[Ep.7] Ask the Expert: Mobile Payments

Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical strategist, which is a fancy way of saying he helps people understand how the world works. Peter combines an expert understanding of demography, economics, energy, politics, technology, and security to help clients best prepare for an uncertain future.

Over the course of his career, Peter has worked for the US State Department in Australia, the DC think tank community, and helped develop the analytical models for Stratfor, one of the world’s premier private intelligence companies. Peter founded his own firm — Zeihan on Geopolitics — in 2012 in order to provide a select group of clients with direct, custom analytical products. Today those clients represent a vast array of sectors including energy majors, financial institutions, business associations, agricultural interests, universities and the U.S. military.

With a keen eye toward what will drive tomorrow’s headlines, his irreverent approach transforms topics that are normally dense and heavy into accessible, relevant takeaways for audiences of all types.

Peter is a critically-acclaimed author whose first two books — The Accidental Superpower and The Absent Superpower — have been recommended by Mitt Romney, Fareed Zakaria and Ian Bremmer. His forthcoming third title, Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World will be available in March 2020.

Ryan Ross and Rishad Tobaccowala, Chief Growth Officer of Publicis Groupe, on his new book "Restoring the Soul of Business", about companies can use data to the benefit of society, their employees, and their clients.

Join the latest Ask the Expert, as we tackle Edge SD-WAN with Yishay Yovel, CMO at Cato Networks.

Questions will include:

- What are the main capabilities and benefits of SD-WAN?

- During this crisis, managing costs is critical. What can customers expect in terms of cost savings from SD-WAN?

- SD-WAN is touted as the best way to transform your WAN for the cloud. Why is this?

- I understand SD-WAN will also change my network security. Why? What should I plan for?

- I understand SD-WAN uses the internet for site to site connectivity. How does it work for global locations with latency problems?

- Remote access is a top use case for me. Can SD-WAN help me?

- Why do SASE and SD-WAN go hand in hand?

- What is SD-WAN as a service?

- SD-WAN vs. MPLS: what are the pros and cons of both technologies?

- “You can’t invest in SD-WAN and expect it to solve everything.” Is this true?

- What advice can you give on ensuring you align your WAN strategy to business needs?

- Some enterprises are putting SD-WAN rollouts on hold, as they address the more pressing remote work challenges. What are your thoughts on this?

Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical strategist, which is a fancy way of saying he helps people understand how the world works. Peter combines an expert understanding of demography, economics, energy, politics, technology, and security to help clients best prepare for an uncertain future.

Over the course of his career, Peter has worked for the US State Department in Australia, the DC think tank community, and helped develop the analytical models for Stratfor, one of the world’s premier private intelligence companies. Peter founded his own firm — Zeihan on Geopolitics — in 2012 in order to provide a select group of clients with direct, custom analytical products. Today those clients represent a vast array of sectors including energy majors, financial institutions, business associations, agricultural interests, universities and the U.S. military.

With a keen eye toward what will drive tomorrow’s headlines, his irreverent approach transforms topics that are normally dense and heavy into accessible, relevant takeaways for audiences of all types.

Peter is a critically-acclaimed author whose first two books — The Accidental Superpower and The Absent Superpower — have been recommended by Mitt Romney, Fareed Zakaria and Ian Bremmer. His forthcoming third title, Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World will be available in March 2020.

Join Configuration, Change and Release Management expert Ben Sapp as he answers your questions about how to make it a reality.

We'll start this live session with Ben's 5 FAQ asked questions around Configuration, Change and Release Management, and then we'll answer the audience's burning questions around this facet of IT Service Management.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Ask the Expert Series.

After the hype created by Internet of Things (IOT), digitization of everything has become a norm. Digitization would become a competitive advantage in every aspect of running a successful organization. Be it Manufacturing, Sales and Marketing, Customer Experience, Supply Chain, Finance & Operations, Human Capital, Strategic sourcing; every single function in an organization is going to undergo this massive change and transformation. Most of us are still trying and struggling to understand how profound this change would be and what will it mean in terms of providing additional business capabilities to companies. The impact of this change on the organizations can be both positive as well as negative.

