The Tech 'o' Space Podcast

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mrs. Monica Reagor, who is the Manager - Information Security Compliance of Crestron Electronics company, Co-founder & Director of Finance of PCOS Awareness Association and also the Podcast Host of MY GRC POV initiative. She is based out of Northvale, New Jersey, United Statesa) Talks about the timeline of her journey in the IT industry.b) Gives an insight into her being the co-founder of the PCOS Awareness Association, serving the global women’s health community, combining advocacy with technology to improve health literacy.c) Provides an overview into her being the podcast host and founder of her podcast initiative "MY GRC POV" focused on governance, risk, compliance, cybersecurity, privacy, and ethical leadership and, also shares an interesting backstory associated with the inception of its creation.d) Shares her experience as a GRC and cybersecurity professional in a regulated, tech-driven environments with a hands-on perspective on organizational accountability and risk.e) Her take on the intersection of tech and, leadership and, also mentions about the hands-on use case that she was associated with.f) Sheds some spotlight into her expertise and proficiency pertaining to the likes of NIST 800-53/171 compliance, and data protection compliance programs and, also explains about the terminologies of GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA and PIPEDA in simple words to the listeners across the world.g) Shares few of her interesting anecdotes and success stories that she has experienced in her entire IT journey.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mrs. Silje Bredvig Berg , who is the Enterprise Data Infrastructure Lead of one of the most reputed MNC's of the world - IBM. She is based out of Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark. a) Gives a timeline of her journey in the IT industry.b) Provides an overview into she being the Storage, Data and AI specialist in the reputed MNC "IBM" and also shares her first day of work at this lovely MNC.c) Gives a deep understanding of her hands-on with the FlashSystem.ai acting as a foundational AI pertaining to her expertise.d) Shares an insight into her thesis on AI at Aalborg University, Denmark and also her article on AI "When AI Closes the Specialization Gap".e) His take on the adoption and implementation of AI in the Danish market through some real-life use cases that she was involved with.f) Shares her experience of collaborating with the IT company of Iceland "Ofar" through IBM and, also talks about the potential she has seen in the Iceland tech industry co-relating it with that of the IBM storage and also the way they have adapted to it.g) Talks about her involvement with many women empowering tech events and also mentions an interesting backstory with respect to her getting involved with such amazing events in the first place.h) Shares few of her interesting anecdotes and success stories that she has experienced in his entire IT journey.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Keith Mularski, who is the Chief Global Ambassador of the company - Qintel and as well is the Podcast Host of "Only Malware" initiative. He is based out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry.b) Provides an insight into his current tenure of being the Chief Global Ambassador for Qintel company.c) Being part of the FBI a few years back, gives an insight into him developing early models for intelligence sharing and targeted takedowns of high-profile cybercriminal enterprise partnering with private sector experts.d) Provides an overview of what his podcast initiative "Only Malware" is to the listeners and also shares an interesting back-story associated with its creation.e) Sheds some spotlight into his contributions with cybersecurity getting recognition and looking back at it, the pride he gets.f) His take on the lessons that gaming thought to the masses with respect to the cybersecurity, taking the use case of Pac-Man to Chasing Real Ghosts.g) Shares his experience of being part of a reputed MNC "EY" in the past, leading the Cyber Threat Management group and also collaborating with Fortune 100 companies developing proactive cyber defense strategies.h) Shares few of his interesting anecdotes and success stories that he has experienced in his entire IT journey.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Viktor Kessler, who is the Co-Founder of the company - Vakamo and as well is the Co-Founder of the company - HANSETAG GmbH. He is based out of Basel, Switzerland a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry.b) Provides a detailed insight into him being the Co-Founder of the company "Vakamo".c) Shares an interesting back-story associated with the creation of his two companies "Vakamo" and "HANSETAG GmbH".d) Mentions about that passion of his to invest into data products to transform into data producers, instead of fixating on data silos.e) Gives an overview of what his company "Vakamo" is and talks about which industry/sector and region it is currently eyeing for.f) Sheds some spotlight into him speaking at the Apache Iceberg Meetup Europe and, also mentions about what this event is all about.g) Shares his experience of being part of the MongoDB company and Dremio company in the past and also mentions about his key learnings that has shaped and made him excel in his IT journey.h) Shares few of his interesting anecdotes and success stories that he has experienced in his entire IT journey.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Dr. Cordell Robinson, who is the Chief Executive Officer of the company - Brownstone Consulting Firm. He is based out of Washington D.C., USAa) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry.b) Mentions about his roles and responsibilities of being the CEO of his company "Brownstone Consulting Firm".c) Shares his experience of having a hands-on in both law and technological spaces from the Department of Defense to the Department of Commerce.d) Mentions about the key strategies taken by him in revolutionizing cyber security programs for multiple federal organizations in the US.e) Talks about the key initiatives taken by him in helping the fast-growing companies eliminate $100k+ in duplicate software spend.f) Gives an insight into the plethora of programs built by him as a service-disabled veteran and founder.g) Shares few of his interesting anecdotes and success stories that he has experienced in his entire IT journey.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Nenad Milosavljevic, who is the Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack of the company - Flatfee Corp. He is based out of Belgrade, Serbiaa) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry.b) Mentions about his roles and responsibilities of being the Senior Software Engineer for the company "Flatfee Corp"c) Shares his experience of being awarded as the "MongoDB Champion" and the world's top 700 programmers in 2022 on Stack Overflow, having said that talks about his reaction and the groundwork laid by him to achieve that title acting as an inspirational roadmap to the listeners around the world.d) Being the MongoDB Subject Matter Expert, mentions about his take on the importance and implementation of MongoDB Certifications in the EU region.e) Mentions about his strong expertise and proficiency on the likes of TypeScript, Angular, Node.js, Express and, Mongoose and, also talks about a connecting factor of these technologies with MongoDB.f) Being a MongoDB User Group Leader, provides the listeners an insight into the number of MongoDB and tech events he has organized and was part of in Belgrade and across Serbia.g) Shares his experience of attending the 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐃𝐁 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐀𝐦𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐦 and, 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐃𝐁 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 and also the key moments being part of those events.h) Shares few of his interesting anecdotes and success stories that he has experienced in his entire IT journey.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Glen McCracken, who is the Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO) of the company - Lantum. He is based out of London, England, United Kingdoma) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry.b) Provides an insight into his current tenure of being the Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO) for the company "Lantum".c) Shares his experience of being part of the "Connected Stadium" transformations years ago, dating back during the redevelopment of Eden Park, Auckland for the Rugby World Cup in 2011.d) Having had the opportunity of working across health tech, fintech, SaaS, investment banking, telecoms, and national infrastructure, mentions about the key strategies taken by him to shape the environments of legacy platforms, fragmented data, and organisational drag.e) Sheds some spotlight into solving problems pertaining to the post-acquisition integrations that have stalled or lost momentum.f) Gives an overview of his recent article "AI First" and, also talks about his inspiration and drive to come with the articles in such a fun way.g) Shares few of his interesting anecdotes and success stories that he has experienced in his entire IT journey.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Rolf Schulz, who is the Founder and Principal of Quantropic.ai company. He is based out of Singapore.a) Mentions about the difference between AI safety and AI security and, also explains about why business leaders should care since many people talk about AI safety and often distinguish the notions of AI safety from AI security.b) Going by the hot topic - AI Agents either act as a productivity revolution or security nightmare, from a security perspective mentions about the changes when an AI can take action and not just answer questions.c) Talks about the areas the AI safety sits under - CIO, CISO, or its own function?d) Mentions about the things the companies should do before deploying AI and also if a company wants to adopt generative AI or AI agents, talks about first security steps before going live or the first steps into the transformation.e) Having been in this line for more than 8 years or so looks at the possibility of AI attacking, defending and governing. Going by his opinion, clarifies on the direction the world is moving towards to and talks about his vision on AI security evolving over the next two to three years.f) Mentions about the cost of ignoring AI safety and shares a real-world example pertaining to it.g) Shares few of his interesting anecdotes and success stories that he has experienced in his entire tenure.

