The neXt Curve reThink Podcast
The official podcast channel of neXt Curve, a research and advisory firm based in San Diego founded by Leonard Lee focused on the frontier markets and business opportunities forming at the intersect of transformative technologies and industry trends. This podcast channel features audio programming from our reThink podcast bringing our listeners the tech and industry insights that matter across the greater technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) sector.
Topics we cover include:
-> Artificial Intelligence
-> Cloud & Edge Computing
-> Semiconductor Tech & Industry Trends
-> Digital Transformation
-> Consumer Electronics
-> New Media & Communications
-> Consumer & Industrial IoT
-> Telecommunications (5G, Open RAN, 6G)
-> Security, Privacy & Trust
-> Immersive Reality & XR
-> Emerging & Advanced ICT Technologies
Check out our research at www.next-curve.com.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 172
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Making Enterprise 5G a Thing (with Roy Chua)
5G is supposedly about enabling new industrial applications that will benefit from the industrial grade connectivity that 5G promises to bring. Yet, enterprise uptake of 5G is in the ve…
Privacy & The Metaverse (with Debbie Reynolds)
The metaverse is all the rage in the media today. There isn’t a single “tech company” that is not touting their hand in this thing that is just simply known as the next big thing. The …
Autonomous Technologies Summit 2021-The Future of Transportation
This is a replay of Leonard Lee's presentation at Fierce Electronics' Autonomous Technologies Summit 2021 virtual event.
In this Analyst Talk, Leonard goes over some of the key points o…
The State of Smart Transportation (with Bill Pugh)
Smart transportation is closely tied with smart city initiatives. What happens when vehicle travels from a smart city to one that might not be so smart? Will autonomous vehicles bridge …
RISC-V: Ready or Not? (with James Prior)
The semiconductor industry has never faced a more tumultuous and exciting time than now. Competition, innovations, and geopolitics are forcing tectonic shifts in the industry landscape.…
Zero Trust in a Trust-challenged World (with John Kindervag)
Today, you can’t talk about security without mentioning zero trust. What is it and why is it such a prevalent principle and practice that dominates cybersecurity speak whether you are t…
CBRS and the Neutral Host Opportunity (with Alex Besen)
When the FCC held the first auction of CBRS (Citizens Band Radio Service), it raised hopes that novel neutral host models will emerge that improve the economics of indoor cellular netwo…
XC Webcast 2021-NEOM (with Mansoor Hanif)
What if technology could not just make cities “smarter” but help us entirely reimagine the idea of a city of the future? NEOM is a visionary giga project that aspires to apply the most …
The Open RAN Movement (with Chris Pearson)
Excitement about the open RAN movement continues to rise as operators such as Rakuten proves out OpenRAN and O-RAN principles in their greenfield 5G network which went live last year. H…
US-China Tech Relations in a Biden Era (with Foong King Yew)
On January 20th, a new US Administration took office in the midst of a global pandemic, economic crisis and deteriorated Sino-US trade & security relations. During the Trump Administrat…
Placing 5G Bets for Innovation (with Paul Wilson)
What is 5G innovation? We hear about it all the time but 5G has yet to inspire innovation outside of the technology itself. Afterall, autonomous vehicles are nowhere near mainstream nor…
Rakuten's 5G Rollout (with Foong King Yew)
Rakuten recently launched their long-waited and highly-anticipated 5G network service. Despite a Covid-19 induced delay, Rakuten has managed to put up a 5G network in a very short time.…
Converged IT/CT Service Placement (with Roy Chua)
With the advent of Release 16 of 3GPP’s 5G technical specification and the introduction of SA (Standalone) 5G NR, operators can now explore the benefits of E2E network slicing. It will …
URLLC Myths and Realities (with Dean Bubley)
It has been almost two years since the first commercial deployment of 5G and we have seen operators around the world embark on the deployment of the next-gen mobile wireless network. In…
Digital Privacy - A Primer (with Debbie Reynolds)
Some argue that the freemium business models that are largely based on ad-driven revenue streams have had a democratizing effect by allowing seemingly free access to content and service…
5G Edge Computing (with Chris Pearson)
Arguably, edge computing is nothing new. Depending on your domain, you are familiar with the idea of edge computing. You might say you have been doing it forever. But what makes edge co…
RISC-V (with Joe Hoffman)
In November of 2019, the RISC-V Foundation moved their base to Switzerland as the US government continued its increasingly aggressive protectionist policies impacting tech trade globall…
The Intersect of Space & Tech (with Lisa Dreher)
The space industry is undergoing a great shift with some winners, some losers and significant change in the landscape. While billionaire-funded entrants like SpaceX, Blue Origin, Amazon…
Democratize Digital Twin (with Rob Tiffany)
The Digital Twin is considered by some the next big thing since network slicing. Rob Tiffany, renowned IoT pioneer established the non-profit Moab Foundation to bring the bigness of dig…
The IoT Pandemic Pivot (with Steve Brumer)
In the modern digital age, there has been no moment that has been as disruptive as what humanity is experiencing today amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. The IoT world has been shocke…