Josef Langerman is the Acting CTO for Standard Bank; DevOps and Agile Evangelist. We wanted to know what all this means in a large organisation like Standard bank. Here is some context why this was such a good chat. I Josef took me to task for asking him if they are a digital business. Quite rightly he asks what digital actually means. He feels that its about flow. Its about getting things to flow through the system without any bottlenecks and hiccups. And perhaps more importantly its about how you feel. It brings you alive and you are excited about being part of a team that built really good stuff. Its what Google calls uncomfortable excited.

33 - What is Devops and Where Is It Going - with Josef Langerman

“WTF do I do now?” Technology has disrupted everything. Your choice is to do what you have always done before or jump straight into this and figure out what we need to do to tackle the world of digital. This is what Brett St Clair and Michael Cowen dig into on The Think WTF (What’s The Future) Podcast. We chat to those who have solved their challenges digitally and redefined how they live and work!

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 The world of media is changing faster than most realise.   Brett and I see this in our work where we are experimenting with AI-driven marketing solutions. Its early days but initial experiments have exceeded all our expectations.   This is why we wanted to chat with Amanda Bester at Leaderex. She founded and leads Pragmattica, an independent Digital Consultancy offering services in strategic business development.  

The Changing Media - With Amanda Bester

 Your brand is the idea that people have of you. Great brands are built on a constant message, with a clear identity and a consensus about what that brand means. Just think Coca-Cola, MacDonalds, Apple and - well you get the idea.   So how does AI help drive brand constancy? How do AI and branding bring together the old art of brand management with the new world of technology and algorithms? 

The future of AI-driven branding - with Paula Saertini

Intelligent Automation and Digital Workers - With Clevva's Ryan Falkenberg

We chat with Emilie Sydney-Smith, the CEO of ExO Works. Emilie helps companies excel at disruptive innovation. She works with many of the Fortune 500 corporations to build new business lines that could swiftly become more profitable than their core business. These ideas were first written about in Salim Ismail shares in his book, Exponential Organisation. Emilie is the force that turns these ideas into a reality and makes it happen. If you want to know anything about creating an exponential business – Emilie is the person you want to chat to.

BUILDING EXPONENTIAL ORGANISATIONS – WITH EMILIE SYDNEY-SMITH, EXO WORK CEO

How do people fundamentally make decisions and how do we trust these decisions? How do we build trust through an interaction system that we trust? How do we redesign the future social contract going forward? What role does philosophy, anthropology play alongside the technological, economic and legal development of Blockchain, if any? These are just some of the conversations that we had with JP Fabri at the Blockchain Africa Conference. Listen up - it was a fascinating chat ....

33 - What is Devops and Where Is It Going - with Josef Langerman

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