Join this live Q&A with Ashish Sonkusare, Leader, SAP Digital Transformation at HCL Technologies, and Kelly Harris, Sr. Content Manager at BrightTALK, for an in-depth look at enterprise architecture and infrastructure, and digitizing your supply chain.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Ask the Expert Series.

Service monetization is sometimes a competitive differentiator or an answer to disruptive competitors. Irrespective of the reason for transformation, service monetization provides a great platform to model business models to improve customer retention and increase revenue in the longer term.

This session will provide participants with an understanding of service monetization challenges and how companies can transform their overall business process and quote to revenue in particular.

Join Arun Trivedi, Partner, Wipro Technologies and Kelly Harris, Senior Content Manager, BrightTALK for a live discussion on service monetization and revenue streams from XaaS.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Ask the Expert series.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Ask the Expert Series.

Many organizations are drowning in unstructured data, which can break traditional storage infrastructure. We'll take a look at different ways to handle unstructured data with particular emphasis on object storage.

Join this live Q&A with Erik Ottem, Director of Product Marketing at Western Digital, to:

- Understand the definition of unstructured data
- Review storage infrastructure block/file/object strengths and weaknesses
- Discuss data integrity and system availability
- Learn about data management at scale

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Ask the Expert series.

Alexey Malanov joined Kaspersky Lab in 2004, where he began his work as a virus analyst. He has since been appointed Head of Kaspersky's Anti-Malware Team and in 2012, shifted his focus to analyzing technology trends and risks.

The threat posed by a Strong AI (artificial intelligence where the machine's intellectual capability is functionally equal to a human's) is well-considered in many science fiction films. But the invention of a Strong AI will take many years, so we can afford not to hurry with the study of "laws of robotics."

However, we are already facing growing concerns. The use of machine learning in various fields has shown that algorithms often make strange, discriminatory and difficult-to-understand decisions. Moreover, it has been clearly demonstrated that a person can cheat algorithms to achieve desired results.

Alexey addresses some of the looming issues surrounding the AI algorithms that are becoming a part of our daily lives, and will increasingly affect us and our decisions.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Ask the Expert Series.

Whereas hard sells might have worked before, nowadays prospects don't want to be sold to. Creating a communication strategy that includes content, touch points and value added social media will engage your prospects to eventually know, like and trust your brand. And once they trust your brand, they are more likely to convert into paying customers.

Join Kelly Harris, Senior Content Manager at BrightTALK, as she interviews Jean Ginzburg, Founder & CEO, Ginball Digital Marketing, on how to create an engaging communications strategy for your business.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Ask the Expert Series.

Join Simon Evans, CTO of Amido, as he takes a technical deep dive into key priorities for next-gen CTOs and what they should be considering for their 2020 strategy and beyond.

Simon will bring perspective from both the CTO of a consultancy, but also from the perspective of their clientele who are primarily Enterprise CTOs.

Join us for this live Q&A and get all of your questions answered!

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Ask the Expert Series.

Join Darien Hirotsu, Solution Architect at SDN Essentials and Kelly Harris, Senior Content Manager at BrightTALK, as they take a technical deep dive into software-defined networks and automation.

Darien will answer questions related to trends from the field, including:

- Building the development pipeline
- Lessons learned building automation solutions

He will share expert insight into what he wish he had known about software-defined networking and automation years ago, and help you jump start your SDN solutions.

Audience members are encouraged to send questions to the expert which will be answered during the live session.

How easy is it to move data?

Between traditional, on-premises data centers, hosted/collocated data centers, and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) through the large cloud providers, where to store your data and run your business critical applications is now a source of significant complexity in the IT world. Understanding your application set and business needs, then determining where best to run those applications and store their data presents a host of challenges both old and new.

So where does Third Party Maintenance fit into all of this? Or better yet….what IS Third Party Maintenance?

