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You may not be thinking about your planter, but now is the time to upgrade. With Ag Leader's Save Now, Plant Later promotion, you can save up to $200 per row...which adds up FAST. Technology Advisor, Jay Robinson joins to talk about just that. For more information or a quote on your planter, give us call at 712-744-4468 find us online at htsag.com or follow us on social media @htsag

Technology Advisor, Zach Meester hops on to chat about Ag Leader's Save Now, Plant Later promotion and how HTS Ag can help you navigate the options to find the solution for your specific problem. Call us for details at 712-744-4468 online at htsag.com

Technology Advisor, Zach Meester is our resident expert on OPI Grain Management. This week we delve into the steps you can expect when getting a system installed on your farm. Give us a call at 712-744-4468 or find out more online at htsag.com or check our social media @htsag

Technology Advisor, Jay Robinson jumps on to chat about Ag Leader technology and upgrading for the future and now! Plus great insights on OPI Grain Management and more! Call us for more information at 712-744-4468 online at htsag.com and follow us on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, X and Instagram @htsag

Zach Meester, Technology Advisor at HTS Ag, hops on to chat about planter upgrades, sprayers and financing through Ag Leader at 1.99%. GIve us a call for more information at 712-744-4468 online at htsag.com and follow us on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, X and Instagram @htsag

Technology Advisor, Zach Meester, joins us to chat about steering solutions, GPS upgrades, and Ag Leader's TurnPath feature, which you can demo for FREE for 24 hours. Call us today for more information 712-744-4468 or visit us online at htsag.com and follow us Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram @htsag

“I've seen some horrendous accidents and things – never in my life had I seen anything similar to this.” Chief Kim Zaragis describes the scene of the Oklahoma City bombing – a terrorist attack that killed 168 people and injured more than 600 others on April 19, 1995. As we mark 30 years since the horrific incident, Chief Zagaris recounts his 16 days working the scene as the planning section chief – a role he was tasked with due to his extensive experience in USAR responses, emergency management and homeland security. Zagaris, who currently serves as the Wildfire Policy and Technology Advisor for the Western Fire Chiefs Association, highlights the challenges faced at the scene, coordination with the FBI, the highly personal dedication of the first responders during recovery efforts, and the importance of humility when providing mutual aid, among other key takeaways from the incident. This episode of the Better Every Shift Podcast is sponsored by MagneGrip. Eliminate diesel exhaust fumes from inside the fire station with a MagneGrip exhaust removal system. Learn more at MagneGrip.com. Enjoying the show? Email bettereveryshift@firerescue1.com to share your feedback!

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Technology Advisor, Jay Robinson, chats about the latest Iowa Ag Expo in Des Moines and the HTS Ag booth. If you visited our booth and have questions or missed the show and want to chat about how HTS Ag can help your farm operation. Give us a call at 712-744-4468 online at htsag.com and follow us on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, X and Instagram @htsag

Technology Advisor, Jay Robinson, joins us to breakdown a chart highlighting the increase in efficiency of Ag Leader's SureSpeed. Check out the chart yourself on our website htsag.com or on our Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram and X @htsag

The Trump-Vance transition team and the Biden administration signed a memorandum of understanding last week formally kicking off the process to hand over executive power — though the Trump team has decided not to accept some of the government's available resources, including tech and information security provided by the General Services Administration. The transition team will reportedly run as a “self-sufficient organization” with existing security and information protections already built-in, utilizing private funding, according to the press release from the Trump transition team. That includes not using technology or buildings provided by the General Services Administration as part of the transition resources the agency is authorized and appropriated to provide. The Trump team said it “already has existing security and information protections built in, which means we will not require additional government and bureaucratic oversight.” The Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General called out the agency's lack of an updated public strategy for artificial intelligence and underscored the need to be proactive in a report on its management and performance challenges last week. The comments came as part of the OIG's determination that maintaining cybersecurity and keeping up with emerging technologies, such as AI, were among the top challenges for the DOJ. For AI specifically, the report underscored how long ago the department's public AI strategy was released. The OIG's office said in the report: “While the Department has made efforts to adapt to the change in the technological landscape, such as hiring the Department's first Chief Science and Technology Advisor and Chief AI Officer, the most recent publicly issued strategy on AI from the Department—which outlines an AI adoption and coordination strategy with DOJ component responsibilities—is from 2020.” The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Monday-Friday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast  on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify and YouTube.

In this episode, Michael Balakos, Technology Advisor, Styrene, Clariant, dives deep into styrene production, including its importance, how it is produced and challenges in production. Mr. Balakos also provides insight on how Clariant's ribbed-shaped catalyst optimizes performance and influences particle strength.

Ag Leader's 1.99% Financing rate offer expires 10/31/2024 so NOW is the time to get the low rate on industry leading technology. Jay Robinson, Technology Advisor for HTS Ag, explains why Ag Leader could be right for your operation. We also have deals coming up on OPI Grain Management as well as UAV's and UAV Training. Get ahold of us at 800-741-3305 online at htsag.com and follow us on social media @htsag

Russell Kenneth DeGraff spent 18 years as a staffer on Capitol Hill, including 12 years as the Chief Climate and Technology Advisor to Nancy Pelosi, notably during her second term as Speaker of the House. He was, as they say in the room where it happened when negotiating the landmark climate legislation of the last few years, including the Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the CHIPS and Science Act. This is a special conversation going deep into the backstory of how things work in Washington and how these once-in-a-generation climate policies came to be realized. In this episode, we cover: Russell's background and path to Capitol HillHis roles in congressional offices, including work with Congressman Mike Doyle and Speaker Nancy PelosiThe challenges of passing legislation in a closely divided SenateNegotiating and passing major climate policies like the Inflation Reduction Act, and the role of the House Select Committee on the Climate CrisisA case study on negotiating solar canalsDynamics of working with key senators, such as Joe ManchinRussell's current work with Stanford and HarvardReflections on January 6, the political climate, and the 2024 presidential electionAdvice for getting involved in electoral efforts to support climate actionRisks of losing recently passed climate policies if Democrats lose control of CongressWhy climate change is inherently a political issueEpisode recorded on Aug 6, 2024 (Published on Oct 7, 2024) Get connected with MCJ: Cody Simms X / LinkedInMCJ Podcast / Collective / YouTube*If you liked this episode, please consider giving us a review! You can also reach us via email at info@mcj.vc, where we encourage you to share your feedback on episodes and suggestions for future topics or guests.

We welcome a member of the Boast team onto the show, Mr. Matt Funk! Matt is Boast's VP of Customer Delivery, and has been a critical member of the Boast team pretty much since the beginning! He joined Boast back in 2013 as a Technology Advisor and has been helping steer the ship ever since, today leading our Customer Delivery arm and ensuring that the hundreds of businesses who work with Boast enjoy maximized claims with minimal effort or stress.Along with picking his brain on what it's been like seeing Boast grow and evolve over the past decade, I'm excited to hear his take on how the funding and innovation landscape has changed throughout his tenure at Boast. From mastering the SR&ED claim process, to expanding into the United States, to understanding what our customers have been up against before, today, and in the future—Matt's seen a lot!We dive in and understand where we've been and what's in store as Boast continues to grow and help even more innovative businesses maximize their investments into critical R&D. Boast AI accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence. Visit Boast.ai, sign up for our Blog newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for weekly #InnovatorsLive sessions and the latest news to fuel your growth. Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

In episode 08 of Careers and The Business of Law: Legal Data Intelligence Series, Omar Haroun chats with David Cowen about his diverse career, starting at top-tier law firms like Wilson Sonsini and Orrick, and leading into his philanthropic work with Indego Africa. They dive into how Omar's passion for "doing well by doing good" shaped his career, spotlighting the power of legal data intelligence to boost both personal and organizational growth. Omar stresses that the next wave of legal pros needs to be adaptable, ethically driven, and savvy about leveraging data's potential to spark real change.   Key Highlights: Omar shares about his multicultural family background, with immigrant parents from Pakistan and Europe, and how their values of hard work and patriotism profoundly influenced him.  Omar discusses his transition to Indego Africa, a social enterprise helping Rwandan women. He was inspired by the concept of 'doing well by doing good,' a revelation that came from his interactions with the organization's founders and his personal experiences in Rwanda. Drawing on the philosophical teachings of Aristotle, Omar articulates his vision for a fulfilling life through achieving potential and ethical living. He links these ideals to his work at LDI, aiming to empower individuals and organizations to harness the full power of legal data. Mentions: Legal Data Intelligence official site: LegalDataIntelligence.org Indego Africa: Indego Africa Wilson Sonsini: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Orrick: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Song: Castles in the sand by Jimmy Hendrix  

Live* On Location with Technology Advisor, Jay Robinson, as our technicians install an additional OPI system to a bin going up in Cass County, IA. Jay talks about how easy it is to add on a bin when you have an existing system. To find out more, or to start the ball rolling on your bin site, call us at 800-741-3305, online at HTSAg.com and follow us on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, X and Instagram @htsag

Still time to Tech Your Planter before the BEST deal of the year runs out. Listen to this episodes for details with Kyle Fischer, Technology Advisor at HTS Ag and then call us at 800-741-3305 online at HTSAg.com and follow us on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, X, Instagram and SnapChat @htsag

Zach Meester, Technology Advisor chats with us this week about the deals to be had from Ag Leader and OPI Grain Management. Find out the details here, then call us! 800-741-3305 online at HTSAG.com and follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, X, YouTube and Instagram @HTSAg

Although mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are strategic moves that can propel companies toward greater market share, enhanced capabilities, and increased innovation, one critical aspect often overlooked is cybersecurity. Ensuring robust cybersecurity during the M&A process is paramount, as it safeguards the integrity of both companies involved, protects sensitive data, and mitigates potential risks that could derail the transaction or devalue the acquisition. In this podcast episode, Greg Crowley, Chief Information Security Officer at eSentire, discusses the role of cybersecurity in M&As with Ron Park, Operating Partner & Technology Advisor to PE firms, and Dwayne Smith, SVP, Security and Global CISO of PrismHR. Together, Ron, Dwayne, and Greg discuss the importance of incorporating cybersecurity considerations in the due diligence process, the practical aspects of evaluating a company's security posture, managing risks, and ensuring a smooth post-acquisition integration. Key discussion points include: The various stakeholders involved in M&A processes (e.g., buyers, sellers, and third-party consultants) and key areas to focus on during tech and product diligence, including cybersecurity, organizational structure, and technology processes. The importance of having a standardized playbook for M&A processes and the challenges of dealing with disparate cybersecurity practices across merged entities. The critical need for effective communication with non-technical stakeholders. -- Have a question for us? Reach out: hello@esentire.com --- About Cyber Talks From ransomware attacks to supply chain compromises, eSentire's Cyber Talks podcast will delve into the world of the latest cyber threats that are impacting businesses globally. Join our team of security experts as we speak with C-level executives and security practitioners about the cyber risks affecting their business and how they're addressing these challenges. About eSentire eSentire, Inc., the Authority in Managed Detection and Response (MDR), protects the critical data and applications of 2000+ organizations in 80+ countries, across 35 industries from known and unknown cyber threats by providing Exposure Management, Managed Detection and Response and Incident Response services designed to build an organization's cyber resilience & prevent business disruption. Founded in 2001, eSentire protects the world's most targeted organizations with 65% of its global base recognized as critical infrastructure, vital to economic health and stability. By combining open XDR platform technology, 24/7 threat hunting, and proven security operations leadership, eSentire's award-winning MDR services and team of experts help organizations anticipate, withstand and recover from cyberattacks. For more information, visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.esentire.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@eSentire⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

In this episode of the All Things Wildfire podcast, host Kevin Sofen interviews a guest, delving into various topics related to firefighting, technology, and disaster preparedness. They discuss the guest's multifaceted career, which includes involvement in virtual reality (VR) training, drone technology, wearables for incident command, and strategic advising for fire associations. The conversation highlights the interconnectedness of these fields and the importance of technological advancements in enhancing firefighting capabilities and safety protocols. Kevin Sofen joined the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) in 2023 as a Technology Advisor to help plan and lead the 2023 Technology Summit. Kevin spent 11+ years at W.S. Darley & Company, overseeing community development, market strategy, and emerging technology. Since 2012, Kevin successfully commercialized a range of products that include packaged water in a box, virtual reality training, and autonomous drone solutions. In 2017 Kevin launched the www.SmartFireFighting.com community which highlights thought leadership and change management around technology and innovation adoption in the fire service. In 2024, Kevin joined Ascent Integrated Tech as a part-time Director of Business Development to lead indoor localization and biometric tracking technology partnerships. The discussion covers VR training's effectiveness in simulating high-risk scenarios, such as structural fires, and the role of technology in providing realistic training experiences. They emphasize the significance of repetition and familiarity in preparing responders for emergency situations. The guest shares insights into the differences between structural firefighters and wildland firefighters, detailing the unique challenges and objectives faced by each group. They also explore the role of technology in wildfire management, particularly the use of drones for reconnaissance, early detection, and emergency response. The guest highlights various applications of drones in firefighting operations, from delivering medical supplies to assessing fire hotspots and monitoring fire behavior. The conversation concludes with a focus on the guest's involvement in the Smart Firefighting community and their podcast, which aims to facilitate discussions on technology adoption and change management within the fire service. They reflect on the importance of collaboration and innovation in addressing evolving challenges and improving public safety measures. Show Notes: Introduction to the All Things Wildfire podcast and its focus on firefighting, technology, and disaster preparedness. Guest's diverse career background, including involvement in VR training, drone technology, and strategic advising for fire associations. Discussion on the effectiveness of VR training for firefighters, emphasizing the importance of realistic simulation and repetition. Insights into the differences between structural firefighters and wildland firefighters, highlighting unique challenges and objectives. Exploration of drone technology's role in wildfire management, including reconnaissance, early detection, and emergency response. Overview of the Smart Firefighting community and the podcast's mission to facilitate discussions on technology adoption and change management within the fire service. Guest's reflections on the importance of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement in enhancing public safety measures. This episode offers valuable insights into the intersection of technology and firefighting, emphasizing the importance of leveraging innovation to address evolving challenges in disaster response and mitigation.

