IT Visionaries
517 episodes - English - Latest episode: 28 days ago - ★★★★★ - 168 ratingsGain unparalleled access to the minds of industry-leading CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs. Enjoy weekly episodes filled with expert insights, inspiring stories, and trend analysis, all brought to you by the people shaping the future of technology. Whether you're an IT professional, aspiring tech leader, or general tech enthusiast, IT Visionaries has something for everyone. Don't miss out on the chance to learn from the best – subscribe now!
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Digitizing the New Age of Access Identity Management with HID Global’s Martin Ladstaetter
June 15, 2021 07:00 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBSecurity identity management comes in all shapes and sizes, and it’s an industry that continues to innovate at a rapid pace and there is no end in sight. Think of identity management like this: that card or fob you scan to enter an office or building, that’s security management. Or maybe the password you change every 30 days, that’s identity management. But while these processes seem simple and familiar, they haven’t been part of the security ecosystem for very long. “15 years ago, phones w...
What Does an Ethical Approach to A.I. Look Like?
June 10, 2021 08:00 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBThe spirit of innovation is mostly positive. After all, innovation leaps humanity forward. The wheel enabled transportation, space exploration led to the internet, the smartphone has connected the world. These are just some examples. And the innovation wheel keeps turning. These days there is no doubt that For our brief history of breakthrough innovation, we’ve rarely had to discuss or think about the ethics behind those efforts like we do with the next breakthrough; Artificial Intel...
Transforming Neighborhood Security one Ring at a Time
June 08, 2021 07:00 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBOn IT Visionaries, we talk a lot about security, but we mostly talk about cybersecurity and making sure that your networks are protected from cyber criminals. We don’t really talk about in-the-flesh criminals and how technology is helping to keep them out of your home. But what is the value of home security? Is it being able to constantly check your front door to see if a package has arrived? Is it the calmness that comes with being notified that there’s movement in your driveway? Or is it ...
Developing for Intent: How Conversational A.I. is Helping Brands Make Meaningful Connections with Consumers
June 03, 2021 08:00 - 44 minutes - 41.3 MBIs chat support helpful or annoying? To me, it’s both. It’s helpful because it’s the way I prefer to be helped. It’s asynchronous, it allows for multitasking, and it can be done anywhere. But, it’s also annoying. It sucks when you type something in and your customer service agent or bot has no idea what you’re talking about. LivePerson is trying to make customer interactions smarter. Joe Bradley is Chief Scientist at LivePerson, and his mission is to define and anticipate customer n...
Have we Reached the End of the Digital Transformation Road?
June 01, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutes - 38.5 MBEvery company is undergoing some kind of digital transformation. Whether you’re upgrading your tech stack, migrating to the cloud, or analyzing your processes to improve your employee experience, every enterprise is saddled with the need to improve their systems. But what if that daunting process was a thing of the past? What if instead of having to undergo massive technology upgrades every few years that process was continuous? If you ask Jon Knisley, Principal Consultant, Automation and Pr...
What Really Gives Your EV that Extra Charge with AMP CEO, Anil Paryani
May 27, 2021 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBIn the last year, a number of auto companies have announced huge investments into the development of electric vehicles, with some committing to transforming their entire fleets over to clean energy. In the past, the biggest hurdle consumers and businesses had to overcome when switching to electric power was the question of battery life. Drivers were worried, and understandably so, about whether their car’s battery would be powerful enough to get them where they needed to go, hassle-free. Th...
Putting Industrial Data to Work with GE Digital CTO, Colin Parris
May 25, 2021 07:00 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MBIndustrial equipment lasts for decades, and the data produced by these machines are invaluable to the organizations that rely on them. So what happens when industries that rely on industrial equipment, with on-location workers, and limited digital reliance face a pandemic and limited to no travel. “I had a CEO of one of the big utilities [companies] telling me, he taught, given the last discussions he had with his leaders, that it would take five to six years to do digital transformation. ...
Finding Product Market Fit with Matik Founder and CEO, Nikola Mijic
May 20, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBNikola Mijic is the Founder and CEO of Matik, and he has one piece of advice of for anyone entering the start-up arena: “When people ask me what have you learned through this experience of starting your own company, I would say how to ruthlessly prioritize because your users and your customers and prospects are gonna want the world, and it's your job to be able to decipher what is valid and what is habitual.” Building, scaling, and maintaining success is every entrepreneur’s dream, and the...
