Podcast appearances and mentions of Krishna Kumar

This week we share the inspiring tale of Ms. Kayla Billington, a pediatric and neonatal critical care nurse who met a young boy with tetralogy of Fallot named Wavamuno Patrick in Uganda while working for an NGO hospital. Ms. Billington tells the story of meeting Patrick and struggling to save his life and how this simple relationship of love and caring led her to help many in Uganda with congenital heart disease. Ms. Billington speaks of partnering with Professor R. Krishna Kumar of the Amrita Institute and, in today's episode, both Ms. Billington and Dr. Kumar share the inspiring tale of how they have worked together to help save the lives of children from Uganda at Amrita. Prepare to be amazed by their tale. Ms. Billington's efforts highlight the critical need for congenital heart care in Uganda and many other nations in Africa. For those interested, you can learn more about Patys Project and how you can help at:https://patysproject.org

In this episode of The Long Game Podcast, Alex Birkett speaks with Aashish Krishna Kumar, Director of Go-To-Market at Zuora, about startup pricing strategies, AI-driven changes in SEO, and the increasing importance of high-quality content. Aashish explains why early-stage startups should prioritize survival over pricing optimization and why pricing only becomes a growth lever after product-market fit. He also shares an optimistic perspective on SEO, arguing that traditional tactics like backlinks and keyword stuffing are fading while expert-driven content, multimedia formats, and brand authority will define future success. The conversation explores how businesses should adapt their strategies in the evolving digital landscape.Key TakeawaysStartup Pricing Priorities: Early-stage startups should focus on survival and product-market fit before optimizing pricing.AI's Impact on SEO: AI-driven search is changing how users engage with content, reducing reliance on traditional SEO tactics.Backlinks Losing Relevance: Google is prioritizing trust signals and content utility over paid link-building strategies.Shifting SEO Metrics: Marketers should move away from traffic as a key metric and focus on business impact and conversions.Rise of Digital PR: Brand mentions and expert-driven narratives are becoming stronger ranking signals than traditional backlinks.Multimedia SEO Growth: Video, images, and interactive content will play a bigger role in organic visibility and engagement.Brand Authority in SEO: Companies with strong brand recognition will have a competitive edge in search rankings.Show LinksVisit Aashish's YouTube channel GMT TalkConnect with Aashish Krishna Kumar on LinkedInConnect with Alex Birkett on LinkedIn and TwitterConnect with Omniscient Digital on LinkedIn or TwitterPast guests on The Long Game podcast include: Morgan Brown (Shopify), Ryan Law (Animalz), Dan Shure (Evolving SEO), Kaleigh Moore (freelancer), Eric Siu (Clickflow), Peep Laja (CXL), Chelsea Castle (Chili Piper), Tracey Wallace (Klaviyo), Tim Soulo (Ahrefs), Ryan McReady (Reforge), and many more.Some interviews you might enjoy and learn from:Actionable Tips and Secrets to SEO Strategy with Dan Shure (Evolving SEO)Building Competitive Marketing Content with Sam Chapman (Aprimo)How to Build the Right Data Workflow with Blake Burch (Shipyard)Data-Driven Thought Leadership with Alicia Johnston (Sprout Social)Purpose-Driven Leadership & Building a Content Team with Ty Magnin (UiPath)Also, check out our Kitchen Side series where we take you behind the scenes to see how the sausage is made at our agency:Blue Ocean vs Red Ocean SEOShould You Hire Writers or Subject Matter Experts?How Do Growth and Content Overlap?Connect with Omniscient Digital on social:Twitter: @beomniscientLinkedin: Be OmniscientListen to more episodes of The Long Game podcast here: https://beomniscient.com/podcast/

Peggy and Krishna Kumar, assistant professor, University of Texas at Austin, talk about the growing use of AI (artificial intelligence) and examples of where it is already making a difference. He says AI has exploded into the scene very recently since ChatGPT has come out and one of the big applications is being able to detect building damages. They also discuss: If AI can think for itself—what does the “I” in AI really mean. The ethics and bias in the AI models. The types of education that people will need with AI. caee.utexas.edu  (6/11/24 - 875) IoT, Internet of Things, Peggy Smedley, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, digital transformation, cybersecurity, blockchain, 5G cloud, sustainability, future of work, podcast, Krishna Kumar, University of Texas at Austin, This episode is available on all major streaming platforms. If you enjoyed this segment, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts.

Peggy and Krishna Kumar, assistant professor, University of Texas at Austin, talk about the growing use of AI (artificial intelligence) and examples of where it is already making a difference. He says AI has exploded into the scene very recently since ChatGPT has come out and one of the big applications is being able to detect building damages. They also discuss: If AI can think for itself—what does the “I” in AI really mean. The ethics and bias in the AI models. The types of education that people will need with AI. caee.utexas.edu  (6/11/24 - 875) IoT, Internet of Things, Peggy Smedley, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, digital transformation, cybersecurity, blockchain, 5G cloud, sustainability, future of work, podcast, Krishna Kumar, University of Texas at Austin, This episode is available on all major streaming platforms. If you enjoyed this segment, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts.

Krishna Kumar shares his remarkable journey from a small village in Bihar to leading a company poised to achieve a turnover of almost 1500 crore. Kumar discusses the strategies for effective marketing and fighting competition in the global arena, highlighting Simplilearn's pioneering role in the Indian Edtech space since its inception in 2010.Get notified about the latest releases and bonus content by subscribing to our newsletter at www.founderthesis.comRead more about Simplilearn:-1.How Simplilearn is shaping the future of workforce with digital innovation in education2. [The Turning Point] From blogging to setting up a corporate training startup – the inspiring story of Simplilearn3. Learn something new everyday: Rapid Fire with Simplilearn's Krishna Kumar4.Krishna Kumar, Founder & CEO Of Simplilearn.com Explains His Journey So Far With Simplilearn5.How an Indian entrepreneur turned his blog into a global online training site for professionals

 The hedge fund industry has gone through multiple evolutions. Investing styles go in and out of fashion as market conditions change. Strategies that work become crowded with investors, which can mean they stop working as well. The hottest thing these days are so-called multi-strategy funds or "pod shops" that employ multiple distinct teams, each with a specific mandate, style and edge. In theory, with good risk management and internal capital allocation, this can produce robust results across many cycles. So how do these funds work, how are they making money, and what does the expansive growth of this new style of fund mean for markets? In this episode, we speak with Krishna Kumar, a portfolio manager at Goose Hollow Capital Management, about the rise of multi-strategy hedge funds, why they're so popular, and how the increasing amount of money deployed by these firms is changing the way that markets trade.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He's a master of the longform conversation, a connoisseur of the past, a man steeped in culture. Syed Mohd Irfan joins Amit Varma in episode 368 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss his life, his times, his learnings -- and Guftagoo! (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out: 1. Syed Mohd Irfan on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube. 2. Guftagoo with Irfan. 3. Guftagoo at Sansad TV. 4. Guftagoo at Rekhta. 5. Interviewing as a tool of archiving of knowledge and memories -- TEDx talk by Syed Mohd Irfan. 6. Preserving Moments: The Significance of Audio-Visual Records --  TEDx talk by Syed Mohd Irfan. 7. Irfan on Memorywala. 8. Irfan interviewed by UnReported India. 9. Ek Mulakaat with Senior Journalist Mr Syed Mohd Irfan. 10. Do Ankhen Barah Haath -- V Shantaram. 11. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life — Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen. 12. Aadha Gaon — Rahi Masoom Raza. 13. Hind Pocket Books. 14. Bhagat Singh, Dhoomil, Krishan Chander, Amrita Pritam, Shivani and Vivekananda. 15. The Story of My Experiments with Truth -- Mohandas Gandhi. 16. Ankur -- Shyam Benegal. 17. Aakrosh -- Govind Nihalani. 18. Premchand on Amazon and Wikipedia. 19. Pita -- Govind Nihalani. 20. Stage Whisper -- Vimal Bhagat. 21. Walk on the Wild Side -- Lou Reed. 22. Ranjit Hoskote is Dancing in Chains -- Episode 363 of The Seen and the Unseen. 23. Father Returning Home — Dilip Chitre. 24. Guftagoo with Raghuvir Yadav. 25. Guftagoo with Gulzar. 26. Guftagoo with Dr Guri. 27. Guftagoo with Imtiaz Ali. 28. Guftagoo with Jaideep Ahlawat. 29. Guftagoo with Ram Gopal Bajaj. 30. Guftagoo with Mohan Agashe. 31. Guftagoo with Jackie Shroff. 32. Jackie Shroff talks about his mom in Guftagoo. 33. Guftagii with Danish Husain. 34. Danish Husain and the Multiverse of Culture — Episode 359 of The Seen and the Unseen. 35. कविवर -- सुरजीत पातर. 36. Irfan's Instagram post on magazines like Madhuri.. 37. The Life and Times of Vir Sanghvi — Episode 236 of The Seen and the Unseen. 38. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul. 39. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul). 39. Kashi ka Assi -- Kashinath Singh. 41. Sone ki Chidiya -- Shaheed Latif. 42. Caste, Gender, Karnatik Music -- Episode 162 of The Seen and the Unseen (w TM Krishna).. 43. Kumar Gandharva on Spotify. 44. Dhanraj Bhagat, Benode Behari Mukherjee, Balraj Sahni and Ritwik Ghatak. 45. Meghe Dhaka Tara -- Ritwik Ghatak. 46. अपनी खबर -- पांडेय बेचन शर्मा 'उग्र' 47. Pedagogy of the Oppressed -- Paulo Freire. 48. A Pedagogue's Romance -- Krishna Kumar. 49. Satyajit Ray, Shyam Benegal, Mrinal Sen and Mani Kaul. You can write to Irfan at Irfan.rstv@gmail.com. Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new video podcast. Check out Everything is Everything on YouTube. Check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. And subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free! Episode art: ‘The Keeper of Memories' by Simahina.

Generative AI is the talk of the town. But is genAI a solution looking for a problem or can we use it to solve business problems? How can we use it to scale our business? What are its potentials for businesses?To discuss all of this, today I'm joined by Krishna Kumar, CEO of GreenPepper. He has been using OpenAI and developed more than 20 tools on it; he conducts workshops on prompt engineering, and possibilities of GenAI for business innovation.What you'll listen(00:00) - Introduction (01:12) - How KK is using OpenAI & ChatGPT (04:29) - Tools KK's team developed on OpenAI (08:16) - Workshops for CXOs on OpenAI (11:23) - What kind of problems CXOs are solving using OpenAI? (13:49) - Use ChatGPT to generate ideas (18:34) - Deeper example of marketing for retail commerce (24:03) - m to be careful about in using ChatGPT (28:32) - Kindest thing anyone has done (28:54) - Best leadership quality (29:40) - Definition of living a good life Here are the main points discussed in the episode:1. The Rise of Generative AI:   - Generative AI, specifically OpenAI's ChatGPT, has become immensely popular and widely used.   - Its versatility as a general-purpose technology and productivity tool has made it a part of people's daily lives.   - The exponential growth in AI capabilities and the vast amount of data being added to ChatGPT contribute to its effectiveness.2. Development of Customized Tools:   - With the release of ChatGPT 4, users can now create customized versions of the model to suit their specific needs.   - Krishna Kumar and his team have developed several tools on OpenAI, ranging from productivity and writing tools to creative tools for creating cinematic visuals.   - These customized tools enhance productivity, reduce the need for extensive prompting, and enable users to generate content effortlessly.3. Workshops on Prompt Engineering:   - Krishna Kumar conducts workshops to help CEOs and CXOs understand and harness the potential of generative AI.   - The workshops focus on transitioning from the Google search mindset to effectively interacting with ChatGPT.   - Prompt engineering and writing are emphasized to achieve better results and explore various use cases across different functional areas.4. Utilizing Generative AI in Business Contexts:   - CEOs are using generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, for personal productivity and efficiency gains.   - They encourage their teams to use ChatGPT for various tasks, from drafting emails and writing blogs to creating proposals and case studies.   - The optionality and idea generation capabilities of generative AI help businesses break biases, explore new ideas, and communicate more effectively with customers.5. Applications in Retail Commerce and Beyond:   - Generative AI can be extensively used in different customer touchpoints, such as customer communication, content writing, and idea generation.   - In retail commerce, it can assist in creating compelling product descriptions, writing blog content, running effective marketing campaigns, and even generating professional grant proposals.   - By using generative AI, businesses can streamline their communication, cater to specific customer personas, and save time, which can be utilized for strategic thinking and creativity.Overall, the conversation highlights the transformative potential of generative AI in solving business problems, empowering leaders, and revolutionizing communication across industries.Note: This summary captures the essence of the conversation and may not include all the details discussed. It is advised to listen to the full podcast episode for a comprehensive understanding.Connect with meTwitter: https://twitter.com/jjudeLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjude/Website: https://jjude.com/Newsletter: https://jjude.com/subscribeYoutube: https://youtube.com/gravitaswinsEmail: podcast@jjude.comExecutive Coaching Program: https://gravitaswins.comConnect with Krishna KumarLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishnakumarm/Your feedback countsThank you for listening. If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple podcast or on YouTube? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in finding this podcast. And it boosts my spirits.

