Turn the Lens with Jeff Frick

Marten Mickos has been navigating Silicon Valley innovation waves for a quarter century and counting, first on the eastern edge of the Atlantic, then into the valley. Web 1, Web 2, OpenSource, Hybrid Cloud, the list is long, including notable stops at MySQL (acquired by Sun), Eucalyptus (acquired by HP) and his current extended run at the helm of HackerOne . Please join me in welcoming Marten to T...

ChatGPT busted into our consciousness less than 18 months ago, and has since vacuumed up all the headlines, sucked all the oxygen out of the room, pick your metaphor, $Billions of new investment adding fuel to a raging fire. Continuing on our exploration of the virtual, digital, and augmentations, and inspired by the very creative Yadin Porter de León , I decided to take some of my questions, righ...

Dave Cairns has chosen paths less traveled, since leaving university. He was a pioneer of sorts in digital spaces, and digital communities, and has tasted personally, a small slice of digital expansion possibilities. Taking full advantage of digital tools, he's living his values with his family in the 'why vacation only, let's move there full time' home east of the eastern time zone, on Prince Edw...

Drew Palos: Community, eBikes, Collaboration, Mobility | Turn the Lens with Jeff Frick Ep26 In business school, we learned about competing, by being the best in one product attribute. Highest technology, lowest cost, pick a parameter to win. I don't recall learning to beat the competition with the community. We've seen it to a degree in the tech world with companies like Red Hat, competing with wi...

Phil Simon has published over 14 business books over the last 20 years, on everything from data science and visualization to platform company domination, to zoom for dummies, and most recently, a focus on the future of work. In Phil's latest book, The Nine: The Tectonic Forces Reshaping the Workplace, he focuses on what I might call the mega-trends, like sunlight, they impact everything on the pla...

What does the future look like? How long til we get there?  What models and assumptions will get flipped on their head? Thrilled to share this conversation with  Derek Kerton , Founder and Principal Analyst,  Kerton Group  in the latest episode of the Turn the Lens podcast with Jeff Frick Derek and the team have created a unique process to bring the speed of Silicon Valley innovation, to three of...

Melody Meckfessel has been focused on the human side of software engineering productivity since before we met in 2015. She was already building the tools and teams powering some of the largest applications in the world on Google. In 2019, Melody followed an entrepreneurial calling to Co-Found Observable, the serf-described collaborative data platform and canvas. Of course, it's Open Source, with a...

The Dean of Big Data needs no introduction. When intelligent life forms in distant galaxies pick up the electric signals from this planet, no doubt one signal of a particular density will spark their attention, the Dean discussing decision-making, design thinking, and the economics of ethics, across media platforms, channels, and communication forums. His podcast appearances, lectures, keynotes, w...

When Casey Neistat announced that he, Candice and the family were moving back to Manhattan, you might have heard a collective cheer from his many fans and followers, rising just above the distinctive 'bzzzz'ing' sound of his beloved Boosted Board motors. What many don't know, is the impact Casey had on my life, along a number of tangents, Boosted Boards being one, but more importantly, the lessons...

Martina Lauchengco is a fantastic B2B tech marketer, who learned from some of the brightest in the business, on a few of the most important software products ever. She's worked for Bill, Marc, and Ben, and splitting early career time between Microsoft and Netscape provided an early graduate-level experience in two very different methods of delivering software. Microsoft's rigorous methodology and...

I used to see Jon Fortt at all the big tech events, sitting under lights, earpiece in and connected, waiting for the throw from CNBC New York for the latest in technology from The Sands, Moscone, or Javits Convention Centers. Jon has interviewed most of today's technology leaders, including Andy Jassy, Shantanu Narayen, Sandy Speicher, Satya Nadella, and many more. In this far-ranging discussion,...

I was introduced to Chris and Melissa Bruntlett in 2018 through 'The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality: Building the Cycling City', a bookshelf stable for anyone involved in urban mobility & transportation planning around the globe. Chris and Melissa took it up a notch with their 2021 release 'Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in our Lives' where the focus widens beyond bikes and tra...

