The Silicon Valley Insider Show with Keith Koo

On this week's 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 Singa...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo and executive producer Tess Phelan discuss the story behind the Silicon Valley Insider Show. For this week's Cyber-Tip Keith discusses the controversy around FaceApp the free viral app that has over 150,000,000 users and allows them to see how they will look 20 years from now. Keith reminds you how to stay safe and the implications of facial re...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider Keith's special guest Prithu Prakash who is the CTO of the Center for Innovation Commercialization, LLC https://www.ciclsolutions.com and the VP of Business Development for Redline Communications. Prithu is also a member and contributor of the Forbes Business Development council: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinessdevelopmentcouncil/people/prithuprakas...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider Keith's special guest are former State of Illinois I.T. Executives: Sean T. O'Kelly, Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the State of Illinois for Financial and Professional Regulation and Randy Kowalski, Deputy Director of Entrepreneurship, Technology and Innovation and now Principal and Co-Founder of the Illinois Smart State and Region Association. Sean, Rand...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider Keith's special guest is John Wolpert, Senior Product Executive and "Seeker of Awesomeness" at Consensys. John discusses his career in technology from IBM, to Flywheel (and makes a comment how instead an app to hail Taxis they should have created the app to hail cars), to becoming a founding member back at IBM for the Hyperledger Fabric. Since then, John has b...

Do you want to learn about how the traditional automobile ownership model is being disrupted or you thinking of starting a career in the ride-sharing business (like being an Uber driver) without having a car? Be sure to listen to this episode of Silicon Valley Insider with Keith Koo. On this week's show, Keith has serial entrepreneur and special guest, Scott Painter, Founder and CEO of Fair.com to...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Keith covers the first anniversary of the EOSIO (EOS) Mainnet Launch with special guests: 1) Brock Pierce, Co-Founder of Block. One & Blockchain Capital & 2) David Packham Founder of EOS 42 and the Chintai Token Leasing Exchange. In the first segment, Keith and David discuss the 2nd Annual Tulip Emerging Technology Conference (www.tulipconf.com) and the EOS B...

Replay: On this week's Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo has returning guest Josh Trujillo, Head of 42 Accelerate. 42 Silicon Valley and 42 Paris program which is a completely tuition free college level and above computer science education. Keith, who is a mentor at 42 Accelerate, recalls how Josh was a cadet on the 42 Silicon Valley program before spearheading the creation of 42's own incubat...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Renee Wang, CEO and Tina Kuan, CMO of Castbox.fm and sister company Contentbox.one talk about their innovative approach to content curation and monetization. Hear how Renee got the idea to create Castbox when she was at Google as an app monetization expert. "Castbox is an easy to use podcast player for podcast lovers, offering a super clean layout and easy to...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo has returning guest Josh Trujillo, Head of 42 Accelerate. 42 Silicon Valley and 42 Paris program which is a completely tuition free college level and above computer science education. Keith, who is a mentor at 42 Accelerate, recalls how Josh was a cadet on the 42 Silicon Valley program before spearheading the creation of 42's own incubator/accel...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo joined with industry veteran Charlie Ganz, Founder and CEO of the Center for Innovation and Commercialization, LLC . CICL is an innovation bank that represents hundreds of innovative companies across all industries to help accelerate commercialization, market entry, strategic partnerships with Fortune 500 Companies, distribution channels. The CI...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo sits down with return guest Teresa Grobecker, equity partner of US Capital Global and CEO of Real Estate Consortia (reC) and they discuss how the entire real estate eco-system can benefit using their revolutionary platform for real estate provenance (def. a record of history and authenticity) powered by blockchain technology. Teresa's first visi...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo has return guest Gopinath (Gee) Sivalingam the Founder of Tulip Emerging Technologies Conference which is being held at Bespoke conference center June 4th-5th in San Francisco, CA. www.tulipconf.com Keith and Gee discusses Gee's start in emerging technologies like blockchain which led to the inaugural conference last year which included note...

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo has guest and former Cisco colleague Molly Tschang, Founder and CEO of Abella consulting. http://www.abella.consulting/ Molly and Keith recall the dot com era days as they integrated virtually all of Cisco's mergers and acquisitions (Molly has led over 80+ integrations over her career) and what it was like to work for a high performing team....

On this episode of Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo has special guest John Peterson, Chief Product Officer of Stellar Cyber (stellarcyber.ai) an innovative cyber security company using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to empower SMBs (small and medium sized businesses) to gain access to the same types of advanced security tools that Fortune 500 companies do. John discuss...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo's guests are Liz Kukka, Director of Programs at Ethereum Classic Labs (ETC) and an investor with ETC's parent group DFG (Digital Finance Group) and Brett Noyes, Managing Director of Unbank Ventures. In the first part of the show Keith and Liz discuss Liz's inspiring background from soccer coach to MBA to leading programs at some of the best kno...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo is joined by Aaron Lowry, Founder and CEO of Ethernode. Ehternode is building infrastructure software and hardware to transform the way people connect to and interact with Ethereum blockchains. The EtherNode is a robust piece of hardware designed to not only host nodes but also serve as the base of a secure smart home network. It’s an easy plug...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo has return guest Kris Fitzgerald, CTO of NTT Data who discusses the recent NTT Data Open Innovation 9.0 finals that was held in Tokyo, Japan. This is a follow-up to an earlier show that discusses NTT Data's Open Innovation initiative: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/1-11-19 Three winners are highlighted during the show: 1)...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo is joined by start-up mentor and advisor Shawn Flynn. Shawn recently started his cable TV show "Silicon Valley Successes" as well as launched his eBook "Silicon Valley Successes - Transcripts from the Show Volume 1" https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Valley-Successes-Transcripts-Show-ebook/dp/B07NVSBTRQ/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_3?keywords=silicon+valley+s...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo is joined by Shuvro Biswas, Founder and CEO of Cryzen and Brian Lora, Cryzen's Head of Business Development. Cryzen is an algorithmic trading platform for cryptocurrencies and is analogous to algorithm trading platforms for traditional securities like stocks. The show goes into detail about Cryzen's platform works and what it takes to get start...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo is joined by Michael Drobac and Greg Walden of McGuire Woods Consulting and the Small UAV Coalition to discuss what companies and individuals need to know about flying drones legally and safely. Michael and Greg also discuss the history of the Small UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) Coalition and the stakeholders involved including such companies...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo is joined by guest John Madigan, Senior Security Architect at Check Point Software to talk about some of the latest developments from Check Point Research on the state of Cyber Crime. In summary, cyber crime is ever changing with hackers and bad actors increasingly using more sophisticated techniques to gain unauthorized access to systems and s...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo has return guest Edgar Muñoz, CEO of Aeronyde back to discuss "drones as a service". Managed services and their providers are well known in the I.T. industry. With the crushing weight of regulations (such as the FAA) how should organizations or municipalities take steps to evaluate and adopt drone technology? Keith and Edgar do a deep dive into...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo speaks with Dr. Mike Fenn, PhD who is the Director of Healthcare and Lifesciences at Harvard Innovation Labs. Mike goes into detail of what Harvard Innovation Labs is all about and how the ecosystem works including how startups apply for the program and how corporate partners engage with these startups. Keith and Mike also talk about where innov...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo has guest Rob Nance, Managing Partner of City Block Capital to discuss digital transformation in Venture Capital. City Block's mission is to: "...provide accessibility and liquidity to private company investing so that investors from around the globe can participate in the growth of our digital economy. Our flagship NYCQ fund is open for investm...