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Coming up Next – Sherine Soliman, VP Supplier Engineering Global Supplier Alliance at ResMed – What do you do when you are a medical equipment manufacturer, a global pandemic hits, the demand for your products skyrockets and your supply chain falls apart because in the decades before it was all about Lean and not resiliency. Listen and Learn from Sherine how ResMed managed to look after their customers during the pandemic, global daily standups no matter what time and many more sacrifices the unsung hero’s of COVID19 have made.
Sam Higgins is a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research in Australia. I challenged Sam on his view on bi-modal IT. Get my lessons learned for free as to why one doesn’t just challenge a Forrester Analyst! We are discussing different aspects of bi-modal IT, associated architectures and the mistakes organisations can make with leadership appointments. Sam shares his view on the linkage between culture and organisational performance as well as how to become an Analyst. You will learn how to spot trends, what drives trends, the importance of collaboration and the analyst day related experiences & learnings from Red Hat Summit.
Chris Wright – In this episode you meet the Global CTO of Red Hat. You get to know a personal side of Chris and what the day in the life of the CTO of the largest software acquisition ever looks like. We are discussing the A/NZ marketplace compared to the rest of the world, opportunities in the telco industry, deep thinking, why Open Data is the evolution of Open Source, the resilience of the open source development model, why the Linux micro VS monolithic kernel discussion is flaring up again, what people Chris is looking for when he is hiring for his team and why you should consider yourself lucky when your mother calls you a nerd with social skills.
Lynn Wood – Founder and Chief Idea Spy at ideaspies.com. Learn why IdeaSpies are driven by more than just ideas and ideation, and how to create a ‘Good News’ mindset to make the world a better place. IdeaSpies enables Enterprises with ideation processes and platforms to drive high performance and retain talent. We discuss how this is related to open source, the distribution of the future, the paying it forward concept, that complaining doesn’t get you anywhere and how the platform has evolved since it was tested by KPMG.
Paul Littlefair & BMK Lakshminarayanan – A CIO of the Year and a CNCF ambassador at the same organisation – surely a match made in Heaven!
Paul is the current CIO of the Year in New Zealand and the acting CTO of Bank of New Zealand. BMK is a longstanding architect at BNZ and CNCF Ambassador. Learn what leadership philosophies a CIO of the Year subscribes to, the right attitude towards experimentation, organisational culture, the importance of clarity, capability and motivation. Furthermore, learn how a CNCF Ambassador picks up trends before they become trends, community involvement creates leaders and how rows and columns are not really representing the real world.
Phil Chan – CTO of AgriWebb, one of Australia’s most successful AgTech startup and the fastest growing livestock AgTech startup worldwide.
Phil will share his personal journey and what it means to be the CTO of a successful startup committed to help double food production by 2050 while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Phil will share his insights about how farmers are innovators and technology savvy business people dealing with the circle of life, as well as his view on metrics and how AgriWebb uses OKRs to evolve into a more data driven business. As always we’ll also discuss the technologies involved and what’s next at AgriWebb.
Colin McCabe – Senior Director Professional Services, Red Hat Australia & New Zealand. Colin and I discuss the impact of COVID-19 and working from home on a professional services business and good practices on how to still deliver excellence during 100% remote customer engagements. We learn about introverts, extroverts, when you need anti-tank traps and why you should build data centres at least 40 kilometres apart if you plan to run your business after a nuclear explosion.
Michael Heller – Chief Data Scientist at IBM and proclaimed geek. US Citizen and working in the FSI industry in Australia talks about why he loves Kubernetes and why it is tightly related to the future of data, edge computing and data security.
Katt Srinivasan – Founder of https://www.thebargainavenue.com.au/ (Australia’s leading coupons and discounts website) and AdAvenue Media.
Listen to Katt’s journey from $100 in his pocket to a multi-million dollar revenue generating Australian online business allowing him a 2-hour work week.
This episode was recorded on March 1st 2020.
Upcoming Episodes
Sam Higgins – Forrester Analyst on Bi-Modal IT
Sherine Soliman – Global Supply Chain VP at ResMed
Max McLaren – Regional VP & General Manager, Red Hat Australia & New Zealand