
37 episodes

Trending Tech: Digital Transformation: It's critical, but not all serious Jeremy Cowan
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We're going to have a look at what's in the digital transformation news.
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Industry battles to control IoT security risks
The risk of data breaches in the Internet of Things is growing fast and the costs are rising faster. In the latest Trending Tech podcast, host Jeremy Cowan asks Thales’s marketing director for Digital Identity and Security, Stephane Quetglas how the industry is responding. Spoiler: It’s fighting back hard! Plus Robin Duke-Woolley, CEO and founder of Beecham Research warns of the costs of lost industrial production, repair, litigation, and reputational damage. Sit back, listen and learn about IoT Best Practices, before we sign off with the submarine story of Elon Musk’s Wet Nellie. Allegedly.
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AI takes over Trending Tech podcast on digital security
Host Jeremy Cowan puts his feet up as the Trending Tech podcast is taken over by ChatGPT. It’s all about Trust as Deepika Chauhan, chief product officer at DigiCert, confronts the digital security challenges facing us all, and Jim Morrish, chief research officer at Transforma Insights, shares the inside scoop on rapidly rising cyber defence opportunities and revenues. Plus, find out what Taylor Swift and Queen Elizabeth II have in common.
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Fraud: Why are UK telcos so vulnerable and can they curb attacks on all of us?
The UK Parliament has confirmed the country is a global fraud hotspot, with attacks rising 25% since the start of Covid-19. We ask digital identity expert, Peter Ford of US-based iconectiv, how Britain’s telcos – who failed once already to address this – can help to curb this crimewave. And since 80% of fraud is cyber-enabled there are lessons for other countries, as the author of a new report, Teresa Cottam, chief analyst at Omnisperience tells Trending Tech podcast host, Jeremy Cowan. Plus, we get a belly-full of the Internet of Silly Things.
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Why did Semtech buy Sierra Wireless?
As we reported on IoT-Now.com, the US-based semiconductor, IoT systems and Cloud connectivity service provider, Semtech recently completed its acquisition of Sierra Wireless. To find out what lay behind the US$1.2 billion purchase of Canada’s specialist in cellular IoT and device-to-cloud IoT solutions, we sat down with Julie McGee, Semtech’s Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Officer.
By way of background, Julie joined Semtech last year and has more than 30 years’ experience in semiconductors, including as an executive at Intel Corp., where she held positions in finance, marketing, business strategy, and supply chain. She also served as Chief of Staff to Intel’s chairman of the board and led several corporate transformation projects, taking Intel through its first Olympic Games. In doing that she brought 5G, artificial intelligence, drones and e-sports technologies together onto a global stage. Julie holds an MBA from the University of Oregon, she completed the Kellogg School of Management CMO program and the Harvard Women on Boards program. So her experience is broad, high level and topical. -
AI and the metaverse at MWC, plus Cowan hands Podcast mic to Morrish and Hatton
There’s a lot happening in digital communications this month with the GSMA’s annual Mobile World Congress event returning to Barcelona bigger, busier and healthier than it’s been for years. Jim Morrish, co-founder of analyst firm Transforma Insights tells IoT Now and VanillaPlus’s editorial director, Jeremy Cowan what to look out for at the world’s best tech show. Plus Jeremy gets ready for a busy retirement as an author, and hands over the Trending Tech Podcast mic to two enormous talents in the shape of Jim and his TI co-founder, Matt Hatton.
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Win-win for connected healthcare, as industrial IoT tests the use of ChatGPT
The Trending Tech Podcast returns to the topical issues of Connected Healthcare and IoT’s role in Industry. We hear from two experts, Jash Bansidhar and Michael Wernaert from Advantech, how automation is improving patient outcomes, including through robotic surgery’s greater accuracy, faster patient release dates and lower care costs. We ask how ‘co-created’ solutions on open source platforms can benefit hospitals and healthcare OEMs? And can OpenAI’s ChatGPT enable industry’s digital transformations? There’s even time to see how ESG is creating an intelligent, sustainable planet. Not bad in half an hour.
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