It's a HUGE deal going on now for Ag Leader SeedCommand products! Jay Robinson, Technology Advisor at HTS Ag chats about the deal and what it can do for your operation. Find out more by calling us at 800-741-3305 online at HTSAg.com and follow us on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, X and Instagram @HTSAg

Send me a message.In this episode of Talking D&T, I sit down with Dave Parry, Design and Technology Advisor at CLEAPSS, to discuss the current state of D&T education in England and explore potential ways to shape its future. Dave shares his insights from visiting numerous schools and highlights some of the main challenges the subject faces, including a shortage of trained staff, difficulties in recruiting and retaining teachers, and limited access to professional development opportunities.We delve into the importance of fostering collaboration among stakeholders, such as awarding bodies, to create a shared understanding of the subject's goals and constraints. Dave emphasizes the need for teachers to embrace their agency and professionalism in designing engaging and relevant D&T curricula, while also considering sustainability and environmental issues.Throughout our conversation, we explore practical strategies for reimagining D&T education, such as focusing on problem-solving rather than take-home projects, utilizing reusable materials and components, and leveraging community resources and partnerships. We also discuss the potential impact of the upcoming Ofsted subject review and the need for effective moderation in online teacher communities.As we conclude our discussion, I invite listeners to engage with the ideas presented and share their thoughts on shaping the future of D&T education. Together, we can work towards a more collaborative, creative, and sustainable approach to teaching and learning in this vital subject area.(Text generated by AI, edited by Alison Hardy)Links to things mentioned in the show are  only available to subscribers.Ciaran Ellis posted a thought-provoking question on LinkedIn recently: Do design decisions involve value judgements?What do you think? Join the conversation over on LinkedIn and let us know what you think. Support the Show.If you like the podcast, you can always buy me a coffee to say 'thanks!'Please offer your feedback about the show or ideas for future episodes and topics by connecting with me on Threads @hardy_alison or by emailing me.If you listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, please take a moment to rate and/or review the show. If you want to support me by becoming a Patron click here. If you are not able to support me financially, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sharing a link to my work on social media. Thank you!

Is Artificial Intelligence Redefining Our Daily Lives, Professions, and the Public Sphere?In this episode, I provide a summary of my discussion in French with Naomi Roth, a Technology Advisor. Together, we delve into the silent revolution being led by generative AI. 00To listen to the full episode in French, please find it on the show "AI Experience en français." The episode has a duration of 51 minutes and is available concurrently with this English summary version.Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Agents can help you attract SMBs and scale your channel ⏬And Ashley Rowland, Co-founder of Technology Advisor Alliance and Adaptive Advisors, can help you attract the best agents!Whether you're a technology advisor yourself or searching for the best one, this podcast episode is a must-listen.Tune in as our telecom expert guest unravels: ❌ Common mistakes new agents make and how to avoid them 

Zach Meester, Technology Advisor in Central Iowa, chats about the return of SureSpeed from Ag Leader and how at HTS Ag, we still have time to install a system on your planter before you hit the field. We also chat about the return of our Empty Bin Discount, up to 40% discount on labor when you order by May 15th! Up to 20% discount when you order by June 15th...Call for details. 800-741-3305 online at HTSAg.com and follow us on Facebook, X, Instagram, SnapChat and LinkedIn @HTSAg

Technology Advisor, Zach Meester, chats about our financing packages available until 12/29/23 through HTS Ag. Also introduced from Ag Leader is the Boom Loop a recirculation feature for their RightSpot nozzle-by-nozzle sprayer control. Call us for details at 800-741-3305 online at HTSAg.com and follow us on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram @HTSAg

Technology Advisor, Kyle Fischer, talks about end of year finance offers on Ag Leader and OPI Grain Management systems. And how when you partner with HTS Ag, you partner with a company that uses what we provide and know how to service and use it all! Call us today at 800-741-3305 online at HTSAg.com and follow us on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram @HTSAg

Technology Advisor, Jay Robinson, chats about upgrading your existing equipment with new Ag Leader technology in the upcoming year. Whether it's for your planter, SureDrives/SureForce, or your sprayer, RightSpot, or inside the tractor guidance, SteadySteer/Z2 SteerCommand, or the all new TurnPath...Ag Leader has a solution for your operation. Jay also chats a bit about data and how to better utilize it to make decisions...plus we have Drones on sale! Contact us today at 800-741-3305 or online at HTSAg.com and follow us on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat @HTSAg

In September 2023, Dr. Arati Prabhakar, Chief Science and Technology Advisor to the President of the United States, joined Download on Tech host and ITI's President and CEO Jason Oxman for an insightful dialogue on safe and responsible AI. As a key voice on AI in the Biden Administration, Dr. Prabhakar shares with Jason strategic initiatives and partnerships shaping the responsible integration of AI into the U.S. tech landscape and highlights the collaborative efforts between the tech industry and the public sector to forge trustworthy AI systems.

With the sales team wrapping up Advanced SMS training, Technology Advisor, Zach Meester, fills us in on the details of what you can do with your data. Also we're still rolling our November Finance Special through the end of the month. (11/30/2023) Find us online at HTSAg.com call 800-741-3305 and follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat @HTSAg

Sydney Skybetter interviews John Underkoffler, the Science and Technology Advisor for the 2002 movie Minority Report. We talk about how the infamous computer gesture scene that made John famous led to the founding of Oblong Industries, a company that tried to make Minority Report's speculative interfaces a reality. See featured guests, read the transcript, and more in our archives at https://www.are.na/choreographicinterfaces/dwr-ep-3-the-one-with-tom-cruise Like, subscribe, and review here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dances-with-robots/id1715669152  Key Takeaways from Episode 3: 1. John Underkoffler developed the gestural interface in “Minority Report” by studying various gestural systems, including sign language. 2. Underkoffler formed Oblong Industries to bring the technology from the movie into reality and make it available for commercial use. 3. While Underkoffler has worked with various industries, he has drawn a line at directly participating in the development of weapons systems. 4. The gestural interface in Minority Report has had a significant impact on the film industry, academia, and defense industry. The Dances with Robots Team Host: Sydney Skybetter Co-Host & Executive Producer: Ariane Michaud Archivist and Web Designer: Kate Gow Podcasting Consultant: Megan Hall Accessibility Consultant: Laurel Lawson Music: Kamala Sankaram Audio Production Consultant: Jim Moses Assistant Editor: Andrew Zukoski Student Associate: Rishika Kartik About CRCI: The Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces (CRCI) explores the braid of choreography, computation and surveillance through an interdisciplinary lens. Find out more at www.choreographicinterfaces.org Brown University's Department of Theatre Arts & Performance Studies' Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces thanks the Marshall Woods Lectureships Foundation of Fine Arts, the Brown Arts Institute, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for their generous support of this project. The Brown Arts Institute and the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies are part of the Perelman Arts District.  

This week, Bonnie sits down with Alex Miller, Senior Science and Technology Advisor for the Army Chief of Staff, for a deep dive into data architecture, AI implementation, and the ever-evolving landscape of technology in the military. Alex shares his insights on the concept of data meshes, bridging the gap between tactical and strategic operations, and the need for continuous transformation. Tune in to explore the challenges and potential solutions to harnessing the power of AI while ensuring data integrity and mission effectiveness. TIMESTAMPS: (5:38) Bottoms-up versus top-down data architecture (7:45) What is the difference between data mesh and data fabric? (12:24) How to overcome the challenges of multiple standards (15:08) AI has a sex appeal problem (21:27) Structured versus unstructured data (26:02) How to properly train generative AI (29:37) Building a doctrine bot (31:38) Removing the acquisition stigma around technology upskilling LINKS: Follow Bonnie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bonnie-evangelista-520747231/ CDAO: https://www.ai.mil/ Tradewinds AI: https://www.tradewindai.com/

Kyle Fischer, Technology Advisor, gives you great reminders on getting your OPI Grain Management settings figured so you can properly manager your grain. We this switch gears into highlighting the special financing offer good through 10/31/2023. Call for details! 800-741-3305 online at HTSAg.com and follow us on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram @HTSAg

You're in the throes of harvest but that doesn't mean you can't plan for next harvest. Technology Advisor, Jay Robinson, chats about Scale-Tec and Grain Sensor Reset. Two simple and impressive add ons for your combine to help you stay organized and productive in the combine. Call us today at 800-741-3305 online at HTSAg.com and follow us on YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @HTSAg

Technology Advisor, Kyle Fischer, breaks down how to, and when to, calibrate your combine's weight and yield monitoring. Step by Step. Have a safe and productive harvest! Contact us at 800-741-3305 online at HTSAg.com and follow us on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter (X) and Instagram @HTSAg.

Chatting with Technology Advisor, Jay Robinson, about AgLeader's RightSpot and how YOU can get the demo unit onto your farm. Give us a call today at 800-741-3305 online at HTSAg.com and follow us on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram @HTSAg

Our RightSpot Demo is in full swing and we chat with Technology Advisor, Zach Meester, about how his Central Iowa demos have been going and producer's reactions to the latest AgLeader sprayer innovation. It's pretty positive. Get it out to your farmand get a free HTS Ag Hitch Pin, by getting ahold of us at 800-741-3305 online at HTSAg.com and follow us for updates on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram @HTSAg

On this episode of The Modern Data Experience, we're joined by Landon C. Van Dyke, Senior Technology Advisor for the Office of Management, Strategy, and Solutions for the U.S. Department of State. Landon has been instrumental in launching new initiatives across the department that help to improve the efficiency of their operations, whether political or financial. Listen in to hear more about the kinds of innovation the State Department is looking towards next, and what challenges they encounter when trying to ensure the best outcomes. 

Monetize Your Content Roy Taylor, Ryff Inc.   – The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 923 Roy Taylor Roy Taylor has been Founder and CEO of Ryff Inc. since the company was formed in June 2018. Ryff is the inventor & world leader in VPP (Virtual Product Placement) which delivers real-time, digital dynamic brand integration for sport, social media, film, and television.  Until December 2021 he was also a Director for the Board of BAFTA (British Academy of Film & Television Arts) North America. Chairman Emeritus to the Infinity Film Festival he is also Technology Advisor to three film schools, the Beijing Film Academy, Dodge Chapman and The Johnny Carson Center of Emerging Arts. Previously he was Corporate Vice President and Worldwide Head of AMD Entertainment Studios based out of Hollywood, Los Angeles. Before that Mr. Taylor ran worldwide channel sales at Advanced Micro Devices responsible for $2 Billion annual revenue. He worked at AMD from January 7, 2013.  Prior to AMD Mr. Taylor served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Display Devices Division at MasterImage 3D, where he was responsible for autostereoscopic (glass-free) 3D business. From 1998 to 2010, Mr. Taylor served as Executive Vice President NVIDIA, first as a founder of NVIDIA Europe and later internationally after a transfer to NVIDIA headquarters in Santa Clara in 2005. Mr. Taylor is principally known for the invention of the ecosystem business model whilst at NVIDIA and for his roles in supporting the video game industry. Mr. Taylor is synonymous with his ‘The Way Its Meant To Be Played' campaign and the catch phrase ‘Can it play Crysis?'. More recently he has been a vocal advocate for the metaverse including VR, AR and AI. In his role as head of AMD Studios Mr. Taylor was Executive Producer of VRLA, the worlds largest VR event and during this time he picked up Executive Producer credits for three VR productions and the India's most successful film, Baahubali.   Listen to this informative Sharkpreneur episode with Roy Taylor about monetizing your content. Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show: - How Ryff delivers perfection that is rooted in authenticity. - Why you don't want to sell more to spend more, you want customer activation. - How it's important to find the content that resonates with your customers. - Why all decisions are based in emotion. - How you should direct your content to the people buying your products.   Connect with Roy: Guest Contact Info Twitter @ryff_co Instagram @ryffco LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/ryff   Links Mentioned: ryff.com   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#hedera #hederahashgraph #decentralized #web3 #toctw Saiprasad Raut is the Crypto Strategist for Worldpay FIS. he is an expert in Emerging Businesses, Enterprise Architecture, Product Management & Web 3.0 he is currently the Co-Chair Technical Steering & Product Committee at Hedera Hashgraph Hedera is a decentralized, open-source, proof-of-stake public ledger that utilizes the leaderless, asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerance (aBFT) hashgraph consensus algorithm. It is governed by a collusion-resistant, decentralized council of leading enterprises, universities, and web3 projects from around the world. Hedera's performance-optimized Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) smart contracts, along with its easy-to-use native tokenization and consensus service APIs, enable developers to create real-time web3 applications and ecosystems that will drive the future of the internet. Hedera is built differently from other blockchains. It has high throughput with fast finality; low, predictable fees; fair transaction ordering with consensus timestamps; and a robust codebase that ensures scalability and reliability at every layer of its network infrastructure. https://in.linkedin.com/in/saiprasad-raut-857a154 https://twitter.com/saiprasadraut https://hedera.com

Audree Thurman said about Sibsforever and it's purpose and her intention to start it, also said about her work and answered some of my questions. More info- https://www.SmartCherrysThoughts.com

When it comes to designing and engineering products, the decision to make or buy certain components of that product can have a drastic effect on the lifecycle, cost, and performance of said product. In this episode, we discuss the important dynamics around what should considered when deciding between making a product in-house or outsourcing that production and the various strategies companies should deploy when engaging in those conversations.     Guests: Anatoli Lukkarinen, Manager and Technology Advisor for Avnet's Embedded Computing Division Brian Higgins, Partner and Principal Advisor at KPMG

Welcome to our podcast series, Afterhours, on Contingent Workforce Radio. In this week's episode, Utmost's VP of Marketing, Neha Goel, sits down with Chris Dwyer, SVP of Research at Ardent Partners and Managing Director of the Future of Work Exchange, to dive deep into the 2022 VMS Technology Advisor report. Neha and Chris discuss the history of the report, the methodology used and as well as some key findings from the report. ----- Find us on LinkedIn and read our latest blogs!

