The Silicon Valley Insider Show with Keith Koo

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo is joined with Ankit Srinivas, Marketing Manager of Silicon Valley Insider to talk about how 2019 was for technology companies and their predictions for 2020. On this week's Cyber-tip, Keith talks about the Wyze camera data breach. Wyze is a widely used home and office security camera system and estimated 2.8 million users had their data stolen...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo talks about his work with the California Governor's Cyber Security Task Force and how they are trying to address the shortage of 73,000+ skilled Cyber Security Professionals in the public and private sectors. Keith's guests from the Workforce Development sub group are: Jimmy Sanders, Head of Cyber Security - Netflix DVD Keith Clement, Professor...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's guest is Chris Cochran, Head of Threat Intelligence for Netflix and the Co-Host of the Hacker Valley Studios podcast. Chris talks with Keith about how he got started in the military which led to a career in Information Security leading up to his role at Netflix. Keith and Chris also talk about how to get a job in the Cyber defense industry. As...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's guest is Mark Jeffrey, Award winning author and Co-Founder and CEO of Guardian Circle. Keith and Mark discuss how Guardian Circle strives to be a next generation "Life Alert" and the harrowing story of how Mark first conceived of the concept of creating community and incident response using blockchain technology. On this week's Cyber-tip, Keit...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's guest is Russell, Co-Founder and CEO of EZ365 is a digital ecosystem that combines aspects of online gaming, cryptocurrency trading and blockchain education. Russell discusses the team behind EZ365 and their vision to for blockchain and cryptocurrencies to gain mass adoption through industries like gaming, entertainment and trading which have...

On this week's episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's guest is Steven Sprague, Founder and CEO of Rivetz a company dedicated to making identity safer and simpler via their technology. www.rivetz.com Steven discusses his background in enterprise technology and telecom and how due to the rapid advancement of connected devices there is a fundamental need to redesign how devices identify with...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo has special guest Servane Demol, Founder and Executive Director of Code for Fun a non-profit dedicate to teaching children grades K-12 coding skills as well as providing professional development for educators. Servane shares her deep experience in technology companies such as Align and Facebook and how that spurred her passion to empower ch...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's guest is Richard Dennis, Founder and CEO of Temtum a decentralized network platform powered by blockchain and quantum computing principles whose vision is to reach the unbanked and underbanked in all parts of the world using the Temtum platform. www.temtum.com Richard gives his background in academia as an expert in both computing and cybersec...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo's guests are cyber security experts Sushila Nair and Scott Boettcher of NTT Data Services who discuss the latest trends in enterprise security emphasizing the importance of strong security controls for any sized company and/or organization. Keith discusses the challenges that many managers and executives face with limited budgets and increa...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo has guest Farzam Kamalabadi who is the President of Future Trends and the CEO of the Fight to Fame blockchain. Farzam is recognized as a global financier who spent over 30 years in China where he also learned to speak the Mandarin, Shanghainese and Cantonese dialects. Farzam also talk about the promise of blockchain as a technolgy. On this...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo has special guest Lisa Woodley, Vice President of Customer Experience NTT Data, Inc. to discuss her passion in life; human-centered design. Lisa shares her very diverse background starting out in a the non-technical world (double majoring in English and Philosophy with a minor in Pscyhololgy) and continuing to explore the intersection betwe...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's guest is Greg Magarshak, Founder and CEO of QBIX a platform based on open source software that wants to change the world. QBIX believes: "There needs to be an open source software platform that any community anywhere in the world can run on local intranets, whether it’s a university in Bulgaria or a village in Africa. Collaborating on a docume...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's special guest is Josh Levine, Principal of Great Mondays culture design consulting firm and Founder of Culture LabX a non-profit. Josh is also the author of "Great Mondays: How to Design a Company Culture Employees Love". Josh is also a Forbes HR contributor. Josh and Keith discuss the importance of defining corporate culture and the critical...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's guest is Colin Pape the Founder of Presearch a decentralized search engine? Imaging a Google search engine in which Google doesn't get all the data and analytics on you and your browsing habits and then selling that data to advertisers and marketers without your knowledge. Then imagine that you can create your own communities with Presearch's...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo reports back from the Blockchain Bridge Conference - San Francisco which was focused on enterprise adoption of blockchain as a technology. Keith was the moderator of the DeFi (Decentralized Financial) Products and Services panel and a judge of the startup pitch competition. Keith's guest on this segment of the show is David Nage who also has his...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo reports back from the Blockchain Bridge Conference - San Francisco which was focused on enterprise adoption of blockchain as a technology. Keith was the moderator of the DeFi (Decentralized Financial) Products and Services panel and a judge of the startup pitch competition. Keith's two guests are: David Moss, Founder and CEO of Strongblock.io an...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo's guest is Sean Barger, Founder and Managing Partner of CPUcoin a decentralized computing platform. Sean and Keith kick off the show with exploring Sean's deep history with technology in Silicon Valley. There a flashback to the early part of Sean's career working on the first viral video game (hint a company that was located in Keith's hometown...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo has guest Robert Beadles aka "Crypto Beadles) talks about his company Monarch Pay. Monarch Pay along with the Monarch Wallet allows merchants to set up a recurring payments from their customers who want to pay in cryptocurrencies. "Crypto Beadles" is a serial entrepreneur with a long history in the bitcoin / blockchain ecosystem. Tune in to hear...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo has special guest Joy Ajlouny founder and former CMO of Fetchr the largest e-commerce platform in the middle east. Joy discusses her personal journey of becoming a serial entrepreneur and how her 6 year journey to the middle east started with literally two suitcases and a plane ticket to Dubai. Fetchr became a shipping, logistics and package del...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo is a guest at the Tribe Accelerator's last stop during their global tour. After visits in Singapore, Shanghai and Seoul. Tribe wraps up at the Orange Silicon Valley Offices in San Francisco, California! The SF demo day features all the companies in Tribe's first batch. Tribe is the world's first government backed blockchain accelerator and the S...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, Keith Koo has returning guest Tiffany Xingyu Wang a thought-leader in public and private sector partnerships and cross-border investments. Tiffany discusses the importance of the proper relationship between the public and private sectors and how these organizations can successfully work together to support government sponsored infrastructure projects to a...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo has very special returning guest Kris Fitzgerald, Chief Technology Officer of NTT Data to discuss this year's 10th annual NTT Data Open Innovation 10.0 (OIC10) contest. NTT Data invites startup businesses around the globe to submit ideas for new technologies that can make the world a better place. Worldwide, regional contests will be held i...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo is doing a live show from the floor of the MoneyShow San Francisco 2019 at the San Francisco Hilton - Union Square. Keith's guests are: Daniel M. Gramza, President of DMG Advisors, LLC -Daniel was a speaker at the Money Show and discussions the promise of blockchain as a technology. Keith and Dan also talk about a diamond backed stable coin. Je...

This Week's Silicon Valley Insider is an encore presentation with Hugh Molotsi, CEO of Ujama on being an "Intrapreneur". Scroll down to find out how to apply for this year's NTT Data Open Invitation Contest 10.0. On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo's special guest is Hugh Molotsi - Co-author of The Intrapreneur's Journey, CEO of Ujama & Former VP of Innovation and at Intuit and I...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo has his first third time guest Teresa Grobecker, equity partner of US Capital Global and CEO of Real Estate Consortia www.reconsortia.com and how she is now called "The Real Estate Industry's Best Friend" due to the referral platform that reC is creating. Keith and Teresa discuss the significant disruption in the Real Estate industry in-light of...