Be Ready Right Now
Home working is not so much mainstream as compulsory but it may not be as secure as a lot of people hope. Mike Wood of Versa Networks discusses the issues with Near Futurist Guy Clapperton.
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It’s 2021 so sometime this year, surely, we’ll be able to return to our offices safely. Hold on though – Kristine Dahl Steidel, VP of VMware, has research that says people don’t actually want to go back.
She discusses findings and motivations with #nearfuturist Guy Clapperton and considers the shape of the workforce from now on.
2020 is done, dusted and can close the door on its way out, it won’t be missed. But as we look forward to vaccines and a gradual return to normality it’s worth taking stock of where your data is stored, who has it and what they’re using it for. Chris Strand of Intsights talks Near Futurist Guy Clapperton through some of the issues.
And a happy New Year to our listeners – we saw huge growth in 2020, welcome aboard and let’s see where 2021 takes us!
Anders Kohn of Aula speaks to Guy Clapperton about how students need more interactivity in their lectures, particularly in the online world. It’s not about a generation gap, however – he discusses learnings from Facebook, Slack and how the changes had been coming anyway.
This fortnightly podcast will now take a break until the New Year as the next one would otherwise be in the week before Christmas and nobody wants that! Have a great time, weird year that it’s been, and I hope everyone comes back rested and refreshed.
We’ve been working from home for months and there is more of it to come. Just to cheer us up even more Chris Morales, head of security analytics for Vectra, says a load of our commonly-used apps may be insecure.
He offers tips on what to do about this and they’re not difficult.
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Coronavirus has changed many things, one of which is that business and public sector have had to think “digital first”. Returning guest Galina Antova, co-founder of Claroty, discusses how organisations coped depending on whether they were already thinking in those terms or suddenly had it forced on them.
Antova is actually the first guest to come back for more on this podcast – which is as good a way as any to mark the fact that it’s just turned two years old! Thank you for tuning in.
Where are we with sustainable energy and how can we improve? James Kirk, CTO of ENSEK, talks figures, sustainability and data with near futurist Guy Clapperton.
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Author Kate Baucherel discusses her new book, Blockchain Hurricane, along with banking, durian fruit and science fiction writing with Near Futurist presenter Guy Clapperton.
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Drones are here already and there are going to be a lot more of them, very quickly. In this episode I speak to Amit Ganjoo, founder and CEO of drone management company ANRA Technology about the practicalities of having loads of vehicles in the air.
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A short while ago automated consultations with doctors were conducted over Skype and used video, but this doesn’t solve the problem. Dr. Murray Ellender of eConsult explains to Guy Clapperton why the format needs to change – and looks to adopt a new model for sustainability.
Note to non-British listeners: “GP” or “General Practitioner” is what we call a family doctor in the UK; NHS is a common abbreviation for National Health Service, the state-run health service in the UK. If anything else isn’t clear to you in this podcast, it’s my fault!