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In this episode of Great Practices, I'm talking with Bill VanCuren, a highly experienced executive, technology advisor, and former EVP and CIO for NCR Corporation. Bill is going to be discussing the pros and cons of agile vs. waterfall and the benefits of moving towards a more product-centric model. You'll find out the steps necessary to move from Agile to Product methodologies, some common mistakes that are made (and how to overcome them) as well as an idea of how long such a transition will take. Plus, find out about Bill's non-AI generated Technology Leadership Playbook courses and how you can make the most of implementing a product-centric model in your organization. Want to get in touch with Bill? · LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-vancuren-3a76b61/ · Website: https://www.bvcadvisorsllc.com/ -or- · Register for the Technology Leadership Playbook Certificate

Tech advancements, trends, and market shifts are happening fast (looking at you, AI) and organizations are doing their best to adapt. But the ability to translate business requirements to the ever-shifting IT side of the house isn't easy. During this session, Amanda Morrell (Senior IT Salesforce Leader at NCR Corporation) shares how she successfully navigates change amidst the dynamic IT environment across multiple industries — so you can, too.

 Many believe Europe lags behind in semiconductor innovation, constrained by outdated industry standards. But is this really the case? Let's dive deeper and challenge this notion.In reality, with leaders like Sonja Pierer, Europe is making monumental strides. Intel´s investments will contribute to the EU's goal of bringing back 20% of global semiconductor manufacturing capacity to the region by 2030. This is not just a goal—it's a transformation in action.Join us on the latest episode of the Transformation Leaders podcast, hosted by René Esteban, as we explore the future of Europe's tech industry with Sonja Pierer.#Innovation #Transformation #SemiconductorAbout Sonja Pierer (LinkedIn): Sonja is Intel's Country Manager for Germany—so to speak, the face of Intel in Germany. In parallel, she heads Digital Sales for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Sonja started her career with Cisco, where she held various Enterprise Sales positions covering customers from different segments. Further steps in her career included being Head of Sellers B2B German Marketplace at Amazon,Managing Director at Experis and various senior positions at NCR Corporation and VCE / Dell.About René Esteban (LinkedIn): René Esteban is Founder and CEO of FocusFirst. As a former senior leader in a Fortune 500, he found that too many transformation projects take too long, waste money, and annoy key stakeholders – and that there must be a way to accelerate business transformations sustainably. Today, this belief unites an international FocusFirst team consisting of former top executives and subject matter experts. He is an international keynote speaker, author and senior advisor for top executives to achieve challenging goals and accelerate complex transformations.About FocusFirst (LinkedIn): FocusFirst is a boutique consulting firm for transformation & strategic change projects. We are the specialised firm in the industry that combines former top executives and an award-winning method to accelerate transformations. This unique “double helix” of capabilities equips us to help our customers deliver results faster against demanding business goals. Executives work with FocusFirst to develop organisations, structure & accelerate transformations. FocusFirst works with leading Fortune 500 companies such as Merck, Novartis, E.ON, BASF, as well as established mid-sized companies. More information: www.focusfirst.com

Entrepreneurship serves as the heartbeat of innovation, breathing life into transformative ideas that ultimately add value to our lives. Through the visionary leadership of individuals like Mahi Silva, CEO at Triller, entrepreneurship becomes a conduit for change, shaping industries and crafting experiences that resonate deeply. Silva's role at Triller exemplifies this, where innovative technologies converge with entertainment, enhancing how we create, consume, and share content. Entrepreneurial ventures not only introduce novel solutions but also cultivate opportunities, jobs, and economic growth, fostering a cycle of progress that enriches the fabric of society. Silva's leadership embodies the spirit of entrepreneurship, illuminating the profound impact it wields in sculpting a brighter, more interconnected future.Here's more about Mahi SilvaMahi is the Co-founder & CEO at Amplify.ai.Previously, Mahi was responsible for commercial activities for Opera's consumer mobile products and services. Before joining Opera, Mahi was co-founder and CEO of AdMarvel, Inc., the global leader in mobile advertising platforms, acquired by Opera in 2010.Prior to AdMarvel, Mahi co-founded FrengoCorporation, a mobile social media platform. Mahi also spent 10 years at VeriSign, where he was part of the startup management team.From 2002 to 2006, he served as senior vice president and general manager of Wireless and Digital Content Services at VeriSign, where he built the world's leading mobile messaging and mobile entertainment business with revenues exceeding $600M per year.Prior to VeriSign, he served in various technology leadership roles at Taligent, Apple and NCR Corporation.

Jordan has worked in the marketing industry for 12+ years, spanning across various disciplines from experiential, brand strategy to creative and more. He has a passion for personal development and mindset growth, and co-host a podcast with his wife called "Live Alive" on living life with intention and purpose.For the better part of his career Jordan has worked in agency within some of the larger marketing hubs of the southern U.S. – Dallas and Atlanta. As a way to explore his entrepreneurial spirit early in his career, he co-founded an online D2C clothing boutique in the early 2010's and in later years consulted on the brand development of startups in both digital media and telehealth. Before joining Iris Worldwide, Jordan most recently led the global brand and creative services division of NCR Corporation's in-house agency, one of the world's largest payments software and POS providers in banking, retail and restaurants. Now, Jordan serves as Group Account Director with Iris, and leads brand relationships across B2B and B2C clients in North America. 

A Walk of Faith: Is Not a Blind Path by Ken StallingsGod placed a desire to write a book about my faith and share it with whoever would seek to read it. It was written initially as a guide or counsel to my kids in hopes they may avoid some of the pitfalls in life I experienced. As the book was being written, it became clear that many others might benefit from my experiences in life and how ultimately it was faith that rose to the top and made all things possible. The desire is to grow the kingdom of God. Hopefully this book will serve that purpose.Ken Stallings, who was born and raised in Carrollton, Georgia, has completed his new book, “A Walk of Faith: Is Not a Blind Path”: an inspiring spiritual guide for those seeking to strengthen their faith.Author Ken Stallings attended and graduated from Central of Carrollton High School. Beyond high school, he attended Southern Technical Polytech, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering technology. He began his professional career as a technician for NCR Corporation. While at NCR, Ken earned multiple promotions leading up to a director-level position. As a result of acquisitions and spinoffs while at NCR, Ken worked for AT&T and Lucent Technologies. After several years with each of these companies, he returned to NCR as a VP. After a short stint as VP and nineteen years in corporate America, Ken left the corporate world and started CoLiant Solutions with his wife, Contessa. His tenure at CoLiant Solutions is the inspiration for this book. CoLiant celebrated twenty years of business in 2022. Ken currently leads CoLiant Solutions as president.Ken has been married to Contessa for twenty-nine years. They have two children, Brandt and Carissa. Ken enjoys the outdoors. He is an avid hunter. Ken also likes sports. He spent many years coaching each of his kids in various sports. Ken is most content with good quality time with his family.https://www.amazon.com/Walk-Faith-Not-Blind-Path/dp/B0C1HYLMY9/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3T6QTKSOX2E4R&keywords=A+Walk+of+Faith%2C+Ken+Stallings&qid=1688223324&s=books&sprefix=a+walk+of+faith%2C+ken+stallin%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C299&sr=1-1http://www.KingsPagesPress.com  http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/71323kpp3.mp3  

Courtney Culmer, Founder of Uplevel Communications, has been part of the communications and marketing ecosystem for almost 20 years. She’s worked for Fortune 500 companies like United Technologies Corp. (now Raytheon Technologies), NCR Corporation and ESPN (a Disney company) and later providing communications and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) consulting services to industry leaders, influencers […] The post Courtney Culmer with Uplevel Communications and Brad MacAfee with Mission and Cause appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

Gabelli Funds Portfolio Manager, Justin Bergner, shares why NCR Corporation is one of our favorite companies.

