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The most valuable commodity on earth today is data. How we make it, use it, move it & protect it. Join David McCall as he invites guests from all industries to talk about how they use data to drive their business & innovation in their market.
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Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
Mattias Fridström is an internet evangelist and expert for one of the largest internet companies on earth. He explains how AI and Machine learning will help us protect ourselves from the war of the web – join me for the conversation on the QTS Experience.
About Our Guest:
Mattias Fridström
https://twitter.com/mfridstrom
There’s a certain type of person who gets a little bit too excited about networks. Mattias is that guy. If he had a tattoo, it would be of a network. His knowledge is mind-boggling and his passion irrepressible. He offers deep insights into the networked economy. What are the challenges of tomorrow for network providers? How can we meet ever-increasing traffic demand and customer quality expectations within the same cost frame? Mattias holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wollongong, Australia. Since joining Telia in 1996, he has worked in a number of senior roles within Telia Carrier and most recently as CTO. Since July 2016 he has been Telia Carrier’s Chief Evangelist. Mattias’ passion isn’t limited to networks: He has played golf professionally and competed on a national level in football and innebandy. Although he has a reputation when it comes to sports as being the “worst loser at Telia Carrier”, he is working hard to overcome this – by not losing to anyone. At anything. Ever. (www.teliacarrier.com)
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Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Your body needs to breath oxygen to survive – but that doesn’t mean it’s purpose is to breathe oxygen. Devlin Liles is a passionate technologist who argues that while a business must be profitable to survive that isn’t their purpose – join Dave McCall as they dive deep on the this episode of the QTS Experience.
About Our Guest:
Devlin Liles is the president of Improving - Houston and a passionate technologist. He prides himself on staying a generalist, but his passion is leveraging technology to solve the problems facing business. Devlin has an entrepreneurial mindset and has been a key contributor to growth and success of the Houston office being one of the founding employees in 2011. Since 2007, he has been presenting and teaching classes on software development practices and tools to audiences around the world including user groups, conferences, and community events.
Devlin has held the prestigious Microsoft MVP Award for the past 6 years which is only awarded to 3,000 technologists’ annually. He is the co-author, along with his good friend and fellow Improver Tim Rayburn of Entity Framework 4.1 Experts Cookbook.
When he is not in front of a crowd or behind a computer Devlin is an avid soccer player and hobbyist gamer.
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Wednesday Oct 06, 2021
Wednesday Oct 06, 2021
The most valuable commodity on earth is data and human beings create 2 cell phones worth of data every day – why aren’t we getting paid for it? Join me and Charlie Silver, a data expert, as we discuss the future of owning our data – on the next QTS Experience.
About Our Guest:
Charlie Silver
CEO & CHAIRMAN
Charlie is a successful entrepreneur who has founded and exited 5 startups in technology, media, and finance. He co-founded Onramp Invest, Blockforce Capital, and Reality Shares which created 7 publicly traded ETFs including the first Blockchain equity ETF(BLCN). In the dot-com era, he built RealAge which was successfully sold to Hearst for over 9 figures.
About Permission
Permission.io was created to put an end to the interruptive, exploitative advertising model that drives today’s web and to give individuals back ownership of their time and data.
Permission is making it possible for you to own and be compensated for your data in Web 3.0. Permission has created the tools and the infrastructure for you to grant permission and earn from your data across the digital ecosystem.
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Wednesday Sep 29, 2021
Wednesday Sep 29, 2021
The last few decades have been spectacularly successful in creating the most complex products and services the world has ever seen and if you don’t change how you go about innovating right now – you’re organization is going to fail. Don’t believe me? Join Dan McClure and I for the conversation – on the next QTS Experience.
About Our Guest:
Dan is a specialist in disruption. Throughout his 40 year career, he has been a choreographer of ambitious messy change, reimagining complex systems in business, government, international aid, and society as a whole. His work spans multiple sectors and engages leaders in both sprawling global firms and fast moving startups. He is a thought leader that has helped pioneer practical approaches to system innovation, drawing on insights from a wide variety past roles such as the global innovation lead at the international consultancy ThoughtWorks, and the Chair of the Advisory Board for the UK based Humanitarian Innovation Fund. Today, as a founding partner of Innovation Ecosystem, Dan is working to make system innovation a core creative capability that is enthusiastically embraced and widely practiced.
