Over The Edge

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Leonard Lee, Executive Analyst and Founder of neXt Curve, a global research advisory firm focused on emerging technology research. Leonard discusses how converging technologies are creating new opportunities at the edge and the interesting trends he is observing.  This conversation spans across edge versus on-premises, failed digital transformations, edge tech in retail, digital twins and more.Key Quotes:“As these cloud native technologies come closer or start to infiltrate the vast expense that is the edge, it's challenging everyone's assumption because you take the hyperscaler mindset, you try to apply it to the edge, it does not work. The edge is totally a different beast. And we're seeing that realization in the industry start to play out.”“The interesting stuff happening at the edge for retail is localizing the personalization, being able to close the loop on customer interactions. Now it sounds easy, but it’s not.”“So if you look at something like edge computing, the reason why it's exciting is because we're looking at a lot of the things that are happening on endpoint devices and how they're becoming more capable intersecting with cloud technologies, and it's creating a whole new realm of possibilities across what we call quote unquote, the edge.”“When we talk about edge computing and edge, what we're not talking about is the paradigm that has dominated our thinking for the last 15 years, which is you have a client at the edge and it's talking to a, and communicating and relying on, a central hyperscale data center.”“Modernization is a huge opportunity because if you can't modernize and you don't modernize, you can't really pull through a lot of these aspirational applications and visions that we have for these technologies.”---------Show Timestamps:(02:19) How did Leonard get his start in technology? (4:13) Leonard’s work as an analyst(5:22) What is Leonard looking at within edge technology?(8:54) The difference between edge and on-premises(15:13) What Leonard tells his clients to pay attention to(18:42) Cloud native technologies at the edge (20:47) Digital transformation and modernization at the edge (23:20) Can companies wait to modernize? (25:59) Example of a failed digital transformation effort(29:54) Opportunities with edge in retail (36:38) How will the digital twin evolve?(39:35) Looking to the future, what is Leonard excited about?--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Follow Matt on LinkedInConnect with Leonard on LinkedInwww.CaspianStudios.com

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Jay Limbasiya, Global AI & Data Science business Development Lead at Dell Technologies. With a background in the United States Intelligence Community, Jay specializes in AI, data science, analytics, and data management. Matt and Jay discuss why we should care about the edge, the complexities of deciding where to treat data and the last mile problem. They also talk about the benefits of data lakehouses and the current debate around the dangers of AI. ---------Key Quotes:“You can use this data maybe ten years down the road for something else, right? You can use it for a completely different type of use case you never even thought of. And that's why the data is so valuable. It's not so much the algorithm itself, it's can you capture this data and even save this data for maybe technology that hasn't even come out yet?”“It definitely doesn't make sense to me to completely say, Hey, the data's too large at the edge, so we're just not gonna consume it… that obviously doesn't make sense. I think there's a efficiency play out here as well. And that efficiency play is, obviously it costs money to store data, so let's make sure we store the right data.”“What's the value of the data that you're collecting and how can these pieces of data enhance the algorithm at the edge? Because even though you deploy something on the edge in order to refine it for future trends, maybe four years down the road, or three years down the road, you still need data to be able to kind of do that R and D work.”“The core is actually where you identify, is there data I'm missing? Is there something I haven't even collected?”---------Show Timestamps:(02:30) Jay’s start in technology(07:01) Working in U.S. intelligence(09:00) Why we should care about edge?(13:26) How to make decisions about managing and treating data(18:45) The Last Mile Problem (26:00) Data cleansing(29:00) Data analysis at the edge (30:00) Training the models and pushing them towards the edge(35:14) Data lakehouses(44:42) Jay’s thoughts on the dangers of AI--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Follow Matt Trifiro on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mtrifiroFollow Matt Trifiro on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/mtrifiroConnect with Jay Limbasiya on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaylimbasiya/www.CaspianStudios.com

