The Silicon Valley Insider Show with Keith Koo

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo speaks with Thomas Nimmo, CEO of Cybefense, a company transforming how technology risk assessments are done and how they are paid for. As regular listeners know, Keith Koo is an expert on Technology Risk and speaks frequently on the need for companies to completely and accurately risk assess their vendors, partners and other third parties. Cyber risk assessments can easily start at $10,000 USD for a customer to evaluate whether a third-party (or vendor) meets minimum risk standards. For many small and medium businesses the cost of risk assessments are cost prohibitive and they simply forgo doing them even when mandated through laws and regulations (banking, financial services, healthcare, automotive, insurance, etc...) These small businesses take a gamble that they won't have a devastating attack on their critical infrastructure and vendors. However, as we often hear in the news data breaches and cyber-attacks are indiscriminate and can affect organizations large and small. Small and medium businesses who lack the resources and investment in systems can be taken down quite easily without the proper controls. Cyberfense's approach is to make the cost of risk assessments free to the end customer by providing incentives for the third-party (or vendor). This approach empowers small and medium businesses (such as insurance brokers) to get the information they need to protect themselves. Listen to the show to hear all the details on how you can get 1) free risk assessments and 2) get your third-party (or vendor) to respond to the risk assessments. "Silicon Valley Insider with Keith Koo" First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: www.svin.biz https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh Arifitical Intelligence, AI, Blockchain, Big Data, Data Analytics, Cyberrisk, Information security, VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Technology for Good, UN SDGs, Emerging Technology

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, we celebrate the Thanksgiving Holiday in the United States with a look back on 5 different organizations are making a difference by giving back in their own way. 1) Beena Ammanath, Global Vice President, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise for Innovation (Aritificial Intelligence, Data, IoT, Blockchain) and Founder and CEO of the non-profit: Humans for AI discusses why she started this organization to help women and minorities stay ahead of any potential career disruptions due to advances in AI (potentially taking away jobs). You can find out more about Beena and Humans for AI from a previous show": "Humans for AI with Beena Ammanath, Global VP - HPE Innovation | AI |Data Analytics | IoT | Blockchain" Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-10-12-18-podcast 2) Jonathan Nelson, Founder and Managing Partner of the Hack Fund. Jonathan discusses why he started The Hack Fund which is to provide "Silicon Valley" capital to the unreached in developing nations. John's desire is to "get shoes to all the children in Latin America". Hear how his fund does not care about education, color or gender when considering who to invest in. You can find out more about Jonathan Nelson and The Hack Fund from a previous show: "Disrupting the V.C. Model with Keith Koo and special guest Jonathan Nelson, Founder and CEO of the Hack Fund" Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-6-29-18-podcast 3) Hugh Molotsi, CEO of Ujama and former VP and Head of Innovation at Intuit, co-author of the "Intrapreneur's Journey". Hugh discusses how companies that give "unstructured time" benefits the employer (by retaining talent) and employee (they don't need to quit their job to work on their innovative idea). More information on Hugh and the "Intrapreneur's Journey" can be found in previous show: "Hugh Molotsi - Author of The Intrapreneur's Journey | CEO of Ujama | Former VP of Innovation - Intuit" Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/hugh-molotsi-author-of-the-intrapreneurs-journey-f 4) Jerry Cuomo, VP and Distinguished Fellow, IBM Co-Founder and CTO of Hyperledger and former co-Founder and CTO of IBM Websphere. Jerry discusses "Blockchain for Good" and how innovations in public and private/permissioned blockchains have the potential to transform how we share our data with the concept of "Self-Sovereign Identity". More about Jerry and how blockchain technology can transform lives and industries can be found in a previous show: "Blockchain for Good: Jerry Cuomo, IBM Fellow, VP Blockchain Technologies" Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-9-14-18-podcast 5) Jenny Dearborn, EVP of Human Resources, Talent, Leadership and Learning, SAP and author of "The Data Driven Leader: A Powerful Approach to Delivering Measurable Business Impact Through People Analytics" - Jenny discusses how "there's never been a better time to enter the tech job market" and how companies like SAP are advocating for alternative hiring programs (such as apprenticeships) to fill the tech worker shortage. For more information on Jenny, apprenticeship programs, or her latest book, you can find more information on a previous show: "Jenny Dearborn EVP HR & Talent, SAP on the "Tech Worker Shortage" - www.svin.biz" Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-11-2-18-podcast "Silicon Valley Insider with Keith Koo" First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: www.svin.biz https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh Arifitical Intelligence, AI, Blockchain, Big Data, Data Analytics, Cyberrisk, Information security, VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Technology for Good, UN SDGs, Emerging Technology