In this podcast episode we are once again absolutely honored to interact and collaborate in this second podcast episode with Ms. Kim King, who is the Owner and Senior ITSM / ITIL Consultant of CAKE IT Consulting company and is also the author of the book "Rid the Rot: The Fixer’s Guide to ITSM Health". She is based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada a) Mentions about the disconnect between book ITSM and runtime operations and, also explains the crux behind it.b) One of the biggest conversations happening right now in ITSM is around experience and human-centered IT, talks about the reasons the industry is moving too far away from operational discipline.c) There is growing discussion around removing SLAs or reducing focus on KPIs, clarifies her disagreement towards this approach.d) Since AI is probably the biggest topic in ITSM right now, mentions about the reasons organizations misunderstand most about AI readiness.e) Having worked heavily in Organizational Change Management and operational readiness, talks about where organizations often get wrong in that aspect.f) Specifies where does Continuous Service Improvement, or CSI, fit into all of this.g) Having mentioned earlier that dashboards can sometimes look healthy while operations underneath is struggling badly, emphasis the reasons behind it.I) Having mentioned ServiceNow several times in this podcast segment, explains about how a tool like ServiceNow connects to ITSM operationally.j) Going by the origins of her successful book "Rid the Rot", her take on the implementation and importance of starting to build AI into a particular environment.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Michael Kingston who is the Machine Learning Engineer at Enigma Global Technologies company and Sponsorship Committee, Community Advisory Board at AWS Community Day Australia. He is based out of Brisbane, Queensland, Australiaa) Gives a timeline of her journey in the IT and the Data Science space.b) Provides a walk-through of her key responsibilities of being the Machine Learning Engineer for the company "Enigma Global Technologies".c) Gives an insight into him being part of the Sponsorship Committee, Community Advisory Board for the AWS Community Day Australia and, also clarifies the event being Pan-Australian covering the different provinces of Australia.d) Provides a spotlight into him creating the "RefVision" for Sports Refereeing and also shares an interesting backstory associated with respect to coming up with such an innovative approach.e) Gives an overview into hum streamlining live vote counts for ASX-listed companies, leveraging AWS and Power BI to secure the critical DOCA approvals.f) Mentions about the types of Machine Learning models created and deployed by him pertaining to reducing production downtime by 13% in manufacturing, saving over 10M AUD.g) Talks about his proficiency and expertise belonging to the likes of Rust, and AWS services (S3, Lambda, SageMaker, DynamoDB).I) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has come across into him building scalable ML and AI solutions in industries like financial services, manufacturing, and logistics.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Ms. Elaine He who is the AI Senior Specialist of one of the most reputed MNCs of the world - Deloitte. She is based out of Auckland, New Zealanda) Gives a timeline of her journey in the IT industry.b) Provides an overview into her roles and responsibilities of being the AI Application Engineer for her previous tenure.c) Gives a spotlight into her proficiency and expertise on the lines of web development, cloud integration, and applied AI with her sole focus on governance and responsible adoption.d) Shares her experience of being the Guest Lecturer at Unitech, with the listeners across the world.e) Provides an insight into her certification with respect to the AI and Digital Transformation in Government and what it is.f) Mentions about her involvement with respect to public speaking at different conferences.g) Her take on the importance and implementation of Microsoft Azure and Power Apps in the global market.i) Shares few of her interesting success stories and anecdotes that she has come across in her IT journey.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mrs. Leslie Robinet who is the Director of Global Services Office, and Sustainability Director at Bizzdesign company and Deputy to the mayor for the municipality of Palaiseau in France. She is based out of Paris, Francea) Gives a timeline of her journey in the transformation & digital space.b) Provides an overview into her and responsibilities at the Bizzdesign company: Global Services Office, Sustainability.c) Gives an insight into how AI is reshaping the way organizations operate and accelerate the pace of change, where the Enterprise Architecture (EA) is at an inflection point.d) Sheds some spotlight into how EA provides the context, alignment, and governance needed to scale AI responsibly and balancing speed with control, so guardrails are embedded into agentic systems without becoming the “No police.”e) Having co-founded a co-operative grocery store promoting solidarity and ecology, tells the listeners about the genesis and the interesting back-story with respect to coming up with such an innovative initiative focusing on ecologyf) Mentions about the moment of pride she got having been recently appointed as 4th Deputy Mayor in charge of the Ecological and Digital Transitions for the municipality of Palaiseau and, also talks about the groundwork done by her to achieve such a milestone.g) Talks about the future road map set by her as the 4th Deputy Mayor in charge of the Ecological and Digital Transitions achieving the goals for the nuances of Digital Transformation, Innovation, Sustainability and responsible transitionh) Mentions about how EA serves this AI transformation in her public sector context.i) At the end, leaves few key takeaways for the audience across the world.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Samuel Holcman who is one of the most reputed and prominent pioneers in the space of Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture since the year 1972. He is the Managing Director - CEO of the company, EACOE - Enterprise Architecture Centre of Excellence and he is based out of Pinckney, Michigan, USAa) Talks about the origins of his company "Pinnacle Business Group, Inc." and, also narrates about the first day when he started his own company.b) Having had the experience of working as a manager for the reputed Ford Company, mentions about his source of inspiration and drive to start his own company.c) Gives an insight into him being the Managing Director - CEO of "Pinnacle Business Group, Inc." company and, also gives a timeline of his key learnings being part of multiple EA projects from the year 1972 to nowd) Mentions about the key differences that he has observed with respect to the Enterprise Architecture space 54 years ago to that of now with the advent of AI.e) Gives a spotlight into him coming up with two subsidiaries The Enterprise Architecture Center Of Excellence (EACOE.org) and, The Business Architecture Center Of Excellence (BACOE.org) and also provides an in-depth understanding of both of them to the listeners across the worldf) Provides an overview into him coming up with his book "Reaching the Pinnacle – a Methodology of Business Understanding, Technology Planning, and Change" and also shares an interesting backstory associated with its creation.g) Mentions about response that he has received from his peers and clients while having led the development of The Enterprise Framework™ and The Business Architecture Framework and, also talks about the integral role it has played in the EA and Business Architecture space globally.h) Shares few of his interesting anecdotes and success stories that he has experienced in his EA and IT journey.