Yes, Howard Brown is a two-time cancer survivor. As you will discover in our episode, he grew up with an attitude to thrive and move forward. Throughout his life, he has learned about sales and the concepts of being a successful entrepreneur while twice battling severe cancer.   Howard's life story is one of those events worth telling and I hope you find it worth listening to. He even has written a book about all he has done. The book entitles Shining Brightly has just been released, but you get to hear the story directly from Howards' lips.   About the Guest: Howard Brown is an author, speaker, podcaster, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, interfaith peacemaker, two-time stage IV cancer survivor, and healthcare advocate. For more than three decades, Howard's business innovations, leadership principles, mentoring and his resilience in beating cancer against long odds have made him a sought-after speaker and consultant for businesses, nonprofits, congregations, and community groups. In his business career, Howard was a pioneer in helping to launch a series of technology startups before he co-founded two social networks that were the first to connect religious communities around the world. He served his alma mater—Babson College, ranked by US News as the nation's top college for entrepreneurship—as a trustee and president of Babson's worldwide alumni network. His hard-earned wisdom about resilience after beating cancer twice has led him to become a nationally known patient advocate and “cancer whisperer” to many families. Visit Howard at ShiningBrightly.com to learn more about his ongoing work and contact him. Through that website, you also will find resources to help you shine brightly in your own corner of the world. Howard, his wife Lisa, and his daughter Emily currently reside in Michigan. About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.     Transcription Notes Michael Hingson  00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson  01:20 Hi, and welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset. Today, we get to interview Howard Brown, I'm not going to tell you a lot because I want him to tell his story. He's got a wonderful story to tell an inspiring story. And he's got lots of experiences that I think will be relevant for all of us and that we all get to listen to. So with that, Howard, welcome to unstoppable mindset.   Howard Brown  01:44 Thank you, Michael. I'm really pleased to be here. And thanks for having me on your show. And excited to talk to your audience and and share a little bit.   Michael Hingson  01:54 Well, I will say that Howard and I met through Podapolooza, which I've told you about in the past and event that brings podcasters would be podcasters. And people who want to be interviewed by podcasters together, and Howard will tell us which were several of those he is because he really is involved in a lot of ways. But why don't you start maybe by telling us a little bit about your, your kind of earlier life and introduce people to you and who you are. Sure, sure.   Howard Brown  02:23 So I'm from Boston. I can disguise the accent very well. But when I talked to my mother, we're back in Boston, we're packing a car. We're going for hot dogs and beans over to Fenway Park. So gotta get a soda. We're getting a soda, not a pop. So we add the Rs. They call my wife Lisa, not Lisa. But I grew up I grew up in the suburbs of Boston, a town called Framingham. And I'm a twin. And I'm very unusual. But a girl boy twin, my twin sister Cheryl. She goes by CJ is five minutes older. And I hold that I hold that now against her now that we're older and she didn't want to be older, but now she's my older sister, my big sister by five whole minutes.   Michael Hingson  03:09 Well, she's big sister, so she needs to take care of her baby brother   Howard Brown  03:12 says exactly. And she did. And we're gonna get to that because it's a really important point being a twin, which we'll get to in a second. But so Britta she Where does she live now? So she lives 40 minutes away from me here in Michigan.   Michael Hingson  03:25 Oh my gosh, you both have moved out of the area.   Howard Brown  03:27 So she she moved to Albany, New York. I moved to Southern then California, LA area and the beaches, and then Silicon Valley. And then the last 17 years we've all lived close. And we raised our families together here in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan.   Michael Hingson  03:40 What got you to all go to Michigan?   Howard Brown  03:43 Well, for me, it was a choice. My wife is from Michigan, and I was in Silicon Valley. And we were Pat had a little girl Emily, who's four. There's a story there too. But we'll we decided we wanted her to grow up with a family and cousins and aunts and uncles and my in laws live here. My wife grew up here. And this made it closer for my parents and Boston suburbs to get here as well. So great place to raise a family very different from Silicon Valley in Palo Alto, California.   Michael Hingson  04:12 Yeah, but don't you miss Steve's ice cream in Boston?   Howard Brown  04:15 I do. I miss the ice cream. I missed the cannolis in the Back Bay. I missed some of the Chinese food. So in the north end, but it just it I do, but I have not lived there. I went to college there at Babson College number one school for entrepreneurship. And then when I got my first job, I moved out to Ohio but then I moved back and well there's a whole story of why I had to move back as well but we'll get   Michael Hingson  04:41 there. So are your parents still living in Boston?   Howard Brown  04:46 They are and so my dad I call myself son of a boot man. My dad for 49 years has sold cowboy boots in New England in the in the in the western you know the states New York Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts. And that's, you know, anyone who stayed somewhere for 49 years got to be applauded. And he's a straight commission boot salesman and he sold women's shoes prior to that. So he he's, he's a renaissance man.   Michael Hingson  05:15 Wow. So does he sell cowboy boots with snow treads as it were for the winter?   Howard Brown  05:21 No snow trends but, you know, like out west when you're working on, you know, on with cattle and working out west and sometimes it's a fashion statement. Not not too many places in New England like that. But he, he made a living, he enjoyed it. And he's, he's just about to retire at the age of 79. This year.   Michael Hingson  05:39 I remember living in Boston and and when I wear shoes with just leather soles, I slid around a lot on the sidewalks and all that so did get rubber rubbers to go over my boots and then later got real boots.   Howard Brown  05:54 Right. So I have the big hiking boots, the Timberlands, but I too have a pair of a you know, in Boston, we call them rabbits, rabbits, robins. And they basically are slip ons that gave you grip. They slipped right over your leather shoes. And you wore them when anyway in the snow and in those sloshing in the mess. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  06:12 And they worked really well. They did. So you went off to college. And I gather kind of almost right from the beginning you got involved in the whole idea of entrepreneurship.   Howard Brown  06:23 Well, I did I transferred to Babson from a liberal arts school called Connecticut College. I just I found out it wasn't for me and Babson College changed the trajectory of my entire life. i i I knew that I wanted to do sales and then later technology. But Babson was the catalyst for that. They just they support entrepreneurship of all kinds, no matter how you define it, and I just drank it in and I loved, I loved my time there. I love my learning there. And I continue to stay involved with Babson very closely as a past president of the Alumni Association, a former trustee, and very actively recruit students to go there and support student businesses. So it was a big impact on me and I continue to give back to it.   Michael Hingson  07:11 That's pretty cool. So how, how did you proceed as far as a career and entrepreneurial involvement as it were in in sales and all that?   Howard Brown  07:22 So I had an internship, I had wanted cellular one when cellular phones came out and I was basically learning the business. This is really early 1984 And five, and then I got another internship at NCR Corporation if you remember national cash register 120 year old company based out of Dayton, Ohio, and now it's in Atlanta, and it's, it's just not the same company. But I took an internship there a lot of Babson folks work there. And I worked as a trainer, sales installation rep. I trained waitresses, waiters, bartenders, hotel clerks, night audits, how to use cash register computer systems. So I was the teacher and a trainer. And I would, you know, talk to waitresses and waiters and bartenders and say you can make more tips by providing better service. But the way that you do that is you type you the order into a computer, it zaps it to the order station or the back to the back of the house to cook to prepare the foods or for the drinks. And you can spend more time servicing your table which should translate into higher tips. Well, about a third of them said nope, not for me, a third of them were need to be convinced and a third of them are like I'm in. I had a lot of fun doing that. And then after the shift, the either the manager or the owner would come over and they'd give you a savior at a Chinese food restaurant. They give you a poopoo platter to go to take home to your dorm room.   Michael Hingson  08:46 So I had a lot of fun, a lot of fun and a lot of good food.   Howard Brown  08:50 Sure sure. So that's what really started me off and hired me   Michael Hingson  08:55 so did that did that concept of tips and all that and advising people ever get you to translate that to Durgin Park?   Howard Brown  09:03 I actually did install the cashiers to computers area ago Daniel hall so the checkerboard you know draped you know cloth on the table and so you know it's there's a lot of good restaurants in Boston, you know the union Oyster House with a toothpick but I did countless restaurants hotels bars, you know it was I was basically at the whim of the Salesforce and there was a couple of us that went to go train and teach people and take the night shift and make sure everything was going smoothly as they installed the new system of course the no name restaurant and other one but well you know for for your listeners that no name was a place to get, you know, really great discounted seafood but you sat on a park bench. Remember that?   Michael Hingson  09:50 Right? Oh yeah, definitely. It wasn't. Well, neither was Durgin park, but I haven't kept up Is it still there?   Howard Brown  10:00 Yes, I believe it's still there.   Michael Hingson  10:01 Oh, good. I heard somewhere that, that it might not be because of COVID. But we enjoy   Howard Brown  10:07 down it shut down for a while during COVID I hope it's back open. I'm gonna have to go now. Yeah, you're gonna make me go check to see if it's open. But you know, many of them are still there. And obviously restaurants turn over. But that's a mainstay that's got a lot of history.   Michael Hingson  10:19 Oh, it does. And we had a lot of fun with the waitresses and so on at their Compac. I know, once we went there, and you know, the whole story, that Durgan is a place where you sit at family tables, unless we actually have four people then they'll let you sit at one of the tables for for around the outside. Well, there were three of us and my guide dog when we went in one time. And the hostess said, we're gonna put you at one of the tables for for just to give more room for the puppy dog. And she sat us down there. Then the waitress came over and as they are supposed to do at Durgan Park, she said, you're not supposed to sit here. There are only three of you. And I said there's a dog under the table. No, there's not. You can't fool me with that. And the waitress isn't supposed to be snotty, right. And she just kept going on and on about it. And I kept saying there is a dog under the table. She went away. And then she came back a little bit later. And she said, You've got to move and I said no. Why don't you just look, there's a dog under the table. You're not gonna make me fall for that. She finally looked. And there are these Golden Retriever puppy eyes staring back at her. She just melted. It was so much fun.   Howard Brown  11:26 Wouldn't be Boston if you didn't get a little attitude. Well, yeah, that's part of what it's all about your right next seating. And they just they sit you in a and they say, meet each other and be married.   Michael Hingson  11:38 Yeah, yeah. And it was a lot of fun. So how long did it take you to get to Silicon Valley?   Howard Brown  11:44 Well, so the story is that I did. I worked for NCR and I got hired by NCR, but I wanted out of the hospitality business. You know, even though he's young work until two, three in the morning, once they shut the restaurant or bar down or the hotel down, and then you do the night audit and you do the records. It was a hard life. So I looked and I did my research. And I said, you know who's who's making all the money here at NCR in the banking division. And it was really the early days of the outsourcing movement, punch cards, and you're outsourcing bank accounts, over 1200 baud modems. And I said, Well, that's interesting. And so I went to NCRs training at Sugar camp to learn how to be a salesperson were they actually in the early days, they filmed you, they taught you negotiation skills, competitive analysis, Industry Skills, it was fantastic. It's like getting an MBA today. But they did it all in six months, with mixing fieldwork in with, you know, training at this education facility in Dayton, Ohio. And I came out as a junior salesperson working for for very expansive experience, guys. And they just, I knew one thing, if I made them more productive, they'd make me money. And I did. And I, they sent me to banks and savings and loans and credit unions all over New England. And I basically learned the business of banking and outsourcing to these banks. And they made a lot of money. So that was how my career started. You can't do better than that. But to answer the question, because it's a little more complex than that. But it took me NCR in 1988. And then I moved out to Los Angeles in 1991, after a big health scare, which we'll talk about, and then I moved up in 2005. So there's the timeline to get me to Silicon Valley.   Michael Hingson  13:29 So you, you definitely moved around. I know that feeling well, having had a number of jobs and been required to live in various parts of the country when going back and forth from one coast to another from time to time. So you know, it's it's there. So you, you did all of that. And you You ended up obviously making some money and continuing to to be in the entrepreneurial world. But how does that translate into kind of more of an entrepreneurial spirit today?   Howard Brown  14:00 So great question, Michael. So what happened was is that I built a foundation. So at that time when you graduated school, and as far as for technology, the big computer shops like IBM Unisys, NCR, Hewlett Packard, what they did is they took you raw out of college, and they put you through their training program. And that training program was their version of the gospel of their of their products and your competitors and all that. And that built a great foundation. Well, I moved to Los Angeles after this big health scare, which I'm sure we're gonna go back and talk about, and I moved into the network products division. So I didn't stay in the banking division. I looked at the future and said voice data and video. I think there's the future there and I was right and AT and T bought NCR and, unfortunately, this is probably 1992. They also bought McCaw cellular they had just bought all of Eddie computer. They were a big company of five 600,000 employees and I have To tell you, the merger wasn't great. You felt like a number. And I knew that was my time. That was my time where I said, I got my foundation built. It's now time to go to a startup. So your time had come. My time had come. So at&t, offered early retirement for anyone 50 and older, and then they didn't get enough takers. So they offered early retirement for anyone that wanted to change. And so the talk around the watercooler was, let's wait they'll make a better offer. And I was like, I'm 26 and a half years old. I what am I waiting for? So they made a tremendously generous offer. I took early retirement, and I moved to my first true startup called avid technology that was in the production space. And we basically were changing film and television production from analog to digital. And I never looked back, I basically have been with startups ever since. And that, but that foundation I felt was really important that I got from NCR, but I prefer smaller companies and build the building them up from scratch and moving them forward.   Michael Hingson  16:07 Yeah, when you can do more to help shape the way they go. Because the the problem with a larger a lot of larger companies is they get very set in their ways. And they tend not to listen as much as maybe they should to people who might come along with ideas that might be beneficial to them, as opposed to startups as you say,   Howard Brown  16:27 Well, it depends. I mean, you know, you want to build a company that is still somewhat innovative. So what these large companies like Google and Facebook do, and Apple is they go acquire, they acquire the startups before they get too big or sometimes like, it's like what Facebook did with Instagram, they acquired six people, Google acquired YouTube, and they acquire the technology of best of breed technology. And then they shape it, and they accelerate it up. So listen, companies like IBM are still innovative, Apple, you know, is so innovative. But you need to maintain that because it can get to be a bureaucracy, and with hundreds of 1000s of employees. And you can't please everybody, but I knew my calling was was technology startups. And I just, I needed to get that, get that foundation built. And then away away I went. And that's what I've done. Since   Michael Hingson  17:16 you're right. It's all about with with companies, if they want to continue to be successful, they have to be innovative, and they have to be able to grow. I remember being in college, when Hewlett Packard came out with the HP 25, which was a very sophisticated calculator. Back in the the late 19th, early 1970s. And then Texas Instruments was working on a calculator, they came out with one that kind of did a lot of the stuff that HP did. But about that same time because HP was doing what they were doing, they came out with the HP 35. And basically it added, among other things, a function key that basically doubled the number of incredible things that you could do on the HP 25.   Howard Brown  17:58 Right, I had a TI calculator and in high school.   Michael Hingson  18:02 Well, and of course yeah, go ahead HPUS pull reverse Polish notation, which was also kind   Howard Brown  18:09 of fun. Right and then with the kids don't understand today is that, you know, we took typing, I get I think we took typing.   Michael Hingson  18:19 Did you type did you learn to type on a typewriter without letters on the keys?   Howard Brown  18:23 No, I think we have letters I think you just couldn't look down or else you get smacked. You know, the big brown fox jumped over the you know, something that's I don't know, but I did learn but I I'm sort of a hybrid. I looked down once in a while when I'd say   Michael Hingson  18:39 I remember taking a typing course in actually it was in summer school. I think it was between seventh and eighth grade. And of course the typewriters were typewriters, typewriters for teaching so they didn't have letters on the keys, which didn't matter to me a whole lot. But by the same token, that's the way they were but I learned to type and yeah, we learned to type and we learned how to be pretty accurate with it's sort of like learning to play the piano and eventually learning to do it without looking at the keys so that you could play and either read music or learn to play by ear.   Howard Brown  19:15 That's true. And And again, in my dorm room, I had Smith Corona, and I ended up having a bottle of or many bottles of white out.   Michael Hingson  19:25 White out and then there was also the what was it the other paper that you could put on the samosa did the same thing but white out really worked?   Howard Brown  19:33 Yeah, you put that little strip of tape and then it would wait it out for you then you can type over it. Right? We've come a long way. It's some of its good and some of its bad.   Michael Hingson  19:43 Yeah, now we have spellchecker Yeah, we do for what it's worth,   Howard Brown  19:49 which we got more and more and more than that on these I mean listen to this has allowed us to, to to do a zoom call here and record and goods and Bad's to all of that.   Michael Hingson  19:58 Yeah, I still I have to tell people learning to edit. Now using a sound editor called Reaper, I can do a lot more clean editing than I was able to do when I worked at a campus radio station, and had to edit by cutting tape and splicing with splicing tape.   Howard Brown  20:14 Exactly. And that's Yeah, yeah, Michael, we change the you know, avid changed the game, because we went from splicing tape or film and Betamax cassettes in the broadcast studios to a hard drive in a mouse, right? changed, we changed the game there because you were now editing on a hard drive. And so I was part of that in 1994. And again, timing has to work out and we had to retrain the unions at the television networks. And it was, for me, it was just timing worked really well. Because my next startup, liquid audio, the timing didn't work out well, because we're, we were going to try to do the same thing in the audio world, which is download music. But when you do that, when you it's a Sony cassette and Sony Walkman days, the world wasn't ready yet. We we still went public, we still did a secondary offering. But we never really brought product to market because it took Steve Jobs 10 years later to actually sell a song for 99 cents and convince the record industry that that was, you know, you could sell slices of pizza instead of the whole pizza, the whole record out   Michael Hingson  21:17 and still make money. I remember avid devices and hearing about them and being in television stations. And of course, for me, none of that was accessible. So it was fun to to be able to pick on the fact that no matter what, as Fred Allen, although he didn't say it quite this way, once said they call television the new medium, because that's as good as it's ever gonna get. But anyway, you know, it has come a long way. But it was so sophisticated to go into some of the studios with some of the even early equipment, like Avid, and see all the things that they were doing with it. It just made life so much better.   Howard Brown  21:52 Yeah, well, I mean, you're not I was selling, you know, $100,000 worth of software on a Macintosh, which first of all the chief engineers didn't even like, but at the post production facilities, they they they drank that stuff up, because you could make a television commercial, you could do retakes, you could add all the special effects, and it could save time. And then you could get more revenue from that. And so it was pretty easy sale, because we tell them how fast they could pay off to the hardware, the software and then train everybody up. And they were making more and more and better commercials for the car dealerships and the local Burger Joint. And they were thrilled that these local television stations, I can tell you that   Michael Hingson  22:29 I sold some of the first PC based CAD systems and the same sort of thing, architects were totally skeptical about it until they actually sat down and we got them in front of a machine and showed them how to use it. Let them design something that they could do with three or four hours, as opposed to spending days with paper and paper and paper and more paper in a drafting table. And they could go on to the next project and still charge as much.   Howard Brown  22:53 It was funny. I take a chief engineer on to lunch, and I tried to gauge their interest and a third, we're just enthusiastic because they wanted to make sure that they were the the way that technology came into the station. They were they were the brainchild they were the they were the domain experts. So a third again, just like training waitresses and waiters and bartenders, a third of them. Oh, they wanted they just wanted to consume it all. A third of them were skeptical and needed convincing. And a third of whom was like, that's never going out on my hair anywhere. Yeah, they were the later and later adopters, of course.   Michael Hingson  23:24 And some of them were successful. And some of them were not.   Howard Brown  23:28 Absolutely. We continue. We no longer. Go ahead. No, no, of course I am the my first sales are the ones that were early adopters. And and then I basically walked over to guys that are later adopters. I said, Well, I said, you know, the ABC, the NBC and the fox station and the PBS station habit, you know, you don't have it, and they're gonna take all your post production business away from you. And that got them highly motivated.   Michael Hingson  23:54 Yeah. And along the way, from a personal standpoint, somebody got really clever. And it started, of course at WGBH in Boston, where they recognize the fact that people who happen to be blind would want to know what's going on on TV when the dialog wasn't saying much to to offer clues. And so they started putting an audio description and editing and all that and somebody created the secondary audio programming in the other things that go into it. And now that's becoming a lot more commonplace, although it's still got a long way to go.   Howard Brown  24:24 Well, I agree. So but you're right. So having that audio or having it for visually impaired or hearing impaired are all that they are now we're making some progress. So it's still a ways to go. I agree with you.   Michael Hingson  24:36 still a ways to go. Well, you along the way in terms of continuing to work with Abbott and other companies in doing the entrepreneurial stuff. You've had a couple of curveballs from life.   Howard Brown  24:47 I have. So going back to my promotion, I was going driving out to Dayton, Ohio, I noticed a little spot on my cheekbone. didn't think anything of it. I was so excited to get promoted and start my new job. up, I just kept powering through. So a few weeks after I'd moved out to Dayton, Ohio, my mom comes out. And she's at the airport and typical Boston and mom, she's like, What's that on your cheek? What's that on your cheek? And I was like, Mom, it's nothing. I kind of started making excuses. I got hit playing basketball, I got it at the gym or something. And she's like, well, we got to get that checked out. I said, No, Mom, it's okay. It's not no big deal. It's a little little market. Maybe it's a cyst or pebble or something I don't know. So she basically said she was worried, but she never told me. So she helped set up my condo, or an apartment. And then she left. And then as long Behold, I actually had to go speak in Boston at the American Bankers Association about disaster recovery, and having a disaster recovery plan. And so this is the maybe August of 1989. And I came back and that spot was still there. And so my mom told my dad, remember, there was payphones? There was no cell phones, no computers, no internet. So she told my dad, she didn't take a picture of it. But now he saw it. And he goes, Let's go play tennis. There's I got there on a Friday. So on a Saturday morning, we'd go do something. And instead of going to play tennis, he took me to a local community hospital. And they took a look at it. And they said off its assist, take some my antibiotic erythromycin or something, you'll be fine. Well, I came back to see them on Monday after my speech. And I said, I'm not feeling that great. Maybe it's the rethrow myosin. And so having to be four o'clock in the afternoon, he took me to the same emergency room. And he's and I haven't had the same doctor on call. He actually said, You know what, let's take a biopsy of it. So he took a biopsy of it. And then he went back to the weight room, he said, I didn't get a big enough slice. Let me take another. So he took another and then my dad drove me to the airport, and I basically left. And my parents called me maybe three weeks later, and they said, You got to come back to Boston. We gotta go see, you know, they got the results. But you know, they didn't tell us they'll only tell you. Because, you know, it's my private data. So I flew back to Boston, with my parents. And this time, I had, like, you know, another doctor there with this emergency room doctor, and he basically checks me out, checks me out, but he doesn't say too much. But he does say that we have an appointment for you at Dana Farber Cancer Institute at 2pm. I think you should go. And I was like, whoa, what are you talking about? Why am I going to Dana Farber Cancer Institute. So it gets, you know, kind of scary there because I show up there. I'm in a suit and tie. My dad's in a suit down. My mom's seems to be dressed up. And we go, and they put me through tests. And I walk in there. And I don't know if you remember this, Michael. But the Boston Red Sox charity is called the Jimmy fund. Right? And the Jimmy fund are for kids with blood cancers, lymphoma leukemias, so I go there. And they checked me in and they told me as a whole host of tests they're going to do, and I'm looking in the waiting room, and I see mostly older people, and I'm 23 years old. So I go down the hallways, and I see little kids. So I go I go hang out with the little kids while I'm waiting. I didn't know what was going on. So they call me and I do my test. And this Dr. George Canalis, who's you know, when I came to learn that the inventor of some chemo therapies for lymphomas very experienced, and this young Harvard fellow named Eric Rubin I get pulled into this office with this big mahogany desk. And they say you have stage four E T cell non Hodgkins lymphoma. It's a very aggressive, aggressive, very aggressive form of cancer. We're going to try to knock this out. I have to tell you, Michael, I don't really remember hardly anything else that was said, I glossed over. I looked up at this young guy, Eric Rubin, and I said, What's he saying? I looked back out of the corner of my eye, my mom's bawling her eyes out. My dad's looks like a statue. And I have to tell you, I was really just a deer in the headlights. I had no idea that how a healthy 23 year old guy gets, you know, stage four T cell lymphoma with a very horrible prognosis. I mean, I mean, they don't they said, We don't know if we can help you at the world, one of the world's foremost cancer research hospitals in the world. So it was that was that was a tough pill to swallow. And I did some more testing. And then they told me to come back in about a week to start chemotherapy. And so, again, I didn't have the internet to search anything. I had encyclopedias. I had some friends, you know, and I was like, I'm a young guy. And, you know, I was talking to older people that potentially, you know, had leukemia or different cancer, but I didn't know much. And so I I basically showed up for chemotherapy, scared out of my mind, in denial, and Dr. RUBIN comes out and he says, we're not doing chemo today. I said, I didn't sleep awake. What are you talking about? He says, we'll try again tomorrow, your liver Our function test is too high. And my liver function test is too high. So I'm starting to learn but I still don't know what's going on. He says I got it was going to field trip. Field Trip. He said, Yeah, you're going down the street to Newton Wellesley hospital, we're going to the cryogenic center, cryo, what? What are you talking about? He goes, it's a sperm bank, and you're gonna go, you know, leave a sample specimen. And it's like, you just told me that, you know, if you can help me out what why I'm not even thinking about kids, right now. He said, Go do it. He says what else you're going to do today, and then you come back tomorrow, and we'll try chemo. So thank God, he said that, because I deposited before I actually started any chemotherapy, which, you know, as basically, you know, rendered me you know, impotent now because of all the chemotherapy and radiation I had. So that was a blessing that I didn't know about until later, which we'll get to. But a roll the story forward a little more quickly as that I was getting all bad news. I was relapsing, I went through about three or four different cycles of different chemotherapy recipes, nothing was working. I was getting sicker, and they tight. My sister, I am the twin CJ, for bone marrow transplant and she was a 25% chance of being a match. She happened to be 100% match. And I had to then gear up for back in 1990 was a bone marrow transplant where they would remove her bone marrow from her hip bones, they would scrub it and cleanse it, and they would put it in me. And they would hope that my body wouldn't immediately rejected and die and shut down or over time, which is called graft versus host these that it wouldn't kill me or potentially that it would work and it would actually reset my immune system. And it would take over the malignant cells and set my set me back straight, which it ended up doing. And so having a twin was another blessing miracle. You know that, you know, that happened to me. And I did some immunotherapy called interleukin two that was like, like the grandfather of immunotherapy that strengthened my system. And then I moved to Florida to get out of the cold weather and then I moved out to California to rebuild my life. I call that Humpty Dumpty building Humpty Dumpty version one. And that's that's how I got to California in Southern California.   Michael Hingson  32:15 So once again, your big sister savedthe day,   Howard Brown  32:19 as usual.   Michael Hingson  32:21 That's a big so we go,   Howard Brown  32:23 as we call ourselves the Wonder Twins. He's more. She's terrific. And thank God she gave part of herself and saved my life. And I am eternally grateful to her for that,   Michael Hingson  32:34 but but she never had any of the same issues or, or diseases. I gather. She's been   Howard Brown  32:41 very healthy, except for like a knee. A partial knee replacement. She's been very healthy her whole life.   Michael Hingson  32:48 Well, did she have to have a knee replacement because she kept kicking you around or what?   Howard Brown  32:52 No, she's little. She's five feet. 510 So she never kicked me. We are best friends. My wife's best friend. I know. She is just just a saint. She's She's such a giving person and you know, we take that from our parents, but she she gave of herself of what she could do. She said she do it again in a heartbeat. I don't think I'm allowed to give anybody my bone marrow but if I could, would give it to her do anything for her. She's She's amazing. So she gave me the gift, the gift of life.   Michael Hingson  33:21 So you went to Florida, then you moved to California and what did you do when you got out here?   Howard Brown  33:24 So I ended up moving up to northern California. So I met this girl from Michigan in Southern California, Lisa, my wife have now 28 years in July. We married Lisa Yeah, we got married under the Jewish wedding company's wedding canopies called the hotpot and we're looking at the Pacific Ocean, we made people come out that we had that Northridge earthquake in 94. But this is in July, so things are more settled. So we had all friends and family come out. And it was beautiful. We got it on a pool deck overlooking the Pacific. It was gorgeous. It was a beautiful Hollywood type wedding. And it was amazing. So we got married in July of 94. And then moved up to Silicon Valley in 97. And then I was working at the startups. My life was really out of balance because I'm working 20 hours, you know, a day and I'm traveling like crazy. And my wife says, You know what, you got to be home for dinner if we're going to think about having a family. And we're a little bit older now. 35 and 40. And so we've got to think about these things. And so I called back to Newton Wellesley hospital, and I got the specimen of sperm shipped out to San Jose, and we went through an in vitro fertilization process. And she grew eight eight eggs and they defrosted the swimmers and they took the best ones and put them back in the four best eggs and our miracle baby our frozen kids sickle. Emily was born in August of 2001. Another blessing another miracle. I was able to have a child and healthy baby girl.   Michael Hingson  34:58 So what's Emily doing today?   Howard Brown  35:00 Well, thank you for asking that. So, she is now in Missoula, Montana at a television station called K Pax eight Mountain News. And she's an intern for the summer. And she's living her great life out there hiking, Glacier National Park. And she ran I think she ran down to the Grand Tetons and, and she's learning about the broadcast business and reporting. She's a writer by trade, by trade and in journalism. And she likes philosophy. So she'll be coming back home to finish her senior year, this at the end of the summer at the University of Michigan. And so she's about to graduate in December. And she's, she's doing just great.   Michael Hingson  35:35 So she writes and doesn't do video editing us yet using Abbott or any of the evolutions from it.   Howard Brown  35:41 No, she does. She actually, when you're in a small market station, that's you. You write the script, she does the recording, she has a tripod, sometimes she's she films with the other reporters, but when she they sent her out as an intern, and she just covered the, this, you know, the pro pro life and pro choice rallies, she she records herself, she edits on Pro Tools, which is super powerful now, and a lot less expensive. And then, when she submits, she submits it refer review to the news director and to her superiors. And she's already got, I think, three video stories and about six different by lines on written stories. So she's learning by doing, it's experiential, it's amazing.   Michael Hingson  36:23 So she must have had some experience in dealing with all the fires and stuff out at Yellowstone and all that.   Howard Brown  36:31 So the flooding at Yellowstone, so I drove her out there in May. And I didn't see any fires. But the flooding we got there before that, she took me on a hike on the North Gate of Yellowstone. And she's she's, you know, environmentally wilderness trained first aid trained. And I'm the dad, and I'm in decent shape. But she took me out an hour out and an hour back in and, you know, saw a moose saw a deer didn't see any mountain lion didn't see any Grizzlies, thank God, but we did see moose carcass where the grizzly had got a hold on one of those and, and everybody else to get it. So I got to go out to nature weather and we took a road trip out there this summer, it was a blast. It's the those are the memories, when you've been through a cancer diagnosis that you just you hold on to very dearly and very tight. It was a blast. So that's what he's doing this summer. She'll be back. She'll be back in August, end of August.   Michael Hingson  37:22 That's really exciting to hear that she's working at it and being successful. And hopefully she'll continue to do that. And do good reporting. And I know that this last week, with all the Supreme Court cases, it's it's, I guess, in one sense, a field day for reporters. But it's also a real challenge, because there's so many polarized views on all of that.   Howard Brown  37:44 Well, everybody's a broadcaster now whether it's Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and all the other ones out there, tick tock. So everybody's sort of a reporter now. And you know, what do you believe, and unfortunately, I just can't believe in something in 140 characters or something in two sentences. Yeah, there's no depth there. So sometimes you miss the point, and all this stuff. And then everything's on 24 hours on CNN, on Fox on MSNBC, so it never stops. So I call that a very noisy world. And it's hard to process. You know, all this. It's coming at you so fast in the blink of an eye. So we're in a different time than when we grew up, Michael, it was a slower pace. Today in this digital world. It's, it's, it's a lot and especially COVID. Now, are we just consuming and consuming and binging and all this stuff, I don't think it's that healthy.   Michael Hingson  38:36 It's not only a noisy world, but it's also a world, it's very disconnected, you can say all you want about how people can send tweets back and forth, text messages back and forth and so on. But you're not connecting, you're not really getting deep into anything, you're not really establishing relationships in the way that as you point out, we used to, and we don't connect anymore, even emails don't give you that much connection, realism, as opposed to having meaningful dialogue and meaningful conversations. So we just don't Converse anymore. And now, with all that's going on, in the very divided opinions, there's there's no room for discussion, because everybody has their own opinion. And that's it, there's no room to dialogue on any of it at all, which is really too bad.   Howard Brown  39:21 Yeah, I agree. It's been divisive. And, you know, it's, it's hard because, you know, an email doesn't have the body language, the intent, the emotion, like we're talking right now. And, you know, we're expressing, you know, you know, I'm telling stories of my story personally, but you can tell when I get excited, I smile, I can get animated. Sometimes with an email, you know, you don't know the intent and it can be misread. And a lot of that communication is that way. So, you know, I totally get where you're coming from.   Michael Hingson  39:55 And that's why I like doing the podcasts that we're doing. We get to really have conversation isn't just asking some questions and getting an answer and then going on to the next thing. That's, frankly, no fun. And I think it's important to be able to have the opportunity to really delve into things and have really good conversations about them. I learned a lot, and I keep seeing as I do these podcasts, and for the past 20 plus years, I've traveled around the world speaking, of course, about September 11, and talking about teamwork, and trust, and so on. And as I always say, if I don't learn more than I'm able to teach or impart, then I'm not doing my job very well.   Howard Brown  40:35 So that's exactly and that's, that's where I'm going after the second health concern. You know, I'm now going to teach, I'm gonna inspire, I'm going to educate. And that's, that's, that's what I do, I want to do with the rest of my time is to be able to, you know, listen, I'm not putting my head in the sand, about school shootings, about an insurrection about floods about all that. You gotta live in the real world. But I choose, as I say, I like to live on positive Street as much as possible, but positive street with action. That's, that's what makes the world a better place at the end of the day. So you sharing that story means that one we'll never forget. And you can educate the generations to come that need to understand, you know, that point in time and how it affected you and how you've dealt with it, and how you've been able to get back out of bed every day. And I want to do the same.   Michael Hingson  41:26 Well, there's nothing wrong with being positive. I think that there is a need to be aware. But we can we can continue to be positive, and try to promote positivity, try to promote connectionism and conversations and so on, and promote the fact that it's okay to have different opinions. But the key is to respect the other opinion, and recognize that it isn't just what you say that's the only thing that ever matters. That's the problem that we face so much today.   Howard Brown  41:58 Right? Respect. I think Aretha Franklin saying that great. She   Michael Hingson  42:01 did. She did. She's from Motown here. There you go. See? When you moved out to California, and you ended up in Silicon Valley, and so on, who are you working for them?   Howard Brown  42:14 So I moved up, and I worked for this company called Liquid audio that doesn't exist anymore. And it was just iTunes 10 years too early on, there was real audio, there was Mark Cuban's company was called Audio net and then broadcast.com used for a lot of money. And so the company went public and made a lot of money. But it didn't work. The world wasn't ready for it yet to be able to live in this cassette world. It was not ready. I Napster hadn't been invented, mp3 and four hadn't been invented. So it just the adoption rate of being too early. But it still went public a lot. The investors made a ton of money, but they call that failing, failing forward. So I stayed there for a year, I made some money. And I went to another startup. And that startup was in the web hosting space, it was called Naevus. site, it's now won by Time Warner. But at that time, building data centers and hosting racks of computers was very good business. And so I got to be, you know, participate in an IPO. You know, I built built up revenue. And you know, the outsourcing craze now called cloud computing, it's dominated by the folks that like Amazon, and the folks at IBM, and a few others, but mostly, you know, dominated there, where you're basically having lots of blinking lights in a data center, and just making sure that those computers stay up to serve up the pages of the web, the videos, even television, programming, and now any form of communication. So I was, I was early on in that and again, got to go through an IPO and get compensated properly unduly, and, but also my life was out of balance. And so before we were called out for the sperm and had a baby, I transitioned out when Silicon Valley just the pendulum swung the other way, I ended up starting to work at my own nonprofit, I founded it with a couple of Silicon Valley guys called Planet Jewish, and it was still very technologically driven. It was the world's first Community Calendar. This is before Google Calendar, this is in 2000. And we built it as a nonprofit to serve the Jewish community to get more people to come to Jewish events. And I architected the code, and we ran that nonprofit for 17 years. And before calendaring really became free, and very proud of that. And after that, I started a very similar startup with different code called circle builder, and it was serving faith and religions. It was more like private facebook or private online communities. And we had the Vatican as a client and about 25,000 Ministries, churches, and nonprofits using the system. And this is all sort of when Facebook was coming out to you know, from being just an edu or just for college students. And so I built that up as a quite a big business. But unfortunately, I was in Michigan when I started circle builder. I ended up having to close both of those businesses down. One that the revenue was telling off of the nonprofit and also circuit builder wasn't monetizing as quickly or as we needed as well. But I ended up going into my 50 year old colonoscopy, Michael. And I woke up thinking everything was going to be fine. My wife Lisa's holding my hand. And the gastroenterologist said, No, I found something. And when I find something, it's bad news. Well, it was bad news. Stage three colon cancer. Within about 10 days or two weeks, I had 13 and a half inches of my colon removed, plus margins plus lymph nodes. One of the lymph nodes was positive, install a chemo port and then I waited because my daughter had soccer tournaments to travel to but on first week of August in 2016, I started 12 rounds of Rockem sockem chemotherapy called folfox and five Fu and it was tough stuff. So I was back on the juice again, doing chemotherapy and but this time, I wasn't a deer in the headlights, I was a dad, I was a husband. I had been through the trenches. So this time, I was much more of a marine on a mission. And I had these digital tools to reach out for research and for advocacy and for support. Very different at that time. And so I unfortunately failed my chemotherapy, I failed my neck surgery, another colon resection, I failed a clinical trial. And things got worse I became metastatic stage four that means that colon cancer had spread to my liver, my stomach linings called the omentum and peritoneum and my bladder. And I had that same conversation with a doctor in downtown Detroit, at a Cancer Institute and he said, We don't know if we can help you. And if you Dr. Google, it said I had 4% of chances of living about 12 to 18 months and things were dark I was I was back at it again looking looking at the Grim Reaper. But what I ended up doing is research and I did respond to the second line chemotherapy with a little regression or shrinkage. And for that you get more chemotherapy. And then I started to dig in deep research on peritoneal carcinoma which is cancer of the of the of the stomach lining, and it's very tricky. And there's a group called colon town.org that I joined and very informative. I there then met at that time was probably over 100 other people that had had the peritoneal carcinoma, toma and are living and they went through a radical surgery called cytoreduction high pack, where they basically debulk you like a de boning a fish, and they take out all this cancer, they can see the dead and live cells, and then they pour hot chemo in you. And then hot chemo is supposed to penetrate the scanning the organs, and it's supposed to, in theory kill micro cell organism and cancer, although it's still not proven just yet. But that surgery was about a 12 and a half hour surgery in March of 2018. And they call that the mother of all surgeries. And I came out looking like a ghost. I had lost about 60 pounds, and I had a long recovery. It's that one would put Humpty Dumpty back together. It's been now six years. But I got a lot of support. And I am now what's called no evidence of disease at this time, I'm still under surveillance. I was quarterly I just in June, I had my scans and my exams. And I'm now going to buy annual surveillance, which means CAT scans and blood tests. That's the step in the right direction. And so again, I mean, if I think about it, my twin sister saved my life, I had a frozen sperm become a daughter. And again, I'm alive from a stage four diagnosis. I am grateful. I am lucky, and I am blessed. So that's that a long story that the book will basically tell you, but that's where I am today.   Michael Hingson  48:50 And we'll definitely get to the book. But another question. So you had two startups that ran collectively for quite a period of time, what got you involved or motivated to do things in the in the faith arena?   Howard Brown  49:06 So I have to give credit to my wife, Lisa. So we met at the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles at this young leadership group. And then they have like a college fair of organizations that are Jewish support organizations. And one of them happened to be Jewish Big Brothers, now Jewish Brothers and Big Sisters of Los Angeles. Suppose you'd be a great big brother. I was like, well, it takes up a lot of time. I don't know. She's like, you should check it out. So I did. And I became I fill out the application. I went through the background checks, and I actually got to be a Jewish big brother to this young man II and at age 10. And so I have to tell you, one of the best experiences in my life was to become a mentor. And I today roll the clock forward. 29 years in is now close to 40 years old or 39 years old. He's married with a son who's one noble and two wife, Sarah, and we are family. We stayed together past age 18 Seen, and we've continued on. And I know not a lot of people do that. But it was probably one of the best experiences I've ever done. I've gotten so much out of it. Everyone's like, Oh, you did so much for in? Well, he did so much for me and my daughter, Emily calls him uncle and my wife and I are we are his family, his dad was in prison and then passed away and his mom passed away where his family now. And so one of the best experiences. So that's how I kind of got into the Jewish community. And also being in sales I was I ended up being a good fundraiser. And so these nonprofits that live their lifeblood is fundraising dollars. I didn't mind calling people asking them for donations or sitting down over coffee, asking them for donations. So I learned how to do that out in Southern California in Northern California. And I've continued to do that. So that gave me a real good taste of faith. I'm not hugely religious, but I do believe in the community values of the Jewish community. And you get to meet people beyond boards and you get to raise money for really good causes. And so that sort of gave me another foundation to build off of and I've enjoyed doing that as a community sermon for a long time.   Michael Hingson  51:10 I'll bite Where does Ian live today?   Howard Brown  51:13 Okay, well, Ian was in LA when we got matched. I had to move to San Francisco, but I I petitioned the board to keep our match alive because it was scholarship dollars in state right. And went to UC Santa Cruz, Florida State for his master's and got his last degree at Hastings and the Jewish community supported him with scholarships. And in was in very recently was in San Francisco, Oakland area, and now he's lives in South Portland, Oregon.   Michael Hingson  51:39 Ah, so you haven't gotten back to Michigan yet? Although he's getting into colder weather. So there's a chance?   Howard Brown  51:45 Well, let me tell you, he did live with us in Michigan. So using my connections through the Jewish community, I asked if he could interview with a judge from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals a friend of mine, we sat on a on a board of directors for the American Jewish Committee, Detroit. And I said, she's like, well, Howard, I really have to take Michigan kids. I said, You know what? No problem. You decide if he's if he's worthy or not go through your process, but would you take the phone call? So she took the phone call, and I never heard anything. And then Ian called me and he said, I got it. I as a second year loss. Going to be a second year law student. I'm going to be clerking for summer interning and clerking for this judge Leanne white. And again, it just it karma, the payback, it was beautiful. So he lived with us for about four and a half months. And when he came back, and it was beautiful, because Emily was only about four or five years old. And, and he lived with us for that time. And it was beautiful.   Michael Hingson  52:43 But that's really great. That, that you have that relationship that you did the big brother program. And I'm assuming you've been big brother to other people as well.   Howard Brown  52:53 No, no. I have not actually. Because what it did is it trained me to be a dad. So when I had Emily, it was more it was more difficult actually to do that. And so no, Ian has been my one and only match. I mentor a lot of Babson students, and I mentor and get mentored by some cancer patients and, and some big entrepreneurs. Mentorship is a core value of mine. I like to be mentored. And I also like to mentor others. And I think that's, that's what makes the world go round. So when Steve Gates when Bill Gates, his wife, Melinda, just donated 123 million to the overall arching Big Brothers, Big Sisters of America. And that money will filter to all those, I think that that's such a core value. If a young person can have someone that takes interest in them, they can really shape their future and also get a lot out of it. So mentorship is one of my key values. And I hope it's hope it's many of your viewers and yours as well. Michael,   Michael Hingson  53:52 absolutely is I think that we can't do anything if we can't pass on what we've learned and try to help other people grow. I've been a firm believer my entire life of you don't give somebody a fish, you teach them how to fish and however, and wherever that is, it's still the same thing. And we need to teach and impart. And I think that in our own way, every one of us is a teacher and the more we take it seriously, the better it is.   Howard Brown  54:18 Well, I'm now a student not learning podcasting. I learned how to be a book author and I'm learning how to reinvent myself virgin Humpty Dumpty, version two coming out.   Michael Hingson  54:29 So you had been a national cancer survivor advocate and so on. Tell me a little bit about that if you would.   Howard Brown  54:35 So I respect people that want to keep their diagnosis private and their survivorship private. That's not me. I want to be able to help people because if I would have been screened at age 40 or 42, I probably wouldn't have had colon cancer and I was not, but this is a preventable disease and really minorities and indigenous people as they need to get screened more, because that's the highest case of diagnosis for colorectal cancer. But what I think that that's what his needs now it's the second leading killer of cancer right now. And it's an important to get this advocacy out and use your voice. And so I want to use my voice to be able to sound the alarm on getting screening, and also to help people survive. There's I think, 16 million growing to 23 or 4 million by 2030. Cancer survivors out there, cancer diagnosis, it sucks sex all the way around, but it affects more than the patient, it affects your caregiver, it affects your family affects relationships, it affects emotions, physical, and also financial, there is many aspects of survivorship here and more people are learning to live with it and going, but also, quite frankly, I live with in the stage for cancer world, you also live with eminence of death, or desperation to live a little bit longer. You hear people I wish I had one more day. Well, I wish I had time to be able to see my daughter graduate high school, and I did and I cherished it. I'm going to see her graduate college this December and then walk at the Big House here in Michigan, in Ann Arbor in May. And then God willing, I will walk her down the aisle at the appropriate time. And it's good to have those big goals that are important that drive you forward. And so those are the few things that drive me forward.   Michael Hingson  56:28 I know that I can't remember when I had my first colonoscopy. It's been a while. It was just part of what I did. My mother didn't die of colon cancer, but she was diagnosed with colon cancer. She, she went to the doctor's office when she felt something was wrong. And they did diagnose it as colon cancer. She came home my brother was with her. She fell and broke her hip and went into the hospital and passed away a few days later, they did do an operation to deal with repairing her hip. And but I think because of all of that, just the amount that her body went through, she just wasn't able to deal with it. She was 6970. And so it was no I take Yeah, so I was just one of those things that that did happen. She was 71, not 70. But, you know, we've, for a while I got a colonoscopy every five years. And then they say no, you don't need to do it every five years do it every 10 years. The couple of times they found little polyps but they were just little things. There was nothing serious about them. They obviously took them out and autopsy or biopsy them and all that. And no problems. And I don't remember any of it. I slept through it. So it's okay.   Howard Brown  57:46 Great. So the prep is the worst part. Isn't it though? The preps no fun. But the 20 minutes they have you under light anesthesia, they snipped the polyps and away you go and you keep living your life. So that's what I hope for everyone, because I will tell you, Michael, showing through the amount of chemotherapy, the amount of surgeries and the amount of side effects that I have is, is I don't wish that on anyone. I don't wish on anyone. It's not a good existence. It's hard. And quite frankly, it's, I want to prevent about it. And I'm just not talking about colon cancer, get your mammogram for breast cancer, get your check for prostate cancer, you know, self care is vital, because you can't have fun, do your job, work Grow family, if your hell if you're not healthy, and the emotional stuff they call the chemo brain or brain fog and or military personnel refer to it as PTSD. It's real. And you've got to be able to understand that, you know, coming from a cancer diagnosis is a transition. And I'll never forget that my two experiences and I I've got to build and move forward though. Because otherwise it gets dark, it gets lonely, it gets depressing, and then other things start to break down the parts don't work well. So I've chosen to find my happy place on the basketball court be very active in sounding the alarm for as an advocate. And as I never planned on being a book author and now I'm going to be a published author this summer. So there's good things that have come in my life. I've had a very interesting, interesting life. And we're here talking about it now so I appreciate it.   Michael Hingson  59:20 Well tell me about you in basketball seems to be your happy place.   Howard Brown  59:24 So everyone needs to find a happy place. I'll tell you why. The basketball court I've been playing since I was six years old and I was pretty good you know, I'm not gonna go professional. But I happen to like the team sport and I'm a point guard so I'm basically telling people what to do and trash talk and and all that. But I love it a