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Keith Bradley, Vice President Information Technology at Nature Fresh Farms. Keith is leveraging Edge technology in Nature Fresh Farm’s automated greenhouses. In these highly controlled environments, Keith’s team is able to monitor plant weight, growth, irrigation, nutrient absorption, and more. This allows them to automate systems that get plants what they need, exactly when they need it, to help increase their yield. In this conversation, Keith explains how this makes them resilient to changes in weather and climate, and outlines the many metrics they monitor during the planting and growing process. Keith also provides predictions on the increased focus on technology in agriculture, taking into account climate change, as well as land, water and food scarcity.---------Key Quotes:“It's the exact opposite of farming how you usually think of it, where you've always got the farmers waiting on rain and hoping for more rain, or hoping for less rain. We basically control our environment top to bottom.”“We have to control everything, from how much nutrient the plant gets, how much light it gets, how much CO2 it gets, the biocontainment of it. We control and monitor every aspect of that plant's life.”“That's always been my goal is to eventually get to the point where now a grower isn't proactively doing something to the greenhouse, the AI is proactively telling them, this is what you should do.”“I find the more that we can do analyzing data at the edge, the better we get. It is when we're waiting for information to get from the edge to the core, to the cloud, and you're waiting for it to get up there to analyze it, that we missed that opportunity.” “We don't get affected by weather change. The average weather goes up by a couple degrees, it doesn't affect us the same way as it does a field farmer. Drought doesn't affect us the same way. All those things just don't affect us. In about three or four more years, I can see it starting to get more of a highlight, and more of a ‘we need this and we need to focus on this.’”---------Show Timestamps:(02:30) Keith’s start in technology(03:41) Inside Nature Fresh Farm’s greenhouses(07:19) Technology around the plants (08:14) Automatic functions in the greenhouses(10:30) Data they collect and where it goes(12:59) Amount of data they collect (14:00) Using data to improve business(16:25) Measuring taste factors(18:00) Empowering the growers to use data(20:36) Digital transformation in agriculture(21:47) Experiments in the greenhouses (23:11) Tracking products after they leave the farm (26:00) The edge and product consistency(28:41) Creating a unique taste as a competitive advantage (30:48) IT and grower collaboration(32:00) Keith’s approach to edge and the cloud (37:00) Keith’s technology wishlist (40:00) Where Keith wants to see innovation in greenhouses(42:00) How far are we from a fully automated greenhouse?(43:54) Emerging importance of tech in agriculture --------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:To learn more about how Nature Fresh Farm’s is leveraging Edge technology, please visit: Nature Fresh Farms / Dell Case Study: https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/case-studies-customer-stories/index.htm#sort=%40desfirstpublishdate%20descending&numberOfResults=15&pdf-overlay=%2F%2Fwww.delltechnologies.com%2Fasset%2Fen-us%2Fsolutions%2Fbusiness-solutions%2Fcustomer-stories-case-studies%2Fnature-fresh-farms-cultivates-the-future-of-agriculture-at-the-edge.pdfNature Fresh Farms / Dell Customer Stories Video: https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/case-studies-customer-stories/index.htm#sort=%40desfirstpublishdate%20descending&numberOfResults=15&video-overlay=6311527828112Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mtrifiroConnect with Keith on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-bradley-76105049/ www.CaspianStudios.com

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Walker Reynolds, President and Solutions Architect of 4.0 Solutions. Walker’s mission is to save and create middle-class jobs by helping manufacturers become more efficient through successful digital transformation efforts. Walker dives into the fourth and fifth industrial revolutions, and how he approaches digital transformation within an industry where many companies have fallen behind. He explains how 4.0 Solutions evaluates digital capabilities within their clients’ companies and what factors indicate that a company is capable of improving. This conversation gives insight into technology applications across the manufacturing plant floor and into the ways that Walker thinks the industry could solve its biggest problems.  ---------Key Quotes:“It is the convergence of artificial and human intelligence. That's what the fifth industrial revolution is. And when we talk about industry 5.0 or the fifth industrial revolution, that's what we're talking about. We're talking about being able to take the best person you have in your organization and put them on the biggest problem, no matter where in the world that biggest problem is.”“Do the people at the helm of your organization understand what digital transformation actually is?... Well, it's about unlocking potential on the plant floor to start. The smartest people in any manufacturing organization, they are the people who do the actual work on the plant floor.”