Tomorrow's Tech Today

In this Earth Day special, we explore Electric Vehicles, Space Tech, Metaverse Collaboration & more. This is a deep dive into business model evolution and the foundations of innovation that all organisations, from SME to Enterprise alike, need to explore with a particular focus on today's Age of Convergence and the embedding of connectivity, security and sustainability features by design through AI, 5G, Zero Trust, IoT and more! And to do so, I am joined by expert experience from IBM's Institute of Business Value, IBM's business thought leadership institution, who provide cutting edge research into all the elements above! Our guests are Chad Andrews, Global TM&E Leader, Noriko Suzuki, Global Research Leader, Automotive, Aerospace and Defence Industry and Cristene Gonzalez-Wertz, Global Research Leader, Electronics, Environment, Energy and Utilities. It's a fascinating conversation! And we would love your thoughts on the episode too - thanks for listening!Sally, Chad, Noriko, Cristene and the #TTT TeamPlease join us on Twitter to continue the conversation! @techradiotttToday’s guest Chad on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/chad-andrews-5284293/Today’s guest Noriko on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/norikosuzuki/ Today’s guest Cristene on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/cjgw1/And our host Prof. Sally Eaves on Twitter @sallyeavesAnd LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-eaves

In today’s high-intensity cyberwars, you need more than just security technology and operational best practices. You need to master the economics of cybersecurity! In this special we explore just how to strike that right balance between maximizing your security effectiveness while avoiding overspend in the name of protection. And to do exactly this I am joined by Lisa Washburn, Senior Director of Product Management at Secureworks, to share how organizations can best protect themselves from looming threats of ransomware and cyber breaches while also maximizing their existing security and IT investments. With cybercrime constantly evolving, how can your organization best respond to these threats? Join us to discover more!Supporting this further, the TTT team would also love to highlight the #SCWXCyberLit Cybersecurity Literacy Challenge created by Secureworks and where Sally our podcast host is one of the judges. This is a fantastic initiative to help promote cybersecurity as a profession and change the narrative on what a security career 'looks like' - so vital to increase diversity and inclusion in this critical sector. See https://bit.ly/CyberSecurityLiteracy to join! And we would love your thoughts on the episode too - thanks for listening!Sally, Lisa and the #TTT TeamPlease join us on Twitter to continue the conversation! @techradiotttToday’s guest Lisa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-washburn-a831371/And our host Prof. Sally Eaves on Twitter @sallyeavesAnd LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-eaves

In this 2 header podcast special we aim to elevate tech education opportunities for everyone, regardless of their circumstances, showcasing inclusive pathways into technology careers. Firstly, I speak with Maureen Lonergan, the VP of Training and Certification at AWS - a conversation conducted live from the heart of AWS Re:Invent. We discuss some incredible free learning opportunities available today, especially around Cloud, including dedicated training programs such as AWS Academy and AWS re/Start.And then back into the UK, we get to see program results in action! I speak to the brilliant Charlotte Wilkins about her career transformation and experience as an AWS re/Start Graduate and who is now an Associate Solution Engineer at Matillion. I believe this is a conversation that can inspire many! And we would love your thoughts on the episode too - thanks for listening!Sally, Maureen, Charlotte and the #TTT TeamPlease join us on Twitter to continue the conversation! @techradiotttToday’s guest Maureen on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenlonerganToday's guest Charlotte Wilkins on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlotte-wilkins-5599b643And our host Prof. Sally Eaves on Twitter @sallyeavesAnd LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-eaves

A Security Imperative! New research has shown that cybercrime costs are poised to grow by 15 percent per year over the next five years, reaching $10.5 trillion dollars annually by 2025. Heightened risk alongside endpoint choice, flexible workstyles and applications everywhere means that the once traditional, established trust boundaries that use perimeter security simply no longer exist. Endpoints are not “yours” anymore. Indeed, for reasons explored in this episode, a combination of vectors has now created a 'perfect risk storm'. It could therefore not be more timely to unpack these challenges - but equally move beyond these to the support that is available right now to counter the threats. And to do exactly this I am delighted to be joined by Vivek Bhandari, Senior Director of Product Marketing | Networking & Security at VMware. In particular we focus on the expanding risk landscape including threats to the operating system in multi-cloud environments and addressing these through embedding ongoing Zero Trust practices, alongside the importance of continual learning, supporting ease of security management and fostering diversity within Cyber Security teams. It's a truly dynamic discussion! And we would love your thoughts on the episode too - thanks for listening!Sally, Vivek and the #TTT TeamPlease join us on Twitter to continue the conversation! @techradiotttToday’s guest Vivek on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekbhandari/ And our host Prof. Sally Eaves on Twitter @sallyeavesAnd LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-eaves