Race has recently been at the forefront of conversations surrounding workplace culture and hiring in Singapore. In addition to the new anti-discrimination laws which will soon be enshrined, what other measures must be put in place to ensure a racially inclusive workspace? Is Singapore's racial diversity truly represented at individual workplaces? In this episode, which is in conjunction with IPS' annual flagship conference, Singapore Perspectives 2023, host and Associate Director at the Institute of Policy Studies Liang Kaixin chats with Dharesheni Nedumaran, Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, APAC, at Mediabrands and Shamil Zainuddin, Research Associate at IPS Social Lab. They discuss how hiring and appraisal processes can be made more equitable, how to approach the sensitive topic of race at work, and how workplaces can be made more inclusive for minority groups especially. Find out more about conversations on racism at work: CNA (27 June 2022): The Big Read: To stamp out everyday racism or microaggression, treat it as anything but casual The Straits Times (28 May 2022): Formalising HR practices can fight workplace racism: Panellists at race forum South China Morning Post (29 August 2021): Singapore will pass new laws to combat racism, workplace discrimination: PM Lee About our guests: Dharesheni Nedumaran Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, APAC Mediabrands Dharesheni Nedumaran (Sheni) is a global Diversity & Inclusion specialist, with more than 10 years international experience spanning tech, NGOs, global businesses and government, working on data driven projects and programs with underrepresented communities, tailored to countries regulations and culture. In her current role as Mediabrands APAC Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, she works across a network of more than 3000 media and marketing professionals in multiple agencies across 13 Asia-Pacific countries, to lead the development of a long term strategy and roadmap that helps to increase representation, create a culture of belonging and contribution, and promote respect, equity and fairness. Accredited with Campaign Asia's Women Leading Change award for Diverse & Inclusive Workplace for Mediabrands Singapore in 2022, Sheni has a Master's of Work & Organisational Psychology from the Vrije Universiteit. Shamil Zainuddin Research Associate IPS Social Lab Shamil Zainuddin specialises in applied ethnography and holds qualifications in Sociology which he has taught as a Teaching Assistant while completing his Masters in the National University of Singapore. Prior to joining IPS in 2018, he was a Senior Design Ethnographer at NCR Corporation, a global enterprise technology company. There, he spent five years using qualitative methods researching human experiences to inform R&D, innovation and marketing. He has received awards for applied ethnographic work and is the recipient of the Ministry of Home Affairs, National Day Award in 2005. Above all, he is most interested in carrying out the work to make the everyday easier for especially disadvantaged communities. He is an active volunteer with Beyond Social Services and highly encourages everyone to volunteer with an organisation they believe in. On Diversity is a podcast inspired by the Institute of Policy Studies Managing Diversities research programme. In each episode, we chat with guests to explore what diversity means to them, the changes they are making, and the changes they hope to see in an increasingly fragmented society. 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On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Robert Samuelsen, President and CEO at SmallStart Ventures.  SmallStart Ventures identifies high-potential entrepreneurs and provides a structured launchpad for their small business dreams. SmallStart Ventures expects to add $315.9M to GDP and 5,500 jobs to the economy. A study published in the International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies claims the failure rate of a traditional incubator is 90%. According to , the success rate for a VC-backed startup is only 8%. SmallStart's one-on-one guidance (Success Coaching) is a 3-year journey and the goal is an 80% success rate. SmallStart's model is superior to traditional VC startups because they know from the start, the following: The buyer – the General Manager/Entrepreneur The time frame – At the end of three years The selling price – The appraised price SmallStart offers opportunities for a diversity of individuals who may find it complicated to start a business or who may feel at a disadvantage by societal situations. Their Success Coaches specialize in assisting immigrants, all races, women, single parents, ex-cons, and other demographic groups. Robert has held positions as the CEO, CFO, and COO for more than 20 years. He has worked for three Fortune 500 Corporations including NCR Corporation, AT&T, and Roper Industries, and was the Founder of Square Knot Ventures, eVine, AvaLAN Wireless, Navibase, and SEE Consultants.  Robert has executed three business turnarounds and has raised approximately $450 million. Robert discusses his background, starting a business in the area of financial services, potential rewards, how SmallStart Ventures differs from his competitors, and more. Visit SmallStart Ventures at .  Reach out to Robert at , on LinkedIn at , and via telephone at (520)820-8006. ________________________________________________________________ For more episodes from Investor Connect, please visit the site at:    Check out our other podcasts here:   For Investors check out:   For Startups check out:   For eGuides check out:   For upcoming Events, check out    For Feedback please contact info@tencapital.group    Please , share, and leave a review. Music courtesy of .

