Quick Tech Talk Michael Anderson

1. Two questions for you about Provenance (blockchain platform for increased supply chain transparency ): What are the benefits that customers can realize from platforms like Provenance?  What are the advantages for the businesses that are using provenance? 

2. There’s a lot of hype around Bitcoin / Cryptocurrencies right now.  How should businesses prepare for this new evolution?  

3. Most businesses still don’t accept Crypto.  As Crypto becomes more mainstream, how do you see it transforming the payments space?  

4. Governments are creating their own digital currencies, do you think people will more readily use / adopt a government backed Cryptocurrency?

In this talk we discuss: 

1. How can men support women in the tech industry?  

2. What is Cisco's Veteran's incubator & recruitment initiative? Are other companies starting similar initiatives?   

3. What are the things that hiring managers should consider when looking to hire military veterans in career transitions?

In this week's talk, we discuss:

What does AI mean really?  What are the common misunderstandings about AI? Is AI really coming for our jobs? What are the most common applications of AI today? What will be the most common in the future? Is there an industry or product that AI is best served to disrupt? What’s the difference between a Chat Bot and a Cognitive Agent?

Daniel Sloan and I speak with Wassim Jarkas about the future of connection through technology. We discuss benefits for people in urban areas through city-wide network transformation and what initiatives are having the biggest impact on making the internet accessible worldwide.

Do you wish your organization had more diversity? It's a hot topic these days, but most companies talk about it, check a few boxes, and say "We've done it!" Rest assured, there is a better way.

This week's Tech Talk Daniel Sloan and I speak with Graham Fell to break down the numbers and really understand how specific changes in a company’s culture can create improved performance and how businesses ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies see bottom-line growth because of their commitment to diversity.

Agriculture's Rapid Technical Transformation:

1.  Traceability and visibility of ingredients in specific products purchased by consumers

2. Reducing the impact of FDA call backs

3. How Blockchain impacts the nuanced supply chain of the agriculture industry through tracking the sale of goods across different regions of the US.