Cloud Realities (Capgemini)
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| 31 Oct 2024 | CR081: Cloud on the rocks [AAA] | 00:59:21 | |
[AAA] In 'Access All Areas' shows we go behind the scenes with the crew and their friends as they try to unpick some issue or other. It might get a bit messy. This week, sometimes ‘big rocks’ exist in organizations and transformations that prevent or slow down getting to successful outcomes. Dave, Esmee and Rob are joined by, Georgia Smith, Cloud Transformation Leader, to talk about the ‘big rocks’ visible in Cloud transformations, focusing on culture and governance, including the glorious messiness of cultural change, the ineffectiveness of bottom up change management, how to create effective adaptive governance during transformation and the importance of spa days. Please get in touch with us, via LinkedIn or cloudrealities@capgemini.com, if you have questions or challenges for us, we'd love to hear from you!
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| 02 Nov 2023 | CR041: Unleashing developer creativity with Ramiro Berrelleza, Okteto | 00:39:23 | |
Automation in software development is a way to minimise errors during the software development process, make it faster and more cost-efficient, and improve team collaboration and productivity. Highly effective development teams dedicate their best staff to this task, believing it will unlock new levels of developer productivity and creativity. This week, Dave, Sjoukje and Rob talk to Ramiro Berrelleza, Founder and CEO at Okteto, a company that modernises the development experience, about the core idea and founding of Okteto, why developer automation has high value attached to it, whether business leadership are engaging with it as route to value and, it wouldnt be a show without it, what disruption AI is already having on software development. TLDR: Guest Hosts
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| 16 Nov 2023 | CR043: How technology democratisation drives innovation with Nabil Bukhari, Extreme Networks | 00:44:37 | |
Technology democratisation is the process of reorienting technology tools to require less specialized knowledge to use and drive value. This can happen at organisational or societal level, and lead to more rapid application and radically increased innovation. This week, Dave, Sjoukje, and Rob talk to Nabil Bukhari, CTO and CPO at Extreme Networks, about how he became so inspired by tech democratisation, why it is important for society to have equal access to tech and what the implications and advantages are for your organisation. Finally, we talk about successful innovation tactics for leaders. TLDR: Guest Hosts
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| 07 Mar 2025 | CRLIVE38: MWC 2025 Day 3 with Oliver Buschmann from Ericsson and Closing Round Table Discussion | 01:43:12 | |
We are live from #MWC25 (Mobile World Congress 2025), direct from the Expo floor, with a limited series of episodes talking to leaders from across the industry on themes of the conference, as well as filling in on all of the news and gossip. On the conference's final day, Dave, Esmee, and Rob will deep dive into the near future, concluding the event with discussions on a moon landing and global (space) connectivity between partners and vendors.
TLDR 00:33 Evaluation of day 2 and expectations of day 3 - it's all about collaboration Guests Guest host: Praveen Shankar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/praveen-shankar-capgemini/
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| 08 Jun 2023 | CRLIVE008: Accelerating Business Transformation with Carrefour, Hellman & FrieslandCampina | 00:37:06 | |
The speed at which businesses need to change to keep pace with ever-accelerating innovation continues to increase. Leaders today need to deal with this while balancing the shock of the change on customers and staff and the challenges of legacy modernisation.
They explore the nature of tech-driven change, discuss the ambitions for change in their organisations, delve into what they believe lies at the heart of driving change quickly, and emphasise the importance of leadership recognising the need to change before their organisations can fully transform. Guests Host Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/
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| 04 Dec 2024 | CRLIVE33: AWS re:Invent Day 1: Big themes, state of sustainable tech and the future of FS with Rahul Sareen and Melissa Dougherty | 01:10:20 | |
Live from the Yardbird in Las Vegas, we're bringing you a special limited series of episodes on AWS re:Invent 2025. Join us as we check in with AWS and take an industry temperature check. Plus, we'll keep you updated on all the latest news and juicy gossip from the Strip. Then they talk to:
also Matt Gillard, 'Cloud Dialogues' and Paul Mukherjee and Liam Walsh, UK Gov Defra, drop in to say hello. TLDR Guests Hosts Production Sound 'Cloud Realities' is an original podcast from Capgemini | |||
| 16 May 2024 | CR064: New vulnerabilities in the digital age with Jeremy Snyder, FireTail | 00:53:36 | |
For every innovation and progression in digital technology bringing us new opportunities, they also potentially bring new attack surfaces, providing opportunities for the black hat community too! This week Dave and Rob talk to Jeremy Snyder Founder and CEO of FireTail about Cyber in a world of APIs and micro services, new challenges and vulnerabilities that are introduced, why traditional Cyber techniques are becoming insufficient and we celebrate World Password Day! TLDR: Guest Hosts
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| 10 Apr 2025 | CRLIVE40 Google Cloud Next 2025: Strategic Thinking and Visioning in AI with Charlotte Gistelinck, Google Cloud | 00:36:09 | |
Hello Las Vegas — we’ve arrived for Google Cloud Next 2025! Arthur C. Clarke's third law, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Hot drop coming through! The Cloud Realities podcast team has landed in electric Las Vegas—and you know what they say: what happens in Vegas normally stays in Vegas... but in this case, we’re bringing 8 incredible conversations in the coming days with inspiring Google guests who are shaping the future of cloud, data, and AI. On the first day, we have 3 separate episodes lined up to discuss Google AI strategy & vision, practical implementations, and exciting use cases. In the second conversation, Dave, Esmee, and Rob, talk with Charlotte Gistelinck, Machine Learning / AI Partner Engineer at Google, on how strategic thinking and visioning in AI/ML are key to driving innovation and long-term success.
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| 02 Mar 2023 | CR014: TechnoVision 2023 pt.2: Doing less with less to drive sustainable digital value with Ron Tolido, Capgemini | 00:39:43 | |
Each year Capgemini publishes TechnoVision - a comprehensive prediction of the year to come, along with useful principles that guided both its prediction and use. It seeks to bring some fresh thinking to the technology business issues of today. In this special two part episode Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk in detail with the reports leader Ron Tolido and get a special insight into the creation of the work. In this special second episode, the team explore the mindset at the heart of Technovision 2023, helpful to understand the implications of the trends from pt.1, but critical in how you put them to practical use! They walk through the design principles (Every Business is a Tech Business, Do good, do less, do well, With Open Arms, IQ/EQ/CQ, Trust Thrust and No Hands on Deck) and discuss how they come together to paint a picture of a modern digital business. Finally, in this weeks Trend, we talk about how code itself can be written to ensure the best and most green performance of your products and platforms. TLDR: Further Reading: | |||
| 29 Feb 2024 | CRLIVE26: MWC24: Humanising AI with Fawad Qureshi & Phil Kippen, Snowflake PLUS the gang reflect on MWC24 | 01:04:14 | |
We are live from #MWC24 (Mobile World Conference 2024), direct from the Expo floor, with a limited series of episodes talking to leaders from across the industry on themes of the conference, as well as filling in on all of the news and gossip. Dave, Sjoukje and Rob talk about 'Humanising AI' with - Fawad Qureshi Field CTO at Snowflake The gang then round out the weeks shows by exploring the sixth and final theme, 'Manufacturing DX' and share their reflections on the show, and their disappointments in certain demos... Guest Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 28 Feb 2024 | CRLIVE23: MWC24: Our Digital DNA with Mohamed Awad, Arm | 00:26:31 | |
We are live from #MWC24 (Mobile World Congress 2024), direct from the Expo floor, with a limited series of episodes talking to leaders from across the industry on themes of the conference, as well as filling in on all of the news and gossip. Dave, Sjoukje and Rob talk to Mohamed Awad, SVP/GM, Infrastructure Business at Arm about the 'Our Digital DNA' conference theme, the evolution of processing power and the challenges of ever increasing demand whilst managing the impact on the environment. They also chat about the exciting consumer devices that have been announced at the show, including a flying taxi! Guest Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 22 Jun 2023 | CR028: AI Cyber considerations with Bill Reid, Google | 00:34:16 | |
Alongside the huge potential advantages AI will bring, there are implications to its usage that we need to take seriously, right from the outset. Security and privacy are critical, not only to ensure the safe use of AI in coming years, both in society and commercially, but also how do we prevent AI from being abused or creating new Cyber attack surfaces? Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk to Bill Reid, Security Advisor, Office of the CISO, Google about how you protect against AI Cyber threat, whether old techniques can be used, what the considerations for the training data set are, how AI further complexes the software supply chain and the right types of AI governance. TLDR: Guest Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Sjouke Zaal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjoukjezaal/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 19 Dec 2024 | CR086: Christmas special! Trends 2025 with Gene Kim, Guru | 01:26:50 | |
