The QTS Experience

Understanding the Supply Chain Crisis with Daniel Vasseur

The supply chain challenge isn’t primarily about where supplies are made but rather it’s about people. So says Daniel Vasseur a local supply change expert who joined me to explain the complexities – so join us for the conversation on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest:

Daniel currently is the Executive Director of the Merchandise Supply Chain at RaceTrac where he leads the Supply Chain Merchandise team. RaceTrac currently has 4 distribution centers servicing 550 + stores. Daniel joined RaceTrac in early 2021 after spending the previous 15 years with The Kroger Co. in various supply chain roles. Daniel joined Kroger as an analyst on the WMS team, he then became a process engineer on the internal End to End team and then moved to Atlanta in 2011 as the Supply Chain Manager for the Atlanta division. He ended his time with Kroger as a Regional Director with responsibility for 7 Kroger DC’s across the South and Midwest. Daniel has over 20 years of Supply Chain and Logistics operations experience.

https://www.racetrac.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-vasseur-75a1242/

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The Future of Film with Mark Hofmeyer

This week writer, producer, podcaster, Mark Hofmeyer from Movies Films and Flix joins me (again) in studio. Mark hosts one of the most popular podcasts in the business and brings his unique perspective as always. I ask him about current tech trends – and can the industry continue to weather the double whammy’s of a pandemic and a streaming content explosion. Join us for the conversation – on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest:

Mark Hofmeyer is a writer, podcast host and the founder of Movies, Films and Flix. He is widely known for his ability to bring a unique (and sometimes weird) perspective to movie data analysis. A seasoned writer, Mark's work is published on major sites like Rotten Tomatoes, Cracked, Fandom, and Film Theorists. With an emphasis on filmmaking, Mark also teaches college level courses in production design, composition, short and long form storytelling, and film history. Prior to his work as an adjunct professor, Hofmeyer served in hands-on production roles in the film industry on over 150 sets for major motion pictures, television, music videos and commercials.

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Internet Magic with Lior Netzer

We turn on our smart device and almost instantly are transported to our favorite sporting event, movie, game, or show. We can watch strangers things or formula 1 from the Soccer field, usually in HD. Sir Isaac Newton would say it’s Magic – Lior Netzer, a magician in his own right, explains how the magic happens and where it came from – on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest:

Lior Netzer is an accomplished General Manager and CTO with over 25 years of experience in small and big companies. He is a sales-focused entrepreneur with a background in engineering, product management, direct and indirect sales, business development, M&A, and general management of multiple business units in a Nasdaq 500 company, selling to hundreds of customers throughout his career. He has served on multiple Boards and Advisory Boards from startups to Fortune 100 companies. He is a tech evangelist and a frequent speaker at industry events, analyst, and investor briefings. Lior is Akamai’s leading voice for Mobile and IoT to the external community.

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

 

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The Children’s Guide to Content Delivery with Craig Matsumoto

Unless you're citizen one in Nerdville, you probably have no idea how the stream you watch or the content you consume actually gets to your device – much less who provides the infrastructure we all use without thinking about it. Craig Matsumoto is a professional researcher and writer and he joins me to help us understand – on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest:

Craig Matsumoto covers distributed edge infrastructure as a Senior Research Analyst at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. He follows the evolution of infrastructure into cloud-native services controllable by software, with focus areas including CDNs, datacenter interconnection services and edge computing services. He also covers the aspects of hyperscale public clouds that overlap these sectors. Prior to joining 451 in 2018, Craig spent 27 years in technology journalism, covering beats including semiconductors and optical networking for SDxCentral, Light Reading, and EE Times. He holds a bachelor of science degree in engineering mathematics from UC Berkeley.

Links: https://www.spglobal.com/en/ https://twitter.com/craigmatsumoto [twitter.com] https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigmatsumoto/ [linkedin.com]

 

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Bringing in the Light with Doug Mohney

Congress has authorized 65 Billion Dollars to be spent on telecom infrastructure and while that's a lot of money, Editor and Technologist Doug Mohney thinks this could be a game changer in our lives – Join us for the conversation, on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest

Doug Mohney has been working in and writing about IT and satellite industries for over 20 years. His real world experience including stints at two start-ups, a commercial internet service provider that went public in 1997 for $150 million and a satellite internet broadband company that didn't. Follow Doug on Twitter at @DougonIPComm

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3D Printing Space Food! with Gene Boland

When asked how could industry help NASA with their mission to Mars they answered – obviously help us to print our food – in space. Gene Boland, a scientist and expert in soft tissue 3d printing gives us the details – so join us for the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest:

Gene is a Quality Site Director with over 25 years of experience in product development, R&D and design, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, cell therapy, RA/QA, stem cells and more. He developed cGMP medical devices, tissue processing facilities and led first in human clinical trials.

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The Balancing Act of Fitness and Nutrition with Alyssa Scheele

If you’re like me you struggle to eat, sleep, and exercise in a way that brings healing and balance to your life. Alyssa Scheele, a competitive bodybuilder, fitness expert, and coach; joins me to discuss how getting this right will change your life – on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest:

Alyssa began online coaching in 2020 after receiving her CPT from NASM. She has helped over 50 women from across the country reach their goals with personalized fitness and nutrition plans that promote sustainable results, not quick fixes. She also competes in the NPC Bikini Division, currently preparing for her second competitive season. Oh, and she serves QTS as the Social Media Specialist.

You can find more about her coaching services and competition seasons:

Instagram @fytnesswithlys

Facebook Group: Fytness With Lys

Facebook Business Page: Fytnesswithlys, LLC

 

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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

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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