Episodes

  • Ep.29 - All a CIO and CTO needs to know about 5G, from Latency to Network Slicing with Samuel Navarro, Director, Customer Strategic Solutions Division, Information Technology Category (ITC) at the GSA
    Jan 13 2021
    In today’s episode we’ll cover:
    • What’s important to understand about 5G from Latency to Network Slicing
    • Why it matters for the U.S. to be a leader when it comes to 5G wireless technology
    • What CIOs and CTOs need to know now about 5G today
    • We talk about the Top 5 Enterprise Use Cases for 5G
    • Samuel's thoughts on the future of telemedicine in the context of 5G
    • Samuel talks about Las Vegas as a smart city, and the private 5G network the city is building out right now. Sam breaks down what “slice the network” and the possibilities are for 5G when it comes to the future of smart cities.
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    40 mins
  • Ep.28 The Public Sector Ecosystem: How Verizon Steps up to Bridge the Digital Divide with Arvind Basra, Head of Product Development - Public Sector, at Verizon
    Jan 11 2021
    In today’s episode we’ll cover:
    • Public safety and education
    • Solving big problems and new ways of thinking in the public sector
    • The Digital Divide in Education
    • Where Arvind is seeing public sector opportunities right now
    • What most public sector CIOs or CTOs are missing
    • Creating net-new products inside Verizon and how partners like Nagarro help to accelerate digital innovation and engineering.
    • What a world-class digital government looks like today and in the future
    • What’s important to understand around 5G from Latency to Network Slicing
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    32 mins
  • Ep.27 The StoryBrand Framework: How Design Thinking Powers Data Science with Bill Schmarzo, ex-Chief Innovation Officer at Hitachi Vantara
    Dec 14 2020
    Podcast Topics
    • The StoryBrand Framework in the context of data science
    • Design thinking in data science
    • How to value data as a corporate asset (Current GAAP accounting standards do not permit data (intangible assets) to be capitalized on the balance sheet).
    • Chipotle use case - improving same-store sales using data and analytics
    • We’ll talk about the MMMM of Digital transformation
    • Everything Bill learned about management he learned coaching little league baseball.
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    45 mins
  • Ep.26 The Future of Transportation: How Digital Mobility Hubs Are Changing the Game with Stewart Mader, Chief Customer Experience Officer at NJ Transit
    Dec 9 2020

    Description: 

    • Digital future - how Stewart thinks mobile is going to change the way we interact with both private and public transportation infrastructure.
    • We'll talk about the frictionless experience for the consumer in the modern digital age
    • Physical and digital mobility hubs
    • NJ Transit's “Innovation Challenges”
    • Mobility as a service
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    42 mins
  • Ep.25 Challenging the Status Quo: How to Become a Business First Technologist with Sanjay Gupta, CTO at the Small Business Administration
    Dec 7 2020

    Podcast Questions for Description

    - Where the SBA sees the future of AI and ML

    - Talk about Sanjay being a business first technologist and challenging the status quo in IT

    - The story of the SBA implementing the CARES Act Congress passed in March.

    - What advice Sanjay would you give to CIOs and CTOs in a digital-first world so they don’t get fired.

    - The importance of customer experience

    - The importance of an agile mindset

    - The SBA’s success with its 90-day sprints

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    48 mins
  • Ep.24 Inspire and Empower: How You Can Lead your IT Teams with Vision and Passion with Doug Lange, Chief Strategy Officer at State of Arizona
    Dec 2 2020

    Ep.24 Inspire and Empower: How You Can Lead your IT Teams with Vision and Passion with Doug Lange, Chief Strategy Officer at State of Arizona

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    41 mins
  • Ep.23 The E-Commerce Takeover: How eBay Drives World-Class Software Innovation with Taylor Friesen, IOS Engineer at eBay
    Nov 30 2020

    Ep.23 The E-Commerce Takeover: How eBay Drives World-Class Software Innovation with Taylor Friesen, IOS Engineer at eBay

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    37 mins
  • Ep.22 Smart Cities: A Roadmap to Leveraging VR & BIM for Digital Infrastructure with Kurt Maldovan, Global Director Digital Delivery Solutions at Jacobs
    Nov 23 2020

    Podcast Questions:

    • A number of emerging technologies
    • Talk about lean design and construction and reducing waste with the use of technology today.
    • BIM (Building Information Modeling), Smart Cities, and Infrastructure and why BIM is a necessity rather than an option.
    • 3D Modeling for smart cities
    • We’ll talk about what makes VR so fascinating and a few of the other reality technologies.
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    31 mins