business and technology

It took a pandemic to highlight our dependence on transportation and logistics—but efforts to optimize the industry were gaining traction well before that. Today, the auto industry is in a state of complete disruption with technologies such as 5G connectivity, AI, and Machine Learning enabling smart vehicles, their manufacturers, and the smart cities they operate in and drive through.

To hear more about how these industries are being revolutionized, we sit with Lutz Beck, CIO of Daimler Truck North America, whose belief is that in a world where technology will inevitably be capable of everything, the only limit is ourselves and our abilities to think big. We’ll hear about his vision for the latest advances in autonomous vehicles and new connectivity-enabled services such as predictive maintenance, and how he is trying to change Daimler into a data-driven organization by using the company’s fleet of vehicles as digital assets.

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From smart factories to connected fleets, businesses have come to expect seamless operations at the push of a button, but there are millions of moving pieces and years of work behind powering up and connecting the hardware and software that makes their systems hum. The developments behind 5G act as a backbone that many of the latest technologies rely on. From the early strategies behind design to the creation of flourishing ecosystems, advancing any technology is difficult. One as critical and fast-moving as wireless communications is a gargantuan task.

In this episode of The Restless Ones, we sit with Durga Malladi, SVP and GM, Cellular Modems & Infrastructure, at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc, has spent his career advancing the technologies powering the wireless industry. In a world that has evolved from devices simply talking to humans to devices talking to millions of other devices, Durga and Qualcomm’s work to constantly increase throughput and reliability while lowering the latencies of these communications has brought us to point of the “Connected Intelligent Edge”. A space where, with the help of wireless networks, data can be consumed in ways we could never have imagined possible. They say “advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”  Thanks to Durga and his team, this may be true.

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Imagine a world where students can sail on a WWII Battleship, study the inner details of a cadaver, and go for a spacewalk, all while never leaving the comfort of their classroom, workplace, or home. Thanks to the connected technologies of AR, VR, and 5G available now, this type of learning is no longer a far-off dream, it’s happening now. The cross-benefits of seamlessly being able to bring the world to the classroom, and the classroom to any part of the world are crucial in advancing society forward by training the minds of our youth in ways that were never before possible.  

Join us as we kick off Season Three of The Restless ones with the visionary Steve Grubbs, Founder, and CEO of VictoryXR who is utilizing his passion for education and technology to change the way we all learn. The latest developments in low-latency 5G connectivity, graphics technologies, and haptics have allowed Steve and the company to explore the key insight that engagement impacts the speed and way the brain interacts and processes information. At VictoryXR Metaversities, lesson plans no longer come to life on paper and whiteboards, instead, students are exposed to a 360 field of learning to stimulate their minds.

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A business can be a living, growing, changing thing if you choose to care for it in that way. Today, Kelly Stento, President and CEO of LeRoux School of Dance shares her story on how she came to own her dance studio and how it’s changed along the way.

Kelly has owned LeRoux School of Dance for 20 years. She began as a student as a young child, a teacher as a teen and young adult, and eventually took over the business from her valued mentor. She shares how systems and procedures were transitioned to her and how she has adapted them to withstand the test of time and technology.

When the pandemic hit, you can imagine that an in-person dance studio was greatly affected. Kelly describes the community she created in the dance studio world, and how they worked together to plan for the changing world and adapt their classes. In a matter of days and weeks, Kelly’s staff changed their entire business model to conduct classes over zoom and teach parents how to view courses over their TVs. Kelly’s students went from dancing together in a classroom to learning on camera with makeshift props in their basements.

Throughout this conversation, Kelly makes it obvious that she is a lifelong learner, something so important to withstand a business that has been operating for 75 years. She utilizes mentors, organizations, and the community to educate her and propel her business forward. Even as a seasoned business owner, Kelly has new things on the horizon that are very exciting for her and the dance studio!

Any small business owner can learn a little something from Kelly Stent, whether you’re recently taking over an older business or recovering post-pandemic.

What’s Inside: 

• The basics of buying and selling a small business.
• How does a business evolve over the years?
• Do changes in technology affect business operations?
• How the pandemic affected some small businesses.
• Is a mentor crucial for a successful business transfer?
• How can supportive organizations impact a business?

Mentioned In This Episode:

Kelly Stento
LeRoux School of Dance
610-553-6966
President & CEO

From Mamamia, this is Lady Startup, the show where we sit down women who’ve turned an idea into a thriving business.

Rachel Corbett’s guest today is the founder of Bella Model Management, Chelsea Bonner.

Chelsea worked as a model and saw, first hand, the impact striving to be skinny had on the women around her.  After a trip to New York where she met people in the curve model industry who were doing things in a way she admired, she decided to start her own agency up back home in Australia.

So how did she manage to take on an industry, built on the belief that smaller is better?

Listen to find out.

You can purchase a copy of Chelsea’s book Body Image Warrior here.

This episode of Lady Startup was brought to you by Yellow 

CREDITS:

Guest: Chelsea Bonner, founder of BELLA Management

Host/Executive Producer: Rachel Corbett, Founder of PodSchool

Producer: Amelia Navascues

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