ISMAC is Where It's At: Immersive, Security, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud!
FountainBlue's October 12 When She Speaks event was on the topic of ISMAC is Where It's At: Immersive, Security, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud!
We were fortunate to have such a talented and diverse panel, so passionate about innovation and leadership. Although they represented a wide range of companies, backgrounds, education and roles, they had much in common.
Each was curious and passionate about math and science and learning, even from a young age, even when a technology is complex and evolving.
Each was brave enough to keep raising the bar, competent enough to keep delivering results, connected enough to keep sharing results to larger circles of others.
Each shifted and evolved and grew in many ways, trying different technologies, roles, and companies.
Each continued to push the technology envelope in new ways, with an eye on the needs of the customer, and an eye on the needs of the market.
Each has delivered tangible and useful products and services to happy customers and growing markets, and plans to do so on a grander scale.
Below is their compiled advice on how to lead innovation, wherever you're sitting at the table.
Keep taking measured risks and reaching for stars. Technology will keep changing the world.
Surround yourself with people who can support you, and reach out to them frequently and strategically.
Find or create projects which would allow you to collaborate with others.
Be highly focused on what you're doing AND deeply connected with others in your partner ecosystem.
Map your direction, chase with enthusiasm and perseverance.
Be detailed enough to do a great job and productive enough to get things done efficiently.
Manage the relationships and networks around your project and proactively manage support for your innovation project at the meeting and prior to the meeting.
Build relationships before you need favors and resources.
Build a brand and reputation of success worthy of funding and supporting.
Try the entrepreneur, corporate AND investor paths and see where you best fit.
Identify opportunities to integrate technologies across products, across teams, across companies.
It's exciting how technology has shaped our world in the last few decades. And there are so many more opportunities ahead. We concluded the discussion with some thoughts on how to remain human in this digital age:
Core to the success of any innovation is the relationship between the people collaborating on the project. And core to building deep relationships is genuine, open, transparent communication - like the conversation we had at this event.
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Please join me in thanking our gracious hosts at PayPal and our panelists for FountainBlue's October 12 When She Speaks event, on the topic of ISMAC is Where It's At: Immersive, Security, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud.
Facilitator Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue
Panelist Serpil Bayraktar, Principal Engineer, Chief Architect's Office - Development, Cisco
Panelist Preethy Padman, Director of Business Operations - Global and Strategic Accounts, Nutanix
Panelist Gayathri Radhakrishnan, Head of Product, Catalina Labs, Inc
Panelist Arthi Rajan, Senior Director, Strategic Risk Partnerships and Credit, PayPal