Peggy Smedley Show

Peggy and Çağlayan Arkan, vice president, Manufacturing Industry, Microsoft, talk about manufacturing of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. He says manufacturing is about innovation, building capacity, …

Peggy and Michael Kelly, senior research analyst, digital innovations, Guidehouse Insights, discuss advanced metering infrastructure and the latest innovations. He talks about the importance of edge …

Peggy shares the five things you need to know about sustainability in 2021 and beyond. She counts them down from five to one and gives her thoughts on why as individuals, and as companies, we need to…

Peggy and Craig Apatov, managing partner, Ascension Growth and Innovation Strategies, talk about building brands and how to help old companies grow. He says we as individuals—executives or managers—a…

Peggy and Mark Pesce, futurist, entrepreneur, and author of Augmented Reality: Unboxing Tech's Next Big Thing, talk about AR (augmented reality). He says the technology is doing to space what we have…

Peggy shares some ways we can redistribute food rather than waste it by tapping into technology and innovation. She urges urban and rural food growers to put greater emphasis on the value of their fo…

Peggy and Ian Barkin, chief strategy and marketing officer, Sykes Enterprises, talk about some of the biggest trends on the horizon for 2021. He says there are two different elements that define what…

Peggy and Christian Connolly, CEO, twICEme, talk about the story of the company and product—and how it grew out of the need for vital information. He says it aims to collect vital information and mak…

On the 700 episode, Peggy makes a big announcement—she wrote a book: Sustainable in a Circular World. She explains how environmental, social, and financial need to come together to build up the digit…

Peggy and Walid Ali, artificial intelligence in manufacturing, Microsoft, talk about AI (artificial intelligence), sustainability, and more. He says we need to think about immediate opportunities tha…

Peggy and Edward Sanchez, senior analyst, global automotive practice, Strategy Analytics, talk about the electric plug-in market. He says a lot of it is regulatory driven and infrastructure is all ov…

Peggy talks all about cybersecurity, asking and answering the question: who is responsible? The employer? Or the employee? She says it seems there is a bit of a tug of war going on here.

She also dis…

Peggy and Sam Barker, lead analyst, Juniper Research, talk about how he sees the IoT (Internet of Things) fitting into the broader concept of the industrial IoT. He says data is the root of all decis…

Peggy and Erica Baird and Karen Wagner, founders of Lustre.net, talk about redefining retirement for modern career women and how to come together to overcome ageism in retirement years.

They also dis…

Peggy talks about the young, up-and-coming generation she has coined—the Screeners—which is being taught and raised by computers. She spends some time postulating if these Screeners have to be self-t…

Peggy and Vijay Janapa Reddi, associate professor John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard, talk about TinyML. He talks about key differences and how on small devices you w…

Peggy and Brian Turmail, VP, public affairs & strategic initiatives, Associated General Contractors of America, talk about the impact of COVID-19 on construction.

They also discuss:

• Why we are strug…

Where is 5G headed? Peggy answers, taking a close look at industries such as manufacturing, first response, retail, and more. She also shares a few things that some of the big providers in the space …

Peggy and Jennifer Clark, professor and head of the city and regional planning section at The Knowlton School of Architecture in the College of Engineering, Ohio State University, talk about the need…

Peggy and David G. White Jr, author, Disrupting Corporate Culture, talk about corporate culture change and that most of the ways we approach culture in the business world don’t really work. He explai…