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Mark Jeffrey is Co Founder and CEO of Guardian Circle, a blockchain-based startup focused on enabling people anywhere in the world to summon critical help from their smartphone. He’s an accomplished entrepreneur and CEO as well as a published author. Our conversation explores his path through technology, becoming one of the first podcasters to serialize fiction, the characteristics that make block...

Sean Parham is Group VP and Head of Product Management for the ABB Ability Platform. In our conversation, he covered his origins helping the telecom industry migrate the transition to broadband, and the lessons learned that apply today. The discussion touched on the concept of “Maslows Hierarchy of Value”, the parallels of systems management applied to the challenges of managing distributed assets...

Mike Dolbec is Executive Managing Director of GE Ventures, and in this episode of the podcast we cover his background, beginning with his work at the legendary Xerox PARC, the origins of his venture investing career and observations on recurring patterns in the technology industry. With a perspective on AI that dates back to the 1980s, he provides perspectives on the evolution of in the market, an...

George Matthew is the CEO and Chairman of Kespry, a provider of Aerial Intelligence solutions for heavy industry – construction, mining, paper and pulp, and insurance. Kespry’s custom built drones capture visual information from the air, helping its clients create digital twins to improve performance, visibility and reduce risk. Our conversation focused more on the company than we do typically, as...

Rami Avidan is a serial entrepreneur and former CEO of Wyless Group and Tele2 IoT and was creating connected solutions for customers even before the terms M2M and IoT came into broad usage. Our conversation touched on the growing interest in driving social impact from business today, the evolution of what has come to be known as IoT and key dynamics involved in advancing success. He highlights key...

Richard Soley is CEO of the Object Management Group, Executive Chairman of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and founder of the IoT Solutions World Congress. In this special edition of the Edge Podcast recorded on site in Barcelona, he shares some of the notable developments coming out of the conference. The IoT Solutions World Congress is differentiated from other events through the focus...

Syed “Z” Hosain is CTO and Founder of Aeris Communications. Our conversation covered the origins of Aeris, which has been delivering connectivity solutions in the market since before M2M and IoT were common terms. “Z” shared his perspective on the challenges in the early days of Connected Industry, along with some of the advances and innovations including layering on analytics that helped Aeris ev...

Our conversation with Param Singh covered his recent blog posts “Is IoT a Viable Market” and “The Long Tail of IoT”. The evolution of IoT has seen a lot of focus on bespoke solutions, and our conversation explores the distinctions between the types of use cases that are replicable, and those that fall along the “Long Tail”. The importance of business value is a recurring theme in our conversation,...

Our discussion with Ganesh Bell, President of Uptake focused on how the application of Machine Learning and AI is driving a new generation of solutions that go beyond enterprise software and business process automation. With the data created by machines and other contextual data, it’s possible to tackle far more complex, and industry specific challenges with Machine Learning and AI. He shared his...

Kelly Wanser is a technologist and entrepreneur, Executive Director of SilverLining, a not for profit climate research organization. Previously she was Principle Director of the The Marine Cloud Brightening Project, a program focused on research in reflecting sunlight to reduce heat in climate. She also sits on the Board of Directors for BioCarbon Engineering. Our conversation focused on the appli...

Dr. Thuc Vu is an entrepreneur and co-founder of OhmniLabs and Kambria, a decentralized open innovation platform focused on accelerating the development and adoption of the world's most advanced robotic technologies. Our conversation covered a range of topics, including the differences between industrial and consumer robotics, key advances in AI, the role of game theory in designing collaborative...

Author Max Borders tackles an broad range of topics relating to his new book The Social Singularity: How decentralization will allow us to transcend politics, create global prosperity, and avoid the robot apocalypse. Our conversation covered the factors that have led to the current political disfunction in the US, how unbalanced incentives evolve over time and the profound implications of decentra...

For Dan Yarmoluk, Director of IoT for AETK Technologies, work takes him wherever the “rubber hits the road” in Industrial IoT. Based in the Midwest, Dan’s customers include traditional manufacturing firms with a conservative bias toward adoption of new technologies. One of the key observations is that early IoT projects often misaligned the type of data collected from machines, for instance lackin...