Podcast: Control System Cyber Security Association International: (CS)²AIEpisode: 47: From Academia to CyberSecurity ExecutivePub date: 2022-08-23We have another interesting episode in our series of interviews with cybersecurity leaders and practitioners in the industrial controls systems or operating technology space.Derek Harp is excited to have Ron Indeck, the CEO of Q-Net Security, and a Director, Founder, and Technology Advisor to Exegy and VelociData joining him on the show. Ron grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and got his degrees from the University of Minnesota. He is an inventor (he holds more than 100 patents), a distinguished professor at Washington University, a fellow at IEEE and several other professional organizations, an expert in all things magnetic, a serial entrepreneur, a scuba diver, and a father. In this episode of the (CS)²AI Podcast, Ron discusses his career journey and shares his unique perspective on cybersecurity. He also offers some gold nuggets of career advice and gives insight into upcoming trends in the cybersecurity space.You won't want to miss this episode if you are looking for career inspiration or are interested in moving from the academic space into the world of cybersecurity. Stay tuned for more!Show highlights:Ron discusses his career path and his motivation for becoming an entrepreneur.Ron's approach to his work at Washington University.Why did he transition across various engineering disciplines before ending up in research and patents?Ron's introduction to security came early on in his career while working with people from the FBI.How security for industrial control systems evolved throughout Ron's career.How Ron built his patent portfolio.Ron's approach to solving the generational cybersecurity problem.What made Ron decide to leave his successful academic career to become an entrepreneur?Exciting and rewarding possibilities exist for academics in the industrial technology space.How can you get into tech transfer?Ron talks about his work at the Airforce Research Laboratory.How to recognize an opportunity.Teamwork and cooperation are vital for success.Ron defines the term hardsec and compares it with a software approach to security solutions for the future.Why does Ron believe that cybersecurity is an issue of human rights?You can create exciting and rewarding career opportunities in cybersecurity.Bio:Ronald S. Indeck, Ph.D., received degrees from the University of Minnesota. He is CEO of Q-Net Security and a Director, Founder, and Technology Advisor to Exegy and VelociData. He was a National Science Foundation Research Fellow at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. From 1988 to 2009 he was in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Washington University where he was the Das Family Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Security Technologies.He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed technical papers and been awarded more than a hundred patents including MagnePrint. He has received many awards including the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award from President Bush, the Missouri Bar Association Inventor of the Year, the IBM Faculty Development Award, the Washington University Distinguished Faculty Award, and the IEEE Centennial Key to the Future Award, and the IEEE Young Professional Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the American Physical Society, and many other professional organizations. He has served on many local committees and group activities, was on the board of the FBI InfraGard, chaired sessions, and served at several international conferences including General Chairman for International Magnetics Conference, was an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, President of the IEEE Magnetics Society, and IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer. Specialties: Indeck is experienced in cybersecurity, heterogeneous computing, data mining in massive databases, magnetic measurements and modeling, physical security and authentication, recording physics, and magnetic devices.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Derek Harp, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

We have another interesting episode in our series of interviews with cybersecurity leaders and practitioners in the industrial controls systems or operating technology space. Derek Harp is excited to have Ron Indeck, the CEO of Q-Net Security, and a Director, Founder, and Technology Advisor to Exegy and VelociData joining him on the show.  Ron grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and got his degrees from the University of Minnesota. He is an inventor (he holds more than 100 patents), a distinguished professor at Washington University, a fellow at IEEE and several other professional organizations, an expert in all things magnetic, a serial entrepreneur, a scuba diver, and a father.  In this episode of the (CS)²AI Podcast, Ron discusses his career journey and shares his unique perspective on cybersecurity. He also offers some gold nuggets of career advice and gives insight into upcoming trends in the cybersecurity space. You won't want to miss this episode if you are looking for career inspiration or are interested in moving from the academic space into the world of cybersecurity. Stay tuned for more! Show highlights: Ron discusses his career path and his motivation for becoming an entrepreneur. Ron's approach to his work at Washington University. Why did he transition across various engineering disciplines before ending up in research and patents? Ron's introduction to security came early on in his career while working with people from the FBI. How security for industrial control systems evolved throughout Ron's career. How Ron built his patent portfolio. Ron's approach to solving the generational cybersecurity problem. What made Ron decide to leave his successful academic career to become an entrepreneur? Exciting and rewarding possibilities exist for academics in the industrial technology space. How can you get into tech transfer? Ron talks about his work at the Airforce Research Laboratory. How to recognize an opportunity. Teamwork and cooperation are vital for success. Ron defines the term hardsec and compares it with a software approach to security solutions for the future. Why does Ron believe that cybersecurity is an issue of human rights? You can create exciting and rewarding career opportunities in cybersecurity. Bio: Ronald S. Indeck, Ph.D., received degrees from the University of Minnesota. He is CEO of Q-Net Security and a Director, Founder, and Technology Advisor to Exegy and VelociData.  He was a National Science Foundation Research Fellow at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. From 1988 to 2009 he was in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Washington University where he was the Das Family Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Security Technologies. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed technical papers and been awarded more than a hundred patents including MagnePrint. He has received many awards including the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award from President Bush, the Missouri Bar Association Inventor of the Year, the IBM Faculty Development Award, the Washington University Distinguished Faculty Award, and the IEEE Centennial Key to the Future Award, and the IEEE Young Professional Award.  He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the American Physical Society, and many other professional organizations. He has served on many local committees and group activities, was on the board of the FBI InfraGard, chaired sessions, and served at several international conferences including General Chairman for International Magnetics Conference, was an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, President of the IEEE Magnetics Society, and IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer.  Specialties: Indeck is experienced in cybersecurity, heterogeneous computing, data mining in massive databases, magnetic measurements and modeling, physical security and authentication, recording physics, and magnetic devices. Mentioned in this...

 Blockify Inc, an emerging blockchain technology company, is pleased to announce the completion of a $2.2M seed round. Since 2021, Blockify has been developing an interface that unlocks the world of Web3 and DeFi for anyone, regardless of crypto knowledge or experience. Core features include Web3 social interaction, an intuitive interface for users to track and manage their portfolio, create-to-earn and surf-to-earn user utility.Blockify will be rolling out a Web3 advertising platform (Blok Ads) in Q2 2023 that connects brands & consumers through crypto rewards. Blockify will enable advertisers to offer consumers crypto rewards for their data and engagement. Blok Ads will empower users to own their data and share in the value it creates while enabling advertisers to ask permission, motivate action and increase ROI. “The next generation of the internet will be consumer-led and feature the tokenization of data and other personal assets. In Web3, users– not big centralized platforms– have control over their data and take part in the platforms upside.” - Diego Czul, Technology Advisor, Blockify. Blockify saw an opportunity to build a user-friendly interface for the rapidly expanding ecosystem of Web3 blockchain-based products and services. Decentralized finance now has over $40B in total value locked and encompasses everything from major cryptocurrencies like Ethereum to other forms of programmable money, crypto loans, social tokens, and NFTs. Unlike popular crypto exchanges and trading apps, Blockify does not track user data or have custody of its users' funds. Blockify is 100% non-custodial, this agile approach sets the stage for tremendous growth and adoption. With new funds secured, Blockify will accelerate its product launch, bring a host of new features to its much-anticipated platform and recruit top talent to its distributed team.Blockify will enable non-technical users to acquire, track and manage assets on many leading DeFi protocols. Blockify is building an integrated experience that overcomes the fragmentation, complexity and lack of trust in decentralized products that have, to date, held back the adoption of Defi and Web3. “Information is fragmented, information is not verifiable, communities and traders do not currently have an information hub to rely on. There are a bunch of fake accounts and other means of fraudulent news dissemination devices in the market today. Blockify intends to be the safe haven for projects and communities to interact in a verified manner” - Diego Czul, Technology Advisor, Blockify. The closing of this seed round is an important milestone for Blockify. Together with the DeFi & Web3 communities, Blockify is designing an open economy from the ground up and today Blockify went one step further. About BlockifyBlockify is a project that enables anyone, anywhere in the world to access a suite of new products and services built on the backbone of decentralized finance (DeFi) and Web3. By combining simple, user-centered design with a powerful tech stack that aggregates data and information from our web3 verification portal, Blockify offers users a single point of entry for managing their digital assets and interacting with Web3. Blockify was founded in 2021 with

Identity, Family, and Protecting the Nation.In this episode of The Outspoken Podcast, host Shana Cosgrove talks to Vimesh Patel, Chief Technology Advisor at World Wide Technology and Board of Directors Member at INSA. Vimesh and Shana discuss how they first met and what she learned from him. Vimesh details his early experience with the NSA and how he was able to secure paternity leave for the birth of each of his 3 children. Vimesh also explains how he found meaning during his career journey, realizing that service to his country gave the work that he was doing a deeper meaning. Finally, Vimesh tells us what he reads to stay informed and how his extroversion is not an endless resource. QUOTES “So many people say, ‘People are natural leaders or they're just really good at what they do.' And I say, ‘you can train yourself in anything.' I think it's learning and practicing.” - Vimesh Patel [06:18] “At 16, they're putting me on a polygraph and asking me if I've ever revealed classified information, not that I ever knew any classified information at the age of 16. And somehow I got cleared right, and I walked into the world of the intelligence community.” - Vimesh Patel [08:06]  “And I think it was something towards the end of my career that I was always conscious of - well now I'm in that senior seat right, and people are looking at me. What do I do to make it so that people are comfortable? So that we have more diversity and that people don't feel like they can't advance in the government.” - Vimesh Patel [17:02]   TIMESTAMPS  [00:04] Intro [01:31] Meeting Vimesh [05:07] Vimesh's Body Language Talk [06:45] Beginning a Career with The NSA [08:23] Vimesh's Parents [09:24] Choosing Electrical Engineering [10:28] How Vimesh Became a Senior Relatively Quickly [11:00] Advice on Finding a Mentor [13:25] Vimesh's Two Master Degrees [15:22] How Vimesh Met his Wife [16:06] Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion [23:17] Vimesh's Time at The National Counterterrorism Center [26:43] Vimesh's Location When 9/11 Occurred [28:09] After NCTC and Vimesh's Paternity Leave [31:33] Balance Within Marriage [32:49] Leaving The NSA [36:40] Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) [40:35] Vimesh's Advice to Young People [42:02] What Vimesh is Reading [43:20] Vimesh's Surprising Fact [45:20] Outro     RESOURCES https://www.moogsoft.com/resources/aiops/guide/everything-aiops/ (AIOps) https://www.nsa.gov/ (National Security Agency (NSA)) https://www.howardcountymd.gov/ (Howard County) https://www.wsscwater.com/ (Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC Water)) https://www.umd.edu/ (University of Maryland) https://www.jhu.edu/ (The Johns Hopkins University) https://www.gwu.edu/ (The George Washington University) https://dei.extension.org/ (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)) https://www.dni.gov/index.php/nctc-home (The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)) https://www.dni.gov/index.php/careers/joint-duty (Joint Duty Opportunities) https://www.dni.gov/ (Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI)) https://9-11commission.gov/report/ (9/11 Commission Report) https://www.opm.gov/about-us/our-people-organization/support-functions/office-of-strategy-and-innovation/#:~:text=The%20Office%20of%20Strategy%20and,Group%20and%20Survey%20Analysis%20Group. (The Office of Strategy and Innovation (OSI)) https://www.optiv.com/ (Optiv Security, Inc.) https://www.insaonline.org/event/8a-national-security-showcase/ (8(a) National Security Showcase) https://hbr.org/ (Harvard Business Review)   RELEVANT LINKS https://www.linkedin.com/in/vimeshpatel-dc/ (Vimesh Patel) on LinkedIn https://www.wwt.com/ (World Wide Technology) https://www.insaonline.org/ (Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA)) https://nylatechnologysolutions.com/ (Nyla Technology Solutions) I'd love to hear from you -- your feedback is important to me and I read all of it. If you...

