Tech Transformed

Data-driven culture has long been a hot topic in the enterprise, but many organisations are only now catching on to the trend and its ever-growing list of advantages.  

Joining us to tell us more is Finn Wheatley, Director of Data Science at Whitehat Analytics. In this podcast, he gives us an overview of what it means to be data-driven, before sharing the multiple business benefits of the approach and the key steps to effectively embracing it. Tune in to find out more!

Entity resolution is a no-brainer for businesses today. By Quantexa's definition, entity resolution is “the ability to connect data wherever it is, regardless of quality to create a single, complete view.” Thus, it offers organisations a multitude of capabilities and efficiencies, namely by reducing false positives by 90% and finding related entities that traditional matching approaches cannot.

Joining us to tell us more is Jamie Hutton, CTO at Quantexa. In this podcast, he gives us an overview of entity resolution, before sharing use cases and the shortfalls of traditional matching approaches. Tune in to find out more!

In this weeks episode our Editor in Chief Max Kurton spoke with Archana Vemulapalli, GM, Managed Infrastructure Services at IBM. In particular, she explores how the pandemic has heightened the need for digital transformation, before delving into how it compares across different industries. In a bonus question, Archana also shares leadership lessons that she learnt during her time as Chief Technology Officer for Washington, D.C. Tune in to find out more!

Traditional routes to financing are slowing and becoming more unpredictable. Simultaneously, they are slowly becoming eclipsed by corporate venture building, which is gaining recognition as a major driver of innovation and startup creation.

Joining us to discuss corporate venture building in more depth is Felix Staeritz, Co-Founder and CEO at FoundersLane. In particular, Felix gives an overview of corporate venture building and what it brings to corporates and innovation. He also shares his predictions for the fate of traditional routes, before finally exploring the impact of COVID-19 on corporates, innovation, and corporate venture building itself.

In this week's Ask the Expert, we're delving into the current challenges and priorities facing CIOs today. Joining us to shed light on the matter is Andi Grabner, DevOps Activist at Dynatrace, who will be outlining the findings of Dynatrace's latest survey of 700 CIOs.

As well as sharing the key findings of the survey, Andi advises on how CIOs can spend less on 'keeping the lights on'. What's more, he also explores whether automation is necessary for business processes today, before highlighting what he believes the main priority will be for CIOs moving forwards.

Business leaders are increasingly focusing on the need to forge relationships with machines. Simultaneously, they also need to consider how to recraft relationships with humans. 

Joining us to tell us more is Tony Judd, Managing Director UK and Ireland for Verizon Business. In particular, Tony describes the kind of relationships leaders need to work towards with machines and human employees. Furthermore, he shares his thoughts on the idea that 'humans will replace robots', before telling us what kind of human-robot split he expects to see in offices in 10 years' time.

When it comes to orchestrating their cybersecurity, businesses cannot afford to take shortcuts. Rather, it's crucial that companies get their protection and defences right, or suffer consequences such as financial loss and reputational damage.

In light of this, we're being joined by Professor Avishai Wool, CTO and Co-Founder of AlgoSec, to discuss the security challenges around the complexity of enterprise networks. In particular, Avishai outlines the issues organise face when orchestrating their security, as well as the common mistakes made. Furthermore, Avishai demonstrates how to turn security into a strategic business asset and the areas in which caution should be exercised. 

The uptake of cloud computing has increased significantly amid the pandemic. However, while cloud has dealt businesses a lifeline in enabling businesses to work remotely, companies need to consider the security implications that it comes with.

Joining us to share his thoughts and advice is TJ (Tsion) Gonen, Head of Cloud Product Line at Check Point Software Technologies. In this podcast, TJ voices his concerns for cybersecurity post-COVID in particular relation to agility and the rapid increase of cloud adoption. He also delves into the advantages of multi-cloud security and lends his expertise on how best to approach cloud migration. 

Since the start of the pandemic, keywords such as uncertainty and continuity have been dominating the business lexicon. As a result, most businesses have unsurprisingly been focusing more on survival than the new opportunities the crisis has presented. However, one opportunity not to be missed is to build an artificial intelligence-powered enterprise.

In this week's Ask the Expert, Valerie Perhirin, Managing Director at Capgemini Invent, shares her thoughts on AI and automation's current acceleration. Tune in to find out her suggestions for becoming an AI-empowered enterprise and how to achieve efficient ROI on your AI investment.

The failure rate of bots has long been unremittingly high. However, Pegasystems is challenging the statistics by unveiling its new solution, which is the industry's first self-healing robotic process automation (RPA) capability. The offering, called X-ray Vision, is able to detect and fix broken bots with no human intervention, making for a very exciting development in the RPA arena.

Here to tell us all about it is Francis Carden, VP, Digital Automation and Robotic at Pegasystems. Francis is joining us to give us an introduction to X-ray Vision, as well as to demonstrate the benefits self-healing RPA will bring to RPA users. Tune in to find out more!