//podcastplus.net/feed/the-epam-continuum-podcast-network~42663eec EPAM Continuum's award-winning podcasts feature interviews with people practicing innovation in various forms, digging into their ability to deliver results. Repeatedly. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:27:47 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2159751297-futuremadereal-the-resonance-test-98-gary-rivlin-author-of-ai-valley.mp3 AI is not as new as we think, says Gary Rivlin, author of *AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash in on Artificial Intelligence.* As our non-artificial guest on *The Resonance Test,* Rivlin tells host Barry Briggs that back in the 1950s, it was thought that AI was always right around the corner. There would be a gathering of technologists who said: “Give us 10 years and we'll have this thing largely solved.” Which meant, says Rivlin: “AI was ‘a decade away’ for about 70 years.”Rivlin notes that recommendation engines and Google Translate have been operating for a while. “Google Translate has been around since 2015. That's AI, but no one really thinks of it as AI.” However, when ChatGPT strutted onto the scene, it was something else. Rivlin says: “We were talking to it. Suddenly: AI that you could converse with. It's a whole different beast.”The builders of that beast are his topic in *AI Valley.* Rivlin, who was a reporter for *WIRED* in the dot-com days, return... Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:26:02 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2159751297-futuremadereal-the-resonance-test-98-gary-rivlin-author-of-ai-valley.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2159751297-futuremadereal-the-resonance-test-98-gary-rivlin-author-of-ai-valley.mp3 AI is not as new as we think, says Gary Rivlin, author of *AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash in on Artificial Intelligence.* As our non-artificial guest on *The Resonance Test,* Rivlin tells host Barry Briggs that back in the 1950s, it was thought that AI was always right around the corner. There would be a gathering of technologists who said: “Give us 10 years and we'll have this thing largely solved.” Which meant, says Rivlin: “AI was ‘a decade away’ for about 70 years.”Rivlin notes that recommendation engines and Google Translate have been operating for a while. “Google Translate has been around since 2015. That's AI, but no one really thinks of it as AI.” However, when ChatGPT strutted onto the scene, it was something else. Rivlin says: “We were talking to it. Suddenly: AI that you could converse with. It's a whole different beast.”The builders of that beast are his topic in *AI Valley.* Rivlin, who was a reporter for *WIRED* in the dot-com days, return... Tue, 26 Aug 2025 18:26:02 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2159751297-futuremadereal-the-resonance-test-98-gary-rivlin-author-of-ai-valley.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2116209810-futuremadereal-the-resonance-test-96-the-power-of-partnership-with-colleen-kapase-and-elaina-shekhter.mp3 In the age of AI, there’s no going it alone. Partnership is now an absolute necessity. This conversation between Colleen Kapase, VP of Channels and Partner Programs at Google Cloud, and Elaina Shekhter, EPAM’s Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, demonstrates the value of partnership done right. Their back-and-forth embodies the enduring partnership, and unshakable trust, that Goole Cloud and EPAM have built over the years. Kapase notes that the conversations she's had with partners were often about modernizing cloud infrastructure rather than more nuanced AI discussions. No more! “It's moved beyond a CIO conversation to a product conversation, to a CMO conversation.” Google and their partners are asking: “What are you doing to leverage AI to advance our products or offerings or processes and customer experience?”This kind of working is, Kapase says, an opportunity to “grow, grow, grow, grow” that can deeply impact their partners’ customer experience and product development.Shekhter says th... Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:09:46 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2116209810-futuremadereal-the-resonance-test-96-the-power-of-partnership-with-colleen-kapase-and-elaina-shekhter.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2103833070-futuremadereal-silo-busting-71-ir-now-with-tab-bradshaw-and-sam-rehman.mp3 Today’s incident response ain’t your grandfather’s IR. But the psychology surrounding it hasn’t changed an iota. This is precisely what Sam Rehman, EPAM’s Chief Information Security Officer and SVP, and Tab Bradshaw, Chief Operating Officer at Redpoint Cybersecurity, are talking about on this #SecurityByDesign conversation. “It really comes down to the preparation piece,” says Bradshaw. It’s about being well prepared and asking: “How often do you prepare in your organization, at a technical level, at an executive level, to handle some sort of incident?” Rehman agrees and says that he has clients wondering, “OK, so when am I done?” The perception is that being IR-ready is enough, he says. “That's not the case. It's a muscle. It's emotion. It's how you work. It's how you react to it.”There are benefits to knowing the proper way to react. “A well-handled breach really builds credibility,” says Bradshaw, adding that the word “reasonable” is omnipresent in IR documentation. He s... Wed, 28 May 2025 17:36:12 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2103833070-futuremadereal-silo-busting-71-ir-now-with-tab-bradshaw-and-sam-rehman.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2074741656-futuremadereal-the-resonance-test-96-building-an-aquatic-corporate-community-with-antonio-silva-kate-pretkel.mp3 What does the phrase “aquatic corporate community” mean to you? A school of fish in business suits holding an underwater meeting around a table of coral? Well, for our guests on the latest episode of *The Resonance Test,* it’s all about plunging into a strategic social responsibility program called “Let’s Swim Together.” Antonio Silva, President of European Aquatics, and Kate Pretkel, EPAM’s VP and Head of Sustainability Programs, have pooled their knowledge to answer questions from Balázs Magyar, Senior Director of Account Management at EPAM. Swimming is not just sports skill, says Silva, “It's a life skill.” He rightly points out that the pool is a place that can be used by everyone: babies, children, and adults. And, as Magyar notes, it promotes discipline, responsibility, social connections, and physical- and mental health. “Let’s Swim Together,” is starting with a pilot program for EPAM Hungary but the program will expand to other companies, other countries. Silva adds that with ... Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:08:28 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2074741656-futuremadereal-the-resonance-test-96-building-an-aquatic-corporate-community-with-antonio-silva-kate-pretkel.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2063768484-futuremadereal-silo-busting-70-lessons-for-the-modern-ciso-with-tim-ramsay-and-sam-rehman.mp3 How are CISOs holding up in the era of AI? According to Tim Ramsay, Managing Director of Mandiant Client Advisory (now part of Google Cloud), and our guest on *Silo Busting*: “You have a number of parts of the organization that may be embracing AI without any involvement from central IT, and more importantly… without security.”Not an easy situation for a CISO. But not to worry, Ramsay and Sam Rehman, EPAM’s CISO and SVP, have seen this kind of thing before. In the pre-AI age, there were other technology inflection points, such as virtualization and the cloud, and our conversationalists learned that dealing with them involved clear communication and trust.Today’s CISOs “don't want to kill the business or stop the business,” says Ramsay. “They want to enable the business. But that kind of presupposes they know what the business is trying to do.” What’s necessary, he says, is for business leaders “to have some level of trust that the security people are actually going to bring something pro... Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2063768484-futuremadereal-silo-busting-70-lessons-for-the-modern-ciso-with-tim-ramsay-and-sam-rehman.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2039410845-futuremadereal-the-resonance-test-95-technology-trust-and-the-customer-experience-with-eric-sobie-and-chris-tapley.mp3 “If you want to know the future, look at the past.” While no one in their right mind would claim Einstein was giving any thought whatsoever to the future of the financial services industry, history would have once again proven him right if he had. Once upon a time, one’s choice of bank was based on how well that particular institution had won over your trust. That meant building relationships with the customers and the community at large.While it’s hard to envision any other reality, it’s only been a couple of decades where convenience and the digital experience became such dominating factors. But as banks increasingly leverage emerging technology to race toward automation and digital optimization, the notion of trust and relationship building has all but faded into the rearview. Or has it?“Yes, you need to have an amazing digital experience. It needs to be convenient, easy and it needs to flow… But you also need to be able to get ahold of a banker just as quickly. You need that opportunity to h... Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2039410845-futuremadereal-the-resonance-test-95-technology-trust-and-the-customer-experience-with-eric-sobie-and-chris-tapley.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2014722503-futuremadereal-silo-busting-69-neatsun-ziv-and-sam-rehman-on-the-balanced-approach-to-risk-management.mp3 What should we be focusing on? It’s an essential question for all of us… but for those in the cybersecurity game, it’s critical. Focusing on the wrong things here can be *costly.* Or so says Neatsun Ziv, Co-Founder and CEO of OX Security, in this *#CybersecurityByDesign* conversation with Sam Rehman, EPAM’s CISO and SVP. Ziv says that, when it comes to fixing code, “95% of the things” that organizations work on have “zero risk impact,” adding: “That is an insane amount of money that the organization should have spent creating a bigger gap between them and the competitors.”Managing risk is indeed a major challenge for contemporary organizations. “There's no such thing as one single application anymore,” says Rehman, who wonders: “How do you manage the inherent risk from all these components?”Ziv says the answer is about getting clients to focus on what’s critical to them. There’s a need to distinguish between vulnerability, theoretical risk and actual practical risk. What is a p... Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2014722503-futuremadereal-silo-busting-69-neatsun-ziv-and-sam-rehman-on-the-balanced-approach-to-risk-management.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1918302935-futuremadereal-the-resonance-test-94-angela-stockman-on-genai-in-education.mp3 “Can we use generative AI in a way that teaches us something that we might not have known otherwise, and in that learning… create something that actually has the potential to increase agency for all inside of the system?”Good question, Angela Stockman! It is, in fact, one of many good questions that Stockman, the author of *The Writer’s Guide to Pedagogical Documentation,* raises as our guest on *The Resonance Test.*In this episode, Stockman joins Kristin Heist, Senior Director of Innovation Consulting at EPAM Continuum, and our Brian Imholte to dig deep into Gen AI and education. Part of that digging involves the art of *asking questions.* Heist says that while building a tutor with input from educators, teachers have been “pushing us to design tools that follow the principles of Socratic method” and not just giving the answers to students. Stockman agrees saying that teachers don’t want to see “learners leaning on AI tools just to generate answers or to produce work in ways that you know und... Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:39:48 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1918302935-futuremadereal-the-resonance-test-94-angela-stockman-on-genai-in-education.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1897655901-futuremadereal-the-resonance-test-93-the-lab-of-the-future-with-sridhar-iyengar-and-chris-waller.mp3 We’re talking about the lab of the future! Better than that… we’re *building* it. In this episode of *The Resonance Test,* two of the builders are giving us a tour of sorts! Listen as Sridhar Iyengar, Founder, Chief Strategy and Technology Officer and Chairman of Elemental Machines, and Chris Waller, EPAM’s VP and Chief Scientist, chew the scientific fat about creating a collaborative model cell and gene therapy laboratory.Waller says the lab of the future seeks to “reinvent the way we look at equipment and utilize equipment in a laboratory setting that's used to manufacture cells” by making it, as we say, real. “We’re building out that facility at the EPAM Continuum office in Boston and partnering with folks like Elemental Machines” to enable “the transformation that we're looking for in these laboratory settings.”Creating such a next-gen lab is a very complicated task, says Iyengar. “Unlike many other disciplines that are primarily software driven or even mechanically driven, the lif... Thu, 15 Aug 2024 12:50:01 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1897655901-futuremadereal-the-resonance-test-93-the-lab-of-the-future-with-sridhar-iyengar-and-chris-waller.mp3