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Innovation Calling
by Syya Yasotornrat and Erin Gregor
Welcome to the Innovation Calling Podcast! This is the podcast where we’ll feature today’s top innovators who are revolutionizing their industries by utilizing technology. Our mission is to connect those looking to be part of the next big thing with those companies who are already making it happen.
Episodes
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The New Virtual Event Experience
Goldstar has been in business for over 18 years, selling tickets to live entertainment, including concerts, theater, sports, and comedy shows. Co-Founder Jim McCarthy discusses watching his industry go from basically being at the top of their game to nothing in a matter of, literally, 36 hours…
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Utilizing Technology to Amplify Collaboration
Every podcaster has experienced the issue of recording online only to find that the audio quality is extremely lacking. Zach Moreno and Rock Felder, Co-Founders of SquadCast.fm saw this exact need and decided to do something about it. How did they go from start-up to having some of the brightest...
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Understanding the Value of Your Digital Identity
In a world where we freely give our basic data way, it's hard to know if we truly understand the impact of giving away so much will one day have on our lives. In this episode of Innovation Calling, we sat down with Digital Identity Expert, Max Kirby. Max helps breakdown this extremely complex…
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Helping IoT Devices Provide Creative Solutions to Real-World Problems
We’re watching the need for IoT devices change right in front of our eyes as new use cases for this technology come up due to COVID, and it’s more important now more than ever to allow IoT applications to become easier to build and deploy. Plus it must also be available in areas where cellular...
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Tackling Viruses With Germ-Zapping™ Robots
In times of crisis, you'll see the rise of amazing companies, and Xenex, a company that is the world leader in UV technology-based infection prevention strategies and solutions, is one of them. You may not have heard of Xenex, but the next time you visit a hospital, there's a good chance a Xenex...
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The Qualities Every Great Leader Should Possess
The good and bad news is that no perfect leader exists. So as much as every leader wants to strive for greatness, the reality is that they’re going to hit some obstacles and make messes along the way. Failure isn’t the end, though, and it’s crucial to understand the qualities that the great…
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Developing Great Entrepreneurial Leaders
Many people can come up with a business idea and start something, but to build and maintain large companies, leadership is the true key to success. We had the opportunity to sit down with former Chairman of JetBlue Airways, Joel Person. Joel also is a Consulting Professor at the Stanford Graduate...
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Driving a Dynamic Career in Technology & Leadership
When it comes to technology, it honestly doesn't matter what industry you're in, technology is a life thread to the company. In order to build something great, you have to be able to embrace and be agile in technology. We had the honor of sitting down with Gerry Mecca, CIO of DATASCAN, and former...
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How Design Thinking Leads to Innovation Excellence
When it comes to companies researching emerging technology and innovation, it can be tempting to innovate for the sake of innovating rather than for the sake of what your users may actually want and need. We are also living in a world where the leadership of companies is dominated by left-brain...
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Compelling Applications and the Future of Robotic Process Automation
In tales about the future, we hear of the world where robots take over the workforce, but the truth is a world with ‘robots’ isn’t just for science fiction readers. In fact, it’s here now. We sat down with some folks at Blue Prism, a company focused on creating Robotic Process Automation, and we...
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Positioning A.I. For Social Good
We’ve heard the stories that we should fear A.I, and that it’s going to take away all of our jobs, but what does a future with A.I. truly look like? In this episode we were joined by Neil Sahota, IBM Master Inventor, UnitedNations A.I. Subject Matter Expert, and Author of Own the A.I. Revolution....
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Helping Corporations Thrive in the Digital Age
What does it truly take for a company to thrive in the digital age? It’s much more than just buying and implementing the latest technology. This is one of our favorite subjects to discuss and Wall Street Journal Best-Selling Author of The Digital Helix, Michael Gale, did not disappoint as we dove...
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The Role of Emerging Tech in Marketing
We know that data has changed organizations, and the way we do business. However, how has emerging technology and data had an effect on the marketing world? How has focusing on data allowed companies to be more precise in customer targeting, make better correlations between marketing and sales…
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Artificial Intelligence In Times of Crisis
We know Artificial Intelligence can help with decision making, but can it help in a crisis that we’ve never seen before like what we’re experiencing with COVID-19? In this episode, we talked to Gary Saarenvirta of Daisy Intelligence, which uses machine intelligence to help retailers and insurance...
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Accelerating Performance For the Next Esports Stars
As Esports approaches a billion dollars in annual revenue, we know we’re only seeing the beginning of this industry. As you see more and more players striving to become professional, and more money being injected into these teams, how do we first ensure the right path for these players. Plus, how...
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The Upside For Consumers In Data Collection
In a world completely run by data, we may feel like we have no more choice in the matter, and that we just have to except it is what it is. However, Dean Shapero thought there had to be a better way. It wasn’t about blocking our data, but realizing that if someone was going to take it, we may as...
