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BAE Systems is one of the world's leading global defence, security, and aerospace companies. The company recently announced an Applied Intelligence spin-out, cybersecurity venture called SOC.OS. The announcement is considered another milestone in what has been an eventful and remarkable few years for its CEO, David Mareels. David is a graduate of BAE Systems' demanding SIGMA leadership programme. His journey with the company has taken him from project engineering management in Portsmouth, to a Eurofighter Typhoon program in Warton, before settling in Applied Intelligence in 2018. During this time, he became involved in the corporate incubator programme, taking a lead role at SOC.OS. SOC.OS is a SaaS product and can be thought of as embedding an extra analyst into the team, one who can remember every interconnected relationship between every alert produced from each security tool, even if generated weeks and months apart. SOC.OS continuously operates, analyzes, triages, and prioritizes the most important inci

Rakuten Advertising is the leading global provider for marketing and advertising services and technology. Working with agencies and brands around the world, Rakuten Advertising brings together unique media inventory, a global affiliate network, advanced machine learning, and consumer insights to deliver experiences that increase brand awareness and marketing performance – while pushing the advertising industry forward. Stuart McLennan, Senior Vice President, APAC Region at Rakuten Advertising shares his insights on affiliate marketing and the Holiday Shopping Report - https://bit.ly/2EdSr6t He has a proven track record of building and managing high-performance teams, delivering multiple reorganizations and changing management initiatives to ensure the prospect consolidation position as The World’s #1 performance agency. Highly experienced in creating go to market narratives to meet clients’ changing demands across data, analytics, and digital paid media, securing significant new business revenue and existing

As banking systems struggle to survive the impact of the current pandemic, customers look to their banking providers seeking financial aid, stability, and accessibility to banking services. Before the pandemic, banks were figuring out how to renovate their legacy models and deploy advanced technologies. Fast forward to 2020, and banks are suddenly on the fast track to not only replace traditional operational tools with digital options but meet increased demand and provide full-fledged services to customers without displacing the trust that existed before. John Dangoia, Head of Product Management for the U.S. and Europe at Finacle, is a dynamic product and operations executive with 25+ years of experience leading growth in industry-leading banking and insurance businesses. Before joining Infosys, John was Vice President of Product Management at Fiserrv in support of the company’s Financial & Risk Management Solutions (FRMS) Group. Finacle is used by leading banks in over 100 countries to serve more than 1

Greg Kefer from AI-powered COVID-19 chatbot company, LifeLink, joins me on Tech Talks Daily. In today's episode, I explore the Chatbot benefits for healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies as the landscape in healthcare continues to evolve. COVID-19 has left healthcare providers in dire need of support - both on the front lines and back-of-house (call centers are seeing a 10x increase in volume!). In response, health systems like Jefferson Health, Memorial Health, and Banner Health have all quickly deployed chatbots like LifeLink because of its unlimited capacity to pre-screen and schedule appointments for patients. I learn more about how this sudden need has pushed chatbots into the mainstream and transforming it overnight. Greg shares chatbots' new mission-critical role in the healthcare system and what this means for the "new normal" of healthcare.

Yuval Rooz, co-founder and CEO of Digital Asset, is working with developers to incorporate blockchain approaches that simplify how distributed applications and processes are built and interconnected between organizations to easily drive business transactions. Previously, he served as both the CFO and COO. In this capacity, Yuval hired the majority of the company’s executive leadership, established its global presence, and oversaw its acquisition of four technology startups. Before DA, Yuval held positions at Citadel and at DRW Trading, where he managed an algorithmic trading desk and helped launch DRW Venture Capital. Digital Asset has an interesting, developer-friendly, open-source application platform called DAML. With DAML, developers can easily build and deploy multi-party applications on any distributed ledger platform or database; blockchain experience is not required. As the demand for developers with blockchain skills continues to rise (Linkedin listed it as a top-ten in-demand skill for 2020) this is

QA Supermarket provides comprehensive QA testing services on-demand and with competitive, completely transparent prices. The company is on a mission to offer Manual Testing as SaaS. The startup was founded by current CEO Paul Belevich, whose previous roles include Product Development Director at Blue Lithium (acquired by Yahoo!) and GM of Wargaming Research and Development Center in Austin. Most recently, he was founded software development company Software2Life. I wanted to learn more about how they found a way to change a long, boring, and difficult application testing to an easy, transparent, and hassle-free one. We talk about the differences between Automated and Manual testing. We discuss what trends they are noticing in the industry. We also bust a few myths and misconceptions in the world of application testing,  

Dectec is a Behavioural Science consultancy where they help clients predict future market responses and applying their insights across far-reaching sectors, including banking, telecoms, and retail. The company was created to provide the most accurate and best value forecasts available on how people will behave in new situations. The team are enthusiastic proponents of behavioral research, randomized controlled trials, and data modelling. Founded in 2002, they are based in London and are staff-owned and are members of the Market Research Society and Management Consultancies Association. I wanted to learn more about how they model human behavior to reveal the responses to different scenarios, giving clients a significant edge over their competitors in choices across range, pricing, communications, and offer. Dr. Henry Stott is the Co-founder of Dectech and a passionate proponent of doing more randomized controlled trials in business. Henry has over 25 years of commercial experience across retail, finance teleco

