Peggy Smedley Show

Peggy and John Havlik, co-author, “The Leadership Killer: Reclaiming Humility in an Age of Arrogance” returns to the show to talk about hubris. He says hubris is the root of all evil that makes good …

With AVs (automated vehicles) growing at a fast rate, Peggy details the U.S. DOT new initiative that provides an online public facing forum for sharing automated driving system testing activities and…

Caroline Blazovsky, president and founder, My Healthy Home, joins Peggy to share her story about how she got into the healthy home movement and how allergies led her to explore this more. She says ho…

Peggy and George Thomas, founder and managing partner, New Urbana, define what is new during this time, how technology has progressed, and how we are having society change en masse. He says in chaos …

Peggy talks about a recent ransomware attack in Knoxville—and other cities that have been attacked. She says city governments are often particularly vulnerable to cyber-attacks.

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Peggy and Laurent Soubielle, IoT agency North America director, Sigfox, talk about how having the insights on data are critical today. He says it is not hardware; it is not about technology; it is co…

Peggy and Michael Freeman, founder and CEO, Ocutrx Vision Technologies, talk about how technology can help strengthen eye sight and help people read emails and see faces again.

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Peggy continues the conversation on a circular economy, digging into what companies are doing to move toward more sustainability. She shares what is being done in different technology companies.

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Roughly 41 billion devices are expected to come online in 2027. With an extreme amount of IoT (Internet of Things) devices coming online, Peggy and Pamela Cortez, Azure IoT senior PM, Microsoft, talk…

Peggy discusses sustainability through the lens of a circular economy. She says sustainability is about finding ways to meet the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future gener…

Peggy and Niraj Jha, professor of electrical engineering, Princeton University, talk about smart healthcare and how it will become more proactive very soon. He says the word smart in smart healthcare…

Peggy and Jonathan Birdwell, regional director for public policy in EMEA, Economist Intelligence Unit, talk about research that looked at the potential of the IoT across six industries including ener…

Peggy asks this question: Was the Google Quayside failure really a result of COVID-19? She says Quayside was about to become the most measurable community in the world and its failure was due to surv…

Peggy and Kai Zheng, associate professor of informatics and associate adjunct professor of emergency medicine, University of California, Irvine, talk about how to document, consume, and use informati…

Peggy and Todd Mozer, president, CEO, founder and chairman, Sensory, Inc., talk about speech recognition and a new biometric platform for the COVID-19 era. He says voice control is going to become mo…

Peggy talks about Microsoft Build 2020. She gets listeners up to speed on what went on in the digital conference and shares about high level trends, as well as specific announcements.

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Peggy and Sam George, corporate vice president of Azure IoT, Microsoft, talk about the company’s first digital event, Microsoft Build. They also discuss how Microsoft responded to COVID-19 and he say…

Peggy talks about the fact that there has not been a lot of real data about how the pandemic is impacting the IoT (Internet of Things). She shares information about a new report on how the pandemic i…

Peggy and Jo Peterson, VP of Cloud & Security, Clarity360, talk about challenges facing today’s CIO. She says technology can positively impact a business in a number of different ways and is an integ…

Peggy and John Havlik, co-author, “The Leadership Killer: Reclaiming Humility in an Age of Arrogance,” talk about leadership. He says every good leader has to take care of themselves, produce results…