The Gateway is excited to welcome Denis Sitailo a Principal Technical Program Manager with the GE Healthcare IT Business Development Team. Denis has been with the company for 15 years, starting as an intern in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Along his journey, he held multiple positions ranging from completion of the Information Technology Leadership Program, to running IT Infrastructure Integrations for GE Healthcare, GE Digital, and GE Corporate. In his various roles he has made significant contributions to integrating 30+ M&A deals, enhancing GE's digital footprint, and streamlining numerous processes. His expertise spans from understanding wide-ranging technology stacks, assessing W2W business processes, enterprise applications, change management, user enablement, and PMO/program management. Denis holds a bachelor's degree from Loyola University Chicago in Communications Networks and Security. Denis lives in Naperville, IL with his wife and two daughters. Outside of work he enjoys camping, gardening, cryptocurrency, and supporting Ukraine in their fight against Russian aggression.

For this episode, The Gateway is excited to welcome Joey Avraham. Joey is a technology sales executive at Microsoft. Joey graduated from NIU in 2008 with a degree in accountancy and again in 2011 with an MBA. Joey has worked in Technology since 2008 starting his career at Dell and has worked at major companies like Google and Microsoft. Joey has 17 years of experience in tech sales with a specialty on Academic Medical Centers and R1 Higher Education Institutions.

For this episode, The Gateway is excited to talk with Thomas Smith!

Thomas is currently a coach in Dallas, TX with 7+ years experience building people up across sport, technology and art.

He began his journey exploring what's possible by collaborating with researchers in NLP topic models,

then entrepreneurs with physical products and

finally global data decision platforms with software engineers across North America, Europe and Asia.

He now is back in sports, helping athletes take their next step in the sport with an emphasis on simplicity, gratitude and technique in training.

The Gateway is excited to welcome, Thomas Smith! Thomas currently serves as a coach in Dallas, TX with

7+ years experience building people up across sport, technology and art.

He began his journey exploring what's possible by collaborating with researchers in NLP topic models,

then entrepreneurs with physical products and

finally global data decision platforms with software engineers across North America, Europe and Asia.

He now is back in sports, helping athletes take their next step in the sport with an emphasis on simplicity, gratitude and technique in training.

For this episode, The Gateway is happy to welcome Dr. Doga M Kurkcuoglu, a theoretical physicist at Fermilab. His current research interests are quantum technologies, quantum simulation, quantum algorithms and machine learning. Throughout his career, Dr. Kurkcuoglu has published in many subdisciplines of quantum physics. After completing Ph.D. program at School of Physics at Georgia Institute of Technology, he worked as Assistant Professor at Georgia Southern University. Then, he worked as postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and finally postdoctoral researcher at Fermilab, where he was promoted to staff scientist.

During this episode, the guys discuss tech promises and consumer expectations.

For this episode, the guys talk about AI in the classroom--a problem with so many solutions.

Links addressed in the episode:

https://today.umd.edu/your-favorite-prof-backed-by-a-bot

https://www.niu.edu/citl/resources/toolkits/artificial-intelligence/index.shtml

https://www.niu.edu/citl/resources/guides/class-policies-for-ai-tools.shtml#:~:text=Introduction%20to%20Sociology-,Policy,CSCC%27s%20student%20code%20of%20conduct.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80e1gp9m9zo#

For this episode The Gateway is excited to welcome singer/songwriter, Adam Hood.

For all things Adam Hood please check out his website:

https://www.adamhood.com/

Or listen to his music anywhere good tunes are found:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/4oqOpULfSzd2BRoBT4aTXk?si=9-AUT0WgSvS9cMHVmO8iCg

During this episode the Amin and Russ talk about the hype around technology and the elements of maturity within the start up sector.

In this episode we discuss our technological infrastructure and how to improve it.