IT’S CHRIIIIIISTMAAAASSSSSSS!!!!! The last couple of years we have seen an increasing cadence of tech innovation, but scaled adoption held back by economic headwinds and incomplete technology suites - at the end of the year, it seems like a good time to reflect and cast forward a bit… Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a very Happy and Healthy New Year to all our guests and listeners! Thank you for sharing your time with us this year—we look forward to seeing you at the end of January! Production 'Cloud Realities' is an original podcast from Capgemini | |||
| 23 Nov 2023 | CR044: Making sense of complexity pt.2 with Rob England and Cherry Vu, Teal Unicorn | 00:55:22 | |
The Cynefin Framework sets out different lenses through which circumstances can be made sense of, from 'clear' through to 'chaos'! As we have covered on previous episodes of the show (CR020 & CR003), it is very useful for helping frame and understand the shift to “digital”. This week, Dave, Sjoukje, and Rob talk to Rob England and Cherry Vu, who are Teal Unicorn and explore new ways of management, about the relevance of the Cynefin Framework in their work with organisations, the builds Rob and Cherry have made on it (with Dave Snowden!), and what results they have seen. We also talk about ways to drive additional value from the Cloud. TLDR: Further Reading Guest Hosts
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| 07 Dec 2023 | CR045: How Cloud Native and Open Source come together to drive value with Massimo Ferrari, RedHat | 00:46:44 | |
Open source and Cloud Native thinking and approaches can be very synergistic and drive value for organisations, but both are still not well understood today. This week, Dave, Sjoukje, and Rob talk to Massimo Ferrari, Distinguished Product manager, Red Hat about open source philosophy, misunderstandings about open source that still exist, what Cloud Native actually is and question if these two approaches can come together to drive faster value. We then talk about how GenAI can power Cloud transformation. TLDR: Guest Hosts
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| 12 Oct 2023 | CR038: Empowering supermums with Heather Black, Supermums | 00:36:05 | |
It should be a no brainer that more diverse teams deliver better and more customer appropriate outcomes and solutions. However, the gender balance in tech is not improving, and returning to work after children continues to be one of the main blockers. Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk to Heather Black, Founder and CEO of Supermums, an organisation that focuses on Reducing the Gender Pay Gap, Supporting Women Returners, Increasing the Women in Tech and Addressing the Digital Skills Gap. We talk about how and why Supermums was founded, what challenges still exist today and how to break into tech as a part of returning to work. TLDR: Guest Hosts
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| 28 Feb 2024 | CRLIVE25: MWC24: 5G and beyond with Zarn Kucel and Chris McKenna, AWS | 00:34:19 | |
We are live from #MWC24 (Mobile World Conference 2024), direct from the Expo floor, with a limited series of episodes talking to leaders from across the industry on themes of the conference, as well as filling in on all of the news and gossip. Dave, Sjoukje and Rob talk to Zarn Kucel, Global Head of AWS Hybrid Edge, Telco & CSP and Chris McKenna is the Worldwide Head of Business Development for Private Networks at AWS about the theme of '5G and beyond', Hybrid Edge and Mobile Private Networks, discover the potential of NaaS (Network as a Service) and how the Cloud and Communications are converging to provide an unltra-powerful innovation platform. Guests Chris McKenna: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-mckenna-082b4647/ Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 30 Nov 2023 | CRLIVE18: AWS re:Invent 2023: Industry Cloud perspectives - Automotive & Financial Services with Keith Mulder, AWS and Melissa Dougherty, AWS | 00:48:57 | |
We are live from AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas, direct from the Expo floor, with a limited series of episodes talking to AWS leaders on themes of the conference, as well as filling in on all of the news and gossip. In this double feature looking at 'Industry Cloud', we focus on the impact of the Cloud in two sectors. Dave, Sjoukje and Rob talk to:
Finally, we get an update on Robs search for a mouse and have some alarming news about the Cloud Realities monkey! Guests Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 20 Jul 2023 | CR032: Diversity in data with Roisin McCarthy, Women in Data® | 00:32:21 | |
It should be a no brainer that more diverse teams deliver better and more customer appropriate outcomes and solutions. The significance of this is very much demonstrated in the realm of data - a space where ensuring that no bias is introduced into the data set is critical! Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk to Roisin McCarthy, Founder at Women in Data® about the founding and mission of Women in Data®, the underlying systemic issues that need to be addressed, the frustrations of not making progress quickly enough and the benefits of diversity in the workplace. TLDR: Guest Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Sjoukje Zaal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjoukjezaal/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 20 Apr 2023 | CR021: Human operating systems with Michael Hamman, Teacher & Coach | 00:35:27 | |
Digital organisations work in new ways that require us all to adapt and develop new skills and framing and making sense of the world. How to tackle this is one of the more difficult challenges requiring addressing in a digital transformation. Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk with Micheal Hamman, Teacher and Coach, about different styles of organisation and about how our beliefs can impact how we act. He also talks about the over emphasis on the engineering mindset, how we need to consider the human technologies and how all of our "human operating systems" may require some new apps. Finally, in this weeks Trend, we talk about skills that modern leaders need to adopt and what can we learn from each other. TLDR: | |||
| 06 Feb 2025 | CR089: Culture to drive change with Alex Alves, Unilever | 01:00:57 | |
Digital transformation isn’t just about technology—it’s about people. Culture shapes how teams adapt, collaborate, and drive change, but it also determines whether transformation efforts truly take root. Mindset, leadership, and shared values are the real catalysts for lasting success. TLDR: 06:40 Cloud conversation with Alex Alves Hosts: Production: Sound: 'Cloud Realities' is an original podcast from Capgemini | |||
| 28 Mar 2024 | CR058: Should Cloud co$t the Earth? with Mark Butcher, Posetiv | 00:47:09 | |
GreenOps presents a significant challenge in enterprise's approach to emissions data, sustainability, and cloud operations. Balancing tech innovation with eco-responsibility requires strategic alignment and continuous effort, but the rewards are worth it! This week Dave, Sjoukje and Rob talk to Mark Butcher, Founder & CEO of Posetiv, about GreenOps, how it aligns with the reality of our software, SaaS, and cloud usage, why emissions data will go up before it goes down, and if cost is truly a reliable proxy for sustainability.
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| 30 May 2024 | CR066: Unlimited power for your data centers with Michael Crabb, Last Energy | 00:43:49 | |
There is a scary contradiction in the increased power consumption of the latest technical innovations, and the impact the increased power consumption will have on society and the planet. This week Dave and Rob talk to Michael Carbb SVP of Commercial at Last Energy about huge growth in power consumption due to electrification, power perhaps becoming the new constraint, modular nuclear power, perceived danger vs. real danger of nuclear, do we have any alternatives and how long it takes to get modular power to a data centre. TLDR: Guest Hosts
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| 01 Dec 2023 | CRLIVE21: AWS re:Invent 2023: The green revolution in tech with Rahul Sareen, AWS | 00:34:53 | |
We are live from AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas, direct from the Expo floor, with a limited series of episodes talking to AWS leaders on themes of the conference, as well as filling in on all of the news and gossip. Dave, Sjoukje and Rob talk to Rahul Sareen, Global Head Sustainability Solutions and GTM, AWS about AWS's evolving approach to sustainability The gang also do a final round up of themes, highlights and best swag to wrap up this years re:Invent 2023 series. Guest Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 06 Nov 2023 | CRLIVE15: Microsoft Envision London: Unlock the potential of AI at scale with John Cairney, Scottish Water and Giles Walker, Microsoft & Steven Webb, Capgemini | 00:47:30 | |
GenAI use cases emerge everyday, however they tend to be quite discreet currently, to unlock its potential at scale we are likely to see platforms and significant organisational change emerge at an unprecedented speed over the next year. In a special live episode from London at Microsoft Envision The Tour in October 2023, Dave, Sjoukje and Rob talk to a panel led by John Cairney, Head of Digital Strategy and Architecture, Scottish Water with Giles Walker, CTO Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods, Microsoft and Steven Webb, CTIO UK, Capgemini about what good AI experimentation and use cases look like, what Scottish Water are doing to pilot GenAI at scale, in particular their experiences with Co-Pilot, along with what the scale organisational implications of GenAI might be and looking to the future, if and when AI transformation might ultimately tackle process centric enterprise apps such as ERP. TLDR: Guests Hosts
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| 11 Jul 2024 | CR072: The art of data visualization with Krishnan Venkata, LatentView Analytics | 00:41:59 | |
Data visualization simplifies complex data, reveals trends, enhances decision-making, supports communication, and ultimately leading to more informed and effective business outcomes. This week Dave and Rob talk to Krishnan Venkata, Chief Client Officer at LatentView Analytics, about the impact of data visualization on leadership and the shift from dashboards to Decision Boards.