In this episode, Amit Negi, a Mountaineer and high-performing Professional Athlete who grew up in the mountains of India, joins us to share his story of summitting some of the highest and most dangerous mountain peaks in the World including three over 8,000 meters (26,000 feet): Mount Everest, Kanchenjunga, and Mount Annapurna. Krishna Kumar joins us as Co-Host and Translator.

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Krishna Kumar N (KK) shares how storytelling enabled him to shape sales and marketing efforts in a South African company and land him on LinkedIn's first Creator program in India.What you'll listen (00:00) - Welcome (01:01) - Backstory (04:04) - Is storytelling useful for fields other than sales & marketing (05:42) - Examples of storytelling for project managers (07:51) - How writing on LinkedIn helped KK (10:05) - Basics of storytelling (11:19) - Examples of good and bad storytelling (17:45) - Presenting numbers with narratives (20:01) - How to get started with storytelling (23:01) - Getting started with writing on LinkedIn (26:27) - What should be in the first fold of the webpage (28:32) - Kindest thing anyone has done for KK (29:45) - Who exhibited leadership in KK's life (31:42) - Definition of living a good life Connect with me Twitter: https://twitter.com/jjude LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjude/ Website: https://jjude.com/ Newsletter: https://jjude.com/subscribe Youtube: https://youtube.com/gravitaswins Email: podcast@jjude.com Executive Coaching Program: https://gravitaswins.com Connect with KrishnaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/storytellerkrishna/ Your feedback countsThank you for listening. If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple podcast or on YouTube? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in finding this podcast. And it boosts my spirits.

The International Prize in Statistics is one of the most prestigious prizes in the field. Awarded every two years at the ISI World Statistics Congress, it's designed to recognize a single statistician or a team of statisticians for a significant body of work. This year's winner is C.R. Rao, professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. Rao's created and been honored for a number of contributions to the statistical world in his over 75-year career. That's the focus of this episode of Stats and Stories, with our guests Sreenivas Rao Jammalamadaka and Krishna Kumar. Jammalamadaka is a distinguished professor in U.C. Santa Barbara's Department of Statistics and Applied Probability. Kumar is a management consultant in business analytics and consulting economist. The two wrote letters supporting C.R. Rao's nomination for the International Prize in Statistics.

