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Welcome to Season 9 of The Climate Conversation podcast! How many issues can you think of that 94% of U.S. voters agree on? Probably not very many. But a poll commissioned by U.S. Nature4Climate in 2024 revealed that 94% of voters across the United States support the expansion of natural climate solutions—actions that reduce emissions and increase carbon storage in forests, farms, grasslands, and wetlands—in public policy. To kick off the new season of EESI's podcast, co-hosts Daniel Bresette and Alison Davis sit down with the bipartisan pollsters who led the survey, Lori Weigel of New Bridge Strategy and Dave Metz of FM3 Research.   Show notes: Growth in Support for Natural Climate Solutions (article): https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/growth-in-support-for-natural-climate-solutions  Maximizing the Impact of Natural Climate Solutions (briefing): https://www.eesi.org/briefings/view/061124nature  Cities Leading the Way on Nature-Based Solutions (briefing): https://www.eesi.org/briefings/view/052324cities  New Guide Helps Decision-Makers Adopt Natural Climate Solutions (article): https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/new-guide-helps-decision-makers-adopt-natural-climate-solutions  Public Polling on Climate Change (briefing): https://www.eesi.org/briefings/view/020923camp 

As 2024 draws to a close, many people are wondering what to expect from the next Congress and presidential administration on climate change. But sometimes, the best way to look forward is to look back. Co-hosts Daniel Bresette and Alison Davis sit down with Jay Hakes, author of The Presidents and the Planet: Climate Change Science and Politics from Eisenhower to Bush, for a discussion about the intersection of climate science and political processes in the White House.   Show notes: EESI at 40: Claudine Schneider Reflects on the Necessity of Communication in Climate Politics: https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/eesi-at-40-claudine-schneider-reflects-on-the-necessity-of-communication-in-climate-politics EESI Welcomes Two Energy Leaders to Its Board of Directors: https://www.eesi.org/press-releases/view/eesi-welcomes-two-energy-leaders-to-its-board-of-directors

Matthew Le Merle is Managing Partner of Blockchain Coinvestors. Launched in 2014, Blockchain Coinvestors' vision is that digital monies, commodities and assets are inevitable and all of the world's financial infrastructure must be upgraded. ================ All Episodes can be found at www.thecryptopodcast.org   Podcast Coaching + All Social Media + Donations link https://bio.link/podcaster   Our Facebook Group can be found at https://www.facebook.com/thecryptopodcast   ======= Help Support the show through my Business Partners :  Get a Virtual Assistant at https://va.world/ ------- Upgrade Your Brain    Unleash & Use Your Uniqueness   https://braingym.fitness/⁠    --------------------------   Speaking Podcast Social Media / Coaching My Other Podcasts    ⁠⁠⁠https://roycoughlan.com/⁠⁠   Health & Wellness Products   https://partnerco.world/   My Website https://partner.co/?custid=N6543249    ============ About my Guest Matthew Le Merle : Matthew Le Merle is Managing Partner of Blockchain Coinvestors. Launched in 2014, Blockchain Coinvestors' vision is that digital monies, commodities and assets are inevitable and all of the world's financial infrastructure must be upgraded. Our mission is to provide broad coverage of the emerging unicorns and fastest growth blockchain companies and crypto projects. Our investment strategy is now in its 10th year and has to date invested in more than 40 pure play blockchain venture funds in the Americas, Asia and Europe; and in a combined portfolio of 1,250+ blockchain and crypto projects including 95 of all blockchain unicorns. Our first fund of funds ranks in the top quartile amongst all funds in its category on both Pitchbook and Preqin. Headquartered in San Francisco with a presence in Grand Cayman, London, New York, Zug and Zurich, the alternative investment management firm was co-founded by Alison Davis and Matthew Le Merle. Earlier in his career, Matthew spent 21 years as a strategy, operations and corporate finance advisor to Fortune 500 CEOs, boards and executive teams with McKinsey & Company, and as a practice leader with A.T. Kearney and Monitor Group where he led both firms' West Coast practices and at Booz & Company. What we Discussed:   - His journey into the financial market (2 mins) - Has he gotten his children involved in the business (3:45min) - Who he thinks created Bitcoin (4:30 mins) - How Bitcoin was (7:30 mins) - The result of Different Asset Classes from 2008 (9:30 mins) - Does he see transfers of blockchain will be easier in the future (14:15 mins) - How will the market when BRICS currency starts (19:45 mins) - What is a Unicorn Business (24 mins) - What to be aware of when investing in Blockchain (26:45 mins) - More Projects fail than suceed (32 mins) - Know the vested interests of the investment company (33:45 mins) - Lots of Influencers & singers caused people to lose money (35 mins) - Should people invest in funds in different sectors (36:45 mins) - Blockrock, Trump and others changing their minds about Blockchain (41 mins) - How will market change with Trump win (46 mins) How to Contact Matthew Le Merle:   https://www.blockchaincoinvestors.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/fifthera/ https://x.com/BCoinvestors       ==============   Speaking Podcast Social Media / Coaching My Other Podcasts    ⁠⁠⁠https://roycoughlan.com/⁠⁠   Health & Wellness Products   https://partnerco.world/   My Website https://partner.co/?custid=N6543249 

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Matthew Le Merle is a business executive, investor, and author with about four decades of experience in private equity and venture capital investments. He is the Managing Partner and CEO of Blockchain Coinvestors, an investment management firm specialising in blockchain technology. Aside from his role at Blockchain Coinvestors, Matthew is also the Managing Partner of Keiretsu, a prominent early-stage venture investor backing more than 300 companies annually. He is also the Managing Partner of the Fifth Era LLC. The Fifth Era Office invests globally in private equity and venture funds, in addition to direct investments in operating companies and other private opportunities, including real estate.For more information on Matthew Le Merle, visit https://businessabc.net/wiki/matthew-le-merleMatthew Le Merle Interview Questions00:01 - 03:50 Introduction03:51 - 07:14 Background07:15 - 11:07 Experience in digital payments and assets11:08 - 21:28 Impact of blockchain technology21:29 - 20:02 Matthew in the blockchain investment29:03 - 35:56 Blockchain investments and tokenisation35:57- 45:04 Cryptocurrency market: Current scenario45:05 - 54:48 Blockchain and tokenisation: Challenges and opportunities54:49 -01:05:13 Interplay between blockchain01:05:14 - 01:08:00 ClosureAbout Blockchain CoinvestorsBlockchain Coinvestors is a hyper-focused venture capital firm investing in blockchain companies. Headquartered in San Francisco with a presence in London, New York, Grand Cayman, Zug, and Zurich, the alternative investment management firm was co-founded by Alison Davis and Matthew Le Merle.Blockchain Coinvestors' investment strategies are now in their 10th year and are backed by 400+ investors globally. To date, it has invested in 40+ pure-play blockchain venture capital funds in the Americas, Asia, and Europe and a combined portfolio of 1000+ blockchain companies and projects including 80+ blockchain unicorns. For more information on Blockchain Coinvestors, visit https://businessabc.net/wiki/blockchain-coinvestorsUseful Resources and Linkshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewlemerlehttps://www.matthewlemerle.com/https://www.blockchaincoinvestors.com/matthew-le-merlehttps://www.fifthera.com/https://www.bandangels.com/https://www.securities.io/matthew-le-merle-co-founder-and-managing-partner-of-fifth-era-and-keiretsu-capital-interview-series/https://twitter.com/mlemerle?lang=enAbout citiesabc.comhttps://www.citiesabc.com/​​​​​​​​​​​ About businessabc.nethttps://www.businessabc.net/About fashionabc.orghttps://www.fashionabc.org/ About Dinis Guardahttps://www.dinisguarda.com/https://businessabc.net/wiki/dinis-guardaSupport the Show.

Matthew Le Merle is Managing Partner and CEO of Blockchain Coinvestors.Launched in 2014, Blockchain Coinvestors' vision is that digital monies, commodities and assets are inevitable and all of the world's financial infrastructure must be upgraded. Our mission is to provide broad coverage of the emerging unicorns and fastest growth blockchain companies and crypto projects. Our investment strategy is now in its 9th year and has to date invested in more than 40 pure play blockchain venture funds in the Americas, Asia and Europe; and in a combined portfolio of 750+ blockchain companies and projects including 75+ blockchain unicorns. Our funds rank in the top decile amongst all funds in their respective categories on both Pitchbook and Preqin. Headquartered in San Francisco with a presence in Grand Cayman, London, New York, Zug and Zurich, the alternative investment management firm was co-founded by Alison Davis and Matthew Le Merle.Matthew is also Managing Partner of Keiretsu - the most active early-stage venture investors backing over 300 companies a year.Matthew's career has spanned being a global strategy advisor, professional services firm leader, corporate operating executive, private equity and venture capital investor, and board director. His board work has included Chairman or Non-Executive Director roles in 15 public and private companies and active Advisory Board roles in fast growth companies. Matthew's board experience includes a broad range of industries including Digital Content/videogames, eCommerce, Fintech/Blockchain, Business Services, Consumer and Retail.Earlier in his career, Matthew spent 21 years as a strategy, operations and corporate finance advisor to Fortune 500 CEOs, boards and executive teams with McKinsey & Company, and as a practice leader with A.T. Kearney and Monitor Group where he led both firms' West Coast practices and at Booz & Company. He was also a corporate executive at Gap Inc. where he was SVP strategy and corporate development and SVP global marketing.Matthew is bestselling author (The Intelligent Investor – Silicon Valley, Blockchain Competitive Advantage, Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era, Build your Fortune in the Fifth Era, The Ministry of Bitcoin and Second Chance) and keynote speaker. He received a B.A. (Double First) and Master's from Christ Church, Oxford, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was born in London, UK, and is now a dual US/UK citizen and lives in San Francisco and London with his wife, Alison Davis. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crypto-hipster-podcast/support