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Ms. Raagini Gopi who is the Environment and Sustainability Professional in her current tenure. She is based out of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australiaa) Gives a walkthrough of her career in IT and, engineering also sheds a spotlight into current work in sustainability and organizational change that has remained consistent for her throughout her journey.b) From her experience, mentions about what has actually helped her take root inside organizations rather than staying at the level of reporting or compliance.c) Provides an insight into her focus on behavior and decision-making more than data and targets, having said that explains why does behaviour tend to be the missing piece in many sustainability efforts.d) Having worked across government, utilities, consulting, remote communities and complex systems, mentions about the aspects that has shaped her understanding of leadership and responsibility.e) For people who are in technical or IT roles who want to contribute meaningfully to sustainability, talks about the mindset shift that could make the biggest difference for them. f) Shares few of her interesting anecdotes and success stories that she has come across in her IT journey.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Paul Franks who is the Enterprise Account Executive of the reputed Software Development MNC Company - Appian. He is based out of Sydney, New South Wales, Australiaa) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT and the FinTech space.b) Provides an overview into him being the Enterprise Account Executive for his current tenure in Appian Corporationc) His take on the importance of AI Development Curve in the different sectors.d) Shares his experience of being chaired and being a core member of global and regional banking industry boards.e) Sheds a spotlight into the misinterpretation given by AI in the IT industry.f) Gives a walk-through of his first day of work at Appian Corporation 3 years ago with the listeners across the world.g) Explains about the terminology of Financial Services Process Optimization in simple words and, also mentions about the hands-on use case that he has been involved with in his entire tenure.h) Talks about the key differences that he has found with respect to the strategical and tactical implementation of use-cases in the IT industry.i) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has come across in your IT journey.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Alex Van den Berg who is the Principal Software Engineer of the Leading Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage company of The Netherlands - PostNL He is based out of The Randstad, Netherlandsa) Talks about the timeline of his journey in the IT industry.b) Gives an overview into him being the Principal Software Engineer for the PostNL company.c) His take on the importance of Mendix in the Netherlands market and the logistics department.d) Having a huge experience of being a Java developer, mentions about the key similarities that he has observed of the same in Mendix.e) Shares his experience of his first day of work at the PostNL company and, talks about what has attracted him the most being part of this amazing company.f) Gives a deep insight into PostNL's connect with Mendix's Centre of Excellence and, also mentions about what it is whole.g) Sheds some spotlight into him being associated with POCs (Proof of Concept) for Mendix.h) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has come across in his IT journey and at PostNL.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Kasper Kalfas who is the Senior Cloud Data Architect of the company "Software Mind" and Speaker, Trainer and Industry Expert of the initiative - cloudkasper.pro. He is based out of Opole, Opolskie, Polanda) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry.b) Talks about his current tenure of being the Senior Cloud Data Architect for the company "Software Mind".c) Provides a complete overview of him creating Data Lake House in Databricks.d) Gives a spotlight into his passion towards the Cloud Architecture and IT alike.e) Provides an insight on his two websites "cloudkasper.pro" and, "mafiadanych.pl" and also shares an interesting back-story associated with it.f) Explains about the terminalogies of cloud infrastructure in simple words to the listeners across the world.g) His take on the application of Kubernetes and Databricks in the Polish Market.h) Gives an insight into his failures and Weaknesses.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Omar Aldoori who is the ITSM Manager of the company "IT-Pillars". He is based out of Morphett Vale, South Australia, Australiaa) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry.b) Talks about his expertise on the lines of IT Support, Test Automation, QA and Jenkins.c) Shares his experience of doing release management and testing in Agile SAfe and DevOps Environment.d) Mentions about his roles and responsibilities as the ITSM Manager in his company "IT-Pillars".e) His take on the importance of Test Automation and DevOps Environment and implementation in the Middle East IT sector and other industries as well.f) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has come across in his IT journey.g) Gives a deeper insight into his upcoming book "Foresight Ops", that is crucial for the Middle East Market.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Rafal Dobrosielski (MBA) who is the Managing Quality Consultant of the reputed MNC - Capgemini, Founder of the QiPresence initiative and Teaching Assistant, Department of Software Engineering at the reputed - Gdańsk University of Technology. He is based out of Gdynia, Polanda) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT space.b) His view on why he thinks without psychological safety there is no truth about risk and without truth about risk, quality engineering becomes theatre.c) Mentions about the lessons he has learnt from large IT environments and turning them into practical takeaways for leaders and teams focusing on the likes of TMAP VOICE and V²ICTORY (QiPresence)d) Gives an insight into the 3 patterns that hide risk + 4 techniques that people can apply immediately (risk-truth questions, value↔risk linking, leading indicators, decision rules).e) Sheds some spotlight into him offering challenging Software Solutions for Top-Tier companies.f) Provides a deep overview on the quality engineering and DevOps culture that talks about the Dev and Operations/Business working together nowadays to achieve together the business goals, monitor them and improveg) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has experienced in his IT journey.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mrs. Maryia Tuleika who is the Quality engineering leader for the company - Regent AB. She is based out of Stockholm, Stockholm County, Swedena) Introduces about herself and talks about what problem she cares about the most.b) Mentions about her move into public speaking, quality, and community work.c) Talks about why public speaking is useful beyond the stage.d) Mentions about how leaders can support speakers in their teams.e) Talks about her decision to write a book about public speaking.f) Emphasizes on who is the book for.g) Ilustrates about how one can practice public speaking without a big stage.h) Mentions about why public speaking is a leadership skill in testing.i) Sheds some spotlight into her being the Testing hero of the year 2025 and also talks about her groundwork to achieve it.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Steve Seide who is the Global Head of Adoption and Consumption - Finance & Spend Management for the world renowned MNC - SAP. He is based out of Stamford, Connecticut, USAa) Talks about the timeline of his journey in the IT industry.b) Gives an overview into him being the Global Head of Adoption and Consumption - Finance & Spend Management at the reputed SAP company.c) Shares his first day of experience at his current company "SAP" pertaining to the year 2010 with the listeners around the world.d) Gives an insight into his most successful blog "Go-Live Is Not the Finish Line: A New Approach to Cloud Software Adoption from SAP" and also shares an interesting back-story associated with it.e) As a Regional Vice President of Customer Success in his past tenure, mentions about the successful initiatives taken by him in managing the largest revenue region in North America, overseeing a remarkable $125 million in software and network revenue.f) Sheds some spotlight into him successfully executing growth plans and improved customer engagement processes, earning him the recognition as a member of the SAP Winners Club multiple times.g) His take on combining the aspects of Supply Chain and Procurement with that of the SAP excellence and, also shares an interesting hands-on use case that he was associated with it in his tenure.h) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has come across in his IT journey.