Peggy Smedley Show

In 2025, each connected person will have at least one data interaction every 18 seconds. Peggy shares that we are expecting a whole lot of data traffic and we need to answer the question: How are we …

Peggy and Joshua Peschel, assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering, Iowa State University, talk about the vast amount of data that exists in agriculture and how services that ar…

Peggy and Michael Ludden, futurist, speaker, product leader and developer platform expert, global head of developer advocacy, and principal augmented reality advocate, Bose, talk about how technology…

Peggy explains why the data center market is growing. She says there is increasing demand from hyperscale cloud users and that hyperscale data centers are going up all over the world. Further, the gr…

Continuing the conversation, Peggy and Jaishree Subramania, Sr. Director, Azure IoT, Microsoft, talk about the next wave in the IoT, which will see leading companies break away from the pack. They ta…

Peggy and Jaishree Subramania, Sr. Director, Azure IoT, Microsoft, talk about IoT adoption and security and findings in its new report. She also addresses that there are three key obstacles that thre…

Peggy highlights numbers related to IoT (Internet of Things) security and adoption from a new Microsoft report. She shares adoption numbers and address the fact that there is an IoT skills gap that i…

Peggy and Scott Schober, CEO, Berkeley Varitronics Systems, and author of Hacked Again, discuss how credit card skimmers have evolved. He says we have to be extra careful at unfamiliar gas stations b…

Are we all screwed? Peggy and Richard Forno, senior lecturer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMBC) Dept. of computer science and electrical engineering, discuss the reality of cybersecurity…

Peggy continues the discussion on AI (artificial intelligence), offering tips. She asks: If an organization hasn’t implemented a strategy, is it really prioritizing AI? She also digs into the top two…

Peggy and Barbara Roche, managing partner, SpeakWell Partners, talk about inspiring and leading a team. She shares the term VUCA, which means volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous, and that if …

Infrastructure projects have been plagued with waste and inefficiency. Peggy and Adam Klatzkin, vice president, business development for iTwin Services, Bentley Systems, discuss the impact of the dig…

The bad guys are out there! Peggy shares the latest on cyber intelligence, indicating that nearly 70% of incidents are due to human error. She asks: Can your employees spot a fake email? She digs int…

Peggy and James Arthur Ray, entrepreneur, author, life and business coach, talk about why leaders are unfit to lead in today’s world, citing several reasons including the fact that leaders don’t make…

Peggy and Geoff Mulligan, CTO for IIoT, Jabil, and co-founder, Skylight Digital, discuss the inter-operability problem we face today and the need for open standards. He says we need to get out of our…

Peggy defines zero trust, saying at its core it is an approach to securing all access across an enterprise. She says zero trust systems never trust other systems, giving an analogy. She also walks th…

Peggy and Joshua Peschel, assistant professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering, Iowa State University, talk about cybersecurity in businesses, such as agriculture. He says security gets tri…

Peggy and Ron Chebra, vice president of grid modernization, EnerNex, chat about how it is becoming so simple to set up an IoT device, and that we need to be acutely aware and manage all of the things…

Peggy discusses AI (artificial intelligence) hurdles, such as cyber concerns, and why it is far better to know the hurdles up front. She also digs into the numbers, explaining that AI will soon be pa…

Peggy and Ella Atkins, IEEE senior member and professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan, talk about the ways people can be involved with technology—on earth or in space. Atkins…