Our guest Dr. Michael Roshak works as an Enterprise Architect for Bankers Healthcare Group - a fintech company that helped hospitals and doctors with financial services during the pandemic.  And as part of the Microsoft AI & IoT Insider Lab, Mike ran code-a-thons for Microsoft developers and from which recently wrote the book, Artificial Intelligence for IoT Cookbook.

In this episode, Mike and Bruce discuss:

• Voice activation and privacy concerns.
• The air gap DMZ zone used in AI security.
• The primary importance of upfront business planning for AI success.
• The balance of edge and cloud computing for IoT AI.
• The concept of duty cycles and why they’re important to use as a precursor to anomaly detection and predictive maintenance.
• Not reinventing the wheel and getting help from your cloud and silicon providers.
• The minimum data science team required for AI success.

Related links you may find useful:

• • Season 2: Episodes and show notes
  • Season 2 book: The Private Equity Digital Operating Partner
  • Season 1: Episodes and show notes
  • Season 1 book: IoT Inc
  • Training: Smart digital transformation certification

Our guest Dean Rakic is the Chief Scientist at TAAL Distributed Information Technologies where he’s a Blockchain scientist.  He has over 25 years of experience in computer science – predominantly in healthcare - and 10 years of experience in Blockchain within various technology solutions.

In this episode, Dean and Bruce discuss:

• The difference between crypto and blockchain.
• The technical and business benefits associated with blockchain’s decentralized structure.
• The important difference between security and trust.
• The function of bitcoin miners.
• The differences between private and public blockchains.
• Why data stored in a blockchain has the power of immutability.

Related links you may find useful:

• • Season 2: Episodes and show notes
  • Season 2 book: The Private Equity Digital Operating Partner
  • Season 1: Episodes and show notes
  • Season 1 book: IoT Inc
  • Training: Smart digital transformation certification

Our guests Raymond and Michael Volpatt are brothers and co-owners of Volpatt Construction, a commercial and institutional construction company based in Pittsburgh. They are also co-founders of ShareInTech, a construction workforce optimization, building management, and asset supervision company.

In this episode, Ray, Mike and Bruce discuss:

• How wearables, beacons and geofencing work and how they have transformed safety at the Volpatt worksites.
• How Volpatt is “eating their own dogfood’ by using solutions by ShareinTech and how that forms a virtuous cycle.
• How the tech was adopted by their construction workforce and lessons learned.
• How an increase safety measures reduces the cost of labor by improving a firm’s EMR (Experience Modification Rating) which in turn reduces worker’s compensation premiums.
• Quantifying the value created and costs incurred to implement a smart safety solution.

Related links you may find useful:

• • Season 2: Episodes and show notes
  • Season 2 book: The Private Equity Digital Operating Partner
  • Season 1: Episodes and show notes
  • Season 1 book: IoT Inc
  • Training: Smart digital transformation certification