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mrs. Kendra MacDonald who is the Chief Executive Officer of the organization - Canada's Ocean Supercluster. She is based out of St John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canadaa) Gives a timeline of her journey in the IT industry.b) Provides an insight into being the Chief Executive Officer of the organization "Canada's Ocean Supercluster" and also shares an interesting back-story associated with its creation.c) Gives a deep-overview of her organization "Canada's Ocean Supercluster" being a national industry-led innovation cluster focusing on transforming Canada’s ocean economy through collaboration, technology, and sustainability to the listeners across the world.d) Mentions about the key strategies taken by her to lead a first of its kind innovation ecosystem that's digitizing one of the world's oldest industries - The Ocean Economy.e) Shares her experience of being part of the reputed Big 4 MNC - "Deloitte" a few years ago.f) Sheds some spotlight into her successfully implementing digital transformations in multiple sectors – from financial services to oceans.g) Her take on bridging the gap between the theoretical digital possibilities and real-world implementation challenges in the IT industry.h) Provides a walkthrough of her being the Board Member of the Canadian Museum of History to the listeners across the world.I) Shares few of her interesting success stories and anecdotes that she has come across in her IT journey.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Al Schuster and Ms. Heather Johnson who are the President and Marketing Director respectively of the company Polaris Brand Promotions. They are based out of Media, Pennsylvania, USAAl:a) Gives a walkthrough into his tenure of being the Co-Founder of Polaris Brand Promotions company and also shares an interesting backstory associated with the inception of its creation.b) Provides an insight into their app "SampleFinder" debuting at CES 2026 Eureka Park and at the National Retail Federation’s Big Show.Heather:a) Sheds some spotlight into what their app "SampleFinder" is to the listeners around the US and the world alike.b) Provides an overview about what the Retail Tech is to the listeners across the world.Al and Heather:a) Give a timeline of their journey in the IT industryb) According to them both, talk about what’s next for the retail tech and the experiential marketing.c) Mention about how feedback and engagement loops are changing for brands in the Retail Tech.d) Share few of their interesting success stories and anecdotes that both of them have come across in their IT journey.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Chris Ward who is the Director of Training for the company PassionIT Group. He is based out of Prescott, Arizona, United Statesa) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry.b) Provides an overview of his current tenure being the Director of Training for the PassionIT Group company.c) Gives an insight into what his initiative "ITILin60Secs" is to the listeners across the world and also shares an interesting back-story behind coming up with such an interesting initiative.d) Going by his favorite philosophy "Making Training worth your time Every day", sheds some deep spotlight into his passion of achieving such a goal.e) Provides a walkthrough of the certifications pertaining to the likes of CRISC, CISA, PMI-ACP and, ITIL that he trains the IT professionals with and also mentions the road-map associated for being certified with each one of them.g) Talks about his source of inspiration and drive to transition from the Radio and media space into the IT industry.h) His take on the growth of ITSM scene in Arizona and New Mexico state.i) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has come across in his IT journey that he would like to share with the listeners in this podcast segment.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Keith Atherton who is the Senior Microsoft 365 Power Platform Architect of the reputed MNC - Capgemini and also is the Podcast Host and Founder of the Power Platform Community High Five. He is based out of Edinburgh, Scotland, UKa) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry.b) Provides an insight into his tenure of being the Senior Microsoft Dynamics 365 Power Platform Architect for Capgemini company.c) Gives an overview of him being the Founder of Power Platform Community High Five and also shares an interesting backstory associated with the inception of its creation.d) Mentions about the key differences that he has found with respect to leading and developing software solutions pertaining to the sectors of manufacturing to that of the sectors pertaining to game development and travel.e) Sheds some spotlight into the importance and the real-life use cases of the Microsoft Power Platform in the UK Market.f) Talks about his groundwork into achieving the titles of a Microsoft MVP, MCT, 11x Microsoft Certified, User Group Leader, LinkedIn Learning Instructor and Women in Power (Platform) Mentor.g) His advice to the audience aspiring to foray into the Microsoft Power Platform side and also talks about him achieving the status of being a Microsoft MVP.h) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has experienced in his IT journey that he would like to share in this podcast session.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Shreedhar Gautam, PhD who is the Co-Founder for the company - ReviewsAI. He is based out of Sydney, New South Wales, Australiaa) Gives a timeline of his journey in the Corporate and IT industryb) Gives an overview into him being the Co-founder of the company "ReviewsAI" and shares an interesting backstory associated with the inception of its creation.c) Shares the challenges encountered or faced by him as a Co-founder.d) Gives an insight into what his other initiatives "SG Diagnostics" and "WeSave" are to the listeners across the worlde) Provides a walkthrough about the industry/sectors and regions his company "ReviewsAI" is currently eyeing on.f) Sheds some spotlight into him working on an AI-based cancer diagnostics and exosomal microRNA detection that he has been involved with as a PHD Candidate in UNSW and also talks about the necessity of this AI-based cancer diagnostics in the medical industry.g) His take on the importance and implementation of AI in the Korean market.h) Recently his company ReviewsAI was awarded with an MVP grant from the NSW government, mentions about the moment of pride he got, and the groundwork done by him in achieving such a fabulous recognition.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Igor Kostyuchenok who is the Head of Artificial Intelligence for the company - Mbanq. He is based out of Munich, Bavaria, Germanya) Talks about the timeline of his journey in the IT industryb) In-brief, talks about his conference visits and also shares his view FinTech and other tech related topics.c) Gives an insight into the exciting use case for AI and, Agentic AI in FinTech and Banking and, also about the potential risks and problems that can come with it and whether the people are prepared for it.d) Mentions about the general software development topics in a scaling startup than about core banking in particular.e) Shares his experience of shaping the Open Banking initiative and working with the pioneers of FinTech and Crypto like Ripple back in the days.f) Talks about the differences in serverless and monolithic architectures, the pros and, cons of both of them and having said that the pros and cons of running the infrastructure in a cloud.g) Sheds some spotlight into him launching and running the Mbanq Labs - Accelerator in Singapore, whose experience gave you the foundational idea to come up with your book "Startup, please".h) Gives an overview on the early stages of Mbanq company, where your product was still in its infancy and having said that how a bigger player got interested in your infrastructure that led you to get ahead of others very fast.