The Silicon Valley Insider Show with Keith Koo
Episodes
Friday Aug 24, 2018
Friday Aug 24, 2018
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Host Keith Koo is very pleased to have special guests Lily Mei, Mayor of Fremont, CA, Willie Tejada, GM and Chief Developer Advocate of IBM and Josh Trujillo of 42 Silicon Valley as he discusseds how it was an honor bringing all these groups together to put on a truly community driven event which is the first (and only) North American "Call For Code" day hackathon at 42 Silicon Valley's campus to combat and support wildfires.
Sign up for the Call for Code here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/call-for-code-hackathon-silicon-valley-tickets-49010749471?aff=erelexpmlt
In the first segment, Josh Trujillo discusses how 42 opened their doors to host the event as it aligns with 42's mission to educate and serve the community. https://www.42.us.org/ 42 was also recently featured on the show: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-8-17-18-podcast)
In the second segment, Mayor Lily Mei of Fremont discusses the importance of technology in solving for natural disasters, disaster notification and disaster relief in communities especially in not easily reached populations during a disaster such as the homeless.
In the third and final segment, Keith has Willie Tejada, GM and Chief Developer Advocate of IBM about how IBM became a major sponsor of the Call for Code initiative and how natural disasters cannot be stopped by technology but how technology can help communites react and recover faster.
Tulip Industries who was not on this week's show is also a lead sponsor of the Call for Code event. Following their emerging technologies conference in June of 2018 https://tulipconf.com/ Tulip is bringing advanced technology advocacy and education to the public. Tulip was featured on this show: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-4-20-18-podcast
As a reminder, Call For Code (https://callforcode.org/) is a global initiative to address humanitarian issues such as natural disasters and disaster relief which Silicon Valley Insider www.svinz.biz with Keith Koo has been promoting for several months leading up the Call For Code Day Silicon Valley. Keith wants everyone to know that was a complete honor to truly bring a community together to host this event.
Call for Code is sponsored David Clark Cause, IBM and also in part by the American Red Cross, the United Nations as well as other affiliates and supporters such as Silicon Valley Insider with Keith Koo.
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Friday Aug 17, 2018
Friday Aug 17, 2018
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Host Keith Koo speaks with special guest Brittany Bir, Chief Operating Officer of 42 Silicon Valley and how they are disrupting engineering education by providing FREE tuition.
Brittany shares her own story of moving from the US to Paris as a foreign student and attending 42, an engineering school started by French billionaire, telecom magnate, and philanthropist Xaiver Niel and how she came back to the USA to become the COO and head of 42 Silicon Valley the second official school of 42 and the only one located in North America.
Brittany and Keith discuss the 42 program as well as the admissions process and what the life of a student of 42 is like. Listen to the show to find out how you can be considered a student at 42.
Brittany and Keith also discuss at length their collaboration together on the 2018 Call For Code with the primary hosts/sponsors: 42, City of Fremont, Silicon Valley, Tulip Industries and IBM a global initiative and competition to solve for natural disasters and disaster relifed. This event will be held on Saturday August 25th, 2018 at 42's school and is free to the public. This will be the only Call for Code event in North America. Sign up here for more details:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/call-for-code-hackathon-silicon-valley-tickets-49010749471?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
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Friday Aug 10, 2018
Friday Aug 10, 2018
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Host Keith Koo gives a recap of his recent speaking engagement on Cyber Risk and Blockchain at the Upward Hartford Connecticut Cyber Security Startup Roadshow.
Keith's guests included:
1) Mike Hermus, CEO of Revoluton Four consulting group and former Chief Technology Officer of the United States Department of Homeland Security
2) Prithu Prakash, Vice President of Redline Communictions, Advisor to Center for Innovation and Commercialization & Executive at General Dynamics
3) Inon Elroy, Israel Economic Minister to the East Coast of the United States
4) Aviv Grafi, CEO of Votiro
5) Matan Or-El, CEO Of Panorays
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Friday Aug 03, 2018
Friday Aug 03, 2018
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Babble Labs co-founders Chris Rowen, CEO and Samer Hijazi, CTO discuss how to eliminate unwanted noice in any audio using Babble Labs Clear Cloud product.
Chris and Samer discuss the journey from companies such as Ten Silica to Cadence Design to finding a value seam in improving audio quality leading to the creation of Babble Labs! Also, listen during the show for a demonstration of their product.
Anyone can try the technology for free at https://babblelabs.com/
First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW
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