The EPAM Continuum Podcast Network

*Data and dairy.* You might not link these two words together—unless you’re Sidhant Jena, Co-Founder and Director of FaunaTech. In this conversation with our Duncan Freake, Jena explains his mission to bring “precision farming” to small farmers all over India (“probably the largest dairy producer in the world”) and, perhaps eventually, the globe. Jena is obsessed with solving the last-mile problem...

This episode of *Silo Busting* will school you on the topic of testing. In attendance are (1) Phillip Soffer, EPAM’s VP of Product-Service Systems; and (2) and Jonathan Lupo, our VP of Experience Design. Together they will ensure that the themes of testing, automation, and experience design are present and accounted for. Testing is critical in this day and age. “AIs are biased in favor of the data...

The cyberthreats are out there. They’re real. And they’re not going away. This is why having a strong Managed Detection and Response program is absolutely necessary for the modern organization. MDRS matters. And in the latest #CybersecurityByDesign conversation, Shariq Hassan, EPAM’s Senior Manager Technology and Security Consulting, and Anton Romm, our Service Delivery Manager, explain to Produce...

There’s no business like the idea business. That seems an apt motto for *The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War,* a comprehensive new book by Louis Menand. Menand, who splits his time writing for *The New Yorker* and teaching at Harvard, is fascinated by the culture heroes who successfully brought their wares to market between 1945 and 1965. Also fascinated is producer Ken Gordon and in t...

What’s the cost of risk? It’s a big question for all sentient humans—but an extremely pertinent one for Padraic O'Reilly, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of CyberSaint Security. In fact, the dollar value of risk is a key element in how he does business with clients, as he explains to Boris Khazin, our Global Head of DRM Services, in our latest #CybersecurityByDesign conversation. It’s quite a...

Imagine you’re a CEO. You settle into your office in the morning and open your laptop… and there's no way to communicate with clients. “No phones. No emails. Nothing,” says Ofer Levinger, Senior Director of Business Unit Operations at EPAM, on the latest #CybersecurityByDesign episode of *Silo Busting.* Levinger tells Adam Bishop, our Director of Information Security (and his podcast partner-in-cr...

Innovation and agile: What do they have in common? How are they different? How can they work together? This episode of *Silo Busting* is about providing you a broad perspective on the way we work. We invited Eli Feldman, EPAM’s CTO of Advanced Technology, and Chris Michaud, EPAM Continuum’s VP and Head of Innovation Practice, to talk it out. Innovation for Michaud is “the act of bringing a new ide...

ESG. Many companies are talking about these three letters but none of them have spelled out exactly what it means to measure—properly and effectively—their Environmental, Social, and Governance activities. The herculean challenges of attempting to do so prompted Jennifer Howard-Grenville, the Diageo Professor of Organization Studies at the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge,...

We learned many long-distance lessons during the pandemic. One of the most important involved visiting the doctor. As Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, author of *An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back* and Editor-in-Chief of *Kaiser Health News,* tells our Jonathon Swersey in the latest episode of *The Resonance Test:* “Many of us spend *way* too much time sc...

“If you do a penetration test to an organization and you get blocked, this is where you stop the test, right?” says Sharon Nimirovski who founded White-Hat Ltd., a leading Israeli cybersecurity firm recently acquired by EPAM. “But in real life, the attacker doesn’t do that.” In our latest #CybersecurityByDesign conversation Nimirovski tells Sam Rehman, our Chief Information Security Officer and SV...

People are, belatedly, getting smarter about privacy—and there are all kinds of business and social ramifications here. This is what Jesse Redniss, Founder & CEO of Qonsent and Co-Founder of BRAVE Ventures, and Sam Rehman, our Chief Information Security Officer and SVP, are talking about in the latest #CybersecurityByDesign episode of *Silo Busting.* Pointing to some very recent research, Redniss...

We’ve seen the future of risk management, and it’s going to be digital. Automaton and digital platforms are totally essential. Both Karl Viertel, CEO and Co-Founder of Alyne, and Boris Khazin, our Global Head of DRM Services, agree that Digital Risk Management is where we’re heading. In this episode of *Silo Busting,* these two experts delve into the idea of breaking silos, the importance of worki...