Playing War: How Technology is Helping to Train the Military’s Next Great Soldiers
May 18, 2021 07:00 - 38 minutes - 35 MBFor years there has been a debate about whether video games are the next great learning tool, or gateways to desensitization due to violence and a lack of face-to-face interaction. The debate rages on, but regardless of the long-term side effects of video games, there are scenarios where they are being put to use in practical ways as it relates to military training. “The idea of training soldiers using computer games was like, ‘There's no way a computer game can train my guys how to shoot. ...
Creating a Data-Driven Digital Pass for your COVID Vaccine with Claire Hough, CTO Carbon Health
May 13, 2021 07:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBLet’s be frank: the healthcare industry needs help. Medical records have far too many inconsistencies, patients struggle to find ways to transfer information from one doctor to another, and as the world slowly begins to reopen and the focus on health increases, the industry is going to have to lean on modern technology more than ever in order to track and maintain records as it relates to COVID-19. “There are several like electronic health information systems out there and their operabilit...
How to Architect Your Technology to Meet the Consumer’s Needs with Amdocs Division President, Avishai Sharlin
May 11, 2021 07:00 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBMove fast and break things. A famous adage adopted by many software companies. But what if you’re an industry giant where innovation is required, but failure is absolutely not an option. That doesn’t seem to be a mix for success.Meet Amdocs, a company withe more than 26,000 employees and generating more than $4.2 billion in revenue annually, the expectations for success are a little bit higher. “The difference between great companies and good companies is how much your endurance is to failu...
Digital Dollar Project: The Large-Scale Modernization of the Financial Institution
May 06, 2021 07:00 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MBNFTs, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Tokenization. There is more hype than ever for these technologies and endless debate on the utility of this technology. . While consumers are attempting to understand the value of cryptocurrency, governments and private firms across the globe are doing the same, and they are experimenting with the idea of a central bank for digital currency that will adapt and meet changing consumer needs. Main Takeaways Benefits of a Central Bank: The digitization of cur...
Why It's Time for Data Professionals to Adjust the Scope of Their Hiring Practices
May 04, 2021 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBGabe Gumbs has a deep-rooted passion for technology and information security, and his goal is to share that passion to push data security to the forefront of every business's agenda. “Security is all I've ever done. It's what I know, it's what I love. I enjoy every aspect of [security]. From building it, to talking about it, to marketing, into selling it to you, It's a passion.” Gabe is the Chief Innovation Officer at Spirion — a leader in rapid identification and protection of sensitive ...
How Data Replication is Helping Companies Become more Data-Driven
April 29, 2021 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBOver the last quarter century, data and its ability to provide valuable insights for companies to plan, predict, and implement strategies has expanded exponentially. Organizations have grown more reliant on data, and the speed at which data is uploaded and analyzed now must match the pace at which it is generated. “Data has to be up to date and available almost immediately in order to just keep the business running.” Mark Van de Wiel is the CTO of HVR, a company that specializes in partner...
Why Digital Identities are All About a Secure Customer Experience
April 27, 2021 13:01 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBThe modern worker needs access to multiple applications. And with every new piece of software implemented, the security and identity requirements grow exponentially. Identity authentication is creating increasing headaches for IT professionals everywhere. Relying on usernames and passwords won’t be enough much longer. “We've been using usernames and passwords as the primary identity feature for 50 years. I really have been working in my career to help change that and come up with a better ...
The State of Security with Alfizo President, Gary Chan
April 22, 2021 07:00 - 41 minutes - 38.7 MBThere’s a festering problem growing beneath the surface of small businesses everywhere, and it’s an issue that most SMBs are refusing to address. As large-scale companies invest big money in information security teams to protect themselves from data breaches and bad actors, their small business brethren simply refuse to invest in security at all. “People only spend money on things they can detect.” Gary Chan is an information security management consultant and president of Alfizo, a compan...
Why Your Ecommerce Platform is Still at Risk, with Otto Founder and CEO, Maggie Louie
April 20, 2021 07:00 - 47 minutes - 44.1 MBMaggie Louie remembers the moment her career changed forever. Working with the L.A. Times on digital and mobile products, Maggie, now the founder and CEO of Otto, remembers a friend asking her to look into an issue they were having with their website. “[they asked] me to look at their ad tags and figure out why their traffic was going through the roof, but they weren't making any more money. They couldn't figure it out. I had suspected that their ad techs were either misconfigured or there'...