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Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Wednesday Sep 22, 2021
Last year Americans threw away 60 million dollars in gold and silver – in our phones. Join James Patrignelli and I as we discuss the hidden cost of eWaste and how it’s destroying our environments while costing us a fortune – on the next QTS Experience.
About Our Guest:
Director of Sales, Northeast
James Patrignelli, Director of Sales, Northeast, joined Liquid Technology in 2011 as a Senior Account Manager. James works with executives to develop and implement end of life IT asset management programs for Fortune 500 companies with a focus on data security and maximizing the return of IT hardware. He has worked in the IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) field since 2005 and has advised CIOs, CTOs and data center managers across the globe about best practices for end of life IT asset management. James currently oversees sales for the New York, Boston, and Chicago and has completed several projects throughout the states, Europe, and Asia. James received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Management Information Systems from the University of Connecticut and studied overseas in Italy for his second degree in International Economics. When not assisting executives in executing proper asset disposal, James is either spending time with his three children or running.
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Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
Sherman Ikemoto is a magician. He builds time machines that allow you to see into the future, how cool is that? Through the use of Digital Twins he can recreate a physical building virtually, which helps us understand how they operate now, and in the future. Join me for the discussion – on the next QTS Experience.
About Our Guest:
https://www.futurefacilities.com
Sherman Ikemoto is Managing Director for Future Facilities Inc., the provider of the Digital Twin for data center design and capacity planning. Sherman leads sales, marketing and engineering services for the Americas and is a member of ASHRAE, the Green Grid, AFCOM and the Center for Energy Smart Electronics Systems (ES2). Sherman has been invited to speak at AFCOM about the impact of today's dynamic data center environment on capacity planning and utilization. Prior to joining Future Facilities, Sherman was a sales and marketing Director at Flomerics, and a mechanical design engineer at General Dynamics. Sherman has a BSME from San Jose State University and MSME from Santa Clara University.
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Future Facilities is a software company that believes the successful design and operation of systems, from chip to data center, lies in predicting the impact of change. Their unique methodology relies on virtual prototyping, and utilizing engineering simulation to assess performance. Their virtual prototypes speed up the decision-making process, allowing enterprises to deliver products that are efficient, reliable and scalable.
Their software creates a digital twin of your data center, or a virtual prototype that encompasses the entire IT and facility infrastructure. Powered by engineering simulation, the 6Sigma Digital Twin enables a customer to predict the impact of change by visualizing and quantifying performance in their data center.
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Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Wednesday Aug 18, 2021
Building the grid with renewable energy is impossible...unless you have grid level energy storage. MIT Professor Donald Sadoway, founder at Ambri and Sadoway Labs, explains what the challenge is and how it can be overcome, on the next QTS Experience.
About Our Guest:
Donald Sadoway, PhD, has been a professor in the department of Materials Science at MIT for over 40 years. His GroupSadoway lab has pioneered battery technology for Ambri as well as mobile and automobile applications. He is recognized as the world leader in battery technology.
After teaching freshman chemistry for over 25 years, he now lectures in classes on energy and other subjects. He is author of over 170 scientific papers and holder of 30+ U.S. patents. Sadoway pioneered the development of MOE (molten oxide electrolysis), and co-founded the company Boston Metal that is producing metals with no CO2 emissions.
He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Toronto. In 2012 he was recognized as one of the 100 Most Influential People of the year by Time Magazine for his work on the Liquid Metal Battery. His TED talk has been viewed over 2,000,000 times.
Watch Dr. Donald Sadoway's TED Talk Here
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Friday Aug 13, 2021
Friday Aug 13, 2021
A team that isn’t aligned on it’s purpose is going to struggle. An organization that doesn’t take care of its people will fail. In our fourth and final part of the ATP CIO Charity Event, Grant Shih, CIO of National DCP, brings wisdom and insight into these two key areas on the next QTS experience.
About Our Guest:
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Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Traditionally CIO’s have focused on the technology of the business. In this third part of our four part series from the ATP CIO Charity Event, Edwina Payne illustrates the need for CIO’s to explain to their organizations the why and how technology should be used to create customer intimacy and a new customer experience, on the next QTS Experience.
About Our Guest:
Edwina Payne is an accomplished executive with extensive experience in life sciences, technology strategy, digital transformation, program management, cyber security, internal audit, manufacturing, and distribution.
