Patrick Daly Interlinks Podcast

Patrick Daly
Patrick Daly Interlinks Podcast

Interlinks is a program about business. technology and globalization. In each episode, I have a sit-down conversation with a person from the world of business, politics, or academia to understand from their perspective how the great trends of our time, namely - geopolitical fragmentation, demographic change, digital transformation, and climate change - are affecting their life, work, and view of the world. The conversations with my invitees from all over the world are wide ranging touching on both the professional and the personal aspects of their experience. International Business, Supply Chain, Globalized Economy, Geopolitical Fragmentation, Climate Change, Digital Transformation, Demographic Stagnation. Patrick Daly http://www.albalogistics.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. A Geopolitical Perspective from Canada

    2D AGO

    A Geopolitical Perspective from Canada

    In this episode we talk to Richard Martin, president of Alcera Consulting in Montreal, Canada. Alcera is a strategic advisory firm specializing in exploiting change to build individual and organizational resilience, ensuring market dominance and excellence in public governance. Richard spent almost 26 years in the Canadian military, of which 20 years as an Infantry Officer including operational command in Bosnia and staff appointments in Kuwait, national headquarters, and the Directorate of Army Training. He is the author of Brilliant Manoeuvres: How to Use Military Wisdom to Win Business Battles. He is also the developer of Worldview Warfare and Strategic Epistemology, a groundbreaking methodology that focuses on understanding beliefs, values, and strategy in a world of conflict, competition, and cooperation. This conversation was recorded on 24th February 2025 to mark the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    29 min
  2. Customs, Compliance & Chaos: Trade in a Changing World

    FEB 12

    Customs, Compliance & Chaos: Trade in a Changing World

    In this episode of Interlinks I talk to Brian Murphy, who is the co-founder and COO of @Customs Windows a provider of Customs declaration & compliance software that automates & simplifies customs datasets for cross border trade. Brian is also the Managing Director of Global Trade Limited, an advisory firm focusing on customs and international trade facilitation. Brian has over 15 years global experience working in supply chains in over 100 countries, and extensive knowledge of both inbound and outbound supply chains and international customs formalities. The Goldilocks period of globalization and free trade that we had all become accustomed for the ten to fifteen years either side of turn of the century has taken a definite turn in another direction over the last decade or so. With Brexit, the Trump presidencies, trade wars, the COVID pandemic, shooting wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and growing economic nationalism around the world, the challenges for all businesses of formulating, implementing ,and managing strategic Customs plans to ensure effective, efficient, and compliant international supply chains are growing all the time. In this conversation Brian and I will be exploring what companies should be doing to guarantee ongoing trade compliance in their international operations and commercial activities. Along the way we will also hear about Brian's career and how he has built his technical expertise an business acumen over time.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    29 min
  3. Supply Chain 2025: Tariffs, Stockpiling, and Diversification

    JAN 22

    Supply Chain 2025: Tariffs, Stockpiling, and Diversification

    In this episode of Interlinks, Lisa Anderson, President of LMA Consulting in Los Angeles and I, discuss some of the supply chain effects of the geopolitical and international trade tensions that have been ongoing for some time now and that are expected to continue as the new US administration under President Donald Trump takes up the reins of power in Washington DC. Tariffs, inventory stockpiling, and supply chain diversification are some of the effects that we are seeing flowing from these tensions and while many of the most forward-looking companies with extensive international interests are ahead of the trend on this front, many others are not. We are already seeing some non-American multinationals setting up operations on US soil to get on the right side of any future tariff barriers and some American companies bringing operations home, closer to home or to more geopolitically safe and sustainable locations in Europe and Asia. Keeping up with all the multidimensional challenges to supply chains across several interconnected domains such as geopolitics, compliance, cyber and security is a competency and skill set ever more in demand from companies large and small across all sectors of the economy. Lisa and I touch on all of these topics in a wide-ranging conversation that I hope you enjoy as much as we did. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    28 min
  4. Use Cases and Developments in the World of AI

    JAN 7

    Use Cases and Developments in the World of AI

    In this episode of Interlinks, I talk to Pratik Baral who is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in the Los Angeles metro area in California and has become somewhat of a regular guest on the Interlinks podcast due to his ongoing work at the cutting edge of AI applications in business. Pratik has accumulated a lot of knowledge and insight into the use cases for Generative AI technologies in real world applications and shares these with me in a wide ranging conversation. Pratik had just returned to the US from an eight-week sojourn in his home country, Nepal, when we had this conversation and so we spent a couple of minutes at the start chatting about the social and economic environment in that country and it looks to hold its own in a region dominated by the two geopolitical giants of India and China. We then went on to talk about some AI applications in diagnostics, the concept of making content "Chat-able", search agent displacement and the multi-modal input/output capabilities of the latest iterations of some of the GPT models, the pros and cons of LLM's inherent feature of hallucination, the current relative plateauing of LLM capabilities and the emergence of other AI architectures in the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    29 min
  5. Using AI to Enhance Supply Chain Performance - Part 2

