The Silicon Valley Insider Show with Keith Koo

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo speaks with Keith Costello of IBM's Global Business Services (GTS) division which compromises 105,000 employees and generates $34BB in revenue. Keith Costello leads the partnership between IBM and SAP. Recently SAP & IBM announced 100 successful customer engagements in modernizing their legacy SAP systems to SAP S4/HANA. Keith and Keith discuss...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo re-airs a show with Sierra Circuits a top 50 family owned business in the Silicon Valley as they will be featured at DesignCon - the premier high-speed design & signal integrity event for chip, board & systems engineers which is happening Jan 31- Feb 2, 2017 in the Silicon Valley. Keith speaks with Amit Bahl, Director of Sales and Marketing and...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo has Vishal Karir, CFA and Chief Investment Officer of Huddl an innovative FinTech marketplace that helps any investor (average or accedited) match interests and invest together. Huddl has a unique vision for users of their marketplace platform. 1) Access to investments that average investors might not necessarily get 2) A social support system t...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo's guests are Eric Clark, Chief Digital Officer and Kris Fitzgerald, Chief Techology Officer of NTT Data to discuss NTT Data's Open Innovation Contest. NTT Data and its parent company NTT is one of the largest Global IT solutions delivery firms in the world. With over 100 The Open Innovation Contest is a global contest that includes events in 20...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo is joined by Sierra Circuits a top 50 family owned business in the Silicon Valley. Keith speaks with Amit Bahl, Director of Sales and Marketing and Lucy Iantosca, Head of Content Marketing about Sierra Circuits latest innovation, CATLAM their patented process for Cataylyic Lamanates that allows a printed circuit board (PCB) to be the size of a...

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo re-airs a very popular show with special guest Gary Smith who is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, Ca. Gary was also a professor at Yale and has written over 80 academic papers and 13 books and with his most recent being "The AI Delusion". With all the news regarding "Ar...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo sits down with Bridget Karlin, CTO of IBM's Global Technology Services (GTS) division which compromises 105,000 employees and generates $34BB in revenue. Bridget is also being honored as a 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Legacy Award winner for top Women leaders in technology. Bridget tells Keith of her personal journey from starting her ca...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo sits down with Teresa Grobecker, SVP 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 is well known in the California real...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo sits down with Teresa Grobecker, SVP of US Capital Global and CEO of Real Estate Consortia (reC) discusses 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 is well known in the California real estate...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo speaks with return guest Nir Gaist who is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Nyotron a next generation Cybersecurity technology company. Nir and Keith are also joined by Russell Lopiccolo the Global VP of Sales for Nyotron. Nir discusses how Nyotron's innovation in a security solution that doesn't rely on the followng buzzwords: Artifi...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo speaks with Thomas Nimmo, CEO of Cybefense, a company transforming how technology risk assessments are done and how they are paid for. As regular listeners know, Keith Koo is an expert on Technology Risk and speaks frequently on the need for companies to completely and accurately risk assess their vendors, partners and other third parties. Cybe...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, we celebrate the Thanksgiving Holiday in the United States with a look back on 5 different organizations are making a difference by giving back in their own way. 1) Beena Ammanath, Global Vice President, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise for Innovation (Aritificial Intelligence, Data, IoT, Blockchain) and Founder and CEO of the non-profit: Humans for AI discusses wh...

This clip is a 30 second promo for the 11/23 Silicon Valley Insider show. On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, we celebrate the Thanksgiving Holiday in the United States with a look back on 5 different organizations are making a difference by giving back in their own way. 1) Beena Ammanath, Global Vice President, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise for Innovation (Aritificial Intelligence, Data, IoT, Blo...

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, Renee Wang, CEO and Tina Kuan, CMO of Castbox and sister company Contentbox 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 a app monetization expert. "Castbox is an easy to use podcast player for podcast lovers, offering a super clean layout and easy to navigat...

The Inaugural Call For Code concludes with Global winners announced live on October 29th, 2018 8pm at the Regency Ballroom, San Francisco. Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo was onsite to meet with the founders of Call for Code and interview the winning team: Project Owl. Call For Code is the most engaging Software and Hardware developer event in history with overall 100,000 participants in 156...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider with Keith Koo - "Top 50 Women in Technology" - Jenny Dearborn, EVP of HR, Talent, Learning & Leadership at SAP, discusses the hiring crisis in technology and how alternatives to 4-year degrees (like apprenticeships) can help address the problem. As Jenny says, it really is the "Best time ever to get a job in technology." Jenny also discusses her most recent b...

On this Friday's Silicon Valley Insider with Keith Koo - "Top 50 Women in Technology" - Jenny Dearborn, EVP of HR, Talent, Learning & Leadership at SAP discusses the hiring crisis in technology and how altneratives to 4 year degrees (like apprenticeships) can help address the problem. Jenny also discusses her most recent book: "The Data Driven Leader: A Powerful Approach to Delivering Measurable B...

On Silicon Valley Insider this month host Keith Koo has had a series of interviews on Artificial Intelligence. First was with Beena Ammanath, Global VP of Innovation (AI, Data, IoT, Blockchain) and Founder of the non-profit Humans for AI: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-10-12-18-podcast Next was Professor Gary Smith of Pomona College on his book the "The AI Delusio...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo continues his series on Ariticial Intelligence and interviews special guest Gary Smith who is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, Ca. Gary was also a professor at Yale and has written over 80 academic papers and 13 books and with his most recent being "The AI Delusion". Keith and Gary talk about why Gary wr...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo interviews special guest Beena Ammanath, Global VP of HPE Innovation for Aritifical Intelligence, Data Analytics and Blockchain. Beena was recently named "Woman of the Year" in Data Analytics by U.C. Berkeley and she is also the founder and CEO of Humans for AI a non-profit focused on encouraging diversity and empowering minoritie in the workfo...

Silicon Valley Host Keith Koo reports from the greater Shanghai region of China in which he was part of an economic trade mission to discuss mutually beneficial business collaborations between the USA & China in spite of the recent tariffs and tensions between the two trading partners. Keith's economic mission was part of the US Minority Business Agency and the Zion Shanghai Investment Company. To...

This week while Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo is in China speaking at several conferences in the greater Shanghai region of China the show is releasing a rebroadcast of "Cross Border Venture Capital and M&A with Sophie Liao of Oyster VC" Don't miss next week's show as he does a recap of his week speaking at several cross-border business summits in Shanghai, Zhejiang & Jiangsu provinces: 1...

The Silicon Valley Insider Show: Hugh Molotsi - Author of The Intrapreneur's Journey | CEO of Ujama | Former VP of Innovation - Intuit. Thanks to all of our listeners on 1220AM KDOW, 860AM KTRB and podcast listeners in 88 countries. On this week's show, 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 Intu...

The Silicon Valley Insider Show: Emerging Technology for Humanity. Thanks to all of our listeners on 1220AM KDOW, 860AM KTRB and podcast listeners in 87 countries. On this week's show, Keith Koo's special guest is Jerry Cuomo, VP of Blockchain Technologies and IBM Fellow. Hear Jerry's story of how he was one of the originators of IBM Websphere and then became the CTO for Websphere before discoveri...