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In today's episode of That Vet Life Podcast, Dr. Moriah interviews Dr. Marie Bucko, veterinarian and the Chief of Staff for the U.S. Chief Veterinary Officer at USDA in Washington D.C. Marie has over a decade of experience working in food and agriculture issues and working at the intersection of animal health, public health, and communicating science. Before qualifying as a veterinarian, Meria worked as a Science Policy Analyst at the US Food and Drug Administration's Foods and Veterinary Medicine Program. It wasn't until 2021, that Maria gained her Doctor in veterinary medicine from the University of Wisconsin-Madison after gaining her Bachelor's of Science in Animal Science and Nutrition from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville in 2012, and her Masters in Science in Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine from Michigan State University in 2015. As a veterinary student, Dr. Marie was elected as the student president of the American Veterinary Medical Association, before graduating and working as a Science and Technology Advisor. In her current role, Dr. Marie works as the Chief of Staff for the U.S. Chief Veterinary Officer at USDA in Washington D.C. In this episode, Dr. Marie openly recalls her journey into veterinary medicine and how it differed to most, she also talks about the effects the global pandemic had on her final year of veterinary school, and how there should be a push for alternative opportunities for veterinarians.

Sami is an Assistant Professor in the School of Sustainable Energy Engineering at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. His research focus currently is improving carbon capture technology. In this conversation, Aaron and Sami discuss climate change, sustainable energy, CO2, how Mr. Khan became interested in the topic and the role chemical engineers can play. He leads the Engineered Interfaces for Sustainable Energy (EISEn) group, studying creative ways to enhance the performance and longevity of sustainable energy systems. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in energy engineering at SFU, and his multidisciplinary research group is particularly interested in clean energy solutions in remote Canadian communities.Sami was born in Pune, India and immigrated to Canada. A chemical engineer by training from the University of Toronto, Sami's interest in science and policy piqued when he interned at Ontario Power Generation, reviewing compliance to nuclear safety codes and standards as part of the Darlington Nuclear Station refurbishment project. Sami's motivation to use his engineering knowledge to impact policy making subsequently led him to pursue a Masters' degree in Technology and Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In his Masters' thesis, Sami studied the market for rare-earth metals with applications in hydropower systems. He received the Hydro Research Foundation Award from the US Department of Energy, and was recognized as the Young Researcher of the Year at the World Hydropower Congress in Beijing, China in 2015. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in June 2020. Sami has previously worked in the rare-earth mining industry in Canada, and was a Science and Technology Advisor to the Chief Scientist of Natural Resources Canada. He has taught high school and university students in South Korea, Kazakhstan and Mexico, and has volunteered in Indonesia through the GiveLight Foundation, supported by the Priscilla King Gray Public Service Fellowship from MIT. He is an avid biker, sailor, foodie and geography geek, and yearns to sail around the world one day. He is an uncle to four nieces and is an alumni mentor at both his alma maters. Bigger Than Me Podcast Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/BIGGERTHANMEPODCAST Bigger Than Me Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/biggerthanmepodcast/ Bigger Than Me LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bigger-than-me-podcast/?viewAsMember=true SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.patreon.com/biggerthanmepodcast

We hear a health technology advisor's perspective on healthcare from Nicole Coustier on this episode of the Perspectives on Healthcare Podcast with Rob Oliver. A member of Generation X, Nicole joins the show from San Francisco, California. Nicole specializes in finding common ground for the various stakeholders in the healthcare community. Here are 3 things that stood out as Nicole Coustier shared a health technology advisor's perspective on healthcare: · A health technology advisor assists the technical community to understand how the healthcare system works and how their proposed concept might fit · The right care, for the right patient, at the right time are the key elements to providing quality healthcare · The stakeholders in the healthcare system are more than just the medical providers and their patients. It includes families, friends, support systems, communities and more! You can find out more about Nicole Coustier through her website and social media links: Website: https://nicolecoustier.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ncoustier LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolecoustier To connect with the show on social media use the links below: Twitter: http://twitter.com/yourkeynoter Facebook: http://facebook.com/yourkeynoter Instagram: http://instagram.com/yourkeynoter LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/company/yourkeynoter YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9ub8CjRQAmXsOEA4s9AYbw We would love to hear from you. Visit the “Contact Us” form: https://www.perspectivesonhealthcare.com/contact/ Look around the website for more Perspectives on Healthcare. Disclaimer: All opinions expressed by guests on the Perspectives on Healthcare Podcast are solely the opinion of the guest. They are not to be misconstrued as medical diagnoses or medical advice. Please consult with a licensed medical professional before attempting any of the treatments suggested.

We hear a health technology advisor's perspective on healthcare from Nicole Coustier on this episode of the Perspectives on Healthcare Podcast with Rob Oliver. A member of Generation X, Nicole joins the show from San Francisco, California. Nicole specializes in finding common ground for the various stakeholders in the healthcare community. Here are 3 things that stood out as Nicole Coustier shared a health technology advisor's perspective on healthcare: · A health technology advisor assists the technical community to understand how the healthcare system works and how their proposed concept might fit · The right care, for the right patient, at the right time are the key elements to providing quality healthcare · The stakeholders in the healthcare system are more than just the medical providers and their patients. It includes families, friends, support systems, communities and more! You can find out more about Nicole Coustier through her website and social media links: Website: https://nicolecoustier.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ncoustier LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolecoustier To connect with the show on social media use the links below: Twitter: http://twitter.com/yourkeynoter Facebook: http://facebook.com/yourkeynoter Instagram: http://instagram.com/yourkeynoter LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/company/yourkeynoter YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9ub8CjRQAmXsOEA4s9AYbw We would love to hear from you. Visit the “Contact Us” form: https://www.perspectivesonhealthcare.com/contact/ Look around the website for more Perspectives on Healthcare. Disclaimer: All opinions expressed by guests on the Perspectives on Healthcare Podcast are solely the opinion of the guest. They are not to be misconstrued as medical diagnoses or medical advice. Please consult with a licensed medical professional before attempting any of the treatments suggested.

Camilo Blanco, Technology Advisor, Hipólito García, Director de SAAS Operations e Ignacio Torres, CEO de 4S Real Estate, nos hablan sobre la importancia de la tecnología en la evolución de la industria inmobiliaria.