“And what I realized was, holy cow, if you could unlock that potential in all these operators, you could solve the manufacturing exodus problem in the United States overnight. If you could suddenly be able to figure out how to tap into the operator's knowledge and enable them to solve the business's problems, you would solve manufacturing in the United States overnight. And that's what digital transformation does.”“If everyone in your organization can't recite from memory what the digital strategy is, you don't have one because every person in the organization is a node in an ecosystem. If they don't know how they're inter-operating in that ecosystem, well then you don't have a strategy. Or you didn't communicate it.”---------Show Timestamps:2:36 Walker’s start in tech 6:45 Understanding industry 4.0 and 5.0 10:10 How advanced are most manufacturers in the U.S.? 11:21 The top digital manufacturer 14:44 How does Walker determine whether an organization can improve? 17:00 Solving the manufacturing exodus problem 20: 35 How Walker gets leadership buy-in?23:46 Intellic Integration and 4.0 Solutions 33:08 Factory floor examples / Kepware 39:12 Defining HMI, OPC, PLC41:45 IoT and the Internet in the industrial world44:40 The two steps of digital transformation46:30 Example of how data supports consumables 48:30 Factories leveraging cloud 54:00 Digital and human advantages to using data to react in real time 57:22 What is Amazon doing right? 61:04 Data centers as factories 1:02:02 Speeding up the revlitalization of the manufacturing industry 

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Paul Howarth, Senior Director of Business Development and Product Commercialization at Rogers Communications. At Rogers, Paul leads a team that designs, builds, launches and sells world leading IoT products that leverage the power of 4G and 5G networks.In this episode, Paul describes why powerful networks are so important in heavy industries. He elaborates on how autonomous tech can not only increase efficiency, but also safety. Paul and Matt discuss the difference between 4G and 5G, what works best, where it works best, and look forward to what might be coming next.----Key Quotes:“Heavy industries have challenges getting data offsite. You'll see some pretty amazing things. I've seen fiber get built down in some very remote locations. I've seen microwave links being built over hundreds of kilometers because it's worth it. That data is so important to get back.”“Think of sitting in your gamer chair with a joystick and being able to operate a drill. It's already hitting the mine face, drilling into the rock, and then maybe you switch screens and use the same joystick. But now you're operating a truck in another area. So now you've got someone who's highly skilled, operating multiple pieces of equipment, and doing it away from the danger.”“With a highly available cellular network, you can actually pull people away from a dangerous work area, one that's not a great place to work. And they can do remote drilling, controlling vehicles, really helping also drive a diverse workforce, right? It's very difficult to get employees to go work in some of these places. And if you can tell a remote operator, you're able to pick up a lot of employees that might not want to live in a camp.”“I'm really excited about what can happen and how we can bring software to the masses. Like it's incredible. How a lay person can now just say, I have this idea, I'd like it to do this. And these tools can now produce a lot of code.”“When I think about the future, I've always had a principle that when you see new emerging technologies, brute strength and bandwidth is gonna win. So that's what makes me excited about 5G. It's just a lot of bandwidth they're able to drop on top of it.”---------Show Timestamps:(02:15) How Paul got into tech(03:44) All about Rogers(04:35) What is heavy industry?(06:07) Heavy industries and wireless(08:30) How data drives the industry(09:00) What is the edge?(10:59) What mining customers need(14:58) Autonomy in heavy industry(18:52) Autonomy and safety(19:51) Deciding between 4G and 5G(23:08) How Paul uses Edge(28:04) The challenge of consolidating servers(29:39) How fast should we make performance?(31:51) How to build a network(36:13) Rogers’ use cases(39:33) What the future might hold(41:21) What Paul’s looking forward to(42:17) What Paul wants to accelerate--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Follow Matt on TwitterConnect with Paul on LinkedInwww.CaspianStudios.com

Mat Yarger, co-founder of DigitalMRV, is a data strategist focusing on environmental sustainability. He shares insights on how digitization can transform climate action and the vital role of data security in building trust. Mat highlights the potential of blockchain technology for enhancing transparency and integrity in carbon markets. He discusses innovations like Project IOTA and machine learning's impact on climate data accessibility. Ultimately, Mat envisions a solar punk future where data empowers effective sustainability solutions.

