Innovation Nation: Recent Episodes
Lee Odess
Innovation Nation features discussions on our industry's latest technology, conversations with security thought leaders, and major topics in frictionless environments.
In this episode of Innovation Nation, Jon Harris and Tim Wenzel are back for the Would You Buy Series! The Would You Buy Series will take you through a few different emerging and disruptive technology concepts that are coming out in light of COVID-19, as well as part of the Technology we are experiencing today.
In this Episode, Jon joins Sarah as a Co-Host and Tim is their “customer.” They discuss relevant topics as it relates to all the new regulations and privacy laws as we transition into a new age of tech, Identity Management, Access Control, and Biometrics. They also cover the use cases behind why we would use biometrics in our spaces, and how we can use them while still respecting our users and the people we want to protect within the spaces.
Is convenience enough? With all the new compliance we are facing, there are more layers of approval we have to confront especially with the Risks COVID-19 has presented us.
How do we make shifts in a mindful way and what considerations do we have to recognize as we try to get back to work?
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Innovation Nation EP 24: Brainbox AI- Worlds most advanced technology for Commercial HVAC
In this episode of Innovation Nation, host Sarah Lawler-Muzquiz sits down with Jean-Simon Venne, CTO and Co-Founder of BrainBox AI to discuss technology in and the building and HVAC spaces.
During their conversation Sarah and Jean-Simon cover:
• How Artificial intelligence is being applied to fill gaps where humans cannot
• The big gap in expertise between the amount of technicians in this world and how many buildings are being built over the last 20 years
• How the technology can bolt onto any environment and adapt and predict per the environment itself
• The future of brainbox ai and predictive analytics
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In recognition of some of the security industry and building technology industry's female leaders and movers and shakers.
This short episode this week is to those ladies, mentioned and allow the rest of the followers to acknowledge and connect with them!
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Innovation Nation EP 22: A ‘Thank You’ to the Original Founders of the Electronic Security Industry
In this episode of Innovation Nation, host Sarah Lawler-Muzquiz is joined by Eric Brinks, OpenPath Enterprise Account Executive to take a look at the huge shift the access control industry is experiencing and what it means to commercial enterprises, small businesses, and more.
During their conversation, Sarah and Eric discuss:
• The huge increase in new tech
• How we are keeping up with it
• New talent, not just young, but different in general
• What it has been like since the beginning for Eric joining in the industry to now
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Original kindness games crew. Talk about why and how the kindness games started. Innovation around kindness and why it’s important we show up our best selves in an age like today.
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Tim: https://www.linkedin.com/in/relevant-perception/
Kehkashan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kdadwani/
Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-oughton-csmp%C2%AE-92b716b8/
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The 20th episode of Innovation Nation, is a special one. To celebrate how far the show has come since its beginning, host Sarah Lawler-Muzquiz is discussing something special to her, Alcatraz AI.
During this episode Sarah highlights:
• What Autonomous Access Control is
• How we can remove inconvenient layers and barriers to make the user experience the best it could be
• Facial Authentication, AI, Edge Technology, smart devices, and virtual security
• Tailgating Detection without creating a fort knox
• No need for integration and agnostic to all systems
• Actionable Data in Real Time
• False alarm elimination
• Gaps in the Access Control Industry
• How Alcatraz is changing the User Experience for physical security
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In this episode of Innovation Nation, host Sarah Muzquiz sits down with Chief Operating Office of Sage Integration, John Nemerofsky.
During their conversation, Sarah and John discuss:
- How Sage Started
- What makes them so different from the traditional integrator- building long term relationships and continuing a partnership with the end user
- Recurring revenue and a managed services model
- Embedded within the end user
- How we provide true value and evolve with the customer through a long term partnership
- Technology usage internally to be more efficient as a business and externally with customers
- How they decide which products they will use and place in front of their customers
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In this episode of Innovation Nation, host Sarah Muzquiz goes deeper in the conversation of AI and Access Control.
In this episode Sarah discusses:
• What is Artificial Intelligence?
• How can we use AI to eliminate monotonous and repetitive tasks?
• How can we leverage AI to think less and do more with our access control systems?
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In this episode, host Sarah Lawler-Muzquiz sits down with Steve Jacobs of Velocity Data Centers.
During their conversation Sarah and Steve talk discuss:
- What an edge data center is
- How we bring the smarts to the edge
- The future of the data center industry
- All the smarts and contents that are built into the container itself
- How our data centers can evolve and scale with our organizations
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In the final episode of Innovation Nation’s “Artificial Possibility” series, Sarah and Jon have a special guest join them- someone who you might recognize! wink
Joining Sarah and Jon is Inside Access Control’s host Rob Lydic, who has come into the conversation to dig deeper into the “why” of artificial intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning and more importantly, why AI in access control.
During their conversation, Sarah, Jon, and Rob discuss:
• The current state of AI in the access control industry
• The opportunity the access control industry has in implementing AI technology
• The potential of unlocking our technology’s data
• AI use cases in other relevant industries
• Building behavioral profiles based on data and proactive access control technology
• How AI and data have created successful paths for other companies and industries
• What we could be doing with AI
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In the last two episodes of Innovation Nation’s mini-series “Artificial Possibility,” Sarah and Jon talked about the “how” and the “what” of AI, today they’re digging into the most important part of their session: the “why” of AI.