Louise Harris: Hello and welcome to the Government Digital Service Podcast. My name is Louise Harris and I head up the Creative and Channels Team at GDS. In this episode, we're talking about our wonderful technologists. The Site Reliability Engineers, Technical Architects and Developers who work in multidisciplinary teams to engineer solutions to our complex architectural needs, evolve our infrastructure and tooling to keep us resilient and online, and develop digital products and services used by millions of people across the UK, and that are emulated by governments around the world.    Technologists are a mainstay of how we help government transform and tackle complexity for users. Think about GOV.UK: it's actually 50 front and back end applications that are independently hosted and maintained that enable us to host over a million pages, deal with millions of visits a day and fend off regular Denial-of-Service attacks. But thanks to our technologists, all our end users see is a single site they can access day and night to get the information they need from government.    Tackling that kind of complexity is not always easy, but it's definitely worthwhile. And it's what GDS is here to do. Today I'm delighted to be joined by Himal Mandalia and Louise Ryan to talk about the important role GDS technologists play. Louise, Himal, why don't you introduce yourselves to our listeners and tell us a bit about your roles.   Louise Ryan:  Hello, I'm Louise Ryan, I'm the Lead Technical Architect and Head of Technology in Government as a Platform. I joined GDS just under 4 years ago and I joined us from the private sector where I worked in a digital agency as a Technical Architect.   Himal Mandalia:  And I'm Himal, I'm Head of Technology for GOV.UK, and I joined about 5 months ago, and I've been working in digital circles for about 6 years as a contractor in several roles, including Developer, Technical Architect and a Technology Advisor.   Louise Harris:  So, Louise, it sounds like we've been lucky enough to have you at GDS for a couple of years now, and Himal, we've recently lured you over from another part of government. What is it that appeals to you both about working at GDS?   Louise Ryan:  Oh wow. Such, such a big question. There's so much to like about GDS and working in digital in government in general, really. I always like refer people to the GOV.UK Design Principles and the Service Standard. So if you take a look at that, it's all about doing things the right way, about doing things for everybody, having a multidisciplinary team focussing on what the actual problems are, not solutionising. Building services, not just websites, so we continuously improve things. All sorts of that stuff, but also the tech we use is really cool as well. So it's, it's pretty modern stuff: lots of Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Delivery and lots of automated testing. Yeah, I mean, I could go on for a long, long time, but this is a, you know I think it's a brilliant place to work and I love it.   Louise Harris:  And Louise, just, just for our listeners who are maybe less familiar with Government as a Platform, or what we call GaaP, can you just run us through a bit what it's all about?   Louise Ryan:  So Government as a Platform [GaaP], is a suite of digital services designed to meet common needs which can be quickly integrated into-into other service teams services. This helps reduce duplication, variation and it-it enables other digital teams to build their digital solutions much quicker, much faster, much more efficiently.   In terms of what the various services do, Notify is, is an extremely busy service. It's used by, I think around 4,700 other services. That's around 1000 organisations across the public sector using it. So it's scaling at around 120 new services joining every month. So that is, that's pretty big. So in, in, in terms of the last year, they've seen a-a 25 fold increase in volume of messages. And so that was a massive scaling challenge for the team that they, they just really smashed out the park. They're mostly hosted on the PaaS, which is really cool, and it's kind of asynchronous architecture so there's a lot of queues helping us process messages. You know it enables us to scale and enables us to retry when things break. So it's,it's good architecture.    [GOV.UK] Pay take payments, take card payments for your digital services. It also, you can also use Apple Pay and Google Pay to pay for stuff. I think one of the main selling points of Pay is how much we care and test about the, the journey, the paying experience for people who use assistive technologies. So we really put a lot of effort into making sure it works really well for everybody. That's built mostly on Fargate, and, and uses some you know, it's got to be PCI [Payment Card Industry] compliant, so it's a, it's a complex, necessarily complex architecture. It scales really well and it's been used by, I think, over 550 large services now, and it's processed over a billion pounds.   [GOV.UK] Platform as a Service: you host your, you can use Platform as a Service to host your web apps in the cloud without relying on, without worrying about the infrastructure underneath. So you can build your app in Python, Ruby or Rust or pop it in a container and then push it up to PaaS. And there you go, you've got a running app in the cloud. Also provides a bunch of backend services you can use. So backend services means databases like PostgreSQL, things like ElasticSearch or queue services like simple queue service from AWS. That's, that's the scale of this is, is, is very impressive. It's being used by just over 121 organisations and between the two regions in London and Ireland that it's hosted in, it's hosts, it's running around 2,800 apps at the moment. And they're processing an amazing amount of incoming requests: so we've got an average of around 300 requests per second coming through those pipes. So that's quite cool.   And then we've got the Design System and the Prototype Kit Team. The Design System look after GOV.UK frontend, which is that set of styles, patterns and components that other teams use to build their frontend. What's really important about those patterns and components is that they've been researched extensively and tested extensively across a vast array of digital devices and operating systems and with real people and with assistive devices. So we can be sure that they're, you know they're, they're working. So obviously we do that once so service teams around the country don't have to keep doing that work. It really is an open source project as well, the Design System. It actively seeks contributions from the design and frontend communities a-across, across government. And that's, that's really cool. And it's yeah, it's used quite. It's, GitHub tells me it's, it's in use by over 2,600 other repositories.   Louise Harris:  That must be so cool to be involved in work that's being forked off, and used in so many other contexts. Is it safe to say that there's some stuff that you can get done at GDS that maybe you can't get done elsewhere?   Louise Ryan:  Yeah, I think it is. We are at the centre of government, being part Cabinet Office. If we're not going to do it in the centre, then it's not just gonna magically happen elsewhere in government. Those tools exist so other service teams can-can really benefit from having things done once really well in the centre so they don't have to keep reinventing that wheel. They can-they can just get started really quickly and benefit from all that work that we've done really well just once.    Louise Harris:   And it's not, it's not just teams kind of in and around the UK government that are getting to benefit from that approach either right? Some of our code has also been forked by international governments to do their own thing too. What do you think are some of the sort of GDS led technology success stories out there?    Louise Ryan:  Oh, wow. Yeah. So there's lots of examples of this happening. So take, for example, Notify. That's been forked and used by the Canadian government and the Australian government to create their own notification platforms. And, you know, t-t-that doesn't just-just happen and then stop. We continue to collaborate with those teams working on this platforms so we can all learn from each other. And it's not just about the tech either - that's really important thing. So obviously Notify have developed a whole bunch of operational practices and services around the service itself. So we share, we share those as well and you know, help people figure out what works, what doesn't.   And it's not just Notify. So PaaS. PaaS works with, that's Platform as a Service, they work with their equivalents in-in Australia and, and the US government to share best practice. And then you've got the wonderful Design System that's been forked by a lot of countries. And not just other countries, but other authorities within-within the UK. So, for example, my own council, Wiltshire Council, they forked the Design System and used it to build their own website. But in terms of other countries. I think it's used in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and the Netherlands. So, yeah, massive, massive success stories of-of re-use of our, of our hard work.   Louise Harris:  Wow, so lots to be proud of. And Himal, I guess same question to you - what is it that drew you to GDS?   Himal Mandalia: I think GDS is sort of interestingly positioned right at the centre and, and being sort of highly visible, like it can be an exemplar of what good, sort of long live teams, services looks like. So all of the things that are articulated in the Service Standard, in the Technology Code of Practice, you know, we-we work to those ourselves since we-since we developed them. But I think what we've quite clearly put out very recently in the GDS strategy for the next 3 years, the core 5 missions, particularly the ones around GDS being the place, essentially the shop that builds and runs the common components and platforms that the rest of government build services on top of. I think that is now clearer, clearer than it's ever been. And you know there's something that, for me anyway, when I was thinking about a bit of a career change last year, drew me and I thought: this is a really interesting time to come in and join. There's a-there's a real sort of transformation of energy in the air again.    Louise Harris:  So it's great for our teams to know that their work is having an impact not just here in the UK and for our users, but also around the world as well. And Himal, like you say to be part of that, what did you call it, transformation buzz? I think that kind of flies in the face of the idea that jobs in the civil service are sort of slow or old school right?   Do-do you think there are other misconceptions about what a technology job in government might be like, versus what it's actually like at GDS day to day?   Himal Mandalia:  I think what's interesting here is, you know we're about a decade into a transformation journey that's bringing in the sort of technology practices around Continuous Delivery, being Agile, having autonomous self organising teams and a lot of the-the technology driven processes that surround that in the ways of working. And I think it's easy for us to lose sight of the uneven distribution and maturity of this across government. So I think it's, I think it's interesting because government can't be seen as a, as a monolithic thing. I think if you're outside and you're thinking of you know, if you're, if you're a Developer or a Reliability Engineer or a Technical Architect and you think, you know you want to work in government, you want to work in the public sector - and that could be local authorities as well of course - it is, it is a very unevenly distributed landscape of maturity. I mean, I would say we're pretty much at the, at the higher end of the maturity curve at GDS here, of course, because what we've been doing for the last decade. And I think what's exciting for me as someone that's worn many hats and played different roles in this sort of journey is: it's, it-it can be, it can be rewarding to work somewhere where a lot of the basic capabilities, the fundamental enablers are already in place and you can deliver value and work with teams. If you consider GDS, then you would find something that's much more a-akin to a sort of modern sort of conventional tech company.   Louise Harris:  I think that digital maturity curve point is such a good one. Because yeah, with almost 10 years under our belt GDS has definitely been through a lot that foundational and capability building stuff that some other organisations might still be grappling with, and I think that gives us a kind of view on what their pain points are so we can shape products and platforms that are gonna meet their needs at different parts of the curve.   And I think that actually leads us quite nicely to the next thing that I wanted to chat to you both about.    So our regular listeners will know that earlier in the year, we launched our new strategy and centred it around 5 key missions. If you missed it, check out our May episode of the Podcast where you can hear our Chief Exec, Tom Read, talk more about that.    But in essence I suppose, over the next few years, our focus boils down to this: helping to create services that just work for the user. So no matter how complex the underlying systems are or how much these people know about government, we're going to make services that just work.    So mission 4 in our strategy that's looking at how we can make sort of effortless for departments and agencies to digitise their services by looking at centrally-developed common components.    Louise, maybe you can tell us a bit about what's happening in that area?   Louise Ryan:  I mean to sum it up, you know, we've got a bunch of really cool services that are already providing value. So as a piece of work, that's ongoing to just make sure they keep delivering value and can scale with the increasing usage that they experience.   We're also you know, obviously building on top of that and looking what else we can do to meet user needs. One exciting part of that is the work we're doing in the collecting information from users team. So that team is well, I think it sums ups, sums up its work. It's...you know, we want every single form that's published on GOV.UK to be accessible. That's huge. A lot of the forms on GOV.UK at the moment are published in PDF or, or other document formats. They present challenges, especially to-to users who, who need to use assistive technologies such as screen readers or magnifiers. And actually completing PDF online is-is no easy task either. It's pretty difficult. Whereas completing an online form is a much better user experience and hopefully much more accessible. So it's, that is a, that is a massive problem space, and a really interesting one. And we're just entering an Alpha-Alpha phase with that team. So it's, yeah, so it's very exciting challenge we presented with ourselves in, in GaaP.   Louise Harris:  And I don't think we can really kind of understate the scale of that challenge, because I think everybody around GDS we treat PDF's a little bit like our, a 4 letter word. But the team blogged recently and I think equated that if, without doing this work, if we were just relying on the existing kind of form building systems that were out there, it would take government about 70 years just to convert the PDF's that already live on GOV.UK, which are obviously growing, if not every day, then certainly most weeks. So super important work. Was there anything that came out of the discovery that-that surprised you folks?   Louise Ryan:  I think-I think you've, you've hit the nail on the head. It's the scale of the challenge. And it certainly surprised me. But when you, when you think about it, it's, it's not that surprising, actually, because there's teams right around government that don't have the digital capability to do anything else. This is, you know PDF's and other, other document formats are the tool they have, so that's the tool they, they have to use. So, again, GaaP is uniquely placed in the centre of government to do something about that. And that's, that's hopefully what we'll be able to do in the coming years.   Louise Harris:  So it sounds like through Government as a Platform right now, we are already kind of solving common problems at scale. But, but what about - and sorry to make you solutionise on the fly here Louise, because I know that everything we do is evidence based and user led - where do you see the next, beyond the collecting information from users work, do you see any themes emerging about where that next common problem is that GDS might want to solve?   Louise Ryan:  Yeah, so we are doing some research on this, so, but I don't want to pre-empt that, but I'm, I can, you know, there's, there's stuff we already know that, that service teams have to just keep doing over and over again. There's you know, there's thin--complex problems that don't seem complex until you really dig into them. So things like a postcode lookup. Service teams have to keep doing that, is-is there a way we can, we can provide a solution for that in the centre?   Louise Harris:  And that's all such important stuff right if we, if we want to deliver the transformation at the scale that we, we all want to see.   One of our other central focuses is going to be this idea of joining up services so they solve whole user problems even if that means spanning multiple departments. Himal, I guess - as the platform for government services - GOV.UK is going to be pretty fundamental to how we get that done right?   Himal Mandalia:  Yes, so it's interesting because people can get a little bit, a little bit confused about what we mean when we say GOV.UK. So if we think about it as sort of layers of the onion: the sort of widest layer you have, what is known as the GOV.UK proposition. So that, as a user, you know, you go somewhere, you see a website, you see something that's branded with the crown and the stylings around that: that's a GOV.UK site. But it could very easily be a transactional service you interact with for--to do ev-everything from paying your taxes to a prison visit to renew your driving licence. And those are all on the GOV.UK proposition. So they feel like a single website as you move across them. And we have mechanisms like the Service Standard. If you work to that, that means that you're going to end up with a pretty joined up journey.   But for me, the-the-the layer of GOV.UK that I work on and the technology I'm responsible for, that's the GOV.UK content. That's-that's the main page that you come to when you go to www.GOV.UK. That is a large platform with hundreds of thousands of pages of content that we-we hold and a set of tools that we run for thousands of users across government to create, to offer that content, to edit it, to manage it, including our internal content teams here. And we also run technology, which, of course, delivers all those pages so they-re, they're available globally.   Louise Harris:  And right now, a lot of that content is quite static right? Because we need to publish it and serve it quickly and then hold it in the cache and serve it up again over and over.   Himal Mandalia:  Yeah, exactly. GOV.UK delivers a lot of content right now, but it's usually...it's relatively static, it's relatively flat content, it's pages. And one of the things that we're exploring now is if you have an account, if we, based on consent, if we know some things about you - your approximate location or other attributes we have - we may be able to tailor that content. We may be able to personalise it, to put content in front of you that's relevant to what you're doing. Maybe even be proactive, send you personalised notifications with of course, a full consent model and opt in and easy opt out around that.    But in order to do that, in order to personalise the content or even have content chunked up so it can be contextual, so a different snippet is mixed in based on a tag or some piece of data that we're using to construct that, that, all of that will require a fundamental re-architecting of GOV.UK's applications. So the front end applications need to change dramatically in order to stitch together that content in real time. The way that content is stored, the way it's structured, the schemas that are used to determine how that content is broken down into small snippets, how it's tagged, the taxonomy - all of that needs a rethink and redesign. And the publishing tools themselves, the tools that are used by the service essentially that is used by the content creators, that experience they have in not only creating content, but the taxonomy they're applying to it, how they're tagging it - all of that needs a rethink and a redes-redesign as well.   So that sounds huge and it is. But it's not a sort of big bang, all at once programme of work. This is an incremental and iterative stream of work, like, like how we do everything, which is going to, which is going to be done bit by bit. The interesting challenges that we are talking about rebuilding the ship while there are people in it bit by bit. And this is very much that Ship of Theseus metaphor right? We're replacing the planks, and when we're done, it's going to be a very different looking ship. It's going to be a ship that does very different things. But we're not even completely clear exactly what it looks like, but if we really extend the metaphor, we do have a good idea of where we're going.   Louise Harris:  And that personalisation agenda that you talked about there Himal, it sounds to me like it's going to ma-make [laughs] the site work a lot harder. I mean, we're already processing thousands and thousands of kind of transactional services, but this sounds like a real shift. You talked about the GOV.UK Account functionality as well, which obviously we piloted last year and had, I think, about 50,000 people sign up for that as part of the Brexit Checker, Brexit Transition Checker. We've obviously been iterating that software ever since. Can you tell us a little bit about where we're at now with Accounts?   Himal Mandalia:  So what we've done to test the hypothesis with the Brexit Transition Checker and the-the prototype account functionality, which which has been amazing, which has been an amazing learning experience because we have had, as you, as you mentioned there, 50,000 people sign up, but because we're working off of an architecture and an infrastructure set up that doesn't support this yet, we have done those as, as a separate applications, which we've used, we've hosted in, in Platform as a Service, in PaaS actually, one of the products Louise mentioned and is responsible for which is, which is great, just to be able to use our own tools for things like this.    But in order to have that as part of GOV.UK's core architecture, to support more of that personalisation, that's what we do need to have that re-think, that re-design and that re-architecting of all of our frontend apps and our publishing tools and the content platform.   So I'm currently working on the future platform services and architecture strategy for GOV.UK. So all of the things I've just mentioned there are going to be sort of written up in plain language around what we're thinking of. And I-I view GOV.UK breaking out into a few really simple long term value propositions or services and platforms, and they are: presentation, or the frontend, what you experience as www.GOV.UK when you go there; the publishing service or tools that our thousands of users across government use; a content platform, that engine, that heart of content that does all the heavy lifting; and underneath all of that, the infrastructure platform that runs the applications, the databases, all of those things. And really looking to put an emphasis on the content platform, that engine of content and trying to move to a world where we can almost think of GOV.UK as a, as a sort of headless machine, that it does have a frontend, but really the most prominent part is the functionality that does all the lifting. Because in future there may be an app, there may be other ways, we may be syndicating content - these are all things we want to test. But having the flexibility and the ability to do that is, is vital because the way people, the way people interact with services online is quite different now to how it was a decade ago, and so we need to move on and have a much more Agile, much more flexible architecture that lets us meet users where they are rather than having a, just a website. You know we don't, we don't live in that era anymore.   Louise Harris:  So sounds then like we want to shift to a, a bit more of a channel agnostic approach then. Louise, you're a Technical Architect, what's your take on Himal's just said?    Louise Ryan:  Yeah, it's-it's a bit daunting actually [laughs]. Himal won't mind me saying that. You've got, it's a, it's a big job to re-architect such a big and important platform as GOV.UK. It's, it's really exciting. And it, you know, it's, yeah, you won't be on your own Himal. You know, the rest of-of GDS is-is very interested in this work as well, and there's crossovers right? Government as a Platform is very interested in, in what's happening with GOV.UK Accounts, because we might be able to use those features in our services. So for example, [GOV.UK] Pay: when someone's paying for something, if they're signed into their account, maybe they can save that, that payment method if they want to. Yeah, just solutionising on the fly, because obviously we'd need to research that to see if it was a, a thing people would be interested in. But, but obviously we you know, we're keeping a very close eye on what, what Himal's up to and, and wanna be part of it where we can.   Himal Mandalia:  I-I 100% agree with that, Louise. I think the thing here is, I think the, I think what we're doing with our, with our Digital Identity programme, with the GOV.UK Accounts, it really is, it really is that golden thread. It is the thing that ties all of this together. It does, it does offer the cohesion between all of our products and services. So we blur the boundaries between them. And I think notifications, payments, the publishing, the content delivery, all of that, and then, and then you bring into that all of the services across government as well, they're all tied together through your account. So what you end up with ultimately is a completely seamless experience, a citizen shouldn't need to, shouldn't, you shouldn't, it shouldn't even occur to them that a separate group of people delivered this piece as opposed to another bit.   Louise Harris:  As you say some kind of huge, huge programmes of work coming up, sounds like we're probably going to need a few-few additional crew. If-if people are interested in getting involved in this, where-where can they go to find out more?   Himal Mandalia:  So if you search for GDS careers, you'll find our careers site. We have a, we have a campaign going to hire Developers right now, but more will be launching soon. I'm particularly keen on trying to see about bringing juniors in. We need, we need more, we need more juniors into to-to-to not only be working with our teams, but also to be engaging in things that we've done previously at GDS like firebreaks, where you get that little bit of free time to experiment and come up with things. And of course, there will be a range of more senior roles as well. They'll be, they'll be more roles going out across-across the board at all levels.   Louise Harris: So there's lots of really great new job opportunities coming up across GDS. For people who might be interested in that, what would you say the culture is like in our teams?   Himal Mandalia:  I think having, having just come through a crisis, or crises, where we were highly visible and doing a lot of work to surface essential guidance around Coronavirus, we've had to organise ourselves around mission focussed teams, which has meant a-a lot of the work that we planned and even written about, I-I think I've, since starting you know, I've dug into some of the blog posts that we put out in 2016 and 17, amazing planning around publishing tools and platform that we were not able to pick up or continue because, because of emergency work, urgent priorities around Coronavirus and some of the work around Brexit as well, those are all things we can return to now.    H aving gotten to know my technologists community over the last 5 months, I think there's a real appetite to return to some of those longer term value streams - so working on services, being in long live teams, and what I'd mentioned earlier around things like a publishing service and content platform. You know, really giving groups of people, not just Developers, but Designers and everyone involved in a multidisciplinary team, that agency and that long term ownership over a problem and o-o-over, over the improvement of something. So I think some of that excitement is coming back now. And so, yeah, it's, it's a great time to join. It's a very active community.   Louise Ryan:  I-I don't think I've shouted from the rooftops enough about how important long-lived autonomous teams are. They really are the, the reason that Government as a Platform has been suc--as successful as it has. There, there's people that are really committed to these services, really understand the problem spaces inside and out and just, yeah, deliver amazing results and outcomes as, as a result. And yeah, this is, this is not just from a technical perspective that you know, we-we-we couldn't build the tech we build without the help of our, our user-centred design colleagues and product and delivery.   We are...the selling points from me I mentioned earlier is-is how we work in teams, as a unit, how we figure out with things that we-we should be working on, making sure they are the things of most value and really understanding the problem space and then developing the tech to solve those problems. And that, that, that way we work is to me as a technologist, is, is very compelling and, and reason alone to join but...Also we use some really modern tech - so our programming languages in GaaP are, are Python, Java, Node and then we've got some, some other programming language such as Go in the mix, but we build stuff on, on really modern technologies. So a lot of stuff on Amazon Web Services. As I said, we use modern practices like Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, we do a lot of automated testing so we can deploy with confidence multiple times a day to make sure, yeah, we're getting our stuff out there quickly and getting people to actually use it as fast as possible.   And hopefully that's a, that's a compelling story about why GDS is a really good place to work. I didn't actually mention the culture in, in all of that. And I think that's what you actually asked me. But the-the agile culture here is-is to be open, to be transparent, to share what you're working on with others, and that can be through show and tells, through pairing, through having your code open in, out there on GitHub. I really, I really like the culture at GDS. It's a kind of, you know, when I was in the office, come up to my desk and ask me anything kind of thing. No question too silly. Yeah. I think it's a, it's a lovely place to work.   Himal Mandalia:  Yeah, I think the only, I think the only thing I'd add and Louise said it all there really was: you know, if you a technologist that's passionate about open source development and the technologies that were mentioned there and you, if particularly if you're old enough, you have friends like me who are old enough to remember when open source was very much the underdog, and you know, we were, we were all sort of part of a rebel alliance trying to-to do a good thing. It's amazing that this is now converged with trying to do good for the public as well. So. I could, I couldn't think of a better argument to sell it than, than that: you get to use cool tech, do open source stuff to do good for tech and do good for the public. I mean, what more do you want, really? And we pay pretty well as well.   Louise Harris:  That's pretty cool, and if people want to find out about our code, which obviously we publish openly where we can, where can they find that?   Louise Ryan:  All our code is published on GitHub. So you need to go to GitHub. And it's Alpha GOV.UK is our organisation. It's all in there. I can't remember how many repos that there are, but there's a lot [laughs].   Louise Harris:  Okay well if anybody's got a quiet Saturday afternoon, and they fancy digging into literally thousands of repos, head over to our GitHub to do that.    Yeah so there you have it, an inside look into how technologists at GDS are doing the hard work to make it simple for users. Some seriously impressive and exciting stuff, and if you want to stay up to date with what's going on, please do follow us on the GDS blogs and check out our GitHub. A reminder that if you're a Developer, Site Reliability Engineer or a Technical Architect who fancies a new challenge as part of a great team doing work that impacts literally millions of people, you need to search GDS careers because we're hiring now.    Louise, Himal, thank you so much for taking the time to come on and chat to me today. I don't know about anyone else, but you have been left with the impression of our technologists acting like a bevy of swans, calmly and gracefully gliding across the surface, totally belying all of the hard work and energy that's happening just underneath to make sure we're headed in the right direction. And thank you to you, our listeners. Remember, you can find all episodes of the Government Digital Service Podcast on Apple Music, Spotify and all major podcast platforms. And our transcripts are available on PodBean.    Goodbye.   Louise Ryan:  Thank you, bye.   Himal Mandalia:  Thanks everyone.