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| 09 Nov 2023 | CR042: The age of living machines with Susan Hockfield, President Emerita, MIT | 00:50:17 | |
In a first technology convergence, physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies: radios, telephones, televisions, aircraft, radar, nuclear power, computers, the Internet and a host of still evolving digital tools. Today we are on the cusp of a new convergence... This week, Dave, Sjoukje and Rob talk to Susan Hockfield, President Emerita, MIT about how biology is now coming together with engineering to create a wave of next generation technologies. They talk about the evolution of this new technology, exciting initial use cases and the challenges of industrialising these new machines. We also talk about how LLM's might also learn the language of biology and drive further breakthroughs. TLDR: Further reading Guest Hosts
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| 06 Dec 2024 | CRLIVE35: AWS re:Invent Day 3: Sovereign Cloud and Cloud Maturity with Max Peterson and Erik Farr, AWS | 01:28:08 | |
Live from the Expo floor in Las Vegas, we're bringing you a special limited series of episodes on AWS re:Invent 2025. Join us as we check in with AWS and take an industry temperature check. Plus, we'll keep you updated on all the latest news and juicy gossip from the Strip. On day three of the conference Dave and Rob talk to:
also Rob Easton from AWS, drops in to help us round up the show - what were our big takeaways and which Casino Bar triumphed in Rob’s rigorous exploration?! TLDR Guest Hosts Production Sound 'Cloud Realities' is an original podcast from Capgemini | |||
| 11 Apr 2024 | CRLIVE28: Google Cloud Next 24 Day 2: Insurance, Supply Chain & Production Operations meet AI with Nigel Walsh, Paula Natoli & Fabien Duboeuf, Google Cloud | 01:15:02 | |
Live from the heart of Google Next'24 in Las Vegas, right from the Expo floor, we're bringing you a special limited series of episodes. Join us as we make connections between Google, AI, industry adoption, cloud transformation and customer experience. Plus, we'll keep you updated on all the latest news and juicy gossip.
TLDR 00:40 Announcements from the Expo floor at Google Next'24 1:15:24 End
Guest Nigel Walsh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nigelwalsh/ Paula Natoli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paula-natoli-952309/ Fabien Duboeuf: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabien-duboeuf-1605504/
Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Sjoukje Zaal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjoukjezaal/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
Production Marcel Van Der Burg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcel-van-der-burg-99a655/ Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/
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| 01 Dec 2023 | CRLIVE20: AWS re:Invent 2023: Guardians and future of trusted cloud with Max Peterson and Gary Meshell, AWS & Anne Saunders, Capgemini | 00:58:43 | |
We are live from AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas, direct from the Expo floor, with a limited series of episodes talking to AWS leaders on themes of the conference, as well as filling in on all of the news and gossip. In this weeks second double feature, we are looking at Sovereignty & Cyber, we focus on how AWS Cloud is responding to two of the biggest challenges today. Dave, Sjoukje and Rob dig into this in two separate sessions with:
Guests Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 19 Jan 2023 | CR007: The Cloud Value Flywheel Effect pt.1 with Anderson, McCann & O'Reilly | 00:49:52 | |
Cloud transformation can take many forms, in this two part episode we hear first hand experiences of driving cloud transformation from a software development and application centric perspective, the challenges to overcome and value that can be delivered. In this first part, Dave, Sjoukje & Rob meet David Anderson, Mark McCann & Micheal O'Reilly authors of 'The Value Flywheel Effect: Power the Future and Accelerate your Organisation to the Modern Cloud', and hear about their time at Liberty Mutual where, hungry for pioneering techniques, they drove a serverless centric cloud transformation and started to talk to Simon Wardly about value streams. In Tech Trends this week we talk about something on everyones mind, the cost of Cloud as we run into 2023 and discuss best practice ways to manage it. TLDR: Further reading: Book: https://amzn.eu/d/7vkr59m | |||
| 01 Sep 2023 | CRLIVE13 GoogleCloudNext23: Cloud native transformation with Chen Goldberg, GM of Google Kubernetes and Serverless, Google Cloud | 00:44:26 | |
We are live from Google Cloud Next 2023, direct from the Expo floor with a limited series of episodes talking to Google leaders on themes of the conference, as well as filling in on all of the news and gossip. Dave & Rob talk to Chen Goldberg, VP & GM of Google Kubernetes and Serverless, Google Cloud, about what "cloud native" really means, the tech and the ways of working, along with the first hand story of K8S over the last 10 years. The gang are then joined by some friends to reflect on a busy conference week, the highlights and themes and whether we got our predictions right! Guest Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 13 Jun 2024 | CR068: The Ultimate Shopping Experience with Angelo Coletta, Zakeke | 00:51:08 | |
On-line experience is going up a level. New hardware along with next level visualisations are creating real world experiences with products virtually, whilst in store experiences move closer to providing the customisation and efficiency we are now seeing (and expecting) in digital. Dave and Rob talk to Angelo Coletta, CEO and Founder of Zakeke, a company focused on the visualisation layer, about the evolution of the digital experience, the founding ideas at Zakeke, how digital product is becoming more physical and how physical is becoming more digital and the group also chat about what shopping experience resonated with them recently, and did the modern digital experience play a part in that. TL:DR Guest Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 28 Nov 2024 | CR084: Hyper Automation with Johan Sporre, Ericsson | 00:57:39 | |
Agentic intelligence will enable unprecedented levels of automation, it is a next step on from what has been possible for a number of years. Is it now possible to automate 80% of IT tasks? This week, Dave, Esmee, and Rob talk to Johan Sporre Lennberg, Vice President Cloud Service at Ericsson about how Hyper Automation is possible, to what extent and the best way to go after it in IT. TLDR: Hosts Production Sound 'Cloud Realities' is an original podcast from Capgemini | |||
| 15 Feb 2024 | CR053: Cloud lessons from the world of Private Equity with Bas Kamphuis, Wingspan | 00:46:40 | |
Private Equity organisations are in the fascinating position of having a view across many organisations, they help smaller organisations scale and have a strong grip on what works, and what doesn't, in scaling and optimising businesses. This week Dave, Sjoukje, and Rob talk to Bas Kamphuis, Founder and CEO, Wingspan, a company who seek to increase the value of software companies through cloud transformation, about what repeatable truths of cloud transformation can be learned from seeing the patterns working across multiple companies and what lessons we can be taken away. TLDR: Guest Hosts
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| 12 Apr 2024 | CRLIVE29: Google Cloud Next 24 Day 3: Customer experience & software engineering meet AI with Kevin Shatzkamer & Miku Jha, Google Cloud | 01:08:16 | |
Live from the heart of Google Next'24 in Las Vegas, right from the Expo floor, we're bringing you a special limited series of episodes. Join us as we make connections between Google, AI, industry adoption, cloud transformation and customer experience. Plus, we'll keep you updated on all the latest news and juicy gossip.