This episode of Over the Edge features a continuation of our interview between Matt Trifiro and Matthew Steinberg, Co-Founder of Exhibit ‘A’ brewing, and Pierluca Chiodelli, Vice President Engineering Technology & Edge Portfolio Product Management and Customer Operations, Dell Technologies. Matthew and Pierluca come together to continue their conversation on Dell Technology’s work with Exhibit ‘A’ brewing. They discuss why the partnership is essential, and what makes it work as well as it does.Matthew describes how tech influences his brewery. Pierluca explains why Dell Technologies works with small businesses to implement edge technology. Together, they’ve built a successful project where Dell works at new scales, and Exhibit ‘A’ produces high quality beer with higher speed.---------Key Quotes:Matthew:"We can't just start spending money on technology without having a real ROI. This is just a really amazing opportunity for us to look at a lot of these pain points and challenges that we have as a small business and work with edge technology and Dell to really find the sweet spot to make us the most efficient we can be, creating the best products we can, and adding a value to our business."Matthew:"Because we don't fully understand the technology, we rely on Pierluca and his team to share with us what that technology's gonna do for us. I'm not looking for a fit, I'm looking for an add. You know, I want this to improve what we do, not just kind of like status quo. So that's really important for us. And obviously just the straight value that it adds to our small business."Pierluca:"Having the connection with Dell that can scale and can breed the technology to all type of people,  from a small business, like Exhibit A, to large implementation. And so having an ecosystem, and that ecosystem can run in a platform like we are building, then allow you to bring them to multiple people. Not only to the very large one that they can permit themselves to have an army of people coming there and develop their own solution."Pierluca: "That's exactly one of the challenge that we took upon when we decide to go to the edge. And when we decide to go to the edge, not just with the fact that we go in and place the normal compute. It's to understanding, right? And Dell is embarking in this adventure that we start about three years ago with very few people and now we have an entire bu, right, that is looking at this stuff. So what is intriguing is really, that point that,  At the edge, you need to understand how you input the things that someone is doing, right? Their core processes, their outcome. Right? It's all about the outcome."---------Show Timestamps:02:25 How tech fits into the brewing industry 03:22 Measuring the success of implementing edge05:13 Dell’s goal with Exhibit A07:19 How small businesses can deploy edge technology10:46 The tech learning curve14:04 Scaling technology for everyone 15:37 Weighing cost vs. ROI17:30 How Matthew manages his cashflow20:17 Dell’s shifting business model--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Connect with Matt on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtrifiro/Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-steinberg-26b96ab/Connect with Pierluca on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierluca-chiodelli-3b743a4/Learn More about Exhibit A - https://www.exhibit-a-brewing.com/Follow Dell Technologies Edge on social media at https://www.linkedin.com/company/delltechnologies/posts/?feedView=allhttps://twitter.com/Dell_EdgeLearn about Dell Technologies edge solutions - https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/solutions/edge-computing/index.htm#collapse&tab0=0&tab1=0Learn more about how Dell Technologies is using edge for good -  https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/corporate/about-us/who-we-are.htm#video-overlay=6213824626001www.CaspianStudios.com

In this episode of Over the Edge, Matt Trifiro interviews Matthew Steinberg, co-founder of Exhibit 'A' brewing, and Pierluca Chiodelli,Vice President Engineering Technology & Edge Portfolio Product Management and Customer Operations, Dell TechnologiesMatthew has been brewing beer for almost 20 years. After brewing a wide variety around Massachusetts, including Belgian styles, highly hopped ales, and barrel aged offerings, he founded his own brewery: Exhibit 'A'. Here, he creates his own modern takes on traditional beer styles. Pierluca has been with Dell Technologies since 1999, and is currently VP Engineering Technology & Edge Portfolio Product Manager and Customer Operations. He’s responsible for Edge Enterprise Dell Technologies roadmap, and strategic technical partners engagement across Dell Technologies. Matthew and Pierluca represent a partnership between Dell Technologies and Exhibit 'A' brewing to bring edge computing and complex technology to small, locally-owned businesses.In the first segment of this interview, Matthew dives into the details of beer making, from start to finish. He describes how edge technology has helped Exhibit 'A' gather data and monitor processes for a more perfect brewing process, and how it can fix problems and save money (and beer) for the brewery. In segment 2, Pierluca gives his definition of the edge, describes the importance of connectivity in a setting like Matthew’s brewery, and explains how Dell Technologies is using this project as an example of their core value of promoting human progress.