For this episode I interviewed Gabriel Zanko.Gabriel Zanko is a Technology Advisor. Researcher & Writer in Technology , Speaker and Musician.CEO of MobileyourLife (https://www.mobileyourlife.com/) and Urano Capital (https://www.urano.io/)With an international background in Finance & Public Accounting from UCAB University in Caracas Venezuela and History & Croatian Language from University of Zagreb - Croatia.Worked in companies such as PwC and Nokia & Siemens Network between Caracas Venezuela, and Bogota Colombia as External- Internal Auditor and Tax Advisor. Also worked in Zagreb Croatia as a Tax-Financial and Accounting Advisor.Then he switched to the Deep Tech - Blockchain and Renewable Energy Scene where he has created 2 ventures. With the goal to propel innovation globally.1) MobileyourLife (https://www.mobileyourlife.com/)Which is an investment banking for Deep technology and Renewable Energy Innovation.Where it main focus isRaising capital for global innovation specially in the following technologies:AI ( Urban Mobility & Transportation)Blockchain & DLT Technologies.Renewable Energy ( From Solar & Wind Energy to Nuclear ( Small Modular Thorium Reactors)Energy Storage & Innovation in Batteries.Food TechologiesCannabisIn this episode we also talk about:-Getting investmentFuture of blockchain, crypto, banking etc…Characteristics of entrepreneursHistory of moneyAnd much more...Connect with Gabriel:-https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielzanko/https://www.urano.io/mobileyourlife.com/  https://linktr.ee/gabozankoBook recommendations:Any book by Nassim TalebAscent of Money by Niall FergusonIf you enjoyed this episode then please subscribe, I will be interviewing other successful founders and investors to provide you a shortcut to success.Follow instagram:- https://www.instagram.com/wantmoneygotmoney/

Welcome to episode 11 with Brent VanKuelen. Brent spent 27 years in the fire service in Oregon, retiring in 2019 as a Division Chief for Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue. Since retiring, Brent has spent his time consulting and works with the Western Fire Chiefs Association as a Technology Advisor. One of the first projects Brent was involved with at TVFR was building an application that that uses artificial intelligence to aid responders in better decision making. The app was built using input from providers instead of being built to meet administrative and reporting requirements. Reducing the noise that often occurs in reporting software was a focus of the project, and the end result was a more effective software creating an environment for better decision making by providers. Bob and Brent talked about the future of technology in fire response. Brent envisions the use of AI and augmented reality to provide incident details to responders. He also discusses his work with the WFCA and their current focus of advocating for the fire service in the private sector. They are achieving this goal through a technology accelerator engine that identifies companies developing products that will improve the experience for providers and the service provided to the public. One such partnership is with Rapid Deploy which is a cloud-based computer aided dispatch system that can be implemented in hours instead of months, which is the timeline for many systems currently in use. Stay tuned at the end of season 1, when Bob switches seats and we get to hear about his journey in the fire service and where he's headed next. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brent-vankeulen-01416374/ Western Fire Chiefs Association: https://wfca.com/ Rapid Deploy: https://www.rapiddeploy.com/ Not What I Signed Up For: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-i-signed-up-bob-horton/

Virendra Vase is an Angel Investor, Technology Advisor and Executive Coach. He has previously worked as an executive with Salesforce, Yahoo and Life 360. Virendra is a Computer Engineer, and he chose the topic of Humility.3-Bullet SummaryHumility sets a good leader apart from the rest.Vulnerability is the greatest measure of courage.Great leaders use humility to inspire shared vision. Humility is not a sign of weakness. Humility is the greatest sign of strength.3 Quotes“I've seen so many leaders that make it about themselves. Here, in Silicon Valley, where I spent my entire professional career, there's a lot of ego and pride. And I can tell you the leaders that have impressed me the most are the ones with the smallest ego and did not make it about themselves.”“What sort of legacy do I want to build? Do I want to have people say ‘he makes it all about himself', or ‘it's awesome, because he makes it about me'.”“The leaders are all about the team. It's not really about me. How can I inspire shared vision? And you do that by shining the light on somebody else.”

Episode 9: Andrew Murray Dunn describes himself as an all-win leader, bridge weaver, healer and pioneer at the intersections of technology, wellness, finance and systems change.

When we make the leap from corporate into free agency, the first big decision we have to make is the kind of business we want to run. The franchise model has always been one of the best business ownership paths because there's so much support and structure available to us from day one.   We get the benefits of buying into a proven model and following a blueprint that has been used successfully by other business owners. Everyone in the franchise is waving the same flag and pulling on the same rope, so we have a bigger chance of success and stability.   Why did my guest choose a franchise opportunity in IT? How is he finding balance while still running an essential business?   In this episode, technology advisor and the owner of TeamLogic IT, Kirk Gramoll talks about his journey into free agency, and how shifting his operating procedures has impacted his business.   Three Things You'll Learn In This Episode Why the franchise model is so attractive to new free agents The support structure of a franchise provides massive opportunity. The existing fabric of other business owners who know the systems is the foundation for our own success. There will always be incredible resources and when business owners in the franchise can share insights, we can benefit.   How to maintain team culture in an essential workplace Many businesses that have been deemed essential have adopted a hybrid model of interchangeably working from home and going into the office. This allows for social distancing, while also allowing teams to continue to have culture and cohesion.   The power of having a business plan, even when the business grows A solid business plan is important when the business is new, but it becomes even more critical as the business grows, and business owners need to stay focused, and hold themselves accountable. Even when we pivot, we still need a plan to refer to and a direction for where to go next.   Guest Bio  Kirk is a Technology Advisor for Small and Medium Businesses and the Owner of TeamLogic IT. TeamLogic IT of Milwaukee aims to become their customer's trusted technology advisor. Their location is part of a nationwide network specializing in managed IT, computer services and network solutions.   For more information, visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirkgramoll or call (262) 834-6207.

When we make the leap from corporate into free agency, the first big decision we have to make is the kind of business we want to run. The franchise model has always been one of the best business ownership paths because there's so much support and structure available to us from day one.   We get the benefits of buying into a proven model and following a blueprint that has been used successfully by other business owners. Everyone in the franchise is waving the same flag and pulling on the same rope, so we have a bigger chance of success and stability.   Why did my guest choose a franchise opportunity in IT? How is he finding balance while still running an essential business?   In this episode, technology advisor and the owner of TeamLogic IT, Kirk Gramoll talks about his journey into free agency, and how shifting his operating procedures has impacted his business.   Three Things You'll Learn In This Episode Why the franchise model is so attractive to new free agents The support structure of a franchise provides massive opportunity. The existing fabric of other business owners who know the systems is the foundation for our own success. There will always be incredible resources and when business owners in the franchise can share insights, we can benefit.   How to maintain team culture in an essential workplace Many businesses that have been deemed essential have adopted a hybrid model of interchangeably working from home and going into the office. This allows for social distancing, while also allowing teams to continue to have culture and cohesion.   The power of having a business plan, even when the business grows A solid business plan is important when the business is new, but it becomes even more critical as the business grows, and business owners need to stay focused, and hold themselves accountable. Even when we pivot, we still need a plan to refer to and a direction for where to go next.   Guest Bio  Kirk is a Technology Advisor for Small and Medium Businesses and the Owner of TeamLogic IT. TeamLogic IT of Milwaukee aims to become their customer's trusted technology advisor. Their location is part of a nationwide network specializing in managed IT, computer services and network solutions.   For more information, visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirkgramoll or call (262) 834-6207.

12-21-2020 Anjali Kataria

My guest today is Thomas Curran. Thomas is a cloud executive with many years of experience, including VP of Technology and Innovation at Deutsche Telekom and Technology Advisor at Deutsche Börse. He is the co-founder of the Ory Software Foundation, which is the owner of a very popular open source, go-based, identity management library named Kratos, along with other open source identity management tools. Now, Thomas is co-founders of Ory Corp, an Open Source Identity Infrastructure and Services company. Thomas is with me today from his office in Munich, Germany, to talk about application identity management. As means of full disclosure, I’ve worked with Thomas personally for many years, first meeting him back when he was at Deutsche Börse. I’m now currently working directly with Thomas at Ory, architecting their new cloud infrastructure. Links and More Information* Thomas LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasaidancurran/) * Ory (https://ory.sh) Tech Tapas — History of the Term SaaSWhen did software as a service start? Well, that depends on what you mean by the term… depending on how you define SaaS, the answer is either the early 1960s, or somewhere around 2005. Back in the early days of computing, all applications ran on a centralized computer. Users accessed the computers remotely. Initially via punch cards and later via remote terminals. The centralized nature of the application is, by a true definition, Software as a Service. But the modern definition of SaaS is tied much more closely with cloud computing. SaaS now-a-days refers to software running centrally, typically in a public or private cloud environment, and is shared among multiple users. A thin client of some sort — either a web browser or a thin mobile application — is used to front the centralized application. From a business model standpoint, users don’t buy SaaS software, instead they rent or lease access to it with monthly or annual fees. Alternatively, the service could be free and supported by advertising or other monetization processes. This is the heart of the business model for social media, for example. So, SaaS is an old term that has been given new meaning in recent years. But it’s the recent definition that has really changed the way people think and build software today. Tech Tapas — Amazon S3Amazon S3. A highly durable, highly available file and object storage mechanism in the cloud. This service is the go to service for most companies that want to store huge quantities of data in the cloud, or for long term persistent object storage. S3 was designed with the goals of being highly available, highly durable, and highly scalable. The design goal for availability is 99.99%, with a durability of objects of 99.999999999 (that’s 11 9’s). How available? The 4 9’s availability translates to a total of 52 minutes of downtime per year. How durable? The 11 9’s durability means that if every man, woman, and child in the world had an object in S3, then Amazon would lose at most one of those objects, approximately once every 15 years. These are amazing goals, and is one of the reasons S3 has such a great reputation as a high quality object storage system. S3 was one of three initial AWS services and was a big part of AWS’s early success. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp

Today's guest is Lisa Palmer, Chief Technology Advisor at Splunk, the world’s first Data-to-Everything Platform. Splunk helps organizations ask questions, get answers, take actions and achieve business outcomes from their data. Organizations use market-leading Splunk solutions with machine learning to monitor, investigate and act on all forms of business, IT, security and Internet of Things data. With more than 5,000 employees in 27 offices worldwide, the team at Splunk are focused on creating lasting data outcomes for their customers. As an executive-focused thought leader on topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Business Model Evolution & Transformation, and Sustainability all fueled through data and insights, Lisa helps to raise Splunk's brand awareness and market leader positioning. A sought-after technology evangelist who is passionate about the power of well-harnessed data, she speaks publicly in venues of all sizes to communicate the business value, both profit attainment and purpose fulfilment of leveraging Splunk's Data-to-Everything platform. In the episode, Lisa will tell you about: The great work she is doing with Splunk, Improving communication skills between technical and non-technical staff, Use cases of the benefits that Splunk brings to clients, Her passion for AI and Data Governance in the industry, How we can fulfil the potential of AI and Data Science, and What excites her for the future with Splunk.