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| 23 Feb 2023 | CR013: TechnoVision 2023 pt.1: Dealing with scarcity, sustainability & uncertainty with Ron Tolido, Capgemini | 00:52:48 | |
Each year Capgemini publishes TechnoVision - a comprehensive prediction of the year to come, along with useful principles that guide both its prediction and use. It seeks to bring some fresh thinking to the technology business issues of today. In this special two part episode Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk in detail with the reports leader Ron Tolido and get a special insight into the creation of Technovision 2023! In this special first episode, the team explore why Scarcity, Sustainability and Uncertainty have influenced so much of the thinking, what impact this has and then walk through the 5 trends at the centre of the report: Invisible Infostructure, Applications Unleashed, Thriving on Data, Process on the Fly and You Experience/We Collaborate. Finally, in this weeks Trend, we talk about how Microsoft and Google are both racing to bring chatGPT supported product to market. TLDR: Further Reading: | |||
| 23 Jan 2025 | CR087: Does 'purpose' matter with Dave Snowden | 01:11:22 | |
Organizational ‘purpose’ can set out a North Star that can create directional alignment, which is especially important in organizations with deep empowerment. But are purpose statements merely platitudes on a flip chart, or should the focus shift to genuine stories, meaningful patterns, and tangible actions? Returning from their festive slumber, Dave, Esmee and Rob talk to Dave Snowden, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, The Cynefin Centre about purpose, why it may not help, what the alternatives might be and how to have a listening for the ‘micro-narratives’ in your organization. 05:42 Exploring organizational purpose with Dave Snowden 1:00:20 Discovering personal purpose through Ikigai 1:07:55 Celebrating a 21st anniversary and the Children of the World Project Hosts: Production: Sound: 'Cloud Realities' is an original podcast from Capgemini | |||
| 13 Apr 2023 | CR020: Making sense of digital complexity with Dave Snowden, The Cynefin Centre | 00:42:44 | |
Digitalisation in an inherently complex activity, with unknowns being very high and experimentation required on an ongoing basis - there is no 'once and done'. The changes in leadership framing, decision making and ways of working required are hugely under estimated in discussions and planning of 'transformation' and failure to engage with that could risk your success. Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk with Dave Snowden, Director and Founder of the Cynefin Centre about his work on making sense of complexity, they discuss Dave's seminal work, the Cynefin Framework, how he has subsequently built on that thinking and how you apply that it in the digitalisation process of your organisation. His insights are not to be missed. Finally, in this weeks Trend, we set out some perceived wisdom of what is required in digital leadership and see what stacks up. TLDR: Further Reading: | |||
| 21 Nov 2024 | CRLIVE31: Microsoft Ignite Day 2: Security & responsibility in AI and developer communities with Rudra Mitra, Dr. Sarah Bird & Yina Arenas & Scott Hanselman, Microsoft | 01:38:27 | |
Live from the heart of Microsoft Ignite 2024 in Chicago, we're bringing you three daily episodes. Join us as we make connections between Microsoft, Azure AI and Data, Security, Industry, Development Community and customer experience. Plus, we'll keep you updated on all the latest news and juicy gossip.
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| 14 Dec 2023 | CR046: The Cyber conversation Boards should be having, but probably aren't with Simon Hodgkinson, Board Advisor | 00:45:07 | |
Cyber has long been a top risk for businesses. However, it is still often perceived as an IT or tech issue, rather than the existential risk to the business that it could be. It is also likely that Cyber will continue to grow as an issue, and in complexity, as we enter the AI-age. This week Dave, Sjoukje, and Rob talk to Simon Hodgkinson, ex-FTSE 100 CISO & Board and Executive Advisor, about the history of the Cyber threat, current threat levels and attack surfaces, sensible mitigations and what is missing in the conversation that Boards and senior teams are having about the Cyber risk. They also talk about the top trends in the world of Cyber security in 2024. TLDR: Guest Hosts
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| 10 Apr 2025 | CRLIVE39 Google Cloud Next 2025: Leading AI Innovation with Saurabh Tiwary, Google Cloud | 00:40:33 | |
Hello Las Vegas — we’ve arrived for Google Cloud Next 2025! Arthur C. Clarke's third law, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Hot drop coming through! The #CloudRealities podcast team has landed in electric Las Vegas—and you know what they say: what happens in Vegas normally stays in Vegas... but in this case, we’re bringing 8 incredible conversations in the coming days with inspiring guests who are shaping the future of cloud, data, and AI. On the first day, we have 3 separate episodes lined up to discuss Google AI strategy & vision, practical implementations, and exciting use cases. Dave, Esmee, and Rob kick off with Saurabh Tiwary, VP, General Manager, Cloud AI at Google Cloud, about Leading AI Innovation for Enterprise Solutions, to solve complex enterprise challenges and deliver true business value.
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| 27 Feb 2024 | CRLIVE22: MWC24: Connecting Everything with Muneyb Minhazuddin, Intel & Anand Chandrasikher, Aira Networks | 00:45:06 | |
We are live from #MWC24 (Mobile World Congress 2024), direct from the Expo floor, with a limited series of episodes talking to leaders from across the industry on themes of the conference, as well as filling in on all of the news and gossip. Dave, Sjoukje and Rob set out the themes of the Conference, then focus in on the theme of 'Connecting Everything' with...
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| 01 Sep 2023 | CRLIVE12 GoogleCloudNext23: Experience led cloud transformation with Mahin Samadani, Director of Strategic Business Transformation, Google Cloud | 00:27:33 | |
We are live from Google Cloud Next 2023, direct from the Expo floor with a limited series of episodes talking to Google leaders on themes of the conference, as well as filling in on all of the news and gossip. Dave & Rob talk to Mahin Samadani, Director of Strategic Business Transformation, Google Cloud about experience led cloud transformation, how to measure 'return on imagination' and how starting with the user experience can drive better business value and outcomes. Rob also updates us on Day 2 themes, including cloud integration, productivity boost through better org design and how we must continue to challenge our assumptions, even when we have been successful! Guest Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 23 May 2024 | CR065: Scaling GenAI with Bernard Marr, Author & Futurist | 00:53:57 | |
How far has GenAI come beyond the tech innovation in the last 18 months - we hear a lot about the latest amazing advancements, but with its business application, are we still stuck in a PoC loop? This week Dave and Rob talk to Bernard Marr, Futurist, Tech & Strategy Advisor about his work to date (over 20 books!) and his new book 'Generative AI in practice. 100 amazing ways it is changing our world'. We touch on evolution of AI, effect on business and society and the risks and challenges as AI scales. TLD
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| 04 Apr 2024 | CR059: Digitalising Fresenius with Ingo Elfering, Fresenius | 00:53:58 | |
As a first part of a new occasional series, we look directly at the digitalisation journeys and challenges of the worlds leading companies with their leaders. We start with Fresenius, a European multinational health care company based in Bad Homburg, Germany. It provides products and services for dialysis in hospitals, as well as inpatient and outpatient medical care. This week, Dave, Sjoukje, and Rob talk to Ingo Elfering, Group CIO of Fresenius and German CIO Magazine's CIO of the Year 2023, about their complex, multi-threaded transformation approach. They discuss what this approach now enables for Fresenius, how the cloud is at the heart of enabling the change, the next steps now that a significant new platform has been established, and how the right tone was set at the Board level to enable the transformation. TLDR: Hosts
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| 22 Feb 2024 | CR054: FinOps unleashed! with Kunal Agarwal, Unravel Data | 00:40:47 | |
The FinOps Foundation defines FinOps as "an operational framework and cultural practice which maximizes the business value of cloud, enables timely data-driven decision making, and creates financial accountability through collaboration between engineering, finance, and business teams." Sounds good! So why are many organisations still not doing it well? This week Dave, Sjoukje, and Rob talk to Kunal Agarwal, CEO and Co-founder, Unravel Data on the requirement for finops, what is it and why do you need it, if the Finance Depts are getting involved, what good practices looking, how 'inform, govern, optimise' fit in and why you should measure everything!