This clip is a 30 second promo for the 11/23 Silicon Valley Insider show. On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, we celebrate the Thanksgiving Holiday in the United States with a look back on 5 different organizations are making a difference by giving back in their own way. 1) Beena Ammanath, Global Vice President, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise for Innovation (Aritificial Intelligence, Data, IoT, Blockchain) and Founder and CEO of the non-profit: Humans for AI discusses why she started this organization to help women and minorities stay ahead of any potential career disruptions due to advances in AI (potentially taking away jobs). You can find out more about Beena and Humans for AI from a previous show": "Humans for AI with Beena Ammanath, Global VP - HPE Innovation | AI |Data Analytics | IoT | Blockchain" Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-10-12-18-podcast 2) Jonathan Nelson, Founder and Managing Partner of the Hack Fund. Jonathan discusses why he started The Hack Fund which is to provide "Silicon Valley" capital to the unreached in developing nations. John's desire is to "get shoes to all the children in Latin America". Hear how his fund does not care about education, color or gender when considering who to invest in. You can find out more about Jonathan Nelson and The Hack Fund from a previous show: "Disrupting the V.C. Model with Keith Koo and special guest Jonathan Nelson, Founder and CEO of the Hack Fund" Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-6-29-18-podcast 3) Hugh Molotsi, CEO of Ujama and former VP and Head of Innovation at Intuit, co-author of the "Intrapreneur's Journey". Hugh discusses how companies that give "unstructured time" benefits the employer (by retaining talent) and employee (they don't need to quit their job to work on their innovative idea). More information on Hugh and the "Intrapreneur's Journey" can be found in previous show: "Hugh Molotsi - Author of The Intrapreneur's Journey | CEO of Ujama | Former VP of Innovation - Intuit" Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/hugh-molotsi-author-of-the-intrapreneurs-journey-f 4) Jerry Cuomo, VP and Distinguished Fellow, IBM Co-Founder and CTO of Hyperledger and former co-Founder and CTO of IBM Websphere. Jerry discusses "Blockchain for Good" and how innovations in public and private/permissioned blockchains have the potential to transform how we share our data with the concept of "Self-Sovereign Identity". More about Jerry and how blockchain technology can transform lives and industries can be found in a previous show: "Blockchain for Good: Jerry Cuomo, IBM Fellow, VP Blockchain Technologies" Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-9-14-18-podcast 5) Jenny Dearborn, EVP of Human Resources, Talent, Leadership and Learning, SAP and author of "The Data Driven Leader: A Powerful Approach to Delivering Measurable Business Impact Through People Analytics" - Jenny discusses how "there's never been a better time to enter the tech job market" and how companies like SAP are advocating for alternative hiring programs (such as apprenticeships) to fill the tech worker shortage. For more information on Jenny, apprenticeship programs, or her latest book, you can find more information on a previous show: "Jenny Dearborn EVP HR & Talent, SAP on the "Tech Worker Shortage" - www.svin.biz" Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-11-2-18-podcast "Silicon Valley Insider with Keith Koo" First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: www.svin.biz https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh Arifitical Intelligence, AI, Blockchain, Big Data, Data Analytics, Cyberrisk, Information security, VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Technology for Good, UN SDGs, Emerging Technology