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. John E. Ortega who is the Faculty Member - NLP Text Analytics at Columbia University, New York and, NLP Researcher and Instructor at New York University. He is based out of New York, USAa) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry and academic space.b) Provides an insight into his current tenure as the Faculty Member - NLP Text Analytics at Columbia University in New York.c) His take on the prime focus of NLP and AI or GenAI in the enterprise and academic space.d) Sheds some spotlight into worked as a director of AI and also talks about starting two businesses to the listeners around the world.e) Gives an overview of being an Advisor for Reulay Inc for on the lines of AI in different facets and having said that mentions about applying the use case of AI for the Mental Health Care industry.f) His view on combining the worlds of Big Data and NLP and mentions about the project where he has applied these two skills for.g) Shares few of the interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has experienced in his IT journey that he would like to share in this podcast session.h) His take on the importance of Low Resource Languages.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mrs. Rituu Mannuja who is the AVP Learning Head of Next-Gen Services of the reputed MNC company - Tech Mahindra. She is based out of Pune, Maharashtra, Indiaa) Walks us through the key milestones in her journey within the IT industry and the way it has shaped her career path.b) As the AVP & Learning Head for Next-Gen Services—AI, Automation, Cybersecurity, and D&A at Tech Mahindra, mentions about how her core responsibilities look like today.c) Having begun her career as a lecturer at institutes like MIT Pune, PCCOE Pune, and JEC Jaipur, talks about her inspiration to transition from academia into the IT industry.d) Shares an example where AI or GenAI learning initiatives created a tangible impact—either in learner outcomes or in driving the business value.e) Terms like “Next-Gen Services,” “GenAI,” and “Agentic AI” are often used but not always well understood, mentions about the ways to simplify these concepts for a non-technical audiencef) In her view, talks about how Learning & Development evolve to become a strategic partner to the business—especially in the era of GenAI and rapid digital transformation.g) There is often a capability gap between business expectations and workforce readiness, mentions about how can targeted upskilling in AI and Agentic AI help bridge this gap and future-proof the organization.h) For someone who is completely new to the concept, explains in simple, layman terms where Agentic AI is being used today—either in everyday life or in workplace scenarios.i)Gives an advice to employees and, leaders who feel overwhelmed by AI and mentions about how they begin their AI learning journey with confidence and clarity.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Kari Kakkonen who is the Service Owner, Customer Expertise Development of Gofore company and the author of the reputed book "Dragons Out". he is based out of Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland.a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry.b) Talks about his roles and responsibilities of being the Service Owner, Customer Expertise Development of the Gofore company.c) Gives an insight into his successful book "Dragons Out Oy" and shares an interesting backstory associated with it.d) Talks about his inclination to combine the software testing with the fantasy stories of dragons, knights, and children.e) Shares his experience of being The ICT Influencer of 2025 and mentions about the groundwork done by him since day one to achieve it.f) Sheds some spotlight into being the treasurer at FiSTB, TMMi BoD and ISTQB to our listeners around the world.g) Shares few of the interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has experienced in his IT journey.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Martin Michalitsch who is the Innovations Manager of WienIT GmbH company and he is based out of Vienna, Austria.a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT space and the Green IT space.b) Talks about his current tenure of being the Innovations Manager for the WienIT GmbH company.c) Mentions about his transition into the space of Green IT having done a master's in data science in the first place.d) His take on the importance and application of the Green IT space in the Austrian Market.e) Explains about the different layers of Green IT.f) His view on making the AI sustainably Green.g) His take on the in-depth story of the Green Web.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Julio G. Martinez-Clark who is the Chief Executive Officer of Synapse Global Theranostics Inc. and the Podcast Host of bioaccess®. He is based out of Miami, Florida, USA.a) Gives a timeline of his journey from building telecom infrastructure at Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent to leading cross-border clinical trial operations as CEO of bioaccess®, Synapse Global Theranostics, and amavita Heart and Vascular Health®.b) Shares his experience of collaborating with over a hundred Medtech and Biopharma companies, streamlining regulatory paths and using machine learning to boost trial efficiency, radio pharma.c) Talks about the key strategies taken by him in helping to bridge the global teams and cultures in challenging markets pertaining to the Clinical AI Space.d) Mentions about his source of inspiration and drive to start his own podcast initiative "Global Trial Accelerators™" and, also talks about being a columnist at Med Device Online and having said that shares an interesting backstory associated with the two.e) Emphasizes on highlighting the key differences that he has observed while specializing in accelerating the medical innovations and clinical trials through unconventional markets like Latin America, the Balkans, and Australia.f) His take on how AI is disrupting the clinical research, regulatory strategies for tech in emerging economies, or building resilient, human trials during global disruptions.

In this podcast episode, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Jaime Kaufman who is the Staff Data Engineer, Data Platform of the reputed EV Motor Vehicle Manufacturing company - Lucid Motors. He is based out of Mason, Ohio, USAa) Gives a timeline of his journey before venturing into the IT industry.b) Gives an overview into his tenure of being the Staff Data Engineer, Big Data for the reputed EV Motor Vehicle Manufacturing company - Lucid Motors.c) Explains the key differences that he has observed with respect to Datalakes, Batch and Streaming Data pipelines implementation in a Motor Vehicle Manufacturing sector to that of the other sectors that he was part of.d) Provides an insight into his expertise and proficiency pertaining to the likes of Apache Spark and Apache Iceberg.e) His take on the importance of SQL in the Motor Vehicle Manufacturing industry and shares an interesting use case that he has come across with it.f) Sheds some spotlight into his problem solving with respect to the issues encountered by the DataFrame in Apache Spark-based data pipeline.g) Mentions about the ways he is able to balance the acts of being a reputed IT Professional as well as a Professional Musician.h) Shares few interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has come across in his Lucid Motors company tenure.To know more about the top featured posts by Jaime, follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaime-kaufmanHere is the link for the post on Jaime's take on Apache Spark 101 : https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaime-kaufman_apache-spark-101-apache-spark-is-an-open-source-activity-7407189878762905601-1rdxHere is the link for the post on Jaime's take on Apache Iceberg 101 : https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaime-kaufman_apache-iceberg-101-iceberg-is-an-open-source-activity-7420221935315476480-K-dw

