On this episode of Navigating Forward, host Lisa Thee sits down with Dr. Michael Blum, Chief Digital Transformation Officer at the UCSF Center for Digital Healthcare Innovation, and Founding CEO of BeekeeperAI. Lisa and Dr. Blum discuss the potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare to enhance our health and improve patient outcomes. Dr. Blum also shares how his medical expertise and background in engineering led to BeekeeperAI - a secure collaboration platform for algorithm owners and data stewards that will accelerate AI Innovation in Healthcare and the future of precision medicine.

Navigating Forward podcast is brought to you by Launch Consulting. www.launchconsulting.com

BeekeeperAI: www.beekeeperai.com

Launch Consulting guest hosts Sandra Niehaus and Neil Crist sit down with Chris Enslin, President of Eyefinity, and Charlie Biegel, Chief Operations Officer of Eyefinity on this episode: Forging the Future in Customer Experience. 

Eyefinity is a proven leader in the eye care industry. But the eye care industry, like much of healthcare, is built on outdated tech. Eyefinity set out to reimagine the eye care experience for millions of patients through innovative, modern technology. On this episode, we explore Eyefinity's challenges and success in navigating change, and learn firsthand what working alongside Launch Consulting to forge a seamless and satisfying customer experience is like.

Alongside industry leaders, we share conversations on the challenges and innovations that come out with disruption, and real world examples of successful change. Presented by Launch Consulting and Navigating Forward, this is Navigating Together.

On this week's episode, Lisa Thee sits down with Sadie St. Lawrence, the founder and CEO of Women in Data. As a Coursera instructor, Sadie has trained over 300,000 people in data science, and she has led multiple analytic transformations in corporate America and beyond.

Listen as Lisa and Sadie St. Lawrence discuss Sadie's unique path to leadership in the field of data science, the future of AI, and the importance of building community.

Women in Data is an international nonprofit that is connecting the world of data scientists to each other, to expand the impact that we can all have.  www.womenindata.org


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At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

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Matthew Rosenquist is an industry-recognized pragmatic, passionate, and innovative CISO and strategic security expert with 30 years of experience. On this episode, Matthew talks about cybersecurity and the challenges it comes with. In addition, Matthew highlights the fast moving cryptocurrency market along with the pros and cons of this new digital currency. Matthew shares some personal stories when it relates to cybersecurity attacks as well as countries that have dealt with similar issues. Listen all the way through for more information on how to “Keep Up With Matt”.

ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation | launchconsulting.com

On this episode of Navigating Forward, we sit down with Launch's Director of Data Engineering & Data Science, Sree Pillai. Sree has been acknowledged for his work in Computer Science and received awards for the implementation of Oracle technologies around the world. Sree takes pride in making the invisible, visible and solving complex problems in a creative fashion. Listen closely for advice on the importance of keeping an open mind in a rapidly changing society, as well as tips on navigating the challenges these changes may create. Keep up with Sree Pillai on LinkedIn!

ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation | launchconsulting.com

On today’s episode Mark Hadland, Founder/CEO of Level11 (now part of Launch Consulting's Apex Experiences group) sits down and talks about his success as an entrepreneur, along with the importance of risk taking an innovation. The Seattle native comes from a corporate background and started on the entrepreneurial path later into his career. Throughout the episode, Mark highlights how Disney and Carnival Cruises now elevate transactions into an interaction that you will remember for a lifetime. In addition to the business insights, Mark Hadland expresses how steward leadership is vital to a company’s success. Keep listening for some “out-of-office” stories on how Mark Hadland recharges and conquers the tasks ahead.


ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation | launchconsulting.com

Robert has spent the last 20 years working on industry leading software platforms. Building the culture around them, driving adoption across 100-1000 team organizations, and delivered on the promise of business agility. In his journey, he wasn't afraid to tear apart monoliths, consolidate repetitive systems, fully automate developer workflows, and migrate many things to many clouds.

If theres one thing he's learned, it's that platform success is achieved fastest by focusing on people. You have to sell the vision, get the buy-in, build the team, create collaboration across massively distributed teams, make sense of inter-team dependencies, and manage change. These challenges are as large, if not larger, than the technical challenges.


ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation | launchconsulting.com

Paul is the the Director and co-founder of the Cal Poly Digital Transformation Hub, leading a public/private digital innovation team focused on initiatives for moving public sector organizations into the future. He works with leading industry partners to develop new, technology-oriented programs to promote digital transformation while providing enhanced "learn by doing" experiences for students. One of his key roles is providing strategic leadership and executive relationship development with non-profit, government, and educational institutions as the leader of one of the first members in the Amazon Web Services Cloud Innovation Center program. He can seen regularly speaking at conferences and events on topics involving innovation methods and digital transformation.

Kyle brings 20 years of solution development, data architecture, and IT consulting experience to the Launch Consulting Technical Leadership Team with a focus on Data and Analytics. With a background in Data Modeling and Data Platform design/development. Kyle has spent the last several years working with Cloud Data Platform and Analytics technologies. He brings expertise in Agile and Scrum Methodologies in end-to-end solution delivery. This allows Kyle to drive end-to-end value as a Senior Data/Solution Architect as well as a Technical Delivery Leader within each engagement.

Kyle is a Seattle-native receiving his Bachelors of Science degree from UCLA in Computer Science. He has worked in corporate environments, played key roles in start-up companies and has spent the last 20 years consulting.


ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation | launchconsulting.com

Lydia Henshaw is passionate about building self-confidence and resiliency in girls. Pre-teen and teen years are a time for girls to discover who they are. These years are full of possibilities, but also come with challenges often faced for the very first time that can falsely define a girls limitations. This is why Lydia founded Moxie Girl - an accessible, action-oriented online platform combined with the personal connection of real, relatable near-peer mentors and peer community - to build girls’ self-confidence, so they feel free to go for it.

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ABOUT THE PODCAST
At the crossroads of uncertainty & opportunity, how do you Navigate Forward? This podcast focuses on making smart choices in a rapidly changing world. We investigate the challenges of being at a crossroads (societal, business, & personal) and finding the opportunities that arise out of disruption. Listen in on future-forward conversations with the brightest luminaries, movers, and shakers. We dig into topics such as elevating the human experience, evolution of business, workforce of the future, and fascinating technologies powering the age of digital transformation. Let’s Navigate Forward together and create what’s next!

Sponsored by Launch Consulting
Navigators in the Age of Transformation | launchconsulting.com