Next in Tech

There’s an interesting intersection between technology and the physical world that’s happening in eSports and it arrives with a lot of the same drama we see in traditional sports leagues. It’s easy to conflate recreational gaming, but returning guest Richard Berndes joins host Eric Hanselman to explain the differences and look at where this multi-billion dollar industry is headed. eSports is growing rapidly and the line between traditional sports leagues, media, broadcasters, and fans is blurring. 

While we’ve talked a lot about the general aspects of digital transformation, in manufacturing there are an additional set of concerns and benefits. Consulting analyst, David Immerman joins host Eric Hanselman to explore where technology improvements are improving efficiency and how they’re looking at addressing a set of new challenges. Adoption of new technologies is more complex than in the IT world and issues like sustainability weigh heavily.

The modern digital business is wrestling with how to balance competing concerns across data management, privacy and security. Sheryl Kingstone, Paige Bartley and Justin Lam return to the podcast to look at how organizations are addressing them with host Eric Hanselman. Data is needed to improve customer and employee experience, but regulations are imposing restrictions on its use. At the same time, data security concerns are driving the adoption of new technologies. What’s a business to do?

With all of the furor surrounding generative AI, a more fundamental understanding of the technology can provide better insights. Peter Licursi and Chris Tanner of Kensho return to look at the history and technology on which all of the AI hype rests with host Eric Hanselman. Language models have been with us for years, but the combination of lower cost computing and the ready availability of large volumes of training data have transformed the types of problems that we’re able to address.

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With the attention given to the metaverse, it’s worth digging into the more practical details of how it’s impacting the need for infrastructure, and what the market impacts can be. Ian Hughes and Neil Barbour return to look at recent research, market forecasts, and the evolution of advertising in this new realm with host Eric Hanselman. As practical applications extend from gaming to the industrial metaverse and investment strategies change, branding and advertising are changing along with them.

The RSA Conference in San Francisco is a major event for the information security industry and this year will have the risks and benefits of generative AI to add to the conversations. Research director Scott Crawford and security analysts Garrett Bekker and Dan Kennedy join host Eric Hanselman to explore the realities of the trends and technologies at the conference. AI has the in improving security operations, but the attacker community is already weaponizing it for their own ends.

Networking has long been the static plumbing that just made connectivity happen, but that’s changing rapidly to address the demands of modern enterprise applications. Interconnect has to happen at higher levels of abstraction and with greater levels of automation to get to the scale required. Fears of robots gone wild in the network should be shelved in favor of managed API’s and automation platforms. There are still a lot of moving parts, but the transformation of a lagging field is underway.

The buffeting the technology sector has received has forced a serious reevaluation of venture capital community positions. M&A analyst Melissa Incera digs into the current situation with host Eric Hanselman and points at that there are some bright spots in all of the gloom. While portfolio valuations are down, expectations for valuations are also lower. That presents possibilities for both VC’s and corporate acquirers, but cash flowing into funds is more selective. The green shoots of spring?

The world of Financial Technologies is evolving rapidly and the APAC region is one of the most diverse, with some countries having some of the deepest levels of FinTech adoption to others, that are bypassing traditional financial frameworks as so much of their populations are unbanked. Analyst Sampath Sharma joins host Eric Hanselman to explore the wide range of FinTech approaches that are in play and how they fit into the global perspective. The future is bright but in some very different ways.

Risk analytics can be powerful, but depend on the quality of data and the underlying model. How can we be certain that the results are valid? Arsene Lui, associate director for quantitative modeling, joins host Eric Hanselman to discuss the challenges of quantifying uncertainty - particularly important in these turbulent economic times. Credit risks are particularly complicated to sort out, given macroeconomic scenarios that seem to shift by the hour. More details - https://spglobal.com/unlock