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Renee Wang, CEO and Tina Kuan, CMO of Castbox.fm and sister company Contentbox.one talk about their innovative approach to content curation and monetization. Hear how Renee got the idea to create Castbox when she was at Google as an app monetization expert. "Castbox is an easy to use podcast player for podcast lovers, offering a super clean layout and easy to navigate interface. ... Our mission at Castbox is to make information accessible to everyone, anytime, anywhere." Castbox has over 20,000,000 users on Google Play and ITunes in over 200 nations and content creators in over 130. Castbox is completely free for content creators. For listeners and podcasters, Contentbox has unique features such as full transcription of all shows that is searchable. (e.g. search on a Silicon Valley Insider for key word and timestamp such as "blockchain" 13 minutes. "ContentBox, is a blockchain-based infrastructure for the decentralized digital content industry. CastBox, an audio platform with over 50 million audio content and 15 million users, will be the first partner of ContentBox." Renee and Tina discuss how Castbox focuses on 1) The Listener experience with advanced features and 2) The Podcaster experience through attracting listeners and monetization. Contentbox is not just for podcasting but also publishers and video contenct creators. Listen Friday 11/16 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Silicon Valley | San Francisco Listen and subscribe to the "Silicon Valley Insider" Podcast ahead of time to make sure you don't miss this show. First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Castbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/The-Silicon-Valley-Insider-Show-with-Keith-Koo-id1100209?country=us iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Android, Spotify (and iTunes): https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: www.svin.biz https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh Arifitical Intelligence, AI, Blockchain, Big Data, Data Analytics, Cyberrisk, Information security, VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Technology for Good, UN SDGs, Emerging Technology, #Patreon

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Renee Wang, CEO and Tina Kuan, CMO of Castbox and sister company Contentbox talk about their innovative approach to content curation and monetization. Hear how Renee got the idea to create Castbox when she was at Google as a app monetization expert. "Castbox is an easy to use podcast player for podcast lovers, offering a super clean layout and easy to navigate interface. ... Our mission at Castbox is to make information accessible to everyone, anytime, anywhere." Castbox has over 20,000,000 users on Google Play and ITunes in over 200 nations and content creators in over 130. Renee and Tina discuss how Castbox focuses on 1) The Listener experience with advanced features and 2) The Podcaster experience through attracting listeners and monetization. Listen Friday 11/16 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Silicon Valley | San Francisco Listen and subscribe to the "Silicon Valley Insider" Podcast ahead of time to make sure you don't miss this show. First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Castbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/The-Silicon-Valley-Insider-Show-with-Keith-Koo-id1100209?country=us iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Android, Spotify (and iTunes): https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: www.svin.biz https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh Arifitical Intelligence, AI, Blockchain, Big Data, Data Analytics, Cyberrisk, Information security, VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Technology for Good, UN SDGs, Emerging Technology

The Inaugural Call For Code concludes with Global winners announced live on October 29th, 2018 8pm at the Regency Ballroom, San Francisco. Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo was onsite to meet with the founders of Call for Code and interview the winning team: Project Owl. Call For Code is the most engaging Software and Hardware developer event in history with overall 100,000 participants in 156 nations culminating in this final which includes fromer President Bill Clinton as one of the judges. On this week's show: 1) David Clark, CEO of David Clark Cause Founder of Call For Code - David is quoted as wanting to create a "Justice League for Good" of developers 2) Mayor Lily Mei of Fremont, CA with - https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-8-24-17-podcast 3) Team Lali Wildfire a Call For Code finalist from School 42 and was on a past Silicon Valley Insider - https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-8-17-18-podcast 4) Project Owl-The Winners of Call For Code 2018 5) Angel Diaz, VP of Techology, Open Source & Advocacy, IBM - IBM was on a past Silicon Valley Insider to discuss the Call For Code Initiatve: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-8-31-18-podcast 6) PD3R- Post Disaster Rapid Response Retrofit - a top three finalist First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: www.svin.biz https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh Arifitical Intelligence, AI, Blockchain, Big Data, Data Analytics, Cyberrisk, Information security, VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Technology for Good, UN SDGs, Emerging Technology