Episode: 00208 Released on April 22, 2024 Description: Here at Analyst Talk with Jason Elder, we do talk about Bruno – Christopher Bruno, that is. In this episode, Chris shares his career journey from an officer to private investigator to crime analyst for both New York Police Department (NYPD) and currently the Delray Beach Police Department. Chris discusses the transferable skills between these positions, his thoughts on CompStat and working for a decentralized crime analysis unit, and how crimes in The Big Apple compare to the beach cities of Florida. Chris's analyst badge story involves a peculiar series where a subject was drugging people via a concoction stored in an eye drop bottle. Chris is currently a crime analyst for the Delray Beach (FL) Police Department.  This episode contains the fan-favorite segment, Don't Be That Analyst (#DBTA). Have a DBTA segment to share? Let us know at leapodcasts@gmail.com or leave a comment on any of our social media accounts! Jennifer Loper (https://www.leapodcasts.com/e/atwje-jennifer-loper-the-junk-drawer/) Annette Shapiro (https://www.leapodcasts.com/e/atwje-annette-shapiro-florida-woman/) Austin Rice (https://www.leapodcasts.com/e/atwje-austin-rice-the-unstale-analyst/) Alison Davis (https://www.leapodcasts.com/e/atwje-allison-davids-getting-better-together/) Keri Nordland (https://www.leapodcasts.com/e/atwje-karie-nordland-the-record-setter/)  CHALLENGE: There are Easter eggs in one of the tables of the Excel chapter that Jason wrote for the IACA textbook. First-person to email us at leapodcasts@gmail.com about what the Easter eggs are will receive a $50 gift card from us. Happy hunting! Name Drops: Deb Piehl (00:02:02)  Public Service Announcements:  NEW SHOW:  Cocktails & Crime Analysis Promo Related Links: https://www.delraybeachfl.gov/government/city-departments/communications/village-by-the-sea-magazine https://www.wpbf.com/article/women-accused-of-drugging-robbing-men-in-delray-beach/36524599 https://colormax.org/color-blind-test/ Association(s) Mentioned:  Vendor(s) Mentioned:  Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-bruno-5632ab12b/  Transcript:  Podcast Writer: Mindy Duong Podcast Researcher:  Theme Song: Written and Recorded by The Rough & Tumble. Find more of their music at www.theroughandtumble.com. Logo: Designed by Kyle McMullen. Please visit www.moderntype.com for any printable business forms and planners.  Podcast Email: leapodcasts@gmail.com   Podcast Webpage: www.leapodcasts.com   Podcast Twitter: @leapodcasts 00:00:17 – Introducing Chris 00:04:45 – Private Investigator 00:10:02 – NYPD Analyst 00:22:07 – Delray Beach Analyst 00:30:05 – Break: NEW SHOW:  Cocktails & Crime Analysis Promo 00:31:00 – ABS: Drugging Rich Men  00:39:36 – Advice 00:45:02 – Don't Be That Analyst 00:52:25 – Personal Interests:  Hockey 00:57:18 – Words to the World

Giles Fraser hears about Alison Davis, who was in pain, very unwell and wanted to die. Her friend and carer Colin Harte describes how she changed her mind and went on to campaign against euthanasia, or assisted dying, and also developed a Catholic faith. The debate about assisted dying, the right to choose when and how we die if we're terminally ill, is back in the political spotlight. Life, death and attitudes to suffering are at the heart of all religions. After hearing Alison's story, a panel of people of faith discuss how their beliefs shape their views on this fundamental question. With Rabbi Jonathan Romain, Canon Rosie Harper, Rev Katie Tupling and Baljit Singh. Presenter: Giles Fraser Editor: Dan Tierney Producers: Ruth Purser and Rebecca Maxted

Healing Generations: Nurturing the Inner Child Through Reparenting - A Journey with Dr. Alison DavisWelcome to InnerViews, a new monthly podcast from the Youth Voices Rising program at Fostering Media Connections!InnerViews is not just a podcast; it's an intimate exploration led by Ivory Bennett, a seasoned professional with 17 years of lived foster care experience. Each episode is a deep dive into topics surrounding trauma, mental and emotional health, well-being, and the unique challenges faced by Black women in the realm of healing.Join Ivory Bennett on "InnerViews" for powerful conversations, lived expertise, and a journey towards holistic well-being. Subscribe now and become part of a community committed to understanding, healing, and thriving. Your story matters, and Ivory is here to guide you on the path to inner transformation.In the inaugural episode of "InnerViews," join host Ivory Bennett in a profound exploration of trauma, healing, and the well-being of Black women with esteemed guest Dr. Alison Davis. Delve into crucial topics such as generational trauma, misogynoire, and the significance of culture in mental and emotional health. Discover empowering insights on parenting, re-parenting, and the transformative journey towards intentional living. Together, let's embark on a path of healing and understanding, where courageous storytelling paves the way to a softer, more empowered life.About the host:Ivory Bennett, a national interdisciplinary equity advocate, brings over 8 years of experience in classroom instruction, curriculum design, and department leadership. With a focus on trauma-informed pedagogy, Ivory is committed to achieving education and child welfare equity, especially for youth with marginalized identities. As the Program Manager for Youth Voices Rising, Ivory develops comprehensive training programs that prepare and empower youth to tell their stories. Ivory also advocates for policy improvements within the child welfare sector. Ivory's vast experience includes roles as Manager, Community Impact Coach for Teach for America in Dallas, Project Manager for Fostering Families Today, and serving as Special Program Board Chair for The Leaders Readers Network.

How do children learn to navigate the world of technology in a healthy way? In this lively conversation, Dr. Alison Davis shares her research  on the impact technology has on their social emotional lives of the students she's surveyed.  Her thoughtful, practical, and human centered digital literacy curriculum is available to schools.  You can reach her on IG @poems_and_pebbles are by email at readmoreproust@gmail.com

The Viewless Wings Poetry Podcast October submitted poetry episodes features poems by five poets: thank god for thanking god by Esteban Allard-Valdivieso Girlhood by Lucy Rattner Sins of Gold by Daude Teel Laura in April by Derek Kannemeyer Unannounced Guest by Alison Davis --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

A podcast for deans and academic leadership.DEANS COUNSELJames Ellis | Moderator | Dean of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (2007-2019)David Ikenberry | Moderator | Dean of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado-Boulder (2011-2016)Ken Kring | Moderator | Co-Managing Director, Global Education Practice and Senior Client Partner at Korn FerryDeansCounsel.com--EPISODE 19: Alison Davis-Blake (Bentley) on Thriving in a Challenging & Lonely RoleOn this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Jim Ellis and Ken Kring speak with Alison Davis-Blake, Executive Leadership Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Carson School of Management. Previous roles include President of Bentley University, Dean and Leon Festinger Collegiate Professor of Management at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, and Dean at Carlson.A recognized and respected leader in higher education, Alison is the first woman to hold the position of Dean at Carlson, and during her time leading the school she lead the expansion of global learning opportunities, making the Carlson School the first business school to require that all undergraduates have an international experience before they graduate.  In her conversation with Jim and Ken, Alison talks about what she's learned and accomplished in her variety of leadership experiences, including:• The loneliness of being Dean  • The increasing challenges a Dean faces• Transitioning into Philanthropy• The importance of listening • Overcommunicating your message  • Developing your leadership team • Transparency in leadership Learn more about Alison Davis-Blake: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisondavisblake/Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at feedback@deanscounsel.comThanks for listening.-Produced by Joel Davis at Analog Digital Arts

Did you know that little things you do every day in your role as a physician make you a valuable knowledge consultant for companies? It's true! Biotech, pharma, and other industries are always looking for physicians with expertise in a variety of areas to share their knowledge and experience with them. My guest today, Alison Davis, is the General Manager of Corporate Markets for GLG, a company that matches physician consultants with clients needing their expertise. She'll discuss what knowledge consulting is and how you can get started. You can find the show notes for this episode and more information by clicking here: www.doctorscrossing.com/episode127   In this episode we're talking about: How Alison came to work for GLG The types of activities knowledge consultants engage in with clients Why clients aren't always seeking just your medical knowledge How to join the GLG network A behind-the-scenes look at how consultants are matched to clients Whether you need to be licensed or board certified for knowledge consulting Compensation for this type of work   Links for this episode: GLG Company Website If you are interested in being a knowledge consulted for GLG please email them at getstarted@glgroup.com Blog Post - A Nonclinical Side Hustle Where Physicians Can Make Money Waiting Around - with Dr. Robert Cooper LinkedIn for Physicians Course - If you'd like to learn how to customize your LinkedIn profile to make it stand out to recruiters, this course walks you through all the steps with short, actionable videos and cheat sheets for each lesson. This course takes the guesswork out of using LinkedIn!