In this 100th podcast episode (Gold episode) of The Tech'o'Space Podcast, we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Dr. Hasan Avcu. MD who is the Managing Director of Tesu Health company. He is based out of Cambridge, United Kingdom a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the Healthcare-Tech industry.b) Talks about his roles and responsibilities of being the Managing Director for his company "Tesu Health".c) Gives an overview of what his company "Tesu Health" is all about to the listeners across the world and also shares an interesting backstory associated with the inception of his company.d) Gives an insight into him having a proven track record in KOL engagement, compliance and medical strategy for successful product launches across multiple therapy areas.e) Shares his experience of securing an R and D grant from the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council and also leading the first Turkish Ministry of Health-approved clinical trial for a DTx to the listeners across the worldf) Having worked in the Turkish Healthcare-Tech Industry, mentions about his inclination to migrate to the UK.g) Being a Health-Tech Entrepreneur with respect to his company "Tesu Health", talks about the regions he is currently focused on.h) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has experienced in his HealthCare - IT industry that he would like to share in this podcast session.I) Predicts on the future of Digital Health.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Nelson Kulandairaj who is the Chief Digital Officer of CIEL HR company. He is based out of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Indiaa) Talks about the timeline of his journey in the IT industry.b) In-detail mentions about his current job role.c) Talks about the unconventional choices made by him throughout his career.d) His take on the importance of Work-Life Balance in the IT industry.e) According to him, mentions about the need of having an AI stack more than the need of funding.f) For the department who are non-technical coming from the likes of Head - HR and Head Operations, suggests the ways they should identify, bring in, lead and adapt AI or technology interventions in their work.g) His take on the importance of AI Agentic Systems adapted for small, medium and large enterprises.h) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has experienced in his IT journey that he would like to share in this podcast session.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Ikum Kandola who is the Co-Founder of TheAX.ai company. He is based out of London, United Kingdoma) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry.b) Talks about his roles and responsibilities of being the Co-Founder of TheAX.ai company.c) Gives an insight into what his company TheAX.ai is all about to the listeners and, having said that shares an interesting back-story behind the inception of its creation.d) Mentions about the key learnings that he has grabbed while working for an MNC like PwC in the past, that has totally shaped your career.e) As a co-founder of TheAX.ai company, talks about the key industries/sectors and the regions/countries that he is currently focused on.f) Mentions about the reasons on why he thinks AI is affecting business which sell time, e.g. "they are moving to outcome based pricing".g) Sheds some spotlight into his company building the AI-Powered Platform for Productized Consulting and also talks about the types of AI it is currently focused on (Computer Vision or NLP or OCR or Speech Recognition or LLMs).h) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has experienced in his IT journey that he would like to share in this podcast session.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mrs. Beth Lloyd who is the Director - Organisational Development, talent and learning of Aston University, UK. She is based out of Birmingham, United Kingdoma) Talks about the timeline of her journey in the Corporate industry and Higher Education Space.b) Mentions about the key initiatives taken by her in building performance and organization effectiveness through leadership, management and people development across the public and private sectors.c) Shares her experience of receiving a gold medal from the Staff Development Forum for the Women-Space Leadership Award and also a deep insight into the Women-Space Leadership Awardd) Talks about her roles and responsibilities of being the Director - Organizational Development, talent and learning at Aston University.e) Gives a spotlight into her passion about generating sustainable effective transformation through people with integrity, creativity and positivity.f) Gives an insight into her volunteering work pertaining to the likes of Fundraiser for Combat Stress: The Veterans'​ Mental Health Charity and Volunteer for National Trust.g) Shares few of her interesting success stories and anecdotes that she has come across in her entire journey that she would like to share in this podcast session.h) Her take on the importance of Women Leadership in the Corporate Industry and Higher Education space.i) Her view on why the representation of women in executive leadership roles remain disproportionately low and also mentions about the strategic actions that the organizations should take to accelerate gender equity at the top.j) As herself not being from a technical background, talks about the ways she leverages technology to enhance your role and drive impact and, conveys a piece of message/advice to the peers in her sector about embracing digital tools for organizational development.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Maurizio Cuna who is the Partner - Financial Services and Insurance of the Infosys Consulting company and the author of the book - "Beyond Slides". He is based out of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.a) Gives a complete timeline of his journey in the IT space.b) In-depth, talks about his current roles and responsibilities as the Partner - Financial Services & Insurance Practice lead of the Infosys Consulting company.c) Sheds some spotlight into him being the Author of the Amazon's best-selling book "Beyond Slides" and having said that shares an interesting backstory associated with it.d) Shares his experience of advising global firms on core banking transformations, platform modernizations, large-scale digital programs, AI integration across continents like Europe, Asia, America, and Australia for the past 20 years.e) Mentions the key learnings that he has grabbed while being part of niche boutiques to global powerhouses and also partnering with some of the world's largest banks and insurers.f) Having travelled multiple countries and working in the Fintech and banking industry, talks about the key observations with respect to the workflows and the overall process there.g) Shares some of the interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has experienced in his entire journey that he would like to share in this podcast session.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mrs. Marjolein Opsteegh who is the Senior Power BI consultant of the ilionx company, and she is based out of Papendrecht, South Holland, The Netherlands.a) Elaborates about who she is beyond her job titles where curiosity for her has always acted as a complete constant.b) Talks about her 35 years of journey in corporate and tech where she has experienced a huge growth by learning and getting hands-on with new technologies and skills.c) Though having transitioned from corporate roles to that of now being a Power BI Consultant at ilionx, on a modest note she still claims to be a learner despite such a huge rise in her journey.d) Mentions about why she perceives the Power BI dashboard to be a product rather than assuming it to be a UX and UI design in the first place.e) Her take on staying close to the end-user and, learning from the people she is building for and have collaborated with.f) Talks about working smarter with an AI like ChatGPT is not a shortcut but a learning pattern altogetherg) Her view on the notion of content creation in a fast-moving world.h) Sheds some spotlight into her tenure of Speaking, hosting & community building at different Tech events.I) Her take on the importance of Women in the IT industry.j) Gives an insight into her becoming a Microsoft MVP of Netherlands and highlights it is a next recognition of learning but not the end goal on the whole.k) Shares few of her interesting stories, lessons and conveys one clear message to the listeners across the world.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Vijay Poondy who is the Managing Director of the reputed MNC company Yexle Limited and he is based out of Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry.b) Talks about his inception behind the creation of Yexle Limited and also shares an interesting backstory associated with it.c) Provides an overview on the exponential business reach/growth in the recent times across the regions of US and Australia and across the globe alike and also talks about the key initiatives taken by him in achieving those ranks.d) Shares a few points about the recent acquisition of Yexle Limited by IGT Solutions.e) Post the acquisition by the MNC company "IGT solutions", mentions about Yexle's roadmap and, goals for the future and, ahead to further strengthen and, drive innovation and also deliver world-class customer experience and service.f) Talks about Yexle's differentiators in the market on the lines of capability, competency and trust.g) Going by Yexle's tagline “Innovation driven. Quality assured.”, mentions about his personal connect with it and the way he sees it come alive in Yexle’s work.h) The Host - Akhil Navuluri shares experience being part of Yexle Limited a years ago, a company where he began his IT career.