Ep. 017, Go fly a kiteboard

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Our guest Ben Szekely talks about pioneering semantic technologies at CSI for over a decade. As an SVP and Head of Field Operations, Ben has been applying graph technology to the human data model and other tough problems. In his spare time, he is also an avid skier (think jumping out of a perfectly good helicopter onto a mountain in Alaska) and kiteboarder. Hear about how the highest kiteboard jump in the world happened in Massachusetts Bay!

Cambridge Semantics, https://www.cambridgesemantics.com/
Video and whitepaper on Data Fabric https://www.cambridgesemantics.com/robust-agile-and-comprehensive-the-story-of-the-data-fabric/.
Jobs @ Cambridge Semantics https://www.cambridgesemantics.com/about-us/careers/
Heliskiing video from Alaska https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COKHFZd0ZNE
WooSports kiteboard jump measurement https://woosports.com/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this week's edition of Under Serv, the Podcasts for the Rest of the Tech Industry.
0:12.4	I'm your host Andrew Jelina. I am here this
0:15.1	week with Ben Seckley. He is a founding team member, SVP and head of field
0:21.0	operations at Cambridge Semantics.
0:23.8	Welcome, Ben.
0:24.8	Good morning, Andrew.
0:25.8	Nice to be here.
0:26.8	Thank you for making it out on what's always a tough commute on Friday.
0:30.0	Yeah, not bad.
0:31.0	You know, I'm a local here and Need him, so very easy after a good haircut and Anthony's to come and visit with you for a bit before heading into town.
0:37.0	I hope Anthony's is paying you for that plug.
0:40.0	So one question we often ask up front is what's your origin story?
0:45.0	What got you excited about technology way back in the day?
0:49.0	Two things I think.
0:50.0	One was my grandfather on my father's side was actually an inventor.
0:54.0	He had some very early patents for things like inhalers and was always
0:59.0	into technology and toys and gadgets and kind of visiting his and my grandma's apartment in Rochester, New York.
1:05.0	There's always all kinds of recording devices and electric pianos.
1:09.6	This is back in the early 80s when most kids weren't exposed to this stuff. when he died I got to take a lot of that stuff back home where I grew up at the New York and really get to play with it and then I kind of launched into of course our first computer around the same, and then with computers come games.
1:24.4	And nowadays I don't think kids really appreciate the fact that with any computer or
1:29.1	gaming system, any game just works at high speed and it's not a problem.
1:33.0	Back in the day to get computer games to work,
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