0:00 -- Intro.2:08 -- Start of interview.2:45 -- Alison's "origin story". 5:07 -- Her experience in management consulting with McKinsey & Co and Kearney.5:49 --  Her experience as CFO at Barclays Global Investors (now BlackRock) and with private equity as the managing director of Belvedere Capital, focused on investing in US banks and financial services firms. The challenges of banking post-financial crisis and Dodd-Frank (2010).9:26 --  Her pivot to fintech and blockchain investing. Since 2014 she's been investing in crypto. She co-founded Blockchain Coinvestors with her husband Mathew Le Merle.11:57 -- Her take on the future of blockchain "I think that it's completely inevitable that fully digital assets and fully digital payments are coming, it's just a matter of time [but timing is everything if you're an investor]." "There is no doubt in my mind that blockchain technology is a massively important component of the next generation of our global digital economy." "We will have fully digitally enabled payment and assets as part of our next generation web [some referred it as Web 3.0]."13:38 -- On her experience with public company board service. Her first board was in 1998 with Dispatch Management Services Company [Founded in 1994 by Linda Jenkinson and Greg Kidd. DMSC was a publicly traded company that handled point-to-point delivery services]. At the time she was CFO at BGI. Since then, she has served on 22 corporate boards, over half of them public companies, the others in private companies. "It's been fascinating and I really enjoy [this work] enormously."16:51 -- In 2011 she was invited to join the board of the Royal Bank of Scotland. That was her introduction to U.K. corporate governance. She was on the board for 9 years, because there are term limits in the U.K. [after 9 years, a director is no longer considered 'independent'].20:25 -- On dual-class share structures adopted in the UK (against the long standing "one share, one vote" principle).21:24-- On the role of the board in strategy and innovation. "When public companies lose a lot value, 80% of the time it's because of strategy missteps."25:51  -- How should boards deal with crisis management. "From the crisis that I've experienced as a director, ~40% of them have been due to exogenous factors, and ~60% have been due to self-inflicted wounds (such as bad culture, personality clashes, single person failure, etc)." In the latter case, a lot of them could have been spotted earlier by a really engaged board that was connected enough to the company to understand that these things were arising."28:21  -- On whether having more inside (executive) directors on boards impacts at all the governance of the company.29:54 -- On the idea of having employee representatives on corporate boards of directors. "We explored this seriously at RBS, but we decided instead that a sub-committee of the board spend time on 'employee listening sessions' and we created a workers' council to connect on these matters." "I think that U.S. boards could really benefit from more listening sessions with key stakeholders."32:47 -- On the evolution of sustainability and ESG. Her experience with Barclays Global Investors, and the vision of then CEO Patty Dunn, who questioned the idea of companies having great short term value but leaving a wake of damage that later society and/or tax payers had to pay. She posited having a more active role as stewards of long term capital for a more sustainable future. The case of RBS, going from darlings of Wall Street to almost the world's biggest bank failure. "That was a wake up call." "I am a big fan of ESG broadly defined." "I am really excited that [big institutional investors] have leaned in and are tipping this discussion."38:58 -- On the growing influence of large institutional investors in corporate governance: "The [beneficiaries of large index funds] do not want short-term high profit at long-term costs to the economy and people's lives." "I'm very supportive of large institutional investors focusing on broader societal issues and the health of capitalism." "Can capitalism retain the trust of the people that live in a capitalist system?" "I mean, you could democratize the whole thing and say everyone has a vote but your average person is not investing the time to get really educated on these issues."41:35 -- On the books that she's co-authored with her husband Matthew Le Merle: Build your Fortune in the Fifth Era,Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era,Blockchain Competitive Advantage, andThe Intelligent Investor – Silicon Valley.44:55 -- No specific books "that have changed her life", but she's a big reader of The Economist.45:42 -- Who were your mentors, and what did you learn from them? Patty Dunn, ex CEO of BGI. "She touched my heart, as well my [mind]. She was a great leader and was very inspirational."Ross McEwan, ex CEO of RBS47:26 -- Are there any quotes you think of often or live your life by? From Desiderata (1927): "With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy." 48:32 --  An unusual habit or an absurd thing that you love: "Making jam with my husband, we make a killer Lemoncello and apricot jam"!49:14 --  The person(s) she most admires: entrepreneurs from the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center (she's a board member of this organization).Alison Davis the Co-Founder and Chair of Blockchain Coinvestors & Fifth Era, a leading VC firm investing in blockchain and Web 3. She currently serves as an independent director at Silicon Valley Bank, Fiserv, Janus Henderson Investors, Collibra and Pacaso. She also serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board for Blockchain Capital LLC, advisor to Bitwise Asset Management and board member of the NACD Northern California Chapter.__ You can follow Evan on social media at:Twitter: @evanepsteinLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/epsteinevan/ Substack: https://evanepstein.substack.com/__Music/Soundtrack (found via Free Music Archive): Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License

Alison Davis is the Executive Director of the Community and Economic Development Initiative of Kentucky (CEDIK) and Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Davis' role is to build relationships across campus, Kentucky, and the South; with the goal of promoting a stronger sense of community and an improving the economic base in rural areas. On this episode, we discussed macroeconomic conditions as it relates to Lexington and the strategic growth of city. Hosted by Weston Lockhart and Ross Boggess DevelopLex is proud to be supported by: SVN Stone Commercial Real Estate Community Trust Bank Rapid Fire Home Buyers Learn more about Middle Tech and our network of shows at MiddleTech.com Intro music by SmithTheMister

This episode has been published and can be heard everywhere your podcast is available. Jamil tackles Matthew Le Merle, who is co-founder and Managing Partner of Fifth Era which manages Blockchain Coinvestors - the world's leading blockchain venture fund of funds. Matthew is also Managing Partner of Keiretsu - the most active early stage venture investors backing almost 200 companies a year. He is Chairman of CAH, Securitize (Europe), Universal Protocol Alliance and Vice Chairman of SFOX. Matthew grew up in England before living most of his life in Silicon Valley where he raised his five children with his wife Alison Davis. Today he splits his time between the US and UK. By day he is an investor in technology companies and a bestselling author and speaker on innovation, investing and the future having worked at McKinsey, A.T. Kearney, Monitor, Booz and Gap. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, writing and photography. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and Stanford and is an adjunct professor at Singularity U. To learn more go to www.fifthera.com Here are some of the things they discussed 1. What is your own background? It is a logical background to what you do now? 2.Give us with a brief overview of Blockchain Coinvestors and Fifth Era along with an overview of your investment mandate principles. 3. You are a best selling author and researcher. You recently conducted an in-depth focus study of 10,000 institutional investors and high net worth individuals about some common myths and fears concerning Bitcoin. Could you please provide us a snapshot of some of your key findings? What were they? 4. The #1 fear was Bitcoin isn't safe to own. How do you feel about that result and what measures do you feel would support your investors in changing their minds? 5. Of the remaining concerns, what one most surprised you and why? 6. What result did you most expect to see but maybe expected a larger percentage of concern? Why? 7. Bitcoin has only been adopted by a small number of Fortune 1000 companies publicly, including Microstrategy and Tesla. The actual number is in contrast to your focus group findings about Wall Street greed, though both your HNW audience and my blue collar friends feel the same way. How do you see, in actuality, Bitcoin and Wall Street playing out in the short, medium and long term? 8. What do you think it will take to really achieve mass adoption? 9. In addition to Bitcoin, I noticed your firm recently took on coin investments in both Aave and Uniswap, which are open sourced decentralized protocols on the Ethereum network. As an Aave investor, that captivated my interest. I would expect a Silicon Valley VC to be more interested in a VC backed crypto such as Maker or Compound. What prompted your interest in Aave and Uniswap? Host Jamil Hasan is the Crypto Hipster. Jamil hosts this global crypto and blockchain audio podcast series where he interviews founders and co-founders, entrepreneurs and artists, executives and stay-at-home Hipsters in crypto and blockchain from all around the world. Jamil is a five-time author and best known for being the pre-eminent author in the field of Blockchain Ethics. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/crypto-hipster-podcast/support

We chat with Northern Steel founders Peter and Alison Davis. They discuss the car culture and members they have built over the past two years becoming arguably one of WA's quickest growing car clubs. We discuss their beginnings in the car scene, what got them so actively involved in the community and working along side many charities.

Launched in 2014, Blockchain Coinvestors' goal is to provide broad coverage of the emerging unicorns and fastest growth blockchain companies and crypto projects. The strategy is now in its 9th year and has to date invested in more than 40 pure play blockchain venture funds in the Americas, Asia and Europe; and in a combined portfolio of 400+ blockchain and crypto projects including approximately 50% of all blockchain unicorns. Our funds rank in the top decile amongst all funds in their respective categories on both Pitchbook and Preqin. Headquartered in San Francisco with a presence in Grand Cayman, London, New York, Zug and Zurich, the alternative investment management firm, was co-founded by Alison Davis and Matthew Le Merle who, with Lou Kerner, also comprise the Managing Directors of Blockchain Coinvestors Acquisition Corporation 1. Matthew is also Managing Partner of Keiretsu – the most active early-stage venture investors backing over 300 companies a year.Matthew's career has spanned being a global strategy advisor, professional services firm leader, corporate operating executive, private equity and venture capital investor, and board director. His board work has included Chairman or Non-Executive Director roles in 15 public and private companies and active Advisory Board roles in fast growth companies. Matthew's board experience includes a broad range of industries including Digital Content/videogames, eCommerce, Fintech/Blockchain, Business Services, Consumer and Retail.

This week we talk with Dr. Alison Davis about solar developments that are threatening to displace farm land in our rural central Kentucky communities. For more information see the following pub: https://agecon.ca.uky.edu/files/solar_farming_considerations.pdf

Renee Shaw and guests discuss bridging the urban-rural divide in Kentucky. Guests include: Al Cross, director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the University of Kentucky; Alison Davis, Ph.D., professor of agricultural economics at the University of Kentucky and the executive director of the Community and Economic Development Initiative of Kentucky; and others.