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This episode features highlights from our first season.  We hear from 7-time CIO Mark Settle, Brady Pyle, Deputy Chief Human Capital Officer at NASA, Tony Saldanha, former VP of Global Business Services at Procter & Gamble, and more. Together, they bring you the most relevant insights to help you attract and retain world-class talent, implement effective tech tools, and improve leadership skills.Quotes*“There is this trap we fall into of assuming we know what employees want and what they need. And we don't. We can make some generalizations, but we need to ask. We need to be asking the questions to understand truly what employees need inside an organization. And we need to understand that will evolve and change.” - Joey Wilkerson, Employee Experience Lead and Acquisition Integration Manager at Cisco*“I began to challenge some of those notions around leadership. And I have seen, I have observed and experienced that you can be yourself and be an effective leader.” - Brady Pyle, Deputy Chief Human Capital Officer at NASA*“How do we get engagement of 38,000 people so they feel connected? And engagement that doesn't stop. Engagement that is ongoing and engagement that makes them an active participant in our brand, in our vision, in our story in our strategy, and connected? That, for me, this is about being human. Yes, tools and technology. And we'll talk about tools and technology. And I know very likely to ask me about that as well. They play a role. But this is about connection, communication, empathy. Truly, it's about understanding each other.” - Marija Zivanovic-Smith, EVP of Marketing, Communications and Public Affairs at NCR CorporationTime Stamps*[1:27] 7-time CIO Mark Settle*[1:51] Joey Wilkerson, Employee Experience Lead and Acquisition Integration Manager at Cisco*[2:27] Nicole Alvino, CEO and Founder of Firstup*[3:32] Jâlie Cohen, Group SVP of HR Americas at The Adecco Group*[4:21] Aaron Gerlitz, Program Manager of Information Security at Lowe's*[4:53] Erica Cary, VP of Product and Services at Hilton*[5:36] Weston Morris, Director of Global Strategy for Digital Workplace Services at Unisys*[6:09] Brady Pyle, Deputy Chief Human Capital Officer at NASA*[6:35] Marija Zivanovic-Smith, EVP of Marketing, Communications and Public Affairs at NCR Corporation*[7:24] Alexander Senn, Head of People and Organization at Siemens Smart Infrastructure*[8:04] Lisa Cummings Penn, Executive Director of Employee Engagement in the Office of the CIO at Estée Lauder Companies*[9:01] Angie Grossman, Senior Employee Experience Specialist at WarnerMedia*[9:21] Tony Saldanha, former VP of Global Business Services at Procter & Gamble*[10:10] Quique Huerta, Global Employee Experience Officer at Liberty Mutual InsuranceLinksConnect with:7-time CIO Mark SettleJoey Wilkerson, Employee Experience Lead and Acquisition Integration Manager at CiscoNicole Alvino, CEO and Founder of FirstupJâlie Cohen, Group SVP of HR Americas at The Adecco GroupAaron Gerlitz, Program Manager of Information Security at Lowe'sErica Cary, VP of Product and Services at HiltonWeston Morris, Director of Global Strategy for Digital Workplace Services at UnisysBrady Pyle, Deputy Chief Human Capital Officer at NASAMarija Zivanovic-Smith, EVP of Marketing, Communications and Public Affairs at NCR CorporationAlexander Senn, Head of People and Organization at Siemens Smart InfrastructureLisa Cummings Penn, Executive Director of Employee Engagement in the Office of the CIO at Estée Lauder CompaniesAngie Grossman, Senior Employee Experience Specialist at WarnerMediaTony Saldanha, former VP of Global Business Services at Procter & GambleQuique Huerta, Global Employee Experience Officer at Liberty Mutual InsuranceThanks to our friendsThis episode is brought to you by Firstup, the company that is redefining the digital employee experience to put people first and lift companies up by connecting every worker, everywhere with the information that helps them do their best work. Firstup has helped over 40% of the Fortune 100 companies like Amazon, AB InBev, Ford and Pfizer stay agile and keep transforming. Learn more at firstup.io

