This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Internet’s Next Frontier — Building a People-Centered, Inclusive, Resilient Web | DisrupTV Ep. 87
In DisrupTV Episode 87, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar sit down with Internet pioneer Vint Cerf (Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist, co-designer of TCP/IP), Dr.
Microsoft IoT Central enters public preview: If your enterprise wants to empower line-of-business users to build IoT applications quickly, Microsoft says it has the answer in the form of IoT Central, which is now in public preview.
We had the opportunity to attend Pivotal’s yearly user conference of the Spring developer community. SpringOne, held in San Francisco December 4th till 7th 2017 at Moscone West. With about 3000 attendees it is the best attended Pivotal conference every, a proof point for the popularity of the Pivotal products.
Not a title designed to upset the IT department, just a reflection on the manner that Technology has pervaded most aspects of current life to become a practical tool. Think of a modern car, a highly sophisticated technology environment of interconnected devices interacting with, and responding to, wide range of events within a largely self-contained ‘enterprise’ system.
Purpose-Driven Culture, Employee Recognition & the Future of Customer Engagement | DisrupTV Ep. 80
In DisrupTV Episode 80, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three leaders:
We had the opportunity to attend Ultimate Software’s first analyst summit, held at the vendor’s headquarters in Weston, Florida, November 16th. Always good to be at an inaugural analyst meeting, good attendance by the usual HCM analysts.
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy invoked the Lauren Hill song âEverything is Everythingâ at this weekâs re:Invent event in Las Vegas to underscore his assertion that AWS has more than twice the number of services of any other public cloud. The question is, will the services catalog ever become â or, indeed, is it already â so extensive that it becomes unwieldy from a customer development, deployment, and cost-management perspective?
The Convergence of Technology, Society, And AI Ethics Is Already Among Us
Over the past year, almost every conversation on artificial intelligence involved a discussion on ethics, humanity, and policy. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. In this case, one can look to Hollywood for a few good suggestions to ponder. Four AI geek classics bring out unique points to consider in any AI ethics conversation:
We had the opportunity to attend Kronos’ yearly user conference, held at the Aria in Las Vegas from November 12th till 15th 2017. The conference was well attended, similar to last year, we sensed an increased partner interest and exhibition demand, compared to 2016.
Scaling AI, ESG Investments & the Smart Enterprise | DisrupTV Ep. 86
In DisrupTV Episode 86, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar speak with Manoj Saxena (Executive Chairman of CognitiveScale, former GM of IBM Watson), Jay Jacobs (Vice President & Head of Research at Global X Funds), and Heather Clancy (Editorial Director at GreenBiz).
AWS re:InventâInnovation versus overload?: This week saw the Las Vegas Strip taken over by Amazon Web Services' re:Invent conference, which drew more than 40,000 attendees over several days of keynotes, sessions and in particular a slew of news announcements.
Economics, Customer Insight & the Psychology Behind Investment Decisions | DisrupTV Ep. 83
In this episode, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar sit down with:
2017 Constellation Research survey on Business Transformation published just before the 2017 Constellation Connected Enterprise event found respondents in 48% of Enterprises surveyed reporting that they have a defined Digital Strategy for their entire org
When SAP and Microsoft announced the plans to move more of SAP load to Microsoft Azure in Spring of 2016 (here is the news analysis blog post), it was clear this was a partnership that was bound and needed to happen.
Building at the Edge — How Product Innovation, APIs & Modular Platforms Shape the User Experience | DisrupTV Ep. 84
In DisrupTV Episode 84, hosts Cindy Zhou (guest host) and Vala Afshar speak with: