The Next Wave Podcast

Steve Mullaney is our guest. He's CEO of Aviatrix, a startup that is redefining networking for the multi-cloud era. Steve is a 30 year technology veteran and was most recently CEO of Nicira from 2009 until it was acquired in 2012 by VMware. Plus, electrical tape can trick Teslas into speeding, the Pentagon is spectrum squatting, Qualcomm launches Snapdragon X60, Microsoft invests $1.1B into a new cloud region in Mexico, and Virtual Power Systems gets a new CEO (you might know him). 

Our guest this episode is Fatema Hamdani, Co-Founder and President of Kraus Hamdani Aerospace, a startup that is pioneering Smart Persistent Intelligence Surveillance and Unmanned Aerial Systems. We're also talking about the real winner of the T-Mobile-Sprint Merger, Verizon's plan to double its 5G cities in 2020, Hazelcast, Huawei, Dessa, and more. 

Hyperscale India, How AI is being used in the fight against Coronavirus, a new attack on voice-controlled features of IoS and Android called SurfingAttack, a new tool to create audio deepfakes, and Elon Musk's mindreader. Plus, the US Attorney General suggests nationalizing 5G tech companies. Our guest this week is Narendra Sen, Founder and CEO of RackBank®, a hot India start-up that's building hyperscale data centers throughout India. We discuss Narendra's predictions for India's tech and data growth and a whole lot more.

Dean Nelson is back this week from Pacific Telecommunications Council in Hawaii to restore balance to the podcast as we cover this week's news in Autonomous Delivery Vehicles, AI, and Smart Cities. Our guest is Oliver Jones, co-founder and Chief Executive of Chayora, a world-class infrastructure developer based in Hong Kong with a primary focus on building Data Centre platforms in China. 

This week Dean Nelson is traveling and we're talking with special guest John Cowan, CEO of EDJX, to talk about VaporIO's massive capital raise, 5G vs Wifi, and inverted ziggurats of baroque legacy protocols. Plus Google begs for regulation and we poke them in the eye with a stick. 

It's a huge week for acquisitions as Apple buys Xnor, Equinix snaps up Packet, and others pile into edge computing. Plus, we talk about the startup Mojo and their unbelievable augmented reality tech, and strange things in the skies over Colorado. 

Our guest this week is Bill Kleyman, SVP of Digital Solutions at Switch. We're coming in hot off of CES in Las Vegas where we saw some of the biggest trends taking shape for 2020. We'll talk about that and a whole lot more, plus a special guest surprises Bill on the show.