---------Key Quotes:Matthew Steinberg“The exciting part for me is actually beyond this first project, which is to really dig deep into our pain points as a brewery and what we can do to add to this technology. Not just make better beer, but create better processes, create more consistency, give our staff the tools they need to do these jobs, right? And so it's incredible. Like for a small craft brewery like us, that's like producing you know the equivalent of maybe 70,000 cases a year, to be able to have this technology is ridiculous. I mean, it's kind of a dream.”Pierluca Chiodelli“There is no necessity to have all these different silos because with our experience, we can run multiple things on the same infrastructure. We can manage that infrastructure in different way, but what we are doing is basically also simplify the edge. There is no reason why certain application, they cannot run with other applications. So that's the technology we bring, with the security and with the simplification. So basically, it's democratize the edge and make sure that people can manage from one to thousands of devices with always security in mind and with zero touch capability.”Matthew Steinberg“We have this art that is like my creative outlet for making, conceptualizing a beer. Whether it's the ingredients or the process or even what the label looks like. There's a lot of that art that goes into its. Science is like the yeast doing its thing, the malt being delivered properly, and it's, and I thought about it as like, the great, the art of the beer  relies on the science to do what it's supposed to do. The technology actually allows us  to control it. It allows us to, what was the word I used? Uh, you know, The tech helps us realize and observe the connection between the art and the science.”Matthew Steinberg“So all of this temperature probes and, and controllers and the interface that Dell has installed here is allowing us to study that to just make better beer. I mean, that's literally the simplest way I can put it.  The exciting part for me is actually beyond this first project, which is to really dig deep into our pain points as a brewery and what we can do to add to this technology. Not just make better beer, but create better processes, create more consistency, give our staff the tools they need to do these jobs.”Pierluca ChiodelliOne of the core value of Dell  is really about human progress. It's very humble goal. It's also very difficult to connect you to directly to human progress. Now, when I start to look at the edge, I can say that because it's based on outcome, most of the things that we do are most impactful. Pierluca Chiodelliwe've been selling at the Edge for many years. Uh, about 30 years. But, um, what is new at the edge is the data. Um, so I think, um, If you look at, so the brewer example, there are a lot of data that they've been collected. What is changing from the past is that everything needs to be connected now. What is changing also that the data they are producing at the edge, they need to be accessed at the edgePierluca ChiodelliYou don't have an army of people and so you need to optimize. Optimize is important and have the ability to connect things and access those data immediately is very important. So the shift really why you need more compute, why you need more things at the edge is because the data are there. More data need to be processed there and the edge is different, is outside of the normal data center. So to me, that was the excitement to enter in the space that was not a familiar space, understanding the constraint of that space and understanding what we can do---------Show Timestamps:[03:41] Matthew’s entrepreneurial start[07:41] How beer begins[09:55] How beer is made[14:38] The art of balance in beer[17:26] The fermentation process[19:56] Why cans are the best package[23:12] How to store your beer[23:32] How Matthew maintains quality[25:31] What does beer have to do with edge computing?