How Infrastructure as Code is Accelerating Cloud Adoption, with HashiCorp VP of Engineering, Preeti Somal
April 15, 2021 07:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBThe journey to cloud is not the same for everyone. In fact, for some, it can be a grueling and daunting process. For CIOs and CTOs of century-year-old companies, they are burdened by server after server piling up and as they tackle the obstacle of migrating data to the cloud. Meanwhile, peers at digitally-native companies, born in the cloud, use their agility and ease of scale to soar past their old-school brethren. So what’s a legacy company to do? “The reality in the environment is that t...
It’s [Crop] Science: Why Blockchain Remains an Integral Tool In the Food Industry
April 13, 2021 07:00 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBHave you ever picked up a plant at the grocery store and wondered to yourself, can I really keep this alive? Or maybe you’ve planted seeds in the ground only to see them never sprout. Don’t worry, if you’ve struggled to find any success, you’re not alone. But imagine the pressure when the food industry’s supply chain is relying on your green thumb, so you have to find a way to plant trillions of seeds that yield crops covering millions of square miles to feed the world.. It’s no longer about...
Building a Better More Sustainable Battery with Group 14 Technologies Co-Founder and CTO, Rick Costantino
April 08, 2021 07:00 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBSmartphones are incredible pieces of technology. They allow users the ability to track stars, text people around the world, purchase items at the ease of a click, map their next destination, and so much more. Their individual capabilities are truly remarkable. “It's crazy. And all of that is powered by the battery and all of that and really what limits it, the engineer's imagination, you know, they're, they, they know how much, how much they can get out of that in terms of the energy. And s...
Educating and Entertaining: How HOMER is Reforming Education
April 06, 2021 07:00 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBEarly learning education programs are not new —they’ve been around for years in multiple forms. Whether that’s Dora the Explorer taking you on her latest adventure, or hopping on your computer to travel along the Oregon Trail, the traditional education system has been supplemented with various platforms and programs for ages. The issue is, though, very few of them actually show or measure tangible results. That’s Stephanie Dua, the Co-founder and President of HOMER, an early learning progra...
Facilitating A Touchless World with RRD’s Ken O’Brien
April 01, 2021 07:00 - 45 minutes - 42.3 MBHow many times over the last year have you visited a restaurant and sitting on the table right in front of you was bar code that led you to all the information you needed. From drinks, to desserts and entrees and everything in between, that simple code unlocked a handful of opportunities and experiences all through technologies that already exist within your phone. With more than 2 billion QRC- and NFC-enabled devices in use today (including the cell phone you might be listening to this podc...
How Yappa is Removing the Toxic Nature of Commenting with Co-Founder, Kiaran Sim
March 30, 2021 07:00 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBThe internet is a fascinating place and over the years it has provided tremendous resources to billions of people around the world. It’s brought us closer, and it’s divided us and at the same time. People feel more empowered to make their voices heard. The problem is anonymity has seemingly eroded basic standards of kindness and decency. At least that’s what it seems like when you look at the comments section on blogs, social posts, and more. “The way of communicating online is a massive pr...
Keeping Up with the Pace of Change, with Sumo Logic VP, Bruno Kurtic
March 25, 2021 07:00 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBProblem Solvers, pioneers, but more importantly data nerds. That’s how Sumo Logic describes itself, and well...it’s fitting. Rooted in big data and security, SumoLogic is among the most powerful machine data analytics services in the world, but to reach the pinnacle of any industry, requires a culture that strives to be the best. “There's a lot of discomfort in this type of a culture, because in order to really be willing to disrupt yourself so that you don't get disrupted by somebody else,...
Redefining Digital Transformation with Connektedminds’ CEO, Joanne Friedman
March 23, 2021 07:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBCompanies flaunt the term digital transformation almost as if it’s a badge of honor. It’s a phrase that can signify an enterprise is on the cutting edge of innovation with a constant eye toward the future. But Joanne Friedman, CEO of Connektedminds, has another word for it. “It's a misnomer,” she said. “Any company that isn't constantly in some state of transformation isn't alive.” Joanne believes that companies don’t simply go through a digital transformation once and then pat themselves...
