Episodes
Dec 28, 2018
Dec 28, 2018
39 min
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo re-airs a very popular show with special guest Gary Smith who is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, Ca. Gary was also a professor at Yale and has written over 80 academic papers and 13 books and with his most recent being "The AI Delusion". With all the news regarding "Artificial Intelligence" and how this technology is rapidly advancing, Gary and Keith have a rational dialog on what AI currently is and where it is headed.
Keith and Gary talk about why Gary wrote his book and why AI is not yet ready to take over the world. AI is good for very specific tasks but not yet ready for task that involve critical thinking or human judgment. Gary is noted for a term he uses frequently "torturing data" in reference to finding causation in any data set whether valid or not. As a reminder, "correlation is not causation".
Gary's book is available on Amazon.com
For the Cyber-Tip of the week, Keith talks about what to do if you had files lost from the Windows 10 upgrade.
In next week's show, Keith will intereview Jotham Ty who is the Founder and CEO of Gappify a Silcion Valley startup developing accounting "bots". Instead of training entry level accountants, Joatham is training people to develop accounting bots. Tune in next week to about Gappify.
First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW
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Dec 21, 2018
Dec 21, 2018
39 min
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo sits down with Bridget Karlin, CTO of IBM's Global Technology Services (GTS) division which compromises 105,000 employees and generates $34BB in revenue. Bridget is also being honored as a 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Legacy Award winner for top Women leaders in technology.
Bridget tells Keith of her personal journey from starting her career in banking to becoming an entrepreur with successful exits, a venture capitalist to becoming a top technology leader at both IBM and at Intel which in a prior role she was the CTO of Intel's IoT division.
Bridget and Keith also discuss digital transformation and how many companies struggle with adoption to being a cloud native as they decide on private, public or hybrid cloud. Keith and Bridget believe the reality will be a multi-cloud environment as most corporations are using more than one cloud service providers.
Keith also gets an in-depth view of IBM's acquisition of RedHat from Bridget's insider's view.
Listen Friday 11/16 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Silicon Valley | San Francisco
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Dec 14, 2018
Dec 14, 2018
39 min
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo sits down with Teresa Grobecker, SVP of US Capital Global and CEO of Real Estate Consortia (reC) and they discuss how the entire real estate eco-system can benefit using their revolutionary platform for real estate provenance (def. a record of history and authenticity) powered by blockchain technology.
Teresa is well known in the California real estate market for being the first real estate broker to accept an unlimited amount of bitcoin to close a real estate transaction. She is a frequent speaker and just came back from the giving a presentation to RESO ( Real Estate Standards Organization) on how to effectively implement blockchain techbnology into the real estate industry. Teresa will be presenting in January 2019 at the Mortgage Bankers Association conference in Florida.
Teresa and Keith discusses how by using reC participants in a real estate transaction can receive commissions for a property every time the property is sold in the future. Tune in Friday 12/14 at 1pm PST or download the podcast at 2:00pm.
https://reconsortia.com
Listen Friday 11/16 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Silicon Valley | San Francisco
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Dec 9, 2018
Dec 9, 2018
30 sec
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider host Keith Koo sits down with Teresa Grobecker, SVP of US Capital Global and CEO of Real Estate Consortia (reC) discusses how the entire real estate eco-system can benefit using their revolutionary platform for real estate provenance (def. a record of history and authenticity) powered by blockchain technology.
Teresa is well known in the California real estate market for being the first real estate broker to accept an unlimited amount of bitcoin to close a real estate transaction. She is a frequent speaker and just came back from the giving a presentation to RESO ( Real Estate Standards Organization) on how to effecitvely implement blockchain techbnology into the real estate industry. Teresa will be presenting in January 2019 at the Mortgage Bankers Association conference in Florida.
