The QTS Experience

Fail Big with Jennifer Wilde

This week Jennifer Wilde, Director of Innovation Ecosystem, joins Dave to discuss how her experience with Humanitarian Crisis Relief helped shape her position on systems innovation and how businesses need to get out of the mindset of "failing small" and instead risk "failing big" on to make sweeping systemic changes, on the this week's episode of The QTS Experience.

About Our Guest:
Jennifer Wilde
Jennifer draws on over 15 years of hands on experience as a senior manager in humanitarian response. She has developed strategies for fostering innovation during emergencies, in challenging volatile contexts, always with complex challenges. She has pioneered initiatives that break from conventional innovation models and have supported global scale. She excels in bringing together diverse groups from local innovators to international organizations to collaborate on challenging problems and big opportunities.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/innovation-ecosystem/

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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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War of the Web: The Future of Pattern Recognition with Mattias Fridström

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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The Purpose of Business with Devlin Liles

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:

https://improving.com/

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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Are You Playing Offense or Defense with Cyber Security with Ed Bursk

Dave McCall and his returning guest, robotics, automation and Cybersecurity expert Ed Bursk, says most of us have a better offense than defense when it comes to "data security.” What does he mean by that? Join us for the conversation – on the this week's episode of the QTS Experience.

About Our Guest:

Ed Bursk is an executive leader with a track record of success in aerospace & defense, government, and commercial markets globally, achieving or exceeding revenue, profit, and strategic targets for product and service businesses providing IT, OT, Cybersecurity, Networking, Telecommunications, Digitalization, and AI/ML enhanced Automation and Industrial Process & Energy Optimization solutions.

www.siemens.com

Siemens is a technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, mobility, and healthcare. Creating technologies for more resource-efficient factories and resilient supply chains to smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner, comfortable transportation and advanced healthcare, the company empowers customers to transform the industries that form the backbone of economies, transforming the everyday for billions of people.

 

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Your Data is Valuable, Get Paid What Its Worth with Charlie Silver

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:

https://permission.io

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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Innovation Extinction with Dan McClure

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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eWasting Away with James Patrignelli

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:
https://liquidtechnology.net/
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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Green Gravity with Robert Piconi

If you've listened to the show, you have heard academics from Berkeley and MIT insist that in order to have renewable energy, you must have grid-level energy storage. Not only that, but the storage would need to be as green as the energy it is collecting. Join Dave McCall as he hosts Rob Piconi, CEO of Energy Vault, as they discuss how gravity is the ultimate green storage on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest:

https://www.energyvault.com

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

Rob Piconi

Robert Piconi is Chairman, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Energy Vault, responsible for the overall vision, strategic direction and operational performance of the company. Robert’s experience includes prior Executive leadership roles in Fortune 100 public companies across various industries including Diversified Energy (Amoco/British Petroleum), Telecommunications (Bell Labs Lucent Technologies), and Security/Network Management Software (Danaher Corporation). Within the private sector, he also founded and developed several innovative Healthcare service and medical device companies within the European market which were later acquired by Private Equity funds and/or large industry conglomerates. Robert completed his BS/BBA undergraduate studies at the University of Notre Dame and his graduate MBA studies at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

About Energy Vault:

Energy Vault creates renewable energy storage solutions designed to advance the global transition to a carbon free, resilient power grid and transform the world’s approach to utility scale energy storage. At Energy Vault, we work to combat climate change by enabling clean and reliable electricity through innovation in renewable energy storage. Utilizing a unique approach to the circular economy that integrates energy waste for beneficial reuse at unprecedented economics, Energy Vault innovates to accelerate the shift to a fully renewable world.

(https://www.energyvault.com)

 

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Col. Heidi Heiden, Godfather of the Internet Part 2

Pick a point in time in the last 40 years during the creation development and adaptation of the internet, and you would certainly encounter this week's guest, Col. Heidi Heiden (ret). In this 2 part series, Col Heiden shares his pioneering experiences from developing the GPS protocols we use today to possibly stopping a political coup, on the next QTS Experience.

About Our Guest:

http://www.heidengroup.com/index.html

Mr. Heidi Heiden has over 40 years experience in designing, building and selling information systems. Highlights of his career include building the largest Internet system in the late 90's; and in the early 90's, leading Wall Street's move to Internet-based systems by pioneering switching & routing architectures used throughout the business world today. He also designed, built and managed the first Internet, the DDN, in the early 80's. In the late 70's he was responsible for engineering and prototyping the first GPS navigation receivers for air, land & sea use. In the early 70's he designed a national telecommunications system for Spain . Heidi is a graduate of West Point and served over twenty years in the Army.

 

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