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On a Mission of Disaster Management & Scientific Discoveries
March 24, 2021 10:38We explore the critical role of visualization and visual analytics in disaster management and medical research with Paul Navrátil, Director of Visualization at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), and Jim Jeffers, Sr. Principal Engineer and Sr. Director of Advanced Rendering and Visualization at Intel. Paul reveals TACC’s approach to recent weather crises, as well […]
Take a Journey to Cloud in 10 Steps
March 23, 2021 19:53Partly as a result of cost-cutting necessities, but also to demonstrate how Nutanix software can anchor a global hybrid cloud, Wendy M. Pfeiffer, CIO at Nutanix, led her team on a transformative journey. The goal was to make IT easier, better automated, and more readily accessible to the user community so employees could focus on […]
Burnout: Is Your Organization on Fire?
March 20, 2021 11:10For years, experts have been sounding the alarm that burnout is endangering the health and well-being of employees across the globe. Then the pandemic happened, and according to burnout expert Jennifer Moss, the stress of the last year “has been like putting a match to a workforce in drought.” In our latest podcast, we speak […]
The AI of Tomorrow – Intel on AI – Season 2, Episode 17
March 08, 2021 11:13In this episode of Intel on AI host Abigail Hing Wen, Intel AI Tech Evangelist and New York Times Best Selling Author, passes the hosting mantle to Amir Khosrowshahi, Intel Vice President. The two talk about lessons learned from guests across Season 2 of the podcast and what the AI of tomorrow might be. Abigail […]
IT@Intel: Driving Digital Acceleration with Application Portfolio Management
March 05, 2021 11:12 application/pdfIT Best Practices: Best-in-class organizations continuously strive to innovate and improve IT assets. This transformation is critical for business organizations to perform operations without disruption. IT transformation also enhances business units’ ability to meet objectives through deeper IT asset insights and improved total cost of ownership (TCO), all while running leaner and more efficiently. Application […]
Business Group on Health: Roots of Obesity: The Many Factors that Affect Our Weight and Global Efforts to Influence Them for Good
February 27, 2021 12:24The data on worldwide obesity are stunning: obesity has tripled in the last 50 years and overweight and obesity kill more people than underweight. How can we come together as a global community to halt this devastating disease? According to Dr. Olivia Barata Cavalcanti, we can start by encouraging “people to have less judgment and […]
COVID Could Reveal Businesses Failure from Lack of Technology Investments
February 26, 2021 12:29The pandemic wreaked havoc but it also revealed that investments in digital technologies helped keep many aspects going during lockdown and social distancing. In a Tech Barometer podcast segment, Professor Art Langer says technology will only become more important in the future. Follow the enterprise cloud tech revolution at The Forecast by Nutanix.
Tech Tonics: Matt Wilsey, Leading with Grace
February 24, 2021 12:12Matt Wilsey grew up wanting to serve. He spent his early career in government working for both blue and red administrations, but was eventually lured back to where he grew up–Silicon Valley—to join the tech scene, and helped start and lead several successful tech companies, including Zazzle and CardSpring (sold to Twitter). Along the way […]
Tech Tonics: Takeda’s Ariel Dowling: An Engineer With A Passion For Digital Health
February 24, 2021 12:12A Jersey girl drawn first captivated by engineering while in college at Dartmouth, Ariel Dowling went on to pursue her PhD at Stanford, exploring the use of wearables to anticipate and prevent knee injuries. After several experiences at tech-focused startups, Ariel has more recently found a home — and a calling — as a digital […]
Tech Tonics: Griffin Weber – Bringing Clinical Sense & Sensibility to Healthcare Data
February 22, 2021 12:17Inspired by health technology from the age of five, Griffin Weber has pursued this passion both doggedly and joyfully. Now an associate professor of medicine and bioinformaticist at Harvard, Griffin spends his days doing what he loves, leveraging technology to pragmatically improve the health and the care of patients. Griffin grew up in Virginia, the […]
Business Group on Health: The Promise of the COVID-19 Vaccines and the Perils of Falling Behind on Distribution
February 20, 2021 12:16The COVID-19 vaccines offer promise for a brighter future but “we’re not out of the woods yet,” says Dr. Bob Wachter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF. In a race against emerging variants, efficient vaccine distribution is crucial…but can we get there? In this episode of the Business Group on Health […]
Business Group on Health: How and When We Can Head Back to the Office
February 20, 2021 12:15Is returning to the workplace on the horizon? With COVID-19 cases falling and vaccination numbers rising, heading back to the office suddenly seems plausible. But how and when this can happen depends on a number of factors, including the effectiveness of vaccines at reducing virus transmission. In this episode of the Business Group on Health […]
Grab Hold of Growth on the S-Curve or Fall Behind
February 19, 2021 11:59Companies that don’t innovate risk losing to others that learn, adapt to and adopt new data technologies, according to Columbia University professor and author Dr. Art Langer in the first of a two part Tech Barometer podcast series on leadership through transformative times. Follow the enterprise cloud tech revolution at The Forecast by Nutanix.