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| 09 May 2024 | CR063: The impact of AI-powered automation with Gretchen Alarcon, ServiceNow | 00:45:18 | |
AI-driven platforms for automating multiple management workflows are increasingly common place in todays enterprises. However, the potential to exploit these platforms currently exceeds implementation footprints. This week Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk to Gretchen Alarcon, SVP & GM, Employee Workflows Products at ServiceNow about automating IT service management, IT operations management and IT business management, just digitising what is there vs. rethinking, how AI fits in and questions just how many of todays traditional management workflows can be automated. TLDR: Guest Hosts
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| 29 Jun 2023 | CR029: Making AI enterprise ready with Chris Wells, Indico Data | 00:43:23 | |
Much like any new technology release, AI is currently going through its hype-cycle, meaning, that for all of the noise and conversation happening, there is currently a lot of experimentation, rather than Enterprise scale implementation. Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk to Christopher Wells, VP R&D, Indico Data and host of the Unstructured Unlocked podcast, about where we are on the AI hype-cycle, what the world could look like on the other side of wide scale implementation and what form(s) Enterprise scale implementation of AI may take. We also talk about the hardest and the least talked about aspect of successful and safe use of AI: preparing and managing the data infrastructure. TLDR: Guest Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Sjoukje Zaal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjoukjezaal/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 07 Nov 2024 | CR082: Surviving migration in the age of AI with Petra Molnar, Harvard Faculty Associate | 00:43:37 | |
As more people are displaced by war, economic instability, and a warming planet, more countries are turning to AI-driven technology to “manage” the influx.
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| 12 Dec 2024 | CR085: Driving change in public services with data and AI with Craig Suckling, UK Government | 01:02:15 | |
There is huge potential for the leverage of data (and AI) to provide the most modern Citizen digital experiences, but that has to be balanced with managing deep legacy challenges and, of course, security risk. Hosts: Production: Sound: 'Cloud Realities' is an original podcast from Capgemini | |||
| 10 Feb 2025 | CRSP03: Reimagining Telecom Industry pt.3 - Network Transformation with Mallikarjuna Rao, Telefonica | 00:47:43 | |
The telecom industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation. This shift is creating new business opportunities and services but also brings significant challenges in transformation and modernization. In a new five-part mini-series, Reimagining Telecoms, we will explore these challenges through five distinct lenses: Growth, Networks, Simplification, Data & AI, and Regulation, uncovering lessons and insights relevant to telecom organizations and beyond. This week, Dave, Esmee and Rob talk to Mallikarjuna Rao, Chief Technology & Enterprise Business Office at Telefonica about the backbone of the industry—the network—and its transformation. What challenges lie ahead and what does the future hold? 'Reimagining Telecoms' Episodes 4 and 5 will be available in the week of February 24. TLDR Guest Hosts Guest host Praveen Shankar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/praveen-shankar-capgemini/ Production Sound 'Cloud Realities' is an original podcast from Capgemini | |||
| 02 May 2024 | CR062: Digitalising Unilever with Juan Carlos Parada, Unilever | 01:02:24 | |
In the second part of our occasional series, looking directly at the digitalisation journeys and challenges of the worlds leading companies with their leaders, we are focusing on Unilever, one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies. They believe that digitalisation allows them to respond to customer expectations, supply chain disruption, cost inflation and the impact of an escalating climate crisis by unlocking radical new levels of collaboration, capability and consumer centricity. Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk to Juan Carlos Parada, Global Head of Customer Operations at Unilever about what a digital version of Unilever means, the excitement and anxiety of digitalisation, the challenges in leading such a scale transformation and the personal learnings from the journey. TLDR: Guest Hosts
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| 28 Nov 2023 | CRLIVE16: AWS re:Invent23: Creating Impact with AWS GSI Solutions Architecture, Rohan Karmarkar, AWS | 00:28:30 | |
We are live from AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas, direct from the Expo floor, with a limited series of episodes talking to AWS leaders on themes of the conference, as well as filling in on all of the news and gossip. Dave, Sjoukje and Rob talk to Rohan Karmarkar, Director GSI Solutions Architecture, AWS, about two immediate themes of the conference (1) modernise to both go faster and save money (2) Amazon Q. We talk about how these innovations impact the Customer conversation with AWS, a good customer example and catch up on what else has been announced at the show. Finally, we have a chat about our preferred steaks and answer the most important question... sauce or no sauce? Guest Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 01 Dec 2022 | CRLIVE003: Lessons from a scale early adopter with Dimitris Perdikou, Home Office (UK) | 00:24:04 | |
The team are at AWS re:Invent 2022 for our first live shows! Dimitris Perdikou, Head of Engineering, Home Office, UK Government shares with us the Home Office early adoption (at scale) of the cloud, seven years ago(!) and the challenges that bring when you move to second generation cloud. It’s Day 2 and the big themes of the conference are becoming clearer, our Roving Reporter Rob reports! | |||
| 30 Nov 2022 | CRLIVE002: Re-Skilling your enterprise with Phil Le-Brun, AWS | 00:23:17 | |
The team are at AWS re:Invent 2022 for our first live shows! Phil LeBrun, Enterprise Strategist, AWS, talks to us about why re-skilling your teams is critical not just to your transformations success, what it takes and why it’s such a leadership challenge. Roving Reporter Rob Kernahan updates us on what else is trending on Day 1 of the show. | |||
| 30 Jan 2025 | CR088: Cloud on the rocks [AAA] | 00:54:37 | |
[AAA] In 'Access All Areas' shows we go behind the scenes with the crew and their friends as they dive into complex challenges that organizations face—sometimes getting a little messy along the way. This week, we address the ‘big rocks’ that can obstruct or delay successful outcomes in organizational transformations. Dave, Esmee, and Rob are joined by Jez Back, Cloud Leader, and Chris Dudgeon, VP Commercial Finance, to discuss these challenges—focusing on why cloud transformation programs sometimes fail to deliver their value and the economic realities surrounding them. TLDR with Jez Back: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jezback/
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| 27 Jul 2023 | CR033: Good data plumbing with Rick Houlihan, MongoDB | 00:36:24 | |
To leverage the insights in the data spread across your organisation and to drive a modern digital experience in a world of exponentially growing data in a sustainable way, you have to engage with what is going on in your data plumbing. Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk to Rick Houlihan, Field CTO for Strategic Accounts, MongoDB to get a view on database history and technology and how understanding this might help an organisation to drive more effective, efficient and sustainable use of their data. Finally, in trends we talk about how to get started modernising your data infrastructure. TLDR: Guest Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Sjoukje Zaal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjoukjezaal/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 06 Jul 2023 | CR030: Phygital customer experience in fashion retail with Manyana Schmitz, PVH | 00:53:05 | |
Fashion is an industry where customer experience is critical, it has to represent your brand values very accurately. Additionally, the experience is becoming more and more complex as it needs to deliver "phygital" high quality and consistent omni-channel experiences. Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk to Manyana Schmitz, Director Digital Optimization and Transformation at PVH, a fashion company in Europe that owns Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein, about the changing nature of customer expectations, the impact the pandemic had on buying habits, what the digital response to under pinning a fast moving and complex B2C experience and Manyana shares some personal reflections on her leadership journey. TLDR: Guest Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Sjoukje Zaal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjoukjezaal/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 01 Feb 2024 | CR051: Data culture for everyone with Iain Niven-Bowling, Harbr_ | 00:33:15 | |
Can tech democratisation and AI help solve the perennial problem of how we get access to our data and leverage it for new value without having to build it and hope that they come! This week Dave, Sjoukje, and Rob talk to Iain Niven-Bowling, CTO, Harbr about the data architecture crimes of the past that we still live with, data democratisation, better ways to access and connect to data sources and make data available via natural language interfaces. TLDR: Guest Hosts
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| 15 Dec 2022 | CR005: Digitalisation in healthcare with Tony Ambrozie, Baptist Health | 00:26:51 | |
The healthcare care industry has been disrupted, with new entrants to the industry and tech, such as wearables, providing consumers with far more information and options, huge change is occurring. How are healthcare providers responding to their customers’ expectations and health needs? Dave and Sjoukje talk to Chief Digital & Information Officer of Baptist Health, Tony Ambrozie to hear about how they are using cloud to respond and transform their organisation, and how a step wise approach to cloud now sees them 70% migrated and well on the way to using tech to proactively improve patient health. Finally, in tech trends, they talk about how UK Government is using an innovative AI incentive scheme to help tackle decarbonisation. TLDR: 01:06 Intros 01:48 Cloud conversation with Tony Ambrozie 20:54 AI for Decarbonisation 23:25 Improving patient health! | |||
| 27 Apr 2023 | CR022: The problem with AI with Theo Priestley, Futurist | 00:47:11 | |
Conversations around the short and long term risks and potentially significant unintended consequences of AI are increasing in volume. This has culminated recently in a controversial open letter, coordinated by Future of Life institute, from hundreds of leading figures in this space, including Elon Musk, asking for development and AI learning to be paused, until it is better understood. “Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources,” the letter says. “Unfortunately, this level of planning and management is not happening, even though recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control.” Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk with Futurist Theo Preistley about the risks of AI already manifesting in society, what additional features and automations are coming, which potentially add more risk, and what can could and should be done at this point to ensure we bring AI into our lives responsibly. Finally, in this weeks Trend, we talk about what organisations should do to prep for AI, and that fact that they still have time to act now to get the right arrangements in place. TLDR: Further Reading: | |||
| 26 Jan 2023 | CR009: Increasingly mission critical data & AI with Robin Sutara, Databricks | 00:37:19 | |
The value of Data & AI is perhaps self evident, but it was often a high cost tech solution looking for a problem to solve. Now though, with sustainability concerns, increasingly difficult economic times, post-pandemic global change and easily accessible tools, D&AI suddenly has a mission critical role to play. Dave, Sjoukje & Rob are joined by Robin Sutara, Field CTO at Databricks to discuss the reality of data usage today. They talk about he characteristics of organisations that have successfully created a data transformation to rethink how business gets done, supply chains in a de-globalising world, the importance of clarity of outcome and data delivery team diversity. The team also talk about the incredible launch, potential and concerns around ChatGPT. TLDR: | |||
| 10 Apr 2024 | CRLIVE27: Google Cloud Next 24 Day 1: Innovation & sustainability meet AI with Erwan Menard & Justin Keeble, Google Cloud | 00:49:54 | |
Live from the heart of Google Next'24 in Las Vegas, right from the Expo floor, we're bringing you a special limited series of episodes. Join us as we make connections between Google, AI, industry adoption, cloud transformation and customer experience. Plus, we'll keep you updated on all the latest news and juicy gossip.