Ready for Take-Off: Why Moonbeam Believes it’s The Next Big Media Platform with Founder, Paul English
March 18, 2021 07:00 - 43 minutes - 40.4 MBThey say one of the biggest attributes any entrepreneur needs to have is the ability to problem solve. To be able to identify challenges large and small and effectively produce a solution for them. It seems simple, but it’s not. A vast number of start-ups fail, and the reason is although they identified and addressed an issue, it’s not the right issue. So how do you know when the problem your company is attempting to solve is the right one? Paul English, Founder and CTO of Moonbeam, has some...
The Gambler: Why Allego CEO Yuchun Lee is Betting Big on Just-In-Time Learning
March 16, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes - 36.7 MBIn gambling there’s a common saying, the house always wins...After all, the majority of people who spend their nights and weekends throwing dice across the craps table, or contemplating their next blackjack hand are always relying on luck. Yuchun Lee, CEO and co-founder of Allego, is not one of those people. Yuchun is one of the founding members of the infamous MIT Blackjack card counting team portrayed in the movie 21.With his earnings, he was able to bootstrap Unica which was acquired by ...
A Data Tsunami is Coming, Is Your City Ready? Intel’s GM For Smart Cities, Sameer Sharma, Details Why Your Infrastructure is Your Biggest Obstacle
March 11, 2021 08:00 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBThe term “smart city” might bring to mind images from The Jetsons, maybe flying cars and robots serving humans. And while that’s possible, cities are getting smarter right now in very practical and useful ways. Building a smart city is about its citizens and how their lives can continuously be improved through data and incremental change. “The ultimate goal is very simple: Can we use the combination of innovative thinking, the right technology solution, the right policy making, and the righ...
Crowning a King: Content Delivery Remains Key and Contentstack is Winning the Game
March 09, 2021 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBThere’s a saying that every company is becoming a software company. But what might be just as true is in that every company is becoming a publisher as well. Photos, blogs, designs, video, and sound is created and published at unthinkable rates… and it’s being used, EVERYWHERE. Web, Mobile, Signage, Kiosks, In-Store… it doesn’t matter. Businesses are creating content to match consumer appetite. So how does a company manage all of these assets, and what kind of content management systems ar...
Solving the World's Biggest Problems at Scale, with WekaIO President, Ken Grohe
March 04, 2021 08:00 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBThe No. 1 feature of technology is storage. Ok, so that’s not true. But, it’s one of the most critical pieces of hardware that enables software to function. How fast, how easy, and how much data can be accessed and leveraged inside of applications plays a critical part in technologies effectiveness and user experience. File systems have largely evolved unnoticed. “Existing file systems written 20 years ago are like Microsoft word. It works, but you can't collaborate with it. You don't get t...
Creating Faster, More Efficient Feedback Loops in Real-Time with UserTesting CTO, Kaj Van De Loo
March 02, 2021 08:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBEvery year millions of products and services hit the market with sky-high aspirations, and every year millions of those same products and services fail. The reason? Consumer expectations are rising, which means their tolerance for a bad experience, has all but disappeared. “We tend to remember the good experiences that we have, and that creates expectations across all other similar or comparable experiences,” Van De Loo said. “This was something we saw a lot of — the first experience with a...
A Reimagined Digital CX with HPE PointNext’ VP of Digital Experiences, Mark Arnold
February 25, 2021 08:00 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBThe customer experience has never been more important than it is today. Why is that? d Because consumers and enterprises are no longer just evaluating their needs based solely on a product’s pros and cons. Instead every purchase decision is being thought through on multiple levels, including whether or not a product is the right fit for personal and professional needs, and looking into the deeper value of a product as it relates to the bigger picture of a company. Simply put, if you are not ...
Rebuilding the Cloud to Support A.I. with Mist CTO, Bob Friday
February 23, 2021 08:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBThe digital world continues to evolve a rapid pace. Customers’ expectations have risen, and the user experience now must match the rising tide of their needs. So while cloud has made it faster and easier to deliver services, the same can’t be said for troubleshooting and solving issues caused by cloud connectivity. That is, until now... “Cloud A.I. changes both the experience between the business and his customer, between the business and his vendor. From a customer to business point of vie...