AI and Government with US Congresswoman Robin Kelly – Intel on AI Season 2, Episode 16
February 18, 2021 12:05In this episode of Intel on AI guest US Congresswoman Robin Kelly talks with host Abigail Hing Wen, Intel AI Tech Evangelist and New York Times best-selling author, about artificial intelligence (AI) and the United States government. Congresswoman Kelly talks about how she became involved in AI policy, introducing a bipartisan resolution to create a […]
Digital Twins and Predictive Maintenance with AI – Conversation in the Cloud – Episode 223
February 18, 2021 11:56In this Intel Conversations in the Cloud audio podcast: Ganesh Iyer, CTO of Knowledge Lens, joins host Jake Smith to talk about how Knowledge Lens improves inference time on Intel Xeon Scalable servers and uses Intel OpenVINO to reduce processor space consumption. Ganesh also goes into detail about the company’s iLens industrial IoT platform and […]
IT@Intel Next Step to Multicloud: Native Cloud Security Controls
February 18, 2021 11:48 application/pdfIT Best Practices: Intel IT has replaced many of our third-party security solutions with native cloud security controls. We made this significant change to our multicloud strategy because of three reasons: • Technology: Cloud service provider (CSP) integrated security controls have matured to the point where many of them meet our stringent security requirements. • […]
Journey to Cloud: Step 10 – Adopt an Attitude of Continuous Improvement
February 16, 2021 11:54Closing out the 10-part Tech Barometer podcast series Journey to Cloud, Nutanix CIO Wendy Pfeiffer talks about step 10, having a hunger to progress. With so much pressure to perform everything right the first time requires teamwork set on continuous improvement. Follow the enterprise cloud tech revolution at The Forecast by Nutanix.
IT@Intel: Improving Sales Account Coverage with Artificial Intelligence
February 12, 2021 10:39 application/pdfIT Best Practices: As businesses grow, meeting the needs of new markets, customers, and partners can be challenging. Sales and marketing organizations are constantly under pressure to effectively cover accounts and rapidly respond to customers’ changing needs while maintaining—or even reducing—operational costs. Intel’s Sales and Marketing Group faces similar challenges while growing in new markets […]
Genentech: Biomedicine Meets AI – Intel on AI Season 2, Episode 15
February 11, 2021 10:38In this episode of Intel on AI guest Aviv Regev, Executive Vice President of Genentech Research and Early Development, talks with host Abigail Hing Wen, Intel AI Tech Evangelist and New York Times best-selling author, about biomedicine and artificial intelligence (AI). The two discuss Aviv’s work on circuitry in cells, the future of experimental biology, […]
Journey to Cloud: Step 8 – Monitor Customer Satisfaction Results
February 08, 2021 11:52Almost every organization making headway with cloud computing struggles to mix different types of IT services in a way that effortlessly meets user needs. In this Tech Barometer segment, Wendy Pfeiffer, CIO of Nutanix, talks about how automation and continuous monitoring of success metrics helps her IT team keep customers (employees) satisfied. Follow the enterprise […]
Journey to Cloud: Step 9 – Validate the Business Case with ROI
February 08, 2021 11:51The ninth step in her journey to cloud at Nutanix, CIO Wendy M. Pfeiffer focused her IT team on saving space and money. She explains how moving to hybrid cloud helped Nutanix reduce electrical consumption and footprint. Follow the enterprise cloud tech revolution at The Forecast by Nutanix.