Jamil tackles Matthew Le Merle, who is co-founder and Managing Partner of Fifth Era which manages Blockchain Coinvestors - the world's leading blockchain venture fund of funds. Matthew is also Managing Partner of Keiretsu - the most active early stage venture investors backing almost 200 companies a year. He is Chairman of CAH, Securitize (Europe), Universal Protocol Alliance and Vice Chairman of SFOX. Matthew grew up in England before living most of his life in Silicon Valley where he raised his five children with his wife Alison Davis. Today he splits his time between the US and UK. By day he is an investor in technology companies and a bestselling author and speaker on innovation, investing and the future having worked at McKinsey, A.T. Kearney, Monitor, Booz and Gap. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, writing and photography. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and Stanford and is an adjunct professor at Singularity U. To learn more go to www.fifthera.com Here are some of the things they discussed 1. What is your own background? It is a logical background to what you do now? 2.Give us with a brief overview of Blockchain Coinvestors and Fifth Era along with an overview of your investment mandate principles. 3. You are a best selling author and researcher. You recently conducted an in-depth focus study of 10,000 institutional investors and high net worth individuals about some common myths and fears concerning Bitcoin. Could you please provide us a snapshot of some of your key findings? What were they? 4. The #1 fear was Bitcoin isn't safe to own. How do you feel about that result and what measures do you feel would support your investors in changing their minds? 5. Of the remaining concerns, what one most surprised you and why? 6. What result did you most expect to see but maybe expected a larger percentage of concern? Why? 7. Bitcoin has only been adopted by a small number of Fortune 1000 companies publicly, including Microstrategy and Tesla. The actual number is in contrast to your focus group findings about Wall Street greed, though both your HNW audience and my blue collar friends feel the same way. How do you see, in actuality, Bitcoin and Wall Street playing out in the short, medium and long term? 8. What do you think it will take to really achieve mass adoption? 9. In addition to Bitcoin, I noticed your firm recently took on coin investments in both Aave and Uniswap, which are open sourced decentralized protocols on the Ethereum network. As an Aave investor, that captivated my interest. I would expect a Silicon Valley VC to be more interested in a VC backed crypto such as Maker or Compound. What prompted your interest in Aave and Uniswap? About Jamil Hasan Jamil Hasan is a Generation X Author and experienced data intelligence technology builder with two decades of experience leading data-based teams at Fortune 100 companies, including AIG, Prudential Financial, and Ingersoll Rand. Jamil believes that skill and experience, not just age, is the most important factor required to build and lead corporate organizations. His unique story, as someone on the ground floor of the 2008 financial crisis and his role to help repay the $180 billion AIG bailout, enabled him to come face-to-face with many of the societal ills facing Generation X today and their causes. As the result of his experience, Jamil has developed a path forward for his fellow Gen Xers to restore his generation's financial standing in society today and to rebuild the American Dream for Generation X. For Questions: Email Jamil at jamil@jamilhasan.com or info@jamilhasan.net See more on his website here.

Matthew Le Merle is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the Fifth Era and Keiretsu Capital, one of the most active early-stage venture investors backing almost 200 companies a year. They've backed over 20 unicorns, including Airbnb, Spotify, Coinbase, and many more.  Matthew has advised leading companies, including Amazon, Cisco, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, on growth and innovation. He's an economic value creation expert that has helped drive annual savings of over $2 billion at a leading retailer and $1 billion at a leading bank.  He has written several books with the latest one being The Intelligent Investor - Silicon Valley: Practical Wisdom for Investors and Entrepreneurs from 50 Leading Silicon Valley Angels and Venture Capitalists which he co-wrote with Alison Davis. In this episode… Early-stage investing is difficult and often very risky–many people have invested their money in the wrong start-ups and ended up losing money. But what if there was a way to avoid and minimize losses in early-stage investing? And more importantly, what if there was a way to connect the dots to spot potential unicorns before most people do?  On this episode of Inspired Insider, Dr. Jeremy Weisz sits down with Matthew Le Merle, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the Fifth Era and Keiretsu Capital, about investing in early-stage companies and how rewarding it can be. Matthew shares how investors determine the value of an early-stage startup, where the next opportunities could be today, the importance of fishing for the right investment opportunities in the right places, and how Fifth Era views the changes in society today. Stay tuned.

In this episode, Hall welcomes back Matthew Le Merle, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Fifth Era and Keiretsu Capital to discuss early-stage investing and “The Intelligent Investor: Silicon Valley”,  a book Matthew and his wife Alison Davis have just authored. Matthew is a manager of Blockchain Coinvestors, the world’s leading blockchain venture fund of funds and Chairman of CAH and Securitize (Europe) and Vice Chairman of SFOX. Blockchain Coinvestors has a strategy of being an investor in the leading Blockchain venture firms including 1Confirmation, 1kx, Blockchain.com Ventures, Blockchain Capital, Castle Island, DGH, Digital Currency Group, Fabric, FuturePerfect, Hashkey, IDEO and Pantera among others.  He is a bestselling author and keynote speaker and received a B.A. (Double First) and Master’s from Christ Church, Oxford, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He lives in San Francisco and London, UK with his wife, Alison Davis. They have five adult children. You can purchase Matthew’s book on ,  , or , as well as other online book companies. Matthew can be contacted at and .

In this week's episode, our host, Amanda Crice, leads a discussion about the effect of serving, and why it is important.  She is joined by Amanda Mayo, Gavin Vance, and Alison Davis. Host- Amanda CriceProducer- Katy AllenVoice over Specialist- Katy AllenJingle- Walter Sanders

This week host Mal Davis sits down with his wife and all around dope person Alison Davis to discuss her passion for acting and advocacy. She talks about her experience at Florida A&M and how it shaped her pathway to where she currently is, and her experience producing a play in NYC. We also discuss her current job as a Public Health Professional and the impact she sees Generation Z making on the world. Learn what motivates Alison and what her plans are for the future. As always make sure to check out the episode, share it with your network, subscribe, and SHOW LOVE!!

Michelle Bercovici, Esq. and Alison Davis, Esq. from the Labor and Employment Law Community discuss Return to Work Preparedness in light of the EEOC's Updated Guidance for the COVID 19 pandemic. If you enjoyed this content, consider other such programming conducted by our speakers - Michelle also did a full-length program regarding unemployment insurance benefits under the CARES Act - for more information and to register for that On-Demand, click HERE. View all of our COVID-related programming HERE. Please note, the positions and opinions expressed by the speakers are strictly their own, and do not necessarily represent the views of their employers, nor those of the D.C. Bar, its Board of Governors or co-sponsoring Communities and organizations.

A critical part of the scientific process is the interpretation and presentation of results in a form that the general public can understand. When science is not clearly communicated, it can seem to produce complex and conflicting information. However, scientists typically don't have any training on how to communicate, despite the fact that it's a very important part of their success, not only for advancing their discoveries but for getting money to do the science in the first place. Alison Davis has made it her life’s work to help scientists communicate the right way.  Alison is the President of Word Science LLC, a firm she founded almost 11 years ago to deliver concise and engaging science writing and editing, speech writing for science and medical clients, as well as related materials for a variety of audiences including lay audiences. She is the author of Always There: The Remarkable Life of Ruth L. Kirschstein. Before starting her own firm Allison served as a science writer for the National Institutes of Health and NASA's Ames Research Center. Alison earned her Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Georgetown University School of Medicine. She did her postdoc at Stanford University School of Medicine in Developmental Biology and studied at the University of California Santa Cruz's science communication program. Allison earned her Bachelor's in Biochemistry magna cum laude from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. What You’ll Hear On This Episode of When Science Speaks [1:00] Mark introduces his guest, Dr. Alison Davis [2:29] Dr. Davis shares what attracted her to science and what led her to science communication in UC Santa Cruz [6:27] What challenges did Dr. Davis face as she was transitioning her career into the science communication space? [11:33] Dr. Davis gives her perspective on ghostwriting in the science field and why it’s important to be confident in what you do when establishing your career [14:23] Dr. Davis talks about how her training in science has helped her in her writing career  [16:45] Dr. Davis discusses how science communication has evolved since the time she started working in the field [20:00] Career advice from Dr. Davis on how to best transition into the science writing and communication space [26:41] The importance of choosing your audience, honesty, and organized thinking when you’re working on a writing piece particularly in the field of science [35:18] The role of good science communication in combating the denial and denigration of science Connect with Alison Davis Dr. Alison Davis LinkedIn Wordscience LLC Always There: The Remarkable Life of Ruth Lillian Kirschstein, MD Science Communication As a Career Although many scientists consider science communication as an alternative career path, it does not necessarily involve the conduction of experiments or thorough studies. According to Dr. Davis, science communication is mostly ghostwriting since you will mostly be positing ideas and studies by others. What matters, she says, is that you stay true to the study and maintain honesty with your audience because this helps build your confidence in your skills and in your capacity to communicate the message that you want to impart. Critical thinking, honesty, and a good dash of humor are helpful in a career that some might consider as unforgiving. It is one of the ways through which the sciences can be defended against the denigration and denial that it’s facing in a world where people are questioning its credibility and reliability on a daily basis. Determining your audience, zeroing in on your medium, and writing a piece that resonates with people are crucial aspects of the job. Connecting Before Communicating In today’s society where some research institutions have become weak and dependent on outside funding, some research findings have a tendency of being exaggerated thus making them sound like alternative facts instead of literature and research-based evidence. The failure to connect with the audience and to share findings with them at a level that they can understand and appreciate is a challenge to scientists and therefore, a challenge to those who are working in the field of science communication. According to Dr. Davis, scientific research is beneficial to everyone which means that effective communication is an absolute must. The need to connect every piece written with the audience it was written for is non-negotiable; the challenge is how to do it in a way that is engaging and compelling. In this episode of When Science Speaks, Dr. Davis shares how her career has grown through the years and the challenges that she figures to be constants in the field of science communication. She imparts wisdom and advice on how to write science pieces, how to connect with the audience, and also emphasizes why this field is an important contributor to the world of science as a whole. Connect With Mark and When Science Speaks http://WhenScienceSpeaks.com https://bayerstrategic.com/ On Twitter: https://twitter.com/BayerStrategic On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Bayer-Strategic-Consulting-206102993131329 On YouTube: http://bit.ly/BSConTV On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markdanielbayer/ On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bayerstrategic/ On Medium: https://medium.com/@markbayer17 Subscribe to When Science Speaks on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher

New Natural History Museum CIO Alison Davis joined her two predecessors Ian Golding and David Thomas during episode 25 of the CIO UK podcast to discuss digitisation, the sustainability agenda at the Natural History Museum, and the social, scientific and global role the institution has beyond its duties of archiving and displaying its vast collection. Speaking with CIO UK Editor Edward Qualtrough, the trio also discussed some of their favourite memories and displays at the museum, while former CIO 100 high-flyer Davis shared the value of CIOs having their team and organisation recognised in the annual CIO 100 celebration showcase of technology leadership and initiatives.

