Conversations With Dez

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Neil Lilley, Head of Marketing for Analytics & Assurance for Ericsson Digital Business Group, talking about his academic & professional career, his role with Ericsson, the value of Analytics and the key role of Assurance, the emergence of AI, Machine Intelligence, 5G & what's on the horizon in the Telco cloud market.

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Monica Zethzon, Head of Solution Area Communication Services for Ericsson Digital Business Group, talking about her academic & professional career, her role with Ericsson, VolTE, Voice, how "voice is the new Black", the emergence of 5G, Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona & what's on the horizon in the Telco cloud market. For info on Ericsson voice services click here => http://bit.ly/deztft006-voice-services

Dez Blanchfield gets up close and personal with Mohammed Farooq - General Manager, IBM Brokerage Services, talking about his personal & professional life journey, learnings from working with some of the world's biggest global brands, about personal inspirations, Global Technology & Cloud Consulting Services, and much more. Click here => bit.ly/ExpertAdvise to schedule a call with an IBM Expert

Dez Blanchfield gets up close and personal with Juhi McClelland - VP & Exec, Technology Support Services IBM Global Technology Services ( GTS ), talking about her personal & professional life journey, learnings from working with some of the world's biggest global brands, about personal inspirations, Global Technology Consulting Services, Blockchain, Augmented Reality, IoT, and much more. Click here => bit.ly/ExpertAdvise to schedule a call with an IBM Expert

Dez Blanchfield gets up close and personal with Piero Chiodo, VP Workplace Support Services - IBM Global Business Services ( GBS ), talking about his personal & professional life journey, learnings from working with some of the world's biggest global brands, about personal inspirations, Global Cloud Consulting Services, and much more. Click here => bit.ly/ExpertAdvise to schedule a call with an IBM Expert

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Sheng-Ann Yu, Solution Line Head for Distributed Cloud for Business Area Digital Services at Ericsson, talking about her academic & professional career, her role with Ericsson, Distributed Clouds, open source, 2G, 3G, 4G & the emergence of 5G, building Telco grade Clouds, DevOps, end to end orchestration & what's on the horizon in the Telco cloud market - For info about the "Ericsson Distributed Cloud click here => http://bit.ly/ericsson-cloud-001

Dez Blanchfield talks with Bill Mew, Cloud Strategist for UK Cloud Ltd, about data protection, privacy, the EU GDPR and data collection in a world of Cloud, Personal Privacy & Data Sovereignty, about and his vision of the future, business and humanity, of worlds old and new, oh and about building castles, real ones, with draw bridges and moats.

Dez Blanchfield gets up close and personal with Chandra Pulamarasetti - Vice President - Resiliency Services Strategy & Resiliency Orchestration Software, IBM Global Business Services ( GBS ), his personal & professional journey, his work in Resiliency Services Strategy & Orchestration Software, personal inspirations, and much more.. Click here => bit.ly/ExpertAdvise to schedule a call with an IBM Expert

Dez Blanchfield gets up close and personal with Sanjay Rishi - General Manager for Global Cloud Consulting Services, IBM Global Business Services ( GBS ), talking about his personal & professional journey, his work in cloud technology, cognitive computing, about personal inspirations, Global Cloud Consulting Services, and much more.. Click here => bit.ly/ExpertAdvise to schedule a call with an IBM Expert

Dez Blanchfield gets up close & personal with Ulf Ewaldsson, Senior Vice President & Head Business Area Digital Services at Ericsson, talking about his career & current role with Ericsson, the role of Business Area Digital Services within Ericsson, Ericsson’S Digital Transformation, Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, the emergence of 5G, Net Neutrality, GDPR, building a sustainable future for society, what's on the horizon in Telecommunications, and much more.

Dez Blanchfield gets up close and personal with Jan Karlsson, VP & GM Digital Business Support Systems at Ericsson, his career and current role with Ericsson, the role of Business Support Systems within Ericsson, the big changes Ericsson faces with Digital Transformation, Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, the emergence of 5G, and what's on the horizon in Telecommunications in general, and much more.

Dez Blanchfield gets up close and personal with Patrik Cerwall - Head of Strategic Marketing for the Business Area Networks section of Ericsson, his career with Ericsson, his role and the role of marketing within Ericsson, the big changes Ericsson faces with Digital Transformation, Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, moving from 4G to 5G, and what's on the horizon in Telecommunications in general, and much more.

Dez Blanchfield gets up close and personal with Elli Hurst - Vice President, Global Automation - IBM Global Business Services ( GBS ), talking about her personal & professional life journey, learnings from working with some of the world's biggest global brands, about personal inspirations, Intelligent Automation, Globally Integrated Capabilities, and much more.. Click here => http://bit.ly/ExpertAdvise to schedule a call with an IBM Expert

Dez Blanchfield gets up close and personal with Mats Karlsson - Head of R&D & Portfolio, Ericsson Business Area Digital Services, his career with Ericsson since 1989, his upcoming R&D "roadmap" & "portfolio", the big changes in Digital Transformation, Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, moving from 4G to 5G, NFV, OpenStack, OpenSource, and what's on the horizon in Telecommunications in general, and much much more.

Dez Blanchfield gets up close and personal with Max Michaels - General Manager, IBM Network Services, talking about his personal & professional life journey, learnings from working with some of the biggest global brands, his personal inspirations, how to think like an investor, acting & thinking different, and the idea that the Cloud has now become The Network. Click here => http://bit.ly/ExpertAdvise to schedule a call with an IBM Expert

Dez gets up close & personal with Bridget Karlin - IBM GTS, CTO & VP of Innovation & Automation. Bridget shares insights into her role, driving the corporate transformation to build and deliver IBM's cognitive technology services platform, leveraging cognitive, and automation, enabling clients & partners to benefit from increased security, efficiency, flexibility & and control of their digital business. Click here => http://bit.ly/ExpertAdvise to schedule a call with an IBM Expert

Dez gets up close & personal with Nick Fuller, Senior Manager, Cognitive Service Foundations, IBM Research, his role with IBM Services Platform & Watson cognitive computing, his 63 patents & 20+ years experience in scientific research & technology development/delivery in cloud technologies; IT service management; photovoltaics & semiconductor technology. Click here => http://bit.ly/ExpertAdvise to schedule a call with an IBM Expert

Dez Blanchfield talks with Robin Kiera of Digital Scouting about the brave new world of #DigitalDisruption in Banking, Finance, Insurance across #FinTech, #InsurTech, #DigitalDisruption, #AI, #BlockChain, being an #Influencer and his vision of the future for business and humanity, across old and new, in Enterprise and Startups.

Dez gets up close & personal with Mickey Iqbal, IBM Fellow, IBM Master Inventor & Global Lead for GTS Enterprise IT Transformation Advisors, with insights what it takes to be an IBM Master Inventor, his patents, how he has lead cloud transformation for some of the world's most impactful enterprise organizations, his personal life journey, mentorship, and amazing recovery from a life threatening accident. Click here => http://bit.ly/ExpertAdvise to schedule a call with an IBM Expert

Dez Blanchfield talks with Marcel Mitran, CTO of IBM LinuxONE & Distinguished Engineer IBM Systems, about the newly announced IBM LinuxONE Emperor II platform, the heitage of the System Design, the Security, Speed, & Scaleability of the platform and it's ability to run more than two million docker containers, host 17 TB single image databases without sharding, what it means to have 32 TB of RAM, and much much more.