Peggy Smedley Show

Peggy wraps up the final segment of the show with comments from the audience about regulatory barriers to standards, the next generation, and sustained AI R&D investment. She says the next generation is our future and we need to think about an action plan that takes the next generation into consideration. http://peggysmedleyshow.com

Peggy and Don Korfhage, president, SQUEAKS and IGear, chat about what drives manufacturing today and why results-driven communication is so important. He talks about the drivers of this transformation: both technology and cultural, citing the importance of recognizing the evolution of technology and that the younger generations are very social, collaborative, and connected today. Today, he says we...

Peggy digs into how AI (artificial intelligence) is changing the nature of work, saying that it will yield high economic benefits for the United States. She also highlights a new plan from NIST that identifies how the government needs to bolster AI standards. However, while it is a solid plan, she cautions that we need to make sure that we are creating AI standards that are flexible enough and to...

The challenge for businesses today is finding a great employee for the future. Peggy and Chad Storlie, author, Combat Leader to Corporate Leader and Battlefield to Business Success, retired Lieutenant Colonel, Special Forces, U.S. Army, talk about the unique skillsets of military veterans. He explains how they can help with team building, dealing with chaotic environments, and help you study your...

Peggy and Carlene Ileto, executive director, products and services delivery management office, U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, talk about women in IT and the importance of failure. She also digs into how service centers are going high-tech today and that the efforts of reducing paper was a major effort at the IRS, but provided significant value. They also touch on the topics of cybersecurity, how...

Peggy says data-center innovation is going to ramp up, as it is trending toward two poles: large and small. She says we need to push creative minds to be innovative and that data centers need to prioritize physical and digital security, no matter the size. http://peggysmedleyshow.com

Peggy and Kailu Guan, co-founder and chief creative officer, HelloAva, talk about bringing smart learning to skin care and healthcare products. She says it is very important to capture accuracy of how well product will work on user's skin and says the goal is to have AI (artificial intelligence) as a tool to empower the decision making process. https://www.helloava.co/

Peggy and Laz Vekiarides, CTO and cofounder, ClearSky Data, discuss the growth of data, edge computing, and the need for storage technology. He says the speed of light is finite, and as a corollary, our patience as human beings is limited. Edge computing helps by positioning resources you can interact with that are nearby. They also discuss the need for security. http://www.clearskydata.com

In 2025, each connected person will have at least one data interaction every 18 seconds. Peggy shares that we are expecting a whole lot of data traffic and we need to answer the question: How are we going to keep up with all the storage demands? She summarizes what data centers look like today and what is next. http://peggysmedleyshow.com

Peggy and Joshua Peschel, assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering, Iowa State University, talk about the vast amount of data that exists in agriculture and how services that are sold in the cloud are becoming the new normal. He says there are two points of concern when looking at transmission of data and that we have a whole new level of security that we need to talk about.

Peggy and Michael Ludden, futurist, speaker, product leader and developer platform expert, global head of developer advocacy, and principal augmented reality advocate, Bose, talk about how technology is a tool and how it impacts working trends. He says industries will be disrupted with technology, but historically working trends have always gotten better for humans, with new technology. He notes w...

Peggy explains why the data center market is growing. She says there is increasing demand from hyperscale cloud users and that hyperscale data centers are going up all over the world. Further, the growth of the data-center market is going to boost other industries such as construction.

Continuing the conversation, Peggy and Jaishree Subramania, Sr. Director, Azure IoT, Microsoft, talk about the next wave in the IoT, which will see leading companies break away from the pack. They talk about bringing IoT into business and the biggest takeaway from new research, as well as several use cases.

Peggy and Jaishree Subramania, Sr. Director, Azure IoT, Microsoft, talk about IoT adoption and security and findings in its new report. She also addresses that there are three key obstacles that threaten to hold companies back. They discuss that the IoT is foundational and serves as a gateway to business transformation, but that we need to address security.

Peggy highlights numbers related to IoT (Internet of Things) security and adoption from a new Microsoft report. She shares adoption numbers and address the fact that there is an IoT skills gap that impacts adoption of technology and that we need more skilled workers in the market. She also highlights Microsoft's key ingredients to IoT success.

Peggy and Scott Schober, CEO, Berkeley Varitronics Systems, and author of Hacked Again, discuss how credit card skimmers have evolved. He says we have to be extra careful at unfamiliar gas stations because cyber criminals can steal a lot of information at the pump. He explains in detail how credit card skimmers can steal information.

Are we all screwed? Peggy and Richard Forno, senior lecturer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMBC) Dept. of computer science and electrical engineering, discuss the reality of cybersecurity. He explains that data breaches are happening all the time, so much so that we are becoming immune, and that we need to plan for things like if the cloud goes down.

Peggy continues the discussion on AI (artificial intelligence), offering tips. She asks: If an organization hasn't implemented a strategy, is it really prioritizing AI? She also digs into the top two reasons AI projects fail, saying the lack of a skilled staff is only going to worsen in the years ahead and companies need to prepare for it now.

Peggy and Barbara Roche, managing partner, SpeakWell Partners, talk about inspiring and leading a team. She shares the term VUCA, which means volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous, and that if you are not effective at change management and change leadership, everyone will suffer. She suggests whatever can create certainty, use it.

Infrastructure projects have been plagued with waste and inefficiency. Peggy and Adam Klatzkin, vice president, business development for iTwin Services, Bentley Systems, discuss the impact of the digital twin on business. He says, on average, projects run one year behind schedule and predictive analytics can be leveraged on infrastructure projects. He also defines the digital twin and says it has...

The bad guys are out there! Peggy shares the latest on cyber intelligence, indicating that nearly 70% of incidents are due to human error. She asks: Can your employees spot a fake email? She digs into a couple of new reports, including one that highlights the three highest threat categories.

Peggy and James Arthur Ray, entrepreneur, author, life and business coach, talk about why leaders are unfit to lead in today's world, citing several reasons including the fact that leaders don't make decisions quickly enough. He says today's perfection is tomorrow's failure and that we need to invest time in emotional intelligence and self-awareness and look at return on impact and return on influ...

Peggy and Geoff Mulligan, CTO for IIoT, Jabil, and co-founder, Skylight Digital, discuss the inter-operability problem we face today and the need for open standards. He says we need to get out of our own way in how we interconnect things. He answers how to future proof and get started, pointing to the need for open APIs (application programming interfaces).

Peggy defines zero trust, saying at its core it is an approach to securing all access across an enterprise. She says zero trust systems never trust other systems, giving an analogy. She also walks through the history, saying zero trust was coined about a decade ago and Google is one of the reasons we are all talking about zero trust. She also walks through the five fundamental assertions of zero t...

Peggy and Joshua Peschel, assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering, Iowa State University, talk about cybersecurity in businesses, such as agriculture. He says security gets tricky and being able to secure devices is key. He says to be aware of bring your own IoT devices and that there is nothing wrong with being a little paranoid when it comes to technology.