Self-checkout kiosks often get a bad rap because they're machines performing a job that's traditionally been done by a human employee. NCR Corporation is an expert in self-checkout, having provided electronics and point-of-sale terminals for retail locations for nearly 40 years. This week, Jeff Kahler sits down with NCR's Marc Haberkorn and Amit Acharya to set the record straight and dive into the real reasons self-checkout is so successful. In this interview: new technology, theft, and what's coming to a store near you!   Visit https://www.cultureofconvenience.com/ to listen to this week's episode and share your thoughts in the comments!

Recently, NCR increased their ability to deliver a complete digital currency solution to its customers, including the ability to buy and sell cryptocurrency, conduct cross-border remittance, and accept digital currency payments across digital and physical channels. Beyond offering financial institutions a secure way to perform digital currency transactions from a mobile banking app, website, or customer service center, the NCR solutions will also run on ATMs, kiosks and point-of-sale (POS) systems. We are very fortunate to have Tim Vanderham, Chief Technology Officer at NCR Corporation, on the Banking Transformed podcast. He will discuss the opportunities and challenges of traditional banks offering digital currency solutions. This Episode of Banking Transformed is Sponsored by NCR NCR, a global technology leader, is No. 1 in ATM software and powers the top three U.S. mobile banking apps. We deliver comprehensive financial solutions for digital, ATM/ITM and branch channels—giving us the unique ability to connect physical and digital interactions to create seamless experiences for financial institutions and the consumers and businesses they serve.  For more information visit ncr.com/banking

This episode features an interview with Marija Zivanovic-Smith, Executive Vice President of Marketing, Communications and Public Affairs at NCR Corporation. Among Marija's many responsibilities are the global brand strategy and execution, sales enablement, digital marketing, public affairs and communicating with NCR's 38,000 employees. In this episode, she talks about celebrating employee stories, engaging them with the NCR intranet, “Bridge,” and understanding employees' emotional responses through machine learning and neuroscience.Quotes*“The beauty of our employee experience is in our global nature. We operate in over 100 countries, so that global nature creates cultural richness. But at the same time, we're constantly trying to figure out how to create a customized experience that is locally relevant. And that might be different from someone in a smaller town in Asia versus someone who's operating in one of our larger campuses in Belgrade or in Atlanta. It is a real challenge because you have to think about how to preserve brand consistency and brand experience that is fair and engaging for all.”*“I don't think experience is something that can be worked on. I think it's a fluid living, breathing entity. And I like to ask a question from our core team in HR and marketing, ‘What will bring more life to the employee experience?'”*“How do we get the engagement of 38,000 people so they feel connected? Engagement that is ongoing? Engagement that makes them an active participant in our brand, in our vision, in our story, in our strategy? This is about being human. Yes, tools and technology. They play a role. But this is about connection, communication, empathy. It's about understanding each other.”*“Communication starts with listening. It doesn't start with talking.”*“​​We as females, especially in corporate, have really worked hard to be in the positions where we are. And because of that, I think we lose sight of the fact that we can't take ourselves too seriously. We actually are allowed to have fun. Our employees also need to see us making these mistakes and even see us fail. Sometimes there's nothing wrong with that because if they see how we lead through that, they will lead through their mistakes. And that's where growth happens.”Time Stamps*[4:15] The Flight Plan: Get to know NCR Corporation*[15:29] First Class: Best Practices in EX*[27:14] Personalizing the EX on NCR's Bridge*[33:47] Turbulence: Lessons learned in EX*[37:21] The fight against perfectionism among women leaders*[44:42] Advice for other EX leadersLinksConnect with Marija on LinkedInFollow Marija on TwitterThanks to our friendsThis episode is brought to you by Firstup, the company that is redefining the digital employee experience to put people first and lift companies up by connecting every worker, everywhere with the information that helps them do their best work. Firstup has helped over 40% of the Fortune 100 companies like Amazon, AB InBev, Ford and Pfizer stay agile and keep transforming. Learn more at firstup.io

M-PACT Bound talks with Jennifer Johnson of NCR Corporation who previews her M-PACT education session, "The Power of Self-Checkout Innovations in Convenience Retailing." NCR is a global leader in self-checkout, and Johnson discusses the importance of self-checkout innovations and the attention its getting from convenience retailers. This session will be held on April 21 at 9:00 am in the Retail track.

On today's show and as part of our special 10 Episode CRO Series we will be discussing topics like: Cx, GTM, Functional Alignment, Metrics that Matter, Pipeline / Forecasting, Digital Strategies, Digital Transformation and today it's all about RevOps. Again, we promise to give you actionable insights from our guests who are tenured and experienced CRO's who come from high growth SaaS companies. Today we are joined by Brian Clark, CRO at Ox. Brian is a tenured sales leader with over 20 years of global sales strategy and execution experience across multiple industries and channels. He is a builder of high energy, high growth, and high integrity sales teams. His passion is to recruit and mentor top talent. He has consistently delivered abnormal growth figures leading Fortune 500 accounts in highly competitive and complex global markets. Prior to leading teams, he has been fortunate to be the top performing salesperson for 3 different Fortune 500 companies. He is well-versed in operating within matrixed organizations such as Hewlett-Packard, CA Technologies, Salesforce, NCR Corporation and now Ox. We kick off by asking Brian about his career journey, his path and what has led him to where he is today? A son of a sales person Always made time for his family First job was a sales job Didn't know I wanted to be in technology Recruited by Hewlett-Packard Ecommerce Learning how to relate What am I lacking Hardware people can't make the leap to software Sabbatical for 7 months Run a true role globally Genesis of a startup We ask Brian, between the hunger and the asking of the right questions, how do you rate that? Clients don't get paid to study themselves Study their business Become students Question strategy Be interested not interesting Learning beats knowing Next we ask Brian, to share with us who is Ox? And what do they do? A complete fulfillment automation platform built for the future of supply chain Build automation software Easy to adopt A front end and a back end Consume data Onboarding faster Again, be a student of their organization You have to know what value you bring upfront Then we ask Brian, in terms of talent, what kinds of people does he look for and what are you seeing? Every job is remote Lead by love or fear Different challenges Convincing of the culture Grit We move on to sales methodology, we ask Brian what is his favorite and why is it important to him? Go native and be a student Mutual plans Create a healthy tension Rock the boat for change DITLO - day in the life of Facts vs feelings Last but not least, we ask Brian what he feels is his super power? Culture Culture eats strategy for breakfast If you take care of the people, the people take care of the business A Dad first Giving back to the community, gives the team a higher purpose --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gloabl-tech-leaders/message