The snow has returned to Western Canada where this episode of the IABC International Podcast is being produced. So whilst dealing with the white stuff Dan has produced the latest episode. Patrick Armstrong SCMP from Australia speaks about his experience in working in integrated marketing and communication teams. -- Alison Davis has a really informative article on the importance of creating a playbook when it comes to communicating change. If you're planning an IABC Gold Quill Award submission, then do get it in early to secure a discount on the entry fees, details available right now at gq.iabc.com And finally, if you're at the stage where you're seeking a new challenge, change of direction or a new location, then do have a look at the IABC job centre. -- Andrew Kaszowski and Marek Kubow from IABC London are hosting this week's Chapter of the Week. -- Thank you for listening to this episode. Do subscribe on your favourite podcast app. Please give this program a 5* review on Apple podcasts and don't forget to share this with colleagues and friends from across the communication and marketing sectors, whether they're IABC members or not. Music on this episode comes from Joakim Karud http://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud and Ikson http://soundcloud.com/ikson This is an IABC production. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/iabc/message

Episode 8 of Employee Buzz features a mini episode with Alison Davis, CEO of Davis & Company, and host, Alyssa Zeff. Listen in on their conversation to gather insight on today’s communication tools. Learn what tools are out there, when you can use them, and what you should think about before buying into one.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 19, 2019) – When hospitals close we can assume that those who live near them will presumably have less access to medical care because they will have to travel farther for healthcare services. Since 2009, five rural hospitals in Kentucky have closed, and many more are at risk of following suit.  Alison Davis, a professor of agricultural economics in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment and director of Community and Economic Development Initiative of Kentucky (CEDIK) and SuZanne Troske, a research associate at CEDIK, recently authored a policy paper, and are working on a research article, that discusses the impact rural hospital closures have on the length of time an individual spends being transported in an ambulance. While the paper didn’t offer specific solutions to the problem, the two researchers plan to conduct further studies to examine air transportation as an alternative, how longer ambulance rides impact health outcomes and understand the importance of hospitals as an economic driver in a community. In this week’s episode of Behind the Blue, we discuss all this as well as the role communities can play in keeping rural hospitals open, the important piece of healthcare services provided by ambulances and emergency medical services and how economic development can impact health outcomes. Become a subscriber to receive new episodes of “Behind the Blue” each week. UK’s latest medical breakthroughs, research, artists and writers will be featured, along with the most important news impacting the university. For questions or comments about this or any other episode of "Behind the Blue," email BehindTheBlue@uky.edu or tweet your question with #BehindTheBlue.

Welcome to Building the Blockchain Internet Talk Podcast show. Brought to you by Acquchat.com. I’m David your host along with my Co-Host Will Walker from Crowdcreate.us. Our Season 2 Episodes we interview investors, founders, leaders of startup Incubators, Accelerators and companies that are disrupting our daily lives. We recorded this podcast interview with our special guest Matthew LeMerle from Fifth Era and Keiretsu Capital Blockchain Funds. Available at Amazon.com today! Blockchain Competitive Advantage by Alison Davis and Matthew C. Le Merle. Whether you are an entrepreneur, investor, or established company, learn how to win the battle for blockchain competitive advantage. Blockchain Competitive Advantage available now on Amazon.com at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1950248046/. Disclaimer: We do not recommend investing in any specific or particular ICO’s/STO’s, Funds or any Cryptocurrencies without first getting financial advice from a professional that you know and trust. Building the Blockchain podcast is here to help you better understand and be aware of the latest developments, trends in Blockchain. Listen to us interview investors, founders, leaders of startup Incubators, Accelerators and companies that are disrupting our daily lives. Listen to all our podcasts at Anchor.fm: https://anchor.fm/building-the-blockchain --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/building-the-blockchain/support

Episode 1 kicks off the Employee Buzz podcast series with Davis & Company CEO, Alison Davis and host, Alyssa Zeff. Tune in to hear insights on engaging employees, staying up-to-date on key employee communication topics and applying best practices to your messaging. Learn from internal communication experts on the current state of employee communication and where it’s headed. 

We’re talking about how long a patient has to be in an ambulance after their hospital closes with Dr. Alison Davis, Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Kentucky, and SuZanne Troske, Research Associate at Community and Economic Development Initiative of Kentucky. “…if the hospital hadn’t been there, that patient likely would have died on route. That hospital is now closed.” ~Dr. Alison Davis In addition to being a Professor, Dr. Davis is also the Executive Director of the Community and Economic Development Initiative of Kentucky (CEDIK). CEDIK is an integrated engagement/research center housed within the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment at the University of Kentucky. CEDIK’s mission is to build engaged communities and vibrant economies. CEDIK’s four priority areas are economic development, leadership development, community health, and community design. Dr. Davis’ role is to build relationships across campus, Kentucky and the South with the goal of promoting a stronger sense of community and an improved economic base in rural areas.  “We looked at how long it takes to be transported from the incident, oftentimes your residence, to a hospital – to an emergency room.’ ~Su Troske SuZanne Troske is a Research Associate at CEDIK and works with the Rural and Underserved Health Research Center at the University of Kentucky. Su’s areas of research at CEDIK are rural health policy and rural economic development with a focus on rural hospital closures and ambulance services across the U.S. Before joining CEDIK, Su worked at the College of Pharmacy where she studied drug policy in Kentucky. Her other fields of research include Kentucky K-12 education, unemployment insurance and industrial research and development. She has more than 20 years of experience working with big data and performing research in an academic research environment.

Artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy wrote, "A map, it is said, organizes wonder." Cartographer and story map author Alison Davis-Holland couldn't agree more. Where might your curiosity take you, given the right map? And what makes for a good map, anyway? join us to learn more! And join us next time when we consider the inevitable intersection of curiosity and sex ed.

In this episode I sit down with Financial Advisor, Alison Davis who helps us get smarter with our financial health especially in the youth sports world!   Join the Community: www.facebook.com/groups/theempoweredsportsmom   Find Alison Davis:  www.quantumleapcapital.com  

Red on yellow, kill a fellow. Red on black, friend of Jack. Some species use bright colors in different combinations to tell potential predators to back off, bub. Eat me and you'll be sorry. But not always.... Throughout the animal kingdom, species have evolved ways of faking out their enemies. Dr. Alison Davis Rabosky tells us about natures con artists, the mimics, and how these crafty creatures can actually drive evolution in their poisonous counterparts.

Starting with the most straightforward definition of blockchain we could find, Campaign gathers with Alison Davis of IBM, Ruth Zohrer of Mindshare and Dan Gilbert of Branlabs to discuss the impact the latest tech buzzword could have on the industry.

Francis Crick Institute CIO Alison Davis and former CIO 100 leader Trevor Didcock join CIO UK Editor Edward Qualtrough for the inaugural CIO UK podcast to discuss 2018 technology trends, their career highlights, and getting involved in the 2018 CIO 100 showcase of the UK's leading Chief Information Officers, Chief Technology Officers and IT directors.