A team of NASA researchers seeking a new energy source for deep-space exploration missions, recently revealed a method for triggering nuclear fusion in the space between the atoms of a metal solid. I felt compelled to find out more. Lawrence Forsley is a senior experimental physicist with NASA, research fellow at the University of Texas, and CTO of Global Energy Corporation. During the past 45 years, he has worked with laser fusion, mirror fusion, tokamaks, modular bremsstrahlung sources, sonoluminescence, and bulk Pd/D electrolysis and the patented co-deposition protocol. Lawrence specializes in temporally, spatially, and spectrally resolving infrared through gamma-ray energy photons, charged particles, and neutrons. He is an author or co-author of over 40 scientific papers and book chapters. In his spare time, he’s developed and deployed autonomous seismic sensors around the world and applied space-based Differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (DInSAR) to places hard to write home from, let al

Extended Threat Detection and Response (XDR) is an emerging hot category that I wanted to learn more about. My curiosity led me to Hunters.AI, which is the first autonomous threat hunting solution. It's a pure-play vendor-agnostic XDR startup noted in the Gartner report. For CrowdStrike users, Hunters extends threat detection beyond the endpoint and enables XDR capabilities. Hunters.AI generates and delivers actionable visualized attack stories allowing organizations to more quickly and effectively identify, understand, and respond to attacks. Uri May Co-Founder & CEO, Hunters, reveals how XDR has emerged as the next-gen successor to EDR and SIEM solutions. He also shares why it's different and what it brings to the IT security stack. On the subject of missed signals, I learn how XDR finds legitimate threats while filtering out the noise and why a vendor-agnostic approach is essential to success. Finally, we discuss how Hunters grants XDR capabilities using AI for autonomous threat hunting.

Regardless of how a business looks at flexibility, workplace innovation continues to advance at high speed, evolving into a more natural and integrated aspect of life and dominating modern workers' expectations. The shift in traditional work's rhythm creates assumed challenges that may be intimidating for organizations trying to adapt. Pushing aside misconceptions and uncovering the truth about flexible work can accelerate an organization's path to delivering a successful balance of work and flexibility to all its employees, regardless of age or working preferences. Jed Brown, SVP of Product & Design at Fuze joins me on Tech Talks Daily to explore the three main misconceptions that prevent flexible work from being successful throughout organizations, and importantly explains how the right technology will not only kick-start flexible work now, it can also prepare a business for what's to come, keeping them open to the future too. About Fuze Fuze is a global cloud communications provider for the enterprise

Daniel Theobald is the CEO of Vecna Robotics. His company recently raised $50M for their Series B and has been helping automate materials handling for global clients like FedEx. Daniel is a passionate leader who is dedicated to the idea that technology can be used to improve life for everyone on the planet. Daniel is also a co-founder of Mass Robotics - an independent, non-profit organization serving as the innovation hub for robotics and connected devices in the Greater Boston, MA area, so he has his pulse on the innovation of the robotics industry. But I wanted to learn more about the robotics company that believes the future belongs to those who empower humans. We talk about how robotics, AI and automation help keep the supply chain running, the importance of robots and humans working together to increase workflow efficiency, and what the robotics industry needs to do to push interoperability forward. We also discuss why humans and robots are better together.

AWeber delivers powerfully-simple email marketing software specifically designed for small businesses. Since 1998, They have helped over 1,000,000 small businesses around the world grow their businesses by giving them the tools and knowledge they need to connect with their prospects and customers. AWeber is a 100% remote-first team. That means they work from the comfort of their homes while making an impact on customers around the world. they value collaboration, flexibility, and entrepreneurial spirit — not what you wear or where you choose to do your most productive work. They also believe that an incredible culture is not about where you work, but about the people that you work with.

When a utility embarks on a capital project, they’re doing so to serve their customers better, comply with regulations, and/or build the value of their asset network—and they’re increasingly making drones a part of their efforts. Utilities are using drones across the capital project lifecycle. Whether to inventory assets, monitor current project work, or evaluate pre-completion performance, project managers achieve greater data breadth and precision. Not only does this help justify CapEx spend, but it also enables better project management. PrecisionHawk, the market leader of commercial drone analytics, has seen first-hand the challenges of keeping utility asset databases up-to-date. During routine inspections for all of their utility clients, PrecisionHawk has found discrepancies in location data for up to 50% of poles. And while ground teams typically find that 10% of poles are out of compliance, they have, on average found that the number is actually 25-30%. As a solution, Drone technology is implemented t

Sporting leagues are beginning to unveil their plans to return to play, and the NBA is planning to return at Walt Disney World. When exploring the future of sport, leagues must start thinking about the live stream viewing experience will look like for fans. They also have to consider if platforms are capable of supporting the influx of people tuning in from home and how they'll be able to replicate the in-person fan experience at home. Jed Corenthal, the CMO of Phenix (real-time streaming technology platform), discusses what platforms must prioritize seamlessly delivering virtual experiences that will keep fans happy. If games are delivered in real-time and synchronous streams, the opportunities to engage viewers are endless – from trivia games to switching up camera angles and even selling merchandise – but this is all only possible if livestream technology is up to par. Phenix has customers on five continents, and all focused on delivering a superior user experience by reducing latency, maintaining a high-q