Join us for an engaging discussion with Curvature’s IT infrastructure experts to learn:

•What Third Party Maintenance (TPM) is and how it has become a vital market segment focused first and foremost on the client’s needs
•How TPM can cost-effectively extend the life of IT assets and align the lifetime of those assets to your application and software lifecycles
•How TPM can enable you to manage major IT infrastructure transitions in a much more cost effective manner

About the experts:

Chris primarily works in the Services department as a Solutions Architect developing technological solutions and strategies for clients. As a technology expert, Chris leads a team of technical engineers to develop new tactics and processes for clients from development to design. Chris was named Employee of the Year in 2005 and 2009.

Glenn is responsible for the strategic growth and expansion throughout Europe. Previously, Glenn managed Curvature’s international operations and led the company’s entry into Europe in 2002, successfully launching Curvature’s Asia-Pacific division in 2007. Prior to leading this international expansion, Glenn managed enterprise accounts as a distinguished member of Curvature’s U.S. sales organization beginning in 1996.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Ask the Expert Series.

Join Robert Starmer, Cloud Advisor & Founding Partner, Kumulus Technologies and Kelly Harris, Senior Content Manager at BrightTALK, as they take a technical deep dive into enterprise containers in 2018.

Robert will answer questions related to trends from the field:

- What does it take to move from a classic monolithic multi-tier app to a microservices on Kubernetes approach?
- How does one deal with the change in the security attack surface changes?
- How do I manage my developer's integration into a cloud system?
- What do I get from the process/pain that is sure to exist in the transitionary phases?
+ More!

Audience members are encouraged to send questions to the expert which will be answered during the live session.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Ask the Expert Series.

Join David Cuthbertson, CEO of Square Mile Systems, as he takes a deep dive into cloud management. Many senior decision makers have negative feelings regarding the issues of technical teams and don't want to bring them to light - data security, change control, lock in to a supplier who overcharges, proper outage stats, etc.

Just as there is more awareness of outsourcing contract nightmares, many of the same issues apply to cloud providers. Managing change in cloud-based systems is still a relatively new issue as most technical teams don't think about how cloud systems are managed and the potential risks posed by many suppliers without a viable business model.

Audience members are encouraged to send questions to the expert which will be answered during the live session.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Ask the Expert Series.

Join Sarah Kocianski, Senior Research Analyst and FinTech expert for Business Insider Intelligence, who will share her insights from her many conversations with legacy banks, neobanks, and everyone in between.

Sarah will discuss:
- Can neobanks take market share from incumbent high street banks?
- How can neobanks (Monzo, Starling, Revolut) in crowded markets stand out from each other?
- What's the future for incumbent banks under open banking and PSD2 - will fintech startups become customers' primary interaction channel?
- What do incumbent banks need to do to meet changing customer habits and expectations?
- What impact does regulation have on innovation within the banking sector - does it help or hinder?

Audience members are encouraged to send questions to the expert, which will be answered during the live session.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Ask the Expert Series.

Join Christopher Brown, CTO of Uptime Institute and Kelly Harris, Senior Content Manager at BrightTALK, as they take a technical deep dive into data center infrastructure management in 2018.

Chris will answer questions related to trends from the field:

- What really makes a well-run data center?
- The changes we are seeing in the industry
- What Tier level do I need for my data center(s)?
- What can you tell us about the typical issues we see every day?
- What are the challenges ahead for data centers?

Audience members are encourage to send questions to the expert which will be answered during the live session.

This webinar is part of BrightTALK's Ask the Expert Series.

If you work in IT Service Management, you need to hear what James Finister has to say about monitoring and metrics tools and best practices.

James will answer questions about:
Why metrics and monitoring is so important
The opportunities they provide
What data to track so that you know the truth about the health of your IT service
How to monitor metrics to drive business value
Which data patterns are good - and which are bad

Audience members are encouraged to send questions to the expert, which will be answered during the live session.