Dr. Kevin Mailo welcomes Alberta-based anesthesiologist and first Indigenous president of the Canadian Medical Association, Dr. Alika Lafontaine, to the show. Dr. Lafontaine talks about the importance of narrative, our personal narratives and the stories shared about medicine and with patients, to create hope and foster well-being. Dr. Alika Lafontaine shares his personal story, some of the struggles he faced with learning and growth in his early years and the ways in which narratives offered to him affected his outlook. He tells about how his parents helped shape him in positive ways and the personal self reflection ability he developed through performing with his siblings. His experiences, good and bad, have shaped how he views medicine and the importance of the stories told within the profession and to each other.  In this episode, Dr. Kevin Mailo and Dr. Alika Lafontaine address the question of what you're willing to sacrifice to the altar of medicine as a physician. They examine how the narrative we have with ourselves influences how we do medicine, and how the narrative we have about medicine influences the experiences we have with patients. Alika shines a light on reframing perspectives and realizing how the narratives we tell ourselves about others contributes to bias and exclusion in treatment. This is a powerful episode about the possibilities of medicine and the vitality of connection with oneself and others through the stories we tell.About Dr. Alika LafontaineDr. Alika Lafontaine is an award-winning physician and the first Indigenous doctor listed in Medical Post's 50 Most Powerful Doctors. He was born and raised in Treaty 4 Territory (Southern Saskatchewan) and has Metis, Oji-Cree and Pacific Islander ancestry.Dr. Lafontaine has served in medical leadership positions for almost two decades. At the Alberta Medical Association, he has served on the representative forum (since 2012), the nominations committee and the Indigenous health committee, and he is a current board member. At the Canadian Medical Association, he has served as an Alberta AGM delegate, has been a member of the appointments committee and has chaired the governance council of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. At the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, he has served on the Indigenous health advisory committee and search/selection subcommittees, he has chaired the regional advisory committee (western provinces) and he is a current council member. He is a member of the board of HealthCareCAN. He has also served as vice-president and president of the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada.From 2013 to 2017 Dr. Lafontaine co-led the Indigenous Health Alliance project, one of the most ambitious health transformation initiatives in Canadian history. Led politically by Indigenous leadership representing more than 150 First Nations across three provinces, the alliance successfully advocated for $68 million of federal funding for Indigenous health transformation in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. He was recognized for his work in the alliance by the Public Policy Forum, where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presented the award.In 2020, Dr. Lafontaine launched the Safespace Networks project with friendship centres across British Columbia. Safespace provides a safe and anonymous workflow to report and identify patterns of care; patients and providers use the platform to share their own experiences and contribute to system change without the risk of retaliation for sharing their truths.Dr. Lafontaine continues to practice anesthesia in Grande Prairie, where he has lived with his family for the last 10 years.Resources Discussed in this Episode:Save the Date for May 6-7, 2023 in TorontoDr. Alika LafontaineVal Arnault-PelletierDr. Krishna Kumar—Physician Empowerment: website | facebook | linkedin __TranscriptDr. Kevin Mailo: [00:00:01] Hi, I'm Dr. Kevin Mailo and you're listening to the Physician Empowerment Podcast. At Physician Empowerment, we're focused on transforming the lives of Canadian physicians through education in finance, practice transformation, wellness and leadership. After you've listened to today's episode, I encourage you to visit us at PhysEmpowerment.cam- that's P H Y S Empowerment dot ca - to learn more about the many resources we have to help you make that change in your own life, practice and personal finances. Now on to today's episode. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:00:35] Hi, I'm Doctor Kevin Mailo, one of the co-hosts of the Physician Empowerment Podcast. And today I'm very, very excited to be bringing on current president of the Canadian Medical Association, Dr. Alika Lafontaine, who is an Alberta-based anesthesiologist who is also our first Indigenous Canadian Medical Association president. And today we've got Alika on the show to talk about the power of narrative in our personal and professional lives as a way of connecting with one another, but even connecting with ourselves. And this is one of the central themes of Physician Empowerment, where, you know, we come together and we talk about our practice journey or our wellness journey or our financial journey, but it's important to discuss, you know, not only, you know, facts and figures, data, but it's important to share our struggles, our failures, our successes and what we learned from those. So with that being said, Alika, why don't you say a few words? Tell us about yourself. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:01:39] Yeah, absolutely. So first off, thanks for inviting me on to the podcast today. I think that the subject of narratives and the stories that we hear and the stories we tell ourselves about medicine is something that has definitely gained greater focus in this year. You know, when you talk about moving people just generally, before getting into my own story, people are moved by where they think they're going, not necessarily where they're at. You know, I think when you talk about why we get stuck is because we get so focused on, you know, what's going on in the moment. But when you talk about really being motivated, when you talk about big system change, when you talk about doing things differently, it's because we get caught up in a narrative that has this imagined, like a better world, a better place, you know, somewhere that we should aspire and you know, work towards getting towards. And that definitely has application in my own life. So when I was young, I grew up in a great family, two parent home, my dad made enough for my mom to stay at home and raise us five kids. We weren't a rich family, but we always had enough food on the table. We had a warm home. Like we didn't go vacation in exotic places, but we had a lot of fun together. Right? And my mom was a first generation immigrant from the island of Tonga. She came to California before meeting my dad and coming up to Saskatchewan. My dad was a Metis kid who grew up in small town Saskatchewan, a place called Lestock. And together they raised a family where we were really taught that, you know, community was super important. You know, respect for oneself and each other was super important, but really, really central to their message of where we could get to if we worked hard was the idea of education. My dad was the first one to go off and get an undergrad and a master's degree in his family. My mom gave up her education dreams and she reminded us, you know, I'm here for you. I've lived my life. Now I'm here to support you. So you need to go off and, you know, achieve that next step so you and your family can continue to have a better and better life. Right? Similar narrative to a lot of things that we've all been taught, you know, in the generation that we grew up in. And I remember in grade school, my teachers were very concerned around, you know, grade three, grade four, grade five about my ability to read. And it wasn't that I couldn't pick up concepts, its that I had a very difficult time expressing myself in a way that they could understand. So I would mispronounce letters. I had a very bad stutter. I think all of these things created a lot of anxiety for me, you know? And as a result, I had a great difficulty reading out loud to teachers. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:04:39] And they did a lot of work to try and figure out what was going on, but eventually reached a point where they sat down with my parents and me and they told my mom and dad, you should plan for him not to graduate high school. He's not going to do anything else with his life. And I remember that moment in the vehicle after my mom was holding me and she was kind of rocking me back and forth. And she was telling me, you know, you're not broken. You're not broken. And that really set into me, you know, this narrative that I told myself growing up, you know, I have to prove to each other that, to other people, that they're wrong about me. You know, I have to live up to, you know, not only the dreams that my mom had, but also I have to, like, prove to myself that I'm not broken. Right? And, you know, my parents, to their credit, they put a lot of time into me. My mom doubled down with kind of taking care of us at home by, you know, becoming a teacher for me and home school. You know, eventually my younger siblings were pulled out of school so we could all do home school together, which I think was was really positive for me. So my two older brothers continued on to high school, but me and my younger siblings, we all took home school together. My dad went off and he had been trained as a teacher. He had gone to law school for a little bit, went off and did his master's in educational administration. So he went down to the States and got some extra training in different learning techniques, whether it's a mix of what they did or whether I grew out of it or whether it was, you know, addressing ear infections that I had when I was a kid, for whatever reason, I started to turn a corner. And it was interesting because I was labeled as learning disabled. So a learning delay with a speech impediment when I was younger, and a few years later I was labeled as gifted. And so now suddenly I had a completely different narrative that was going on in my life. And you know, that really propelled me, I think, through a lot of the frustrations that we all go through when we're trying to get into medicine and, you know, going through med school and other things. You know, what is it that drives you to, you know, do what you do? And obviously, I had the same sorts of things that I wanted, that a lot of people that come into medicine want, where we want to help people, we want to have a life of meaning, you know, these other things. But there was the added motivation that I had that I had to prove myself, right? Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:07:09] And I think those things together, you know, not just having my own life story, but also sharing a lot of the stories that we all have when we come into medicine, it made me particularly sensitive to burn out this belief that I had to be everything to everyone. This intense disappointment when I didn't succeed. I remember in my first year of medicine getting a, I think it was like a 74 on a histology exam, average person they're like, oh, 74 that's probably not a big deal. I thought my my life was over. I went over to the histology professor and I asked them for extra tutoring help. And I remember that whole first few weeks just really feeling out of place. I was meeting these kids who came from multigenerational physician families, people that were fairly well off. I was the only Indigenous kid in all four years at the time. And the teacher, instead of reassuring me, said, You know, it's probably not the end of the world if you don't pass first year and repeat it. And kind of waving me away and I remember walking out of that room and saying to myself, I'm done, I'm done med school, I'm not going to continue on in a place that I don't feel like I belong and I'm not going to be able to succeed. And I walked down that hallway and I met Val Arnault-Pelletier, she's a current lead for the Indigenous program over at University of Saskatchewan right now. So she's been there for a very long time, helping many, many kids like me get through the challenges that I know I shared with many, many people. And, you know, she really helped me along with many, many coffees with the dean over the next four years to help me tell a different story to myself that it was okay not to always be perfect in every situation and that there was a lot of learning and growing that had to go through and I had to give myself space to do that, you know. So my life's interesting in retrospect now because I can see how the very negative narratives that I was taught were both heartbreaking but also motivating. But then the very things that brought me into med school were the very things that broke me early on in med school as well, you know. And so I've learned different stories about myself over and over again over my career. I continue to learn different stories about myself. And I think when we talk about telling stories, it's not only about stories that sweep other people up in movements to create a better type of health care system. It's also stories that we can believe, so we can thrive, so we can address a changing world around us in a way that's maybe a lot more healthy than we did before. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:10:05] Yeah, that's so powerful. I mean, I think what you're touching on is what perception can do in our lives, right? I mean, you know, the same events occur to us, but our perception changes our experience of that set of events in a given moment in our lives. So before we get to, you know, our relation to other people in narrative and storytelling, I like the word storytelling. How do you look inward? What does that process look like for you? Because I think everybody's a little bit different. You know, some people will go take a vacation by themselves. I drive with the radio off in my truck for a few moments here and there and just reflect or people will meditate. But what does connecting with our own narrative look like for you, and looking inward look like for you? Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:10:56] It's interesting how you have a lot of experiences that seem very disconnected over your life. But then when you end up doing something really meaningful, it seems like everything kind of converges into a single point, right? And you realize, hey, that thing that I thought was very different than what I ended up doing maybe is at the core of why I do what I do well. Right? So another thing my mom really encouraged us to do when we were young was to sing together, I was actually part of a boy band for like two decades, right? It was, it was me and my five, the five of us siblings, like touring across Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta. Eventually it was Canada-wide, we toured parts of the US and performed in the Pacific Islands and things. But over those two decades of performing, you start to get a real sense for feeling the emotions of the people that you perform for, but then becoming hyper aware of your own feelings. Because if you're not, you actually can't give a good performance. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:11:53] Wow. Yeah. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:11:54] And so, I, over the years of performing with my family, really had a lot of opportunity to verbalize the way that I was feeling, reflect on how I was feeling, you know, inject that into this performance piece. So we were vocalists, like it was an R&B kind of pop group. We wrote our own music. We published three albums over the time that we were performing. This was all before YouTube, so you're not going to find a whole lot of stuff on us online. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:12:25] So I can't just look you up on TikTok. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:12:27] No, no, you can't look me up on TikTok. But we ended up doing some pretty big shows. Like when EPTN opened, we were part of kind of the opening set, we opened for Susan Aglukark, I think was right after us. We were on the Inspire Awards, which back then was called the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards. So that had viewership of like 2, 3 million people across the country. So I had a lot of opportunity to self-reflect and understand why I did the things that I did. Now you can obviously be educated about something but not be able to, in the moment, manage yourself. So I mean this isn't to say was like a philosopher at the time of being in med school, but I did have tools available to me to understand myself. And some experiences where I could sit back and say to myself, Well, this is what we did when we wrote this song. This is what we did when we prepared for this set. So maybe I'll sit down and kind of figure out exactly where my head is at with all of this. And I think when you're looking at yourself, there's two parts that I found really, really useful. And it's different for everybody, but two things that I've found really useful. The first is being brutally honest with yourself about how you're feeling in the moment. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:13:35] Wow. Yeah. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:13:37] You know, it doesn't make a ton of sense to deny yourself the reality that, hey, I'm sad, I'm happy, like all this other stuff. And then the second part is linking that and understanding how the things you experience trigger those emotions and put you into different cycles. Right? And I get caught up in them just the same as everyone else. I mean, we all know that there's unhealthy habits that we get into once we get into heavy call, right? I mean, you're up at 3 am, you had a horrible night, maybe in extremely horrible nights you had bad patient outcomes or some sort of disagreement with a colleague or other things. There are natural like things that we reach out for whenever we're feeling like that. Right? And so being able to understand those two parts of myself, I think has been really helpful. And I think when you're looking at how do you bridge, how you feel about yourself to now interacting with the world, it's negotiating with yourself about what exactly you're going to give the world to bring the world to that point where it can give you what you're looking for. I had a physician that did research projects under when I was a medical student. His name was Krishna Kumar. He was a neurosurgeon in Regina. And, you know, consistent with my story, I picked the hardest thing I could think of once I got into med school as far as what I was going to go after, as far as, you know, residency and is this true or not? I'm not really sure. But 19 year old me thought that this was what what I should chase after. So I wanted to do neurosurgery. And so I followed around Dr. Kumar for a couple of years. And this guy, I mean you won't find a harder working physician anywhere. 16 hour days, 12 hour surgery standing up, working on Saturdays and Sundays, flying around the world, doing presentations. He had the largest research body for spinal cord stimulation, I believe in the in the world at the time that I worked with him. So I kind of fell in this opportunity with this amazing physician. And I really poured my heart and soul into it for the first, like year and a half, showing up his house at 2 am to do presentations, being available any time of the day to to sit down and do different things, following around inside the OR and other places. But he noticed halfway through my second summer, I became a little disinterested in what was going on. And at that time I'd actually met my now wife, and I remember him sitting down with me over lunch and he had this thing where he'd like, peel radishes and like, give you slices as he was eating. And he's like giving me these radish slices as we're chatting. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:16:21] It's funny how we remember... Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:16:22] Oh, yeah, totally. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:16:23] .. those things in the moment, right? Yeah. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:16:26] Yeah, sense and sounds. And I still remember how he looked and and all that stuff. And he's, he's chatting with me about work and then he makes a turn in the conversation, asking, like what's going on. You know, you seem just a little bit distracted, was the word that he said. And I told him about this amazing girl that I'd met. And I'm sorry if it seems like I'm not paying as much attention, she's just really incredible and all this other stuff. And Dr. Kumar was not an emotional guy, right? He was a warm guy, don't get me wrong, but he was very business. Right? And I noticed a softening that came over him. He reached his hand out onto my shoulder. He wasn't big for physical contact, but it was like a very, like fatherly touch. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:17:11] It meant something. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:17:12] It totally meant something. And he leaned in and he said, you know, Alika, don't sacrifice your life on the altar of medicine. It's not worth it. And then we went back to talking and, you know, it never came up again. And I look back at that moment as really formative for me. I don't think I realized just how much it impacted me until later. But you have this person who, world leader in what he does, sacrifices almost all of his life to medicine, raised a beautiful family, had a good relationship with his wife and kids, but he missed out on a lot of important events in his family's life because he was focused on creating those moments for other folks who were sick and otherwise. And, you know, he's telling me, don't sacrifice too much. You know what I mean? And so it's interesting when you think about the stories we tell ourselves about our contribution to medicine and how much we need to give and all these other things. And the reflection of someone like him at the waning years of his life that maybe what we think we're getting out of medicine isn't really worth the amount that we think we're getting out. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:18:29] I think that's very powerful. And, you know, my own reflection on that is that we can give the health care system, our communities, our best when we are at our best. And part of that process involves self rejuvenation and having a notion of self outside of the profession because it's, I think, very easy for medicine to become quite consuming to the point that you look in the mirror and you say, Well, I'm such and such type of doctor. Right? Or our credentials. But the real us is so much more. It's all the way back to those formative years in our childhood, even the inner child, if you want to call it that, but our relationships with the others, but even with ourselves. And that's a very powerful observation. So how do you set that balance then, Alika, of, you know, the professional self and the personal self? And that's a concept we actually talk about at our wellness events, is the notion of different selves, that there's a financial self, a personal self, a professional self. How do you find that balance between personal and professional self? Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:19:34] So as someone who has been both balanced and unbalanced throughout my life, I think the first thing to recognize is that there will be times when you'll be completely unbalanced. Right? So this year, as president of the Canadian Medical Association, has been all consuming. And it's just the nature of, you know, the value add that I want to provide to colleagues across the country, but also just the nature of the work. Right? Residency is all consuming, right? Early practice, to some degree, can be very all consuming. The first time you take a leadership position as, you know, someone in your department contributing or elsewhere, it can be all consuming for a period of time. Right? And so I think that there's times and seasons to everything. And just to be aware that balance 100% of the time is probably not, it's not the accurate way of describing it. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:20:32] It's very hard to do. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:20:34] The way that we work. Yeah, yeah, the way that we work in medicine. So I think the goal is to work towards balance and at times achieve it, but then recognize that from time to time it's unbalanced and just own those moments, right? And if it's too unbalanced, reorganize your life so it becomes less unbalanced, but it will remain unbalanced from time to time. Right? So that's kind of the first part. I think the second part is that when we look back, so I'm a big student of history, right? So I think one of the best ways for us to understand where we're going is to know where we came from. And if you look at the medical system and what a lot of us would refer to as very unbalanced practice patterns, I think the world has changed a lot from the times of folks that we train under who've been practicing for, you know, 40, 45 years. Right? If you go back even 20, 25 years, a physician in a community was at the center of a lot of the work in the community. Right? When you volunteered at the hospital, you were also volunteering at your community. There wasn't a division between the two things, right? You could especially see this in small town Canada, where your doctor was also someone who interacted pretty closely with the Parents Council, the community association, you know, the mayor's office, like all these things. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:21:56] Like people look to you. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:21:57] People look to the doctor or doctors as part of building up the community. Now, since that time, that's shifted, right? And so we introduced these new divisions into the way that society interacted, but we didn't update the way that we saw ourselves. And so there was a turn in the late 90 seconds, early 2000, where there was like this value extraction, for lack of a better word, that occurred where people leaned into this narrative that we had that we were willing to sacrifice on the altar of medicine in order to get, you know, meaning out. But that meaning increasingly disappeared from the practice of medicine. You know, we still had those moments where we really connected with patients. I mean, I've had lots of experiences that I mean I'll always treasure that I've had with patients, both good and bad. But the job itself become became much less of a place where you could you could wear dual hats at the same time, you know, be a part of the community, be a part of your family, be a part of, you know, work. Right? And I think that value extraction has continued up until today and it accelerated, I think, in the last five years. And it wasn't until COVID came along that I think a lot of us sat back and realized just what was happening. We were moving too fast. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:23:25] No question. I mean, there's no limit to what this career can ask of us as individuals. Truthfully, there is no limit. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:23:34] Yeah, Yeah. And so with that pause that COVID gave us and that opportunity to reevaluate what was important, and I think it was a moment where we, a lot of us honestly sat there and said, Do I want to live and die for this? I remember March of 2020 coming back from a canceled leadership gathering because of this unknown virus that was floating around. Touching down, going into work, we started putting masks on patients who were coming down from the floor. We started continuous masking. We were told we're going to run out of masks if we, you know, continue to do this. We're going to run out of protective equipment. And so there was strong efforts to really, really slow down the utilization of this, which to many of us, we felt like there was no protection. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:24:24] Yeah, there were those moments. Absolutely. Absolutely. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:24:27] Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. And so I remember coming home from work that, the second night that I had been back, and sleeping in the garage. And I actually slept in the garage for like the next three, four weeks. I know many of my colleagues that slept in the, because you didn't want to get your family sick. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:24:44] You didn't know. And that's when it becomes so real. What we might be asked to give up. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:24:52] Yeah. And I think a lot of us sat there for the first time in our careers. I mean, we always knew it in the back of our minds that it could be possible. But we were actually confronted with that moment of if someone was dying in front of you and you could get infected, were you willing to die for that patient and were you willing to potentially make people that you loved very sick and potentially die as well. You know, it's, I think it's easier right now to look back and, you know, say to ourselves, well, we know this now and all these other things. And I think pre-vaccine, it obviously was a completely different game. You know, we didn't have what we have now. But I really think in that moment, a lot of us realized for the first time, I don't, I think there's a line to what I'm willing to give. You know, and I know for myself, I never actually defined a line of how far I'd go in order to, you know, sacrifice for the health care system. And I think that was the beginning of me realizing I really do need to make sure that the most meaningful parts of my life are protected. And that I can find a way forward to separate, you know, the story I tell myself about the doctor that I want to be and the kind of person I want to be in the rest of my life. And I see that that conversation going on in the minds of a lot of colleagues across the country still. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:26:16] And I think you're absolutely right what a powerful experience the pandemic was, because in that, in those moments, you know, we're worried about catching the virus, getting sick or getting a loved one sick. You know, it crystallized that reality of what medicine asks of us, but in reality, day to day, medicine is chipping away at us or some of us in terms of our health and well-being or our relationships. Right? You know, when you're, you know, you're working those long hours or you're constantly on call, you're constantly exhausted, you're constantly tired, how present are you for the people in your life? How present are you for yourself, for your own wellness? And, you know, it's just those those things aren't so explicit because we say, well, it's just one more night shift or it's just, you know, one more week of call and I'll be off for a few days or whatever. Right? But in reality, these are big asks of us in terms of our well-being. And we just don't necessarily recognize them because they're built into the culture of medicine. Like you said. You know, it's begun sort of, it's ubiquitous. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:27:25] And sometimes it's pretty striking things that in the moment you think are so normal, but in retrospect, you're like, wow, that was really abnormal. I mean, I remember in residency knowing that at 72 hours of no sleeping, I would just kind of collapse on the floor and fall asleep. Right? And I know that it happened multiple times. Like I'd, I would push myself past what I could do and then keep on going. And I'd go home at the end of the day and I'd wake up on the floor at like 1 am and young kids and my wife had just kind of, step over, let me sleep there. They put a pillow under my head and threw a blanket on me. But, like, they they knew that it was more disruptive to try and wake me up and get me to bed than it was just to let me lay there. And I just thought it was something that everyone just did. And then you get out into the real world where you're not interacting with just doctors anymore and you realize that that's not normal at all. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:28:24] So talking about narrative, we talk about relating to ourselves and connecting to our self with our own stories. And I thought this was so powerful to go back through the decades of your life and see those moments, like you said, like cutting what was it, radishes on a kitchen counter, you know, in the middle of the night. And so talk to us about narrative as it relates to one another professionally. Right? And talk about, you know, how narrative relates to our patient encounters. Because I think there's a lot of beauty there. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:28:54] Yeah, absolutely. And we we've talked so far a lot about, you know, our personal narrative that we have with each other or with ourselves. And then we we talked a bit about that value exchange that goes on between us and kind of the broader narrative of what is medicine and what does medicine expect of us? I think when we're interacting with each other, there's the narratives that we also tell ourselves about what other people think about us and how they interpret what we do. And then there's also narratives that we project onto other folks, you know, so I've obviously done quite a bit of work in the area of equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism, etcetera. And part of the way that I now explain things has come from my own feeling about performing and audiences. You know, I think people to a great degree are always well meaning. And they're being taken on this emotional journey that they may or may not be consciously aware of. That's not to say that unconscious bias is what drives inequity and exclusion and racism, etcetera. But it helps to frame things in a way that people can plug into emotionally instead of just telling them that you're like a bad person, right? The worst, the worst feeling I think for a physician is to be told after 36 hours of being on call that you don't care about patients. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:30:22] Exactly. Nobody's going to work trying to screw up here. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:30:25] Yeah, 100%. And I think if you take that as a starting point for the majority of people, that's a place that you can have people come together more easily than other places. It also gives someone the opportunity to be more harsh with themselves than you are with them. Because the truth is, if people want to change and recognize that they're creating bad experiences for those around them and potentially harm, you know, because sometimes the decisions that we make, because of bias and other things, actually do create harm. If you want people to be introspective and actually change, they're going to be way more harsh with themselves than you could ever be. Right? And so that's kind of the first point. The second point is that we're often swept up by these things because the ways that we thought about things kind of worked. You know, even going back to what I was talking about with physicians who sacrificed their life and, you know, spent all their time at the hospital, you know, 25, 30 years ago, it worked for them. They were still able to see their family. They were still able to be a part of the community and all these things. But the world changed, right? And I think that that's the same case with a lot of the stories that we project on to other people. At some point that story made sense, right? At some point that story was true. But it's whether or not in that moment, is that story true? Is that story adaptive? And I think increasingly people are realizing that stories that tend to be pretty prevalent can lead to significant, you know, harm and pain for folks and especially patients. So one of the things that I've had the chance to be an advocate for and, you know, participate to some degree as president is, like, in the area of forced sterilizations for Indigenous women. And I and I remember as a resident, that there were situations where, you know, the surgeon would lean over, your patient would be under a spinal like doing a C-section or whatever, and they'd say, okay, I'm going to clip your tubes. And then a tear would roll down their face. And in the moment, I would sit there and think to myself, Oh, my spinal must not be working. So then I'd go grab the ice, I'd like check whether or not things are moving around, I'd peek over and see whether or not they externalized the uterus, which can sometimes cause referred pain up into the shoulder. It just never crossed my mind that they did not feel that they had a conversation where they were fully informed that this was happening. And in retrospect, it's easy for me to see what could have happened. Right? But I think for a lot of folks who are currently practicing, if you want to understand how to be a better physician, you have to be open to, you know, reframing what you thought you were doing and how you thought you were affecting other people and why people were reacting in the way that they did to you, into a way where you give some space, Hey, maybe I just didn't see what was going on. Maybe I actually was, you know, I don't think a lot of folks realize just how how hurtful it is when you meet, you know, an Indigenous person with a traditional name and you don't even try and pronounce it. So some folks, yeah, and people think, well, I'm being respectful, right? When in reality, like, it's very, very hurtful. Right? But you wouldn't know that unless you actually were able to talk to someone about it. That's not something that's a classic narrative that you would pick up just from day to day life. And so, you know, I think when we talk about patients and each other and other things, we have to get to the point where we can talk about the stories that that we believe and project on to other folks and also hear them tell us what are they feeling. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:34:07] And I do feel that we we should celebrate to some degree that we are in a place where we can say racism out loud, sexism out loud, discrimination out loud. And I do hope as we continue to move forward, we'll start to realize that the goal is not to get rid of everyone who has those those thoughts or those feelings, because that's kind of a part of the world that we grew in, grew up in. Right? Those are the stories that we heard and adopted. But instead try and help people not to, you know, mindlessly act in a way that's harmful to other folks. Like that, I think, is the actual end point. Because when you when you talk to patients about, you know, racism, what do they want? They just want the harm to stop. Right? They don't necessarily need, you know, every racist thought or other things to be eliminated from the provider's mind. What they actually want is for the actions to stop. And I think if we approach it from that point of view, it's a very different, it's a very different problem. It's a much more achievable problem. Solvable problem. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:35:10] But I think it's so powerful when we hear the stories of what patients have experienced going through our healthcare system with systemic racism or sexism and hearing the stories on an individual level, like the case of that patient having her tubal ligation really with no with no discussion or consent. Proper consent at least. And so those are the kinds of things that can be very powerful to motivate us, to help us to see things from another's perspective. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:35:44] And I think that that brings us closer to what we actually want to get out of medicine. And this goes back to like the the the the altar analogy, is not that we can't get meaning out of medicine, it's just that the world has changed. So we have to change too, like our meaning has to change. You know, the way that we get it has to change. And I think at the very beginning of all of this, like you talked a lot about, or you mentioned burnout and the need for wellness and, you know, having people step back and realize there's different parts of who they are and what their needs are and and other things. And 20, 30 years ago, we wouldn't talk about that. Right? And I think today we have to confront it because that's a necessary part of the new story we have to tell ourselves so we can start to thrive in medicine again. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:36:25] And I think it's important to use, you know, storytelling and shared experiences to humanize medicine because too often I think we look at it from a very technical perspective. I mean, you know, you come into the emergency department and you're there to, for instance, you know, on shift and you're there to say, Oh, you're not having a heart attack. You rule out anything serious, but maybe that patient's having chest pain because you need someone to talk to. You know, that they're struggling with anxiety or depression and it's presenting, you know. But when we don't create that space to hear people's stories, we end up being very technical. But there's a downside. It's not only, you know, that the patient has lost out, but so have we, because some of the most meaningful moments in my practice have been when I actually just sit and listen to a patient. As we humanize the experience in medicine and humanize our interactions not only with our patients but with one another, I think we feel more connected to our jobs and we derive more meaning from it and we do better care. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:37:26] And, you know, this has me thinking about, you know, something that that's come up over and over again with with being president of the CMA, and that's how do you get unity within the profession towards things that will not just help us, but also help patients. Right? And my mind over the past year has gone back a lot to this whole idea of social cohesion. You know, this idea that we're, we have shared values, we have shared problems, and we find shared solutions together. And I think increasingly, what's the number one challenge of patients across the country? It's access. It doesn't matter which part of the ideological spectrum you're, right, how much you think government should be involved or not involved in your life. You know, if you're sick, you want access to care. You want access to to people that, access for people that you care about. And the polarization that we have, I think, has introduced this idea that somehow we'll get that access if we're right, if only people would do our solution, you know, everything would work out. When in reality, I think the way that we improve access is to improve cohesion within the health care system and between like the people that provide us care and the people who are coming for care. If you don't feel united with your provider, you're not going to share with them what's actually on your mind. If you don't work in a team where you feel like you can lean on them, you're not going to be able to find those moments where you can create additional time that you didn't have the day before because now you're working with the team that you're working well with, right? Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:38:55] Absolutely. Absolutely. It's so true. I mean, just again, it's that shared experience, not that we have to agree on everything, but like access will improve when we identify it as the key, key priority that we need to address in our health care system currently. So, Alika, this has been absolutely outstanding and we would love to get you back on the show. Right? Just to hear more of your experience, you know, more of your wisdom in this space. But we would love to hear your final thoughts on what narratives meant in your life and how we can use it in our day to day. Because I think it's important to have medical education meetings, programing that's based around narrative. But I also think it's important that we can integrate narrative into our day to day interactions with patients, allied health and even one another, because I think that binds us together. I think that's cohesion, as you talk about. But practically speaking, how can we integrate, how can we integrate this into our day to day practice lives or our leadership roles? Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:39:59] Yeah so I'll maybe just touch on one thing, and that's the importance of narratives driving emotion. You know, why do we believe different stories is because we think we're going to feel different ways, right? And that was a lesson I learned from performing. You know, people didn't come to listen to you sing they didn't come to see you, they came because they thought they were going to get a feeling out of them showing up. And I would say in the moment that we're in right now, there's a lot of hopelessness that's going on. And the reason why people are drawing back from clinical practice, why they're leaving for other things, is because they think if I sit still and continue doing what I'm doing, this hopelessness will continue to build. Right? And so when we talk about the stories we tell ourselves, it's really important to find hope in the hopelessness and to ensure people act in a way that can actually generate hope again. You know, and so that's one part of of the point. The second part is that hopelessness, I think, transitions at some point into indifference. You know, you can see it with certain patient interactions that you had, you know, coming across folks who show up because they're going to die otherwise. But they really have no hope that the system is going to help them. Right? They come in very indifferent. You know, you're just going to be like every other physician, every other health provider that I've ever met who hasn't been able to actually help me get out of this hopelessness. And that is a much more difficult problem to confront. Indifference is many magnitudes worse than hopelessness, regardless of how bad it feels, right? Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:41:42] Yeah, that's a very powerful observation. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:41:44] Yeah, and so we have a moment right now where we can really focus on doing things that will generate hope. I mean, you look at what's going to happen with the budget later on this month. I do honestly feel that there are going to be some very significant changes in the way that we collect data. The fact that we're going to share depersonalized data between jurisdictions now. We haven't really done that except in huge emergencies like having a unique patient identifier across the country means you now can compare all databases, I mean there's all these different things. The regional license opening up on May the 1st in Atlantic Canada, you know, finally taking a measurable step towards having folks be able to register once for a license and be able to practice in multiple jurisdictions simultaneously. That could transform practice in a lot of different ways. Suddenly, you meet somebody at a conference and you know that you all share a regional license. You could set up a virtual team together the next day. You know, you wouldn't have to worry, how am I going to practice if you move from, you know, a place like New Brunswick to Nova Scotia for school, for example, you know, you could keep your family doc. Because now your family doc's licensed to work in Nova Scotia, they can follow you where you go. You know, there's all these like, really amazing changes that could happen. But we haven't done the greatest job in helping people understand the hope in those actions. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:43:07] Right, Right. The emotion that sits there. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:43:10] Yeah, 100%. And so, I think if we can focus on being authentic, because I think false hope is almost worse than remaining hopeless, you know, but we can take people to places where things are very likely to actually change practice, you know, actually make things better. It's important that we all kind of lean in and do that right now because once we start to become indifferent and once indifferent starts to spread and entrench itself across the health care system, it's going to be even harder to change things. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:43:44] Absolutely. Absolutely. All right. I think we should wrap it up. But this was outstanding. It was just great. And I really want to sincerely thank you for your time, Alika, because I know you're busy. And on behalf of the profession, and I know you get a lot of thanks, I just want to share another thanks for all you've done to advocate for the profession, but also, again, you know, to advocate for Indigenous voices within our health care system to start meaningful, meaningful change towards one of the most marginalized groups in our society. So, again, thank you. And, you know, we should have you on the show for sure at another point. Dr. Alika Lafontaine: [00:44:23] All right. Thanks for having me. Dr. Kevin Mailo: [00:44:29] Thank you so much for listening to the Physician Empowerment Podcast. If you're ready to take those next steps in transforming your practice, finances or personal well-being, then come and join us at PhysEmpowerment.ca - P H Y S Empowerment dot ca - to learn more about how we can help. If today's episode resonated with you, I'd really appreciate it if you would share our podcast with a colleague or friend and head over to Apple Podcasts to give us a five star rating and review. If you've got feedback, questions or suggestions for future episode topics, we'd love to hear from you. If you want to join us and be interviewed and share some of your story, we'd absolutely love that as well. Please send me an email at KMailo@PhysEmpowerment.ca. Thank you again for listening. Bye. 

