Luminaries - Talking to the Brightest Minds in Tech
True visionaries in technology focus on enabling positive human progress. We invite you to meet exceptional technology leaders from our analyst, partner and customer communities as well as from the Dell Technologies family of IT companies. Hosts Mark Schaefer and Douglas Karr will be your guides on an expedition plotting the paths of IT transformation and business growth.
- Update frequency
- every 19 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 43
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2019
Turning Tech into Treasure...With Nikki Reed
What You'll Hear In This Episode
- Inspiration behind her environmentally sustainable company, BaYou
with Love - How her jewelry line of rings, earrings and cufflinks are
all comprised of upcycled gold …
Artificial Intelligence...Driving In the Streets
What You'll Hear In This Episode
- How machine learning builds a robot's social intelligence
- How AI and IoT could make cities more accessible, smarter
- How data being used to develop autonomous vehicle…
Data So Powerful…It's Saving Lives
What You'll Learn In This Episode
- "The origins of human genome sequencing
- A single patient's DNA requires about 4 terabytes of storage
- The stack of paper required to write one human genome would be …
Augmented Reality… Enhancing Human Effort
Imagine you’re remodeling a building and you need to reroute the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. You put on a pair of glasses, look up, and see the entire proposed new duct …
IT Transformation…What's the ROI?
Spend Less, Do More, Move Ahead with IT Transformation
It’s easy to assume that investing in new technology will help your business get ahead of the competition. But there’s more to IT transformation…
How does NATO manage IT?
The technology environment for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is incredibly complex: 26 data centers, 18,000 users, 31,000 devices. Factor in 29 different nations speaking dozens of la…
Who Drives Innovation…in Your Business?
The popular perception of an “inventor" is someone sitting by themselves, racking their brain until a light bulb comes on over their head. But that kind of lightning-strike innovation, one person cre…
Create a Culture…That Sparks Innovation
Finding new uses for existing technologies can be a powerful force for innovation. For example, the same technology that saves stranded astronauts can help firefighters navigate smoke-filled building…
Better Data, Higher Speed for McLaren
Formula One racing is all about the science of speed. The driver is the engineer who uses data from over 200 sensors for analysis to produce a winning team. McLaren Racing. CEO Zak Brown dives into n…
Goaaaaaaal or not? Your Data... knows!
Soccer fans insist on instant accuracy from officials, but the human eye can misjudge a goal. GoalControl CEO Daniel Marchwinski explains how technology can instantly share the validity of a goal in …
An Intelligent Environment… For Your Business
What do artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual reality, and augmented reality have in common? Each of these technologies will revolutionize the way we interact and partner with machines a…
Your Business Data... For Good
Picture a farm that uses 95% less water and grows up to 390 times more food. Don’t imagine a wide-open field of grain; these crops grow without soil or sunlight. AeroFarms CEO and Co-Founder David Ro…
Information Superiority is Your Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity can seem overwhelming, as more data moves into the cloud and internet-enabled devices proliferate. Possibly even more daunting than dealing with potential threats is evaluating the hund…
Displaying... The Future of Work
The future of work is evolving rapidly with technology innovation. New jobs are being created, new work environments are being designed, new work tools are becoming available. Technology is at the co…
The Power of Compute... At the Edge
The compute location pendulum has been swinging from a centralized to a distributed model, from the cloud to the edge. New ways of analyzing data securely in real-time are being developed, driven by …
Untethered Mixed Reality... On the Edge
“People care about the technology and tools in their workplace more than any other perks.” Sam Burd, who leads Dell’s Client Solutions Group, takes the research behind this statement very seriously a…
Connecting Intelligent Things... With Your IT
Learn how Dell’s CTO, Liam Quinn, sees the future of the Internet of Intelligent Things, IoT, augmented reality, virtual reality and artificial intelligence leveraging new technological developments …
Your IT... Hyperconverged
Trey Layton got his start in the military as an imagery analyst working for General Schwarzkopf during Desert Storm. His special skills of interpreting images led to him finding the Blackhawk helicop…
Smart IT Connects & Protects... Your Data
Rooted in the mindset of an engineer, a scientist, a business development expert and an entrepreneur, Dr. Orna Berry analyzes business challenges from multiple angles to ensure that the IT and servic…
Hello Alice! Scale your business... with AI
Transforming your business into a digital business is hard. It requires transforming the company's culture, business processes and, most certainly, the IT organization.
Michele Perras, who leads Stra…