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Blending Strategy Consulting and Technical Expertise to Application Development
About This Discussion: When it comes to application development, the industry can be a bit saturated. Between a plethora of overseas developers and a large community of developers in the US, it can be hard to determine where to go and who to trust with your company’s ideas and needs. We had the...
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Securing The Skies From Next Generation Drones
About this Episode: In this episode, we had the honor of speaking with Brett Velicovich, the Strategic Advisor for WhiteFox Defense Technologies at CES 2020. Brett gives us the rundown on the need for drone safety and security measures. WhiteFox invented the counter-drone solution and develops...
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Career Choices & What Lies Ahead For The Airport Experience
About This Discussion: What a great night at the latest recording of our Women In Tech series. This time we were able to sit down with Jodie Brinkerhoff, Vice president of Innovation at DFW Airport. Our main theme was choices and how they affect our careers. The considerations to take when making...
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Propelling Photonics With IOWN
About This Discussion: The internet is not an infinite resource, bandwidth is limited. What are the plans for the future, what can we expect to see to help us navigate this reality? We were able to meet up with Kazuhiro Gomi of NTT and learn about IOWN (Innovation Optical and Wireless Network) a...
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John Deere’s Exciting Vision For IoT In Agriculture
You don’t really expect to see a big green John Deere in the middle of the 2019 CES (Consumers Electronics Show) floor where companies from around the world gather to see next-generation innovations. What does farming equipment have to do with technology? We met up with Sona Raziabeegum with John...
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Innovation in the Massage and Self-Care Industry
When it comes to emerging technology, you may not think about the self-care industry as one who is pushing the envelope in innovation. However, if there’s anything we have learned over and over again is that if you’re a company of any kind, you have to embrace technology in order to not just...
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Creating the Ultimate Private Network for Women Executives
We’ve all heard the saying, “it’s lonely at the top.” For many female C-suite executives, rising Vice Presidents, and entrepreneurs this isolation is compounded because these positions are traditionally held by men. Women working in these positions find themselves mentoring and serving others but...
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The Hottest Trends of CES 2020
It’s time for our highlights from CES 2020! Over the next few weeks, we’ll be highlighting our interviews throughout our visit to this year’s CES. This interview was a perfect start as we had the honor of sitting down with CNET.com to discuss some of the biggest features and trends of CES. We...
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The Challenges of Emerging Technology in Tolling and Transportation
Although the North Texas Tollway Association is in the Dallas area, it’s an organization impacted by the entire nation. We had the honor of sitting down with James Hofmann, Executive Director and CEO for NTTA, to learn about this organization that we all use every day. It was amazing to learn all...
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What Big Data Is Teaching Corporations About Building Engaged Employees
In a world of Millennial Mindsets and #okayboomer hashtags, we are divided when it comes to beliefs and expectations of life. There is no place that sees this more than the workforce, but companies like TrenData are working to make sure it’s not just a matter of opinion, but that the data is...
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Creating a Workforce Driven To Learn and Grow
Creating a Workforce Driven To Learn and Grow About this Discussion: The future of work and culture in companies is evolving. Companies need to adapt to the changing demands from their clients, employees and society at large, particularly around learning and development. As has often been noted,...
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The Rise of Data Science & Making Job Retraining Work
What are we going to do when machines can do our jobs more efficiently, cheaper, and make our jobs redundant? There is no denying that we are living in a world of automation and the exponential growth and value of data. While some may argue that automation, AI, Machine Learning and many other...
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Teaching the Military’s Keys To Success To Corporate America
Have you ever wondered how military units can basically, send out young kids into major missions and sleep well the night before? This is especially important, when most CEO’s of newer companies can’t sleep leaving some of the more minimal tasks in their business to someone else? Well, Jim…
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Redefining The Customer Experience Online And In The Real World
About this Discussion: It's a fact that as we become more dependent on technology for customer experience, traditional brick and mortar retail businesses must align for evolving expectations. It is simply not enough to have product available to touch, taste, experience. Consumers are very...
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Transcending Time & Space: Augmented Reality Gaming
We’ve become a society that’s tied to our devices, and it’s becoming a bigger issue generation by generation. Kids spend less time playing outside and more time sitting in front of a gaming console. Queue Stephen Dodds to do something about it. Ever since Stephen was a kid, he had a dream of...
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The Fight For 5G and the Real Threat to the US: Dependency on China For Innovation
What is America’s greatest national security threat? Our guest, (Ret) Brigadier General Robert Spalding shares his thoughts on the real threat to the United States: Increasing dependency and infiltration of the Chinese Communist Party into US technology and society, particularly around the 5G…
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Setting the Playbook on Knowing Customers to Grow Innovative Businesses
When it comes to building startups, especially on the emerging technology side, founders often think the technology will sell itself. If that doesn’t work, their next step is throwing on a few key words, like Artificial Intelligence or Blockchain to try to seal the deal. However, when it comes to...
