Brian Katz talks with Sravish Sridhar, CEO and founder of Kinvey. They start with the history of how Kinvey was founded from Sravish being kicked off a couch to creating an app for moms and their goal to be the McDonalds of their space. They talk about why there is an M in front of their BaaS and Brian and Sravish yelling on a NYC street. They talk about the 5 things that make up every app and how identity is a key component to both apps and what Kinvey does. They move on to their mission of making hard things easy and the pitfalls that leads to when selling. Sravish talks about the lessons he has learnt in the last 4 years and they wrap up talking about Techstars, mentor backed entrepreneurship, and the future.Twitter: @Sravish – Sravish Sridhar@kinveyWebsites: http://www.kinvey.com

Brian Katz talks with Dan Bricklin, the CTO of Alpha Software. Dan is the father of the spreadsheet, as he created Visicalc. They talk about what Alpha Software is and some of the things they enable people to do. They are about allowing people who don’t know how to program to build apps that they can deploy on devices. They talk about rapid application development as Alpha Anywhere is a low code building system. They talk about Dan’s Watch Bench app for prototyping apps on the Apple watch. Brian and Dan then debate about how hard it is to develop a mobile app.Twitter: @danb – Dan BricklinWebsites: http://www.alphasoftware.com

Brian Katz talks with Maribel Lopez, Jack Gold, and Adam Stein at Menterprise Boston. Jack starts off talking about trends in mobile and the fact that BYOD is actually decreasing in the enterprise. He also talks about rapid app deployment, the faster you get an app out the bigger the advantage to the enterprise. Maribel talks about right time experiences and how you use today’s technology to build them through digital transformation. This way context means being able to act on the data you have but you need to look at it holistically to get it all to work together. Adam talks about security and how the conversation has turned to how do I inject security without changing the great user experience. This turns into a discussion of security breaches and the fact few understand where there data is. Maribel takes this and turns the conversation to apps and workflows (secure of course), and how it’s about enablement. Twitter: @MaribelLopez – Maribel Lopez@jckgld – Jack Gold@apstein2 – Adam SteinWebsites: http://www.lopezresearch.comhttp://www.jgoldassociates.comhttp://apsmarketing.net

Brian Katz talks with Brian Reed, Chief Mobility Officer of Good Technology and Brian Laughlin Technical Fellow and IT Architect of Boeing Company. Brian Laughlin talks about a capstone project that is happening in Boeing where they are using mobile to make people more efficient while on the job. Brian Reed talks about a similar example at a ship builder. Brian Katz talks about Bechtel and how they used sensors and augmented reality to become more efficient. Brian Laughlin moves the conversation to an AR patent he just received about providing differential access based upon user role. This leads to a discussion on identity and access management. The conversation moves to the FUN principle, personas and shadow IT (nee innovation) that leads to a conversation on user experience. Article on Self-interruption that Brian Laughlin cites during the mobilecast: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1979405Twitter: @reed_on_the_run – Brian Reed@idr247 – Brian Laughlin

Brian talks with Nick McQuire, lead CCS Insight’s enterprise research. CCS Insight started at looking at the consumer side for years and Nick’s job is bringing that consumer work to the enterprise. They talk about Nick and CCS’ research into business app development and some of the surprises in there. They then talk about who can own app development in businesses. They move on to Mobile Centers of Excellence and whether they can succeed or fail and then Nick talks of an example where a company changed the way they approached IT. Then Brian and Nick talk about enterprises and heterogeneity of the mobile platform and does it occur. They touch on Windows Phone and Microsoft and then Nick turns the table on Brian and asks him his thoughts on Mobile in the Enterprise.Twitter: @NickMcquire

Brian talks with Dave Stafford, head of enterprise solutions at Dropbox. They discuss what it means for Dropbox to be part of the enterprise market and how they got there. Dave walks Brian through the steps of converting a personal user to a business user and they talk about some of the features that Dropbox for the enterprise brings to both the users and the administrators. They walk through what happens when a user leaves, and end up talking about Christmas lights and Brian throws down a challenge to Dave for Dropbox HQ.Twitter: @dstafford

Brian talks with Chris Perret (@mobileperret) and Jeff Enderwick (@jeff7091) from NachoCove, a productivity startup emerging from stealth. Chris and Jeff talk about how they started at Nukona and that their vision has followed to NachoCove, to help people be productive with mobile. They talk about what makes NachoCove intelligent and really helps people save time and be more efficient. NachoCove isn’t about email but communication and managing the volume of information coming at you. Website: www.nachocove.com

Brian catches up with Sanjay Poonen and John Marshall at the AirWatch Connect show in Atlanta. They talk about the changes and growth in AirWatch since being acquired by VMware. They talk about how MDM has become endpoint management and where it is going moving forward.

Brian talks with Caleb Sima (@csima) and Adam Ely (@adamely) from Bluebox Security. Bluebox has recently pivoted, or as they like to say, stayed true to their mission, applying security to the things that matter; the endpoint, which is now the app. They touch on self-defending apps and how to work in a zero trust model. They talk about their new Open Distribution model to hand out apps. They move onto wrapping and how many companies don’t do it well and how they excel with app wrapping. The three of them go on to discuss the state of Mobile and security. They then talk about how they encourage security within their own company and the fact that part of what makes Bluebox Security what it is, is that it’s still fun. They end talking about lessons learnt building a startup.Website: www.bluebox.com

Brian Katz talks with Jody Tyrus, technical architect of data security at EJ Gallo Winery. Jody was part of the team that helped bring mobile to life at Gallo. She talks about their approach; “If I can go home and do something on my PC I should be able to do it on my mobile”. They had an existing security council made up of people from everywhere (all biz units) and extended that to mobile. “We decided to personally enable devices and respect privacy.” Jody points out then when you talk to people in plain English and as an adult, it is much easier to get things done. It’s about creating partnerships with people. They talk about some of the best practices for enabling people with mobile and some lessons learnt implementing mobile. They finish with advice for women and just people who want to get into technology.Twitter: @JTyrus