Matt Wilsey, Leading with Grace
February 08, 2021 11:34Matt Wilsey grew up wanting to serve. He spent his early career in government working for both blue and red administrations, but was eventually lured back to where he grew up–Silicon Valley—to join the tech scene, and helped start and lead several successful tech companies, including Zazzle and CardSpring (sold to Twitter). Along the way […]
Expanding the SYCL 2020 Ecosystem with hipSYCL and DPC++
January 26, 2021 11:52Open standards underpin the future of heterogeneous programming, and as Intel Principal Engineer Jeff Hammond points out, SYCL has proven in many ways that “standards don’t cost you a thing and you get portability.” A modern C++ language, SYCL has demonstrated amazing growth and now boasts four implementations—ComputeCpp, triSYCL, hipSYCL and DPC++. hipSYCL Creator Aksel […]
Tech Tonics: Amy Emerson and Her Psychedelic Mission
January 25, 2021 11:05Amy Emerson, CEO of MAPS Public Benefit Corp. (MAPS), grew up in Kodiak, Alaska and fell in love with both animals and science as a child. Later in life, when considering veterinary school, she realized that she loved biology but hated math – she would rather live in the wilderness on a lake and look […]
How to be Time Smart: Lessons from a Harvard Business School Professor
January 22, 2021 16:48Since March 2020, American workers have saved about 89 million work days from not commuting as frequently or at all, says Dr. Ashley Whillans. And yet many of us still struggle with too much to do and too little time to do it. In this episode of the Business Group on Health podcast, we speak […]
Founder to CEO – Nutanix Leadership Transition
January 20, 2021 11:12As the Nutanix leadership torch changed hands in late 2020, co-founder and departing CEO Dheeraj Pandey interviewed his successor Rajiv Ramaswami in a podcast for company employees. In this version edited for the Tech Barometer, the two tech leaders discuss the future of hybrid cloud, focusing on customer needs, IT automation and more. Follow the […]
Journey to Cloud: Step 7 – Measure Success by Delighting IT Users
January 19, 2021 10:50In the seventh segment of a 10-part Tech Barometer podcast series “Journey to Cloud,” Nutanix CIO Wendy Pfeiffer explains why it’s critical to measure and optimize performance in order to delight IT users. Follow the enterprise cloud tech revolution at The Forecast by Nutanix.
IT@Intel: Improving Endpoint Device Management Efficiency
January 18, 2021 12:15 application/pdfIT Best Practices: Intel IT is responsible for managing all of Intel’s endpoint devices—at 147 sites spread across 56 countries. Managing endpoints can be time-consuming and expensive, often requiring a technician to physically visit the devices to troubleshoot them. Examples of these devices include the following: The deployment of Intel Unite software to more than […]
Public Policy with Partnership on AI’s Terah Lyons – Intel on AI Season 2 – Episode 14
January 13, 2021 12:12In this episode of Intel on AI guest Terah Lyons, Executive Director of Partnership on AI, talks with host Abigail Hing Wen, Intel AI Tech Evangelist and New York Times best-selling author, about her previous work as Policy Advisor to the United States Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith in President Barack Obama’s Office of Science […]
Journey to Cloud: Step 6 – Augment IT Skillsets with AI and ML
January 11, 2021 12:26In this 6th segment in a 10-part Tech Barometer podcast series, Nutanix CIO Wendy M. Pfeiffer talks about augmenting IT skills with artificial intelligence and machine learning to help bring efficiency and grow IT team capabilities. Follow the enterprise cloud tech revolution at The Forecast by Nutanix.