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| 24 Oct 2024 | CR080: AI-driven hyper-automation with Nicole Onuta, AI business transformation expert | 00:45:16 | |
As AI scales and layered agents become more integrated, businesses face questions about just how automated they can become and what this means for efficiency, cost, and innovation. Resources Production 'Cloud Realities' is an original podcast from Capgemini | |||
| 28 Feb 2024 | CRLIVE24: MWC24: Game Changers with Paul Armstrong, Schneider Electric, Greg Pelton, Iridium and Richard Deakin, Stratospheric Platforms Limited | 00:47:33 | |
We are live from #MWC24 (Mobile World Congress 2024), direct from the Expo floor, with a limited series of episodes talking to leaders from across the industry on themes of the conference, as well as filling in on all of the news and gossip. Dave, Sjoukje and Rob explore the conference theme of 'Game Changers' by talking to three technology providers who are creating new solutions to solve some of our biggest challenges:
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| 14 Mar 2024 | CR056: Digital certificate revolution! with Nick France, Sectigo | 00:41:11 | |
A 'Digital Certificate' proves the authenticity of a device, server, or user as they communicate with each other - they quietly enforce safety and security in our digital world. However, like in most industries, there is disruption on the horizon in the world of digital certs, and that affects all of us. This week Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk to Nick France, CTO of SSL, Sectigo about what certificates do to keep us safe, the impact if a certificate is compromised, what the coming changes are, how they impact organisations and what they should do about it. We also talk about the big Cyber trends for 2024. TLDR: Guest Hosts
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| 25 May 2023 | CR025: Becoming a data driven organisation pt.1 with Wessel In Der Rieden, Burberry | 00:41:57 | |
Being a data-driven organisation means culturally treating data as a strategic asset and then building capabilities to put that asset to use not just for big decisions but also for everyday action on the frontline. It can deliver huge additional business value as well as drive your customer experience, but it requires significant effort to fully achieve. Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk with Wessel In Der Rieden, Director Data and Information at Burberry, about what being a data driven organisation means, how to unlock critical data from legacy and COTS applications, data productisation and solving for one of the most critical issues in data transformation: data ownership and driving to consistent single views. TLDR: Guest Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Sjouke Zaal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjoukjezaal/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 17 Oct 2024 | CR079: Droning on with Dario Valenza, Carbonix | 00:46:15 | |
Today drones are a common sight from use in industrial and military settings to incredible swarming light shows. They are often used for aerial data capture at scale, providing intelligence over wide and inhospitable areas. Production 'Cloud Realities' is an original podcast from Capgemini | |||
| 15 Jun 2023 | CR027: Quantumania! with Alex Del Toro Barba and Catherine Vollgraff Heidweiller, Google | 00:32:38 | |
Quantum is coming. Over the next 10 years Quantum computers will become more stable, powerful and mainstream, with a different approach to processing, they unlock the potential to solve some of the worlds biggest problems. Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk to Alexander Del Toro Barba, Quantum & AI Practice Lead, and Catherine Vollgraff Heidweiller, Quantum AI Product Manager, about what makes Quantum so different from Classical computing, the challenges in developing stable and scaled Quantum computers, what will be the first industries to benefit and how will Quantum potential interact with the rise of AI over a similar period?! TLDR: Guest Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Sjouke Zaal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjoukjezaal/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 13 Mar 2025 | CR092: Get the people right, and tech follow Amy Williams, Barclays | 00:53:59 | |
In the complex technology landscape, getting the people right is crucial for success. When the right team is in place, the technology will naturally follow, leading to impactful outcomes. Building a strong team ensures that the organization can navigate challenges and leverage technological advancements effectively. This week, Dave, Esmee and Rob talk to Amy Williams, Managing Director, Cloud Services Product Lead at Barclays about the importance of good leadership and why is it important in today’s Cloud landscape. TLDR
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| 13 Jul 2023 | CR031: Connected engineering in the automotive industry with James Speer, AWS | 00:38:45 | |
The automotive industry is going through a period of unparalleled disruption. How people want to buy cars, the experience of using one and how a car is powered are all under going massive transformational change. Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk to James Speer, Global Partner Development Manager - Automotive and Manufacturing, AWS about the disruption in the automotive industry, the electrification race and the connected car - is it more of a software platform than "car" today and will it deliver the experiences the films and TV shows of yesteryear promised us? TLDR: Guest Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Sjoukje Zaal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjoukjezaal/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 26 Oct 2023 | CR040: From Dick Turpin to drones with Alex Lorke, Royal Mail | 00:35:53 | |
The logistics and distribution industry has undergone huge disruption in the age of e-commerce and particularly since the pandemic, driven by the huge rise in home shopping and expectations of customers. This week, Dave, Sjoukje and Rob talk to Alex Lorke, Director of Product Engineering, Royal Mail, about the long and storied history of the Royal Mail, an organisation that dates back hundreds of years, the current set of challenges driven by the market and how digital is helping the group move from interacting with the postbox to interacting with individuals all the way through the delivery supply chain. Then, of course, we talk about how AI can help and where drones might fit in. TLDR: Guest Hosts
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| 08 Feb 2024 | CR052: The Cloud and the energy transition with Rob Easton, AWS | 00:44:16 | |
The 'energy transition' refers to the global energy sector's shift from fossil-based systems of energy production and consumption — including oil, natural gas and coal — to renewable energy sources like wind and solar, as well as lithium-ion batteries. It is one of, if not the most, significant issues of our time. Tech can both help and hinder in this journey. This week Dave, Sjoukje, and Rob talk to Rob Easton, Senior Sales Manager, AWS Energy EMEA, AWS on how energy is made, how its moved and how its used, how Amazon are ready themselves as an organisation, but also how they are providing tools and services to allow other organisations to impact the carbon footprint of their tech and maybe more widely. TLDR: Guest Hosts
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| 25 Apr 2024 | CR061: Product engineering in consumer health with Steve Westgarth, Haleon | 00:36:24 | |
Haleon, a world-leading consumer health company, are dealing with large enterprise legacy, as they were formed via a demerger from GSK. While product engineering and the transition to product-centric organizations are often associated solely with born-in-the-cloud companies, the reality is usually much broader, and Haleon are on that journey. This week Dave, Rob and Sjoukje talk to Steve Westgarth, Global Head of Engineering & Architecture at Haleon, about product engineering best practices, building high performing teams, aligning product teams with the business, getting the engineers as close to the business as possible and whether Agile is dead or not. TLDR: Guest Hosts
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| 08 Dec 2022 | CR004: The digitalisation of marketing with James Trezona, Rooster Punk | 00:33:36 | |
The marketing industry has been at the spear head of digitalisation, both in how its customers are changing their expectations and in how marketing professionals work on a day to day basis, increasing both scale of reach and the ability to create meaningful experiences.
