Category: Elevate the Edge Podcast

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Global Edge Computing and 5G Principal Manager, Network Strategy and Architecture at Vodafone, Joanna Newman discusses the real impact of mobile edge computing.

Guest Bio:  Joanna is a highly motivated senior manager who is  passionate about Strategy, Innovation and Transformation as enablers for successful businesses. She’s had the pleasure of working globally (4 continents and counting), delivering big portfolios of world leading innovative capabilities to the Enterprise and Consumer Technology and Telco markets, as well as digital transformation initiatives to migrate to Agile, DevOps, and Cloud.

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Ian Hood, Chief Strategist at Red Hat Discusses Cloud RAN in Retail, Manufacturing and Energy

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In Gordon’s role at Red Hat, he develops stories that traverse the entire Red Hat portfolio and provide context for technology categories such as cloud computing. His focus is on expanding opportunity, building credibility, and educating. He delivers his message through a wide range of channels including public speaking, customer meetings, articles, blogs, papers, podcasts, books, video, and whitepapers.

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Patricia Schouker is a VP of Strategy & Partnerships at cybersecurity company,  PolySwarm. Her tenure is anchored within cyber and energy security with extensive experience in Fortune 500 and Public Sector environments. Her network drove new business, influencers and champions where her focus is on strategic and persistent threats, global energy security, as well as the intersection of technology and geopolitics. Her role at PolySwarm is to integrate and develop malware intelligence driven practices and policies for energy companies on local and global scales. Prior to her role, she worked at the European Commission in Brussels as a Policy Officer for the DG Energy where she contributed to energy analysis and intelligence pertaining to U.S.-EU energy relations, including future challenges. She holds multiple Non-Resident Fellowships and is an advisor for KPMG and strives to improve science and technology expertise in the U.S. legislative branch. 

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Rob Hornbuckle, CISO, Allegiant Air Discusses Edge Security

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NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering Muriel Medard discusses Wireless APIs at the Edge.

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Elevate the Edge hosts Jo and Maribel discuss Edge AI and Distributed App Management with Roshni Bhagalia, Vice President of Product Management — Editon AI & Patflorm for GE Healthcare.

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Guest Bio: Theodora (Theo) Lau is the founder of Unconventional Ventures, a public speaker, and an advisor. She is the co-author of Beyond Good, and host of One Vision, a podcast on fintech and innovation. Her monthly column on FinTech Futures explores the intersection of financial services, tech, and humanity. She is also a regular contributor for top industry events and publications, including BBC News, Finovate, American Banker, and Journal of Digital Banking.

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Elevate the Edge welcomes guest Keith Townsend, Founder of CTO Advisor, who discusses Edge to Cloud Integrations.

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Keith Townsend Principal at the CTO Advisor a research and advisory services firm. Keith brings his experience covering 4-decades in IT focused on technologies like infrastructure, storage, virtualization, cloud and edge to the podcast. 

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Guest Tamara McCleary, Founder and CEO of Thulium, discusses the Role of AI at the Edge and which industry has the potential to see significant advancements.

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Tamara McCleary is the founder and CEO of global digital marketing agency, Thulium. She serves as a technology futurist and an advisor to leading global tech companies Amazon, Alexa, Oracle, SAP, Cisco, Dell, IBM, Mercer, Marsh & McLennan Companies, AT&T, Verizon, Citrix, and RSA Security.

Additionally Tamara is a research scientist and technology ethicist and recent graduate (5/2022) of Harvard University's Kennedy School and continuing dual degree student at the Harvard Divinity School. Her research includes science, technology, artificial general intelligence, and posthumanism.

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Hosts Jo Peterson and Maribel Lopez discuss Edge Cloud adoption with David Linthicum, Chief Cloud Strategy Office, Deloitte Consulting.

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Elevate the Edge hosts Jo Peterson and Maribel Lopez discuss Seaweed, Ocean Agriculture & Edge with Brian Schmidt, Co-founder of PrimaryOcean.

