard bodies and associations looking to increase test accessibility and security. He is a serial entrepreneur, leader and investor who focuses on forging organizations that positively impact the greater good.

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In today's episode, Paul sits down with AnnMarie Wills for a conversation around first party data and how to make the customer experience personal - not creepy. AnnMarie Wills is the CEO & Co-Founder of Leverage Lab, a first-party data integrator that works with businesses to fully leverage the power of their first-party data. Prior to founding Leverage Labs, she was the Vice President of Audience and Data at SourceMedia, and the Vice President of Data Business at Anthem Media Group.  Follow AnnMarie on LinkedIn and be sure to follow Rocket Software on Twitter.

In this week's episode, Paul and Trond Undeheim discuss the importance of going beneath the trends, and understanding the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models and social dynamics to help businesses stay one step ahead.  Trond Undheim is a futurist, podcaster, investor and 6-time author, and has helped launch over 50 startups. His most recent book is Future Tech: How to Capture Value from Disruptive Industry Trends. He is trained as a social scientist with a career in technology and innovation.

Trond Undheim is the CEO & Co-Founder of Yegii, an insight network and data platform for professionals that provides search based, web scale BI built on machine learning. Trond is a serial entrepreneur who is passionate about the future of work and has spoken at multiple international events. He is a former MIT Sloan School of Management Senior Lecturer and Director of MIT Startup Exchange. Trond holds a PhD on the future of work and artificial intelligence and cognition. Be sure to follow Paul and Rocket Software.  

Organizations need to deliver greater transparency and trust than ever before when it comes to their assets. This includes assets that can help with business operations, such as supply chain data or carbon emissions data for the sake of compliance, but also specific product data that’s valuable for consumers to help demonstrate the value of a product, such as luxury goods or even agricultural products. In this episode, Paul talks with BlockApps founder, Kieren James-Lubin. Before founding BlockApps, Kieren was instrumental in working on Ethereum prior to its launch. He used this knowledge to help build BlockApps' initial product, STRATO. Leveraging his extensive background in technology, Kieren is now responsible for leading, maintaining, and growing BlockApps' business. Kieren was all-but-dissertation at UC Berkeley in Mathematical Physics and holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Princeton University.

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In this week's episode, Paul and David Anderson discuss how to navigate the next wave of digital transformation and how the relationship between business and technology must evolve. David Anderson is an established established technology leader and the author of the forthcoming book, The Value Flywheel Effect: Power the Future and Accelerate Your Organization to the Modern Cloud. David is a Technical Fellow at Bazaarvoice, a people-first approach to advanced technology, connecting thousands of brands and retailers to the voices of their customers.

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https://theserverlessedge.com/  

https://theserverlessedge.com/the-value-flywheel-effect 

https://twitter.com/ServerlessEdge

https://twitter.com/davidand393

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On today’s episode Paul is joined by Krishna Gade for a conversation around how companies

can address potential bias and other challenges in their AI. Krishna is the

co-founder and CEO of Fiddler, a Machine Learning Monitoring company that

empowers companies to efficiently monitor and troubleshoot ML models with

Explainable AI. He has over 16 years’ of experience leading data engineering

initiatives at Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Microsoft. Prior to founding

Fiddler, Krishna led the team that built Facebook’s explainability feature ‘Why

am I seeing this?’. Follow Krishna on LinkedIn and be sure to follow Rocket

Software on Twitter. Learn more about Fiddler here.

It won’t come as a surprise to listeners of Digital: Disrupted that the pandemic dramatically accelerated innovation and digital transformation. But, as the initial waves of the pandemic have come and gone, we’re taking a look at how technology introduced during the pandemic changed the culture of one organization in particular: Special Olympics International. Paul is joined by Prianka Nandy, Chief Information and Technology Officer, Special Olympics International, to celebrate 100 published episode of Digital: Disrupted! Follow Prianka on LinkedIn and be sure to follow Paul and Rocket Software.  

On today's episode, Paul is joined by Maxim Melamedov for a conversation around cloud management and artificial intelligence (AI). Discover how AI can eliminate the tradeoff between cloud performance and cost-efficiency, freeing engineers from time-consuming cloud management tasks, and guaranteeing stability and performance while slashing costs. Maxim Melamedov currently serves as CEO at Zesty, an AI-driven Cloud Management solution that proactively adapts cloud resources to real-time application needs. With over a decade of experience in the tech industry, including a prior career in homeland security, Maxim thrives on solving complex problems and disrupting previously established norms. Visit Zesty's blog: https://zesty.co/blogs/