My guest today is Thomas Curran. Thomas is a cloud executive with many years of experience, including VP of Technology and Innovation at Deutsche Telekom and Technology Advisor at Deutsche Börse. He is the co-founder of the Ory Software Foundation, which is the owner of a very popular open source, go-based, identity management library named Kratos, along with other open source identity management tools. Now, Thomas is co-founders of Ory Corp, an Open Source Identity Infrastructure and Services company. Thomas is with me today from his office in Munich, Germany, to talk about application identity management. As means of full disclosure, I’ve worked with Thomas personally for many years, first meeting him back when he was at Deutsche Börse. I’m now currently working directly with Thomas at Ory, architecting their new cloud infrastructure. Links and More Information* Thomas LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasaidancurran/) * Ory (https://ory.sh) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrp

The 2016 US election made it clear that social media companies play a profound role in how voters are informed and influenced. What role should social media companies be playing in the upcoming US election? In partnership with All Tech is Human we present this Livestreamed conversation featuring Dipayan Ghosh (co-director of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School, author of Terms of Disservice, & former public policy advisor at Facebook) & Vera Zakem (Senior Policy and Technology Advisor, Institute for Security and Technology, CEO of Zakem Global Strategies, & former strategy and research at Twitter). This conversation is moderated by All Tech Is Human's David Ryan Polgar. The organizational partner for the event is TheBridge. The conversation does not stop here! For each of the episodes in our series with All Tech is Human, you can find a detailed “continue the conversation” page on our website radicalai.org. For each episode we will include all of the action items we just debriefed as well as annotated resources that were mentioned by the guest speakers during the livestream, ways to get involved, relevant podcast episodes, books, and other publications. 

Hello and welcome to the Diverse VC business podcast where social is the new capital. I'm your host Alec Taylor, the Founder of Diverse VC. On Part 2 of today's podcast, we have Chris Hedrick! Before founding NextStep, Hedrick served as CEO of Kepler, an innovative online/offline university program in Rwanda, and CEO of Intrepid Learning, a venture capital-backed learning technology, and outsourcing company. He previously served as Science and Technology Advisor to the Governor of Washington state. He was also the first employee of the Gates Library Foundation, the precursor organization of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and managed national philanthropic programs for Microsoft. ‍ He has a deep background in public health, leading an Africa-wide malaria prevention program, working as country director for the largest Peace Corps program in the world, and serving on the board of PATH, the global health non-profit. A graduate of Stanford University, Hedrick was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. Thanks for listening to the DiverseVC Business Podcast! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/diversevc/support

Hello and welcome to the Diverse VC business podcast where social is the new capital. I'm your host Alec Taylor, the Founder of Diverse VC. On Part 1 of today's podcast, we have Chris Hedrick! Before founding NextStep, Hedrick served as CEO of Kepler, an innovative online/offline university program in Rwanda, and CEO of Intrepid Learning, a venture capital-backed learning technology, and outsourcing company. He previously served as Science and Technology Advisor to the Governor of Washington state. He was also the first employee of the Gates Library Foundation, the precursor organization of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and managed national philanthropic programs for Microsoft. ‍ He has a deep background in public health, leading an Africa-wide malaria prevention program, working as country director for the largest Peace Corps program in the world, and serving on the board of PATH, the global health non-profit. A graduate of Stanford University, Hedrick was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. Thanks for listening to the DiverseVC Business Podcast! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/diversevc/support

Enterprise Strategist Miriam McLemore sits down with James Rinaldi, the CITA of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to discuss her new eBook "The Customer Centric CIO". Listen in to hear James' thoughts on the book, the concept of being customer centric, and how he has lead organizations with this concept in mind.

1) Nathan's career at Rolls-Royce 2) Foratom and its working groups focusing on up-to-date issues of nuclear in Europe 3) Supply chain issues and Research & Innovation in nuclear 4) The power of being a member in a nuclear society

On this episode of LE Tech Talks, Jessica Dockstader, the BWC TTA Outreach Coordinator, sat down with Elliot Harkavy, the Technology Advisor for the BWC TTA Program, to discuss the live streaming capability of the latest generation of body worn cameras.   Ms. Dockstader and Mr. Harkavy discussed why agencies might be both interested and hesitant to use livestreaming technology in their BWC programs, how the technology could impact officer safety, and what issues departments might want to consider before implementing the technology.

With the COVID-19 event, its been a couple months since we had some time to work on the ISCPO podcast.  This week we had a wonderful time sitting down with Tom Meehan via ZOOM of course.  Just a few details below about Tom including his LinkedIn profile link and we have included a link to his book - Evolution of Retail Asset Protection: Protecting your Profit in a Digital Age.  Hope you enjoy this podcast and feel free to rate and share.  Tom Meehan, CFI is a leading loss prevention expert in all things cybersecurity and information technology.  He is the chief strategy officer and chief information security officer at CONTROLTEK, the retail technology editor at Loss Prevention Magazine and the co-host of the Loss Prevention Research Council podcast CrimeScience. His industry influence is also present through his roles as Sr. Technology Advisor, board member and Innovation Team Chair with the Loss Prevention Research Council.  Prior to joining CONTROLTEK Tom was director of technology and investigations with Bloomingdale’s, where he was responsible for physical security, internal investigations, asset protection systems and data analytics. Prior to his 13-year tenure at Bloomingdale’s, he worked for Home Depot in loss prevention, and has had various technology, loss prevention, and operational roles at several other companies. ADDITIONAL DETAILS: Tom Meehan - LinkedIn Profile   Tom Meehan's Book - Evolution of Retail Asset Protection Protecting your profit in a Digital Age If you have any ideas for a future podcast or webinar, please drop us a line at  byron.smith@iscpo.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/iscpo360/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/iscpo360/support

In this episode of Inside Access Control, we catch up with Chris Fine, CEO, and Founder of Integrative Technologies to discuss the phase changes we are seeing and will continue to see in physical access control as we come out of the Coronavirus crisis.   Integrative Technologies is a boutique consulting and strategy practice focused on helping technology-centric enterprises, startups, and investors identify and capture new value. He is the former Vice President and Senior Engineer of Goldman Sachs which gives him a great perspective on what end-users have historically looked for an needed from their enterprise access control systems.  Chris also serves as a mentor to the TechStars IoT and FinTech Startup Accelerator Program as well as a Technology Advisor for a range of Smart Cities-related projects undertaken by Turf Advisory.

In this week’s episode, Jeffrey Palermo is talking to Jonathan Mills — a Pluralsight Author, Technology Advisor, and Business Leader!    As a member of the Multi-Cloud Team team at World Wide Technology, Jonathan is able to leverage his unique experiences and skills to drive Cloud migrations for his clients. He is also a dedicated developer community leader, serving on the Board of Directors for the Kansas City Developers Conference, regularly speaking and giving keynote presentations at conferences around the globe, and is a Microsoft MVP.   Today, Jeffrey and Jonathan talk about the upcoming Kansas City Developers Conference held June 29th-July 1st in 2020, his fascinating day job as a Cloud Architect at World Wide Technology, and data architecture in Azure!   Topics of Discussion: [:38] Be sure to visit AzureDevOps.Show for past episodes and show notes. [:48] About Jeffrey’s upcoming .NET DevOps Bootcamp in Austin, Texas on April 30th. [1:11] About today’s episode and guest! [1:52] Jeffrey welcomes Jonathan to the show. [2:07] Jonathan shares the story of his career journey. [4:12] What is the Kansas City Developers Conference? [7:49] Are tickets still available for the conference? [8:27] When the conference is held and about the special extra day just for kids! [11:08] A word from Azure DevOps Podcast’s sponsor: Clear Measure. [11:33] Jeffrey gives some quick announcements. [13:23] Jonathan explains his day job as a Cloud Architect at World Wide Technology. [16:36] Jonathan speaks about the common problems their clients face and what issues they solve for them. [20:20] Jonathan breaks down the categories of data stores and what he recommends to different clients. [23:43] How different is Azure Data Warehouse from the on-premise SQL Server Analysis Services? [24:40] Jonathan shares his philosophy on how and when to know what tooling to use. [26:03] Jonathan gives his experience with low-code and no-code solutions such as Power Apps and Flow. [29:45] If listeners want to learn more, what go-to resources does Jonathan recommend? [31:41] Jeffrey thanks Jonathan for joining the podcast!   Mentioned in this Episode: Azure DevOps Clear Measure (Sponsor) .NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon! bit.ly/dotnetdevopsebook — Click here to download the .NET DevOps for Azure ebook! bit.ly/dotnetdevopsbookforcommunity — Visit to get your hands on two free books to give away at conferences or events! Jeffrey Palermo’s Youtube Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events! Jeffrey@Clear-Measure.com — Email Jeffrey for a free 30-point DevOps inspection (regularly priced at $5000!) — Spaces are limited! Jonathan Mill’s LinkedIn Jonathan Mill on Pluralsight World Wide Technology Kansas City Developers Conference Kansas City Women in Technology Azure Cosmos DB Azure Data Lake Analytics Azure Synapse Analytics Microsoft Power Apps Microsoft Flow Docs.Microsoft.com Pluralsight A Cloud Guru   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

On this episode of the "LE Tech Talks" series, Elliot Harkavy, Technology Advisor for the Body-Worn Camera Training and Technical Assistance Program, interviews Dan Zehnder, a Captain (ret.) of the Las Vegas Nevada Metropolitan Police Department. This 2-part episode of LE Tech Talks focuses on BWC policy compliance and compliance audits. In this second segment of the podcast, Elliot Harkavy and Dan Zehnder discuss compliance audits for BWC programs, and how they differ from compliance reviews.

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On this episode of "LE Tech Talks" series, Elliot Harkavy, Technology Advisor for the Body-Worn Camera Training and Technical Assistance Program, interviewed Dan Zehnder, a Captain (ret.) of the Las Vegas Nevada Metropolitan Police Department. This episode of LE Tech Talks will focus on BWC policy compliance and compliance audits. In this first segment of the podcast, Elliot Harkavy and Dan Zehnder discuss compliance reviews for body-worn camera programs.

On this episode of "LE Tech Talks" series, Elliot Harkavy, Technology Advisor for the Body-Worn Camera Training and Technical Assistance Program, interviewed Officer Scott Roth of the Montgomery County, Maryland Police Department. Officer Roth discussed the types of agencies included in digital evidence integration practices and key issues for law enforcement and prosecutors.

For this meetup, we had 3 guests line up for a panel that talked about their own experiences in leadership and also took questions from the audience. "You'll never make a hard decision if you know what your values are" "The role of a leader is to create the conditions for people to thrive"   Some of the topics covered in this meetup: How to deal with the change from being an individual contributor in a company to a manager How to prove your worth as a junior member of the management team How to find out what excites you and what you find rewarding, and then have fun leading the way The importance of maintaining a positive personal relationship with employees reporting into you Finding the right mentor How to deal with conflict management & diversity in the workplace The traits to look for in a potential employee An interview is a two way street - how to find out if a company has the right working environment & culture for you https://youngleaders.tech/meetup-7/   MARTIN O’REILLY OUTPUT SPORTS https://www.linkedin.com/in/morucd   Martin O’Reilly is the CEO and Co-Founder of UCD Spin-out, Output Sports. Using state-of-the art signal processing and machine-learning, the company has developed a one-stop-tool for optimising Strength and Conditioning and Physiotherapy.   Prior to forming Output Sports, Martin completed a PhD developing sensor applications for exercise biofeedback and was a Biomechanics lecturer in UCD.   ALAN MOLLOY TECHNOLOGY ADVISOR https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanmolloy/   Alan has 25+ years in technology, consulting, and leadership roles and brings a blend of technical expertise and strategic business acumen. Most recently he has held leadership roles with second stage start-ups.   Prior to that he worked for a pillar bank in Ireland where he led a team of 250 engineers. And previous to this, he built a 100-engineer team for a large listed Irish entity. He also worked as a strategy consultant for the renowned McKinsey and Company. Alan is also is an Enterprise Ireland mentor.   DECLAN GOODMAN DANTE CONSULTING https://www.linkedin.com/in/declangoodman/   Declan Goodman is an ICT management consultant and accredited neuroscience of leadership coach with 20+ years’ international experience.   He has held numerous IT leadership positions across a range of industries including finance, education, government and technology start-ups.   He is an active advocate of technology entrepreneurship, women in STEM and pragmatic, self-empowerment. Declan is founder of Dante Consulting, a local Dublin firm specialising in ICT Strategy, Architecture & Coaching services.