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Elevate the Edge hosts Jo and Maribel discuss the Role of AI at the Edge with Lenovo's Andi Huels.

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Meryem Simsek, Head of Network Architecture Research at Bell Labs joins Elevate the Edge hosts Jo Peterson and Maribel Lopez for a discussion about What's Next for Edge Connectivity.

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Sarbjeet Johal, Founder & Chief Analyst, Stackpane discusses Edge to Cloud Architectures and use cases with Elevate the Edge hosts.

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Alef CTO Dean Bogdanovic on vRANs, private edge and modern edge networks

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Greg Jones has Global experience as a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Data Officer spanning more than 30 years in the technology. Extensive experience in Mobile Communications, Heathcare, Education, and Management Consulting. He has led startups through Strategic Sale/IPO, as well as managed global teams of nearly 1000 people in major corporations. Expertise in product management, technology innovation, agile development, SaaS, AI/Machine learning, and Cloud Computing. 

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In this podcast, we discuss  edge computing topics, such as cyber physical transformation,  risk and advice for IoT implementations.

Don's Bio:
Don DeLoach is an entrepreneur, author, board member and a leading industry evangelist for the internet of things. He currently serves as co-chairman of the Midwest IoT Council. He is a member of the executive board of the Illinois Technology Association. Don is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rocket Wagon Venture Studios. 

You can follow  for your hosts and the guest at:

Jo Peterson on Twitter at @digitalcloudgal and LinkedIN at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jopeterson1/ 

Maribel Lopez on Twitter at @MaribelLopez and LinkedIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/maribellopez/

 Don on LinkedIn at  https://www.linkedin.com/in/dondeloach/

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In this episode we speak with Fay Arjomandi the  CEO and Founder of  MIMIK Technology

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Fay Arjomandi is the Founder and CEO of the pioneering edge cloud company mimik. From 2016-2018, she was the executive chairman of H2 Wellness, a software company based in Los Angeles. Between Aug 2014 to Oct 2016, she was the CEO of digital health company NantMobile and led its Augmented reality platform (iD), several digital/genomics health initiatives, and WiGig fabless semiconductor company, Tensorcom. 

Prior to NantMobile, Fay was the CEO of Vodafone xone which was the innovation brand for Vodafone. She oversaw partnerships with start-up companies to develop, test and prepare for commercial deployment in Vodafone’s global markets. Additionally, her role included managing Vodafone Ventures, board membership of Vodafone Americas Enterprise and President & Chair position at Vodafone Americas Foundation. Prior to Vodafone, Fay was the co-founder and CEO of three technology startups that built location-based services (L3 Technology), mobile quality of service improvement platform (Mobidia), and mimik.

As a pragmatic technology innovator, Fay has authored many patents in Telecommunications, Transport Layer Protocols, Mobile traffic management, QoS, and Edge Cloud Computing. Fay has a unique talent for spotting future trends and “connecting the dots.”

In 2020, she was named the Edge Woman of the year by the Linux Foundation. In 2018 she was the Alumni of the Year at Concordia University in Montreal where she received her bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. In 2014, she was named as one of the most influential woman business leaders in Silicon Valley by San Francisco Business Week, and in 2006, received the distinguished Business in Vancouver’s “Top 40 Under 40″ award. She is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and advises many startup companies and is a Board Advisor to American Tower the global provider of wireless communications infrastructure

Fay is passionate about digital inclusion and equity and has spent the last decade to create disruptive technology platforms and enablers for cloud decentralization to ensure a future sustainable internet. She has advised startup companies on how to build successful businesses, as well as corporations on digital transformation and innovation with impact.  In addition to exceptional leadership and vision, Fay is a highly sought-after global speaker and industry thought leader given her specialization and years of experience in digital communications, software applications and edge cloud computing. Fay holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University. She has international experience and has lived and worked in many countries in North America, Europe, and the Middle East.