Modern ways of working require significant engagement from everyone involved to ensure the right things are getting done and the right time and the levels of creativity are sustained for innovation.  How do we get the balance right?Dave, Sjoukje & Rob are joined by Duena Blomstrom, CEO of PeopleNotTech, author and influencer to discuss what drives a teams performance is it process, technology, method, or does it come down to things that are actually far more human?  The team discuss why Psychological Safety remains a critical element in driving outcomes from modern teams and get an insight into Duenas thinking on "Human Debt". Finally, the team discuss the other elements that make up modern high performing teams.TLDR:00:38 Intros00:52 Cloud conversation with Duena Blomstrom27:00 What makes up High Performing Teams31:30 I just want to sleep 'till 05:30!Further Reading:Google Paper: https://rework.withgoogle.com/print/guides/5721312655835136/Book: People Before Tech  https://amzn.eu/d/aE2t0DXDuenas new book is out later this year

Cloud is maturing in its ability to deal with complex, highly secure & regulated environments, and there are very few more complex environments than the Defence sector.Dave & Sjoukje are joined by Gareth Hetheridge, CIO from Leonardo to talk about the challenges of unlocking the value of cloud in Defence, whilst maintaining a very high standard of security.  They go on to discuss the components of Leonardos exciting and fast moving digital transformation programme.  Finally, the team talk about how economic conditions are beginning to impact the tech industry.This conversation was recored in November 2022 (with a heavy cold!)TLDR:01:07 Intros01:27 Cloud conversation with Gareth Hetheridge26:03 Tech feels economic headwinds28:41  The weekend with the boys!

The value of Data & AI is perhaps self evident, but it was often a high cost tech solution looking for a problem to solve.  Now though, with sustainability concerns, increasingly difficult economic times, post-pandemic global change and easily accessible tools, D&AI suddenly has a mission critical role to play.Dave, Sjoukje & Rob are joined by Robin Sutara, Field CTO at Databricks to discuss the reality of data usage today.  They talk about he characteristics of organisations that have successfully created a data transformation to rethink how business gets done, supply chains in a de-globalising world, the importance of clarity of outcome and data delivery team diversity.The team also talk about the incredible launch, potential and concerns around ChatGPT.TLDR:01:00 Intros01:37 Cloud conversation with Robin Sutara27:26 The incredible rise of ChatGPT35:35 Being back on the same timezone as my calls!

Cloud transformation can take many forms, in this two part episode we hear first hand experiences of driving cloud transformation from a software development and application centric perspective, the challenges to overcome and value that can be delivered.In this second part, Dave, Sjoukje & Rob continue their talk with David Anderson, Mark McCann & Micheal O'Reilly authors of 'The Value Flywheel Effect: Power the Future and Accelerate your Organisation to the Modern Cloud', and hear about how the book came to fruition and the Cloud transformation model that they developed from their time at Liberty Mutual and you anyone can leverage it to drive value, starting today!In Tech Trends we talk about the increasing pace of organisations moving to the cloud, find out where analysts think we will be in 3 years time and why that might be true.TLDR:00:48 Intro01:10 Cloud conversation with David Anderson, Mark McCann & Micheal O'Reilly25:46 Increasing pace of tech infrastructure migration to cloud32:11 Reactions to the book!Further reading:Book: https://amzn.eu/d/7vkr59mhttps://itrevolution.com/author/David-Anderson/https://theserverlessedge.podbean.com/

Cloud transformation can take many forms, in this two part episode we hear first hand experiences of driving cloud transformation from a software development and application centric perspective, the challenges to overcome and value that can be delivered.In this first part, Dave, Sjoukje & Rob meet David Anderson, Mark McCann & Micheal O'Reilly authors of 'The Value Flywheel Effect: Power the Future and Accelerate your Organisation to the Modern Cloud', and hear about their time at Liberty Mutual where, hungry for pioneering techniques, they drove a serverless centric cloud transformation and started to talk to Simon Wardly about value streams.In Tech Trends this week we talk about something on everyones mind, the cost of Cloud as we run into 2023 and discuss best practice ways to manage it.TLDR:01:35 Intros02:30 Cloud conversation with David Anderson, Mark McCann & Micheal O'Reilly36:58 Managing Cloud cost46:00 The second time around!Further reading:Book: https://amzn.eu/d/7vkr59mhttps://itrevolution.com/author/David-Anderson/https://theserverlessedge.podbean.com/