Alison Davis: LinkedIn Ronald McCollam: @ronaldmccollam | ronaldmccollam.com Show Notes: 01:19 - The Future of IoT 04:57 - Where does Resin.io fit in? 07:04 - Founding Resin and The Unicorn 11:26 - How Resin Works 15:16 - Diffing 17:58 - Tooling and Workflow 23:02 - Resin is Open Sourced! 24:05 - Case Studies 30:04 - Security 34:47 - Scaling Up and Improving User Experience Resources: OpenROV Underwater Drones Etcher resinOS Transcript: ELRICK: Hello and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 80. We have a wonderful podcast today. My name is Elrick Ryan, a developer here at the Frontside and I'm going to be hosting the podcast today, in place of Charles because he's on the frozen tundra. I also have co-hosting with me today as well, another developer from the Frontside, Joe LaSala. JOE: Hello. ELRICK: Joe, how are you doing? JOE: I'm doing well, how are you? ELRICK: I'm awesome, man, and we have a wonderful podcast today. We're going to be talking about Resin.io and we have some wonderful people here from Resin with us, not one but two people came over from Arizona. We have Alison Davis, who is the director of product marketing and strategy at Resin. Alison, how are you doing? ALISON: Hey, Elrick, I'm great. Thanks for having us. ELRICK: Thank you for coming on. Also, we have Ronald McCollam, who is the solution architect at Resin.io, he's on the call with us on the podcast. Ronald, how are you doing? RONALD: I'm doing great, Elrick. Happy to be here, thank you for having me. ELRICK: Thank you for coming on. Thank you. Let's kick it off and we're going to talk about some IoT today, some Resin in IoT. What do you guys think is the future of IoT? What does it hold in your perspective? RONALD: If you had asked me a couple of years ago, I probably would have said that it's a bunch of connected refrigerators and maybe light switches and kind of left it at that. But the more I see the industry evolving, the more I realize that IoT really means that everything is getting interconnected and everything is sending data and exchanging data. I think we'll start to see IoT, not only in smart appliances and lights and so forth on the consumer side, but also on the industrial side. A lot of building automation, a lot of just more general information being provided by the environment and environments adapting to suit humans better. I think really the answer is IoT is going to be everywhere you look over the next few years. ELRICK: That is a broad takeover of IoT. It's going to be everywhere. ALISON: Yeah and I'll just add that we also think that IoT is going to become more prominent as compute power really does push further and further out to the edge. We see this trend happening already, where the amount of data and computing that needs to happen is too much to continuously be communicating back up to the cloud and more and more computing will need to take place on the edge in IoT devices and we really see these strong devices weakly connected as we often say as the future of IoT. One thing, we can talk about with Resin is, we see this creating what we call a management gap in between the developer and the fleet owner of these devices on the edge and the devices themselves and that's where Resin comes into the picture. ELRICK: That's interesting, so these devices are going to be sharing the computation and taking away some of that computations from the actual cloud? ALISON: Yeah, we think so. I think the devices themselves are getting stronger and it's becoming more and more possible for that to happen. Then there's just simple reasons of physics and economics why it will be too slow and too expensive to continuously be relying on the cloud for compute. This is a trend that we really see happening and something that we want to help fill that management gap between developers and their fleets of devices that are running out on the edge. ELRICK: I can see how that could be a plus for a company to not have to try to do all these computation on the cloud. As Ronald said earlier, since IoT is everywhere and it's going to be in devices all over the world, we could end up with probably trillions of devices trying to leverage cloud to do with computation and taken some of that away from the cloud would be a definite plus because I don't think that there is a platform that can handle that kind of data throughput. RONALD: Yeah and even as Alison said, there are just times that for reasons of the laws of physics, you really can't wait for that round trip to the cloud. We'll go sci-fi here. Let's say you've got some automated robot in an environment with a lot of people around, you don't want that thing sending all of the camera information that it has as it's moving through a crowd of people up to the cloud, waiting for the processing to happen there and then being pushed back. By the time it gets there, that robot may have already run over somebody. We really don't want that. You've got to do some of that processing out at the edge where the data is being collected. ELRICK: Yep. That's both technology issue and legal liability there so we got to make sure there's no robots running over anyone. RONALD: Yeah, exactly. ELRICK: How does Resin then blend itself to helping to promote this computation in strong devices that are weakly connected? RONALD: What Resin does is really enable you to be sure that you are running the right code on the right device and that any updates you push out to that device are not going to take that device offline or brick the device. Resin really sees whatever is running on the device as sort of a black box. We really don't have a lot of opinion about what the right thing to do on your device is. We think you know that better than we do. But what we can do is help you make sure that the devices that you have out in the field are always running the latest code, that when you find security flaws or you want to push an update out, you can always reach those devices and be sure that you can do that safely and effectively. Really, from our point of view, we want to make sure that the IoT is running safely and is always running the latest and greatest, the best code that you can possibly have out on your devices. ALISON: You need to have a way to remotely manage an update on all of these devices in a way that won't brick the devices or make you lose access to them when you can't physically access the device again. Resin is here to make it simple, easy, efficient, fast and most importantly, safe to update, as Ronald said, the code and software running on the devices so you can push updates as often as you like, send security patches and then remotely monitor what's going on with your entire fleet, all from your laptop. ELRICK: That's amazing. We've had some experience using Resin here at the office and we've been very excited and delighted with the service. I've been in Boston, actually pushing code down to Texas and it happens like almost instantaneously, which is amazing. JOE: Yep. We really enjoy using it. I think it's really cool. We're only using it currently on one Raspberry Pi but it be really fun to have a fleet of Pis and get expand that reach. I got to ask what the origin story is for the Unicorn that gets displayed. ELRICK: Yeah and in that vein, what is the founding story like? How was Resin founded? RONALD: The founding of Resin is really an interesting story because it's not that there were a bunch of people sitting around in a boardroom with a whiteboard and saying, "What's the next big thing coming along, what can we get into?" This really came about as a result of real world events. Back in the 2012 Winter Olympics in London, the team that would later go on to found Resin ended up in charge of a project dealing with a bunch of digital signs, so think of advertising and information about what was going on in the Olympics. These were all over the city of London. Mostly on a really, really interesting smart bomb proof rubbish bins. They really went all out to make sure nobody could come to harm as a result of these. But the team was intending to push some updates out to these devices -- update the information on the signs -- and had inherited this project that had been built where they were really doing what everybody was doing at the time. You just SSH into a device remotely, you run a set of script and you kind of hope everything works. That's how we had a whole bunch of people walking around the city of London in the middle of winter with USB keyboards and USB sticks, trying to get all of these individual rubbish bins back online and back up and running after a bad update. After pulling back from that, they said, "You know, this is terrible. There ought to be a better way to do this. Why did we end up in the situation?" It turns out, there really wasn't a great way to do it at the time. That's where Resin comes from. It's an effort to fix this problem, not only for ourselves but for everybody in the world to make it easy to push updates to remote devices and be sure that you're not going to have to walk around in the cold and the sludge to try to get those things back online if you do a bad update. I don't really know what the origin of the Unicorn is. I know it was an in-joke with that team that, I guess kind of slipped out more into the real world. I don't know, Alison if you know more about the Unicorn than I do but it's still a fun thing to see every time you do a push. ALISON: Yeah, I think our CTO Petros, who was also the first person we think anyway to -- when we get into this when we talk about how Resin works -- port Docker to ARM, which as a core piece of the Resin platform, he wanted to add in something fun so that when you complete a successful deployment on Resin, you see the Unicorn and that means that your push is successful and your device has fully downloaded the update. I think that's part of what makes Resin 'Resin' is where we're very, very serious and we want everything to be secure and completely buttoned up. But we also like to keep things a little bit fun and make sure that, not only is it safe and easy to deploy updates but also enjoyable. ELRICK: We definitely enjoy seeing that Unicorn as well. I've just been pushing the simplest code of all time just to see that Unicorn pop up on a successful build. RONALD: Yeah, it's always nice to get some feedback that everything worked well and everything is going perfectly for you today. ELRICK: Yeah, that's beautiful. We were thinking about that as we were talking about some IoT things before. We had not the best product idea in the world and since everyone drinks Topo Chico in Texas, we were like, "I wonder if we had a Topo Chico popper in the refrigerator," and then we're like, "If millions of people end up with this Topo Chico popper, how we then going to update the code on these Topo Chico popper in everyone's refrigerators?" That's where we're like, "Resin.io would be a perfect solution for that," or as you said, half people are walking around in the sludge going to update these devices. These devices could be located anywhere in the world and Resin seems to be a platform that could handle that type of requirement that you have to update these devices that could be anything and anywhere. I guess we can talk about how Resin then works in order to get that code deployed to anywhere and keep all of these devices updated with fresh code, as you said. RONALD: Yeah, absolutely and you're completely right. This is designed from the ground up to be something for working with distributed systems, devices that are not really under your physical control. They may not even be on a network that you control so this could be something that is out in the middle of the ocean, up on top of a mountain. Anywhere that you have network access and you want to be able to update a device is really the target for Resin. The way that this works is there's a lot of bells and whistles and things that we've learned over years of updating devices and managing devices but at kind of a high-level, we maintain a host OS on the device. There's a stripped-down version of Linux on that device that maintains a connection to the network. Really, its entire job is to just keep that device humming, keep it on the network and not do a whole lot else. Everything else happens inside of a Docker container and if you're not familiar with Docker, Docker is really sort of like a lightweight virtualization. It's a container technology that allows us to pack an application, all of its libraries, even its operating environment into one container that can be deployed and managed very, very easily. Because everything is sitting inside of a container, we can push updates to a container and not touch that underlying OS layer that is managing the network connection. Even if you do push bad code, that's not great. Your code might crash but the host operating system is still going to stay online. It's still going to maintain that network connection so that you can roll back or push another update to fix things very quickly. Then on top of that, we layer on a lot of technology that we have developed in-house to do things like computed delta between what is running on the device and what code you have just pushed to us to get on the device. You might have an eight gigabyte application running on one of these IoT devices but if you make a one kilobyte change, we're really only going to push about one kilobyte out to the device. We're not doing a full blast of a firmware update, making you pay for eight gigabytes of data over your 3G connection. We're really doing everything we can to minimize the amount of data that we send over the air, both so updates go faster but also so that we don't have to pay as much for bandwidth or wait as long in intermittent network connectivity environments. Then the final part of this is that by using Docker, we get for free some of the really cool things that Docker brings to typically larger data center environments. We have things like atomic updates. When you push an update out to a device, if you lose power or you lose connectivity in the middle of that update, that's fine. The device is just going to keep running the same code that it had on it previously until network connectivity is restored. It will resume that update and only once the full container is downloaded and put on the device, it will shut down the old version and start running the new one. There's really a lot of under the hood stuff that we've developed and we've layered on to make sure that when you push an update out to these devices, it's always doing it safely and always doing what you want to do. I get to say this because I didn't write any of the underlying code. I'm constantly amazed at some of the stuff that Resin does under the hood. It's really fun to see, just how easy it can be to update devices that are anywhere in the world. I'm constantly pushing things to London or to Seattle. I'm in Boston so it's really cool to see these things update all over the world. ELRICK: That is amazing, all of the various things that Resin gives you out of the box that you don't have to worry about as a developer, as a company. It provides you that underlying foundation for you to then build whatever product that you want to build or software that you want to build on top of it and it's absolutely amazing. I'm blown out the water every time I do something out on it as well. RONALD: Oh, cool. I'm really glad to hear that. That makes me feel good. ELRICK: That's interesting. There's so much in what you just said. There's so many different parts. I know that Joe one time, he was wondering how you guys actually do that diffing in the code that's pushed up to then on the download those changes and not the entire bulk of that code. Can you dive any deeper or give a further explanation on that portion of it? RONALD: Yeah, absolutely. I'm happy to. At a high-level, it's very simple to explain. Of course the devil is in the details. It's just like, "Updating the device. Oh, great. I'll just push bits out to it and run some stuff." If you think about it too simply, that's how you end up having to trudge around in the snow with USB stick. But at high-level, we're tracking what's already deployed on all of those devices. Because the devices out in the field are in contact with the Resin service on the backend, we know what version of your code is running on every single device at any given time. Because of that, what we can do is when you push a new version of your application, we can just do a binary diff against the image that was pushed out earlier to the image that you just wanted to push right now. We can say, "This device is running version one. I want to bring it to version three." I already know what version one is. I, obviously know what version three is because I have it right here. We'll just calculate a diff between those two versions and send only that diff out to the device. Then because the device is fairly intelligent, we can do a lot of computation at the edge to just reverse that diff and apply it on top of what's already there. These are Linux devices. They can run the same code that we use on the backend to generate that diff just in reverse, to generate the final image that we want to deploy. Even if you've got devices on five different versions of your application and you want to push them all out to the latest version, we can apply a different diff for every single device and push that diff out to the devices and they will then apply it on top of the container they're running. From the user perspective, it's nice and easy. Under the hood, there's a lot going on that we've developed to make sure that process always happen safely and securely. JOE: That's very impressive. We use Resin for our lights here in the office. We have a Raspberry Pi that controls a bunch of Philips Hue lights. I just started here a few months ago when I came on. Elrick had already have been poking around this Resin stuff and particularly that part, being able to do that diff and push only the code necessary, it was really impressive. It's also very easy to me, instead of 'get push' origins, it's 'get push' Resin, like you have the ability to send it out in your normal workflow. RONALD: Yeah, that was, honestly one of the big issues that we've seen in the IoT space in general is that the tooling and the workflow that people are using, I don't want to insult it but it's out of date. It's very much a 20th century mindset. People aren't tending to use the latest tools. They don't have continuous integration. It's really like I'm writing some C code or assembly and I'm blasting out a firmware update. That's worked in the past but it doesn't get to the scale that you can do things in the web and cloud world. Look at Facebook. They're doing multiple deployments a day sometimes to production and when was the last time you heard about a deployment taking Facebook down. There's a lot of tooling and a lot of really cool development that has been worked on and put into practice over the past 10 or 15 years to make those things possible. We're taking those same tools and we're bringing them to the IoT world. Just like you mentioned, when you do a deploy through Resin, you're actually doing a get push. We're using the exact same tools that you would use to deploy to a cloud environment but now, you're deploying those out to an IoT environment so we can fit right into a continuous integration pipeline. We can let you do things like distributed development. Resin is a very distributed team. We have people in something like 19 or 20 countries. We're using these tools to develop Resin. We kind of said, let's use those same tools to bring that experience to the IoT world. It's a really great way if you already have some experience with cloud development or modern desktop software development to be able to use those same tools for IoT, without having to come from a really heavy hardware background or firmware background. I, myself am a software guy