Teresa and Keith discusses how by using reC participants in a real estate transaction can receive commissions for a property every time the property is sold in the future. Tune in Friday 12/14 at 1pm PST or download the podcast at 2:00pm.
https://reconsortia.com
Listen Friday 11/16 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Silicon Valley | San Francisco
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First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW
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Castbox:
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2
Android, Spotify (and iTunes):
https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show
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https://stitchengine.drishinfo.com/index.jsp?sId=15540&source=sh
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Dec 7, 2018
Dec 7, 2018
38 min
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo speaks with return guest Nir Gaist who is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Nyotron a next generation Cybersecurity technology company. Nir and Keith are also joined by Russell Lopiccolo the Global VP of Sales for Nyotron.
Nir discusses how Nyotron's innovation in a security solution that doesn't rely on the followng buzzwords: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Security. Nyotron's Paranoid platform does two things 1) Stops malicious attacks and 2) Prevents hackers from exiting without a trace.
Listen to the show to hear how Nyotron's solution helped save an airline from being taken over by bad actors in-flight.
Read Nyotron's recent blog on Cyberthreats and vulnerabilities to the airline industry:
https://www.nyotron.com/why-are-airlines-so-vulnerable-to-cyberattacks/
"Silicon Valley Insider with Keith Koo"
First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW
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Nov 30, 2018
Nov 30, 2018
39 min
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, host Keith Koo speaks with Thomas Nimmo, CEO of Cybefense, a company transforming how technology risk assessments are done and how they are paid for. As regular listeners know, Keith Koo is an expert on Technology Risk and speaks frequently on the need for companies to completely and accurately risk assess their vendors, partners and other third parties.
Cyber risk assessments can easily start at $10,000 USD for a customer to evaluate whether a third-party (or vendor) meets minimum risk standards. For many small and medium businesses the cost of risk assessments are cost prohibitive and they simply forgo doing them even when mandated through laws and regulations (banking, financial services, healthcare, automotive, insurance, etc...) These small businesses take a gamble that they won't have a devastating attack on their critical infrastructure and vendors. However, as we often hear in the news data breaches and cyber-attacks are indiscriminate and can affect organizations large and small. Small and medium businesses who lack the resources and investment in systems can be taken down quite easily without the proper controls.
Cyberfense's approach is to make the cost of risk assessments free to the end customer by providing incentives for the third-party (or vendor). This approach empowers small and medium businesses (such as insurance brokers) to get the information they need to protect themselves.
Listen to the show to hear all the details on how you can get 1) free risk assessments and 2) get your third-party (or vendor) to respond to the risk assessments.
"Silicon Valley Insider with Keith Koo"
First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW
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Nov 23, 2018
Nov 23, 2018
37 min
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, we celebrate the Thanksgiving Holiday in the United States with a look back on 5 different organizations are making a difference by giving back in their own way.
1) Beena Ammanath, Global Vice President, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise for Innovation (Aritificial Intelligence, Data, IoT, Blockchain) and Founder and CEO of the non-profit: Humans for AI discusses why she started this organization to help women and minorities stay ahead of any potential career disruptions due to advances in AI (potentially taking away jobs).
You can find out more about Beena and Humans for AI from a previous show":
"Humans for AI with Beena Ammanath, Global VP - HPE Innovation | AI |Data Analytics | IoT | Blockchain"
Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-10-12-18-podcast
2) Jonathan Nelson, Founder and Managing Partner of the Hack Fund. Jonathan discusses why he started The Hack Fund which is to provide "Silicon Valley" capital to the unreached in developing nations. John's desire is to "get shoes to all the children in Latin America". Hear how his fund does not care about education, color or gender when considering who to invest in.
You can find out more about Jonathan Nelson and The Hack Fund from a previous show:
"Disrupting the V.C. Model with Keith Koo and special guest Jonathan Nelson, Founder and CEO of the Hack Fund"
Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-6-29-18-podcast
3) Hugh Molotsi, CEO of Ujama and former VP and Head of Innovation at Intuit, co-author of the "Intrapreneur's Journey". Hugh discusses how companies that give "unstructured time" benefits the employer (by retaining talent) and employee (they don't need to quit their job to work on their innovative idea).