[28:29] How Matthew uses data to solve problems[33:17] Pierluca’s start in technology[36:09] Dell and Edge[40:06] The edge is about constraint[41:52] The edge and security[44:29] Helping everyone understand edge[49:08] Dell’s goal of advancing progress[53:20] Constraints of the edge[56:40] How Dell and Exhibit A work together--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Connect with Matt on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtrifiro/Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-steinberg-26b96ab/Connect with Pierluca on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierluca-chiodelli-3b743a4/Learn More about Exhibit A - https://www.exhibit-a-brewing.com/Follow Dell Technologies Edge on social media at https://www.linkedin.com/company/delltechnologies/posts/?feedView=allhttps://twitter.com/Dell_EdgeLearn about Dell Technologies edge solutions - https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/solutions/edge-computing/index.htm#collapse&tab0=0&tab1=0Learn more about how Dell Technologies is using edge for good -  https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/corporate/about-us/who-we-are.htm#video-overlay=6213824626001www.CaspianStudios.com

This episode of Over the Edge features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Mike Libecki (National Geographic Explorer, National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, Dell Ambassador, and Adidas Athlete) and Bill Pfeifer (Edge Messaging and Thought Leadership Director at Dell Technologies).Bill has worked in IT for over twenty years. Hel is an expert expert on the latest details of AI, 5G, IoT, and all the other emerging technologies. At Dell EMC, Bill works on research studies, talks to analysts, and helps shape how the company interacts with the market every day. Mike Libecki has an obsession with exploring and the world's most remote corners of the planet to climb world class first ascents, support science, conservation and humanitarian projects, and bring these powerful, emotional stories back with hopes to inspire us all to take care of our Mother Earth. Mike has completed more than 90 major expeditions, from Afghanistan to Antarctica, to Greenland and Guyana, and everywhere in between, taking him to over 100 countries. He is a producer, director, videographer, humanitarian (has his own 501c3 nonprofit), conservationist and leads science teams. He is also a math and tech nerd at heart, and uses the latest technologies (Virtual Reality, 3D, Artificial Intelligence etc.,) on his expeditions to succeed on and share the magic, power and beauty of our planet. In this episode, Mike and Bill describe the relationship between Dell Technologies and Mike’s expeditions. Mike brings Dell technology to the most remote corners of the world; he uses the technology himself, and he gives it to the people he encounters. In an effort to give back, Dell and Mike work hand-in-hand to bring technology, education, and innovation to communities across the globe. Mike and Bill describe how they deploy edge technology in far-away regions. Bill discusses the future of the edge, while Mike explains how it ties into his humanitarian missions and nonprofit. ---------Key Quotes:Bill: “I could tell you a couple of like high tech wizbang cool things that we see coming with the edge, in terms of home automation and car automation and farm automation and things like that. But then when you're talking about natives who are farming for a living and hunting for a living and don't have any technology, what can they do with just a little bit that's specifically applied to help the trajectory of their village? Or, you know, get their kids into maybe mainstream life, maybe just doing their life better.”Mike: “One small point that I see when I'm out in the field that you know, this edge technology come in and understand how much water, what's going here, how's the fruit looking? I mean, there's, there's real issues out there that they don't know how to contend with, they just go with what Mother Earth gives them. And to think about edge technology and what Bill understands in his team that I don't, that can be efficient, that can make things metaphorically and literally fruitful, and for them to take that to the markets. I mean, there's so much going on here that it's a whole new excitement of this mystery for me to be connecting with this kind of technology that I don't understand. Because my goal is how do we make the lives better for these people in Bolivia, for the world, for the, you know, to be part of this global family.”Bill: “We have our view of the edge,and it's technological. Looking at data centers, looking at clouds. How do we help rebalance that technology so it's closer to people? So, it's providing new types of value? [Mike’s] going farther out. And so, that's kind of pushing the definition of the edge. It's taking technology out of the data center and putting it close to where the people are.”Mike: “When I'm working with Bill and hearing about Edge, the stuff that I've learned that creates that new enthusiasm is that it takes some time, but the impossible takes longer. I feel like there's some impossible things that this edge technology is gonna unfold or unravel. I'm just fascinated.”