Today, we are joined by the Founder and Managing Director of Quintrix, Krishna Kumar. Investing in early talent is beginning to become more popular in the industry and we discuss whether it's better to groom in-house talent or source externally, why businesses need to think more about early talent in the long term, why many candidates are falling short of the mark, and how companies can better support their new recruits. We also examine Krishna's game-changing post-deployment framework, before he tells us why he'll always live life by one particular quote from Bill Gates.     Key Points From This Episode:   Introducing the Founder and Managing Director of Quintrix Solutions, Krishna Kumar.  The content that Krishna is enjoying at Talent Acquisition Week.  How investing in early talent is gaining more traction in the industry.  What Quintrix Solutions does as a company.  Whether it makes more sense to groom in-house talent or source externally. How a business's short-term goals may negatively impact its early talent strategy. Krishna's background and why he chose his current line of work.  The gaps and discrepancies he sees in the experience and skills of candidates.     Looking at the support (or lack thereof) that new employees have in the workplace.  Krishna's post-deployment framework, and why it's bound to be a game changer.  Assessing who's to blame for a lack of proactivity in the workplace.  How to integrate the skill of successfully navigating the workplace into candidate training. The best advice Krishna has ever received: a quote from Bill Gates.    Tweetables:   “It's really exciting. I'm seeing a lot more attention [being paid] to diversity and early talent. We've never seen this level of interest in these topics in the past, so I'm super pumped about that.” — @candid_krishna [0:01:23]   “This conference is so exciting because people are now truly starting to think about talent from a long-term, pipeline-building perspective versus a just-in-time, instant-gratification mindset.” — @candid_krishna [0:06:34]   “Career development, or lack thereof, is the number one reason for people to leave their jobs and explore other opportunities. So, you want to make sure that the candidates are constantly receiving the support, feedback, and career development to be successful.” — @candid_krishna [0:11:20]   “This post-deployment framework, which I think is very unique to this industry, is going to be a game changer.” — @candid_krishna [0:12:29]   Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:   Krishna Kumar on LinkedIn  Krishna Kumar on Twitter Quintrix Solutions Talent Acquisition Week Talk Talent to Me Hired  