#Mobility #SafeStreets #MrBarricade Cities and municipalities and working to do more with the acres of space they own as 'streets' to make them more than simply a thoroughfare for cars. @MrBarricade aka Vignesh Swaminathan uses modern design methods like Tactical Urbanism & Quick-Build techniques to speed and humanize projects for the people who'll live in them. @MrBarricade's mission is much more...

I was so excited to visit Keith and Melissa Townsend, Mr and Mrs CTO Advisor, on the CTO Flying Cloud Cross Country Bay Area Tour Stop, accompanied by one of the best creators in the B2B business, Vittorio Viarengo. We settled into the Airstream to talk all things B2B content, to help you better engage with your audience. A real treat. Thanks for hosting us Keith and Melissa. Podcast Page, notes,...

I always enjoy a look into the lives and activities of those fortunate professionals who carry the title of 'Evangelist.' Hugo Bowne-Anderson, Head of Data Science Evangelism and Marketing for Coiled joined me from the future, Sydney, Australia for a conversation on all things Coiled, Dask, and the Pythonic ecosystem. Hugo shares a unique perspective, having been a practicing data scientist in the...

The never-ending cybersecurity battles intensify as attackers & defenders have raised the stakes and integrated more advanced techniques, including the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI). Mike DeCesare has been in the proverbial trenches, and recently joined Exabeam as President and CEO. In this far-ranging conversation, Mike and I discuss the evolving security landscape, Zero Trust, t...

Did not want any Guest jinxing on Episode 13, so went solo. I have been asked to share a short story version of the Menlo Creek Manifesto, a position statement on content strategy in an AI-driven asynchronous world. So... a six-minute summary. final 2 minutes on application to leadership training for more. Transcript and Show Notes Click Here   LinkedIn Post Click Here YouTube Video Click Here   M...

Matt Rocklin has been in the center of the Python renaissance in enterprise data science, at Anaconda, NVIDIA, and now Coiled, Matt's start-up focused on helping enterprises more easily deploy parallelized python in production at scale. Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) are two of the most important technologies of our time, data scientists write the algorithms that make it poss...

Electric cars are one of the most visible signs of the electrification and eventual automation of an increasing number of transportation vehicles. The benefits of electrification are numerous, especially when looking beyond the consumer application to commercial and fleet operations. In this interview, Bill Loewenthal, SVP Product shares his views on ChargePoint's integrated network of smart devic...

Visualization is a hot topic in the data world, but I hadn't heard anyone reference visualization in the context of helping humans write better code. In a world where the competition for relevance to developers is at an all-time high, this unique take deserves a deeper dive.  In this conversation, we cover topics, including visualization, their career journey, and the specific challenges of creati...

For the last 21 years, Accenture has published and presented its annual Tech Vision Research Report. The report it typically 70 - 120 pages, from surveying hundreds of professionals, I've been covering the report release since 2017. Michael Biltz, MD, Accenture Technology Vision, one of the lead authors, and I continued our tradition of digging into findings of this report that is not your typical...

Upon seeing a post on LinkedIn, loudly proclaiming in bright red all caps .... 'I DO NOT CHECK EMAIL. Yep you read that right, No email for KMo, I had to learn more. Regardless of your reaction to that statement, Kyle Moschetto outlines a very intentional process to identify and stack rank the dozens of communication tools we use every day, and for Kyle, email ended up at the bottom of the list. I...

Retracing Michele Bettencourt's professional and personal journey promises to be one of the more interesting rides you'll take in 2021. From turning around companies to turning heads and minds, in this wide-ranging conversation, Michele shares lessons learned from 35 years as a tech CEO, while balancing home and personal life a bit more complicated than most. Really enjoyed getting to know Michele...

Always a treat to take a random walk with the Dean of Big Data, Bill Schmarzo. In this conversation, we touch on quite a few bases, from how to print money with your data project, drive innovation through empowerment, leverage design thinking for better outcomes, and pass the ball when the situation dictates. Oh yeah, and we reviewed his latest book. Thanks, Bill, always a pleasure. Transcript & S...

In this episode, we sat down Liza Donnelly, award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, visual journalist, live drawer, an observer of humanity. I first met Liza when she was live drawing the keynotes at the Stanford Women in Data Science Conference and was amazed at the way she captured the personalities of the speakers and their talks in just a few lines, splashes of color, and just the right express...