During their conversation Sarah and Jon discuss:
• Why security companies may want to use AI
• The value AI can bring to end-users
• Where, in security, is AI the most mature?
• The ways in which AI enhances security technology
• Use cases for AI in the access control industry
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In the first part of Innovation Nation’s “Artificial Possibility” series Sarah and John discussed the “what” of AI- what it is, and what it takes to power it.
In the follow up to this conversation, the two are now digging into the “how” of AI- how we can use AI, and how we can leverage the technology to create exceptional solutions, products, and intelligent assistants that can make our lives easier at work and at home.
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In this episode of Innovation Nation, we have the first of the show’s new mini series featuring Jon Harris, “The Artificial Possibility”.
During the conversation Sarah and Jon discuss:
• Artificial intelligence
• What artificial intelligence is-breaking it down
• How AI can be applied to the security industry as a whole
• The human factor behind AI
• The building blocks of AI
• What the security industry can learn from artificial intelligence
• Human fears of AI
• The value behind AI
• What to consider before implementing AI
• Where you can learn more about AI
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In this episode of Innovation Nation, our host, Sarah Lawler-Muzquiz is joined by the ABB Group’s Global Head of Technology, Data Center Solutions, Dave Sterlace.
During the conversation Sarah and Dave discuss:
• The ABB Group and what they do
• How Dave came to his role at the ABB Group
• How much of our daily lives is powered by data centers
• How the data industry has matured
• The changes in industry technology, since their beginning
• How the ABB Group is keeping up with and taking advantage of all the latest technology
• Artificial Intelligence and machine learning applications
• How far AI technology has come
• How communication between pieces of technology is changing
• Scaling with new technology
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In this episode of Innovation Nation, our host, Sarah Lawler-Muzquiz sits down again with Jon Harris, Director of Enterprise Solutions, at Guidepost Solutions, for another great conversation.
During their discussion Sarah and Jon talk about:
• Artificial Intelligence in the security industry
• How Guidepost utilizes artificial intelligence to create more intuitive solutions
• How we can bring more value to customers with AI solutions
• What processes AI can automate and simplify for us
• Where AI can save us time, money, and eliminate human error
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In this episode of Innovation Nation, our host, Sarah Lawler-Muzquiz sits down with Jon Harris, Director of Enterprise Solutions, at Guidepost Solutions.
During the conversation Sarah and Jon talk about:
• How technology is changing the way we service our customers
• Customer Service in 2020
• How customer expectations are changing
• How to deliver value to customers
• Establishing expectations with customers
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In this episode of Innovation Nation, our host, Sarah Lawler-Muzquiz sits down with Debora Finkler, Change Manager Lead & National Communications Manager of Blackstone Consulting, Inc.
During the conversation Debora gives us a look at her role as a change manager as well as her role as managing the communication of such major technology changes across organizations and generations. Debora also offers us some tips on how to be more effective communicators, even during a time where we’re all communicating digitally 90% of the time.
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In this episode of Innovation Nation, our host, Sarah Lawler-Muzquiz sits down with recent winner of Analytics Insight's Ten Most Influential Women of Technology and Principal/CTO of StrategITcom, Carrie Goetz.
During the conversation Carrie and Sarah talk about how we can all stay up to date on new technology, such as analytics and AI. They also discuss what the future of this technology and its applications may look like in terms of security.
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In this episode of Innovation Nation, our host, Sarah Lawler-Muzquiz sits down with Global Head of Security & Privacy Protection at Facebook and GSD Host, Tim Wenzel for a second part on our “new normal” work lives.
Where the previous conversation discussed how our workplace assumptions have changed, this episode dives into team autonomy and how to make an autonomous team.
In 2020, our workplace assumptions are no longer valid.
In this episode of Innovation Nation, our host, Sarah Lawler-Muzquiz sits down with Tim Wenzel of Facebook and GSD Talks, to discuss the ways in which the coronavirus has caused major shifts in the way we work and think about work.
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In this episode of Innovation Nation, our host Sarah Lawler-Muzquiz, sits down with Tim Flood of Johnson Controls.
During their conversation, Tim offers a look at the “new normal” office space post COVID-19, and the kind of technology that will help us all get back to work. Tim also offers a look at some of the wholistic approaches companies may make to help employees manage the new work-life balance.
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In a time in the security industry, where we’re all beginning to collaborate with one another, the word “SAAS” can be seen everywhere. In this episode of Innovation Nation, host Sarah Lawler-Muzquiz sits down with Danny Shulman of Verkada to talk SAAS.
During the conversation, Danny breaks down what exactly “SAAS” is, and how it’s making an impact throughout every company in the security industry.
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In the third episode of Innovation Nation, we sit down with Jon Polly of ProTecht to discuss the edge of smart cities, what it is, and what it looks like.
Link to referenced Security Business Magazine Article: https://www.securityinfowatch.com/integrators/article/21142382/emerging-market-smart-cities
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Innovation Nation EP 2: A Conversation with Mark Reed of MLK JR Hospital
In this episode of Innovation Nation, we sit down with Mark Reed of MLK JR Hospital in LA to discuss the way he and his staff have been proactively innovating, as well as seeking new technology that will solve some of the most troubling of issues hospitals have had to endure during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In the very first episode of Innovation Nation, we sit down with Rick James of Blue Violet Network to discuss the true difference between Facial Recognition and Facial Authentication and much more.
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