How often do you find that your hard work goes unappreciated? Others are doing what you do - maybe less - and getting all of the love and attention. It can be exhausting and demotivating, no matter how often you tell yourself that it doesn't matter. Europe is facing the exact same problem in the technology and data science industry. They are often overshadowed by countries like the United States and China, being heavily ignored despite their achievements. Aleksandar is here to change that. Meet Aleksandar Linc-Djordjevic Aleksandar's Role as a Leader at the Data Science Conference Aleksandar Linc-Djordjevic is the Managing Director at the Data Science Conference. DSC is one of the world's biggest franchises dedicated to Data Science & AI, with one of the fastest growing communities in Europe. In 2021 alone, DSC held 3 conferences across the world - the 1st live conference dedicated to Healthcare Analytics since the start of the pandemic in the United States, their 2nd conference in Austria, and their latest event in Europe. Spanning multiple days, each conference brought in 30-80 high-quality tutorials and talks, and was attended by 300-10,000 fellow data enthusiasts. Aleksandar's Previous Experiences in Training and Data Analytics Aleksandar is a certified Trainer with more than 500 hours of training delivery experience. His fields of expertise include organizational development, communication, project management, strategic and action planning, and fundraising. Notably, Aleksandar took on the role as a Trainer at the Ministry of Youth and Sport, and as a Trainer @JobFair15 LevelUp workshop. Currently, he is part of KOMS pool of trainers. He is also an Entrepreneurial Data Scientist with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit organization management industry. Aleksandar has numerous experiences working in leadership and data related roles, including as the President of the Board at the Institute of Contemporary Sciences, a Data Analyst at NCR Corporation and CUBE Risk Management Solutions, and a Board Member of the National Youth Council of Serbia. The data science and AI scene in Europe In this exclusive analytics podcast episode, Aleksandar shares: Data Science Conference's involvement in Serbia's National Youth Strategy Transferable skills Aleksandar has discovered in managing his company How the data science and AI scene in Europe truly looks A comparison of data science as an industry between Europe and other parts of the world - such as the USA, Asia, Australia, and China What can be done for the world to learn more about data science development in Europe Building a community and collaboration across the world If you are a policymaker working in government agencies outside of the USA and interested in learning more on how to incorporate important technology into the national plan for your country, this is the episode you do not want to miss out on. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/analyticsshow/message

Pursue systemic equality with Adrian Taylor as he teaches how he “accepted the challenge to be a just leader.” Adrian discusses the value of maintaining strong faith and fostering love even in an office environment. In pursuing workplace equality and diversity, Adrian emphasizes that it's essential for leaders to be “human” and accept their own vulnerability as well. Adrian is the current Director of Diversity for Premier Health in Dayton, Ohio, where he works to enforce workforce, patient and supplier diversity.“It's okay as a leader to be vulnerable and human” - Adrian TaylorMore about Adrian Taylor:Adrian Taylor started his professional career as a Support Representative at Ontario Systems before becoming a Supervisor for EDS (Electronic Data Systems). Adrian stayed at EDS for three and a half years before moving to NCR Corporation as an Assistant Project Manager. He then worked as a Unit Manager for The Berry Company, and became Program Operations Coordinator for MEDC (Minority Economic Development Council).In 2010, Adrian worked at the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce within the Manager, Minority Business Retention & Expansion (MBP - Minority Business Partnership) department. In 2014, he became the Director of Diversity at Premier Health Partners, where he has made strides for diversity within healthcare. More about Adrian Taylor from his bio:“Adrian Taylor is the Director of Diversity for Premier Health in Dayton, Ohio. He serves as the key advisor on the research, development and/or modification of diversity programs that support Premier's business objectives with an emphasis on workforce diversity, supplier diversity and community engagement. He engages the community through various functions and events that reflect Premier's values and promote healthier living throughout the Dayton region. Some of the events include: Premier Health's African-American Wellness Walk, serving on the Dayton & Montgomery County's Public Health LGBTQ Initiative, sponsoring and participating in the annual Hispanic Heritage Celebration, participating on the Dayton Business Journal's Diversity Committee, and serving on the UD West Dayton Conversation Steering Committee.At the 2017 Southwest Ohio Supplier Diversity Healthcare symposium Adrian received the prestigious Spirit of Diversity Individual Champion Award for the work they've achieved in the Dayton area though their supplier diversity program. Premier relentlessly pursues diversity supplier within the southwest Ohio region through outreaches and forums held throughout the year. He also received the Leadership Excellence Award at the 2017 Diversity & Leadership conference for the work Premier is doing in Inclusion & Diversity. He also won the 2018 Asian American Commerce's Group Supplier Diversity Leadership Award. Through his leadership, Premier Health also won the Vizient Supplier Diversity Excellent Award and the Ohio Minority Supplier Development Council's Class-1 Corporation of the Year Award in 2017.In 2020, he won the Dayton Business Journal Outstanding Diversity Champion award for showing outstanding initiative in promoting diversity and inclusion at Premier and the community and making a positive difference in others' lives through contributions to social justice, equality and diversity and this year he was acknowledged as one of the Top 100 under 50 by DiversityMBA and acknowledged as a DEIB Champion by the National Diversity Council. Premier tracks and reports out on demographic information, strategies for retention and recruitment for diverse employees, and executing best practices for their over 12,000 they manage throughout southwest Ohio on a quarterly basis. https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-taylor-cdp-a157b313/

In business, there can be a tendency to label, categorize, and then make corresponding assumptions. This is very reasonable. In order to organize, it's necessary. One less than ideal aspect of this mentality is that certain responsibilities may be assumed to be mostly relevant to only one title, team, or department. With that sort of thinking, the concept of communication tends to be more associated with marketing or sales. But the need to communicate well cuts across every area of a company. To serve clients, it's imperative. Clearly articulating shared goals between companies and their clients allow expectations to be set and then delivered.Main TakeawaysRemote Communication - Signal Versus Noise: Skyrocketing remote work has necessitated different styles of dialogue. For instance, it calls for more written channels on Slack or email, or more Zoom meetings. But management is necessary to make sure employees are using effective means to communicate that enable them to accomplish their tasks rather than getting bogged down in unnecessary and time-consuming mediums that don't really further their specific work product.In-Person Meetings Still Matter: For all the positives in remote work and communication channels, there is still something that's lost when people aren't able to be with each other. Actually gathering together does help to connect team members. Properly managed hybrid models can create small teams that are able to leverage their in-person time as well as the remote tools that help to bind them together and get quality work done.How Open Should Channels Be?: With these new forms of remote communication, there is an even greater ability to have conversations between different teams at a company. This can be a double edged sword between the sales and developer teams. On one hand, communication can really help customers. On the other hand, there can come a point when a decision about a certain project must be made and further back and forth may not be as relevant at that point.IT Visionaries is brought to you by the Salesforce Platform - the #1 cloud platform for digital transformation of every experience. Build connected experiences, empower every employee, and deliver continuous innovation - with the customer at the center of everything you do. Learn more at salesforce.com/platform

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“To me, Steve Jobs is a true epitome of product management. If you think about his role, it draws a lot of inspiration. Not only was he the brains behind Apple, but he helped design it. He helped develop and sell it. And that's why I refer to product managers as the CEO of their product.”If there's anyone that knows how to build products, it's Frederick John, who is a 20-year veteran of the product industry and a go-to thought leader in both product development and product management with a diverse domain background —including working with giants like Deloitte, GE Digital, ADP and NCR Corporation.He currently brings that expertise to Diebold Nixdorf as the Vice President of Global Product Management, Banking.TOP TAKEAWAYSWhy are Product managers the CEO of their products?How to vet different aspiring product managers coming from diverse backgrounds?Impact of the pandemic on product manager workflowDifference between product managers: Early-stage versus Enterprise-StageThe biggest mistake that product managers make. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTSWhy are Product Managers CEO of their Products?Frederick currently leads a team of 50 product managers and product developers. According to him, they act as mini CEOs of their products; they go out and help others. The indirect or dotted line influence of the product team is actually throughout the entire software organization. The concept of keeping product management is relatively new. The agile transformation led to the need for product managers. The iterative approach of agile requires product managers to build everything in two weeks.How to Vet Different Aspiring Product Managers Coming from Diverse Backgrounds?The background doesn't matter, but it is their approach to products in general that matters. A product leader must check if someone from a technical background understands pain areas and good points developed for their clients since empathy isn't a scoring criterion in interviews. Impact of the Pandemic on Product Manager WorkflowPandemic has affected product development, which is visible in the details of product design, stories, understanding of development, and quality team. There is absolutely nothing in a virtual environment that can replace the power of 8 people stuck in a room looking at a whiteboard. Difference Between Product Managers: Early-Stage Versus Enterprise-StageThe good thing about large companies is that the reach is much wider If you want to know about what is happening in the world. Offshore or nearshore development capabilities let you create products quickly and economically. You can also tap the diverse talent pool available across the globe. Smaller companies have agility, skill, and flexibility; they can soon move in the direction of technology or in which clients are moving. Hence, innovation happens faster, the concepts and deployment of new technology occur rapidly. Product managers can't have that agility at the enterprise level.The Biggest Mistake that Product Managers MakeMost product managers treat the products as babies, and it is hard to call the babies ugly. Hence, they end up making the biggest mistake by not stepping back and doing a course correction. They should have the humility to view with the lens of pure facts versus emotions. Follow Frederick John on LinkedInProduced by: Priya Bhatt Podcast host: Abhash Kumar

Jerry is joined by Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at NCR Corporation, Tim Vanderham. They discuss how progressive retailers are beginning to use Automation to transform the customer's shopping experience - a transformation that has been catalyzed by the ongoing pandemic. Tim shares Automation examples from self-checkout to online ordering and explains how this goes beyond classic Automation to Edge, Computer Vision, Internet of Things, and even Cryptocurrency. They close by jumping the tracks to AI and diving into how, out of necessity, retail companies are utilizing AI to filter through millions of events to isolate outages and create a more personalized experience for their consumers.  Art by David Ryan.  Tim's Interview on Crypo in Retail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aGURdd9i4c

Tim Vanderham is the CTO and SVP of NCR Corporation which is bringing bitcoin and crypto to retailers, restaurants, and banks. NCR recently acquired crypto atm software company LibertyX and has partnered with NYDIG to bring crypto to 600 plus banks and credit unions. Tim's twitter: https://twitter.com/vanderhamTim's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-vanderham-68940bNCR/LibertyX release - https://investor.ncr.com/news-releases/news-release-details/ncr-signs-definitive-agreement-acquire-cryptocurrency-leader/

US Crypto regulations are a mess right now with multiple bills being introduced. First, an updated version of the U.S. Senate's bipartisan infrastructure bill narrows the definition of “broker” for the purposes of crypto tax collection but stops short of specifying that only companies that provide services for customers qualify. Second, Rep. Don Beyer's (D-Va.) bill would allow the Treasury Secretary to veto the creation of stablecoins, direct regulators to define rules for decentralized finance (DeFi) and possibly create a charter for crypto exchanges, among other measures. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) speculated Monday that Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) proposed the sweeping bill on digital assets at the request of the Treasury Department.Next Generation Trust company and ErisX announce administrative relationship to streamline Cryptocurrency investment process for self-directed IRA owners.NCR Corporation, one of the world's largest makers of automated teller machines (ATMs), agreed to acquire cryptocurrency software provider and ATM-network firm LibertyX.Marathon Digital buys another 30,000 bitcoin miners worth $120 million.Chris Yim LibertyX CEO Interview - https://youtu.be/qKut_6EDfkw

Miguel Armaza sits down with Scott Sobel, Co-founder & Managing Partner of Valor Capital Group, a cross-border venture fund focused on Brazil and United States opportunities, with offices in New York, Silicon Valley, and São Paulo. In this episode, we discuss: - Scott’s journey and why he and his father, Ambassador Clifford Sobel, decided to launch Valor focusing on the Brazilian market - Investing strategy and case studies from some of their most exciting portfolio companies - The incredible fintech opportunity in Brazil and Latin America - What’s driving their big bets in the crypto space - Lessons learned from over a decade of investing and the importance of staying with your winners - And a lot more! Scott Sobel Scott Sobel, Co-founder & Managing Partner of Valor Capital Group, was part of the founding team of the pioneer Internet Telephony company Net2Phone; Scott helped take the company from a piece of software that was first to bridge the PC and the Public Switch Telephony Network to acquiring millions of users, generating over $200M in revenue, an IPO (1999) and the strategic sale of the company to AT&T for $1.4 Billion (2000). Scott went on to hold executives positions in Symbol Technologies working with the Mobile Computing and Wireless Divisions and NCR Corporation based in Singapore responsible for Corporate Development and later the P&L for the Financial Line of Business in the Emerging Markets. Scott was fortunate to be in a position to bring his skill sets, passions, and experiences to support other entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Brazil reach their visions. Scott holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Syracuse University. Scott has primarily lived and worked in the emerging markets (China, India, and Brazil) for the past decade, who is a passionate surfer and practices Jiu Jitsu. Valor Capital Group Founded in 2011, Valor Capital Group is the pioneer cross-border venture fund focused on Brazil and United States opportunities, with offices in New York, Silicon Valley, and São Paulo. The firm partners with visionary entrepreneurs building transformative businesses from startup to scale-up. Valor is committed to the success of their portfolio companies by providing capital, operational support and connectivity to global markets. The firm operates in two investment strategies: Growth Equity and Venture Capital. For more FinTech insights, follow us below: Medium: medium.com/wharton-fintech WFT Twitter: twitter.com/whartonfintech Miguel's Twitter: twitter.com/MiguelArmaza Miguel's Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3jWIpqp

Nowadays, every designer aims to capture the user's attention by providing meaningful and effective solutions to problems; and the first step to do so is user research. Understanding the behaviour of the users and the environment around them can provide better clarity about the problem as well as the needs of the users. It can help create usable products that provide an integrated, inclusive and overall enjoyable experience. So how can designers conduct user research to understand the problem better and create the best possible solutions?To know more about this theme, in this episode, we interact with Manjari Dwivedi, Experience Design India Studio Lead at NCR Corporation. With almost a decade of experience, she holds expertise in usability testing, user research, user experience design, user interface design and much more. Let's know more about his journey and experiences in the latest episode of the "Avantika Designeering Series Podcast,” “The Missing Piece: Market Research.” You can connect with Manjari on LinkedIn. Don't forget to subscribe to our show and share your comments on ads@avantika.edu.in