For some special Christmas food for thought, we focus on the far reaches of our “Realities”.  Here on the show we believe that interventional, courageous leadership combined with cloud can change the future reality of a business or human.  But, what is real? What is not? And does it matter?!We look at the thinking currently happening in the space of the Simulation Hypothesis, which suggests that we likely live in a computer simulation, and ask how it can be applied to solve “better problems” and improve our innovation ambition.Dave and Sjoukje are reunited with re:Invent Roving Reporter Rob Kernahan, who’s finally back from Vegas, and they talk to Anders Indset, Philosopher, Author and renowned speaker to get his insights following some recent research he has been participating in, in this field, as well as his thinking on The Quantum Economy (links below).Finally, in tech trends we talk about the EUs recent use of the Metaverse to engage Gen Z in the work they do.  It was ill attended sadly, so the team speculate on what might have happened.TLDR:01:36 Intros02:14 Cloud conversation with Anders IndsetEU in the MetaverseChristmas with family and a Quantum Economy trilogy!Further Reading:Do we live in a [quantum] simulation? Constraints, observations, and experiments on the simulation hypothesisAnders Inset, Florian Neukart, Markus Pflitsch and Michael Perelshteinhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04921The Quantum Economy: Saving the Mensch with Humanistic CapitalismAnders Indsethttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Quantum-Economy-Saving-Humanistic-Capitalism-ebook/dp/B08MKLJJBN/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3FWPRKK4C9030&keywords=the+quantum+economy&qid=1671651039&sprefix=the+quantum+economy%2Caps%2C60&sr=8-1Additional reading referenced in the show:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/confirmed-we-live-in-a-simulation/ https://futurism.com/sorry-elon-physicists-say-we-definitely-arent-living-in-a-computer-simulation https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/physicists-confirm-that-were-not-living-in-a-computer-simulation/ https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/simulation-theory-elon-musk-pong-matrix-b1967844.html https://bigthink.com/thinking/why-the-simulation-hypothesis-is-pseudoscience/ 

The healthcare care industry has been disrupted, with new entrants to the industry and tech, such as wearables, providing consumers with far more information and options, huge change is occurring.  How are healthcare providers responding to their customers’ expectations and health needs?Dave and Sjoukje talk to Chief Digital & Information Officer of Baptist Health, Tony Ambrozie to hear about how they are using cloud to respond and transform their organisation, and how a step wise approach to cloud now sees them 70% migrated and well on the way to using tech to proactively improve patient health. Finally, in tech trends, they talk about how UK Government is using an innovative AI incentive scheme to help tackle decarbonisation.TLDR:01:06  Intros01:48  Cloud conversation with Tony Ambrozie20:54  AI for Decarbonisation23:25  Improving patient health!

The marketing industry has been at the spear head of digitalisation, both in how its customers are changing their expectations and in how marketing professionals work on a day to day basis, increasing both scale of reach and the ability to create meaningful experiences.   Dave and Sjoukje talk to the Founder of Rooster Punk, James Trezona, to hear his perspective on how his profession has been transformed, but also how critical it is to focus on human and customer experience.  Finally, they reflect on the implications of Elon Musks recent take-over of Twitter. TLDR:01:09 Intros02:50 Cloud conversation with James Trezona27:13 Elon musk buys Twitter31:05 The next book! Further Reading:Humanising B2B, Paul Cash & James Trezona (https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=humanising+b2b&crid=2VH7EAZFPZRWL&sprefix=humanising+%2Caps%2C68&ref=nb_sb_ss_pltr-ranker-opsacceptance_3_11)

The team are at AWS re:Invent 2022 for our first live shows!Hemant Sharma, Partner Solutions, AWS joins us to look back over the show, recap the big trends and look at their real world application.

The team are at AWS re:Invent 2022 for our first live shows!Tom Metzeler, Partner Solutions, AWS rejoins us to talk about how the cloud can help organisations reduce their impact on the environment.  And with all the talk this week of processor heavy work loads, like ML, or supermassive architectures, how can these be implemented safely?Roving Reporter Rob reports on Day 3 and the final trends emerging.