and a web guy from way back so it's really cool for me to be able to deploy things on the devices without having to think about assembly code or firmware blobs or things like that. I can just write, even maybe some Electron code, get push that and it lands on a Raspberry Pi and I've got my code running on a device somewhere out in the world without me having to learn a new tool set. It's really powerful from that aspect as well. ALISON: An important point is that we want to bring the best and most modern and newest tools to the IoT but we also want to bring a workflow that feels native to developers who are coming to IoT from the cloud and web world. Given the growth that we think will take place in IoT and more and more devices moving out to the edge and more compute are moving out to the edge, we'll need more and more developers to be building software and code for these devices and we want to make it very accessible and easy and native to all developers and to the workflows that they're used to so they can develop applications for IoT and have it feel like a very native workflow. JOE: You've hit on what I think is like a very important point about this. The IoT is a marriage of these systems programming, embedded programming and web development in a way. That's a very different codes that is written. People who write code in embedded systems, it's a very different world than what we do as web developers. The one thing that you might be able to bridge that gap with is a common workflow and we're all used to version control or used to kind of pushing code out the way that we push code out and Resin sits right in the middle there. That's worth a lot, I think. ALISON: Exactly. RONALD: That exactly it. There are millions of mobile developers and millions of web developers but only hundreds of thousands of traditional embedded developers. Being able to bring those millions of developers using their same tools they're already familiar with to this IoT space, I think just really dramatically increases the opportunity for people to get involved and to build the next cool thing. JOE: Definitely. ELRICK: That is totally true because we were able to hook up Resin into CircleCI so we can get a continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline. It was definitely a painless solution to set up. That is testament to that, if anyone wants to build something on top and start to add other things into Resin that you guys definitely do have those hooks for people to then, add whatever they need to build, whenever they need. RONALD: Yeah, definitely. We think that the days of walled gardens are really over. We don't want to see companies try to lock other people or locked developers into a single application or a single environment or a single device. We really want these things to be as open and interoperable as possible. Part of that is just making sure that everything that we do is also open and interoperable. We expose all of our APIs to anyone, you don't have to use any of the Resin tooling, you can wrap that right into CircleCI, for example, you can pull that into Jenkins, you can pop this right into your development workflow and just keep rolling right along and we're happy to be a part of that. ALISON: I think that brings up another important point about what Resin does too is that we're really committed to open sourcing all of Resin and currently everything that runs on the device, including our operating system -- resinOS -- is open source so that people can see exactly what's going on. We even had people take our operating system and tweak it to support new device types or add in their own functionality on top of that OS. We're working really hard to actually open source all of our backend as well. That's something that's really important to us in this world of open and accessible software for IoT. We want this to be something that feels approachable and open to anybody. ELRICK: That is amazing. I didn't know that all of the code or majority of your code was open source. You heard it here first. If you want to go and check out some awesome code, head over to GitHub and look up Resin.io's codebase. ALISON: Yeah, all of the code on the devices and the whole operating system is all open source already and then where we're releasing all of the pieces of our backend so that if you want to run Resin on your own, you can do that. Hopefully, by the end of the year, I think is our goal. ELRICK: We've been talking about Resin and all of the benefits that Resin would give developers and companies that want to build products and it has a slew of things that it gives you out of the box, if you don't have to build that you can then build on top of. It will be interesting to hear some case studies or how people are actually using Resin in the wild to bid out their products. Do you have any specific case studies or things that you can talk about in respect to how people are using it out in the world? RONALD: Yeah. We have a huge variety of companies using Resin. We like to say that it's everything from smart locks to skyscrapers. The smallest physical device that I know of that we're managing is smart locks like actual door locks on houses and buildings. Then we have things as big as skyscrapers like industrial automation, building automation. It's really all over the place. One of the most interesting use cases to me is there's a company called OpenROV that does underwater drones. They have remote submersible vehicles that are exploring and doing cool science underneath the ocean. They're managing the software that's running on those devices using Resin. They throw these submarines out in the ocean, they let him tool around on their own. When they come up to the surface, they send back data and check in for updates so they can be constantly refining what those submersibles are doing out in the ocean without having to physically go pick them up or bring them back in to make changes. It's a really, really exciting thing to see. But we've got similar stories in things like power generation. I mentioned earlier out in the middle of the ocean or on top of a mountain that was literal. We do have companies that are making wind turbines that are in all kinds of environments that are very difficult to get to. They really want to get the top performance out of these devices. If you can pull a 1% increase in power generation from a wind turbine, you've really started making a lot more money. That's a very significant improvement. They have devices in these wind turbines that are constantly monitoring every part of the turbine itself and the environment so they're feeding data back and then they can use that to build a new model of the best way to say, angle blades on a turbine and then push that new model out to the device without having to go miles out into the ocean or up on top of a mountain to physically touch those devices. Again it's a really cool way of being able to pull data back in, modeled it in the cloud and then push that back out to the edge for application without having to physically visit every one of those devices. It's just really exciting to see all the cool use cases that Resin has being used in. ELRICK: That is amazing. I actually gave a talk one time and I said, these devices could be out in the middle of the ocean somewhere, who knows? And someone could be pushing updates to it and it's amazing to hear that someone is actually doing that. I didn't just pull that out of the thin air. This is a real thing. RONALD: Yeah, absolutely. We've got, like I said, out in the ocean, on top of mountains. We've got ones in the middle of cities. Anywhere that you have a network connection, you can put a device. We even have some companies doing things over 3G or even 2G modems, I think like out in the jungle or in very rural areas where you want to be able to collect things like environmental data or maybe air quality information. Really, anywhere that you can have a network connection, you can have a device that you're managing and updating and making sure it's kept up to date without having to physically go touch that thing. ALISON: And Resin really is use-case agnostic and we see end users using Resin in their workflow, no matter what project they're working on. It all comes down to, I think all of these companies and projects are looking for ways to operate more efficiently and to gather data about their businesses and their projects. Any company in any business can use IoT to improve their operations. We see more and more companies finding ways to incorporate IoT into their work and I think part of that is driven by the availability and accessibility of tools like Resin devices, like the Raspberry Pi. That's affordable and easily available and quick to get up and running on. That's a new trend and I think it's enabling a lot faster and broader adoption of IoT. JOE: Absolutely. It feels constantly like we're right on the cusp of something with IoT. But we do work in that space a lot just in our own time and as part of the work that we do here at the Frontside, we're always finding the tool set seems a step behind and Resin is a stark contrast of that. We're coming into a whole new era of computing with something with a very powerful tool in our belt already. That is very well fleshed out. Thank you for that. RONALD: Yeah, thank you. It really does feel like we are on the verge of a sea change in how we see computing. We've gone, like I said from a few years ago thinking of IoT as sort of silly things like smart refrigerators. I shouldn't say silly but just sort of one off use-case like smart refrigerators or smart lighting. Now, to the extent where it's really about pervasive computing and I think we're just barely starting to scratch the surface of what that means and how that's going to change the world when we start having data about everything that's going on in the world around us. All of the equipment that we have and all of the compute power that we have around us is able to adapt to us and change as the needs of the environment change is just a really exciting time. I don't even think we can predict what the world is going to look like in 15 years as a result of this. ALISON: As IoT and edge computing becomes more pervasive, we touched on this at the beginning but this is where management and security become really important and you hear a lot of people in the press and elsewhere talking about the security of IoT devices and how they're vulnerable to attacks. This is where something like Resin is really important where you need to be able to access and be able to update and send security patches to those devices remotely and to send those updates constantly so that they're not vulnerable. As this field grows, which we think it will exponentially, we really need to find ways to fill this management gap and Resin, hopefully can help do that to some extent. RONALD: I think that traditionally, if you were building a device, you think like a hardware manufacturer like Alison says, you're not thinking about necessarily security and updates because in the past, it was just, we build a device, we'll put it out in the world and that's it, unless the things are catching on fire and we have to do a recall, we just move on to the next thing. But today, all of these devices are connected to the internet, which means they're constantly being attacked, people are looking for vulnerabilities and as soon as one of those is found, that spreads across the world like wildfire. We see the news articles on a weekly basis of IoT devices being used as part of botnets or being taken offline. Having a way to make sure that you can constantly address those issues as they come up is really, really important. Even if you're a hardware manufacturer, once that device is released, you have to think like a software company. You have to be thinking of updates. You have to be thinking about security all the time or you're really letting your customers down. JOE: Yeah, that's very true and the only way to mitigate threats is to constantly addressing those threats. I've worked in the security space. There's no such thing as secure really. We're never going to reach a level where it's like, we solved it. You have to constantly be rolling with the punches, so to speak. It's great that that's built in with Resin. RONALD: Yeah, exactly. Security isn't really an end state. You don't ever get to say, "Yes, I'm secure now." It's a process. It's how do I deal with things as they happen because they will happen. ELRICK: That is definitely true and people shouldn't be afraid to be constantly pushing data to these devices because as you said, people and some of your customers are using Resin on 3G and 2G networks so that is proof there because of the diffing that you do in the backend and you only have to push down a small subset of your code that you can definitely just constantly be pushing and staying up to date to make sure that you're on top of your security issues. RONALD: Yeah, exactly and it's only going to become more and more important as we expect these devices to do more things and work with more data and perform more analytics at the edge. We just have to stay on top of that as an industry. ALISON: And we have customers who tell us that before Resin, they used to be afraid to push updates and they would put it off until the last possible minute. We want to create an environment where the opposite is true, where you push updates all the time, not only to push any security patches but also to make your applications better and push better code out to your devices. We want people to feel empowered and they will able to do that as often as they would in the cloud [inaudible]. ELRICK: Yeah, that's definitely true because as you said, as we're getting more web developers and people into this space, we're used to, as web developers constantly pushing code and constantly sending updates about our codebase out there. As more developers from this base come into the IoT space, that's definitely something that they're going to be looking for and Resin does provide that capability out of the box. JOE: It's interesting that it follow the same pattern because we weren't always used to that. We used to plan on a quarterly basis and releases would be these huge multi-day headaches with people on call. We kind of started going towards this very fast incremental thing and it seems like that's a pattern that isn't just web, I guess. RONALD: Yeah, definitely. That model really has evolved from a lot of heavily painful work. Lessons people have had to learn over the course of years or even decades, tools that have taken thousands of hours to build, all of these processes are hard won knowledge. We really should be applying that everywhere we possibly can. Let's bring that into the IoT world and not start over from scratch and have to relearn all those lessons and reinvent all those particular wheels. ELRICK: Resin is being used by a lot of varying companies and you have a wide customer base. Are there any use cases that came up that then pushed you to say that we have to build some for the features into Resin or some other type of software to help Resin or leverage Resin? ALISON: Yeah, definitely. We've seen over the last couple of years, as you mentioned a lot of different use cases and customers using Resin. Our goal is really to make it easy and simple for fleet owners, as we call them, people who are managing fleets of IoT devices. We want to make it easy for them to scale as quickly and seamlessly as possible. Anytime we build something, either into the platform or adjacent to the platform, it's always with that in mind. One good example is the tool that we built called 'Etcher,' which some people may be familiar with even if they aren't familiar with Resin. Etcher is essentially a way to earn SD cards and USB sticks and essentially provision IoT devices in a way that's much easier than just using DD, if you use that or any other solution that you might be using and that was borne out of our realization that this was actually a big pain point for our users, that they were having a hard time provisioning their devices. We just built Etcher and actually released it as its own standalone open source tool. Similarly, that's actually why we built our own operating system, resinOS, because there was no operating system that existed yet that would allow us to run containers on constrained IoT devices. We did the same thing, where we release that as its own standalone open source projects so that people can benefit from resinOS, even if they aren't using Resin the platform. We're always looking for ways to make that process of scaling up and deploying fleets easier and releasing those projects as openly and broadly as possible. RONALD: Yeah, to add to that going forward, we're also looking to make some improvements into the Resin platform just based on a lot of the feedback that we've gotten as people are managing these very large fleets. We are, right now working on improving the experience when you are managing multiple containers on a single device. A lot of times, people will have microservices where they'll have separate Docker containers for each function that a device is doing and it's doing multiple functions. We're working on improving the user experience of deploying those individual containers and managing multiple containers on one device. We're also looking at ways to extend Resin from Linux devices into some smaller devices and some things that are not necessarily running Linux but are still out in the real world, out in a customer environment or out in nature, wherever you have those devices that you want to be able to manage them. We want to wrap that into the Resin experience as well. It's really a constant process of refinement just based on what we see as the IoT develops. Again, it's a really exciting time to be in this industry. ELRICK: That is wonderful that you guys are keeping your finger on the pulse, in terms of your customer base and the feedback that you're getting to how people are using Resin and then implementing and looking for ways to improve the platform and then also open source and get your solutions into the hands of developers and into the hands of your customer base and that is a testament to just how wonderful Resin is as a company and as a platform. I think everyone out there should then go out and use Resin or at least attempt to use it because the entry into using Resin is very low. You can ramp up and start using it any time and extremely quickly. ALISON: We encourage anybody who is interested to sign up and it's free to get started. Your first five devices are always free. We have great support. We have a really active community forum so there's lots of people there to help guide you along. But as you said, the barrier to entry is quite low by design so really anybody should go ahead and try it out. If you have a Raspberry Pi sitting at home or at work, we like to say that you can get started over a lunch break and it should only take you about 30 minutes to get your first successful push and see your first Unicorn. ELRICK: That's awesome. You heard that. Go and use Resin and on your lunch break, you can see a Unicorn. Well, that's it for our podcast today folks. We had a wonderful podcast talking about Resin.io, the future of IoT, all the places that you can use Resin and how to deploy code all over the world, to all your embedded devices and all of your IoT devices. On behalf of Joe, Alison, Ronald, the Frontside and myself, I would like to thank you all for taking the time out to listen to this podcast. Remember you can reach us at Frontside.io. If you have any projects that you're working on and want to tell us about it, you can reach us there and you can also, if you want to learn anything further about Resin, you can head over to Resin.io and remember you can see that Unicorn at lunch time. That's it for the podcast today and thank you all for listening.