Kevin A Rasberry is a native of Orangeburg SC and son to the late Edward J. And Carolyn W. Rasberry. He is a sibling of academic standouts Debra (Waymer) George. Randy Waymer and Cynthia Waymer. Though Rasberry had many struggles academically during school, he played football for Orangeburg Wilkinson before a car accident derailed his career. He was a four-year cadet in ROTC before his graduation in 1988. Rasberry's ROTC career led to his entrance into the United States Army and proceeded to have a well-decorated career. Rasberry became a certified cook, pathfinder, Sniper, Airborne Ranger, and scout platoon leader. Rasberry was a guard at the DMZ located at Panmunjeom, now located in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. After being shot at a disclosed location in Korea, Rasberry rehabbed while becoming a cook. Rasberry became a two-time cook of the year in Korea. Rasberry was a part of Operation Nifty Package and the arrest of Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega. Rasberry also participated in the surveillance and the arrest of well-known terrorist groups around the world. Rasberry's military career resulted in being rewarded soldier of the year twice and a Purple Heart recipient. As Rasberry exited the military as a disabled veteran, he began a twenty-year career in finance with companies such as TranSouth Financial and Citigroup. Rasberry became a business development specialist assisting with the start of three hundred plus businesses in the state of South Carolina and Georgia over twenty-five years. Rasberry also worked as a project and on-site manager for Federal-Mogul (Kelly Services) Lang Mekra (Kelly Services) and NCR Corporation. Rasberry is an Alumnus of Limestone University, Claflin University, and the University of Phoenix. Kevin holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Bachelors's degree in Psychology, and an MBA. He also has an associate's degree in food service and Human Resources. Rasberry is the best-selling author of the self-help book, Decisions and Consequences-the realities of being a man. His second book, Evolution of The Good Man which was adapted into the stage play by WOW Productions, Confessions of a Good Man. The stage play opened to four consecutive sold-out shows. For the past 20+ years, Kevin has been a mentor to countless boys and men across the state of South Carolina. Because of this dedication and commitment to developing great men and leaders for our communities, Rasberry devised an even greater plan of development. In 2013, Rasberry became the founder of the historic charter school Garden City Preparatory Academy for Boys in Orangeburg SC. The school earned a dual designation in the state as the first single-gender public school in the history of the state of South Carolina and it was founded by an African American. Rasberry currently is a high school business educator and retail business owner of three businesses in the state of SC. Rasberry is a member of the 100 Black Men of Greater Columbia, SC Combat Veterans Group, Military Order of the Purple Heart, and the Director of the LegacyEd Foundation nonprofit organization. Currently, Rasberry is developing a series of books detailing the greatness of his hometown of Orangeburg SC, and a professional league developing talent for the Olympics. #orangeburgblackhistory #humbled #gratefultobealive #DaBurg --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/letssipandtalkwithfrema/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/letssipandtalkwithfrema/support

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In this episode of Should I Stay or Should I Go, Mike Tannenbaum is joined by guest Zach Finn, who is a clinical Professor and Director of the Davey Risk Management & Insurance Program at Butler University.    Mike and Zach first connected in the late '90s, when Zach reached out to Mike as a Junior at Indiana State University. Building a "career relationship", Mike eventually Zach in his "dream" Risk Manager role in 2006 - fast forward to today, and Zach is an esteemed Professor in the Insurance and Risk Management field, with 20+ years experience under his belt.    In this episode, Zach details his colorful career and provides his take on the Insurance and Risk Management Sector.   This includes his experience working for NCR Corporation fresh out of college, why he wanted to get exposure to a broad spectrum of risks early on in his career, his move from the corporate risk management world into the academic world, and why the Insurance and Risk Management industry has fundamentally failed to communicate and educate the importance and impact of Risk Management.   If you have any thoughts or feedback on the show, you can email your host, Mike Tannenbaum, directly at: mtannenbaum@keystrategies.com . He may even answer your question on the show. You can also learn more about Key Strategies here.   A big thank you to our new sponsor, Patrick O’Neill Founder & President of Redhand Advisors, providers of consulting services geared to assisting organizations in maximizing the value of their investment in technology in areas of risk, insurance and health IT. They work directly with organizations who use the technology and the providers that deliver the technology solutions. For a free copy of their fully comprehensive RMIS report go to redhandadvisors.com/key   Thanks for listening, we hope you find the discussion in this episode insightful.

Co-hosts Monica Delores Hooks and mark anthony peterson (@guerrilapreneur) talk with the co-founder and CEO of Edifius (https://edifius.com/) Perla Humphrey. Edifius’ Simba is a phone bot that answers your business phone, relieving valuable employee time from answering routine, repetitive phone calls. Simba is a no-code SaaS platform built for the non-techie business person wanting the full benefits of self-service automation for their callers without the hassle or expense of software developers or the wait for a custom solution.GUEST: Perla Humphrey. Ms. Humphrey has a BS degree in Computer Engineering from Michigan State University and an MBA from Clark Atlanta University. Ms. Humphrey worked as a Senior Manager at Deloitte Consulting and Senior IT Manager at Oracle, NCR Corporation, Cox Automation, and Sierra Systems.Like what you hear on the Guerrillapreneur Podcast? You may also like some of my other podcasts, include Career Coaching Xs and Os Podcast (Career Advice for Executives Seeing the Corner Office) and Gigging: Everything and the Sharing Economy Podcast (News and Predictions about the Sharing Economy). You can find Career Coaching Xs and Os on Spreaker at https://www.spreaker.com/show/careercoaching-xs-and-os. You can find Gigging on Spreaker at https://www.spreaker.com/show/gigging-everything-sharing-economy. BE INTENTIONAL: TURNING GOOD TROUBLE INTO BLACK INDEPENDENCEThe Guerrillapreneur Podcast and 4T3 Acres Think Tank are hosting a town hall meeting entitled “Be Intentional: Turning Good Trouble Into Black Independence. This event is a forum where great minds from across the country will come together and strategize ways the sons and daughters of the Black Diaspora can generate and demand the Trillions we are owed. Topics Include:-Why Black Banks Are So Important To Building Black Wealth -How Black School Districts & Cities Can Create Billions in Wealth-Why Black Tech Startups Are The Key Community Re-Development-How Can Black Votes Lead To Real Change In Black CommunitiesRegister to attend at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/128313582379 BECOME A GUERRILLAPRENEUR PATRONPlease support the show by contributing at www.patreon.com/guerrillapreneur. As a patron, you will get Guerrillapreneur merchandise to let everyone know that you are “DISRUPTING” your industry. Check out our new Guerrillapreneur hats and t-shirts. https://www.facebook.com/pg/Guerrillapreneur/shop/?ref=page_internal. If you can't donate, please share, like, and comment on the show or your favorite episode. Join the tribe by subscribing and encourage other like minds to do the same. Support us by following us on our social media platforms:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Guerrillapreneur Twitter - https://twitter.com/Guerillapreneur LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/13991093/admin/ Are you an artist/singer/songwriter? Want to feature your new song on my podcast FREE OF CHARGE? Tweet me @guerillapreneur. Remember, we only want "Mavericks!" Non-Mavericks don't have to go home, but they got to get up out of this podcast. Keep fighting, Guerrillapreneurs!!! LAUNCHING A STARTUP? NEED HELP DEVELOPING YOUR PITCH?Check out my online course "How To Develop A Winning Business Pitch" https://ceyero-consulting-eschool.thinkific.com/courses/how-to-develop-a-winning-business-pitch. The course is only $39.00. If you need more help than the course can offer, reach out to us at Ceyero Consulting (www.ceyreo.com)GUEST INFORMATIONEdifius– https://www.thelabz.com/Email – hello@edifius.com perla.humphrey@edifius.comFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/edifiuscorp/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/edifius

Nowadays, dating prospects can be reduced to a matter of swiping left or right. Just post your best selfies, and you might just find the love you’re yearning for. Savvy takes online dating a notch higher by introducing a game show type of matchmaking. In this episode, the Savvy team, Brendan, Fernando, and Jack, shares how the app came to be. They discuss their technical, marketing, and financial strategies for getting Savvy up and running. Find out how they are navigating their way into the very competitive arena of dating apps. Tune in if you want to learn what it’s like to turn an app idea into reality. Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: Learn what makes Savvy different from other dating apps. Discover how Brendan, Fernando, and Jack are running a start-up with zero experience. Find out how the company is battling challenges in app development. Resourceshttps://www.savvydatinggame.com/ (The Savvy Website) Savvy on https://www.instagram.com/savvydatinggame/ (Instagram) Download Savvy on the https://apps.apple.com/us/app/savvy-dating-game/id1426377188 (Apple App Store). http://seekgocreate.com/?p=2228 (Episode Details) About the Savvy Team Brendan Kenny is the CEO and co-founder of the Savvy Dating Game. He graduated from Delbarton High School and is currently a finance major at Villanova School of Business.  Fernando Delgado, COO and co-founder of Savvy, earned his bachelor’s degree focused in economics and Japanese from Villanova University. Before creating Savvy, he interned in Rimrock Capital Management, LLC; LUISS EnLabs; and Boenning & Scattergood, Inc. Jack Maginnes is the CTO of Savvy. He is currently completing his bachelor’s degree in computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He served previous internships in Nike, NCR Corporation, and VF Corporation. Download Savvy on the https://apps.apple.com/us/app/savvy-dating-game/id1426377188 (Apple App Store). You can also visit their https://www.savvydatinggame.com/ (website) or follow them on https://www.instagram.com/savvydatinggame/ (Instagram). Enjoy This Podcast? Seek Go Create is for anyone seeking excellence, moving towards success, or creating something new. We share topics, stories, and conversations that allow us to rethink how we live, work, and lead. If you were inspired and educated by this episode, feel free to subscribe to us on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/seek-go-create/id1481874131 (Apple Podcasts), https://open.spotify.com/show/4pnLpMwK6gGeTJvXvVam5z (Spotify), or https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vc2Vlay1nby1jcmVhdGUv (Google Podcasts) so that you never miss another episode. Also, share this episode or what you’ve learned today on social media. Love to give us 5 stars? If you do, we’d love a review from you. By doing this, you can help us reach more people who want to redefine success in their lives. Connect with the SeekGoCreate Network! For updates and more episodes, visit our https://seekgocreate.com/ (website) or follow us on https://www.facebook.com/SeekGoCreate/ (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/seekgocreate/ (Instagram), https://www.linkedin.com/company/seek-go-create-network/ (LinkedIn), https://twitter.com/SeekGoCreate (Twitter), and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-4BK0v7R7ZgOuaNRa3MrWA (YouTube). To growing and becoming all we are created to be, Tim

Students are gearing up for internship interviews this fall so we reached out to companies who have renowned internship programs to ask them what they are looking for from candidates? How can students best prepare for interviews and internship opportunities? We know the last six months were challenging with students losing out on internships or jobs they had committed to due to the pandemic. What can they do now and how can they explain the lost opportunity? Mikala Bush is part of a University Relations team at NCR Corporation which has won numerous awards for their Internship program and she joins us today to share her advice, guidance, and insights to help students as they navigate researching and applying to internship programs. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/college-scoops/support

This week, Natalie Ceeney CBE, Chair of Innovate Finance speaks to Diego Navarrete, Senior Vice President, Global Banking Sales at NCR Corporation. They discuss access to cash, Financial innovation and payments infrastructure and much more! Tune in for new episodes every Friday. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/innfin/message

Ivan Alvarez is the Vice President of Big Data and Enterprise Analytics at NCR Corporation. NCR is the world's leading enterprise technology provider of software, hardware and services for banks, retailers, restaurants, small businesses, telecom, and technology. Ivan shares the kind of challenges he and his team solve working with 20 million endpoints and securing and servicing the world’s payment backbone. Ivan also shares how he fosters innovation within the industry and discusses going from a strictly on-premise environment to a hybrid-cloud solution. Show Notes: NCR’s website On tap for today’s episode: Columbian coffee and Trader Joe’s Dark Roast Coffee Contact Us: https://www.hashmapinc.com/reach-out

Join us in our very first conversation with Mayur Chaudhary, Director of UX Design at NCR Corporation and Akshey Wallia, Corporate Strategy and Program Management at Magicbricks where we talk about the vision of RethinkingUX community, its uniqueness, and enormous future possibilities that come with it.

On this episode, Kison speaks with Ben Sutton, a senior manager of corporate development at NCR Corporation, about executing transactions and what a senior manager’s role looks like. Together they discuss how to measure the success of a transaction, the difference between revenue synergy and cost synergy, and how you can predict what a leader wants out of a transaction. Ben breaks down legal terms he’s come to be familiar with and discusses potential learning curves to expect when entering a senior manager role. From predicting outcome wants incorrectly, transaction metrics, and experiencing post-close surprises, Ben covers every aspect of a senior manager corporate development role. 

