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At both Early Adopter Research and in his Forbes column, Early Adopter’s Dan Woods has covered the need for enterprises to create cybersecurity portfolios extensively. As with a financial portfolio, a well managed cybersecurity portfolio diversifies risk across a number of assets that align to an individual or company’s goals. But whether in finance or […]

December 6, 2018

In today’s episode of Early Adopter Research, Dan Woods speaks with Chetan Dube, CEO of IPSoft. The conversation covers AI adoption and productization and IPSoft’s unique approach to these topics. 2:20 – What is the current landscape with productized and non-productized adoption of AI 4:45 – Why AI needs to become sentient 7:30 – The […]

December 4, 2018

On this episode of the Early Adopter Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with Looker’s CEO Frank Bien and Chief Product Officer Nick Caldwell about how the company’s LookML language allows users to build deep and wide data models using all existing data. Many of the new paradigms for accessing data are also now being connected to […]

November 27, 2018

In this episode of the Early Adopter Research Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with Alexander Jarasch, the head of the German Center for Diabetes Research, about the power of knowledge graphs and how they’re helping in the fight against diseases. The conversation covers the following topics: 1:40 – Why graphs seemed like an appealing technology to […]

October 25, 2018

In this episode of the Early Adopter Research Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with Neo4j’s Jeff Morris. Woods had participated in Neo4j’s graph tour and this conversation draws on that experience to discuss the power and potential of graph technology, and putting that technology into production. Their conversation covers: 2:40 – What is the checklist for […]

October 23, 2018

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Dan Woods brings the context of more than 25 years of experience in technology and journalism to his speaking engagements. Having interviewed more than 1,000 technology experts and authored more than 20 books, Dan adapts his vision of making technology work to virtually any context.

Consulting

If you are facing a thorny IT problem, Dan Woods can probably solve it. Dan’s background as a CTO and his 25 years in the technology industry enable him to create new technology architectures and debug organizational problems while allowing everyone to be heard.