This is a break from the traditional episode listeners of ICology might be used to. I attended and spoke at this year's PRSA Connect, PRSA's annual employee communications event. While there, I thought it would be great to catch some audio from a few of the speakers.  This is the second in a three-part series of interviews I conducted while at the event. In this episode, you'll hear from  Christopher Hannegan, EVP & US Practice Lead for Employee Engagement, EdelmanAlison Davis, CEO, Davis & CompanyElisabeth Wang, Executive Director, PR & Communications, Piedmont Healthcare Make sure you subscribe so that you don't miss anything from this series or future episode of ICology.  Subscribe:  iTunes   ||   Google Play   ||   RSS

David Alexander went to Public School 152 in Brooklyn New York. He later became a physician, ran two hospitals, and most recently has been appointed CEO of one of the most prestigious children’s health foundations in the nation, The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health. David has learned from the journey and shares with us his vision for the future, and where he would like to lead the Foundation. A helping hand for children’s healthAlison Davis and her husband have 3 boys with Autism. In the eight years since the first child was diagnosed her family has grown stronger. Alison believes that the mercury that was used as a preservative in inoculations she received before and during her pregnancies has a relationship to her children's autism. Alison has learned how to be an effective advocate for her boys. She spends a large amount of time looking for new ways to help her boys. She shares her knowledge with many people through email and continues to speak out for action against this raging epidemic. Alison Davis a voice from the front lines.Grandma has help

The Heritage Region of the International Association of Business Communicators will hold its 2012 conference, "Find your bridge," in Pittsburgh October 12-14. This is the first in a series of podcast conversations with top presenters from the conference discussing the topics they will cover in their conference appearances. In this inaugural podcast, Alison Davis, CEO of Davis & Co., an award-winning employee communications firm in Glen Rock, NJ, discusses her Heritage Region Conference program, "How to be a rockstar communicator." You can learn more about how to “Build Your Bridge” to communications success by attending the IABC Heritage Region Conference, Oct. 14 -16, at the Westin Conference Center, Pittsburgh.  Register at: www.iabcheritageconference.com. Biography Alison Davis is CEO of Davis & Company, the award-winning employee communication firm that helps leading companies—such as BNY Mellon, CIT, IKEA, L'Oréal, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Rogers—reach, engage and motivate their employees. She is co-author of the new book, The Definitive Guide to HR Communication (FT Press, 2011), and co-author of Your Attention, Please (Adams Business, 2006). Davis is a former online columnist for The New York Times, and frequently writes for leading business, communication and HR publications, including The Conference Board Review, Communication World and PR Strategist. A sought-after speaker on communication issues, Davis facilitates 10 to 15 speaking sessions per year for national organizations and associations.  

The Heritage Region of the International Association of Business Communicators will hold its 2012 conference, “Find your bridge,” in Pittsburgh October 12-14. This is the first in a series of podcast conversations with top presenters from the conference discussing the topics they will cover in their conference appearances. In this inaugural podcast, Alison Davis, CEO…