Michele Hoskins, is a former educator, professional leadership development trainer and motivational speaker for more than 29 years. Currently, Michele and her husband Paul are Urban Air Adventure Park Franchisees, have two (2) parks in San Antonio, and are planning to open an additional park in 2020. Michele is also a licensed Minister, former McDonald’s Franchisee, Author, Motivational Speaker, teacher and active community leader. Michele is very competent in establishing goals, developing strategic action plans, and executing plans for running successful operations to the benefit of all.Michele loves to dance, read, travel and spend time with her family. Michele is married happily married, 28 years to her husband Paul, they have 10 year old twins, Hayley and Hayley, and reside in Garden Ridge, TX. Paul Hoskins along with his wife Michele are owners of (2) Urban Air Adventure Parks in San Antonio. Previously, Paul owned and operated five (5) McDonald’s Franchises in San Antonio. Paul has over 28 years executive sales, management, and computer technology experience. Paul has worked for Hewlett-Packard Company, Digital Equipment, and NCR Corporation. During Paul’s tenure at Hewlett Packard he was responsible for developing new accounts, territory management, marketing, and exceeded annual sales goals every year.Paul enjoys reading, traveling, cooking, and exercising. Paul holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing from Arizona State University. Paul and Michele are the proud parents of their twins Hayley and Hayden, and they reside in Garden Ridge, Texas.RICH RELATIONSHIPS PODCAST IS THE GENESIS OF SPEAK FREELY WITH GIL & Renée APPSpeak Freely with Gilbert J and Renée M. Beavers app was released February 1,2020Renée M. Beavers is the developer of the App. Gil J. Beavers and M.Renée Beavers are the hosts and creators of the Rich Relationships Podcast with Gil & Renée . Gil& Renée have been introducing the world Rich Relationships as evidenced by television and radio interviews on CBS, NBC, TBN, Atlanta Live, HOT 108 FM, and Blog Talk Radio, just to name a few. Renee has also been featured in the Huffington Post and Sheen Magazine.Apple App Storehttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/speak-freely-with-gil-renee/id1497628436?ls=1Google Play App Store.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.speakfreelyGil &Renée’s 37-year relationship might mean they know what it takes to maintain and grow healthy relationships. They have a passion for marriage and relationships. Their 37 years together also provide evidence of something worth exploring and modeling. What is their secret, or are the answers hidden in plain sight?Gil & Renée are available for the following platforms and venues Conferences Panel DiscussionsMagazine InterviewsTelevision InterviewsRadio InterviewsNewspaper Interviewswwwrichrelationshipsus.com

From the origin of the sales funnel and the first direct marketing campaign to modern point of sale systems, NCR Corp. has been at the forefront of marketing technology and sales for more than 130 years. Katie Kirschner, Vice President of Brand, Content & Digital Marketing, explores how NCR continues to push marketing and sales technology forward through content creation focused on customer success. NCR Corporation: https://ncr.com Katie Kirschner on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kqkirschner/ Growth IQ: https://www.tiffanibova.com/GrowthIQ DataStory: https://www.duarte.com/datastory/ Find More Episodes: https://www.interactohio.com/podcast.html Discover the Interact Conference: https://www.interactohio.com/#sec-id-2 Grab Interact Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/interact20-digital-marketing-conference-tickets-65693911257?_eboga=1815010325.1570201507 Elevate Your Brand: https://www.goupward.com/ URL: https://www.interactohio.com/podcast.html

Maddie Pimentel has been in the Learning & Development field for the past 19 years. She joined SnapAV last year as the Training and Development Manager for North America. Maddie’s role is to enable the sales teams to quickly ramp, begin generating revenue and stay up to date on products, solutions and process updates as well as industry trends. With the purchase of Control4, a publicly-traded company, a few months ago, Maddie is now responsible for sales enablement for the global sales teams. Prior to this, she was with NCR Corporation, AT&T, Hearst Media Services and Carrera Commerce in various roles, including Global Sales Enablement, National Training Manager, Inside and Outside Sales Manager as well as Corporate Marketing Manager. Maddie is fluent in Spanish and earned a BA in Communications from Georgia State University. She has also worked as a reporter and interpreter with several media outlets in the Atlanta market. Maddie was born in Havana, Cuba and moved to Atlanta with her family when she was two months old. Her interests include writing, reading, traveling, and photography. If you want your sales team to deliver results, discover the secrets of sales coaching and learn about the hottest trends in the sales training industry, take 20 minutes to learn from this incredibly successful business leader.  WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE: The role of storytelling in human to human connection Top 3 critical skills for salespeople Is it difficult to train salespeople? The value of building companywide Storytelling Library Latest trends in the sales training industry SHOW NOTES [00:22] Introduction [01:42] Welcome Maddie [02:00] Business stories that inspire Maddie [02:51] How her father got started [03:13] Winning business of the year award [05:52] Maddie’s portfolio [06:02] How she got into sales [06:53] Critical skills for salespeople [07:08] Relationship building [07:22] Listening [07:33] Customer’s needs assessment [09:34] Is it difficult to train salespeople? [10:49] Net promoter score [11:16] Maddie’s process of training salespeople [11:40] Current trends in sales training [11:56] Mobile and gamification [14:56] The on-boarding program at Snap AV  [17:05] Type of stories that excite customers [19:00] The meaning of Story library [20:20] Challenges facing today’s sales leaders [20:34] Keeping up with the technology [22:00] The Art of storytelling [22:53] Contact info  You can reach Maddie at  Maddie.pimentel@yahoo.com  www.linkedin.com/in/maddiepimentel

There are many drawbacks with traditional conferences including cost, time traveling to the venue and absence from work. Thus, the idea of a global online conference was born. With over 1,000 sign ups to the inaugural event, listen in as we talk with founder Toni Martin on what made her create this unique event.

Arnon Axelrod speaks with SE Radio’s Simon Crossley about test automation, a large complex subject that most listeners will have at least some familiarity with. Axelrod has worked in software engineering and test automation in several high-tech companies, including Microsoft and NCR Corporation, where he established a test automation infrastructure that was used by over […]

In this BONUS episode at Agile Camp Brian & James spoke with Greeta Wilson about improving the customer experience with Agile. Also Agile in the 80's tv show the A-Team....?  About Greeta:  Geeta Wilson is a highly innovative and transformational Customer Experience and Operational Excellence leader with extensive domestic and international experience in start-ups, Fortune 500 companies such as NCR Corporation, and Humana, a Fortune 100 company. Geeta is the founder of Humana’s FastStart Consumer Experience lab, an enterprise customer-centric movement that challenges convention and corporate routines. Using methods from Lean Start-up, Agile/Scrum, Design Thinking, and Lean Six Sigma to accelerate speed-to-market across all lines of business, the FastStart team has brought its disruptive CX approach to thousands of Humana associates and leaders. Geeta has been featured in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal, and 1:1 Media. She was recognized by American City Business Journals (Louisville Business First) among its 2017 “People to Know” and by MM&M as one of its 2017 Top 40 Healthcare Transformers. The FastStart lab was honored with a 2016 Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA) Innovation Award. Geeta’s recent speaking engagements focusing on the consumer experience include Forrester CXNYC 2016 and 2017 conferences, 2016 CXPA Insight Exchange, 2016 Lean Startup conference, and Dreamforce 2016, the largest tech conference in the world.

The future of retail is omni-channel: identifying and serving the customer from mobile to Web to the sales floor. Eli Rosner, NCR’s SVP and CTO, helped build a $3.7 billion business supplying technology, software, and services to this fast-changing industry. Learn what it takes to continually reinvent a 130-old-company in the face of relentless technology change.Eli Rosner is Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Software Solutions for NCR Corporation. In this role, he is accountable for the company's strategy, formulation, development and cross-functional delivery of NCR's software portfolio.

The future of retail is omni-channel: identifying and serving the customer from mobile to Web to the sales floor. Eli Rosner, NCR’s SVP and CTO, helped build a $3.7 billion business supplying technology, software, and services to this fast-changing industry. Learn what it takes to continually reinvent a 130-old-company in the face of relentless technology change.Eli Rosner is Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Software Solutions for NCR Corporation. In this role, he is accountable for the company's strategy, formulation, development and cross-functional delivery of NCR's software portfolio.

Materials Available here:https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2023/DEF%20CON%2023%20presentations/DEFCON-23-Nir-Valtman-Moshe-Ferber-From-zero-to-secure-in-1-minute-UPDATED.pdf From 0 To Secure In 1 Minute — Securing IAAS Nir Valtman CISO – Retail, NCR Moshe Ferber Co-chairman of the board, Cloud Security Alliance Israel Recent hacks to IaaS platforms reveled that we need to master the attack vectors used: Automation and API attack vector, insecure instances and management dashboard with wide capabilities. Those attack vectors are not unique to Cloud Computing but there are magnified due to the cloud characteristics. The fact is that IaaS instance lifecycle is accelerating, nowadays we can find servers that are installed, launched, process data and terminate - all within a range of minutes. This new accelerated lifecycle makes traditional security processes such as periodic patches, vulnerability scanning, hardening, and forensics impossible. In this accelerated lifecycle, there are no maintenance windows for patches or ability to mitigate vulnerability, so the security infrastructure must adapt to new methods. In this new thinking, we require automation of instance security configuration, hardening, monitoring, and termination. Because there are no maintenance windows, Servers must be patched before they boot up, security configuration and hardening procedures should be integrated with server installation and vulnerability scanning and mitigation processes should be automatic. In the presentation, we plan to announce the full version of a new open source tool called "Cloudefigo" and explain how it enables accelerated security lifecycle. We demonstrate how to launch a pre-configured, already patched instance into an encrypted storage environment automatically while evaluating their security and mitigating them automatically if a vulnerability is found. In the live demo, we leverage Amazon Web Services EC2 Cloud-Init scripts and object storage for provisioning automated security configuration, integrating encryption, including secure encryption key repositories for secure server's communication. The result of those techniques is cloud servers that are resilient, automatically configured, with the reduced attack surface. Nir is employed at NCR Corporation as the CISO of NCR Retail. Before the acquisition of Retalix by NCR, he was Chief Security Officer of R&D at the company. As part of his previous positions in the last decade, he worked as Chief Security Architect, Senior Technology Consultant, Application Security Consultant, Systems Infrastructure Security Consultant, and a Technological Trainer. While in these positions, Nir was not only consulting, but also performing hands-on activities in various fields, i.e. hardening, penetration testing, and development for personal/internal applications. In addition, Nir is a public speaker (spoke on BlackHat, DEF CON, OWASP, InfoSec etc.) and open source contributor. Among his contributions, he released an open source anti-defacement tool called AntiDef, and wrote a publication about QRbot, an iPhone QR botnet POC he developed. His latest open source tool is Cloudefigo, which planned to be presented in the conference. Nir has a BSc in Computer Science but his knowledge is based mainly on cowboy learning and information sharing with the techno-oriented communities. Moshe Ferber is an information security entrepreneur and one of the cornerstones of the information security industry in Israel, with over 20 years of experience in various industry the leading positions such as the Security manager for Ness Technologies and founder of leading MSSP services provider. Currently Mr. Ferber focuses in promoting innovation in the Israeli startup scene as an investor, lecturer and evangelist for various cloud security topics. Mr. Ferber is a popular industry speaker and promote cloud security best practices and official lecturer for the Cloud Security Alliance.

Slides Here: https://defcon.org/images/defcon-22/dc-22-presentations/Valtman/DEFCON-22-Nir-Valtman-A-Journey-To-Protect-POS-UPDATED.pdf A Journey to Protect Points-of-sale Nir Valtman ENTERPRISE SECURITY ARCHITECT, NCR RETAIL Many point-of-sale breaches occurred in the past year and many organizations are still vulnerable against the simplest exploits. In this presentation, I explain about how points-of-sale get compromised from both retailer’s and software-vendor’s perspective. One of the most common threats is memory scraping, which is a difficult issue to solve. Hence, I would like to share with you a demonstration of how it works and what can be done in order to minimize this threat. During this presentation, I will explain the long journey took me to understand how to mitigate it, while walking through the concepts (not exposing vendor names) that don’t work and those that can work. Nir is employed in NCR Corporation as Enterprise Security Architect of NCR Retail, and also works as co-founder and CTO in his start-up company, Crowdome. Before the acquisition of Retalix by NCR, he was Chief Security Officer of R&D in the company. As part of his previous positions in the last decade, he was working as Chief Security Architect, Senior Technology Consultant, Application Security Consultant, Systems Infrastructure Security Consultant and a Technological Trainer. During these positions, Nir was not only consulting, but also performing hands-on activities in various fields, i.e. hardening, penetration testing and development for personalinternal applications. In addition, Nir released an open source anti-defacement tool called AntiDef and written a publication about QRbot, an iPhone QR botnet POC he developed. Nir have a BSc in computer science but his knowledge is based mainly on cowboy learning and information sharing with the techno-oriented communities.

Slides Here; https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-22/dc-22-presentations/Valtman/DEFCON-22-Nir-Valtman-Bug-Bounty-Programs-Evolution.pdf Extra Materials are available here: https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-22/dc-22-presentations/Valtman/DEFCON-22-Nir-Valtman-Extras-Bug-Bounty-Programs-Evolution.zip Bug Bounty Programs Evolution Nir Valtman ENTERPRISE SECURITY ARCHITECT Bug bounty programs have been hyped in the past 3 years, but this concept was actually widely implemented in the past. Nowadays, we can see big companies spending a lot of money on these programs, while understanding that this is the right way to secure software. However, there are lots of black spots in these programs which most of you are not aware of, such as handling with black hat hackers, ability to control the testers, etc. Henceforth, this presentation explains the current behaviors around these programs and predicts what we should see in the future. Nir is employed by NCR Corporation as Enterprise Security Architect of NCR Retail, and also works as co-founder and CTO in his start-up company, Crowdome. Before the acquisition of Retalix by NCR, Nir was the Chief Security Officer of R&D in the company. As part of his previous positions in the last decade, he has worked as Chief Security Architect, Senior Technology Consultant, Application Security Consultant, Systems Infrastructure Security Consultant and a Technological Trainer. While in these positions, Nir was not only consulting, but also performing hands-on activities in various fields, i.e. hardening, penetration testing, and development for personalinternal applications. In addition, Nir released an open source anti-defacement tool called AntiDef and has written a publication about QRbot, an iPhone QR botnet POC he developed. Nir has a BSc in computer science, but his knowledge is based mainly on cowboy learning and information sharing with the techno-oriented communities.

Corporate Talk with Charlie & Eva with guest Russ Peterson Jr. & Dr. Alvin S. Perry Leaders create a culture of winning when commitments run deep. Russ shares His expertise in Leadership Communication with his customized keynotes and Workshop As the co-author of Corporate Ovation she shares the techniques Required to present powerful messages and create leadership presence.Since 1991 Russ has spoken to audiences around the world. He is an award- Winning trainer, successful entrepreneur, published author, and international Speaker His workshops and keynotes have inspired audiences to improve their Organizations by improving their methods of communication Russ has shared his principles with organizations like Dell, Emerson, and The Texas Rangers, Cameron, Center Point Energy, and Bimbo Bakeries in global locations Ranging from Amsterdam to Houston to Singapore   Alvin S. Perry, DBA, MBA is an inspirational speaker and a proven leader with over twenty years of experience in the consumer products and consulting industries. His corporate experience consists of management positions with IRI, Colgate-Palmolive, NCR Corporation, the Pepsi-Cola Company, M&M/Mars and Wal-Mart. Dr. Perry also has over 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur founding four startup companies. Dr. Perry has adjunct faculty experience with William Patterson University, Montclair State University, and Essex County College. Dr. Perry, the strategist, is also a very passionate entrepreneur, inventor, professional speaker, songwriter, author, and filmmaker.

Meet Fred Maidment, author of "What Your Boss Doesn’t Want You to Know: How to Succeed (and Excel!) in the Global Economy". Dr. Maidment has been a consultant for the Chase Manhattan Bank, and the NCR Corporation as well as experience as the owner and operator of his own business. Dr. Maidment’s consulting assignments have also included agencies of the Federal government, not-for-profit agencies, as well as corporations.What he shares with us today is HOW to RUN a business anywhere in the world, and how to succeed anywhere !!