Cisco Connect Greece 2014 was once again the most important Internet of Everything event in Greece. Approximately 1,700 executives from every industry, and every company department and level, had the opportunity to experience the modern technologies that set the course for a new working environment, create new business opportunities, and ultimately drive the transformation of society.

Cisco Connect topics ranged from deep-dive technical explorations to solving key business challenges. The event comprised keynote speeches, CEO and CIO discussion panels, business and technical parallel sessions, exhibition-demo area, interaction with customers, partners and key Cisco executives, as well as plenty of time for socialising and sharing experiences.

Cisco Connect 2014

Apparently I have completed >40 interviews which correspond to >10 hours of material as a humble Host at TechTalksCentral.com over 2014. 

I decided to pick a few of my favorites and create this short playlist. Thanks to the TTC production team all the interviewees were of course outstanding, so the choice was made purely on content that I seem to resonate with (also on clips that I didn't hate my speakage too much ;) )

Hope you'll enjoy too. 

Selected Interviews from Tech Talks Central

Dr Robert A. Stegwee, a Principal Consultant for IT in Healthcare with Capgemini Consulting, explains what we mean by digital Personal Health Record (PHR) and how it extends far beyond hospitals and traditional healthcare services. We also talk about the current status of PHR implementations, adoption, and use cases such as telemedicine; highlighting the central and critical role of PHR in the evolution and realization of eHealth in general. Interviewed by TTC’s George Voulgaris


TTC #55. What is the Digital Personal Health Record?

A fireside talk with Paul Papadimitriou reveals how he sees trends and announcements at Mobile World Congress 2014. As an unstoppable force he covers the race to the next billion (Facebook), low cost phones, platforms, mobile payments, ecosystems, apps, IoT, education, developers and everything new in the emerging markets. Not to be missed. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.


TTC #36. Paul Papadimitriou analyst & consultant talks mobile trends

The field of non-invasive Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) is gaining massive momentum as startups, companies and researchers are pushing hard. The race on BCI research is on improvement of the efficiency and the accuracy of the systems, while some of the first commercial efforts are testing the waters with several affordable devices already available to consumers. Professor Bin He, a pioneer in the field of Biomedical Engineering, talks about the ground-breaking research currently being done at the University of Minnesota in decoding brainwaves more accurately and reliably using non-invasive interfaces. We discuss the already impressive results of a  brain-controlled helicopter experiment, some of  the present challenges and the upcoming breakthroughs in the field of Brain Computer Interfaces. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks central.

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TTC #109 Your brain as the ultimate controller, Prof. Bin He

Data is changing healthcare. Health information systems deal with the entire pipeline of health related data from data capture/acquisition, information extraction, Data analytics and interpretation, presentation and decision support. We had the opportunity to talk with a distinguished guest Dr May D. Wang, Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. In the first part Dr Wang gives an overview of the role of data in healthcare and some of the key challenges in adopting and exploiting the benefits of new information systems in healthcare. We talk about the increasing role of personal and personalized healthcare solutions, the stakeholder landscape and the importance of managing change in legacy healthcare environments and ecosystems. At the last part of this interview Dr. Wang talks about the extensive educational and training activities that are currently in progress: from online Master-level courses in bio-medical data analytics for young scientists to patient training and hospitals/physicians decision support systems. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks central.

TTC #121 How Data and Data Analytics change healthcare, Dr. May D Wang

Cloud processing, storage and distribution is driving many core operations, services and applications in the IT infrastructures of modern organizations. As a result, public and private cloud deployments are an essential and critical piece of the IT puzzle. We talk with Enrico Mercadante, Cloud and Technical Operation Leader, Cisco South Europe, about Intercloud Fabric: the worldwide network of interconnected clouds. Driven by Cisco and a growing number of partners, Intercloud enables the standardization of hybrid clouds which seamlessly combine public and private cloud deployments. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central. 


TTC #135 Intercloud: bridging public and private clouds, Enrico Mercadante

The blueprint of corporate IT has changed dramatically during the last few years due to the advent of technologies like the cloud, virtualization and Software as a Service. Jacint Juhasz, Systems Engineer, South Eastern Europe mentions the Storage Virtualization technologies that have been co-created by NetApp and Cisco and the FlexPod, the core product of the line, the key benefits and how storage virtualization affects the modern complicated corporate IT infrastructure. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.  

TTC #128 Storage Virtualization at the heart of modern IT infrastructure, Jacint Juhasz

Natassa Mastellou, although very young in age, seems very passionate and knowledgeable in the truly ‘dark’ field of data analytics. Starting out as to how she landed in SAP Hellas and what an important opportunity the SAP graduate program was for her professional life; she continues to explain what solutions SAP offers for Big Data and how the different layers it offers, can help a business grow and make meaningful sense out of the data it collects. Interviewed by Vicki Kolovou for Tech Talks  Central

TTC #129 SAP Analytics to the rescue of Big Data, Natassa Mastellou

Internet of Things will bring new modes of interaction between devices and people. As intelligent electronics get embedded to items which are used outside offices and living rooms, there is a growing need to move beyond keyboards, screens and touch interfaces. Alexandros Christopoulos, Business Lead for Human Electric and Constantinos Tsolakidis, Tech Lead for Human Electric talk about their vision to build new user experiences for activities that cannot rely on traditional interfaces starting by their passion: cycling. A first prototype uses a combination of hardware; a jacket laden with indicators, tactile feedback mechanisms and connectivity with mobile phone and an accompanying mobile app to seamlessly augment the cycling experience with navigation, social and security features. Interviewed by George Voulgaris for Tech Talks Central.  

TTC #125 Creating new modes of interaction between devices and people, Human Electric

Security has always been a very “hot” issue in ICT and Nikos Mourtzinos, Security Account Manager, for Cisco Greece, Cyprus & Malta, tells us how Cisco ASA, a next generation firewall, protects its users much better against the ever increasing threats. He also talks about the security issues we are (and will be) facing in the era of Internet of Everything and suggests possible ways and solutions to most effectively overcome them. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central

TTC #126 Better protection thanks to new Cisco firewall, Nikos Mourtzinos

In the ICT World (and not only…) market intelligence firms tend to provide a much better overview of a sector, than bits and pieces of information collected from the companies themselves. Emir Halilovic, Program Manager for Networks & Infrastructure at IDC, gives us precious information about Software Defined Network and the benefits it brings to data centres managers and users. He agrees that the market hasn’t taken off yet, but he reminds us that we are still in a transformation period. Interviewed by Yannis Rizopoulos for Tech Talks Central

TTC #127 We are still in a transformation period, Emir Halilovic

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