Dave and Sjoukje talk to the Founder of Rooster Punk, James Trezona, to hear his perspective on how his profession has been transformed, but also how critical it is to focus on human and customer experience. Finally, they reflect on the implications of Elon Musks recent take-over of Twitter.
TLDR: 01:09 Intros 02:50 Cloud conversation with James Trezona 27:13 Elon musk buys Twitter 31:05 The next book!
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| 22 Aug 2024 | CRHL01: Cloud Realities x AI | 00:32:47 | |
To provide some summer listening on the beach, and to act as a bit of a 'previously on...' for Season 4, AI has taken over the show for four special episodes of some highlights from recent seasons. In this first of the four episodes, our hosts G0r-GE and Lil-E, somewhat self indulgently, guide us through some of the conversations the team have had on AI itself, including...
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| 24 Nov 2022 | CR002: The CxO perspective on cloud with Daniel Hartert | 00:33:26 | |
In our three launch episodes, Dave and Sjoukje look at the cloud market from three different angles: the market itself, how CxO’s are viewing that market and from a personal leadership experience perspective. In this second episode, they talk to CxO Advisor, Daniel Hartert to get insights into the conversations he is currently having with CxOs on driving value from of the cloud in their organisations and the challenges they face. He also shares his personal journey with the cloud. Finally, they talk about how current economic environment will influence decision making on cloud over the coming years. TLDR:
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| 11 May 2023 | CR023: Driving commercial value from Quantum with James Cruise, Cambridge Consultants | 00:30:00 | |
Quantum is coming. A new generation of computers with the potential to change life on Earth, including fixing the M25 problem! Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk with James Cruise, Head of Quantum Algorithms at Cambridge Consultants, about what Quantum actually is, how it differs from 'classical' computing, how it might be applied and the current state of Quantum development. Finally, in this weeks Trend, we talk about how Quantum might be applied to solve not just business problems, but some of the larger problems of the human race and planet. TLDR: | |||
| 04 Jul 2024 | CR071: Bridging the cloud infrastructure talent gap with software with Cory O'Daniel, Massdriver | 01:07:58 | |
The rising shortage of IT professionals is a critical issue, driven by rapid technological advancements and a growing demand for specialized skills, leaving businesses struggling to fill crucial roles at a time that they are still struggling to implement and/or mature new devops concepts. This week, Dave and Rob talk to Cory O'Daniel, CEO and Co-Founder at Massdriver about using software to bridge the cloud infrastructure talent gap, the role of platform engineering in this ongoing challenge, a state of the nation on maturity on the ground in platform engineering devops teams and the criticality of getting your ops teams head above water. TLDR Hosts
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| 30 Nov 2023 | CRLIVE19: AWS re:Invent 2023: A conversation with Jeff Barr, Chief Evangelist, AWS | 00:39:04 | |
We are live from AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas, direct from the Expo floor, with a limited series of episodes talking to AWS leaders on themes of the conference, as well as filling in on all of the news and gossip. Dave, Sjoukje and Rob talk to Jeff Barr, VP & Chief Evangelist, AWS, about his early days at AWS, the evolution of re:Invent itself, the three major compute paradigms over the last 60 years, how Cloud and AI fit into that and how to equip the next generation. We also hear about Jeff's family all being at re:Invent for the first time together this year. Guest Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 18 Apr 2024 | CR060: Being a corporate sustainability activist with Rainer Karcher, Allianz Technology | 00:39:14 | |
Sustainability and climate impact is widely understood as a critical problem, but what we can specifically do at an individual level in a business environment is sometimes less clear. This week, Dave, Sjoukje, and Rob talk to Rainer Karcher, Chief Sustainability Officer, Allianz Technology about how CSR and the Climate challenge come together, the 3 pillars of of societal responsibility, how digitalisation fits in, how to be a climate activist at work and whether we all should be one. TLDR Hosts
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| 06 Jun 2024 | CR067: Digital transformation in microcosm with Nathan Clark, Ganymede | 00:40:39 | |
'Digital transformation' is a term widely, and often badly, used. It generally gets used to describe simply digitising a process and making what we already do run more efficiently. However, good DTx is far more than that... This week, Dave and Rob talk to Nathan Clark, Founder & CEO of Ganymede, about how their platform provides data in the right place, at the right time, and in the right order across the laboratory process in biotech. They discuss how this functions, the outcomes it improves, and whether it provides a useful case study for what good digital transformation looks like. TLDR: Guest Hosts
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| 29 Oct 2024 | CRSP01: Reimagining Telecom Industry pt.1 - Simplification with Dr. Rainer Deutschmann, Global Telecom Leader | 01:01:18 | |
The telecom industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation. This shift is creating new business opportunities and services but also brings significant challenges in transformation and modernization. In a new five-part mini-series, Reimagining Telecoms, we will explore these challenges through five distinct lenses: Growth, Networks, Simplification, Data & AI, and Regulation, uncovering lessons and insights relevant to telecom organizations and beyond. This week, Dave and Rob talk to Rainer Deutschmann, Global Telecom Leader, ex. McKinsey, Deutsche Telekom, Reliance Jio, Axiata, and Telia Company, about Simplification: the state of the Telco industry, the '3S' and '5P' transformation framework to unlock its true value, differences between brownfield and greenfield scenarios, the challenges and outcomes that can be driven by structured, intentional leadership and the ongoing importance of the learning mindset. 50:31 Neuron-silicon connectivity and the role of Telecoms Production with Praveen Shankar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/praveen-shankar-capgemini/ | |||
| 07 Mar 2024 | CR055: Women in Data® with Roisin McCarthy, WiD and Elisa Sai, Capgemini | 00:37:11 | |
To celebrate International Womens Day we are delighted to welcome Women in Data back to the show. They provide a platform that allows professionals at all levels to share their knowledge and experience, while working alongside businesses to help them embrace and develop the enormous advantages generated by diversity. This week Dave and Sjoukje talk to Roisin McCarthy, Founder at Women in Data and Elisa Sai, VP Analytics & AI at Capgemini Invent about Women in Data's 'Twenty in Data & Tech' series, this weeks flagship event at Londons o2, get an exclusive announcement on next years 'Twenty in Data & Tech' series and a call to action! We also talk to Elisa about what it is like to be involved in the movement. TLDR: Guest Hosts
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| 30 Nov 2022 | CRLIVE001: AWS Innovation Insights with Tom Metzeler, AWS | 00:26:10 | |
The team are at AWS re:Invent 2022 for our first live shows! Tom Metzeler, Partner Solutions, AWS, shares with us Amazon’s innovation process and how we can all leverage these techniques for purpose driven accelerated product development. Roving reporter Rob Kernahan updates us on what’s trending on Day 1 of the show. | |||
| 30 Mar 2023 | CR018: The state of platform engineering with Jennifer Riggins, Tech Culture Journalist | 00:35:30 | |
Platform engineering is a core part of modern digital operating models. The discipline has been developing over the last 10 years and provides underlying safe, secure and optimised platforms, essential for creative and customer centric innovation. Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk with Jennifer Riggins, Tech Culture Author about what good platform engineering looks like, why conditions today could lead to good platform engineering practices, how platforms help organisations innovate and deal with technical complexity, how it leads to strong DevOps implementation and how it helps deal with a major issue in tech today, developer cognitive overload. TLDR: | |||
| 14 Sep 2023 | CR035: Prepare for accelerated change with Erwin Visser, Microsoft | 00:53:10 | |
The need to execute change in your organisation, either as proactive transformation or reactive to your market, has never been more demanding. This is the real ‘new normal’. How we frame and handle this, as humans, can make the difference between success and failure in the delivery of value from change and, importantly, in ensuring our good mental health. In a special episode to kick off season 3, Dave, Sjoukje and Rob go on an expedition with Erwin Visser, General Manager for Cloud Service Provider business at Microsoft Americas, and hear about his recent adventure climbing Mount Everest! They discover what this visceral experience has taught him about setting purpose and going on a journey and we unpack his five lessons for driving results from change as we climb... TLDR: Guest Hosts
