282- The Future of AI: A Messy but Exciting Journey with Alex Marzano

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Alex Marzano Alex Marzano is the CIO of NextGen Power Systems, a company focused on renewable energy and EV charging solutions. With over 20 years of experience, he has held various leadership roles, including IT M&A Integrations Leader at PwC and CIO at Ohmium, a green hydrogen generation company. Marzano is passionate about technology’s role in environmental sustainability and IT’s potential to drive business growth. The Future of AI: A Messy but Exciting Journey with Alex Marzano In this insightful episode of Dissecting Popular IT Nerds, Michael Moore engages in a captivating conversation with Alex Marzano, CIO of NextGen Power Systems. They delve into Marzano’s diverse career, from M&A integrations to his passion for PC building. The discussion explores the evolving world of IT, with a focus on business process systems transformation and the blurring lines between IT and core business functions. Marzano emphasizes the importance of understanding business processes and treating IT as a revenue generator rather than a cost center. The episode also touches on the challenges and opportunities presented by AI, particularly in cybersecurity and data governance.

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0:00.0	Hi, nerds. I'm Michael Moore hosting this podcast for dissecting popular IT nerds. I'm here with
0:10.6	Alex Marzano, CIO at NextGen Power Systems. Hi, Alex, how you doing?
0:16.2	Wonderful, Michael. Pleasure to be with you. That same, same here. We're going to jump right in.
0:22.7	We're going to start with our icebreaker segment.
0:24.9	It's called Random Access Memories.
0:27.4	I ask a question, and then you respond to the answer that comes to your head first.
0:32.5	All right.
0:33.5	So your first question is if you can travel to any IT-related location or destination, what would it be and why?
0:45.2	You know, I watched the movie Hidden Figures a couple of years back with the family.
0:49.1	I'd love to be able to go back to that point in time.
0:51.8	I mean, can you just imagine these empowered young ladies trying to get into information
0:56.8	technology at its infancy and making that breakthrough?
1:02.3	It's such a powerful movie, too.
1:05.6	What a great movie.
1:06.4	I can watch that one over and over again.
1:08.9	That's a great spot.
1:10.6	And what a way to kind of start that is just to get back to that spot.
1:17.0	And they were doing math.
1:19.0	Like, they were doing math by hand.
1:22.6	Amazing things.
1:23.7	I can't even do math by hand anymore, right?
1:29.9	All right. anymore, right? All right.
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