Edwina currently serves on the board of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta. She serves on the Audit, Enterprise Risk and Compliance, and Governance and Compensation committees. Edwina also serves on several nonprofit boards, including the Purdue Polytechnic Dean’s Council at Purdue University as well as the Technology Advisory Board at Marian University. She is active in the Georgia community, having served on the board of Tech Alpharetta, which helps grow technology and innovation as well as support technology start-ups in the city of Alpharetta. She is currently a member of the advisory board for Georgia CIO as well as Inspiredu, a nonprofit providing access to technology for Atlanta’s underserved youths.
Edwina is the Chief Information Officer for Varsity Brands, where she leads the IT strategy and IT operations of their three divisions. She has held multiple roles in the life sciences space, most recently at McKesson Corporation where she was the Senior Vice President, Technology Strategy. She was responsible for McKesson’s technology strategy, enterprise portfolio management office, as well as the overall enterprise architecture design used to deliver products and services to both internal customers as well as healthcare professionals who use McKesson’s software platforms.
Prior to joining McKesson Edwina was Chief Information Officer at Avanos Medical (formerly Halyard Health). At Avanos Edwina’s team delivered the company’s first digital product, On-Q*Trac, which enabled health care professionals and patients to better manage their post-surgical pain. She led the IT divesture activities of their Surgical and Infection Prevention portfolio, including the sale of Avanos’ legacy IT assets with the divestiture, which funded the IT transformation for their remaining business.
Edwina has more than 30 years of global supply chain and information technology experience, including directing strategic initiatives and leveraging technology to help organizations become more competitive. She began her corporate career at Kellogg Company, where she held leadership positions in the United States as well as Brazil and Mexico. Following Kellogg, Edwina joined Johnson & Johnson in 1999 in their DePuy Orthopaedics medical device unit. She assumed roles of increasing responsibility, including CIO for DePuy, eventually serving as vice president and program manager for a global ERP deployment for Johnson & Johnson’s medical devices and diagnostics business. After leaving Johnson & Johnson she joined Zimmer Biomet, where she was Vice President and Chief Information Officer. She led their IT organization’s transformation, creating a global organization focused on delivering competitive advantage for the Company. Under her leadership the IT team successfully completed the acquisition and integration of Biomet.
Edwina earned her bachelor’s degree in computer technology from Purdue University in 1986. She is an active thought leader and presenter in a variety of industry and professional organizations. In 2009 Edwina was named a Distinguished Alumni by Purdue University, was recognized as a 2012 CIO 100 award winner from IDG, was a finalist for Georgia CIO of the Year in 2018 and was recognized by HMG as a 2019 Top Technology Executive to Watch. Edwina is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
Edwina and her family reside in Alpharetta, Georgia.
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Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
In this second part of our four part ATP CIO Charity Event series, Dwain Wilcox from TK Elevators reminds us that the customer experience may be the most important component of digital transformation, on the next QS Experience.
About Our Guest:
Dwain Wilcox is the EVP and CIO of the Americas for TK Elevator based in Atlanta, GA. Since joining the organization in 2017, he has been responsible for IT strategy and execution while leading transformation and digitalization programs in the Manufacturing, Field Service and Spare Parts business units.
Mr. Wilcox possesses over 25 years of senior executive experience spanning multiple industries including Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Supply Chain and Professional Services. Prior to joining Thyssenkrupp, he served as EVP and CIO of Axiall Corporation, a multi-billion dollar Chemicals and Building Products manufacturing company. His past global executive and CIO roles also include CHEP, Seroligcals-Millipore, and Lanier Worldwide.
Dwain is a graduate of Florida State University and enjoys his outdoor time on the water, on his touring motorcycle, playing golf, or spending time with his family.
ABOUT TK Elevator (formerly: thyssenkrupp Elevator)
With customers in over 100 countries served by 50,000 employees, TK Elevator achieved sales of around €8 billion in the fiscal year 2019/2020. Over 1,000 locations around the world provide an extensive network that guarantees closeness to customers. Over the past decades, TK Elevator has established itself as one of the world’s leading elevator companies and became independent since its sale by Thyssenkrupp AG in August 2020. The company’s most important business line is the service business represented by over 24,000 service technicians. The product portfolio covers commodity elevators for residential and commercial buildings to cutting-edge, highly customized solutions for state-of-the-art skyscrapers. In addition, it also consists of escalators and moving walks, passenger boarding bridges, stair, and platform lifts.
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