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Antonio Ganzerli, who is the Sustainability, Innovation and Digital Transformation Expert of Ordine degli Ingegneri della Provincia di Torino and author of the book "Sustainability is Digital" and he is based out of Turin, Piedmont, Italya) Gives an inception of his journey from research and engineering in IT space to management and governance in Corporate roles until lecturing for Business Schools.b) Gives an overview in particular of his roles and responsibilities in Sustainability, Innovation and Digital Transformation based on his Corporate experiences.c) Sheds a spotlight into him being the pioneer in Digital Sustainability field and also the father of the concept "Sustainability BY and IN Digital".d) Provides an insight into his top-rated book "Sustainability is Digital" that is written in both Italian and, English and also shares an interesting backstory associated with its creation.e) Mentions about that talent of his into balancing multiple roles in multiple organizations - Innovation Manager, Sustainability Builder, Sustainability Community Member and Corporate Sustainability Manager acting as an inspirational roadmap for the listeners across the world.f) His take on the importance of Green Tech in the industry and also illustrates one of the real-life use case associated with it.g) Shares few of his interesting anecdotes and success stories that he has experienced in his IT journey, that he would like to share in this podcast session.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Ritesh Arora, who is the FS DCX- Low code No code and, AI leader of The Big Four Companies and he is based out of Kolkata, West Bengal, Indiaa) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT space.b) According to him, justifies why will love and empathy continue to be the biggest reason that some teams scale up and some teams don'tc) Mentions out the reasons of why he wishes everyone enough rain/struggle in life.d) Gives an insight of working on the latest tech that will keep everyone in demand.e) Talks about the importance of having a right manager/mentor to guide an individual in the IT industry.f) Gives a spotlight into latest trend - "The Race with AI".g) According to the famous saying "Eating the big fish", mentions out why challenger brands can beat the bigger competition.h) Shares few of his interesting anecdotes and success stories that he has experienced in his IT journey, that he would like to share in this podcast session.I) His take on the role of Autism Spectrum in the IT industry.j) His view on the talent of the women workforce in the IT industry.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Georgios Christou, PhD, who is the Founder and CEO of George Christou Research and Consulting company. He is based out of Nicosia, Cyprusa) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT space.b) Talks about his source of inspiration and drive to start his company "George Christou Research and Consultancy" and also shares an interesting backstory behind its inception.c) As a founder and CEO of his company "George Christou Research and Consultancy", mentions about his key responsibilities and, also talks about the sector/industry he is currently eyeing on.d) Talks about his key learnings of being an eCREDO Chair Associate Professor of Computer Science for CIIM - Cyprus International Institute of Management a few years ago.e) Shares his experience of designing, building and deploying the infrastructure and front end of the electronic money services in the past, to the listeners around the world.f) Gives a spotlight into the plethora of his publications and collaboration with his fellow authors.g) His take on the growth of the IT industry in Cyprus.h) Shares few of his interesting anecdotes and success stories that he has experienced in the IT industry.I) His take on the impact of AI in the IT industry.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mrs. Helen Blaikie, who is the Chief Data & Analytics Officer of Aston University. She is based out of Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdoma) Walks us through the key milestones in her journey into data and leadership.b) Shares her experience of being the Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Aston Universityc) Having led teams across finance, data, commercial and business development, talks about the reasons that has underpinned her success across such varied environments.d) Her philosophy when it comes to data strategy, governance, literacy and building a data culture.e) Mentions about the moment that has really sparked her passion for data.f) Having worked in both corporate and higher education, talks about the differences that she has seen in how organizations use data.g) Having recently attended the DataIQ World Congress, mentions about her biggest takeaways.h) Having spent her career in male-dominated industries, talks about how being a woman professional has shaped her leadership.I) Across all her transitions, mentions about the skills that has mattered the most to her in becoming an effective data leader.j) Having the research showing women applying differently for roles than men, talks about her take on confidence, recruitment and representation.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mrs. Sarah Kenyon, who is the Delivery Manager of Mantel Group company, and is also the Podcast Host of Data and Drams. She is based out of Brisbane, Queensland, Australiaa) Gives a timeline of her journey in the IT space.b) Provides an overview on her roles and responsibilities of being the Delivery Manager of the Mantel Group companyc) From a podcaster to another podcaster, talks about her drive and inspiration to start her own podcast initiative "Data and Drams" and also shares an interesting backstory associated with it.d) Gives an insight into the projects that she was part of "FRT Proof of Concept" and "Data Acceleration Program" to the listeners around the world.e) Mentions about the key initiatives taken by her in successfully delivering multi-million dollar projects across diverse industries including the likes of education, healthcare, digital experience, retail, wagering, and insurancef) Talks about her expertise being part of different volunteering initiatives pertaining to "Cyber Security Champions of Tomorrow", "Last Conference", "Women in Digital" and "BeerOps" in the past, acting as an inspiration for the listenersg) Shares few of her interesting anecdotes and success stories that she has experienced in her IT journey that she would like to share in this podcast session.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mrs. Kim King, who is the Owner and Senior ITSM / ITIL Consultant of CAKE IT Consulting company and is also the author of the book "Rid the Rot: The Fixer’s Guide to ITSM Health". She is based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada a) Gives a timeline of her journey in the IT space.b) Sheds some spotlight into her being the Owner and Senior ITSM / ITIL Consultant for her company "CAKE IT Consulting".c) Gives an overview of what her company "CAKE IT Consulting" is to the listeners and, which sector/industry and regions it is currently focused on.d) Provides an insight into her recently released book "Rid the Rot: The Fixer's Guide to ITSM Health" and having said that also shares an interesting back-story associated with respect to the creation of her book.e) Having worked 25 years overall in managed services with respect IBM - Kyndryl, mentions her key learnings that she has grabbed and the way it has shaped her career.f) Shares her experience of helping the companies and business integrating the human side, the broken processes, the stalled initiatives and the tools as well.g) Shares few of her interesting success stories and anecdotes that she has experienced in her entire journey with the listeners around the world.