On this episode, we check out the latest book and publishing news in Asian American literature for our March 2023 mid-month check-in, including catching up with the Harper Collins publishing announcements we missed during the strike.New books and authors mentioned in our publishing news:Shanghailanders by Juli MinFour Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé & Adiba JaigirdarWomen of Good Fortune by Sophie WanLove Me Tomorrow series by Emiko JeanThe Gift of Eid by Shifa Saltagi Safadi; illust by Aaliya JaleelStay With My Heart by Tashie BhuiyanChampion of the Rose series by Cat Aquino & Dominique DuranKindling by Traci CheeCopy Cat by Elyse Martin & Sean RubinKaho'olawe by Kamalani Hurley; illust by Harinani OrmeThe Dark We Know by Wen-yi LeeAnd Then Comes July by Sarah JungNew by Niña MataBetter Catch Up, Krishna Kumar by Anahita KarthikCelestial Banquet by Roselle LimNo Place Like Home by Linh S. NguyễnI Lived Inside a Whale by Xin LeeLiving Bridges by Sandhya Acharya; illust by Avani DwivediDo You Even Know Me? by Reem Faruqi; illust by Ani BushryWater Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao*Support the podcast by purchasing books at our bookshop or by buying Books & Boba merch at our Bonfire store*Follow our hosts:Reera Yoo (@reeraboo)Marvin Yueh (@marvinyueh)Follow us:FacebookTwitterGoodreads GroupThe Books & Boba March 2023 pick is Front Desk by Kelly YangThis podcast is part of Potluck: An Asian American Podcast Collective

Sound Agriculture: https://www.sound.ag/CropIn: https://www.cropin.com/Software is Feeding the World Newsletter: https://www.rhishipethe.com/newsletterToday's episode features Krishna Kumar of CropIn. Krishna shared with me CropIn's 12 year journey in the agtech world, which I think is in some ways representative of agtech's journey more generally. They started by building applications for farmers and companies with a vested interest in agricultural supply chains. From scaling their digital solutions to now 500 crops and 10k varieties in 92 countries, they realized they were capturing a lot of data and built what they call the Data Hub. They also started to build artificial intelligence models which now exist for 22 commodities in 13 countries. Krishna gives some examples of the wide range of use cases for those AI models.Now, CropIn is entering the next phase of the 12-year old company. A few months ago, the company announced the launch of a cloud platform with integrated apps. Founded in 2010, Cropin's other products are live in 92 countries, it is partnered with over 250 B2B customers and it has digitized 26 million acres of farmland. It claims the world's largest crop knowledge graph from the data I mentioned of more than 500 crops and 10,000 crop varieties.In short, CropIn wants to help make it easier for companies to build their own AI models by providing the data and infrastructure needed, which Krishna says is roughly 80% of the work. Like many people lately, I've been playing with OpenAI's ChatGPT platform lately. It has really opened my eyes to what's coming. The chance to really pull together data sets into optimal answers in a user friendly way. I have no doubt we will see a similar trajectory in agtech, and companies like CropIn are doing interesting work to that end.One interesting aspect to this story is CropIn's ambition to build a knowledge graph for agriculture. This is a term that I was not familiar with a year ago, but i've learned about knowledge graphs this past year from reading Rishi Pethe's tremendous newsletter Software is Feeding the World. He explains the concept in his 116th edition in September. I'll link to that in the show notes, I highly recommend it to understand this episode even better. He revisited it again in his 2022 recap edition which is 126, and I thought I'd just read his excerpt that he included in both editions. Here are Rhishi's words: “How can knowledge graphs work in agriculture?Knowledge graphs can incorporate both structured (for example, coming from a spreadsheet, or precision agriculture equipment) and unstructured data (a twitter feed, images, YouTube video, bulletin board information, books etc.) Knowledge graphs can be successful and valuable if they can uncover new insights by automatically incorporating new data sources, understanding the context, finding new connections, and continuously evolving and learning.Building a data set of crops and varieties is a necessary and an early step to building a valuable knowledge graph in agriculture. It is an extremely hard challenge to go from data, to context, to connections, to new and surprising insights using knowledge graphs. It will take some unknown (aka long) amount of time.” - Rhishi Pethe,

Machine-learning expert Krishna Kumar joins host Dan Zehner to discuss the annual NHERI Hackathon. Kumar details this exciting event, which takes place every year at the Texas Advanced Computing Center. Leveraging DesignSafe data and computational resources, participants have three days to code solutions to natural hazards problems using machine learning. Kumar is an assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering at University of Texas professor.#naturalhazards #hackathon #machinelearning #AI #engineeringeducation #simulation #modeling #NHERIHackathonRead more about the annual NHERI Hackathon and DesignSafe Academy: https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/designsafe-academy/Want to learn more about natural hazards simulation and modeling? Visit the NHERI SimCenter, headquartered at UC Berkeley: https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/Follow NHERI DesignSafe!LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nheri-designsafe/Twitter: https://twitter.com/nheriDesignSafeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/NaturalHazardsEngineeringResearchInfrastructureInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nheridesignsafe/Twitter: @TACC @NheriGsc @NSF @NheriEco @ERathje @NHE_SimCenter#NSFStories, #naturalhazards, #NHERIhackathon

In this episode, Krishna Kumar, Katie Oakley, and Karen Darke, join us to share the life-changing experience of traveling to the Kingdom of Bhutan, nestled high in the Himalayas and what many believe to be the last Shangri-La. Each had a strong desire to learn from this experience and hope to share that wisdom with you all today.