A Permissionless Internet via Decentralized VPN with Orchid Labs CEO, Dr. Steven Waterhouse
February 18, 2021 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.8 MBThere is no way to sugar coat it: consumers are nervous about their privacy. And rightfully so. There is a trail of data bread crumbs you leave behind wherever you go, and people are watching and following along — some with good intentions, but not all. The internet as we know it is controlled by centralized networks, but one company is helping change the playing field by taking away the power of those networks and offering it to the masses. “You shouldn't have to be a security expert to k...
How Doc.ai is Accelerating Better Health Outcomes through Neural Nets and A.I.
February 16, 2021 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBThe best products and solutions are often born out of personal experiences. For Sam De Brouwer, CEO and Co-Founder of doc.ai, her breakthrough moment occurred after her son was hospitalized and induced into a coma as a result of a severe accident. Frustrated, anxious, and wanting to help, Sam found herself doing what any mother would; looking for ways she could make a difference. “What I was seeing at the hospital, and what I was trying to do for my son, I saw other parents trying to do the...
Closing the Gap Between Search and Real-Time Answers with Pulsa Q&A CEO, Mayank Mehta
February 11, 2021 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBThe speed of search has altered our expectations when it comes to conducting research. We can search peer reviews for just about anything, but not enterprise software, not distributed working models, and definitely can’t easily research and search peer reviews on custom implementations, how to best work with a CEO, impacts of work from home initiatives, and other CIO and CTO interests. Meet Pulse Q&A is looking to change that. Pulse QA is the research platform designed and dedicated to help...
Strategies for Pivoting to Find Your Hyper-Growth Solution with Nylas CEO, Gleb Polyakov
February 09, 2021 08:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBYou’ll rarely hear anyone say that you’re over-communicating. But what you will hear is that with the influx of communication platforms, especially when it comes to messaging and email services, there are more ways to communicate than ever before, and that causes some trickle-down effects. With so much data and messages coming and going through a system, and emails clogging out your in an outbox, finding a way to sift through each of those messages, decipher it, and identify what is meaningf...
Time to Level Up: Why Upskilling is the New 401K with PwC CTO, Joe Atkinson
February 04, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutes - 42.3 MBWith much of the workforce in 2020 operating from the friendly confines of their own homes, nothing became more clear than this: tech skills are no longer a luxury, but a necessity. Leveling-up those skills, though, is a team effort, and it’s incumbent on employers to make sure they are providing their employees with the proper opportunities to expand their knowledge, and, in effect, their career potential. Joe Atkinson is the Vice Chair and Chief Products and Technology Officer at PwC, one ...
The War with Algorithms: Why Your Next Security Strategy Includes A.I. and Machine Learning
February 02, 2021 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.8 MBThe image of a hooded individual illuminated by the glare of a computer screen hacking into a company’s network is the classic picture of what a cyber attack looks like. The reality, though, is these attackers are almost never a one-man band, but rather a sophisticated team armed with the same technology companies often deploy against them. But what makes these threats from these attackers so devious is not the technology they use, but rather that they never use the same approach twice. “Cy...
How Edgevana CEO Mark Thiele is Streamlining The Way Companies Access Data Centers
January 28, 2021 08:00 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBMark Thiele has spent his entire life in and around IT infrastructure, even building his own fair share of data centers. But if there is one thing about the entire process that he finds vexing, it’s the wasted time between when companies start negotiating contracts for data centers to when it actually launches.. So after a 27-year career working with other companies, he set out on his own and started Edgevana with a simple goal: to help companies get to the edge faster. “Getting to the edge...
Bad Bot! Why Botnets are the Next Big Headache for Cybersecurity Teams
January 26, 2021 08:00 - 48 minutes - 45.1 MBThe imagery has been etched in our minds for decades. Thieves and vandals riding into town on the back of their horses with one mission in mind: robbing a bank to steal your cash. This is the bad actor archetype, and it has stayed much the same for years. But the problem is, Hollywood’s depiction of those events are no longer accurate in today’s digital world. Nobody is physically robbing banks anymore, because they don’t have to. “If you're a bad guy, you rob a bank and you're going to ge...
How Convoys API is Saving the Environment and Optimizing the Trucking Experience for Drivers and Shippers
January 21, 2021 08:00 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBEvery day, millions of truckers grab their keys, hop in their semis, start their engines, and head out on the open road to pick-up and deliver billions of products to millions of stores across the U.S. The trucking industry is an integral piece of what fuels America’s economy. And businesses around the country rely on these trucks to pick-up and receive orders on time, especially as the need for on-demand products and delivery has risen in conjunction with the rise of online shopping and mob...
