Future of Tech

Rick Rioboli says that when you are trying to transform a platform or product space, sometimes you have to forget everything you know and start from nothing to build something truly innovative. And as someone who did in fact transform an entire platform and product category, Rick Rioboli would know that from experience. Rick is the Senior Vice President & CIO at Comcast and during his time with th...

Technology is an enabler of all kinds of activity. But how does a person actually change their behavior to use a piece of tech or buy a product or incorporate some sort of automated process? There are mental hurdles involved as well as technical ones, and Zoe Clelland has made it her mission to understand and facilitate those technological behavior changes. Zoe has both a Master’s and a PhD in Hum...

We have been told that we are currently in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution. Technology is reshaping how we live and work, but we are only in the first wave of feeling the impact technology has had. In the next few years, many believe that technology will see even greater innovations, which will have a huge amount of influence on just about everything in our lives. Toby Eduardo Redsha...

Welcome back for another season of Future of Tech! Join host Avishai Sharlin, Division President of Amdocs Technology, as he chats with some of the most innovative minds working in tech today about the current state of tech in the world and where they predict we’re headed in the future. --- Future of Tech is brought to you by Amdocs Tech. Amdocs Tech is Amdocs’s R&D and technology center, paving t...

As we move further into the fourth industrial revolution, the technology that is coming around the corner is sure to continue to reshape the way we live and work. Toby Eduardo Redshaw is one of the folks who believe that is true, and as the SVP of Enterprise Innovation and 5G Solutions at Verizon, he’s had a front-row seat to some of the exciting technological innovations that will soon be widespr...

It wasn’t long ago that very few companies were comfortable with the idea of working in open source. But the world has changed, and as Chris Wright says, open-source is the new normal. Chris is the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Red Hat, and on this episode of the Future of Tech, he explains how Red Hat has helped open-source go mainstream. He advises everyone in the tech co...

Matthew Hodgson is the technical co-founder of Matrix.org and CEO/CTO of New Vector and he thinks the way we communicate, from a CEO, government, and personal level is broken. But he also has a way to fix it. He believes that the future of communication is through the decentralized web and a flexible, encrypted, open-source network which is exactly what Matrix provides. Whether it’s the entire Ger...

“For more than 25 years, Tony Saldanha helped lead the digital transformation at Proctor and Gamble, a company that is ranked 35th on the Fortune 500 and generates more than $65 billion every year. With so much at stake, every move Tony made had massive consequences, and each new technology he introduced had the potential to create massive ripple effects among the nearly 100,000 employees. Today h...

Whether your company is working in the cloud, using on-prem systems or managing many apps or hybrid systems, there is no doubt that there is a lot going on under the hood in your tech stack. Who you partner with to help you get a handle on all of that makes a huge difference. When you partner with Google Cloud, they make it easy for you to worry less about managing all those systems and focus more...

A company’s architecture has always been of tantamount importance to the company’s success. So when it became apparent that using multiple architectures led to suboptimal performance, operators everywhere were looking for a single-architecture solution. That’s when Rajesh Gadiyar and the team at Intel came into the picture to start designing exactly that solution. On this episode of Future of Tech...

Tom Bradicich is the vice president and Hewlett Packard fellow and head the global edge and IOT labs at Hewlett Packard Enterprises, and in his career he has been a first-mover in the world of laptops, notebooks, mobile phones, servers and other areas. Today, Tom is focused on positioning HPE as a first-mover in the world of edge computing, including introducing an edge-as-a-service platform. On t...

The saying goes that if you want something done right, you should do it yourself. For Nir Shavit, that idea played out in his life’s work. Nir has spent decades in the science and technology fields, but there was an area he thought needed to be explored that wasn’t being looked into — at least not the way he thought it should be. Nir co-founded Neural Magic to explore the world of neural networks...

How does innovation happen? And how do you disrupt an area of business that has been woefully left behind? Those are the questions that Pasquale DeMaio asks himself as the General Manager at AWS where his main focus is building and constantly improving Amazon Connect. The job is meaningful to Pasquale because it brings together many of his passions, including inventing, inspiring innovation, and h...

If you ask Shane Mac what he thinks about the current state of technology, he’ll tell you that he believes tech has barely even started. We’re only 20 years into the full use of the internet, yet Shane believes we’ve already become lost in our devices and technology. So what if we told you that the future of tech might actually be creating a world that allows us to disconnect digitally and reconne...

On this episode of the Future of Tech, we are bringing you part two of our conversation with John Roese, the President and CTO of Dell Technologies. This episode picks us where we left off in part one as John explains some of the key areas that he and his team at Dell believe are on the precipice of change and innovation. On the last episode, Avishai and John dove into the world infrastructure evo...

John Roese didn’t know he was destined for a life in technology. In fact, he literally flipped a coin to decide between going into law or pursuing engineering. Luckily for us, the coin landed on the engineering route and today, John is the President and CTO of Dell Technologies. At Dell, John and his team are focusing on six different areas where they believe technology will shift and grow in the...

How can machine learning solve some of the world’s biggest problems? What can A.I. do to help overcome biological bottlenecks in human thinking? How does 5G tie into the future of work? How will everything everywhere be transformed by new technology? Join host Avishai Sharlin as he interviews the innovators of today who are building the tech of tomorrow. New episodes drop every Monday. --  Future...