Conversations With Dez

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Eva Hedfors, Vice President & Head of Marketing & Communications, Ericsson Digital Services, talking about her academic & professional career, her role with Ericsson, Trends impacting Sales & Marketing and the Telco industry, the emergence of 5G, women in Tech & Business, and what's on the horizon in the Telco industry.

Dez Blanchfield gets up close and personal with Oliver Sturrock, CTO, Fluke Digital Systems, to talk about his life, academic & professional career, his role with Fluke Digital Systems, the Accelix offering, data, sensors, IoT, predictive maintenance, connected reliability, remote monitoring, thermal imaging technology - for more information on the Accelix offering please visit => www.accelix.com/

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Robert Boyanovsky, VP Enterprise Mobility Product Management, AT&T about his life, academic & professional career, his role with AT&T, Enterprise Mobility, 5G, Edge-to-Edge Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), software-defined networking (SDN) & key disruptions & trends, and the challenge of delivering market-leading capabilities that provide AT&T’s business customers dynamic, virtualised and intelligent edge solutions. With a focus on both premise and cloud technologies.

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Emanuele Iannetti, Head of BSS within Ericsson Digital Services in New York city at the 2018 Ericsson OSS/BSS User Group event - talking about his academic & professional career, his role, Digital Transformation, Software, Services, BSS, OSS, Cloud, 5G, 5G Core, NFV, the emergence of 5G and what's on the horizon in the Telco industry. For more info visit http://bit.ly/ossbss2018

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Josh Goodell, VP Intelligent Edge, AT&T about his life, academic & professional career, his role with AT&T, Edge-to-Edge Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), software-defined networking (SDN), Blockchain, 5G & key disruptions & trends, and the challenge of delivering market-leading capabilities that provide AT&T’s business customers dynamic, virtualised and intelligent edge solutions. With a focus on both premise and cloud technologies.

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Jan Haglund - Head of Portfolio and R&D, Business Area Digital Services, Ericsson Digital - talking about his academic & professional career, his role with Ericsson, Digital Transformation, Software, Services, BSS, OSS, Cloud, 5G, 5G Core, NFV, the emergence of 5G and what's on the horizon in the Telco industry. Don’t forget to download your free PDF eBrief on Network Slicing here now => bit.ly/TFTpc_HB

Dez Blanchfield talks with Kevin Clark, VP of Fluke Digital Systems about his life, academic & professional career, his role with Fluke Digital Systems, the Accelix offering, data, sensors, IoT, predictive maintenance, connected reliability, remote monitoring, thermal imaging technology - for more information on the Accelix offering please visit => https://www.accelix.com/

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Monika Byléhn - Director 5G Marketing, and Fredrik Engströmer - Head of Marketing 5G Core, both from the Ericsson team, talking about their roles with Ericsson, the emergence of 5G & 5G Core, new generation Mobile networks & network architecture evolution, NFV, Network Slicing / Orchestration, and what's on the horizon in the Telco market. Don’t forget to download your free PDF eBrief on Network Slicing here now => bit.ly/TFTpc_HB

Dez Blanchfield talks with David Clark of David Clark Cause & Dr. Angel Luis Diaz, IBM VP Developer Technology, Open Source & Advocacy, about the Call For Code project, IBM’s role as founding partner, the collaboration with the UN Human Rights Office, American Red Cross, Linux Foundation, Angelhack, Cloud Native Computing Foundation & New Enterprise Associates. Call For Code aims to be the largest mobilisation of developers to create solutions to improve preparedness for natural disasters & relief. More info here => http://bit.ly/cfc000

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Henrik Basilier, Expert - Network Architecture Evolution, Business Area Digital Services, Ericsson, talking about his academic & professional career, his role with Ericsson, Network Architecture Evolution, NFV / network slicing / Orchestration, 5G, 5G Core, NFV, the emergence of 5G and what's on the horizon in the Telco cloud market. Download your free PDF eBrief on Network Slicing here now => http://bit.ly/TFTpc_HB

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Didier Chincholle Head of Ericsson’s Excellence Center of Experience Design, Digital Services, talking about his academic & professional career, his role with Ericsson, the importance of User Experience, User Interface, Design, Orchestration, 5G, 5G Core, NFV, SDN, the emergence of 5G and what's on the horizon in the Telco cloud market.