Tech Tonics: Stacy Feld – Innovating Where the Consumer Meets Life Sciences
January 11, 2021 12:15Stacy Feld had settled into a satisfying career in biotech business development when she accidentally found her way into a meeting with Genentech’s CEO and a tiny startup company called 23andMe. The moment sparked a sudden realization that the best life science innovation would be focused around the consumer and a career finding ways to […]
Business Group on Health: The American Medical Association’s Commitment to Confronting Racism and Prioritizing Health Equity
January 09, 2021 12:07Racism and other systemic inequities lead to poor health outcomes for racial minority groups, says the president of the American Medical Association in our latest podcast. Dr. Susan Bailey, in conversation with Business Group on Health CEO Ellen Kelsay, explores how the AMA has worked to confront racism, an insidious threat to public health.
Igniting the Next Generation of Deep Learning
January 06, 2021 10:40Increased processing power, massive amounts of data, and the development of more advanced algorithms have brought deep learning to the forefront, and TensorFlow has emerged as one of the world’s most popular machine learning frameworks. Penporn Koanantakool, Google Senior Software Engineer, and Ramesh, Intel Principal Engineer, share how their teams are collaborating to optimize TensorFlow […]
Journey to Cloud Step 5 – Institute Autonomous IT
January 05, 2021 20:30In this 5th segment in a 10-part Tech Barometer podcast series, Nutanix CIO Wendy M. Pfeiffer talks about why creating a common, flexible IT infrastructure foundation – based on a hypervisor to virtualize and hyperconverged infrastructure to scale – is the second step toward a hybrid cloud IT operation.? Follow the enterprise cloud tech revolution […]
The Journey to Cloud: Step 4 – Focus on the User Experience
December 28, 2020 21:45Hybrid cloud technologies are about bringing better user experiences across teams to every employee. In the 4th of a 10-part Tech Barometer podcast series, Nutanix CIO Wendy Pfeiffer explains how she empowered her IT and every employee to work securely and effectively from anywhere, on almost any device. Follow the enterprise cloud tech revolution at […]
DeepMind: From the Lab to the World – Intel on AI – Season 2, Episode 13
December 23, 2020 23:06In this episode of Intel on AI guest Colin Murdoch, Senior Business Director at DeepMind, talks with host Abigail Hing Wen, Intel AI Tech Evangelist and New York Times best-selling author, about text-to-speech system WaveNet, the recent breakthrough with AlphaFold, the potential for artificial intelligence to solve energy challenges, and how Google adopts cutting-edge research […]
Takeda’s Ariel Dowling: An Engineer With A Passion For Digital Health
December 22, 2020 08:04A Jersey girl drawn first captivated by engineering while in college at Dartmouth, Ariel Dowling went on to pursue her PhD at Stanford, exploring the use of wearables to anticipate and prevent knee injuries. After several experiences at tech-focused startups, Ariel has more recently found a home — and a calling — as a digital […]
Journey to Cloud: Step 3 – Establish Infrastructure Purpose-Built for the Cloud
December 21, 2020 09:14Nutanix CIO Wendy M. Pfeiffer talks about how a purpose-built platform reduces operating expenses by simplifying monitoring and maintenance tasks, in the 3rd of a 10-part Tech Barometer podcast series. Follow the enterprise cloud tech revolution at The Forecast by Nutanix.