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| 03 Oct 2024 | CR077: Emergence of Agentic Intelligence in ERP with Miranda Nash, Oracle | 00:47:21 | |
Enterprise Resource Planning software runs at the heart of the world's largest organizations, helping to plan and operate companies, and underpinning the wave of globalization over the past 20 years. However, it too is about to evolve as the impact of GenAI deepens. TLDR Guest Hosts Production Sound 'Cloud Realities' is an original podcast from Capgemini | |||
| 23 Mar 2023 | CR017: Modernising software systems with John Kodumal, LaunchDarkly | 00:31:15 | |
Legacy modernisation is one of the most difficult, and often misunderstood, elements of digital transformation. It can be expensive and very disruptive. It has more in common with business transformation than cloud migration and can lend itself to risky large scale implementations. Dave, Sjoukje & Rob are joined by John Kodumal, CTO and Co-Founder of LaunchDarkly, they talk about how greenfield development is increasingly rare, evolving a running system is much more common. New method and tools are now available to move this past a static or quarterly update, risk heavy process, such as feature management which allows legacy to be modernised with zero outage and switch over risk. In this weeks trend we talk about the emerging field of developer productivity, why it can be helpful, but its also very difficult to do effectively. TLDR: Further Reading: | |||
| 14 Nov 2024 | CR083: AI law with Jagvinder Singh Kang, Mills & Reeve | 00:50:30 | |
In today's rapidly evolving tech landscape, understanding your organisations legal position on AI is critical. As it continues to advance, so do the complexities around data protection, intellectual property, and ethical use and regulation is struggling to keep up. Production 'Cloud Realities' is an original podcast from Capgemini | |||
| 24 Nov 2022 | CR003: The role of leadership in cloud value creation with Alastair Kidd | 00:34:20 | |
In our three launch episodes, Dave and Sjoukje look at the cloud market from three different angles: the market itself, how CxO’s are viewing that market and from a personal leadership experience perspective. In our final launch episode, they talk to Systemic Leadership Sherpa, Alastair Kidd about how embarking on a cloud transformation journey could also be a personal development journey! How that could help reframe your leadership action to more effectively drive business value out of the cloud and why you need to be aware of the Complexity Paradox! Finally, they talk about Googles recent announcement about opening new regions in Europe and speculate on why. TLDR:
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| 10 Apr 2025 | CRLIVE41 Google Cloud Next 2025: Driving Digital Transformation with customers with Jim Anderson, Google Cloud | 00:26:38 | |
Hello Las Vegas — we’ve arrived for Google Cloud Next 2025! Arthur C. Clarke's third law, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Hot drop coming through! The #CloudRealities podcast team has landed in electric Las Vegas—and you know what they say: what happens in Vegas normally stays in Vegas... but in this case, we’re bringing 8 incredible conversations in the coming days with inspiring guests who are shaping the future of cloud, data, and AI. On the first day, we have 3 separate episodes lined up to discuss Google AI strategy & vision, practical implementations, and exciting use cases. In the third conversation, Dave, Esmee, and Rob talk with Jim Anderson, VP, NA Partner Ecosystem & Channels at Google, on how customers are using Cloud, AI/ML, and Data Analytics to power digital transformation. From real-world success stories to the trends shaping the year ahead—this one’s packed with actionable insights.
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| 06 Mar 2025 | CRLIVE37: MWC 2025 Day 2 with Chris Penrose NVIDIA and Kaaren Hilsen, Telenor | 01:14:55 | |
We are live from #MWC25 (Mobile World Congress 2025), direct from the Expo floor, with a limited series of episodes talking to leaders from across the industry on themes of the conference, as well as filling in on all of the news and gossip. On the second day of the conference, Dave, Esmee, and Rob had very exciting conversations about AI trends with:
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| 22 Nov 2024 | CRLIVE32: Microsoft Ignite Day 3: Industry AI, IaM Security and Azure AI with Kathleen Mitford, Irina Nechaeva and Marco Casalaina, Microsoft | 01:38:02 | |
Live from the heart of Microsoft Ignite 2024 in Chicago, right from the Expo floor, we're bringing you a special limited series of episodes. Join us as we make connections between Microsoft, Azure AI and Data, Security, Industry, Development Community and customer experience. Plus, we'll keep you updated on all the latest news and juicy gossip.
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| 28 Sep 2023 | CR036: Changing roles of CxO's in a digital world with Jed Griffiths, Microsoft | 00:40:36 | |
The role of the CIO is changing, but so are many other CxO roles in the face of digital disruption. If anything, this is likely to accelerate in the coming years. This week, Dave, Sjoukje and Rob talk to Jed Griffiths, CDO, Microsoft UK, about why this role change is occurring, why its important that it is considered to be wider than the much discussed CIO role evolution and the three key things that modern leadership teams should be wrestling with today, in the face of accelerated transformational change. Also, do 'Five trends for CIOs' from early in 2023 still resonate? TLDR: Guest Hosts
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| 03 Aug 2023 | CR034: S1&2 reflections + S3 teaser with Dave, Sjoukje & Rob | 00:40:47 | |
Dave, Rob & Sjoukje reflect on the incredible journey through the first two seasons with the most thrilling topics and guests who supported our show. They also share what they are excited about doing over the summer and the thrilling highlights of what's in store for season 3! Thank you to all our listeners for joining us in Seasons 1 & 2 - have a great summer and we will see you in late August! TLDR: Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Sjoukje Zaal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjoukjezaal/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 18 Jan 2024 | CR049: TechnoVision 2024 pt 2: Thriving on data with Robert Engels, Capgemini | 00:46:03 | |
Each year Capgemini publishes TechnoVision - a comprehensive prediction of the year in business tech to come, along with useful principles that guide both its prediction and use. It seeks to bring some fresh thinking to the technology business issues of today. In this special two part episode Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk to Robert Engels, Global CTIO for AI Futures, Head of Generative AI Lab at Capgemini, about a foundational theme of TechnoVision 2024, data and AI. They cover whether investment cycles are keeping up with the hype curve, data eco systems, new risks and issues introduced by AI and whether we are still using the same old use cases, or if new and previously unimaginable use cases are now emerging. TLDR: Further Reading: Guest Hosts
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| 01 Jun 2023 | CR026: Becoming a data driven organisation pt.2 with Mark Jones, Reach PLC | 00:40:04 | |
Being a data-driven organisation means culturally treating data as a strategic asset and then building capabilities to put that asset to use not just for big decisions but also for everyday action on the frontline. In this second of a two part mini-series looking at becoming a data driven organisation, Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk to Mark Jones, Head of Engineering for Data & Analytics at Reach plc, a British newspaper, magazine and digital publisher, about data governance and management, the move to data products and how that drives more value from your data. In this weeks trend we talk about why, when the benefits are often so clear, becoming a data driven transformation is so hard! TLDR: Guest Hosts Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ Sjouke Zaal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjoukjezaal/ Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/
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| 18 Jan 2024 | CR048: TechnoVision 2024 pt 1: Augment ME! with Ron Tolido, Capgemini | 00:53:26 | |
Each year Capgemini publishes TechnoVision - a comprehensive prediction of the year in business tech to come, along with useful principles that guide both its prediction and use. It seeks to bring some fresh thinking to the technology business issues of today. In this special two part episode Dave, Sjoukje & Rob talk in detail with the reports leader Ron Tolido CTO, Master Architect, Insights & Data at Capgemini and get a special insight into the creation and themes and trends of TechnoVision 2024! The next generation of human augmentation with technology is at the heart of the report and the discussion. We also find out how much Ron likes Taylor Swift and compare and contrast the predictions in TechnoVision with other trend predictions for 2024. TLDR: Further Reading: Guest Hosts
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