This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Innovating Healthcare and Education | DisrupTV Ep. 105
In this episode, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with a distinguished panel of guests to discuss the evolving landscape of healthcare and education:
We had the opportunity to attend WorkForce Software 's Vision 2018 user conference held at the Grand Sheraton at Wild Horse Pass, South of Phoenix. The conference was well attended by customers, prospects and partners, substantial growth over 2017 in New Orleans.
We all struggle to get work done. Too many tools, too much chaos, not enough time. That's where Work Coordination Platforms (WCP) come in. These tools help people bring organization and structure to projects and processes. It's a highly competitive market with several exciting things taking place including IPOs, funding rounds and acquisitions.
Qlik introduces management team, licensing changes and new hybrid/multi-cloud, augmented intelligence and development features. Here’s my take from Qonnections 2018.
“Under new management.” When you see these words in front of a local business, you take note, and it makes you wonder what has really changed?
Keynoting at the April 24-26 Qlik Qonnections event in Orlando, Qlik’s new CEO, Mike Capone, after just four months on the job, cut right to the chase and spelled out some important business changes made early in his tenure.
We had the opportunity to attend NetSuite's user conference SuiteWorld, held from April 23rd till 26th 2018 in Las Vegas at the Sands Convention Center. Attendance with over 7k attendees, and a better partner / exhibitor mix than in 2017 shows that NetSuite is doing well under the Oracle leadership (my first take on the acquisition is here).
AI, Innovation, and the Future of Work | DisrupTV Ep.104
In this episode, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar speak with industry leaders about the intersection of technology, innovation, and human-centered leadership:
Unlocking Human Potential: Empathy, Leadership & Innovation | DisrupTV Ep. 103
In this episode, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three distinguished guests to discuss the intersection of empathy, leadership, and innovation:
Cloudera has restructured amid intensifying cloud competition. Here’s what customers can expect.
Cloudera’s plan is to lead in machine learning, to disrupt in analytics and to capitalize on customer plans to move into the cloud.
It’s a solid plan, for reasons I’ll explain, but that didn’t prevent investors from punishing the company on April 3 when it offered a weaker-than-expected guidance for its next quarter. Despite reporting 50-percent growth for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2018, Cloudera’s stock price subsequently plunged 40 percent.
Adobe has announced the acquisition of Sayspring, makers of a natural language platform for interacting with devices like Amazon Echo and Google Home/Assistant.
AI, Identity, and the Future of Trust | DisrupTV Ep. 102
In this episode, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three distinguished guests to discuss the intersection of AI, identity, and trust:
On March 29th Microsoft shared that the head of it's Window team, Terry Myerson, was leaving and as a consequence the Windows team was going to be split up into two large development teams under Rajesh Jha and Scott Guthrie (see Nadella's memo here, kudos for transparency).
Revolutionizing Retail | DisrupTV Ep. 101
In this episode, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three distinguished guests to discuss the transformation of retail through technology:
We had the opportunity to attend IBM's Think conference held in Las Vegas, all over the MGM and Mandalay Bay, from March 19th till 22nd 2018. Happening in the busiest week of Spring conference season, I could make it only for one day, invited by the IBM Partner conference, that was happening in parallel.
We had the opportunity to attend Oracle's HCM World conference, held from March 20th till 22nd in Dallas. Held in the busiest week of the spring conference circuit, the conference had good analyst and influencer representation and was overall well attended (Oracle claimed 2200+).
Nvidia’s GTC 2018 event spotlights a play book that goes far beyond chips and servers. Get set for next era of training, inferencing and accelerated analytics.
“We're not a chip company; we're a computing architecture and software company.”
We had the opportunity to attend ADP's 25th Meeting of the Minds (MOTM) user conference, held in Orlando at the Walldorf / Hilton from March 18th till 23rd 2018.
Navigating the Future of SaaS | DisrupTV Ep. 100
In this landmark 100th episode of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three distinguished guests to discuss the evolving landscape of Software as a Service (SaaS):
Focus On Humanizing AI
As organizations begin their journey into artificial intelligence (AI), ethics often enter the design process. While achieving a uniform set of ethics may seem insurmountable, some design points will help facilitate the humanization of artificial intelligence and provide appropriate checks and balances. Constellation has identified design pillars for Level 1 AI. Level 1 AI is defined as machine learning proficiency (see Figure 1)