In this continuation episode of our previous rendezvous with Mr. Till Kamppeter, the Co-Founder and Organization Lead, Co-Founder and Project Lead of OpenPrinting organization and Co-Founder and Organization Lead of OpportunityOpenSource initiative, who is based out of Vienna, Austria. Till:a) Gives an insight into his involvement with "The Linux Foundation".b) His take on the importance of Linux in the European Union.c) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has experienced in his IT journey.Related links for the show notes -- OpenPrintingWeb: https://www.openprinting.orgLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openprinting/posts/Mastodon: https://ubuntu.social/tags/OpenPrintingTelegram: https://t.me/+RizBbjXz4uU2ZWM1GitHub: https://github.com/openprintingMore contacts: https://openprinting.github.io/contact/About us: https://openprinting.github.io/about-us/- OpenPrinting NewsNews, events, releases:https://openprinting.github.io/news/What we have done:https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-The-amazing-work-is-going-on/Recovering from the layoff:https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Sovereign-Tech-Agency-is-investing-in-OpenPrinting/- Google Summer of Code 2025Project ideas posted:https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-Project-Ideas-List-posted/Project work has started:https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-Contributors-selected-and-projects-started/Work is going on:https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-The-amazing-work-is-going-on/Successfully concluded:https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-Our-most-successful-one/Older GSoC news on https://openprinting.github.io/news/- Opportunity Open Source conferences in IndiaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/opportunityopensource/posts/Opportunity Open Source 1.0 (2023) in the IIT Mandihttps://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-September-2023/#opportunitiy-open-source-in-the-iit-mandi-indiaOpportunity Open Source 2.0 (2024) in the IIT Kanpurhttps://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-August-2024/#opportunity-open-source-in-iit-kanpurOpportunity Open Source 3.0 (2025) in the IIT Kanpurhttps://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-3.0-in-the-IIT-Kanpur,-India/- Till in videos and podcastsTech over Tea: Till Kamppeter about everything OpenPrinting, the layoff, and howhe is recoveringhttps://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Tech-over-Tea-300-Brodie-interviews-Till-Kamppeter/Destination Linux: Till Kamppeter and Michael Sweet about the history ofOpenPrintinghttps://youtu.be/CLEMiM0L2JkUbuntu Indaba: Till Kamppeter and Michael Sweet about the New Architecturehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P22DOu_ahBoUbuntu Office Hours: Till Kamppeter and Aveek Basu about the Google Summer of Codehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diB3wm4HB1YUbuntu Summit 2022: Till Kamppeter hosting an OpenPrinting panel with ZdenekDohnal, Johannes Meixner, Aveek Basu, and Deepak Patankarhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbgXmDjxYa4Ask Noah: Till Kamppeter on how OpenPrinting improved printing with Linux/Unixhttps://podcast.asknoahshow.com/368?t=2837Linux Saloon: Till Kamppeter about how he got Snap enthusiasthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5QKJH9tDjQOpenPrinting - We make printing just work! Till Kamppeter, FOSDEM 2024,Brussels, Belgiumhttps://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1930-openprinting-we-make-printing-just-work-/

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and connect with Mr. Till Kamppeter who is the Co-Founder and Organization Lead, Co-Founder and Project Lead of OpenPrinting organization and Co-Founder and Organization Lead of OpportunityOpenSource initiative and he is based out of Vienna, Austria a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT space.b) Sheds some spotlight into his other initiative "Opportunity Open Source" and its collaborations with different IITs, universities, colleges in India.c) Provides an overview about his organization "OpenPrinting" and also shares an interesting back-story associated with it.d) Mentions about his roles and responsibilities of being a co-founder and organization lead of OpenPrinting organization.Related links for the show notes OpenPrintingWeb: https://www.openprinting.orgLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openprinting/posts/Mastodon: https://ubuntu.social/tags/OpenPrintingTelegram: https://t.me/+RizBbjXz4uU2ZWM1GitHub: https://github.com/openprintingMore contacts: https://openprinting.github.io/contact/About us: https://openprinting.github.io/about-us/- OpenPrinting NewsNews, events, releases:https://openprinting.github.io/news/What we have done:https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-The-amazing-work-is-going-on/Recovering from the layoff:https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Sovereign-Tech-Agency-is-investing-in-OpenPrinting/- Google Summer of Code 2025Project ideas posted:https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-Project-Ideas-List-posted/Project work has started:https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-Contributors-selected-and-projects-started/Work is going on:https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-The-amazing-work-is-going-on/Successfully concluded:https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-Our-most-successful-one/Older GSoC news on https://openprinting.github.io/news/- Opportunity Open Source conferences in IndiaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/opportunityopensource/posts/Opportunity Open Source 1.0 (2023) in the IIT Mandihttps://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-September-2023/#opportunitiy-open-source-in-the-iit-mandi-indiaOpportunity Open Source 2.0 (2024) in the IIT Kanpurhttps://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-August-2024/#opportunity-open-source-in-iit-kanpurOpportunity Open Source 3.0 (2025) in the IIT Kanpurhttps://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-3.0-in-the-IIT-Kanpur,-India/- Till in videos and podcastsTech over Tea: Till Kamppeter about everything OpenPrinting, the layoff, and howhe is recoveringhttps://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Tech-over-Tea-300-Brodie-interviews-Till-Kamppeter/Destination Linux: Till Kamppeter and Michael Sweet about the history ofOpenPrintinghttps://youtu.be/CLEMiM0L2JkUbuntu Indaba: Till Kamppeter and Michael Sweet about the New Architecturehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P22DOu_ahBoUbuntu Office Hours: Till Kamppeter and Aveek Basu about the Google Summer of Codehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diB3wm4HB1YUbuntu Summit 2022: Till Kamppeter hosting an OpenPrinting panel with ZdenekDohnal, Johannes Meixner, Aveek Basu, and Deepak Patankarhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbgXmDjxYa4Ask Noah: Till Kamppeter on how OpenPrinting improved printing with Linux/Unixhttps://podcast.asknoahshow.com/368?t=2837Linux Saloon: Till Kamppeter about how he got Snap enthusiasthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5QKJH9tDjQOpenPrinting - We make printing just work! Till Kamppeter, FOSDEM 2024,Brussels, Belgiumhttps://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1930-openprinting-we-make-printing-just-work-/

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and connect with Mr. Graham Davis who is the Enterprise Architect of Practical Technology Solutions company and has also served in the Royal British Navy in the past, who is based out of Perth, Western Australia, Australia a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry.b) Talks about his roles and responsibilities of being the Enterprise Architect for the Practical Technology Solutions Pty Ltd companyc) Shares his experience of writing his first software program.d) Gives the listeners an in-depth insight into his new online courses for the architects around the worlde) His take on the common issues faced in the world of Enterprise Architecture.f) Shares few of the interesting anecdotes and success stories that he has experienced in his IT journey through this podcast session.g) Gives an overview of him, creating three major capital projects and leading themh) Out of all the projects that he has worked for in the EA space, mentions about the project that he has enjoyed the most and about the project that he has found the most challenging.i) Talks about his transition from the space of the British Royal Navy to the Enterprise Architecture.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and connect with Mrs. Lisa Gregg who is the Director of Business Transformation at the reputed and renowned Aston University, United Kingdom and she is based out of Birmingham, West Midlands Region, UKa) Gives a timeline of her journey in the Higher Education space.b) In-brief, talks about the roles and responsibilities of being the Director of Business Transformation at Aston Universityc) Talks about her expertise on the lines of cultural transformation, negotiation, inspiring leadership and collaborative style.d) Shares some of her interesting success stories and anecdotes that she has experienced, while having a demonstrated history of working in the higher education sector as an Experienced Chairperson.e) Reflects on the behavioral challenges in the project management space.f) Sheds some spotlight into the initiative "Inspire Aston Women", mainly for empowering women in the HE space.