The priorities of communications organizations are evolving as we transition beyond the pandemic across digital transformation, business model evolution, and customer experience centricity. And this is all supported by bringing together enabling technologies to help make this happen, notably AI, 5G, Cloud and IoT, alongside investment in people, learning culture and skills. To explore this critical trajectory I am joined by the brilliant Dr. Charlie Isaacs – IoT CTO for Customer Connection at Salesforce who is responsible for incubating and launching IoT customers and brings to the fore some inspirational examples of impact - this is an episode packed with experience, emergent technology, social good and some fantastic people stories too! And further backdrop to this discussion is the launch of the Harvard Business Review Report ‘Rewiring Telecoms for Future Success Means Shifting to a Customer Focus’ - and away from a product orientated one. This is available for download and further reflection here: https://bit.ly/RewireTelecomsAnd we would love your thoughts on the episode too - thanks for listening!Sally, Charlie and the #TTT TeamPlease join us on Twitter to continue the conversation! @techradiotttToday’s guest Charlie on Twitter https://twitter.com/charlieisaacsAnd on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlieisaacs/ And our host Prof. Sally Eaves on Twitter @sallyeavesAnd LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-eaves

In this Digital Divide special episode, technology as a catalyst for shared value is centre stage. We aim to make ‘the invisible visible’ with regard to the impact of infrastructure as an enabler for bridging the digital divide and alongside this, a focus on ‘embedding by design’ right across sustainability, security, experience and diversity, equity and inclusion - aspects that interlink in many ways. We explore the Power of Ecosystem Partnership for example A10 and Ericsson and Evolving Business Models for Good, the Criticality of Infrastructure across Access, IP Connectivity including IPv4 Preservation and IPv6 Migration, Rural Broadband and Security, and look ahead to what’s next and how we can best come together to make a difference. And to explore this critical conversation in depth, I speak with Chris James-Killer VP of Global Strategic Accounts and Terry Young, Director, Service Provider Product Marketing, from A10 Networks, a market leader in delivering business critical applications for multi-cloud transformation and 5G readiness, and with a superb track record of supporting technology as a force for global good. And we would love your thoughts on the episode too - thanks for listening!Sally, Terry, Chris and the #TTT TeamPlease join us on Twitter to continue the conversation! @techradiotttToday’s guest Chris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cjkillerToday’s guest Terry on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/terry-young-65b7463And our host Prof. Sally Eaves on Twitter @sallyeavesAnd LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-eaves

In this two part special, the HOW of enabling Business Agility and embedded Capacity to Innovate is centre stage, and with an inspiring focus on Human Centric change. We are joined by Brad Mallard, CTO for Northern West Europe at Fujitsu and a member of Fujitsu's Global CTO Office, and Nick Herbert, Head of Portfolio Applications and Multicloud at Fujitsu for an immersive conversation - so content packed we extended across these two episodes!In Part 2, we continue our deep dive on today's agile imperative, firstly focussing on the nature of space and evolution of more decentralised ways of working across organisational structures and ecosystems that need to be increasingly fluid by design. In particular, we explore the impact of remote/hybrid working on inclusion and diversity, alongside productivity, mindfulness, creativity and ultimately happiness levels too. The very essence of fostering share value and creating a sustainable people based business! We also focus in on skills, from data and technology literacy, to skills confidence. We consider gaps being experienced by many organisations today and how best to develop a learning culture, supporting people on their personal journeys and moving from STEM to STEAM to help grow possibly the most important skill of our time - curiosity! Brad and Nick share some fantastic examples of this support in action at Fujitsu, especially empowering the behavioural element of learning by doing or learning through experience, and this extends to customers who in turn become authentic natural advocates. And we also unpack the impact of emergent technologies on the evolution of work, especially regards AI and Automation and on delivering a faster 'time to value' supported by a more iterative approach to change management, shared language and shared purpose. Our collective take focusses on the purpose to which technology is applied and showcases the complementary strengths of human-machine partnership, with inspiring examples of this across community collaboration, social value and sustainability. Indeed, rather than framing the future as one of technology centric innovation, we change the narrative to place the spotlight on human centric innovation, empowered by tech instead! And we would love your thoughts on the episode too - thanks for listening!Sally, Brad, Nick and the #TTT TeamPlease join us on Twitter to continue the conversation! @techradiotttAnd today's guest Brad Mallard on Twitter @BradMallardAnd LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradmallardAnd today's guest Nick Herbert on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-herbert-7053b02/Plus our host Prof. Sally Eaves on Twitter @sallyeavesAnd LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-eaves

