Enterprise Influencers: Perspectives From Technology Leaders: Recent Episodes
Giles Hamson & Patrick Falgoust
Welcome to the Enterprise Influencers Podcast where we explore the inner workings of large organizations and the people and technologies that help them get things done.
We’re your hosts Patrick Falgoust and Giles Hamson. We’ve both worked as consultants and within the IT departments for some of the world’s largest organizations.
We’ll be bringing you candid discussions with industry leaders that are helping to shape the future of enterprise technology and exploring what influences the decision makers at large organizations.
Let’s get started.
What do people say about you when you are not in the room?
In this episode we are joined by Lee Reed, Global Product Manager and Technology Evangelist. Lee shares his thoughts on the importance of building a "personal brand" inside your organization with the aim of realizing your goals.
Lee has a passion for communicating about technology and sharing video content to demonstrate his unique and practical approaches to using technology.
Follow Lee on his YouTube channel where he shares tips on how to leverage AI to build your personal brand and other practical uses.
Welcome listeners to Season 2 of the Enterprise Influencers Podcast. The long awaited and completely unannounced new season.
In this episode Patrick and Giles catch up after a long and somewhat unexpected hiatus. What can we say, life got in the way, between intra-state moves and graduating seniors, we got busy.
We're back and ready to tackle all of the topics of the day impacting enterprise technology on a semi-regular cadence. Welcome to Season 2!
In recent weeks Microsoft have made a multitude of announcements related to their upcoming AI offerings collectively known as Microsoft Copilot, a suite of tools that will impact almost every area of Microsoft's Enterprise technology offerings.
We catch up with Microsoft MVP, John Moore to discuss the rapidly evolving landscape of Enterprise Assistive AI and get an overview of some of the more impactful announcements from the recent Microsoft Build conference.
John Moore's links:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-moore4/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM-toiSESCQwFqIJug0b3gA
- MVP Profile: https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5003745
Will AI forever change the landscape of Enterprise collaboration and automation? Do the promises of productivity gains and process automation outweigh the risks to data privacy and reputation? Will AI ultimately replace knowledge workers or allow us to reach a higher plane, more focused on the things we're good at? Alex Babin, co-founder and CEO of ZERO Systems joins us to discuss the rapidly evolving world of AI, ChatGPT, and LLM's in the enterprise, where there are more questions than answers.
About the company (https://zerosystems.com)
ZERO Systems uses AI technologies to augment and automate high-value processes for enterprises. In 2022, the company was recognized as a “Gartner Cool Vendor” in Data-Centric AI as it revolutionizes the legal, financial, insurance and consulting industries by integrating generative AI and LLMs solutions into their processes. Zero works with Fortune 500 companies, to help them automate their business processes.
About the guest:
Alex Babin is the co-founder and CEO of ZERO Systems. He is a serial founder and seasoned CEO with over 20 years of experience in Automotive, SaaS and AI. He started his first company at 24, a hybrid vehicle company funded by DFJ. Alex founded ZERO to deliver effective productivity solutions to knowledge workers leveraging AI.
Work and life have gotten pretty busy for these Enterprise Influencers. Between intense projects, expanding business, and the joys of family life, the struggle is real! In this episode Giles and I take a break from our normal format and talk about strategies we use to maintain some semblance of Work-Life Balance. Turns out we have very different approaches, but we both have strategies that works for us... maybe they'll work for you too.
Are you building the right features into your product? Are your priorities aligned with your customer's needs? These are the types of questions that User Research can help you answer. In this episode we're joined by Toni Saylor, Senior User Researcher with Microsoft's SharePoint and OneDrive team. We discuss the importance of leveraging User Research to drive product strategy and working at enterprise scale.
About Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 is a product family of productivity software, collaboration and cloud-based services owned by Microsoft. It encompasses online services such as Exchange, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, and Office programs. With over 50 million subscribers and 250M users, Microsoft 365 is one of the largest enterprise SaaS offerings in the world.
