Peggy Smedley Show

Peggy and Alissa Baier-Lentz, cofounder and COO, Kintra Fibers, talk about the fashion industry and how it has historically been one of the most polluting, but there is hope for the future. She says …

Peggy and Jemma Barbarise, chief operating officer, LifeBrand, talk about how the company finds any inappropriate social media posts from the past and deletes them, if they are harmful. The objective…

Peggy talks about some new initiatives underway to boost the nation’s cybersecurity. She discusses what has been happening in the past two weeks and shares her thoughts about what needs to happen nex…

Peggy and Cindy Jordan, CEO and founder, Pyx Health, talk about why she is focusing her career on treating loneliness. She explains what we know about loneliness is it has nothing to do with the amou…

Peggy and Kaitlin Frank, superintendent, Dome Construction and cofounder of eMOD, discuss what led to the development of the company and a construction safety platform. She says eMOD is based off a g…

Peggy shares what you can expect on the roads this weekend. She discusses the efforts being taken at both the state and federal levels—explaining this is just the beginning—while also urging people t…

Peggy and Howard Brown, founder and CEO, RingDNA, talk about what makes organizations tick—their ability to connect with their customers. He explains how technology can deliver expectations to the B2…

Peggy and Adam Weinberg, founder & CTO, FirstPoint Mobile Guard, talk about security and the IoT (Internet of Things). He says everything is going to be connected over the internet but having everyth…

Peggy talks all about sustainability and recycled materials, saying we have lived in a single-use throwaway culture for far too long. She believes we have reached the end of our linear take-make-wast…

Peggy and David Witkowski, IEEE Senior Member and co-chair of the deployment working group, IEEE Future Networks, talk about where we are today with 5G. He says 5G deployment is a multipronged approa…

Peggy and Peter Linder, head of 5G marketing North America, Ericsson, talk about the future of 5G. He says the two reasons we talk about 5G so much is because the buildout of the network has reached …

Peggy defines what it means to think global and act local, sharing specific examples of how this is being done. She says information enables us to see what is being done or not being done at a large-…

Peggy and Henry Petroski, Aleksandar S. Vesic distinguished professor emeritus of civil engineering, Duke University, talk about infrastructure and the Highway Trust Fund. He says the interstate high…

Peggy and Bill Mann, CEO, Styra, talk about how the overall security market is getting more complex. He says as we get more technology, there are more moving parts.

They also discuss:

• Why isn’t auth…

Are our roads and transportation systems ready for the mass return to office? Peggy answers, citing recent research from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and RoadBotics.

She also discusses:

• T…

Peggy and Giles Sutton, interim co-CEO, CEDIA, talk about spending time at home—and how this has changed our world—and how the pandemic changed the home technology market. He says we have seen a seis…

Peggy and Roy Dagan, SecuriThings, talk about how he got to where he is today—and how his company can help during these times. They talk about the history of the lessons learned in traditional web ar…

Peggy talks about the history of Harald Haas and LiFi and explains how LiFi has been adopted by the military recently. She walks through the LiFi definition, saying it is wireless communications usin…

Peggy and Dennis Holzer, executive director, PowerHouse Alliance, talk about how homes have changed in the last 10 years—especially with the advent of electronics. He says you have to make some decis…

Peggy and Junade Ali, Consultant, Haystack Analytics, talk about road traffic safety and the potential burnout of software engineers. He shares his journey with road traffic sensor networks and behav…