A Spanner in the Works

Hear from Sol interesting concepts like Exit to Community, his view on how to enable everyone to be the best self and why being a good guy in Cyber is way more interesting than hacking itself. 00:00 Improving political systems through technology and decentralisation of trust  12:00 Security is playing the long game  13:00 CNCF, White-hat hackers and rise of the technologists  14:30 Cyber, Fixing r...

Are you looking for credibility in the DevSecOps and cloud native security space, do you want to hear from an arrested hacker? It doesn't get much more credible than that. Meet Matt Flannery, CTO at Accelera Group on the future of cloud and cloud native security in this episode of the A Spanner in the Works disruption podcast. Learn about Matt’s interesting journey from hacker and packet gang...

Lucian Maly & Scott Winkler have brought the battle of the last 2 standing infrastructure automation and orchestration tools upon us. This episode discusses real world multi cloud use cases, community strength, secrets management, state versus stateless and performance. Enjoy book discount vouchers from the authors of Terraform in Action, Scott Winkler, and the Ansible based Network Automation...

Learn from Dr John Chan, Group Head of People Data & Analytics at QBE Insurance about his latest findings from his hot-off-the-press research on how organisational structures and cultures lead to burnout. The report and episode includes practical tips for corporate leaders about how to establish burnout preventing values and behaviours. Get your anti-burnout prescription today by converting FO...

In this episode MIrco shares from his book 'DevOps for the Modern Enterprise'  views and insights from his DevOps and Agile journeys with many customers around the globe, why a pipeline doesn't make DevOps and his experience from bringing DevOps to the mainframe and COTS applications. We also discuss many other topics for example why Lean is the next phase after DevOps, Complex Syst...

Chromium Edition with Wayne Boxall.  Do you want to learn from an open, honest and straight talking CIO what it takes to do transformation? Do you appreciate people who call a spade a spade? Then you will like this episode with Wayne Marchant sharing his experience on how he led Heritage Bank through a multi-year transformation journey while answering tough questions about who his allies and enemi...

John might not run out of burning buildings like Bruce Willis but his profile and mission is similar to ex-cop John McClane: ex-politician, current COO and future CEO of Foodbank NSW & ACT. Foodbank's and John's mission is to help people get access to nutritious food with dignity, to provide breakfast to kids so that they can focus on studying and to create positive vibes around scho...

Sam Higgins is a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research in Australia. I challenged Sam on his view on bi-modal IT. Get my lessons learned for free. Sam's first research paper was on the State of open source. We are discussing different aspects of bi-modal IT, associated architectures  and the mistakes organisations can make with leadership appointments. Sam shares his view on the linkage bet...

In this episode you meet the Global CTO of Red Hat. You get to know a personal side of Chris and what the day in the life of the CTO of the largest software acquisition ever looks like. We are discussing the A/NZ marketplace compared to the rest of the world, the opportunities in the telco industry, deep thinking, the similarities of Open Data and Open Source, the resilience of the open source dev...

Lynn Wood – Founder and Chief Idea Spy at ideaspies.com. Learn why IdeaSpies are driven by more than just ideas and ideation, and how to create a ‘Good News’ mindset to make the world a better place. IdeaSpies enables Enterprises with ideation processes and platforms to enable trust, drive performance and retain talent. We discuss how the idea spies concept is related to open source, the distribut...

Learn what leadership philosophies a CIO of the Year subscribes to, the right attitude towards experimentation, organisational culture, as well as the importance of clarity, capability and motivation. Furthermore, learn how a CNCF Ambassador picks up trends before they become trends, how open source community involvement creates leaders and how rows and columns are not really representing the real...

Australia's AgriWebb is the fastest growing AgTech startup worldwide. Chief Technology Officer Phil Chan will share his personal journey and what it means to be part of a successful startup committed to help double food production by 2050 while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Phil will share his insights about how farmers are innovators and technology savvy business people as well as his v...

In this episode Colin shares insights and tips on how to run a people centric professional services business amidst COVID-19 and social distancing. We learn about remote delivery tools and habits, things to be aware of when managing a combination of introverts and extrovert team members and what type of services customers ask for most right now. We also learn when you need anti-tank traps and why...

Michael Heller works for the Office of the Chief Data Officer at IBM and is currently Chief Data Scientist in the Banking & Financial Services sector in Australia. If you are interested in data science then I suggest you grab pen and paper when listening to this episode. Michael's professional background was originally fixed income trading and working for major banks in the US. One day he...

Originally from India, Katt describes his inspirational journey from studying in Australia going overseas to the US and Singapore and applying his learnings to the Australian market upon his return. From having $100 in his pocket he's built a multi-million dollar business on pure open source software. He's now working only a few hours per week and Katt believes that everyone can do the s...