Prof Krishna Kumar locates early literacy in larger context of culture, market, education and school / institution. This characteristically engaging talk in Hindi examines multiple dimensions of literacy in the Indian context. Audio extract from the Youtube video Keynote Address on Early Literacy by Prof Krishna Kumar. Organised by Sir Ratan Tata Trust and Organisation for Early Literacy Promotion in 2011, New Delhi . Courtesy Amrita Patwardhan's YT Curation and Cover Art: Irfan --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sm-irfan/message

We discussed a number of things including:1. Eric and Krishna's corporate and entrepreneurial journey2. How Krishna started Quintrix and its collaborations with corporates  3. State of the tech talent landscape4. Challenges and opportunities ahead5. Future trendsEric is Associate Vice President, Global Workforce Strategy and Operations at Cognizant. As a senior member of the Global HR Operations team, he is responsible for strategic workforce planning, workforce analytics and intelligence, and economic development. Additionally, he is helping to enhance and protect the company's corporate brand and reputation through programs that drive measurable social change and business value. This includes leading strategic investments in workforce hiring and training programs, broadening the scope and investment in creating more opportunities for learners of all backgrounds to  access the education they need to pursue rewarding careers at Cognizant.Eric was responsible for developing and launching the Cognizant U.S. Foundation, a non-profit private foundation created and funded by Cognizant to support STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education and skills initiatives for U.S. workers and students. Announced in February 2018 and launched in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 1, 2018, the Foundation was established with an initial grant of $100 million from Cognizant. As Acting Managing Director of the Foundation, Eric successfully architected the award of over $12M in technology training program grants in 2018, establishing strong career pathways for over 7,000 veterans, women, and individuals from underserved communities.Prior to joining Cognizant, Eric was a Senior member of the workplace consulting and operations team at Deloitte, responsible for the operations management of over 800,000 sq. ft. of real estate and 300  employees within the Northeast Region.  Eric earned his bachelors degree in Business Management from Providence College and his MBA from Fordham University with a focus on International Business.-----Krishna is the Founder and Managing Director of Quintrix, a company that is transforming how enterprises hire, train, and retain early talent. After spending a decade in organizations like Goldman Sachs and State Street bank, Krishna learned that talent shortage, especially in tech, was hindering growth at these company.With a background in both business and technology, Krishna built a talent development model at Quintrix from ground up called ‘recruit-train-deploy'. This model has become the gold-standard for attracting, training, and retaining diverse talent.Krishna coaches CIOs, tech leaders and talent acquisition professionals on how to build a pro-active pipeline of talent that is a cultural fit, motivated, loyal and results driven.  Within 3 years of building this recruit-train-deploy model, Quintrix was acquired by one of the largest workforce solutions companies Mindlance. Krishna continues to lead Quintrix to address the growing need of tech talent for Fortune 1000 companies.Krishna is the recipient of the 40-under-40 award, resides in Jersey City and holds a Master's degree in Business Administration.

In this episode of Science and Us, we explore how music helps autistic children communicate with others.Suno India’s Menaka Rao speaks with Dr Nandini Chatterjee Singh, senior national programme officer, with Unesco Mahatma Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) which works towards developing programmes and products that promote social and emotional learning and with the National Brain Research Centre in Manesar, Haryana. Dr Nandini conducted experiments with autistic children using functional MRI which gives us some understanding of how music and sung speech can open new frontiers for communication in autistic children. We also spoke to Meera Balachander, parent of an autistic man, Krishna Kumar to understand the role of music in his life.The show is co-hosted by Suryatapa Mukherjee.See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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Krishna Kumar is the VP of International at RAND Corp - global leader improving policy and decision-making through research and analysis. He is the Director of Initiative for Global Human Progress, senior economist, distinguished chair in International Economic Policy. Krishna is an alum of IIT Madras, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Chicago. He is also a visiting professor at Indian School of Business. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theindustryshow/support

Casting : prabhas and Pooja Directed by : radha Krishna Kumar. Music: Justin Prabhakaran. BGM: thaman SS. Cinematography: Manoj Paramahamsa Editor : Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao Art director: Sagar Mali. Production houses: UV Creations and T-Series Films Prabhas past movies anee action and drama genre movies chaala years tharwatha prabhas Lo oka love angle chusaam mu For me movie is a good film where u all can give a try once. Please wear masks This is sathvik signing off Tea Time Stories

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Bulli Bai and Sulli Deals are just two new applications making headlines for fake auction of Muslim women. But cyber bullying is not new and most cases unreported. Host Bhavya Dilipkumar talks to Hasiba Amin, an Indian National Congress office holder and a victim, NS Nappinai, a Supreme Court advocate and ET's Krishna Kumar to understand the modus operandi of these hate crimes and the recourse for victims. Credits: India Today, Mirror Now

Recorded in Delhi, 2014 this TV interview was first shown on Rajya Sabha TV. Irfan talking to the eminent educationist Prof Krishna Kumar in the longest running celebrity talk show Guftagoo About Guftagoo Guftagoo (Conversations) is India's only uninterrupted, unscripted and unhurried celebrity talk show. Running since 2011 the show has a rich repository of 400+ TV shows varying from 30 to 160 minutes. It's a unique show interviewing distinguished personalities from various fields of arts and culture. The celebrated anchor Syed Mohd Irfan is host of the show whose distinctive style of conversation forms the essence of the show allowing guests to express their raw emotions. The in-depth interviews provide the viewers an intimate look in the inner worlds of the guests invited to the show. It helps them understand the guest`s life experiences, emotional conflicts, inspirations and struggles that brought out the artist in them and shaped the way they perceive the world. This documentation of the life journeys of various artists, also serves as a popular audio-visual archive for anthropological studies. Earlier aired on Rajya Sabha TV for a decade by the name of Guftagoo, show presented to its viewers, the journeys of personalities from various fields, such as Tom Alter, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Irrfan Khan, Jaya Bachchan,Naseeruddin Shah, John Abraham, Jackie Shroff, Nandita Sen, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Milkha Singh, and Shyam Benegal to name a few. Stay tuned. Audio bounce of a TV interview. The entire Guftagoo playlist on YouTube Link Image Courtesy Irfan's Archive --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sm-irfan/message

Instagram's head Adam Mosseri said the Facebook unit will "pause" development of a version of the photo and video sharing app targeted at children, dubbed 'Instagram Kids'. However, Instagram will continue to develop and integrate parental supervision features into the existing app, Mosseri said in a blog post, while also arguing YouTube and TikTok had children's apps. In our tech conversation, Krishna Kumar—founder and CEO of Cropin—unpacks his company's multiple agri-tech cloud software products

In today's video, we talk about the top 10 biggest Indian startup acquisitions. #10 TaxiForSure: Founded by Aprameya Radhakrishna and Raghunandan G in 2011, TaxiForSure was one of the earliest players in the online cab aggregation space in India, apart from Ola. To compete with Uber in India, Ola had acquired TaxiForSure in a deal worth $200 million. #9 Simplilearn: Started by Krishna Kumar in 2007 as a blog, Simplilearn was turned into a startup in 2010. Today, Simplilearn is a profitable edtech startup offering more than 40 courses on its platform and has trained over 2 million professionals. Earlier in 2021, Blackstone acquired a majority stake in Smiplilearn in a deal worth $250 million. #8 Myntra: Founded by Ashutosh Lawania, Mukesh Bansal, Raveen Sastry, Sankar Bora and Vineet Saxena in 2007, Myntra was just an online platform selling personalised gift items which ventured into fashion products in 2011. After witnessing rapid growth, Myntra was acquired by Flipkart in a deal worth $280 million in 2014. #7 WhiteHat Jr: Founded by Karan Bajaj in 2018, WhiteHat Jr offers live one-on-one online personalised coding classes to its students. Their unique teaching approach, combined with their aggressive marketing helped them reach a revenue runrate of $150 million in just 18 months. In 2020, Byju's acquired WhiteHat Jr in an all-cash deal worth $300 million. #6 PlaySimple Games: Founded by Preeti Reddy, Siddhanth Jain, Siddharth Jain, and Suraj Nalin in 2014, PlaySimple Games makes simple word games like Word Trip, Crossword Jam, Word Bingo and Word Bliss. After building a profitable gaming business with just $4.5 million in investment, PlaySimple Games was acquired by Modern Times Group (MTG) in a deal worth $360 million. #5 FreeCharge: Founded by Kunal Shah and Sandeep Tandon in 2010, FreeCharge offered an online platform for users to recharge their phones. By 2015, FreeCharge was doing more than 1 million transactions every month. That is when Snapdeal had acquired FreeCharge for $400 million – making it one of India's largest acquisitions at the time. #4 Great Learning: Founded by Arjun Nair, Hari Nair and Mohan Lakhamraju in 2013, Great Learning offers upskilling courses to help working professionals accelerate their career growth. The founders bootstrapped their startup to profitability and reached a revenue runrate of $100 million before it was acquired by India's most valuable edtech startup Byju's in a deal worth $600 million in 2021. #3 BigBasket: Founded by Abhinay Choudhari, Hari Menon, Vipul Parekh, VS Ramesh and VS Sudhakar in 2011, BigBasket is India's most valuable online grocery delivery startup serving millions of users across more than 30 cities. Earlier this year in 2021, Tata Digital acquired a 64% stake in the startup for $1.3 billion. #2 GoIbibo: Founded by Ashish Kashyap in 2007, GoIbibo started as a social networking platform before pivoting to an online travel booking platform in 2009. By 2015, GoIbibo was ranked among the top 3 online travel platforms in the country. Then in 2016, MakeMyTrip acquired GoIbibo in a deal worth $1.8 billion. #1 Flipkart: Founded by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal in 2007, Flipkart started its journey as a small online bookstore before becoming India's e-commerce behemoth. By 2018, Flipkart was raking in $4.5 billion in revenue. In Flipkart, Walmart found a perfect opportunity to enter India's booming e-commerce market and acquired them in a massive deal worth $16 billion.

In this episode of the AI Time Journal Podcast, Akshay Toshniwal speaks with Machine Learning Architect at Jio, Krishna Kumar Tiwari, about the future of AI and the unexplored sectors where AI has little impact. ---- Timestamps: Intro - 0:00 What is the ML AI Community? - 11:31 Managing time across different roles - 17:25 The future of AI - 24:59 Sectors where AI needs to grow - 36:39 How to jump into an AI and ML career - 44:23 Krishna's favorite field in AI - 52:58 Goodbyes - 53:49 ---- Akshay Toshniwal, Associate Editor at AI Time Journal Krishna Kumar Tiwari, Machine Learning Architect, Jio Jio Our website ---- Sponsor our podcast! With options of sponsoring your own podcast interview or multiple episodes with your 30-second ad featured pre, mid, and post-roll throughout your sponsored episode(s), this is a great opportunity to invite listeners to explore your company and brand. To learn more, please visit https://store.aitimejournal.com

In S01E16, of your favorite & the best tanglish digital marketing podcast, called DC (Digital Club) Podcast Show, we would be discussing something about: Best Growth Hack to Generate More Leads on Linkedin ft Krishna Kumar

Krishna Kumar uses the metaphor of a long corridor to darkness, to explain the continuities, he surfaces in the way colonials and nationalists, understood the value of education. Reading reviews of his book, in academic journals, demonstrates, that his ideas met with both scepticism and empathy, --- reviewers pointing out the long corridor of darkness, was in reality, part of a long and winding road, that stretches, beyond Macaulay, to Charles Grant at the least, and possibly into the pre-colonial period too. Re-reading K. Ramakrishnan's review after all these years, again, it becomes easier to interpret that the long corridor of darkness, is not part of an edifice, but part of a long and winding road. What Kumar's been able to do, is shine a light on parts of that road. Quoted works in audio 1. Avoiding the 'Corridors of Darkness', Reviewed Work: Political Agenda of Education: A Study of Colonialist and Nationalist Ideas Review by: K. Ramakrishnan, Social Scientist, Vol. 19, No. 8/9 (Aug. - Sep., 1991), pp. 90-94 (5 pages). https://doi.org/10.2307/3517703 2. Reviewed Work: Political Agenda of Education: A Study of Colonialist and Nationalist Ideas by Krishna Kumar Review by: Suresh Chandra Ghosh, History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 394-395 (2 pages) Published By: Cambridge University Press, https://doi.org/10.2307/368203 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baroqque/message

A write up by Krishna Kumar(former director NCERT) in The Hindu, May 13, 2021.