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Celebrating Our One Year Anniversary, Plus What’s On Board For Year 2
Syya and Erin take a moment to celebrate Innovation Calling’s First Anniversary. In this episode we discuss some of our biggest lessons learned, what we loved most about doing the show, along with what you can expect for next year. We would love to hear from you! After a year, what were some of...
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Esports, Why We’re Seeing Just the Beginning of This Billion Dollar Industry
Although, we’ve all probably heard the terms gaming and Esports, there’s still a lot of unknown about the industries, and the true impact they have on our modern day culture. John Davidson, of PRG, joins us for this conversation about the current state of Esports, along with the opportunities…
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Solving Complex Issues Through Gaming
In a world where gaming is not just a past-time, but a way of life, Robert Atkins of Balanced Media Technology, wanted to find a way to utilize the time and effort people put into video games for good. A veteran in the gaming space, Robert has been part of some of today’s most popular games. The...
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Studying the Human Brain to Make Better Marketing Decisions
Overall, does technology actually help us or hurt us? More importantly how does it specifically affect our brains? It may seem like an impossible task to answer, or something that we will have to wait and see as we wait for this generation to grow older. However, thanks to companies like…
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The Evolution and Enhancement of the Ride Sharing Experience
Many of us have embraced ride-sharing as a preferred mode of transportation, but we can also probably agree there’s room for improvement in the experience. Although you would define the ride-sharing companies as disruptors, it’s now time for disruption to happen to them. Will Coleman saw an...
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Women in Technology – How We Get To Where We Need To Be
What makes women hold back when it comes to not just starting out in STEM roles, but sticking with them? What do women need to know when entering a career in technology? How can women learn to support each other and being each other advocates vs. the opposite? These are just some of the things…
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Innovation Calling – The Impact of Emerging Technology On Healthcare
When it comes to hospitals and healthcare the areas where technology can be implemented can feel endless. As a CIO, it can be a challenging job understanding where to best focus time and efforts to create the best possible experience for their patients. In this discussion, Jonathan Goldberg is…
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How Companies Can Use Technology and Big Data to Stay Ahead of Their Competition
This conversation with Karen Rhodes is nothing short of fascinating as we several different conversations. Karen's role has changed dramatically from starting out in the call center to now being an Account Chief Technologist with HPE. We discussed the change in technology and security as IoT…
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Innovation Calling – The Unofficial Innovation Council – July Edition
We gathered around the Unofficial Innovation Council and put a new all-women spin on it to talk about, what we feel is the greatest generation. Why? Well, we are part of some amazing innovation, taking on huge leadership roles, but are stuck in this middle ground, where we think like Baby Boomers...
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Innovation Calling – Cultivating Inherent Soft Skills To Help Women Excel in Technology Leadership
Ellen Sundra has an interesting background of paring her love technology with the ability to teach it, to now lead a team of engineers at Forescout. Her path wasn't linear, and at first, she had no idea what a Sales Engineer was, let along that she had the perfect set of skills to excel in this...
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Innovation Calling – Cybersecurity For Smart Cities As 5G Creates More Connectivity
We may not be thinking about Cybersecurity in our everyday lives, but it's something that is affecting us. In fact, it happens so often that we have completely become numb to it, and find ourselves moving on,
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Innovation Calling – THE POWER OF STORYTELLING IN A MULTI-MEDIA DIGITAL WORLD
Katherine Dollar is a storytelling expert, working with tech companies to help them convey their message. Even though storytelling has been around forever, many companies don't utilize this tool well. In fact, by actually learning how to do this,
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Innovation Calling – Leadership, Culture & Next Generation Media Marketing
There are few companies in our lifetime that truly have huge impacts on our life, that change the way we interact with people, the way we do business, and the way we live our every day lives. Facebook happens to be one of those, and for most of us,
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Innovation Calling – Tackling Diversity & Inclusion to Drive Innovation
When talking to Aries Webb-Williams, we realized we had a lot to learn about what it means to be inclusive and how to create more diversity within tech organizations. So many times we are heads down in our own world,
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Innovation Calling – How Companies and Candidates Can Stand Out In a Competitive IT Market
If you blink, it’s very possible you’ll see a change in the IT Industry. With new technologies emerging, what feels like every two minutes, it is a known challenge for companies of all sizes to find the right talent. - -
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Innovation Calling – Merging Innovation Through the Human Experience
Disruptor - Did I get your attention? Either you were excited or rolled your eyes because I think we can all agree that this buzz word might be just a tad overused. - - However, when it comes to today’s guest, this is truly a word to describe her.
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Innovation Calling – The Very Unofficial Innovation Council – June Edition
In true Unofficial Innovation Council fashion, we gathered, we talked, we laughed, and we attempted to solve the world's problems. - - In this episode, we talked a lot about AI, and pretty much tried to solve every world problem by the implementati...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to the Innovation Calling Podcast! This is the podcast where we’ll feature today’s top innovators who are revolutionizing their industries by utilizing technology. Our mission is to connect those looking to be part of the next big thing with those companies who are already making it happen.
HOSTED BY
Syya Yasotornrat and Erin Gregor
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