LEGO’s Platform for Innovation
December 19, 2020 10:41The story of LEGO has a charming beginning. The small Danish toymaker created simple building blocks that could fit together to make almost anything imaginable. Then the company realized their toys tapped into the human desire to create. They weren’t just plastic building blocks. They were platforms for innovation. In a Tech Barometer podcast interview, […]
Journey to Cloud: Step 2 – Create a Flexible Foundation
December 19, 2020 02:09In this second segment in a 10-part Tech Barometer podcast series, Nutanix CIO Wendy M. Pfeiffer explains why creating a common, flexible IT infrastructure foundation – based on a hypervisor to virtualize and hyperconverged infrastructure to scale – is the second step toward a hybrid cloud IT operation. Follow the enterprise cloud tech revolution at […]
Business Group on Health: What Doesn’t Work? Weight-based Blame and Shame
December 19, 2020 02:08Weight bias is a pervasive problem in our society, showing up in our homes, physician offices and even the workplace. But weight bias isn’t just a social injustice, it’s also a public health issue due to its far-ranging effects on those who experience and internalize it. In this episode of the Business Group on Health […]
Tech Tonics: Matthew Zachary – Making Noise and Making a Difference that is Music to Patient’s Ears
December 16, 2020 19:20Matthew Zachary, CEO of Offscrip Media has had multiple careers despite the fact that he shouldn’t have had any. He had studied to be a concert pianist and composer and conductor through college, but at the age of 21, on his way to study in a USC graduate music program with Hans Zimmer, he was diagnosed […]
Tech Tonics: Andrew Trister – From Jersey Boy to Digital Doc
December 16, 2020 19:19With a knack for engineering and a passion for patients, Andrew Trister career has taken this Jersey boy from radiation oncology to Apple to his current role at the Gates Foundation, where he’s spearheading their efforts to leverage technology to improve the health of people around the world. Andrew – like E Street drummer Max Weinberg — […]
Algorithmic Fairness with Alice Xiang – Intel on AI – Season 2, Episode 12
December 16, 2020 11:07In this episode of Intel on AI guest Alice Xiang, Head of Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability Research at the Partnership on AI, talks with host Abigail Hing Wen, Intel AI Tech Evangelist and New York Times best-selling author, about algorithmic fairness—the study of how algorithms might systemically perform better or worse for certain groups of […]
IT@Intel: “Instant” VPN Scaling and Continuity During Crisis
December 14, 2020 20:14 application/pdfIT Best Practices: When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, it propelled Intel’s global workforce of over 100,000 employees, along with contingent workers and ecosystem partners, to begin working remotely practically overnight. Virtual private network (VPN) connections would be needed for all of these workers, but Intel’s global VPN capacity was a fraction of what would be […]
IT@Intel: Building a Faster, More Secure Enterprise Network with Wi-Fi 6
December 14, 2020 11:40 application/pdfIT Best Practices: Intel IT is enabling business transformation on Intel campuses around the world by standardizing on Wi?Fi for wireless LAN (WLAN) access. Our exclusive use of a wireless infrastructure helps to improve employee mobility, job satisfaction, and productivity—as well as deliver network access in new construction faster and at lower cost. Today, about […]
Emotion and AI with Rana el Kaliouby – Intel on AI – Season 2, Episode 11
December 09, 2020 09:51In this episode of Intel on AI guest Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D., cofounder and CEO of Affectiva, and author of Girl Decoded: A Scientist’s Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology, talks with host Abigail Hing Wen, Intel AI Tech Evangelist and New York Times best-selling author, about emotional intelligence (EQ)—a […]
A Proving Ground for Open Standards
December 08, 2020 12:19Andrew Lumsdaine, Chief Scientist at Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing, shares his journey in parallelism, from the HPC community’s early skepticism of and eventual move to C++ to build large systems, to his pursuit to develop a series of C++ libraries to strike at the contradiction between abstraction and performance, to today’s reality that parallelism […]
Journey to Cloud: Step 1 – Define New Infrastructure Standards
December 07, 2020 09:29In the first of a 10-part Tech Barometer podcast series, Nutanix CIO Wendy M. Pfeiffer explains why creating a common foundation – based on a hypervisor to virtualize and hyperconverged infrastructure to scale – is the first step toward a hybrid cloud IT operation. Follow the enterprise cloud tech revolution at The Forecast by Nutanix.
Tech Tonics: Paul Bleicher – Physician, Scientist, Entrepreneur, Innovator
December 07, 2020 09:11A self-described “nerdy” kid from a working class family in a bedroom community of “The City,” on the South Shore of Long Island, Paul Bleicher trained as a physician-scientist, and was heading towards a career in academic medicine when he boldly decided to pivot to industry, where he’s enjoyed a remarkable and storied career in […]