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Ari Juntunen, CTO at Elinar, to talk about about his personal & professional life journey, his company Elinar and how he and his partner founded it on their kitchen table, where Artificial Intelligence ( i.e. Deep Learning / Machine Learning ) is being deployed & leveraged, and the role IBM’s POWER9 solution is playing in supporting Elinar in their enterprise content management solutions. For more info visit http://ibm.com/enterpriseAI

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Jack Wells, Director of Science at Oak Ridge National Lab, to talk about about his personal & professional life journey, his role at Oak Ridge National Lab, how Artificial Intelligence ( i.e. Deep Learning / Machine Learning ) is being deployed & leveraged in their High Performance Computing solutions ( HPC ), and the role IBM’s POWER9 solution is playing in supporting Oak Ridge in their endeavours to design & build super computers. For more info visit http://ibm.com/enterpriseAI

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Dave Salvator, Sr Product Marketing Manager at NVIDIA, to talk about about his personal & professional life journey, his role at NVIDIA, the history of Graphics Processing Units and the current use of GPU’s in Artificial Intelligence ( i.e. Deep Learning / Machine Learning ) how GPU’s are being deployed & leveraged at scale, and the relationship NVIDIA has with IBM & their POWER9 solution. For more info visit http://ibm.com/enterpriseAI

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with James Wade, Director Application Deployment at GuideWell, to talk about about his personal & professional life journey, his role at GuideWell, how Artificial Intelligence ( i.e. Deep Learning / Machine Learning ) is being deployed & leveraged, and the role IBM’s POWER9 solution is playing in supporting GuideWell in their endeavours as a Health Services provider. For more info visit http://ibm.com/enterpriseAI

Dez gets up close & personal with Connor Krukosky, Will Troutman, and Ed Pryor of IBM in Poughkeepsie New York in the USA - the home of the Mainframe. Three of the youngest, brightest minds of the IBM Mainframe world share their stories about how they came to be at IBM and some fun insights into life inside the home of the Mainframe. To learn more about the latest IBM Z here! => https://ibm.co/2wrECxj

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Mats Johansson, Head of Marketing for NFV, Ericsson Digital - talking about his academic & professional career, his role with Ericsson, Solution Marketing, NFV / NFVi / Orchestration, 5G, 5G Core, NFV, SDN, IP, Services, Broadband and Transport, the emergence of 5G and what's on the horizon in the Telco cloud market.

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Marton Sabli, Head of Product Domain Orchestration, Business Area Digital Services for Ericsson Digital Business Group, talking about his academic & professional career, his role with Ericsson, Automation & Service Orchestration, the emergence of 5G, cutting time to market for services & what's on the horizon in the Telco cloud market.

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with with Lars Martensson - Vice President and Head of Solution Area Cloud & NFVi and Head of Ericsson Silicon Valley, talking about his academic & professional career, his role with Ericsson, Network Function Virtualisation (NFV / NFVi ), Software Defined Infrastructure ( SDI ), Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment ( CI/DI), Network Slicing, IoT, the transformation into 5G & what's on the horizon. For more info on NFV & the road to 5G click here => http://bit.ly/2HJCzoD

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with with Peo Lehto, Head of Product Line Packet Core, Business Area Digital Services for Ericsson Digital Business Group, talking about his academic & professional career, his role with Ericsson, Packet Core Evolution, Virtualization, Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment ( CI/DI), Network Slicing, IoT, the transformation into 5G & what's on the horizon. For more info on NFV & the road to 5G click here => http://bit.ly/2Ly7ZjT