The neXt Curve reThink Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the neXt Curve reThink series that focuses on the matters of trust and privacy in a fast changing digital landscape - The State of Privacy & Trust. In this installment of The State of Privacy & Trust series, Leonard Lee of neXt Curve and Debbie Reynolds of Debbie Reynolds Consulting LLC share their key impressions and takeaways from the year in trust and privacy...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the neXt Curve reThink series that focuses on the state and future of the semiconductor industry - Silicon Futures. In this installment of the Silicon Futures series, Leonard Lee of neXt Curve and Karl Freund of Cambrian-AI Research provide discuss the big moments and the state of AI computing that has hyper-charged the semiconductor industry and made an "AI giant&...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the neXt Curve reThink series that focuses on the state of Open RAN and the future of open standards and technologies in mobile wireless infrastructure - The Radio to the RIC. In this installment of the Radio to the RIC series, Leonard interrogates Earl on the news that he broke in his LinkedIn article that shook the telecoms world for a week - AT&T's deal with...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of our neXt Curve's Analyst Corner series, "5G and Beyond", we welcome back renowned and opinionated industry analyst, Dean Bubley of Disruptive Analysis (www.disruptiveanalysis.com). Dean is a veteran analysts and widely read commentator on the telco industry and beyond. In this chat, Dean and Leonard Lee, Executive Analyst of neXt Curve discuss: *...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the neXt Curve reThink Analyst Corner series focused on 5G and beyond. In this installment of the 5G and Beyond series, Leonard is joined by renowned telco industry strategist and thought leader, Chetan Sharma, CEO of Chetan Sharma Consulting and the host of Mobile Future Forward, one of the preeminent executive summit for the mobile industry (www.mobilefutureforward.co...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the neXt Curve reThink series that focuses on the state of Open RAN and the future of open standards and technologies in mobile wireless infrastructure - The Radio to the RIC. In this installment of the Radio to the RIC series, Leonard is joined by special guest, Patrick Lopez, CEO and founder of {Core Analysis}, a boutique consulting firm that advises some of the leadi...

Send us Fan Mail The folks at Qualcomm were kind enough to invite neXt Curve on a private tour of Sony Honda Mobility's Afeela prototype vehicle powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon Digital Chassis suite of technologies. This vehicle is slated to hit the market in 2025. No, it is not a concept car like Qualcomm's SDV car which they unveiled at CES 2023 just a day before Sony made the an...

Send us Fan Mail In a recent social post, Leonard Lee, Executive Analyst of neXt Curve, suggested a reset of the 5G discussion to address over-shooting disillusionment and forgoing of potentially transformative 5G opportunities. The post was well received and prompted neXt Curve to reach out one of Qualcomm’s key 5G thought leaders, John Smee, SVP of Engineering and Wireless Research, for a coffee...

Send us Fan Mail The promise of AI has reached a fever pitch not seen since another hype that occurred just a couple of years ago that has long subsided - metaverse. This time, AI has once again spurred another hype cycle with the advent of generative AI popularized by ChatGPT. With great hopes of revolution and order of magnitude enhancements in productivity, the new generation of AI comes with f...

Send us Fan Mail Leonard Lee of neXt Curve is joined by special guest, Jack Gold of J.Gold Associates LLC, to discuss the meaning and relevance of Industry 4.0 after years of what seems a vision yet realized. If it is indeed the next industrial revolution, what is holding things back or are we further along than we think? In this installment of the Analyst Corner on IoT & Industry X.0, Jack an...

Send us Fan Mail Generative AI continues to dominate the techno headlines with a formidable hype cycle underway that we have not seen since, well,... metaverse. While everyone is drinking the Kool-Aid, few are talking about the actual value, utility of generative AI applications, but more concerning, few are talking about what is meant by personalization, corporate confidentiality when it comes to...

