Conversations with Dez

Dez Blanchfield gets up close and personal with Patrik Cerwall - Head of Strategic Marketing for the Business Area Networks section of Ericsson, his career with Ericsson, his role and the role of marketing within Ericsson, the big changes Ericsson faces with Digital Transformation, Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, moving from 4G to 5G, and what's on the horizon in Telecommunications in general, and much more.

Dez Blanchfield gets up close and personal with Elli Hurst - Vice President, Global Automation - IBM Global Business Services ( GBS ), talking about her personal & professional life journey, learnings from working with some of the world's biggest global brands, about personal inspirations, Intelligent Automation, Globally Integrated Capabilities, and much more.. Click here => http://bit.ly/ExpertAdvise to schedule a call with an IBM Expert

Dez Blanchfield gets up close and personal with Mats Karlsson - Head of R&D & Portfolio, Ericsson Business Area Digital Services, his career with Ericsson since 1989, his upcoming R&D "roadmap" & "portfolio", the big changes in Digital Transformation, Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, moving from 4G to 5G, NFV, OpenStack, OpenSource, and what's on the horizon in Telecommunications in general, and much much more.

Dez Blanchfield gets up close and personal with Max Michaels - General Manager, IBM Network Services, talking about his personal & professional life journey, learnings from working with some of the biggest global brands, his personal inspirations, how to think like an investor, acting & thinking different, and the idea that the Cloud has now become The Network. Click here => http://bit.ly/ExpertAdvise to schedule a call with an IBM Expert

Dez gets up close & personal with Bridget Karlin - IBM GTS, CTO & VP of Innovation & Automation. Bridget shares insights into her role, driving the corporate transformation to build and deliver IBM's cognitive technology services platform, leveraging cognitive, and automation, enabling clients & partners to benefit from increased security, efficiency, flexibility & and control of their digital business. Click here => http://bit.ly/ExpertAdvise to schedule a call with an IBM Expert

Dez gets up close & personal with Nick Fuller, Senior Manager, Cognitive Service Foundations, IBM Research, his role with IBM Services Platform & Watson cognitive computing, his 63 patents & 20+ years experience in scientific research & technology development/delivery in cloud technologies; IT service management; photovoltaics & semiconductor technology. Click here => http://bit.ly/ExpertAdvise to schedule a call with an IBM Expert

Dez Blanchfield talks with Robin Kiera of Digital Scouting about the brave new world of #DigitalDisruption in Banking, Finance, Insurance across #FinTech, #InsurTech, #DigitalDisruption, #AI, #BlockChain, being an #Influencer and his vision of the future for business and humanity, across old and new, in Enterprise and Startups.

Dez gets up close & personal with Mickey Iqbal, IBM Fellow, IBM Master Inventor & Global Lead for GTS Enterprise IT Transformation Advisors, with insights what it takes to be an IBM Master Inventor, his patents, how he has lead cloud transformation for some of the world's most impactful enterprise organizations, his personal life journey, mentorship, and amazing recovery from a life threatening accident. Click here => http://bit.ly/ExpertAdvise to schedule a call with an IBM Expert

Dez Blanchfield talks with Marcel Mitran, CTO of IBM LinuxONE & Distinguished Engineer IBM Systems, about the newly announced IBM LinuxONE Emperor II platform, the heitage of the System Design, the Security, Speed, & Scaleability of the platform and it's ability to run more than two million docker containers, host 17 TB single image databases without sharding, what it means to have 32 TB of RAM, and much much more.

Dez Blanchfield talks with Pravin Bolar, Senior Vice President & Global Head of Cloud Solutions at Tech Mahindra, about current trends & insights in Business & Technology challenges around Cloud Computing, and the upcoming Tech Mahindra "Unlock Your Cloud Experience" CxO Summit events in Melbourne and Sydney.

Dez Blanchfield talks with Data Scientist & author Lillian Pierson about the IBM Fast Track Your Data 2017 in Munich, general thoughts on the key themes and topics, Unicorns, Data Science, Analytics, Visualisation, Machine Learning, Hybrid Data Management, and Unified Governance.

Dez Blanchfield talks with Kevin Jackson, Director of Cloud Solutions at Engility, about the launch of their new Cloud ASCEND offering, an end-to-end data-driven solution for enterprise cloud architecture, migration and optimization, developed for the unique requirements of highly secure government enterprises.

Dez Blanchfield talks with Guy Shone, CEO at Explain The Market, about the new role of Technology in the Board Room, the Digital Disruption of the CIO role, and their latest findings around Behavioural Economics in today's fast moving media savvy world.

Dez Blanchfield talks with Steven Dickens, Global Offering Manager of Z-Cloud, the Multi-Tenant, Public Cloud on Mainframe, about Cloud on Mainframe, the Open Mainframe project, LinuxONE project, the future of Mainframe and the ecosystem around it, and much much more.

Dez Blanchfield talks with Ian Moyse, UK based business consultant & sales guru, about the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), regulation designed to strengthen & unify data protection for all individuals within the EU, as well as data protection, privacy, data leaks, data breaches, hacking and much much more.