Did you know there is a massive labor shortage in the cybersecurity field? It has been estimated that, on a global scale, there are over 1 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs—and if history is any indicator, that number is likely to increase. So how do we solve the labor shortage in the cybersecurity industry? Think women. Right now, women in cybersecurity represent a mere 11% of the industry worldwide. That means that the cybersecurity industry is missing out on almost half of the population’s talent pool, during a period in history when cyber-crime poses one of our most menacing threats. So how do we solve the labor shortage in the cybersecurity industry? I invited Amie Wei to Tech Talks Daily to talk about the opportunities for women in cybersecurity and learn more about her inspirational journey in tech. Amie is the founder of the cybersecurity company Stellar Cyber and has 20+ years of experience building successful products and leading teams in data networking and telecommunications. Amie also has exten

Rafael Sweary, co-founded WalkMe, the leading digital adoption platform, in 2011. Previously, Rafael was the co-founder, CEO, and then President of Jetro Platforms, which was acquired in 2007. Since then, he has funded and helped build a number of companies both in his role as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Ocean Assets and in a personal capacity. WalkMe, pioneered the Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) to empower business leaders to realize the promise of their technology investment by transforming the user experience in today’s overwhelming digital world. With WalkMe’s enterprise-class guidance, engagement, insights and automation platform, employees are more efficient and productive. Executives have better visibility into digital usage, and organizations maximize the full value of their digital assets and successfully guide their enterprise through digital transformation. WalkMe has raised over $307 million to date, and its DAP is used by 2,000 enterprises across all industries, including 30% of the Fortune 500

Gary Saarenvirta, founder/CEO of Daisy Intelligence, is recognized as one of North America’s preeminent authorities on artificial intelligence. Gary is a passionate evangelist for the application of A.I. and reinforcement learning in strategic merchandising decisions. He’s not afraid to challenge the status quo when it comes to the advantages of deep learning over traditional approaches to data mining and analysis, both in speed and precision. Gary’s 25+ years of experience includes managing the analytics practice at LoyaltyConsulting Group and leading IBM’s analytics and data warehousing practice areas. He entered the workforce with an aerospace engineering degree (so yes, he’s even a trained rocket scientist). Today, his focus lies in making A.I. an indispensable tool for data-driven businesses. Using autonomous machine intelligence, Daisy helps global organizations drive revenue and profit growth by transforming massive quantities of consumer data into better and smarter business decisions. Daisy specializ

Keren Moynihan is co-founder and CEO of Boss Insights, a company that uses big data and AI to accelerate lending from months to minutes. Boss Insights started with a vision to empower lenders to measure businesses on merit and credit. In an era where tech giants have increased customer expectations, lenders and private capital providers are challenged to offer complete and personalized solutions. Boss Insights' data platform gives lenders the clearest view of their business customers. The platform accelerates small business and commercial lending from months to minutes. It also increases sales opportunities for other financial products. Their mission is to provide banks and credit unions with a real-time understanding of their business clients, enabling them to offer customer delight. But I wanted to learn more about how they are helping financiers to empower and measure business vision? To obtain a better understanding of the scale of the problems out there at the moment. Keren also explains how the US CARE

Ericom Software is a leading provider of Zero Trust secure access solutions that protect organizations from advanced cybersecurity threats. Leveraging innovative isolation technology and software-defined perimeter principles, Ericom solutions enable simple, secure policy-driven access to mission-critical cloud and on-premises business systems and resources, including the public Internet, without impacting end-user productivity. John Peterson, Chief Product Officer of Ericom Software, joins me on Tech Talks Daily. He is responsible for product strategy and helping to define and support Ericom’s go-to-market activity. Most recently, he was founding Chief Product Officer at Stellar Cyber. In his 30-year career, John has held executive positions at Comodo, Barracuda, Juniper, Fortinet, Websense, Montego Networks, and Netscreen. He was a key member of four companies that went public and three that were acquired. John served as a United States Marine and holds multiple patents. We talk about Secure Access Service E

Steve Grewal is the former CISO, CTO, and CIO for the U.S. Dept. of Education, and currently, the CTO, Federal, for data management company Cohesity. He is working with government agencies to address cybersecurity issues, specifically the growing number of ransomware attacks. In 2020, we have already seen many high-profile ransomware attacks against hospitals, state, municipal, and government agencies and organizations. This includes Los Angeles County, Fort Worth Independent School District in Texas, ExecuPharm, Boston Children’s Hospital, and more. Malicious hackers will continue searching for their next target, and ransoms will continue to be paid. However, many fail to realize that there are strategies for combating ransomware attacks, which ensure that a ransom does not need to be paid, regardless of its severity. As the global pandemic puts an enormous financial strain on many private and public sector organizations, it is more important than ever for organizations to know what to do in the case of a su