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider with Keith Koo - "Top 50 Women in Technology" - Jenny Dearborn, EVP of HR, Talent, Learning & Leadership at SAP, discusses the hiring crisis in technology and how alternatives to 4-year degrees (like apprenticeships) can help address the problem. As Jenny says, it really is the "Best time ever to get a job in technology." Jenny also discusses her most recent book: "The Data Driven Leader: A Powerful Approach to Delivering Measurable Business Impact Through People Analytics" The good news is that this is the best time ever to enter the technology industry. For the Cyber/Privacy-Tip of the week, Keith talks about the vulnerabilties are in Google Home In next week's show, Keith will report from the finals of the inaugural Call For Code event with the $200,000 grand prize winners, Project OWL. Also joining the show is: 1) David Clark, CEO of David Clark Cause Founder of Call For Code 2) Mayor Lily Mei of Fremont, CA with - https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-8-24-17-podcast 3) Team Lali Wildfire a Call For Code finalist from School 42 and was on a past Silicon Valley Insider - https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-8-17-18-podcast 4) Angel Diaz, VP of Technology and Open Source Advocacy, IBM - IBM was on a past Silicon Valley Insider to discuss the Call For Code Initiatve: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-8-31-18-podcast First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: www.svin.biz https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh Arifitical Intelligence, AI, Blockchain, Big Data, Data Analytics, Cyberrisk, Information security, VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Technology for Good, UN SDGs, Emerging Technology

On this Friday's Silicon Valley Insider with Keith Koo - "Top 50 Women in Technology" - Jenny Dearborn, EVP of HR, Talent, Learning & Leadership at SAP discusses the hiring crisis in technology and how altneratives to 4 year degrees (like apprenticeships) can help address the problem. Jenny also discusses her most recent book: "The Data Driven Leader: A Powerful Approach to Delivering Measurable Business Impact Through People Analytics" The good news is that this is the best time ever to enter the technology industry. Find out more on Friday, November 2nd 2018 On 1220AM KDOW subscribe early here: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show

On Silicon Valley Insider this month host Keith Koo has had a series of interviews on Artificial Intelligence. First was with Beena Ammanath, Global VP of Innovation (AI, Data, IoT, Blockchain) and Founder of the non-profit Humans for AI: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-10-12-18-podcast Next was Professor Gary Smith of Pomona College on his book the "The AI Delusion" which he said AI is good for some repetitive tasks but will not become cognitive to the point where they have common sense. https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-10-19-18-podcast The series continues with how AI technology can be used effectively to transform an industry and profession like accounting without losing jobs. Jotham Ty the CEO of Gappify a technology company commmitted to transformation the accounting industry automating thousands of mundane tasks through the use of Bots utlizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Hear how Jotham and team started with a successful consulting firm during the Sarbanes-Oxley (SoX) ear to determining the need to make accounting tasks and the accountants' function less boring and mundane. There are 1000s of accounting tasks that can be automated without losing jobs. Gappify is a an AI technology that the accounting world can embrace. More info on www.gappify.com For the Cyber/Privacy-Tip of the week, Keith talks about how your identity can be revealed using DNA even if you never have taken a DNA exam. In next week's show, Keith will intereview Jenny Dearborn, EVP of People for SAP. Jenny is considered one of the "Top 50" women in technology. First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: www.svin.biz https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh Arifitical Intelligence, AI, Blockchain, Big Data, Data Analytics, Cyberrisk, Information security, VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Technology for Good, UN SDGs, Emerging Technology

On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo continues his series on Ariticial Intelligence and interviews special guest Gary Smith who is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, Ca. Gary was also a professor at Yale and has written over 80 academic papers and 13 books and with his most recent being "The AI Delusion". Keith and Gary talk about why Gary wrote his book and why AI is not yet ready to take over the world. AI is good for very specific tasks but not yet ready for task that involve critical thinking or human judgment. Gary is noted for a term he uses frequently "torturing data" in reference to finding causation in any data set whether valid or not. As a reminder, "correlation is not causation". Gary's book is available on Amazon.com For the Cyber-Tip of the week, Keith talks about what to do if you had files lost from the Windows 10 upgrade. In next week's show, Keith will intereview Jotham Ty who is the Founder and CEO of Gappify a Silcion Valley startup developing accounting "bots". Instead of training entry level accountants, Joatham is training people to develop accounting bots. Tune in next week to about Gappify. First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here: Non-iTunes: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2 Email us at info@svin.biz or find us here: www.svin.biz https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh Arifitical Intelligence, AI, Blockchain, Big Data, Data Analytics, Cyberrisk, Information security, VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Technology for Good, UN SDGs, Emerging Technology