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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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