Interop 2015 is here and Interop Radio is your window into everything that's happening at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center this week. Join us to hear from the network architects, conference speakers, and exhibitors that are making Interop such an exciting place to be.

Interop 2015 is here and Interop Radio is your window into everything that's happening at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center this week. Join us to hear from the network architects, conference speakers, and exhibitors that are making Interop such an exciting place to be.

Interop 2015 is here and Interop Radio is your window into everything that's happening at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center this week. Join us to hear from the network architects, conference speakers, and exhibitors that are making Interop such an exciting place to be.

In this episode we bring you information from the Network Operations Center as InteropNet and the Interop Expo floor come together. Don't miss this behind-the-scenes look at the show as it comes together!

Join us for a roundup of the top stories on InformationWeek.com for the week of April 19, 2015. The show begins with The Week in :60, then we'll be talking with the InformationWeek.com editors and correspondents who brought you the top stories of the week to get the "story behind the story." We'll be sure to wrap things up with the always thought-provoking Geekend writer David Wagner.

Join us for the show and for the incredible Friday Afternoon Conversation that runs beside the program. This is your chance to talk with your fellow InformationWeek.com community members about the news items that mean the most to your profession, your enterprise, and your work life. We'll look forward to having your voice in the discussion!

Ashu Desai, our latest guest on IT Life Radio thinks college computer science programs are failing their students. He's founded a new kind of school to make the next generation of software developers that he thinks is more cost effective, faster, and most importantly, makes better developers than traditional IT programs from four year universities.

Ashu thinks that developers aren't getting enough hands on experience or managing enough projects in college, and that the teachers they get are more interested in research than teaching. Desai knows first-hand. He dropped out of a college program himself when he realized he had learned far more from designing his own app than he was learning in school. After a few successful years as an IT pro, he decided to fix the problems he has seen. He founded Make School.

According to Desai, Make School is designed to work more like a startup than a school. The "campus" looks like any office of a San Francisco startup. And the students spend part of their day in lectures and part of the day working on projects of their own. In other words, they get the startup experience. They've only had one class so far, but most of those folks are working and some are making well above the average salary for developers coming out of college and they're doing it in less time.

The kicker? There is no tuition. Make School has a different business plan. Instead of taking money from you before you've made any they defer the tuition and then take a percentage of your salary in your first years after they get you a job. No job? No tuition.

Ashu Desai is one of the founders of Make School, a university replacement for computer science. He attended UCLA to study computer science before dropping out to join Y Combinator and found Make School in hopes of improving computer science education.

Games are big -- bigger than Hollywood films. And "gamification" is huge -- it seems that every company is eager to put badges, quests, and high-score notifications on everything from sales numbers to training on HR issues. Games are so big, in fact, that it's possible to overlook something critical: They can deliver critical information on the most important topics for an organization.

Our first segment is all about games and what they can tell us about our customers. Games, it turns out, are so well known that they can be a great metaphor for the business we transact with the people who pay our bills. And we have a great panel put together to talk about games. You'll hear:

Romi Mahajan - ModeratorJohn Smith, VP, GAEMSSunny Neogi, CMO, AditiDharmesh Godha, CTO and President, Advaiya

discuss how to interpret the lessons of games and which critical lessons you can (and cannot) take away from the metaphors that gaming brings to customer relations.

We'll also have a conversation with Andrew Conry-Murray about all the last-minute additions to the Interop conference and what you can expect from the Interop experience. You won't want to miss this segmen as you finalize your plans for the show!

Interop 2015 will take place from April 27th through May 1st at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV. More information and registration details are available online! Register with code RADIO for a $200 discount on Total Access or Conference passes, or get a FREE Expo Pass. In addition, join the Interop mailing list to get the latest news and special offers.

Join us for a roundup of the top stories on InformationWeek.com for the week of April 12, 2015. The show begins with The Week in :60, then we'll be talking with the InformationWeek.com editors and correspondents who brought you the top stories of the week to get the "story behind the story." We'll be sure to wrap things up with the always thought-provoking Geekend writer David Wagner.

Join us for the show and for the incredible Friday Afternoon Conversation that runs beside the program. This is your chance to talk with your fellow InformationWeek.com community members about the news items that mean the most to your profession, your enterprise, and your work life. We'll look forward to having your voice in the discussion!

While they've got a long way to go, women are finally starting to make some headway in Fortune 500 companies. The 24 female Fortune 500 CEOs represents only about 5 percent, but it is a record. More women are finding themselves in leadership positions and in board rooms. Now that they're getting to lead important questions arise: can women lead without just "being one of the boys?" What does it look like to lead and be a woman at the same time? We'll answer those questions and more Wednesday, April 15th at 3PM ET on the latest episode of IT Life radio.

 

Those also happen to be some of the questions Debora McLaughlin answers in Running in High Heels: How to Lead with Influence, Impact, and Ingenuity. Debora will draw on her years as a leader, an executive coach, and her interviews with female CEOs to talk about what female leadership looks like. In our episode we'll discuss:

Whether there are differences in the way men and women lead and how that changes the enterprise.What leadership lessons women and men can learn from female CEOsThe best leadership lessons available from an experience executive coach

Debora McLaughlin is the best-selling author of “The Renegade Leader: 9 Success Strategies Driven Leaders Use to Ignite People, Performance and Profits.” Her new book, “Running in High Heels: How to Lead with Influence, Impact & Ingenuity,” is a how-to leadership companion for women in business. She is CEO of The Renegade Leader Coaching and Consulting Group (www.TheRenegadeLeader.com).

Woman or man, if you are a leader this show is a must listen.

The discipline of IT security is changing rapidly. With new threats such as Heartbleed and FREAK being uncovered every day and new attacks such as Anthem and Sony constantly in the headlines, enterprises are being forced from their old perimeter-oriented thinking and into a new world of incident response and risk-based decision making. To defend the organization’s data, security professionals must think differently.

Join security and risk expert John Pironti and Dark Reading Editor-in-Chief Tim Wilson on Wed., Apr. 15 for a live online discussion of this sea-changing shift in security strategy and the many ways it is affecting IT and business. Pironti and Wilson, who have spent the last few months talking with security thought leaders while building the Information Security and Risk track for the upcoming Interop Las Vegas conference Apr. 27-May 2, will outline some of the new thinking posed by some of the industry’s leading speakers and experts. Listeners will also get some advice on where they can go – and who to follow on social media – in order to learn more about the latest trends and shifts in risk and security.

This week we bring you another double-length episode of Interop Radio. Both sides of the show feature incredible guests taking on important issues: It's just the kind of episode the Interop Community has been asking for!

In the first half of the program we have a panel discussion on the technology that makes events like Interop possible (and valuable) for attendees and exhibitors alike. When it works, we don't see the technology at all but it's worth taking a closer look at the "invisible tech" that forms the foundation of the modern conference and expo experience.

Our panelists for the discussion are:

Romi Mahajan, CEO/President KKM GroupIvan Tarapov, CTO/LimefyJohn Hooberman, VP Biz Dev/Advaiya Solutions

In the program's second half we're talking with Tim Titus, CTO of InteropNet partner Path Solutions. Tim has spent a lot of time thinking about the tools and process for solving problems in technology -- and his process can work for solving problems whether or not technology is the focus.

Join us for a great show -- it's another in our innovative episodes leading up to Interop Las Vegas!

Interop 2015 will take place from April 27th through May 1st at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV. More information and registration details are available online! Register with code RADIO for a $200 discount on Total Access or Conference passes, or get a FREE Expo Pass. In addition, join the Interop mailing list to get the latest news and special offers.