The Silicon Valley Insider Show with Keith Koo

The Silicon Valley Insider show is celebrating its 1 year anniversary! Thanks to all of our listeners on 1220AM KDOW, 860AM KTRB and podcast listeners in 87 countries. This week's show gives the history of the show and has guests from the production of the show as well as highlights from this past year. 1) Craig Roberts, Salem Media Program Director and host of "Lifeline & 6) the behind the scenes...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo is reporting onsite at the Call For Code event at 42-Silicon Valley with the City of Fremont, CA, IBM & Tulip Industries. In the first segment, Trevor Riggen, CEO of the American Red Cross for the Northern California Region & Willie Tejada Chief Developer Advocate of IBM who discusses using technology to combat the raging wildfires in Californi...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Host Keith Koo is very pleased to have special guests Lily Mei, Mayor of Fremont, CA, Willie Tejada, GM and Chief Developer Advocate of IBM and Josh Trujillo of 42 Silicon Valley as he discusseds how it was an honor bringing all these groups together to put on a truly community driven event which is the first (and only) North American "Call For Code" day hack...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Host Keith Koo speaks with special guest Brittany Bir, Chief Operating Officer of 42 Silicon Valley and how they are disrupting engineering education by providing FREE tuition. Brittany shares her own story of moving from the US to Paris as a foreign student and attending 42, an engineering school started by French billionaire, telecom magnate, and philanthro...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Host Keith Koo gives a recap of his recent speaking engagement on Cyber Risk and Blockchain at the Upward Hartford Connecticut Cyber Security Startup Roadshow. Keith's guests included: 1) Mike Hermus, CEO of Revoluton Four consulting group and former Chief Technology Officer of the United States Department of Homeland Security 2) Prithu Prakash, Vice Presiden...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Babble Labs co-founders Chris Rowen, CEO and Samer Hijazi, CTO discuss how to eliminate unwanted noice in any audio using Babble Labs Clear Cloud product. Chris and Samer discuss the journey from companies such as Ten Silica to Cadence Design to finding a value seam in improving audio quality leading to the creation of Babble Labs! Also, listen during the sho...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo sits down with Payson Johnston Co-Founder and CEO and returning guest Clay DeDeaux Senior Director of Account Services of Crowdz.io a blockchain based company that is disuprting tradiional Trade Finance and Supply Chain finance using blockchain technologies and how for their use case blockchain is definitely ready for "prime time". For the firs...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Keith has returning guest Jedidiah Yueh, Founder and Chairman of Silicon Valley Data Management company Delphix. Jed is well known in Silcon Valley for starting software companies with billions of USD in revenue including Avamar (a company acquired by EMC in the mid 2000s) and now as the author of best-selling book on innoviation "Disrupt or Die - What the Wo...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo sits down with Swati Chaturvedi who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Propel(x) an angel investment platform and community that is "Democratizing Angel Investing" by bringing startups, investors and subject matter experts together to make breakthrough investments. in Deep Technology. Swati explains: "Propel(x) is an online angel investing platform f...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Host Keith Koo airs interviews he had with Jay Chaudhry, CEO of Zcaler and Inhi Cho Suh, General Manager of IBM Watson Customer Engagement from a recent conference. Zcaler was the #1 Technology IPO in the first quarter of 2018. Keith then sits down with special guest Chester Santos "International Man of Memory" to discuss memory as it relates to humans and te...

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Host Keith Koo speaks with Jonathan Nelson, Founder and CEO of the Hack Fund. Jonathan shares his story of how growing up in a missionary family in Honduras eventually led to him becoming a nurse and then founding Hackers and Founders which then led to becoming a Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist running a portfolio valued at $600 million USD. Jonathan person...

Listen to Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo and special guests Sanjeev Ukhalkar CEO and CEM Yildirim COO, of Food / Restaurant innovation startup Bigzpoon as they pursue a "Greener Planet, One Meal At a Time!" with a unique approach to the ever growing problem of food waste. BigZpoon is dedicated to reducing restuarant food waste and helping the environment by creating a new, profitable channe...

In this week's Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo and co-founder of the Tulip Emerging Technologies conference tulipconf.com descibes the dramatic events leading up to the EOS Mainnet launch. EOS as a fully decentralized blockchain that has a consittution, goverance system and arbitration built into the blockchain required a majority vote of block producers (akin to a board of directors but not...

Blockchain continues to go mainstream. In this week's Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo is with special guest Dr. Vanila Singh, Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Health who discusses the US governments interests in blockchain technology. The show then features several other guests and their views and use cases for blockchain technology. Musab Saleh, architect at Ebay discusses what Eb...

Silicon Valley Insider Host Keith Koo reports from London where he was attending the finals of the 2018 Techstars/Barclays FinTech finals and where Crowdz.io was one of the top finalists. Crowdz and their revolutionary supply chain blockchain was featured on a previous show: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-4-13-18-podcast Keith sat down with David Packham, CEO of E...

Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo and guests Hob Khadka, Founder and CEO of Xceltrip and Kumar Pandey, Founder and CTO of iBriz.ai discuss how Xceptrip is creating a decentralized (i.e. Blockchain) Travel Ecosystem to disrupt the travel industry as we know it. Xceltrip intends to cut out the many intermediaries involved in a travel booking such as air flights and hotel bookings. Xceltrip uses...