What's that on the screen? It's a wireframe. It's a comp. No! It's a fully integrated design system making it easier for developers, creatives, and UX practitioners to work together! In this episode we are joined by Tor Gundersen, Strategic Development Manager with Adobe. An avid comic book collector and talented artist, UX is Tor's Super Power! Tor works with enterprise accounts enabling design and development teams to work more seamlessly together on the Adobe XD platform.Adobe XDWhat is Adobe XD? Built from the ground up with performance top of mind, Adobe XD helps you craft prototypes that look and feel like the real thing, so you can communicate your design vision and maintain alignment across your team efficiently. Adobe XD is a powerful and easy-to-use vector-based experience design platform that gives teams the tools they need to craft the world’s best experiences collaboratively. Available on Mac and Windows systems, XD meets teams where they’re working with cross-platform compatibility.
How do you get lawyers in the Cloud? Join us and our guest, Chris Hines, Managing Director at Helient Systems to find out. We'll be discussing technology trends for legal and why the Microsoft Cloud is the best solution for many of the top firms. Microsoft 365 and Azure can be a game changer for the modern legal firm. From everyday collaboration to massively scalable Document Management infrastructure, Chris and Helient Systems are focused on delivering the value of the Microsoft Cloud to their customers. Helient Systems (https://www.helient.com/) An IT services company providing innovative and future-focused technology solutions designed to allow our customers to maximize productivity, improve client responsiveness, and shift the focus of their IT staff from troubleshooting and maintenance to strategic initiatives and high value activities that enhance business performance and hone their competitive advantage.
The current job market has created a "war for talent", is your company doing everything it can to attract, engage, and retain employees? We'll discuss some strategies and technology enablers to help you in your journey with Rich Wood, Vice President Microsoft Partnerships at Rightpoint, 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year for Employee Experience.
About Rightpoint (www.rightpoint.com)
Rightpoint, a Genpact company (NYSE: G) is a global experience leader. Over 700 employees across 12 offices work with clients end-to-end, from defining and enabling vision, to ensuring ongoing market relevance. Our diverse teams lead with empathy, data and creativity—always in service of the experience. From whiteboard to roll-out, we help our clients embed experience across their operations from front to back office to accelerate digital transformation through a human-centric lens. Rightpoint has been recognized among the top customer experience consultancies in The Forrester Wave™: Customer Experience Strategy Consulting Practices, Q4 2020. Rightpoint was name 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year for Employee Experience.
Join us and special guest, Storm Anderson, as we discuss how the availability of No Code / Low Code platforms is enabling everyday users to build enterprise ready applications.
Instead of calling your IT department, you may be calling Bob in Accounting to support your newest application. No Code / Low Code platforms are democratizing the ability to create solutions from simple forms, workflows, to full blown mobile applications. What could possibly go wrong?
Kumo Partners (https://kumopartners.com)
Founded in Chicago by three long-time Microsoft consultants, Kumo Partners is based on the idea of building innovative solutions on the Power Platform. We believe that an agile IT team, working quickly to develop process-based solutions with O365 and the Power Platform, will respond more effectively to the IT needs of an organization as opposed to traditional development. We all have proven expertise delivering custom solutions, and bring a unique perspective on how to provide the most value to our clients, every single time.
Join us as we discuss Partnerships & Alliances with Matt McGillen of oak9. We discuss approaches to developing fruitful partnerships, measuring success, and even what to do when it's just not working out.
https://www.oak9.io/
About oak9
oak9 secures cloud native infrastructure for developers. oak9 Security as Code continuously finds, analyzes, and remediates security and compliance design gaps dynamically, as changes occur in infrastructure as code (IaC) and deployed cloud native workloads. oak9 is the only software solution automating cloud native security across the entire software development lifecycle.
oak9’s proprietary Security as Code (SaC) blueprints natively secure cloud applications by supporting 20-plus compliance standards out-of-the-box including HIPAA, HITRUST, FCA, PCI, SOC2 and ISO27001. oak9’s open-sourced Security as Code also enables security engineers to extend oak9 security blueprints for additional guardrails.
Learn more about Patrick and Giles as they discuss their careers, how their roles have intertwined and where they are today.