Conversations with Dez

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with with Clara Hustad, Channel Director of the Manufacturing, Transportation & Consumer Packaged Goods Industries at AT&T Business, to talk about her academic & professional career, her role with AT&T, challenges & trends in the Manufacturing, Transport and Consumer Packaged Goods ( CPG ) industries & market segments, maintaining accountability in supply chains through technology, managing brand protection, security / cybersecurity challenges & data protection and much more. For more info visit the AT&T http://j.mp/attbusinesshomepage

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Greg Perry, Senior Capacity Assurance Consultant at Fluke Digital Systems (FDS), building on the key topics & themes from his previous guest appearance on the show, to talk about the latest new & emerging industry and market trends, challenges & opportunities around all things Connected Reliability, Predictive Maintenance, Capacity Assurance, Sensors, Data, Analytics, Cloud, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the Accelix framework & ecosystem and much more. For more info visit the FDS website at http://bit.ly/accelixhomepage

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with with Deborah Carbo, Director of Product Management, Broadcom Mainframe Division, to talk about her academic & professional career, her role with Broadcom's Mainframe division, Broadcom's Vitality & Associate Software Engineer (ASE) programme, Mainframe skills development, Broadcom's latest offerings, the future of the Mainframe, and much more. For more info on the Broadcom Mainframe offering visit http://j.mp/broadcommainframe

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with with Dan Rodriguez, a Vice President in Intel's Data Centre Group and the General Manager of Intel's Network Compute division, to talk about his academic & professional career, his role with Intel, Network Transformation, Compute at the Edge and Edge Computing, Intel's work with Communication Service Providers, Telcos & Operators, SDI / SDN, NFV, 5G and much more. For more information visit the Intel Network Builders portal http://j.mp/intel5Greadiness

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Kevin Clark, VP of Fluke Digital Systems, his latest appearance as our featured guest on the show, about the latest news from Fluke Digital Systems, further detail on the Accelix offering, data, sensors, IoT, predictive maintenance, connected reliability, remote monitoring, thermal imaging technology and much more. For more info about the Accelix offering please visit => www.accelix.com/

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Sai Gujja, Engineering Lead/Supervisor, Mainframe Security & Compliance & Greg Lotko, SVP & GM Mainframe Division, Broadcom, to talk about their academic & professional careers, their roles with Broadcom’s Mainframe division, and we also discuss the recent hype about a “Skills crisis” - to find out if it really is still a crisis, the work they are doing “doubling down” on skills development, their ASE & Vitality Residency programmes, the 2019 SHARE Pittsburgh event, and much more. For more information on the Broadcom Mainframe offering please visit https://www.ca.com/us/why-ca/mainframe.html

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Greg Perry, Senior Capacity Assurance Consultant at Fluke Digital Systems (FDS), to talk about his academic & professional career, his role with FDS, current and emerging challenges & opportunities in all things Connected Reliability, Predictive Maintenance, Capacity Assurance, Sensors, Data, Analytics, Cloud, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the Accelix framework & ecosystem, some example use cases, and much more. For more information visit the FDS website at http://bit.ly/accelixhomepage

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Peter Worndle, Expert - Network Function Virtualisation at Ericsson Digital Services, to talk about his academic & professional career, his role with Ericsson, current and emerging challenges & opportunities for telco’s & operators, 5G, Cloud & Cloud Native, Kubernetes, Docker, Containerisation, Cloud Models, security and much more. For more information visit the Ericsson Cloud Native page bit.ly/ericssoncloudnative

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Christina Cheng, AVP Enterprise Mobility at AT&T Business, to talk about her academic & career path, her role with AT&T, industry trends & challenges, the impact of digital transformation on the Enterprise Mobility industry as a whole, and what 5G will bring to the sector. For more information about Enterprise Mobility offerings from AT&T Business please visit http://bit.ly/attentmobility

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Anders Rosengren, Head of Architecture and Technology at Ericsson Digital Services, to talk about his academic & professional career, his role with Ericsson, current and emerging challenges & opportunities for telco’s & operators, 5G, Cloud & Cloud Native, AR, VR, the Open Networking Summit (ONS), ONAP, CI/CD, SDI, network slicing, security and much more. For more information visit the Ericsson Cloud Native page http://bit.ly/ericssoncloudnative

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with David Van Dorselaer, AVP Manufacturing Solutions at AT&T Business, to talk about his academic & career path, his role with AT&T, industry trends & challenges in and around Manufacturing, the impact of digital transformation, multi-edge computing, IoT, digital twins, autonomous "things" & drones, and 5G will bring to the Manufacturing industry. For more information about AT&T's Financial Solutions offerings please visit http://bit.ly/attmanufacturing

Dez Blanchfield gets up close and personal with Hayden Lindsey, VP World Wide Engineering & Architecture for the Mainframe division at Broadcom to talk about his life, academic & professional career, his role with Broadcom, the Broadcom acquisition of CA, Mainframe Engineering & Architecture, ageing workforce / skills / processes / tools and more - for more information on the Broadcom Mainframe offering please visit => www.ca.com/us/why-ca/mainframe.html

Dez Blanchfield gets up close and personal with David Myers, Advisor, Product Management & Market Strategy / Offering Manager, Intelligent Operations & Automation at Broadcom to talk about his life, academic & professional career, his role with Broadcom, the Broadcom acquisition of CA, Mainframes, Strategy, Product Management, Engineering, Design, OpenSource, Workload Automation, delivering innovative and differentiated value to customers and much much more. For more information on the Broadcom Mainframe offering please visit => www.ca.com/us/why-ca/mainframe.html

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Gareth Price, Practice Head, for Europe & Latin America across Core, Cloud & Security Consulting at Ericsson, to talk about his academic & professional career, his role with Ericsson, current and emerging challenges & opportunities for telco’s & operators, 5G, SDI, network slicing, cloud, security and much more. For more information visit the Ericsson 5G web page http://bit.ly/ericsson5g

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Rene Dufrene, General Manager of Financial Solutions at AT&T Business, to talk about his academic & career path, his role with AT&T, industry trends & challenges, the impact of digital transformation & the Silicon Valley “fast-to-market” model might have on the Finance Services Industry (FSI) as a whole, and what 5G will bring to the FSI sector. For more information about Financial Solutions offerings from AT&T Business please visit http://bit.ly/attfinancialsolutions