The QTS Experience

What is the Internet, Really? with Sandy McMurtry

Sandy McMurtry has been building the internet – well before it was the internet. If you’ve watched Stranger Things, The Witcher, or Ted Lasso, you can thank engineers like Sandy. Sandy joins us to talk about how it works behind the curtain on the next, QTS Experience.

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The Age of Exponential Change with Azeem Azhar

This week you probably didn’t give a second thought to using your phone, electricity, or your car. Azeem Azhar, a brilliant UK Futurist, says in the next century there will be a technology company sitting between us and our every basic need. What does that mean for our future? Join us for the conversation – on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest

Azeem Azhar is an entrepreneur, investor and author.

He is the founder of Exponential View, the leading newsletter and podcast. Exponential View explores the political economy of the Exponential Age. It reaches more than 200,000 readers around the world.

He is also an active startup investor, with investments in AI, work-from-home and climate change.

He is on the board of the Ada Lovelace Institute and sits on the World Economic Forum's Global Futures Council on Digital Economy & Society, on the board of the Ada Lovelace Institute. Previously, he founded PeerIndex, a big data analytics firm acquired in 2015. He has had senior roles in global media businesses and started his career as a journalist where he was a writer for The Economist and The Guardian.

In 2020, he co-authored the State of Climate Tech, a global analysis of venture capital trends in climate change investing, with PwC.

His first book, Exponential, which explores the transition to the Exponential Age was published in autumn of 2021.

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The Magic of Magic with Producer Derek

Magic: the Gathering is, at it’s heart, not about Magic at all, it’s about math. Math wrapped in a beautiful wrapper of Science Fiction and High Fantasy – that has captured the imagination of over 33 million players worldwide. This week I invite Derek Boettcher, Co-Founder of Land Say Go and producer of the QTS Experience, to come out from behind the camera and explain how the magic works, on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest
Derek is the Videographer for QTS Data Centers and one of the content producers for The QTS Experience Podcast. He has over a decade's worth of experience in Film and Media. In his spare time he freelances and works on a personal project with a small team of people called Land Say Go. Land Say Go is a content creator group based around the game Magic: The Gathering. You can see more of his content over at https://youtube.com/landsaygo.

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2021 Year in Review with Producer Derek

Join Dave McCall as he brings on QTS Experience Producer Derek to discuss their favorite conversations of 2021, what they were about, and why you'd love them on this week's episode of The QTS Experience Podcast.

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The Future of Music with Tim Huffman and Jeremy Gilbertson

This week Dave is joined by two amazing musicians and technologists to discuss the impact of technology on music. Grammy Nominated artist Tim Huffman and Award winning producer Jeremy Gilbertson discuss the future of music – join them for the conversation on this week's episode of the QTS Experience.

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The Quantified Athlete with Christina Chase

Is it possible to identify the next Messie, Earnhardt, or Brady using big data? Christina Chase thinks so, and as the founder of the MIT Sports lab, she should know. Professor Chase explains the next generation athlete and fan, join us for the conversation on the QTS Experience.

About Our Guest

"In my career I’ve held operating roles in technology driven businesses ranging from B2B hardware, enterprise storage, software, to materials and coatings. I’ve used my entrepreneurial experience to create and grow programs that support early stage teams that are creating innovation driven companies.

I am currently a Lecturer at MIT in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. I am also the co-founder and Managing Director of the MIT Sports Lab (formerly STE@M), where we work with industry leaders to tackle the challenges that lie at the intersection of engineering and sports. I also serve as an advisor to multiple sport tech startups, including Sports Innovation Lab, AvaTech, Perch, Sports Data Lab, Jolt Sensor, Humon and Ashton Instruments.

I teach the largest undergraduate entrepreneurship class at the MIT School of Engineering, as well as the sports technology class. Prior to this I was a Lecturer and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, where I helped hundreds of teams from across MIT go from concept to company."
-Christina Chase

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Leadership Honesty with Grant Shih

Freedom requires guardrails. It may seem counterintuitive but my guest this week, Grant Shih, CIO of National DCP, explains how this and the concept of "wake" impacts organizations in a profound way, on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/grantshih/ 

Grant Shih serves as the Chief Information Officer for National DCP, (NDCP) the $2 billion supply chain management company serving the franchises of Dunkin’. In this role, Grant focuses on leading innovative technology solutions, improving infrastructure operations, performing systems implementations, integrating data sources, delivering end user support, and providing security around enterprise transactions and activities. Prior to joining the company, the 24 year IT industry veteran served as the Chief Information Officer for Encompass Digital Media. He also held leadership roles at Carter’s/OshKosh B’Gosh and Accenture. Grant is also active with several non-profits that align with his passions around childhood education, STEM learning, and local community enablement, including founding and operating the IT Girls Foundation. He is the co-founder and producer of Executive Points of View (https://executivepointsofview.com/), an online presence dedicated to relevant commentary on today’s business world.

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Thankfulness with Dave McCall

Join The QTS Experience host Dave McCall, as he monologues about what we can be thankful for. The last decade is one of the most disruptive decades the world has ever seen, not to mention the last 2 years. Even still, it is important to remember the great things that occurred that impacted our lives in a positive way, here on the next QTS Experience.

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No Tolerance for Chaos with Dr. Steve Andriole

In order for traditional organizations to disruptively change, Professor Steve Andriole says you have to protect your innovators from the Chaos killers. Join us for the conversation, on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest:

Dr. Steve Andriole is an award winning entrepreneur and academic. He has been a key leader in many Fortune 500 companys occupying senior level management. Dr. Andriole is a published writer with accredited to over 20 articles and books. He is an expert in Cloud Computing, Social Media, Emerging Technology Trends, Business Technology Strategy, IT Transformation and more. While a Professor at Villanova University, Dr. Andriole is also the Founder and Managing Director of TechVestCo.

https://www.villanova.edu/university/business/faculty-and-research/faculty-by-department.html?mail=stephen.andriole@villanova.edu&xsl=bio_long

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The Datacenter Whisperer with Rich Miller

Data center investment and development is accelerating. Markets are growing and changing at an unprecedented pace, and sometimes it’s hard to understand the full implications of that. Rich Miller, an expert in data center industry trends, brings clarity and insight to the conversation - on this week's episode of the QTS Experience.

About our guest:

Rich Miller

Rich Miller is the founder and editor of Data Center Frontier, where he writes about the future of data centers and cloud computing. After starting his career in newspapers, Rich has been covering the data center industry full-time since the year 2000, and was the founding editor of CarrierHotels.com and Data Center Knowledge.​

Data Center Frontier

https://datacenterfrontier.com/​

"Data Center Frontier charts the future of data centers and cloud computing. We write about what’s next for the Internet, and the innovations that will take us there. The data center is our prism. We tell the story of the digital economy through the facilities that power the cloud and the people who build them. In writing about data centers and thought leaders, we explain the importance of how and where these facilities are built, how they are powered, and their impact on the Internet and the communities around them."

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