Fail Faster

Harshad Agashe joins us from Green Dot Corporation, where he heads the product management for banking as a service platform. Green Dot is a leader in banking products and services for the middle to low income segment, making banking available to consumers and distributors at more than 100,000 locations including retailers and financial services locations. Harshad brings in a very unique perspective, as a leader, he leads with emotional intelligence and believes that bringing empathy can be a game changer when it comes to product design. Let's listen to how he approaches complexities of product design in his role at Green Dot.

Srinivas Gudipati is the VP of IT at USCold Storage, he has a demonstrated history of working in the warehousing and logistics industry for 20 plus years. USCS is a leader in providing highly reliable and cost-effective logistics solutions to the frozen and refrigerated food industry, with 42 world class facilities across 13 states they are committed to giving their customers the competitive edge they need to succeed in the ever-changing business environment especially today.

In this episode, Srini talks about how he is leading transformations by utilizing innovative tools like robotics and automation to enhance the warehouse management systems to be more productive, efficient and safe. He looks forward to bringing the concept of warehouse digital twins and using drones to manage inventory in the near future.

Saira Kazmi is Senior Director of Enterprise Data Strategy and Engineering at CVS Health. With a strong background in Academia to practice data architecture and more recently jumping into the exciting world of Machine learning engineering work. Saira has had a few U-turns in her career that brought her learnings to be able to break down complex problems to executable smaller projects that are easy to be funded and get people excited in a large enterprise.

Here are some tips and tricks on how you can focus on the priorities in the org and get some cool work done. Saira is getting ready to shape some critical technology initiatives at CVS Health with a team of equally eager to learn and grow technologists.

Lalit Wadhwa, is my guest in this episode. He is the EVP & Chief Technology Officer at Encora, a leader in the large and rapidly growing outsourced product development market. Lalit, brings a lot of insights about data monetization using AI. His core experience as a hardware product engineer shines through this episode, as he talks about starting global teams in various countries to partner with fast growing tech companies who are driving innovation and growth within their industries. He shares that deeper challenge for innovation is the mindset, while technology is easy. This is a great episode, pointing out a few challenges that can be resolved with focusing on Data literacy at all levels in the enterprise, let's dive in.

The Holy Trinity of business. This is the first time we are having a panel discussion on our podcast. I'm super excited to bring to you: The successful combination of marketing, sales and engineering. What happens when everything is in sync. Let's talk to Heather Harlos, Global Marketing Leader of Cloud and MSP, Jason Eberhardt, VP of Cloud and MSP and Alex "Jay" Balan, Director of Security Research, from Bitdefender, a cybersecurity leader delivering best-in-class threat prevention, detection, and response solutions worldwide to families and companies for two decades and really uncover how magic can be created when deep knowledge and real workings from the geek labs come to the customer facing marketing and sales teams and how that conversation now becomes a game-changer.

This team really cares about enabling their customers and giving them peace of mind when it comes to security. Let's dive into this panel discussion, and find out how this team is staying at the top in their industry by serving with the right purpose. There are some golden best practices for keeping your data safe day to day as we work remotely from multiple devices, that you don't want to miss.

Christopher Slee is the Founder, Principal, and Chief Product Officer at AWH, an elite digital product firm from Dublin, Ohio.

As an early starter in technology from the age of 14, Chris has had a very experimental relationship with Technology. His latest venture, IncludeHealth, leverages machine learning, proprietary algorithms, and web camera technology to support a seamless blend of onsite and remote musculoskeletal services for pre-or post op patient recovery and much more. He brings to light a different side of failure, where a great idea can be unsuccessful for not being the right cultural fit. Bringing back our focus to the purpose of design and commercializing that idea by tying the consumers core actions to revenue generation.

Nada Ahmed is the Vice President Digitalization and Transformation at Aker Solutions, a leading engineering company based in Norway that provides the products, systems and services required to unlock energy from sources such as oil, gas and offshore wind. Nada shares how she is bringing the lean startup principles to an industry that is in the middle of a massive transformation as they look to move from fossil fuels to renewable sources in the coming decades. She shares how she has had big wins using lean startup techniques such as design sprints and small co-located teams. Nada expounds on the precise team makeup she recommends as well as how she thinks about prioritizing projects in a space where there are endless possibilities.