On this episode of “LE Tech Talk” series, Elliot Harkavy, Technology Advisor for the Body-Worn Camera Training and Technical Assistance Program, interviews Chief Applin from the Atlanta Public Schools Police Department. Chief Applin discusses the use of body-worn cameras in schools by school resources officers. Chief Applin also provides an overview of the decision-making process to implement body-worn cameras in a school district, challenges of implementation, policy issues, and many other aspects of the implementation process.  

Joining us this week is Cody Eilar, CTO of MyLens and Technology Advisor to TARTLE. Alexander and Cody express the importance of being your own authority of your data, and how this drives companies to practice higher ethical principles in their design and global function without having to sacrifice profits. Whether its the organic food movement or data sovereignty movement, great things take time and education. Our hope is that we do not learn our lesson to late and realize soon that its better for all of us to take collaborative action now. Tcast is an education, business, and technology video podcast that informs listeners and viewers on best practices, theory, technical functions of the TARTLE exchange system and how it is designed to serve society with the highest and best intentions. Tcast is brought to you by TARTLE. A global digital identity exchange platform that allows users to sell their personal information anonymously when they want to, while allowing buyers to access clean ready to analyze data sets on digital identities from all across the globe. The show is hosted by Co-Founder and Source Data Pioneer Alexander McCaig and Co-Host Jason Rigby. What's your data worth? Find out at ( https://tartle.co/ ) Watch the podcast on YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC46qT-wHaRzUZBDTc9uBwJg ) Like our Facebook Page ( https://www.facebook.com/TARTLEofficial/ ) Follow us on Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/tartle_official/ ) Follow us on Twitter ( https://twitter.com/TARTLEofficial ) Spread the word!

This snackable podcast recording focuses on the tools needed to be an effective manager. The discussion will mainly be about effective communication, best approaches to discipline and equal policy implementation. Enjoy! Interviewer: @Lekecia Barclay, Technology Advisor, The Office of Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service Speaker: Diandra Ritchie, Director – EEO, Labor & Employee Relations, City Colleges of Chicago Recorded on 10-4-2019 ​​

On this episode of the “LE Tech Talk” series, Elliot Harkavy, Technology Advisor for the Body-Worn Camera Training and Technical Assistance Program, interviews BWC TTA Subject Expert and Lead, Dr. Janne Gaub. Dr. Gaub discusses BWC implementation topics related to specialty units, including the definition of a specialty unit, the reasoning behind specialty unit implementation, the benefits and unique challenges associated with this type of implementation, lessons learned, and many other aspects of the implementation process.   For more information on implementing BWCs please see the Body-Worn Camera Training and Technical Assistance Program website at www.bwctta.com. 

On this episode of the “LE Tech Talk” series, Elliot Harkavy, Technology Advisor for the Body-Worn Camera Training and Technical Assistance Program, interviews San Diego County Deputy District Attorney, Damon Mosler. Deputy District Attorney Mosler discusses topics such as BWC policy, the impact of BWCs on prosecutor offices, collaboration between law enforcement agencies and prosecutors’ offices, and many other aspects of the implementation process.   For more information on implementing BWCs please see the Body-Worn Camera Training and Technical Assistance Program website at www.bwctta.com.

This is the fifth episode of the “LE Tech Talk” series, which will consist of both interviews and audio resources. Elliot Harkavy, Technology Advisor for the Bureau of Justice Assistance's Body-Worn Camera Technical Assistance Program, interviews Lieutenant David Sorenson of the Virginia Beach, Virginia, Police Department, Captain Brent Cook of the Pasco, Washington, Police Department, and Director of Technology Innovation Derek Meeks of the Metropolitan Police Department on overcoming the technological challenges associated with BWC implementation. For more information on implementing BWCs please see the Body-Worn Camera Training and Technical Assistance Program website at www.bwctta.com.

This is the second episode of the “LE Tech Talk” series, which will consist of both interviews and audio resources. Elliot Harkavy, Technology Advisor for the Bureau of Justice Assistance's Body-Worn Camera Technical Assistance Program, interviews Assistant Chief Gail Struss of the Allentown, Pennsylvania, Police Department, Lieutenant Jeff Rugel of the Minneapolis, Minnesota, Police Department, and Sergeant Seth Bigalow of the Peoria, Arizona, Police Department to discuss each agency's successes and challenges in implementing a BWC program. For more information on implementing BWCs please see the Body-Worn Camera Training and Technical Assistance Program website at www.bwctta.com.

This is the first episode of the “LE Tech Talk” series, which will consist of both interviews and audio resources. Elliot Harkavy, Technology Advisor for the Bureau of Justice Assistance's Body-Worn Camera Technical Assistance Program, interviews Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority Police Department’s (SEPTA) Captain John Arnold to discuss the department’s lessons learned from implementing its BWC program. Captain Arnold discusses topics like transparency, training and management, and a transit police department’s experiences. For more information on implementing BWCs please see the Body-Worn Camera Training and Technical Assistance Program website at www.bwctta.com.

Interview with Dr. Deepak Vohra at SIAL in Montréal. We talk about India's luxury market Dr. Deepak Vohra serves as a Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Lesotho and Guinea-Bissau. Special Advisor for Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils Leh and Kargil. He is also on special duty as the Technology Advisor to the Prime Minister of India and mentors some of the high potential Indian based Start-ups.

Please enjoy this snackable podcast which will discuss applying project management principles to legal projects, how applying project management principles to the law help the firm and clients, are there any particular areas of the law that project management principles lend themselves better to contracts, ligation, etc? Sterling will also share how applying legal project principles to the law requires a focus on process thinking and describe if there is a particular discipline firms/legal departments should invest and engage in first, process improvement or project management or both?  Host: @Lekecia Barclay, Technology Advisor, The Office of Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service Speaker: Sterling Miller, Senior Counsel, Hilgers Graben PLLC and author of “Ten Things You Need to Know as In-House Counsel” (the blog series and the book) Recorded on 7-19-19

Kevin is the Chief Technology Advisor at WaterStart. Kevin has over 30 years of experience in the water industry, including five years in the geothermal and nuclear industries. During this tenure at the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) he was instrumental in the development of the Las Vegas Valley Water District (LVVWD) Emergency Response initiatives and the innovative SCADA control strategy which balances improvements in water quality with energy management. During his service, LVVWD maintenance practices were documented as being leading edge for the water utility industry.

Dr Lee Chee Wee, Technology Advisor for Temasek Polytechnic explains why Singapore can compete with and even value-add countries that have a more mature agricultural sector despite being relatively new to this industry. He says Singapore’s end-product and competitive advantage will be its ability to develop solutions of doing agriculture based on the shortage of land, water, and labour.

On this LAB Radio, episode Aaron Mangal talks technology, Blockchain and BUIDLing with Barbara Bickham, founder of Trailyn Ventures and the International Blockchain Accelerator. Barbara Bickham is a CTO, Investor and Entrepreneur and founder of the International Blockchain Accelerator Barbara is a Berkley, University of Chicago Alumni, coder, CTO and Technology Advisor with extensive experience across industries like: FinTech, Fashion, Wearables, Wireless, Security, Media and Entertainment, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain. Her current areas of expertise are in Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, and Internet of Things (IoT). She even won an award from Gartner for her work writing a REST API for an IoT platform. "I bridge the gap between professionals that speak in technology terms with professionals that speak primarily in financial terms. I represent a company to investors, key clients and strategic partners. I also have over 4 years experience preparing and evaluating companies for private equity or venture capital financing. Founded an investment association connecting Southern California businesses with venture funding." -Barbara Bickham The International Business Accelerator is a combination of private sector and non-profit entities' efforts: "The International Business Accelerator is a joint program of the Community Vitalization Council, an economic development non-profit, and K5 Ventures, an early-stage venture fund that partners with and invests in technology-driven businesses led by visionary founders.The IBA was started in 2014 with support from the US Small Business Administration... ...In 2018 the IBA announced its first sector-specific accelerator cohort on Blockchain for Global Growth taking place at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. In 2019 the IBA will announce new cohorts for more advanced tech, Global Fintech, Female-founders & Women-led companies, a partnership with Southern California's leading hardware accelerator and a Menlo Park cohort partnering with international legal and accounting firms in Silicon Valley." After listening to this episode you will learn: How Barbara began as a coder and eventually CTO, investor, entrepreneur and advisor The Catalyst for Barbara to cross the worlds of Investing and Technology The emergence of Digital Coast and eventually Blockchain Beach in Socal What a CTO is a what role they play in a company About the Blockchain Accelerator being hosted at USC's Blackstone Launchpad What types of people are joining the accelerator and what they learn The most exciting things to Barbara about the Blockchain world For show notes and more visit: https://coinstructive.com/ep48-blockchainaccelerator/

With AI algorithms now able to mine enormous databases and assimilate information far quicker than humans can, we’re able to spot subtle effects in health data that could otherwise have been easily overlooked.  So how are these tools being developed and used? What does this mean for medical professionals and patients? And how do we decide whether these algorithms are making things better or worse?  Join our host, philosopher Peter Millican, as he explores this topic with Alison Noble, Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Engineering Science, Paul Leeson, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford, and a Consultant Cardiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, and Jessica Morley, a Technology Advisor to the Department of Health, leading on policy relating to the Prime Minister's Artificial Intelligence Mission.

Senior Standards and Technology Advisor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Paul Grassi, discusses digital identity, blockchain and more. Bio: Paul Grassi is the Senior Standards and Technology Advisor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He joined NIST in June 2014 to advance and accelerate the development and adoption of identity authentication and authorization related standards and technologies needed to implement the identity ecosystem envisioned in the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC).

On this episode of “On the Money”, Rick Higgins with Team Logic IT discusses the ever changing climate of technology’s impact on small businesses with host Joe Moss. Rick Higgins/Team Logic IT In less than a decade, TeamLogic IT has grown into the nationwide network businesses rely on for Managed IT Services. Their success is driven through one core […] The post TECHNOLOGY AND THE SMALL BUSINESS: Rick Higgins with Team Logic IT appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

Joe Reithmeier, Senior Technology Advisor at Miles Technologies, talks about the rewards and challenges of his position and how he helps businesses grow through the use of technology. To read more about this role, click here. 

Our guest today is Melissa Thompson, the founder and CEO of TalkSession, Inc., a healthcare technology company that develops web-based platforms for therapy sessions between mental healthcare providers and patients. In 2013, Melissa was selected as a “Healthcare Transformer” for the StartUp Health Academy Entrepreneurship Program, in partnership with GE and is also a part of Springboard Enterprises’ Life Sciences Accelerator. TalkSession was featured at the White House in September 2013 as a technology that would change the future of mental healthcare. Prior to founding TalkSession, Melissa was an analyst at Goldman Sachs, where she worked in digital marketing and technology strategy for clients, including the United Nations, G2 Investments, Forbes Magazine, The Weinstein Company, Publicis, and the New York Stock Exchange. Melissa is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, and she and her company were profiled for healthcare innovation in publications including The Financial Times, Mashable, CBS SmarterPlanet, Fast Company, Bloomberg, Business Week, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mashable, and Wired Melissa is a member of 37Angels, a community of women angel investors; a Board Advisor to the Flawless Foundation, an organization committed to enhancing education about neurodevelopment and behavioral challenges; a Technology Advisor to Newport Academy, a treatment program for teens suffering from mental health, behavioral health, and substance abuse issues; and is on the Board of Directors of the Center for Health Innovation, Women in Healthcare & Life Sciences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The thirteenth meeting in a long-standing series of “Time-Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy” (TRVS) conferences was held May 19th to 25th at the Kardinal Döpfner Haus in Freising, Germany, organized by the two Munich Universities - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Technische Universität München. This international conference continues the illustrious tradition of the original in 1982, which took place in Lake Placid, NY. The series of meetings was initiated by leading, world-renowned experts in the field of ultrafast laser spectroscopy, and is still guided by its founder, Prof. George Atkinson (University of Arizona and Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary of State). In its current format, the conference contributes to traditional areas of time resolved vibrational spectroscopies including infrared, Raman and related laser methods. It combines them with the most recent developments to gain new information for research and novel technical applications. The scientific program addressed basic science, applied research and advancing novel commercial applications. The thirteenth conference on Time Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy promoted science in the areas of physics, chemistry and biology with a strong focus on biochemistry and material science. Vibrational spectra are molecule- and bond-specific. Thus, time-resolved vibrational studies provide detailed structural and kinetic information about primary dynamical processes on the picometer length scale. From this perspective, the goal of achieving a complete understanding of complex chemical and physical processes on the molecular level is well pursued by the recent progress in experimental and theoretical vibrational studies. These proceedings collect research papers presented at the TRVS XIII in Freising, Germany