This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Innovating Content, Customer Trust & the Future of Enterprise Tech | DisrupTV Ep. 51
In DisrupTV Episode 51, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar are joined by three leaders each bringing a distinct lens on technology, media, and customer experience:
Last year, the United States and European Union came to terms on the Privacy Shield Framework, which provides a means for companies in both regions to ensure compliance with EU data protection laws when sending personal data from the EU to the US as part of commercial transactions. It's a critical underpinning of transatlantic commerce.
Docker has taken a major step toward broader and deeper corporate adoption with the release of an enterprise ediition of its open-source application container platform. Here are the key details from an official blog post:
We had the opportunity to attend Pitney Bowes Tech Analyst meeting held at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay, February 28th and March 1st 2017. The event was well attended with close to 30 analysts, many from oversees, in attendance.
As you've probably heard, Amazon Web Services' had a bit of an outage this week. Problems with its Simple Storage Service in the US-EAST-1 region caused a large number of prominent websites to either be inaccesible or perform very slowly. While Amazon characterized the issue as "increased error rates," rather than an outage, for many users it came to the same.
We had the opportunity to attend the partner kickoff meeting of CenturyLink, Ascend, held in San Diego from February 22nd to 24th. The event was well attended with a large number of partners present, both from traditional CenturyLink partners and newer kind of partners (see below).
Constellation Research VP & Principal Analyst, Steve Wilson, clarifies the myths and truths about blockchain and highlights key industries that can benefit. If you are not a Constellation Executive Network member yet, join our analysts in this private community to talk shop and solve business problems in real time.
Persistent Systems - an Indian e-business product engineering firm, serving global customers in digital business transformation, banking and healthcare - today announced a breakthrough deal with the USAA group of American financial services companies to access and productize USAA’s patent portfolio in secure authentication. The immediate outcomes of the agreement will be diverse new Risk Based Authentication (RBA) methods available across multiple channels and multiple devices.
On Feb 9, 2017 Adobe Document Cloud hosted their 2nd annual Future of Work Think Tank. I was honoured to be the moderator for this hour long discussion, with an amazing group of participants:
It seems to have become fashionable in some circles to suggest that IoT market is failing. Certainly if you were one of those people who just two years ago was predicting amazing numbers then, yes, IoT has failed to achieve those over ambitious levels. Business Market valuable solutions were never likely to match predictions that included numbers of household objects such as Toothbrushes. This blog aims to be a reality check by taking different reports each using different criteria to define IoT deployments.
We had the opportunity to attend the Oracle HCM analyst meeting on February 22nd 2017, held at the beautiful Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay. The meeting was well attended with 20 analysts participating.
Mobile Strategy, Marketing Automation & Sustainability in Digital Tech | DisrupTV Ep. 50
In DisrupTV Episode 50, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar are joined by:
Microsoft has led development with a "cloud first" approach under the leadership of CEO Satya Nadella, but that doesn't mean it has abandoned support for on-premises deployments going forward. To that end, Microsoft will soon offer an on-premises version of Dynamics 365 for Operations, the cloud ERP and CRM system it launched in November.
Is there room in the market for yet another productivity software suite? Amazon Web Services reportedly believes there is, according to a report in the Information:
I was on a briefing call earlier this week with ICANN board member and CTO of Afilias Ram Mohan about the need for the technology industry to adopt Universal Acceptance (UA) standards for websites and email domain extensions. UA is defined as a technical compliance process that ensures that all domain names and email addresses can be used by all internet-enabled applications, devices, and systems.