Not enough drugs, beds and oxygen – that's the state of affairs in this second and larger wave of Covid-19 that's hit India. Vikas Dandekar of ET Prime gives us the lowdown on Remdesivir, the drug that's in high demand for treating coronavirus cases. And we have ground reports from Krishna Kumar in Mumbai, Vatsala Gaur from Lucknow and Akshatha M in Bengaluru.

1991, is known in the public policy community, as the year, when India took a decisive turn right, on governance and especially economic policy-making. That same year two books were published, both by scholars, with a deep and abiding faith in the transformative, power of education in the lives of children and nations; both were to be successful, yet the two books could not be more different. This Tale of Two Books audio series will examine the interplay of ideas and interests that were catalysed by these two very different books and the impact they had on India's education planning and the lives of children and their families. Krishna Kumar, The political Agenda of Education, A Study of Nationalist and Colonial Ideas, 1991 (https://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/pol-agenda-kk.pdf) Myron Weiner, The Child and the State in India, 1991 (https://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/stateandchild.doc) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/baroqque/message

The invasion of 3D printing has even infiltrated the world of bacteria. Ravinahs Kumar discusses how this technology provides researchers with a new way to watch bacterial communities interact under a variety of conditions. Listen and learn How a 3D-printed bacteria model helps researchers learn more about the community-based system of bacteria under different spatial constraints, How researchers use ideal material properties for bioprinting to test how stubborn bacterial systems like biofilms evolve and stay almost impenetrable, and What are some interesting findings such as bacteria sacrificing themselves to release toxins and keep the collective organism safe. Ravinash Krishna Kumar is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford. He is working on 3D printing bacteria to both test the potential of this technology and investigate bacterial community interactions. They've been able to print different populations, strains, and species and explore how spatial positions affect their stability and productivity. In fact, by designating a variety of parameters, they can position clusters of bacteria in defined spatial patterns and make comparisons. For example, they can print out different clusters of E. coli and test how they interact under different conditions on a much smaller scale than previous agar-dependent studies.   This cutting-edge technology, scale, and material allows them to ask a host of new questions. In addition to observing different strains interacting, they can observe how those strains grow when segregated. He adds that they can  observe them "consuming local nutrients or sending out diffusible molecules to each other, or touching each other literally, and sending things across to each other." In other words, his research explores a whole new way to understand bacterial competition and commensalism in spaces similar to natural spaces. This eventually will help researchers treat diseases caused by bacterial growth in biofilms and through mucosa in the human immune system. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C

The Budget 2021 was unprecedented and one should access it on the basis of three important parameters – continuity, direction, and momentum, Krishna Kumar Karwa, Managing Director - Emkay Global Financial Services said in The Market Podcast with Moneycontrol.

Krishna kumar (KK) comes with 28+ years of deep IT experience across India, USA, Australia and Singapore. He has worked with world class organizations like IBM, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Siemens and Mastek. KK has performed in a wide spectrum of roles from large Client Account Management, Consulting, Technology Lead, Pre Sales and Organization Process Head. KK has led many large ERP and Outsourcing deals. KK was a past member of the Board with Association of Proposal Management Professionals (www.apmp.org). KK is Certified at Practitioner level and is also a contributing author to APMP’s Body of Knowledge (BOK) and the APMP Journal.

KK is a leader of Enterprise Security at Microsoft. In this episode, he shares the finer details of how to think about Enterprise Security. We talk about data leaks, insider threats, opportunities in this area and likely new trends. We finish with his love for photography and a great choice for his inspiration. Please review, subscribe and share our episodes on your favorite podcast platform. To send us feedback, drop us an email at startupfeedback@carabinermedia.com You can follow us on twitter at https://twitter.com/carabinermedia1

This episode has been published and can be heard everywhere your podcast is available. For the 36th episode of Snippets, we have Dr. Krishna Kumar, Sankara Nethralaya, who will be discussing about " Colour vision testing in clinical practice" Feedback form:https://forms.gle/k7LVRkuNSFgeuib78 Follow us on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/SNippets-106093427853136 - for weekly updates!! Twitter: https://twitter.com/SnippetsP Subscribe to our podcast on the respective platforms. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sankara-nethralaya/message

In this episode of 100xEntrepreneur Podcast, we chat with Krishna Kumar, Founder & CEO, CropIn Technology- a leading "Full-Stack AgTech"​ organization that provides SaaS-based solutions to agribusinesses globally. CropIn serves 220+ agribusinesses and numerous governments and non-government organizations present in over 52 countries. CropIn has digitized over 5 million acres of farmland, enriched the lives of nearly 2.1 million farmers, and gathered data on 265 crops and 3,500 crop varieties. In this episode, Krishna shares his journey of being the change-maker and being one of the first entrepreneurs to step into Agritech in India.Listen to this podcast to learn about:01:57 - Intro of Krishna & his journey04:08 - Interacting with farmers and key-stakeholders within the Agri-Ecosystem05:10 - Identifying the problem statement06:43 - Building the team at CropIn10:30 - First project with Safal- a subsidiary of the National Dairy Development Board15:12 - Pooling initial $10k from his friends19:50 - Scaling up from first few clients to going global in 52 countries28:56 - Enabling banking ecosystem for lending & insurance for farmers34:55 - Tech Products & offerings from CropIn for farmers42:49 - Leveraging AI to transforming agriculture at scale45:15 - Potential for upcoming Agritech startups in India47:18 - Adoption of Agritech offerings by Enterprises

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भोजपुरी जगत से तमाम कलाकारों ने कृष्ण कुमार को ढेरों सारी शुभकामनाएं देते नजर आए। आइए देखते है किस स्टार ने किस अंदाज में कृष्ण कुमार को दी जन्मदिन की स्पेशल शुबकामनाएं।

In Episode 07, “The Future of Radiology Workflows,” Krishna Kumar, Business Marketing and Sales Leader of Precision Diagnosis for Philips Healthcare discusses the future of radiology workflows in health networks across America and the challenges that Radiology Administrators face on a daily basis. Learn how to be more productive with less resources, deal with increased competition, and address growing demand for Artificial Intelligence and how Philips works to partner with customers to address these same concerns.

In this video, Mr. Krishna Kumar shares his journey of quitting job and starting his own recruitment consultancy company. Check out his: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishnaku... Website: https://greenpepper.in/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kkaction Quora: https://www.quora.com/profile/Krishna...

Krishna Kumar Food & Beverage Manager Hulhule Island Hotel Maldives

Krishna Kumar, Founder and CEO of CropIn Technology Solutions, has made it possible to enable data-driven farming by connecting all the stakeholders in the agri ecosystem. CropIn is a leading global full-stack ag-tech organization that provides SaaS solutions thus enabling businesses to utilize technology to effectively drive their initiatives around Digitization, Predictability, Risk Management, Compliance, Sustainability and Traceability. With robust solutions that are crop and region agnostic, CropIn has so far digitized nearly 3.2 million acres of farmland, enriching the lives of nearly 2.1 million farmers in addition to creating a footprint in 29 countries globally. Krishna is also a 'BusinessWorld 40 Under 40 Achiever 2018'.

This week we replay episode # 40 - a discussion with the inspirational figure, Professor Raman Krishna Kumar of the Amrita Institute in Cochin, India. This master of cardiology reviews how, in a limited resource environment, Professor Kumar was able to develop one of the finest pediatric heart centers in all the world. We will be back with a new episode on 3.6.20!

This week we replay episode # 40 - a discussion with the inspirational figure, Professor Raman Krishna Kumar of the Amrita Institute in Cochin, India. This master of cardiology reviews how, in a limited resource environment, Professor Kumar was able to develop one of the finest pediatric heart centers in all the world. We will be back with a new episode on 3.6.20!

In this episode we will hear the perspective of Krishna Kumar Tiwari on what it takes to not only launch your careers as a data scientist but also how to become a high paid, high performing, happy data scientist. Resource mentioned in this podcast: https://medium.com/@KtheAgent/how-to-start-a-project-in-ml-ai-community-7033b23026cf

LeadCasts Host, Krishna Kumar shares with you to build new productive habits and the importance of scheduling things. Read his blog www.krishnakumar.co.in and follow him at Twitter @kkaction

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Deena Bandhu prabhu is known for his simple life in Sri Vrindhavan (a holy town in India, 4 hrs from New Delhi) and his joyful recitation of the pastimes of Lord Krishna. Every year around January, he makes a visit to Sydney temple. It was the same this year but we managed to get him for an interview during which he speaks about his new book. This interview happens to be the very first one when we launched this initiative. The interviewer for this one is Krishna Kumar and it was time before we met Tilak.

Nrsimha Kavacha Das is the ISKCON Deity worship Minister and ensures the wonderful worship across hundreds of Hare Krishna temple around the world, are carried out as per the instructions of Srila Prabhupada (Founder - Acharya of ISKCON) and Sastras (ancient texts). In this interview, he shares his memories of the old days, qualities that devotees must aim to build into their practice and also a bit about Mayapur Academy. This interview was done on 15th January 2019 at ISKCON Sydney temple and the interviewer is Krishna Kumar. It was before we met Tilak :) You can see the video interview on our YouTube channel.

His Grace Vijaya Prabhu is known for his ability & lifelong dedication to distribute the holy books of His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada (Founder - Acharya of ISKCON). He visits our temple every year to spread his realizations and to encourage us to read more. This interview was done on 27th January 2019 and the interviewer is Krishna Kumar. This was before we met Tilak :) The interview opens with a small statement from Srila Prabhupada on book distribution. You can watch the actual video of the interview also on our YouTube channel.

In this episode, we're joined by Krishna Kumar, CEO at one of India's most exciting Agri-Tech companies, CropIn. 2018 has been an awe inspiring year for CropIn, with a Series B raise led by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Chiratae Ventures. We're focusing the discussion on CropIn's business model and their products, delving into what makes this company so unique and innovative. We're also joined by Agribusiness Academy's founder, Dr Vijayender Nalla, to offer some extra insights on what makes the CropIn business model stand out. Information about CropIn Cropin provides Farm-Businesses/Growers with farm management software and mobile apps, which enable them to do connected, and data driven farming. It allows them to take advantage of real time data and insight from farms (an accurate view of their operation throughout the entire growing season) and to improve financial, operational and agronomy aspects.

