The Next Wave Podcast

Dean Nelson visits Texas and brings back a special gift. This week we're discussing China's Covid data creep, Amazon's plans to censor certain AWS customers, we check in on Steve Mullaney at Aviatrix, a 77-atom AI molecule, and Nasa's big UFO plans. 

This week we’re discussing the latest news making headlines in Big Hacks, Big Tech, Big Brother, Big Deals, and China. 

This week we have more updates on Apple privacy concerns, Microsoft Azure reveals a Top Secret Government Cloud while emerging threat vectors in the cloud prompt Biden to take action, the Indian Government is trying to establish a surveillance state, US Officials run into a few issues and Elon, who once feared Terminator-like AI, is now building Tesla robots

We’re  discussing the privacy concerns with Apple’s new child protection feature, Huawei pressuring US businesses for backdoors, China’s ownership stake in Bytedance and Weibo, SpaceX’s quiet acquisition of Swarm and what it means for 5G and IoT, and the news in crypto… 

Our guest this week is Joshua Schechter (shek-ter), Director of Cognitive Delivery and Implementation for Amelia, the Most Human AI along with additional products such as the Amelia Hyper Automation Platform introduced in 2018 for true end-to-end, enterprise-wide automation. He is passionate about bringing “Conversational AI” to the world, believing it is the foundation for the future state of work and will help usher in the next industrial revolution. Josh has been leading the implementation teams at Amelia for the past 4 years and has worked with many Fortune 100 enterprises.

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Major investigation Reveals Israeli-based NGO Group’s Pegasus spyware has been used to spy on journalists, activists and others via Apple’s iOS -  Snowden pointed out., Amazon CloudFront, URL Shorteneing Servers, DNS Servers, and more.  China was accused of backing cyber attacks in a rare co-ordinated effort by the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the EU, Japan and NATO, followed by the DoJ charging 3 Chinese officials. Bezos landed safely and has since offered NASA $2B to reignite the space race. UFO or swarm of bugs? Object recorded over South Carolina ignites tabloid coverage.

This week we’re talking about a different Billionaire, Sir Richard Branson, successfully voyaging to space with 5 Virgin Galactic employees just days ahead of Bezos. Brad’s alma mater Brookfield entered a JV with Digital Realty to enter India and more. 

This episode we're discussing software product development with Sean McCullough, Head of Engineering for Atlassian Compass. Atlassian is the development behemoth behind other products such as Jira, Confluence, Trello and Bitbucket. Prior to that, Seanworked as an engineer at Facebook and also at Groupon

This episode we’re covering the news, and there's a whole lot to catch up on! Facebook youngest company to surpass $1T valuation after scoring Antitrust win. The Pentagon Scraps $10B cloud computing contract "JEDI",  plans to split between Microsoft and Amazon. Plus, a new ransomware attack targeting Kaseya, who provides software to over 1,500 Managed Security Service Providers, demanding a record $70 million and impacting over 1M computers. Didi app pulled from app stores in China after suspension order. Microsoft executive says U.S. overuses secret orders for Americans' data, and Judge tears Florida’s social media law to shreds for violating First Amendmen. Tune in for the discussion. 

Mark Thiele, CEO of Edgevana, discusses all things edge computing. He is the CEO and Founder of Edgevana, a startup dedicated to helping expand and improve the data center services market by providing the buyer with an exceptional experience and the sellers with the tools needed to compete more effectively on a global playing field.  

Thiele has over 30 years experience in IT executive roles at HP, Gilead, VMware, Brocade, Switch, Apcera, and Ericsson, with his most recent work being almost exclusively associated with edge computing. Thiele’s work includes building data centers, deploying global networks, virtual and cloud infrastructure and designing and deploying solutions for Edge. 

Thiele is an industry spokesperson on trends, data center strategy, sustainability, and efficiency.  He is also an expert in edge computing, cloud and IT adoption strategies . He is the Chairman for the IDC-A.org technical committee, co-founder of Data Center Pulse, technical contributor to The Green Grid, member of IBM Cloud Minds, and has numerous followers of his blogs and podcasts. Mark is also an advisor, and board member to several technology startups.