IT Talks by Redpill Linpro

Johan Linåker, Post Doc Researcher at Lund University shares conclusions from his research on open data, eco systems, Government-as-a-platform and more. He lets us in on: How to enable better digital services Open innovation How MyData moves the ownership of data Advantages, risks and drivers Examples from other countries And much more.

Listen to Margrethe Monsen and Ingvar Hagelund talking about Open Source from early 90ies and onwards. Remembering modem beeps, Linus Torvalds, the GNU-project. Also explaining what research has to do with Open Source and why Steve Balmer thought that Linux was a cancer. Are you familiar with the browser war and Pang-pang steak? If not, Ingvar and Margrethe will let you in on the answers.

We meet Magnus Hagander who is the President of the board for PostgreSQL Europe. PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system. We talk about the importance of relational databases and the work within the developer community. Magnus works at Redpill Linpro in Stockholm, with support and training services, as well as customer development work.

Kristina Gyllander is a team leader at Västra Götalandsregionen IT. She talks about what system science is and explains her job, how to lead an IT integration team.

Meet IT project leader Emelie Lindblad, who used to work at a casino and as a flight attendant, now team leader at VGR IT. She tells how she got the job, success factors, and challenges to lead an organisation in strong growth. It is also an inspiring story about changing careers.   

Susanne Ljungkvist, Kristina Gyllander and Emelie Lindblad are managers at VGR IT. They talk about how to lead an IT-integration team, success factors and why it is so fun to go to work.

We are starting 2021 with an episode of IT Talks that is much about a subject that is close to our hearts, namely sustainability and the environment. With the help of Magnus Ivarsson, EV charging enabler and co-founder of Easy Charging, we get valuable information on green-tech, how to live more environmentally friendly, and how the market for charging of electric cars and solar power is evolving....

Meet Jens Rencrantz, Head of ICC and Business Owner Integrated Customer Experience at the Swedish Tax Agency, a public organisation with about 10.000 employees and an IT department that consists of 1.200 people. Jens is responsible for integrations and the ICC (Integration Competency Center), a department in the middle of the digitalisation, where they are working towards the goal of being an inte...

Meet Sandra Rylander and Hannes Augustesen, two new consultants at Redpill Linpro. They will give you valuable insights on why you should aim to be certified, the best way to prepare for a certification, the benefit of attending a course ahead of your certification attempt, and how a certificate can be a win for you, the company you work for, and its partners. You will also get lots of tips and in...

Listen to Linda Wiklund from Flygbussarna, talking about the potential in data, technology, and culture. She shares advice on how to go from strategy to tactics, how to work with business development in an organisation that is under pressure, and why the quality of data and how the data flow is important to Flygbussarna. And in the end, she reveals why simplicity is key.

Project and System Manager IT at HAV Urban Ekström Nätt ponders about how the public sector can work with digitalisation, sharing information and cooperate. He also talks about the importance of increasing competence and knowledge around digitalisation, to gain a higher maturity level. And how IT can be a forceful enabler

What are the expectations and demands on a municipality today? How can a small municipality work with digitalisation? Should everything be digital? Listen to Göran Westerlund, Chief Digital Officer at Alingsås kommun, answering these, and many more questions. Göran is an experienced CDO and has extensive knowledge of the public sector. He shares insights on culture vs structure, how to increase th...

How to manage accessibility when your IT landscape consists of 1,200 servers, almost 70 different systems, 1.2 million customers, employees and partners? Anna-Karin Stolt, Solutions Owner Accessibility and identity, at Västtrafik knows, and shares her experience in this episode. Learn why cooperation is key, get tips on how to succeed as an IT manager, and be inspired by the way Västtrafik is work...

Listen to Marcus Oledal, Head of Business Innovation at EDRMedeso, sharing knowledge around simulations. How they have evolved from just a technical thing to creating business value. He talks about real-life applications, automating simulations, digital twins, Industry 4.0, and how the development of simulations bears similarities to program development. Also, he lets us in on what skiing has in c...

Embark on a container trip that starts in the 1970s and ends a few years from now. Niclas Jonsson and Per Stene will be your guides and they will talk about where the idea of containers came from, the difference between virtual servers and containers, and share some thoughts on where containers will go from now. Docker, Solaris, OpenVZ, Kubernetes, OpenShift, FTP, namespace, Jails, and many more w...

Meet Magnus Petzäll, CIO at HAV (Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management), who has a passion for digitalisation. Listen to why he thinks that all organisations should start to investigate its information assets and by doing that open up for innovation. He also shares thoughts on leadership, communication, and what kind of qualifications and traits will make a successful CIO. Magnus shares h...

Follow Tore Anderson and Lars Olafsen in this technical deep dive, starting with the practice of connecting a server to more than one network – or multihoming – in specific, multihoming with Linux. They will also introduce you to policy based routing (PBR), network namespaces, and virtual routing and forwarding (VRF). You will get examples on how to go about different scenarios and learn how to so...

Arduino has become a real success, and is backed by a huge community. When everything is connected it could be an advantage to know how and why it works and Arduino can be your entrance to understanding. Why not build an irrigating system as a first project? Sounds complicated? Billy Beltran will introduce you to this platform for learning how our electronic devices are constructed and connected....

What is self service? Are there any differences between internal and external self services? How can an IT department benefit from self services? These and many more questions are debated in this IT Talks episode with Daniel Hederstedt, Head of IT Infrastructure at Arbetsförmedlingen, and Henrik Gavelli. By listening to the episode, you will also learn more about the three key areas; culture, stru...

Yngve Sandal and Mia Ryan gives an explanation to how DevOps and C//CD for machine learning works. It is about automation, launching code in production faster, and tearing down the silos, and then analytics is added to the receipt. You will get examples from the oil industry and retail companies. Mia and Yngve also talks about algorithms and trained models, and how they are connected to AWS. And y...

A fast track to understanding CI/CD, what it is, how it works, and why it works so well for both development and operations. Lars Olafsen and Mia Ryan explains why practice makes perfect and describes agile as the process, CI/CD as the tool and DevOps as the culture.

Lars Larsson CEO of Varnish Software and Henrik Gavelli reflects on how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected businesses, markets, customers, and more. Why is the coffee machine important? How do we build relations and trust when we only meet digitally? What will 5G mean in terms of digitalisation and automation? These are questions that they talk about in this episode of IT Talks.

Mia Ryan and Lars Olafsen takes us through CI/CD, containers, machine learning, and DevOps pipelines. They explain different aspects of how to use pipelines, give you examples of machine learning projects, touches data engineering, and let you in on why you will benefit from automating your work processes. Learn also how the world of developers meet the world of data scientists, and what it can br...

Listen to Daniel Hederstedt, Head of IT Infrastructure at Swedish Public Employment Service, and Henrik Gavelli when they are talking about what COVID19 has taught us this far. They elaborate on new ways of working, new areas of focus, new skills required and much more. You will also learn how Swedish Public Employment Service went from 2.000 home offices to 7.000, the importance of continuous lea...

Annika Kjellandsson gives her view on male and female within the IT industry and what the pro's and/or con's can bring. She also reflects on how attitudes has changed over the years and why a mix of gender, age, background is something to strive for.