This week we review a paper from the Amrita Institute in Kerala, India on outcomes of infant surgery in that region and discuss the results with its senior author, Dr. Raman Krishna Kumar. Professor Kumar explains how this large center in India has been able to develop a program that would be the envy of any city in the world, all on a 'shoestring' budget. He reviews with us the path he took from the time he left the US with cardiology training and how he and his associates were able to build one of the finest cardiovascular centers for children in the world. This is a fascinating and inspiring discussion with one of finest cardiologists and human beings in our field. Dr. Kumar's stirring accomplishments for the children of India are noteworthy and his discussion is one of the true highlights of this podcast thus far. For donations to Dr. Kumar's center, please reach out to him at kumar_rk@yahoo.com. doi: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2015.09.008.

This week we review a paper from the Amrita Institute in Kerala, India on outcomes of infant surgery in that region and discuss the results with its senior author, Dr. Raman Krishna Kumar. Professor Kumar explains how this large center in India has been able to develop a program that would be the envy of any city in the world, all on a 'shoestring' budget. He reviews with us the path he took from the time he left the US with cardiology training and how he and his associates were able to build one of the finest cardiovascular centers for children in the world. This is a fascinating and inspiring discussion with one of finest cardiologists and human beings in our field. Dr. Kumar's stirring accomplishments for the children of India are noteworthy and his discussion is one of the true highlights of this podcast thus far. For donations to Dr. Kumar's center, please reach out to him at kumar_rk@yahoo.com. doi: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2015.09.008.

What is Transformational Leadership? On this episode, we find out with Krishna Kumar, President of the International Association of Coaching (IAC). “Most of us dream of being in a better place but most great leaders have got to where they are by applying leverage” A pioneer in the sphere of Leadership and Executive Coaching in India, Krishna Kumar holds the firm belief that coaching is enlightening, transformational, at times magical, almost always healing and possessing the power to build a healthier and harmonious society. It is a belief that has carried him through a diverse and continuing learning journey over three decades where he has donned the hats of a senior corporate executive, an entrepreneur, a master tennis coaching professional, a B-school professor, independent Board member and as a Leadership and Executive Coach.   “If you are able to transform an individual and take them to what they perceives as a better place, then you are a good coach” An active member of the international coaching community he is presently the global President of the International Association of Coaching (IAC), widely recognized as a premier coach credentialing association, the Founder Director of the Intrad School of Executive Coaching (ISEC), a Founding Fellow of the Institute of Coaching, an affiliate of the Harvard Medical College and a Board Certified Coach by the Center for Credentialing & Education (USA). In 2016, he developed the AWARETM model for coaching that merged concepts and practices from sports psychology and organizational behaviour to effectively improve performance of senior executives in the corporate and business world. “If you want inspired leadership, the first thing you need to do is to build trust” An inspired leader seeks to bring about a positive transformation in society. Coaching provides the perfect vehicle for transformation when leaders, acting as coaches, become the ‘trim tab’ that provide the leverage to propel change. “Establishing and maintaining a relationship of trust is the trim tab or fulcrum on which society can transform” Krishna reminds us that society functions on a foundation of trust that demonstrates fairness and shared values but as we now move through a time of difficult transformation we are witness to an implosion of trust, both at the individual and institutional levels. Establishing Trust is the core of any transformation and can coaches using the fulcrum of coaching leverage trust to bring about positive societal transformation? Is coaching the right tool for such transformation? Join us in listening to and learning from one of the great Developmental Coaches of our time, Krishna Kumar. It will be 20 minutes you will never forget. Links: Krishna Kumar on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/krishna-kumar-btme-mba-bcc-fellow-ioc-9852072 Krishna Kumar on Twitter: @iseckkumar Krishna Kumar’s Email: kk@kinesisnet.com IAC Website: https://certifiedcoach.org Timothy Gallway’s website The Inner Game: http://theinnergame.com The Inner Game of Work by Timothy Gallway: https://www.amazon.ca/Inner-Game-Work-Learning-Workplace/dp/0375758178 Ubiquity Leadership Coaching: www.UbiquityLeadership.com Related Episodes: e001 Servant Leadership with Meredith Thatcher e006 Next Generation Leaders with Jake Gunnoe e011 Leadership Mindset with Connor Larocque e018 HR to RH with Reflektive CEO Rajeev Behera Next Week’s Show: Customer-Centric Leaders with Janet LeBlanc

In this episode, we talk to digital media producer Krishna Kumar about intimacy in digital media, starting a Youtube channel when he was 11, and what he would do with a day left on earth.

A percussion solo for TVM Krishna Kumar and Binny Krishna Kumar held on 30-12-2007 for Mohana Rama kriti in Mohanam

The buzz: Always better together. As the world becomes increasingly digital, your company's survival will rely more than ever on co-innovation opportunities within your business network. How can you make this happen? Simply put, seek out and connect with collaborative partners who can help you achieve the solution edge that will keep you competitive and successful. But where do you look and whom should you choose? Guidance from Peter Drucker: “The best praise an innovation can receive is for people to say, ‘This is obvious. Why didn't I think of it?'” The experts speak. Dawn Duross, Cisco: “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do (Coach John Wooden). Krishna Kumar, AppOrchid: “I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. The choice of life” (The Godfather). Puneet Suppal, SAP: “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present...we must think anew and act anew” (Abraham Lincoln). Join us for Co-Innovation: Your Path to a Digital Future – Part 2.

The buzz: Always better together. As the world becomes increasingly digital, your company's survival will rely more than ever on co-innovation opportunities within your business network. How can you make this happen? Simply put, seek out and connect with collaborative partners who can help you achieve the solution edge that will keep you competitive and successful. But where do you look and whom should you choose? Guidance from Peter Drucker: “The best praise an innovation can receive is for people to say, ‘This is obvious. Why didn't I think of it?'” The experts speak. Dawn Duross, Cisco: “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do (Coach John Wooden). Krishna Kumar, AppOrchid: “I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. The choice of life” (The Godfather). Puneet Suppal, SAP: “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present...we must think anew and act anew” (Abraham Lincoln). Join us for Co-Innovation: Your Path to a Digital Future – Part 2.

Economist Krishna B. Kumar discusses India's impact on the global economy and the implications of India's economic rise for the United States.

Gas prices have been flirting with $5 a gallon recently. But as Krishna Kumar of Enterprise Horizons points out in this podcast, when most SAP customers implemented their first SAP systems, prices were closer to $1 a gallon. This massive change in the cost of energy has created both a crisis and an opportunity. On this podcast, we look at the opportunity side of the equation. Jon and Krishna are joined by Paul Kurchina, Director of the Kurmeta Group, and author of the recently released book In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant. The three of us take a closer look at the intersection between the corporate "Green Movement" and eSOA, and how these converging technologies are having a beneficial impact on the bottom line, while charting a better course for global energy consumption. Paul and Krishna also explain how SAP professionals can get more involved in the Green/eSOA space - a potentially great way to mix skills expansion with purposeful work.  

To get an inside look at the key developments from SAP TechEd 2007, Jon Reed sat down with Krishna Kumar of Enterprise Horizons. Krishna was a presenter at TechEd 2007, and he is becoming a thought leader in the SAP community in terms of how to get a real return on investment from eSOA and Enterprise Services. As a technical visionary who has watched SAP's product line evolve for many years, Krishna has a knack for breaking down SAP technology in simple and precise terms. Jon turned to Krishna to help sort through what was real and what was hype at TechEd 2007. The goal of the podcast was to place the events of TechEd 2007 in the context of SAP's "Enterprise SOA" technology stack. SAP is clearly staking its future on eSOA, but what does that mean to the SAP project team and the SAP consultant? Is eSOA just hype and if it's for real, what consulting skills will be needed to succeed in the "eSOA era"? And how will SAP's Business Objects acquisition, which occurred immediately following Tech Ed, affect these trends and the future of SAP overall? In this thirty-six minute interview, Jon and Krishna cover these issues and more, including: - The focus of Enterprise Horizons and the specifics of Krishna's SAP background. - Krishna's take on the main themes of Tech Ed 2007, such as: the emphasis on BI and analytics, the surprising level of emphasis on eSOA over SAP's core business functionality, and the obvious absence of Shai Agassi. - Why SAP has shifted its focus from emphasizing exposing its core apps as eSOA services as opposed to looking at the core business processes such as order fulfillment, financials, and supply chain management. Krishna explains that was what missing was a clear demonstration by SAP on the business value and return on investment of eSOA. - The Business Objects acquisition, which took place after TechEd and which to some degree dwarfed all of the TechEd news announcements. Krishna shares his thoughts on the BO purchase, including the challenge of integrating the BO code base into SAP, and why the BO acquisition is of "monumental importance" to eSOA. Krishna explains that this will accelerate the trend of exposing analytics as services and leveraging connections to outside partners. - The SAP BBD (Business By Design) announcement, and why Krishna has a cautious take on Software as a Service (SaaS). Krishna also explains why this current evolution of SaaS may be more successful than the previous ASP models due to the impact of the "Internet Cloud." Krishna also describes how a BBD customer might be able to expose a service through an "on demand" platform, and why eSOA is integral to an on-demand solution. - Krishna gives his perspective on why the evolution to a "Business Process Consultant" is important to SAP, and why he thinks that the distinction between functional and technical SAP professionals was always a false dichotomy. Krishna tells us why the ideal SAP consultant has always had a functional and technical skills combination. - Krishna then details what skills functional and technical consultants need to pursue in order to remain relevant to the SAP software of the future. Krishna talks about the end of the silo functional consultant, and why functional consultants need to understand the Internet touch points of service enablement. Krishna also talks about how Business Intelligence and NetWeaver fit into the technical skills picture. Soon, the technical consultant will have to learn to talk business or "become a dinosaur." There is time to act, however, as Krishna believes this will be a "slow metamorphosis." - Jon asks Krishna about how the SAP customer base should perceive eSOA, given that SAP often hypes its new solutions to the point that customers can become jaded. Krishna has a provocative viewpoint on this: he believe that when it comes to transactional ERP systems, service enablement and SOA is indeed overhyped, almost to the degree of the dotcom hype. Then, Krishna explains why the real payoff for eSOA is through analytics, and that this is where the real eSOA payoff will be. - Krishna tells us how best-of-breed Internet content "mashups" are the real "killer app" of the eSOA era, and how they can be tied back into ERP-based analytical applications. - Jon asks Krishna if you truly have to invest in the latest SAP releases and all the expenses and organizational change involved in moving to eSOA, or if you can get started on earlier releases. Krishna explains that SAP customers can dabble in eSOA at almost any point, because it's really just "RFC on steroids," but that to truly build an effective eSOA landscape and consume and publish a range of services, you will eventually need to be running NetWeaver and ERP 5.0/6.0 and beyond. - In the final segment of the podcast, Jon asks Krishna to use his company's product to illustrate a very important point: how companies can tie in best-of-breed Internet content providers into their BW/BI analytics engine in order to get a powerful visual grasp of key business planning and ROI functions. Jon tells Krishna that Home Depot, one of the most advanced SAP eSOA customers, has used a similar "mashup solution" to take advantage of BI/BW data and content from third parties that would be cost-prohibitive to develop internally. - Jon asks Krishna about the minimum requirements needed to use a product like his company offers, and we learn that the minimum requirements are simply BW 3.x onward, in a nutshell. This is an example of how there might be a different enterprise services roadmap, that would focus on Business Intelligence, and then leverage that data and mash it up - without worrying about the cost and challenge of service-enabling core ERP transactions. - Krishna provides a "market demographics" example of how an eSOA service could be "mashed up" for real business value. - Jon asks Krishna to illustrate why these visually oriented "spatial analytics" can provide a much more powerful business case for eSOA that executives can understand and grasp much more quickly than a detailed white paper. He asks Krishna about the example of using demographic mashups to analyze which neighborhoods are viable for a retail store expansion. As Krishna says, this is the "true power of eSOA," beyond the hype.