Rob Tiffany is a technologist, CTO, board member, blogger, entrepreneur and thought leader in the IoT market. Our conversation covered his origins in the 1990s building connected systems for vending machine business using technologies considered primitive by today’s standards. We follow the progression of the industry through the evolution of powerful enabling technologies while fundamental princi...

Guido Jouret is the Chief Digital Officer at ABB, a technology leader in power grids, electrification products, industrial automation and robotics and motion. Our conversation covered a wide range of topics, including the dynamics of digitizing traditional operational technologies, the importance of Industrial IoT platforms particularly ABB’s Ability platform, the multi-faceted partnership with Mi...

Charlie Oliver is the CEO and founder of ServedFresh Media and founder of Tech2025, a leading technology focused community based in the New York City area. Our conversation covered the emergence of online communities in the late 2000s and the genesis of Tech2025 in late 2016. She discusses the divide that exists between people that work in the tech industry and average citizens, and the potential...

Our conversation with Fred Krueger, CEO of Workcoin addressed a range of issues related to blockchain technology – the promise, the technological shortcomings, critical innovations to drive adoption and the critical role of stable coins. In the podcast, Fred shares what he saw that makes blockchain technology such a breakthrough, he discusses the technological shortcomings of the Ethereum blockcha...

Our conversation with Vivek Wadhwa touched on a broad array of topics, following up on his two most recent books The Driver in the Driverless Car and Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain--and How to Fight Back. Our conversation covered the nature of exponential technologies as a foundation concept, along with the implications of AI/Machine Learning. He pr...

Our conversation with Sloan Brakefied CEO and Jon Fox, Chairman of Fr8 Network covered the current state of the global supply chain, and the inherent inefficiencies of paper based processes. Brakefied and Fox discuss the unique technology challenges faced with the supply chain and how blockchain technology represents a new approach to solving long time challenges for market participants. The conve...

David White is a principal at Ontos Global, a boutique consulting firm based in Berkeley, CA and the author of Rethinking Culture: Embodied Cognition and the Origin of Culture in Organizations. Our conversation explored his deep background into organizational culture, the evolution of cognitive anthropology and some of the misperception around culture - what it is, why it’s important, and why it’s...

Microsoft has emerged as one of the most important technology players in the Internet of Things. Sam George takes our conversation through the origins and evolution of Microsoft’s IoT strategy, touching on the key product offerings, the role of partnerships and customers behind the fundamental drive to make everything simpler for users. Our discussion covered platforms, analytics and AI, the role...

Atti Riazi is the CIO of the UN shared how technology has played an integral role in her life since she was a child, leading to her role today. She discussed the implications of technological evolution, the potential to address meaningful global challenges and the need to engage public and private partnerships to address the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. In particular, the ability for techn...

The Coming Clean Energy Wave – How Analytics, IT and People Will Power Transformative Change - An interview with Dr. Chandu Visweswariah, CEO and Founder of Utopus Insights, a Vestas Wind Systems A/S company. Dr. Chandu Visweswariah leads one of the most forward thinking teams in all of energy. Utopus Insights (acquired by Vestas in February 2018) applies deep analytics and domain expertise to ene...

Navigating Connected Industry - from AI to Quantum Computing - A conversation with Cisco’s VP of Strategic Innovation Maciej Kranz Maciej Kranz is one of the most prominent thought leaders in IoT, and his book Building the Internet of Things and blog are essential reading for anyone interested in the topics. Our conversation covered the changes in the market and surprises since the launch of his b...

What the future of tech holds – Parsing 2018 predictions - A conversation with Duncan Stewart, Head of TMT Research for Deloitte Canada. Duncan Stewart is the author of Deloitte’s annual Tech, Media and Telecom Predictions, which provides specific forecasts around tech trends and provides extensive strategic food for thought for businesses in all industries. Our conversation covered the prediction...