That Digital Show

Albertsons is working with Google to create the world's most predictive grocery engine, including integrations with Maps, Search, Business Messages, Google Pay and our Cloud AI Retail products & solutions. In this episode we chat with Chris Rupp, Executive Vice President and Chief Customer & Digital Officer to discuss how Albertsons is disrupting the grocery industry with continuous innovation and developing a roadmap for the future. Our Retail Takeover features a series of conversations with leading brands and retailers where we dig a little deeper into what it's like to be a leader in today's landscape. Listen to additional episodes featuring Ulta and Zulily.

Differentiation is core to Zulily's mission to help busy moms find unique and interesting products—including clothes for the whole family and products for the home at the best possible price—with the industry's most exceptional and personalized shopping experience. In this episode we speak with Julie Penzotti, Principal Data Scientist and Sudhakar Krishnamurthi, Director of Engineering, Data, ML/AI & Marketing to discuss how Zulily is leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to personalize millions of interactions every day. Our Retail Takeover features a series of conversations with leading brands and retailers where we dig a little deeper into what it's like to be a leader in today's landscape. Listen to additional episodes featuring Ulta and Albertsons.

Ulta Beauty is redefining the beauty industry by creating personalized, digital experiences for their shoppers. Their focus on innovation has been a true point of differentiation and an important topic that other retailers and brands could learn from. In this episode we speak with Michelle Pacynski, VP of Digital Innovation at Ulta Beauty, to discuss how her team is focused on bringing innovation to the enterprise, to build a digital store of the future. Our Retail Takeover features a series of conversations with leading brands and retailers where we dig a little deeper into what it's like to be a leader in today's landscape. Listen to additional episodes featuring Zulily and Albertsons.

Accion has a commitment to support families and small businesses in the Northern Triangle countries – Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador – and help address the root causes of migration. Over the next three years, Accion, a global leader in microfinance and fintech impact investing, will provide advice, guidance and consulting services to the financial institutions that are helping micro and small business owners in the region – ultimately benefitting more than 400,000 people. In making this commitment, Accion is a founding partner in Vice President Kamala Harris' recent call to action to support economic development in the region. In this episode, Chris Hood is joined by Sam Maule, Google Cloud and special guest Michael Schlein, President and CEO of Accion, to discuss how they are joining forces with the White House to support digital and financial inclusion in Central America.

The cloud enables businesses to effectively and efficiently utilize hardware and software. It also introduces new complexity and challenges to traditional IT financial management and requires the right financial governance, communication, and partnerships across the organization. In this episode, we are joined by Jon Naseath to discuss how enterprises address technology and strategic transformation and how financial engineering of CapEx helps in the migration to the cloud.

Some of the most important data at your company isn't living in databases, but in documents, and marketing assets. Yet most companies are still manually writing copy and are reliant on guesswork to get consumers to click or share. Organizations are also leaving heaps of value on the table in the form of new and better social marketing that can be unlocked with artificial intelligence applied to the process. In this episode, we chat with Kate Bradley Chernis, CEO of Lately.ai to learn what she thinks about life, music, innovation, and how her company is reinventing social marketing with artificial intelligence.

APIs are the backbone of digital transformation, and they are essential for business innovation. With APIs, you can securely share data and functionality with developers both inside and outside of your organizational boundaries, letting you build applications faster, seamlessly connect and interact with partners, and drive new business revenue. APIs are a force, that surrounds us daily in everything we do. In this episode, Warren Chuei shares with us insights on building a culture of open innovation and the importance of looking from the outside-in so innovation can have a massive impact on strategic objectives for your business.

One thing is clear, the world is more connected and agile than ever before. A company's ability to quickly pivot their spend management has become the new benchmark for digital enterprises. While IT expenditure is often regarded as a cost, firms built on a digital core are able to continuously deliver customer value through disruptions. Google Cloud's value zone provides answers with a rapid assessment that categorizes current investment approaches, recommending high-level strategies to move to an optimal financial case for the business. In this episode, We'll discuss strategies to produce value for customers and how organizations can accelerate this journey by leveraging agile technology economics to support the speed, scale, and stability of their business in the cloud.

In today's world, it is more critical than ever for enterprises to ensure that their systems and services are as adaptable and profitable as possible. As the data economy begins to grow, what has become apparent is that APIs are key to build new business models, innovate their digital strategies, and grow partnerships. As companies begin to invest more heavily in their data, the question remains: how do companies actually drive revenue using APIs? In this episode, we are joined by APM Terminals a 20+ year old international marine terminal business managing key shipping data all over the world. We chat with David Francis, Head of Digital Products, and Paul Dunn, API Product Manager from APM Terminals to learn how companies can build new business models and grow revenue directly through the productization and monetization of data and APIs.

Business begins with value creation and leading companies prioritize transformation with their customers, partners and employees to generate value. In this episode, Eric Ranta shares with us four dimensions of value creation, and we discuss how organizations can develop perpetual business value through digital strategies that start with the enterprise's culture and are fueled by their Cloud and IT investments.