---------Show Timestamps:(3:38) How Mike became an adventurer(4:35) Mike’s partnership with Dell Technologies(7:23) How to define an expedition(10:29) Pushing the definition of Edge(11:28) Dell’s field mission(14:08) What technology does in remote places(15:01) Mike’s mission to give back(16:41) The start of Mike’s nonprofit(18:45) Making expeditions sustainable(23:10) Painting a picture of an expedition(25:57) Investing in the future of Edge(28:47) Dell’s definition of Edge(31:50) Making technology fruitful in the field(34:45) Mike’s Joyineering Fund(38:40) The importance of giving back(40:07) Why does Dell prioritize this work?(45:47) Questions technology can help us with(47:21) What makes Dell unique(50:06) The future potential of Edge--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Connect with Host and Guests Connect with Matt on LinkedInConnect with Bill on LinkedInFollow Mike on LinkedInFollow Mike on InstagramMike and Dell ProjectsEdge For GoodMercy ShipsProject Alvarium Learn more about how Dell Technologies is using edge for good: Dell Technologies - Who We Arewww.CaspianStudios.com

This episode of Over the Edge was recorded live at Edge Computing World in October 2022. It features an interview between Matt Trifiro and Rika Nakazawa, Group Vice President, Connected Industry & Sustainability for Americas at NTT. Rika is a global applied innovation and sustainability senior leader advancing business where digital transformation drives the greatest value. As a senior leader in the New Ventures & Innovations group, she’s building NTT's Connected Industry team, advancing how part of Edge as a Service delivers business transformation outcomes. Rika is a frequent conference speaker and chair, with more than 15 years of business development, partnership management, innovation, design-thinking, and strategy deployment experience. She was featured on the CRN "Women Power 70" List and is on the advisory board for VR/AR, AI / Machine Learning, and IoT startups, and advancing initiatives for women in technology and leadership. Rika received her Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies from UCLA in 1997.In this episode, Rika tells her story of becoming a leader in tech and how she arrived at NTT, she defines the role that connected industry plays within sustainability, and provides her thoughts on the future of edge computing including private 5G, blockchain, and the metaverse. Rika also provides advice for aspiring women in tech.---------Key Quotes:“It's not just edge in isolation, it's about the ability for you to transmit data and relevant data at the edge and to be able to enable that processing to happen in real time. And, not just from one source, but multiple sources, and to be able to synchronize that.” “We have to think that sustainability fundamentally is about considering the causal links of the butterfly that flaps its swings on one side of the earth, creating a tidal wave on the other side. And, so there's a lot of good intentions that's happening within sustainability in the way that things are gonna be managed. But unless we use edge and collectively create a network of edge intelligence to demonstrate the impact that one action and initiative is gonna have for a group of stakeholders and where that happens downstream or upstream, then we're going to be in a worse place.”“Diversity, equity, inclusion will in some ways take care of itself. If we can help organizations really anchor around culture, I think culture is in a crisis. And, so I think that the way that organizations thrive is through culture and the way that you can align a purpose. Purpose driven business is a big topic as well, and I think that technology can really help us really create that point of light around key areas of purpose, what people want to rally around.”---------Show Timestamps:(04:30) Becoming a woman in tech(09:45) Arriving at NTT(11:45) Connected industry and sustainability(15:00) Overview of NTT(22:45) Important objectives for digital transformation(30:45) Sustainability as a service(45:15) Exciting future technology(55:45) Advice for aspiring women in tech--------Sponsor:Over the Edge is brought to you by Dell Technologies to unlock the potential of your infrastructure with edge solutions. From hardware and software to data and operations, across your entire multi-cloud environment, we’re here to help you simplify your edge so you can generate more value. Learn more by visiting DellTechnologies.com/SimplifyYourEdge for more information or click on the link in the show notes.--------Links:Connect with Matt on LinkedinConnect with Rika on LinkedInwww.CaspianStudios.com