How to Build a Hiring Process Based On Skill, Not Pedigree
January 19, 2021 08:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBIt’s true what they say, “finding a job is a full-time job.” After all, as the hiring process becomes more global and recruiters are constantly inundated with an influx of applications, on the other end of that equation are the candidates submitting those applications, who grow weary as the days go by with no response. As with most things, processes change over time, but, with some technical exceptions, the hiring process has mostly remained the same. Until now. Vivek Ravisankar felt called...
Living on the Edge: How Netskope is Redefining Edge Security
January 14, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutes - 42.3 MBWhen Netskope CEO and founder Sanjay Beri left his role with well-known Juniper Networks, he knew the internet and the way that we protected ourselves virtually was changing. The issue is that while Sanjay knew companies needed to leave their old security tactics behind, convincing members of the C-Suite that they needed to invest in new security measures is a very difficult task. So he showed them why. “Without them telling us anything, we basically uncovered all their shadow IT, all their...
Email Delivered: Why Email Delivery is Just the Beginning of Mailchimp's Democratization of Marketing Tools
January 12, 2021 08:00 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBHave you ever wondered about how your favorite newsletter ended up in your inbox? Who sent it? Why was that email scheduled for that particular time? What is being tracked when you click that open button? Most likely, those questions haven’t crossed your mind, but that doesn’t change the fact that the digital trail a simple email creates can have a lasting impact on your online persona. Welcome to the world of email marketing, specifically the Mailchimp universe, which includes an all-in one...
How to Build a High-Value Customer Experience Products with Conga SVP, Eric Carrasquilla
January 07, 2021 08:00 - 48 minutes - 45.2 MBAs the Senior Vice President of Product for Conga, Eric Carrasquilla knows two things: No. 1 products can fundamentally change the workflow of any business. And No. 2, more times than not, customers will tell you what they need, even if they don’t necessarily know how to describe it. “We keep going back to this Apple example, the famous one related to the iPod… No one asked for your entire music catalog in a deck of cards. They asked for a bunch of other stuff. But Steve Jobs, being able to...
Why Zero Trust Isn’t the Answer, but Full End-to-End Encryption is with Wire CTO, Alan Duric
January 05, 2021 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBLet's be frank. Security and the steps we take to protect ourselves are never top-of-mind. In fact, most users tend to operate under the mindset that bad things happen to other people and companies, never hitting too close to home. Until it does… Maybe it’s an email you click on, or a message that contains sensitive information you pass along to a coworker that ends up in an unsecured inbox. Regardless of the method or point of entry,, bad actors, or hackers will eventually attack if and whe...
How Software is Powering the Blind to See Again
December 31, 2020 08:00 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBThe idea of virtual reality has captivated humans for the longest time. After all, the ability to live a second life, free of the physical obstacles that the real world presents is a dream worth falling into. But what if there was a bridge between the powers of virtual reality and its ability to impact the real world? That’s the mission that Ammad Khan, the CEO and Co-founder of IrisVision, set out to make possible. “I have always believed that technology has the tremendous potential of rea...
Patent Pending: How the UPTO Office is Expediting the Time From Submittal to Approval
December 29, 2020 08:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBThe United States Patent and Trademark Office wants to modernize its technology stack, but to accomplish its ambitious goal, Jamie Holcombe, the CIO for USPTO has two main objectives: snapping out of a spell that binds people to age-old projects, and scaling its current way of doing things. “What I saw was the ability to actually outsource a lot of our infrastructure, and that means not actually having the data center that we currently do in Alexandria, although it's very efficient. What we...
The Algorithms that Bring you Style with Stitch Fix’s Director of Data Science, Tatsiana Maskalevich
December 24, 2020 08:00 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBThe old saying, “look good, feel good,'' fits Stitch Fix perfectly. The direct-to-consumer, online personal styling service has boomed due to its ability to not only match consumers with trendy and comfortable clothes, but to make it a personalized experience for each buyer. “At the end of the day, we want to be rooted in personalization. First and foremost, it's important for us that [consumers] not only come to Stitch Fix to complete a transaction, but that you really think about us as yo...