    12/18/2024

    Using AI to Enhance Supply Chain Performance - Part 2

    This is part two of a two part conversation with my colleagues from the Global Supply Chain Think Tank (GSCTT) where we discuss some of the ways in which the application of AI technologies can and will enhance supply chain performance for manufacturers, distributors and logistics services companies across multiple domains, including: Demand Forecasting and PlanningInventory OptimizationLogistics and Route PlanningSupplier Relationship ManagementRisk Management and ResiliencePredictive and Prescriptive AnalysisAI-Driven Automation and Autonomous SystemsEthics, Privacy and Compliance My guests for this discussion are: Antonio Zrilic from from Logiko Consultants in Zagreb, CroatiaLisa Anderson from LMA Consultants in the Los Angeles metro area in the USElizabeth Warren from San Pedro in California, also in the US Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    29 min
  6. Using AI to Enhance Supply Chain Performance - Part 1

    12/11/2024

    Using AI to Enhance Supply Chain Performance - Part 1

    This is part one of a two part conversation with my colleagues from the Global Supply Chain Think Tank (GSCTT) where we discuss some of the ways in which the application of AI technologies can and will enhance supply chain performance for manufacturers, distributors and logistics services companies across multiple domains, including: Demand Forecasting and PlanningInventory OptimizationLogistics and Route PlanningSupplier Relationship ManagementRisk Management and ResiliencePredictive and Prescriptive AnalysisAI-Driven Automation and Autonomous SystemsEthics, Privacy and Compliance My guests for this discussion are: Antonio Zrilic from from Logiko Consultants in Zagreb, CroatiaLisa Anderson from LMA Consultants in the Los Angeles metro area in the USElizabeth Warren from San Pedro in California, also in the US Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    28 min
  7. Making Big Savings on International Freight Procurement

    12/04/2024

    Making Big Savings on International Freight Procurement

    In this episode of the Interlinks show we will be talking to Frankie Bates, CEO and co-fonder of Prodensus, a Dublin-based start-up software company that helps customer navigate the complex world of international freight procurement. Among other things, Prodensus' software tools enable clients facing challenges in their logistics procurement to: clean and analyse data very rapidly that they can then trust understand their own current baseline run complex procurement processes and RFQs save significant sums of money on multimillion dollar international freight procurement Frankie, by his own admission, loves logistics and supply chain data, as well as computers and negotiation, and this is what originally fueled his desire while at a global company to work in sourcing and build procurement software. Now he is doing it in his own startup, where agility and creativity are paramount to keep abreast of the needs of clients and their multi-million dollar international, multi-modal, freight procurement challenges. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    28 min
  8. The Saboteur at Work

    11/14/2024

    The Saboteur at Work

    In this episode of Interlinks I talk to Doctor Michael Drayton, executive coach, organisational consultant and clinical psychologist. Mike is an expert in leadership, resilience and mental health at work. He is an Executive Coach on the Executive MBA programme at the Saïd Business School (University of Oxford) and a Fellow of the Cabinet Office Emergency Planning College. This is the second time, that Mike joins us on Interlinks when we discussed in some detail on his new book Leading Hybrid Organisations. I have asked Mike back to delve deeper into the topic of his previous book which has no less a fascinating theme – the unconscious. This book is titled: The Saboteur at Work: How the Unconscious Mind Can Sabotage Ourselves, Our Organisation, and Society – and deals with topics such as Repression, Impostor Syndrome, and Defence Mechanisms. This is a fascinating topic and one that is very relevant today at a time when families, companies, and societies need to maximize the potential of people while maintaining equilibrium and equanimity through the cut and thrust of everyday life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    29 min
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Interlinks is a program about business. technology and globalization. In each episode, I have a sit-down conversation with a person from the world of business, politics, or academia to understand from their perspective how the great trends of our time, namely - geopolitical fragmentation, demographic change, digital transformation, and climate change - are affecting their life, work, and view of the world. The conversations with my invitees from all over the world are wide ranging touching on both the professional and the personal aspects of their experience. International Business, Supply Chain, Globalized Economy, Geopolitical Fragmentation, Climate Change, Digital Transformation, Demographic Stagnation. Patrick Daly http://www.albalogistics.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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