- DisrupTV
DisrupTV is a weekly Web series with hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. The audience can expect A-list guests, the latest enterprise news, hot startups, insight from influencers, and much more. Tweet questions to #DisrupTV or @DisrupTVShow. We broadcast live on StreamYard.
Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConstellationR
Featured Guests:
Rahul Ponnala
Co-founder and CEO
Granica
Rahul Ponnala is the co-founder and CEO of Granica — the world's first AI efficiency platform — which is on a mission to make AI affordable, accessible and safe to use. Prior to founding Granica, he served as Director of Storage and Integrations at Pure Storage. In this role he engineered and integrated large-scale databases and file storage systems powered by all-flash technology, building robust interfaces to bridge on-premises systems with distributed clouds. Rahul's dedication to technological innovation extends beyond Granica. He helps shape the future of cloud financial management as a governing board member of The FinOps Foundation under The Linux Foundation. A multidisciplinary academic, Rahul’s research spans mathematics, information theory, machine learning and distributed systems. He holds a portfolio of patents in computational statistics and data compression. As an angel investor, Rahul supports emerging tech startups pushing boundaries in AI, robotics and medicine.
Follow him on Twitter: @RahulPonnala
Mike Fuller
CTO at the FinOps Foundation
Mike Fuller is the CTO of the FinOps Foundation, a not-profit program under the Linux Foundation. His responsibilities include the best practices and content produced by the foundation along with leading the APJ community. Mike has co-authored both editions of the Cloud FinOps book published by O’Reilly Media alongside J.R. Storment, widely regarded as `the FinOps book`. Mike recently became the Steering committee chair alongside members from Google and Microsoft for the FOCUS Project, working on an open specification for cloud billing data.
Previous to the FinOps Foundation, Mike was a principal engineer at Atlassian for over ten years where he formed a dedicated FinOps team within Atlassian, consisting of data engineers, analysts, and FinOps practitioners which continues to help Atlassian get the most value out of the money it spends on cloud.
Mike holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Wollongong and has completed nine AWS certifications. He has presented at multiple AWS re:Invent and AWS Summit events on topics that include AWS security and Cloud FinOps. Over the years Mike has made many friends across the globe who operate as FinOps leaders within their own organizations. These connections have helped shape Mike’s thoughts on what it means to be successful at FinOps.
Follow him on Twitter: @MikeFinOpsOrg
William Eggers
Author of Bridgebuilders
William D. Eggers is executive director of the Deloitte Center for Government Insights and a fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including The Solution Revolution and If We Can Put a Man on the Moon, both from Harvard Business Review Press.
Follow him on Twitter: @wdeggers
Donald Kettl
Author of Bridgebuilders
Donald F. Kettl is a professor emeritus, former dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He was previously the Sid Richardson Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include, most recently, The Divided States of America and Can Governments Earn Our Trust?
Follow him on Twitter: @DonKettl