More information on Hugh and the "Intrapreneur's Journey" can be found in previous show:
"Hugh Molotsi - Author of The Intrapreneur's Journey | CEO of Ujama | Former VP of Innovation - Intuit"
Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/hugh-molotsi-author-of-the-intrapreneurs-journey-f
4) Jerry Cuomo, VP and Distinguished Fellow, IBM Co-Founder and CTO of Hyperledger and former co-Founder and CTO of IBM Websphere. Jerry discusses "Blockchain for Good" and how innovations in public and private/permissioned blockchains have the potential to transform how we share our data with the concept of "Self-Sovereign Identity".
More about Jerry and how blockchain technology can transform lives and industries can be found in a previous show:
"Blockchain for Good: Jerry Cuomo, IBM Fellow, VP Blockchain Technologies"
Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-9-14-18-podcast
5) Jenny Dearborn, EVP of Human Resources, Talent, Leadership and Learning, SAP and author of "The Data Driven Leader: A Powerful Approach to Delivering Measurable Business Impact Through People Analytics" - Jenny discusses how "there's never been a better time to enter the tech job market" and how companies like SAP are advocating for alternative hiring programs (such as apprenticeships) to fill the tech worker shortage.
For more information on Jenny, apprenticeship programs, or her latest book, you can find more information on a previous show:
"Jenny Dearborn EVP HR & Talent, SAP on the "Tech Worker Shortage" - www.svin.biz"
Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-11-2-18-podcast
"Silicon Valley Insider with Keith Koo"
First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW
Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's
For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz
Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here:
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2
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Nov 22, 2018
Nov 22, 2018
30 sec
This clip is a 30 second promo for the 11/23 Silicon Valley Insider show.
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, we celebrate the Thanksgiving Holiday in the United States with a look back on 5 different organizations are making a difference by giving back in their own way.
1) Beena Ammanath, Global Vice President, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise for Innovation (Aritificial Intelligence, Data, IoT, Blockchain) and Founder and CEO of the non-profit: Humans for AI discusses why she started this organization to help women and minorities stay ahead of any potential career disruptions due to advances in AI (potentially taking away jobs).
You can find out more about Beena and Humans for AI from a previous show":
"Humans for AI with Beena Ammanath, Global VP - HPE Innovation | AI |Data Analytics | IoT | Blockchain"
Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-10-12-18-podcast
2) Jonathan Nelson, Founder and Managing Partner of the Hack Fund. Jonathan discusses why he started The Hack Fund which is to provide "Silicon Valley" capital to the unreached in developing nations. John's desire is to "get shoes to all the children in Latin America". Hear how his fund does not care about education, color or gender when considering who to invest in.
You can find out more about Jonathan Nelson and The Hack Fund from a previous show:
"Disrupting the V.C. Model with Keith Koo and special guest Jonathan Nelson, Founder and CEO of the Hack Fund"
Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-6-29-18-podcast
3) Hugh Molotsi, CEO of Ujama and former VP and Head of Innovation at Intuit, co-author of the "Intrapreneur's Journey". Hugh discusses how companies that give "unstructured time" benefits the employer (by retaining talent) and employee (they don't need to quit their job to work on their innovative idea).
More information on Hugh and the "Intrapreneur's Journey" can be found in previous show:
"Hugh Molotsi - Author of The Intrapreneur's Journey | CEO of Ujama | Former VP of Innovation - Intuit"
Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/hugh-molotsi-author-of-the-intrapreneurs-journey-f
4) Jerry Cuomo, VP and Distinguished Fellow, IBM Co-Founder and CTO of Hyperledger and former co-Founder and CTO of IBM Websphere. Jerry discusses "Blockchain for Good" and how innovations in public and private/permissioned blockchains have the potential to transform how we share our data with the concept of "Self-Sovereign Identity".