Jeffrey Schnapp’s career is a study in professional interoperability. He’s Faculty Co-Director at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and the Founder and Faculty Director of metaLAB (at) Harvard. He’s the Carl A. Pescosolido Chair in Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature and teaches at the famed Graduate School of Design. His business card identifies him...

The bad guys don’t necessarily want your apps. What interests them? Your APIs. In our latest #CybersecurityByDesign conversation David Stewart, CEO of Approov, tells Sam Rehman, our Chief Information Security Officer and SVP: “The majority of attacks that we see are not done by modified apps but they’re done by scripts which have studied the app to the extent of being able to impersonate traffic a...

When we engage with an organization, they typically seek to help their customers “be more effective with their products and solutions,” says Keth Crotty, a Director of Business Development at EPAM. Crotty’s talking about something called “partner enablement”—and in this episode of *Silo Busting* Crotty, he and Jonathan Lupo, our VP of Experience Design, gently unbox the concept. In the course of L...

As the world prepares to hang an open-for-business sign on our collective door, we’re at a threshold moment, one Albert Rees, VP and Head of Business Consulting at EPAM Continuum, has dubbed “Pre-Post-COVID.” In this episode of *Silo Busting,* he discusses the concept with Jason Peterson, EPAM’s Chief Financial Officer, and Larry Solomon, our SVP and Chief People Officer. The trio look at the curr...

Risk management has become a brave new digital world… though not every executive or organization recognizes this. Blake Brannon, CTO of One Trust, does. He recently spoke with Boris Khazin, our Global Head of DRM Services, and their conversation dug deep into risk-management’s unique new territory. “You move from this compliance-driven exercise that traditionally did GRC,” said Brannon, “to this o...

The world is finally, *cautiously,* about to reopen. This is much-needed good news for the beleaguered retail industry. Question is: How can retailers design a shopping experience that will truly work for this brave new world? According to Buck Sleeper, leader of our Restaurants and Retail Vertical, the answer is Blend Space, a recent proof-of-concept project about “not just brick-and-mortar shopp...

Layering biometrics on top of zero trust, says Bobby Varma, CEO and Co-Founder of Princeton Identity, is the way of the future. In the latest #CyberSecurityByDesign conversation, Varma and Boris Khazin, our Global Head of DRM Services, zoom in on this intriguing topic, one that’s extremely relevant in our current work-from-home world. Our *Silo Busting* conversationalists talk about how biometrics...

It’s tough to build trust in the digital age. Customers seek the kind of high-quality experiences one gets with, say, Amazon—and this means that many non-Amazonian industries need to rethink their operations. Brad Scrivner, President and CEO of Vast Bank and our guest on *The Resonance Test,* gets at this when he says, “Changing is a challenge” and admits that financial services “may be slower to...

“Having come out of months and months *starved* of human connection… our need and desire and *demand* for shared, in-person experience with others is going to really rise.” This is one of the many true remarks Noreena Hertz makes, in speaking with producer Ken Gordon, on the latest episode of *The Resonance Test.* Hertz, a British economist and bestselling author of *The Lonely Century: How to Res...

“We all know as consumers that we want more, better, faster—for less money,” says Rick Champagne, AVP and Talent Advisor at Liberty Mutual Insurance. The question is: “How do we as an organization deliver those capabilities to our internal partners and then our external partners?” Well, this is one of *several* big questions Champagne takes up, with Sandra Loughlin, the Managing Principal of EPAM’...

The world of mobile applications is insecure by default. That’s what you learn when you talk with Roel Caers, CEO of Guardsquare. In the latest edition of our #CybersecurityByDesign series, he tells Sam Rehman, our Chief Information Security Officer and SVP, why he’s always taken a zero-trust approach to mobile. Caers says that developers must become “aware of everything that is possible and can b...

Prepare yourself for an episode of *Silo Busting* with a tremendous amount of, as they say, yield. Alex Gounares, CEO of Polyverse Corporation, has returned pick up the zero-trust thread. This time around, he and Sam Rehman, our Chief Information Security Officer and SVP, are following their way down the security supply chain. Asks Gounares: “If you don’t know where your binaries are coming from a...

Healthcare in the pandemic era requires thoughtful innovation. One physician who’s up to the challenge is cardiologist Dr. Asif Ali, Chief Medical Officer of Preventric and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. In this sprightly conversation with Lisa Butcher, Senior Director of Digital Engagement at EPAM, Ali tells many stories. One of which involves a...