In this two part special, the HOW of enabling Business Agility and embedded Capacity to Innovate is centre stage. We are joined by Brad Mallard, CTO for Northern West Europe at Fujitsu and a member of Fujitsu's Global CTO Office, and Nick Herbert, Head of Portfolio Applications and Multicloud at Fujitsu for an immersive conversation - so content packed we extended into two episodes!In Part 1 we deep dive into what Agility really means from both an organisational and individual perspective, and across technology, culture, people, processes and skills, including both the opportunities and challenges encountered on the way. And with tangible examples across business and societal impact too, including cutting edge Tech For Good research collaborations within AI and Healthcare - absolutely inspiring! We explore what has changed, especially customer behaviours and expectations on the 'art of the possible', sustainable business and criticality of purpose, and the key challenges from the 'data deluge' to issues of fragmentation, legacy technical debt, complexity, security, ethical AI development, and skills literacy gaps. This brings to the fore the vital role of data, its democratisation and enabling active not reactive intelligence, and the key technologies that are enabling success notably Cloud Computing, Cloud Native, Conversational AI, NLP and APIs. And all of the above must be supported by skills investment alongside process and change management approach evolution with greater ecosystem collaboration too, especially in areas such as Explainable AI - vital to build that core currency of our time - trust. Putting this all together, what 'experiences that matter' will you create next for your customers, consumers and citizens? And we would love your thoughts on the episode too - thanks for listening!Sally, Brad, Nick and the #TTT TeamPlease join us on Twitter to continue the conversation! @techradiotttAnd today's guest Brad Mallard on Twitter @BradMallardAnd LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradmallardAnd today's guest Nick Herbert on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-herbert-7053b02/Plus our host Prof. Sally Eaves on Twitter @sallyeavesAnd LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-eaves

50 Years of Innovation! The Intel Innovation event brought to the fore the very latest tech and skills developments across AI, 5G, IoT, Edge, Cloud, Quantum and Network Development with 3 key areas emerging: Being Developer First, the Power of Partnership and Scaling AI Everywhere. In this innovation special feature sponsored by Intel we touch on all three of these foundations, but with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence in the company of the inspirational Wei Li, Vice President-General Manager of AI and Analytics at Intel Corporation. We dive deep into the 4 pillars of Scalability, Productivity, Performance and Innovation critical to AI development showcasing new research and practical applications along the way - and add in a 5th pillar, that of Sustainability too. And with our shared passion for everything ‘Tech For Good’ our discussion also explores some truly inspirational examples of applied AI for Good in action.And we would love your thoughts on the episode too - thanks for listening!Sally, Wei and the #TTT TeamPlease join us on Twitter to continue the conversation! @techradiotttAnd more on Intel Innovation on Twitter @intel @IntelAI @Inteliot @IntelBusinessAnd today's guest Wei Li on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/wei-li-a4a611/And our host Prof. Sally Eaves on Twitter @sallyeavesAnd LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-eaves

Sustainability is a topic front of mind for many and fresh from COP26 and the Social Innovation Forum (SIF), this episode brings to the fore tangible actions being taken to embed sustainability within business model evolution, with superb leadership by Geotab, a global leader in IoT and connected vehicles. I speak to Neil Cawse, CEO and Founder about 'the how' of using technology and data to inform, change and create positive impact for businesses and society alike, especially for climate action. We explore the Drivers of Change, Tech as a Force for Good for Planet and Business, Data for Good - its Actualisation and Scale, The Role of People-Tech Partnership, Organisational Culture and Skills, Reflections on COP26 and SIF21 and the path ahead, plus dive into the importance of measurement and transparency too - a great example being Geotab's Sustainability Report available here: https://bit.ly/GeotabSDGs Join us to find out more!And we would love your thoughts on the episode too - thanks for listening!Sally, Neil and the #TTT TeamPlease join us on Twitter to continue the conversation! @techradiotttToday’s guest Neil on Twitter @ncawse and @GEOTAB And LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilcawseAnd our host Prof. Sally Eaves on Twitter @sallyeavesAnd LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-eaves