More about Jerry and how blockchain technology can transform lives and industries can be found in a previous show:
"Blockchain for Good: Jerry Cuomo, IBM Fellow, VP Blockchain Technologies"
Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-9-14-18-podcast
5) Jenny Dearborn, EVP of Human Resources, Talent, Leadership and Learning, SAP and author of "The Data Driven Leader: A Powerful Approach to Delivering Measurable Business Impact Through People Analytics" - Jenny discusses how "there's never been a better time to enter the tech job market" and how companies like SAP are advocating for alternative hiring programs (such as apprenticeships) to fill the tech worker shortage.
For more information on Jenny, apprenticeship programs, or her latest book, you can find more information on a previous show:
"Jenny Dearborn EVP HR & Talent, SAP on the "Tech Worker Shortage" - www.svin.biz"
Link: https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-11-2-18-podcast
"Silicon Valley Insider with Keith Koo"
First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW
Download the podcast at 2pm Friday's
For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz
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https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2
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Nov 16, 2018
Nov 16, 2018
39 min
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Renee Wang, CEO and Tina Kuan, CMO of Castbox.fm and sister company Contentbox.one talk about their innovative approach to content curation and monetization.
Hear how Renee got the idea to create Castbox when she was at Google as an app monetization expert.
"Castbox is an easy to use podcast player for podcast lovers, offering a super clean layout and easy to navigate interface. ... Our mission at Castbox is to make information accessible to everyone, anytime, anywhere."
Castbox has over 20,000,000 users on Google Play and ITunes in over 200 nations and content creators in over 130. Castbox is completely free for content creators.
For listeners and podcasters, Contentbox has unique features such as full transcription of all shows that is searchable. (e.g. search on a Silicon Valley Insider for key word and timestamp such as "blockchain" 13 minutes.
"ContentBox, is a blockchain-based infrastructure for the decentralized digital content industry. CastBox, an audio platform with over 50 million audio content and 15 million users, will be the first partner of ContentBox."
Renee and Tina discuss how Castbox focuses on 1) The Listener experience with advanced features and 2) The Podcaster experience through attracting listeners and monetization.
Contentbox is not just for podcasting but also publishers and video contenct creators.
Listen Friday 11/16 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Silicon Valley | San Francisco
Listen and subscribe to the "Silicon Valley Insider" Podcast ahead of time to make sure you don't miss this show.
First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW
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Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here:
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https://castbox.fm/channel/The-Silicon-Valley-Insider-Show-with-Keith-Koo-id1100209?country=us
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Nov 14, 2018
Nov 14, 2018
30 sec
On this week's Silicon Valley Insider, Renee Wang, CEO and Tina Kuan, CMO of Castbox and sister company Contentbox talk about their innovative approach to content curation and monetization.
Hear how Renee got the idea to create Castbox when she was at Google as a app monetization expert.
"Castbox is an easy to use podcast player for podcast lovers, offering a super clean layout and easy to navigate interface. ... Our mission at Castbox is to make information accessible to everyone, anytime, anywhere."
Castbox has over 20,000,000 users on Google Play and ITunes in over 200 nations and content creators in over 130.
Renee and Tina discuss how Castbox focuses on 1) The Listener experience with advanced features and 2) The Podcaster experience through attracting listeners and monetization.
Listen Friday 11/16 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW Silicon Valley | San Francisco
Listen and subscribe to the "Silicon Valley Insider" Podcast ahead of time to make sure you don't miss this show.
First airing is 1-2pm on 1220AM KDOW
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For questions or comments, email: info@svin.biz
Be sure to subscribe and listen to the podcast. You can also listen to past podcasts here:
Castbox:
https://castbox.fm/channel/The-Silicon-Valley-Insider-Show-with-Keith-Koo-id1100209?country=us
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/id1282637717?mt=2
Android, Spotify (and iTunes):
https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show
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Arifitical Intelligence, AI, Blockchain, Big Data, Data Analytics, Cyberrisk, Information security, VC, Venture Capital, Angel Investments, Fundraising, Capital Raising, Investor, Human Rights, Technology for Good, UN SDGs, Emerging Technology