Send us Fan Mail Privacy protection is becoming a growing concern especially after the EU instituted GDPR back on May 25, 2018. We have come a long way with companies like Apple upturning digital marketing by giving users the power and right to opt-in to tracking with the introduction of ATT (Ad Tracking Transparency) feature introduced across the Apple ecosystem. Leonard Lee is joined by Debbie R...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the neXt Curve reThink series that focuses on the state of Open RAN and the future of open standards and technologies in mobile wireless infrastructure - The Radio to the RIC. In this installment of the Radio to the RIC series, Leonard and Earl discuss what the Open RAN Squid Game is and the ecosystem imperatives that will shape how vendors position themselves and go to...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the neXt Curve reThink series that focuses on the state of Open RAN and the future of open standards and technologies in mobile wireless infrastructure - The Radio to the RIC. In this installment of the Radio to the RIC series, Leonard and Earl discuss the state of the Open RAN "stack". What is it and is it ready for prime time? It is a question that dogs an e...

Send us Fan Mail This is a special Data Diva 911 edition of neXt Curve's reThink webcast series, Privacy & Trust, in collaboration with Debbie Reynolds of Debbie Reynolds Consulting LLC where were address the burning topics in privacy and trust in the world of digital and tech.  In this special episode, Debbie and Leonard talk about the implications of Microsoft's newly announced Bin...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the neXt Curve reThink series that focuses on the state of Open RAN and the future of open standards and technologies in mobile wireless infrastructure - The Radio to the RIC. This installment is the first of an ongoing series that neXt Curve's Leonard Lee will have with EJL Wireless Research President, Earl Lum, who is a widely-regarded expert on RAN infrastructur...

Send us Fan Mail neXt Curve's Leonard Lee and Prakash Sangam of Tantra Analyst share their key takes from Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked 2023 event held at the Masonic Theater in San Francisco on February 1, 2023. They also attended a special pre-event session on Samsung's sustainability strategy and program to translate goals into impact. Agenda: * Samsung Sustainability Strategy - 2:20...

Send us Fan Mail Privacy protection is becoming a growing concern especially after the EU instituted GDPR back on May 25, 2018. We have come a long way with companies like Apple upturning digital marketing by giving users the power and right to opt-in to tracking with the introduction of ATT (Ad Tracking Transparency) feature introduced across the Apple ecosystem. Leonard Lee is joined by Debbie R...

Send us Fan Mail Emerging technologies are hotbeds for detrimental hype and speculation often grounded in deep misconceptions of the subject technologies and dubious narratives that set increasingly exaggerated expectations. Some will argue that hype is good. They argue that it is necessary to draw interest and investment in “innovation”. Without it the invention economy cannot run. Is this truly...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the neXt Curve reThink series that focuses on the state of Open RAN and the future of open standards and technologies in mobile wireless infrastructure - The Radio to the RIC. This installment is the first of an ongoing series that neXt Curve's Leonard Lee will have with EJL Wireless Research President, Earl Lum, who is a widely-regarded expert on RAN infrastructur...

Send us Fan Mail 5G leadership is a hotly debated topic with much at stake as leading economies and regional operators vie for the bragging rights as the “leader” of the next generation network. Beyond bragging rights what is the importance of 5G leadership in the context of regional and global competitiveness? neXt Curve is joined by renowned telco industry strategy consultant, Chetan Sharma, to...

Send us Fan Mail For decades, the US has been the de facto world leader of technology and technology industry. With the rise of Digital China, US leadership in the crucial semiconductor industry no longer seems assured. neXt Curve is joined by Roger Entner of Recon Analytics to discuss the risks and remedies that the US technology sector and policymakers need to consider to sustain US technologica...

Send us Fan Mail Autonomous network and compute infrastructure is the aspiration, but the path runs through automation. Automation is deemed essential for scale-out edge cloud and hyperscale telco clouds. The questions is what are the realities that operators face to get their journey started, and what are the ground truths that vendors need to tune into to help, not distract with theory. neXt Cur...

Send us Fan Mail The chip industry has been in the spotlight for the past few years as its growing importance across industries such as automotive has become profoundly apparent. The chip supply chain is now a matter of geopolitical concern. It has prompted Western governments to contemplate undoing decades of globalization that have shaped the electronics industry of today. IDC’s Mario Morales jo...

Send us Fan Mail With the advent of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we are entering an epoch of global instability, bifurcation, and risk that threatens to undo years of convergence, standardization, openness, and globalization that have shaped the tech industry of today. Daniel Newman, founding partner of Futurum Research, joins neXt Curve in an open discussion about the future of tech at risk a...