Momenta I Digital Thread

In this week’s podcast, Ken Forster interviews Duncan Greatwood, CEO of Xage Security, the first and only blockchain-protected security platform for the Industrial IOT. (We are proud investors behind Xage). Duncan is a serial founder and successful CEO, having sold Topsy Labs, the leader in social media search and analytics to Apple in 2013, and PostPath, the email, collaboration and security company to Cisco in 2008. Previously, Duncan held Vice President roles in Marketing, Corporate Development and Sales at Virata, as well as earlier engineering and product marketing positions at Madge Networks. Duncan holds a B.A. (Mathematics) and M.Sc. (Computer Science) from Oxford University and an M.B.A. from London Business School.

#125 Conversation with Matt Bigge , Partner at Crosslink Capital - Investing in Plausible Science Fiction

Thomas Nicholls is an experienced and recognized digital marketing leader and public speaker on IoT and AI solutions for industry. As Executive Vice President of Communications at Sigfox, Thomas co-invented the term LPWA and played a strategic role in building the founding ecosystems for low-power IoT connectivity and first large-scale deployments. As CMO of companies such as Delair and Alteia, Thomas lead the marketing strategy for startups driving the industry's use of drones and Machine Learning solutions to extract business insights for companies across a wide range of industries. Today, Thomas is a full-time startup advisor and helps companies around the world improve their marketing strategies.

Baz Khuti, Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor QiO Technologies, a company helping make the Industry 4.0 vision a reality in conversation with Ken Forster. A technology and business visionary, Baz has held executive leadership positions at GE as CTO Cloud, Emerson Electric as Chief Architect and Invensys as Chief Architect. Over 30 years he has brought to market, leading software products from idea to industry standard, with six industrial software patents and several prestigious industry awards across the UK, US and Asia. Baz holds a MSc in computer science.

Find out how the future of Internet Of Energy innovation (IoE) is evolving and the impact this digital accelerator has had on IoE. In this week’s podcast, we interview Ryan Warena, Co-Founder and President of Geli.  A company built on the Internet Of Energy , which happens to be one of our earliest investments.  Ryan brings over 10 years of experience in computational and battery R&D, as well as energy storage business and control platform technologies, with several patents in energy storage and energy computing technologies. Ryan holds degrees in chemical engineering from UC Santiago, a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a post-doc research at Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC and MIT. He loves long-lived energy networks and his goal in life is to see the world operated on a renewably energized Internet of Energy.

Find out what new capabilities organizations need to be successful in the digital economy? In this week’s podcast, we interview Ryan McManus, a globally recognized expert speaker, writer, educator, and adviser on digital transformation, emerging technologies, and the future of strategy.  Over the past 25 years, Ryan's focus has been on developing, designing and deploying new digital businesses, following the thread of emerging technology capabilities. During his career, Ryan served as President for Everything,  one of the world’s leading IoT Smart products platform company, was Strategy CCO for Accenture’s digital transformation business. In his current role,  Ryan is the founder and CEO of Techtonic io, a strategic growth options SAS platform.

Find out how Conversation Labs is applying Sound Data technology to Monitor Water Consumption In this week’s podcast, we interview Mark Kovscek, CEO of Conversation Labs, a company providing acoustic water conservation technologies. Conversation Labs is one of Momenta Ventures' recent investments and is the frontier of using sound data to resolve problems. They provide solutions to monitor water consumption, detect leaks, and provide insights that help customers optimize conservation measures. Mark describes himself as a mathematician, inventor, and entrepreneur. He has spent his career consulting, building products, and delivering solutions to address multibillion-dollar challenges. His passion is mathematics and using advance analytics to address real-world problems.

#119. Conversation with Yabing Wang - Deputy CISO at Carrier Corporation

#118 Conversation with Guido Jouret - former Chief Digital Officer of ABB, Inc.

#117 podcast. Leading from the Edge - Conversation with Frank Klemens Corporate Venture Capital | Lean Partnerships | Bringing the Outside In | Connector and Growth Leader

#116 Conversation with Tim Williams - CEO of NanoThings

In this week’s episode, we feature Joseph Bradley, President of Technology and Digital for NEOM, someone who is truly building the future.

#114 Conversation with - Thomas Uhlenbruck Founder & CEO of Pulse Industrial

#113 Podcast. Conversation with Joseph Biron - GM of IoT products at PTC

#112 Conversation with Eric Litt - Global Senior Executive Driving Operational Excellence