Futurum Tech Webcast

This episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast - Interview Series is the third installment of our Intelligent Enterprise Industry Series — done in partnership with SAP. I welcomed David Shimbo and Craig Kindleman , two executive advisors for the oil and gas industry at SAP to discuss how they are focusing on furthering their intelligent enterprise story.   The Interconnected Oil and Gas Sector   SAP rec...

This episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast - Interview Series is the second installment of our newly launched Intelligent Enterprise Industry Series — done in partnership with SAP — where I will be speaking with advisors and executives across ten different industries on how they are focusing on furthering their intelligent enterprise story. I'm excited to welcome Gary Nelson , an executive advisor f...

This episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast - Interview Series is part of our newly launched Intelligent Enterprise Industry Series — done in partnership with SAP — where I will be speaking with advisors and executives across ten different industries on how they are focusing on furthering their intelligent enterprise story. I'm excited to welcome Tom Madonna , an executive advisor for the automotive...

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Women in Tech – Interview Series , I'm joined by Ritu Kapoor , from Automation Anywhere. In our conversation today we're going to cover some exciting news coming out of Automation Anywhere's Innovation Day event, which was held on Wednesday, October 7th.   Ritu is the is head of product strategy at Automation Anywhere, and she focuses on front office a...

This episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series is part of our newly launched Women in Tech Series . Shelly Kramer, founding partner and senior analyst at Futurum Research welcomes Jasmina Omic , with Riscure, a global security lab offering security services and tools.   Today's conversation revolved around cybersecurity and the IoT, highlighting industry-wide security concerns related...

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast , Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall discuss the digital divide and explore where the telco industry is in its journey to closing that divide. We explore how closing the digital divide is a top priority for government and society the world over, and how service providers can rise to meet the needs and challenges the digital divide presents....

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series I am joined by Sonny Dasgupta . Sonny is the Head of Product Marketing for the SAP Customer Data Cloud , a foundational pillar under the SAP customer experience business. The SAP Customer Data Cloud solutions – which includes the SAP Customer Identity, SAP Customer Consent and SAP Customer Profile solutions — enables businesses to deli...

This episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series , is part of our Women in Tech and features Women Who Tech's Allyson Kapin. Kapin is  the founder of Women Who Tech , the largest network of women-led startups, investors, and allies working to increase diversity and funding in tech. Women Who Tech is a nonprofit organization working to build a culture and inclusive economy focused on acc...

On this special episode of The Futurum Tech Podcast - Interview Series host Daniel Newman welcomes Yaron Sverdlov , General Manager of SmartOps Division at Amdocs to discuss the impact COVID-19 has had on digital transformation and cloud migration of service providers and where we go from here.   Yaron and I explored how COVID-19 has impacted digital transformation within the telecommunications in...

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast , Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Sarah Wallace discuss digital transformation trends in Big Tech and how strategic, collaborative partnerships is a trend we're going to see more of. Collaborative partnerships allow vendors to leverage one another's strengths and serve customers in more effective, more meaningful ways.   In our conversation, we explor...

On this special episode of The Futurum Tech Podcast - Interview Series host Daniel Newman welcomes Chandrashekar LSP , Product Evangelist at Zoho to discuss a recent work engagement survey, how COVID-19 has impacted IT architecture and how to revamp your IT architecture with one easy test.   LSP and I explored how COVID-19 has accelerated digital transformation . Every company, no matter the indus...

On this special episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast - Interview Series, host Daniel Newman welcomes Maria Morais , Global Industry Director - Consumer Industries at SAP to discuss retail and the shifting forces that are having an impact in the industry, including the technology behind it all.   Maria and I explored t he trends that retail companies are watching and implementing as things return to...

On this special episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast - Interview Series , host Daniel Newman welcomes Karthik Rau , General Manager of Application Management at Splunk to discuss observability and application monitoring, COVID-19, and how IT departments are dealing with the recent changes brought about by the pandemic.   Karthik and I explored the rapid acceleration of digital initiatives due to CO...

For this week's episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast , Futurum's Daniel Newman and Sarah Wallace discuss major cloud announcements by vendors such as HPE, Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, and IBM that have been made in the last few weeks. These announcements confirm that there is continued momentum in cloud, especially during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic when companies have had shift to accelerate thei...

For this week's episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast , analysts Shelly Kramer and Sarah Wallace discuss how the Future of Work has transformed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tech industry has seen major announcements vendors regarding remote collaboration, workplace transformation and safety, and distance certification.   Their conversation includes a look at:   Cisco Live's Collaboratio...

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Fred McClimans and Shelly Kramer explore the topic of future-proofing the enterprise and transforming business operations. No politics, no economics — just a hard look at the importance of putting a plan process that doesn't just digitize things today and answer the easy questions (e.g. do we use Microsoft Teams or Cisco Webex for our meetings?...

On this episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast – Interview Series, host Daniel Newman welcomes Tim Tully , CTO and Senior Vice President of Splunk to discuss leadership through the crisis, how companies have changed in the last three months and new approaches to cloud, AI and ML technologies. Tim also gave a quick overview of .conf20, Splunk's upcoming virtual tech conference this October.   In our c...

On this special episode of The Futurum Tech Podcast - Interview Series host Daniel Newman welcomes Raju Vegesna , Chief Evangelist at Zoho to discuss data privacy and security including examining Zoho's new bold stance on privacy. In the last few years, it seems like the respect of privacy has declined. Ad networks collect massive amounts of information about consumers, giving seemingly endless ta...

In this episode of Futurum Tech Webcast , host Daniel Newman and Senior Analyst and Research Director Olivier Blanchard discuss the state and direction of the ever-expanding world of artificial intelligence (AI), and how, from the cloud to the edge, AI is expanding its reach including how chipmakers are driving the future of AI.   In their discussion, Olivier and Daniel explored the business, soci...

On this special episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast Interview Series, host Daniel Newman is joined by Doug Merritt , CEO of Splunk , to discuss the five steps for a data-driven future including how to establish data principles that make for a clear future. Without data we are flying blind — something companies can't afford to do in our current competitive environment.   In our conversation, Doug a...

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast , host Daniel Newman and Senior Analyst and Research Director Sarah Wallace examined the emerging cloud for healthcare market, the impact COVID-19 has had on cloud providers, risks during implementation and transformation, and the need for a security-first environment.   In their discussion, Daniel and Sarah explored the many advancements that have been...

In this special episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast Daniel Newman and Senior Analyst and Research Director Ron Westfall assess the 5G Security market, examining why 5G security warrants its own special requirements and considerations, what service providers need to do to make 5G security impregnable, the key use cases, the significance of endpoint security, the role of the 5G ecosystem, and why no...

On this special episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast - Interview Series, host Daniel Newman welcomes Rahul Patel , Senior Vice President and General Manager of Connectivity and Networking Business Unit at Qualcomm . The conversation centered around new Qualcomm announcements including the WiFi 6 extension.   Rahul and I spent time discussing the shift to a remote work environment for a big company...

On this special episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast - Interview Series, host Daniel Newman is joined by Logan Wilt , AI data scientist and Applied AI Center of Excellence Garage Leader at DXC Technology to talk about using AI to approach problem solving and the human-machine relationship we are now encountering. We also discussed how organizations can get started with AI and data collection — a mu...

In this special episode of the Futurum Tech Podcast - Interview Series, host Daniel Newman is joined by Scott Harrell , Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intent Based Networking Group at Cisco to discuss the challenges and opportunities in the enterprise introduced by the pandemic and how existing technology will help us safely return to normal.   Scott and Daniel covered a wide range o...