The Next Wave Podcast

Ransomware, meat, the Russians strike again, Amazon abandons arbitration, Biden bans 59 Chinese companies, United Airlines is trying to bring back supersonic planes, and a tech for good story in an attempt to save the 6 billion baby male chicks that are killed annually.

Our special guest this week is Ryan Noon, CEO of Material Security. Material Security reduces the risks of email hacking. Email is an essential repository of sensitive content, the key to countless accounts, and the most ubiquitous business application. When attackers have multiple ways in, blocking messages is no longer enough. Material protects accounts even after they’re compromised or harmful messages get through.

Customers include Cloudera, Lyft, Sonos, PagerDuty,  Databricks and others.  The company is backed by Silicon Valley legends inside and outside the security community,and has raised venture capital from Andreessen Horowitz. 

Prior to Material Security, Ryan was the founder of Parastructure, which was acquired by Dropbox. Ryan is an angel investor, and holds a BS and Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford.

Our  guest this week is Mark Egan, partner at Stratafusion Group. Mark has more than 25 years of information technology experience in IT transformation, information security, and mergers & acquisitions. He’s managed global IT organizations with over 1,200 employees, budgets in excess of $350 million, and IT integration for over 60 mergers and acquisitions, and he has been repeatedly recognized for his leadership and success in scaling IT organizations to support rapid growth.

Prior to joining StrataFusion, Mark was a CIO at VMware where he led the company from a server virtualization vendor with $2 billion in revenue to a $5 billion market leader of cloud solutions.Before that, he was CIO at Symantec, and held senior level positions with Sun Microsystems, Price Waterhouse, and Wells Fargo Bank.

Mark is author of Executive Guide to Information Security: Threats, Challenges, and Solutions and was a contributing author of CIO Wisdom, CIO Perspectives, and CIO’s Body of Knowledge. He is the founder of the CIO Development Program that mentors aspiring CIO’s and president of the CISE Education Fund that raises money for underprivileged students to pursue technology degrees. Find out more about the Merritt College Cybersecurity Program and contact Mark Egan directly for any further information: [email protected] 

This week we're discussing NASA’s helicopter taking the first flight on another planet; using technology primitive to your smart phone; the U.S. House Committee’s latest blueprint to take down big tech and China’s fine to Alibaba; China’s dystopian “New IP“ plan for the internet; NVIDIA is getting back into CPUs; Parler is back on Apple’s App store; and the US and UK issued sanctions against Russia for Solarwinds, and more than one digression. :) 

Chris Ciabarra, CTO and co-founder of Athena Security, an AI company with a mission to help save lives. Athena created turn-key video hardware and software initially for active shooter response via AI Gun Detection, but the pandemic has resulted in additional uses, including “elevated temperature detection” and “people counting” using the same tech. 

Our guest  this week is Mike D. Kail,  CTO of Everest, a decentralized platform incorporating a massively scalable payment solution, Executive Technologist at Palo Alto Strategy Group,  Strategic Advisor at Cloud Remedy, Strategic Advisor at SMV Data, and other. 

Mike has been CYBRIC’s Chief Technology Officer, Yahoo’s CIO and SVP of Infrastructure, where he led the IT and Data Center functions for the company, and Mike also formerly served as VP of IT Operations at Netflix, where he was responsible for Employee Technology and various Engineering components. 

Mike has been widely recognized for his insightful industry commentary on social media, and was recently named by the Huffington Post as one of the “Top 100 Most Social CIOs on Twitter.”

This week we’re covering the recent news including the latest on cybersecurity, a datacenter burns to the ground, a big hack of Microsoft’s email servers, and the Biden administration response to its probe into government security, Google has apparently been spying on Chrome users in Incognito mode, the latest perspective on the ongoing debate regarding online censorship and the largest space trash dump to date.

We're joined this week by Jeffrey DeCoux.  Jeff is Chairman of the Autonomy Institute, which is focused on advancing intelligent infrastructure to enable the Digital and Autonomous World, ultimately driving the next trillion-dollar economic expansion. This episode is all about the future of cities and Autonomy Institute is right in the middle of this at the intersection of Edge computing, 5G wireless, robots, sensors, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), smart cities, ultra-resilient electrical grids. 

Our incredible guest this week is Michael Tobin OBE and we're discussing entrepreneurship, datacenters, SPACs, and a lot more.  He’s is a highly successful technology entrepreneur and pioneer in the data center and telecom industries with over 30 years’ experience. As CEO, Michael Tobin OBE led TelecityGroup plc, a leading FTSE 250 Technology company from 2002 to 2014.  He took Redbus private in 2002 and relisted in 2007 as TelecityGroup in 2007. 

In 2005 he was named number 31 of Britain’s Top 50 Entrepreneurs & in 2014 he was honoured in the Queens New Years Honours List with the Order of the British Empire medal for Services to the Digital Economy. In 2016 he  received business awards for Outstanding Non Executive Director of the year in the Best Business Awards 2016 and  the Global Business Excellence Awards 2016, and Chairman of the Year at the Stevie Awards in the USA. In 2017 he was recognized as Datacentre and Cloud Influencer of the Decade in Monaco at the Broadgroup Industry Awards and named in Smith and Williamson’s Top 25 Power Individuals of Industry. 

He’s the author of 3 books, most recently “Lifting the Floor”, a fascinating and deeply personal account of his experience leading Redbus and Telecity through the chaotic end of the dotcom bubble and into the hyperscale era. 

Today’s, he’s now Chairman of EdgeConnex, who just announced a major joint venture with Andani in India along with numerous  non-executive roles across the technology industry. 

We're drinking from the firehose this week as business and tech continues to heat up in 2021. Join us as we discuss the Chinese security risk to electronics manufacturing, the Bitcoin Bubble, Texas' grid failure, North Dakota's failed attempt to curb big tech, and more.