How to Evolve & Stay Relevant | BlackBerry CTO, Charles Eagan

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David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

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🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Charles Eagan, Chief Technology Officer of Blackberry, sits down to chat about: [1:05] - How Blackberry has evolved from a phone company into a world leader in security and privacy [3:13] - The threat that cybercriminals pose to our safety and how to protect yourself [9:24] - How Blackberry’s new automotive AI platform will change the future of vehicles [15:38] - Why having a high level of self-belief is essential for young entrepreneurs to excel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm here at CES and at the top of CES is one of my favorite companies historically in
0:09.2	technology, especially in communication.
0:12.4	Secured communication is the CTO of Blackberry, Charles Egan, welcome to the playbook.
0:19.6	Thank you very much.
0:20.6	I'm very happy to be here.
0:21.6	Well, you may be happy, but I'm ecstatic and I'll tell you why.
0:24.8	I do so many interviews with people in technology and you and I have been in this game a long
0:30.8	time and I think without perspective of where we've come from that we're shorting ourselves
0:37.8	when we're amplifying certain solutions that either may not be real or may never work
0:44.6	when it comes to being a business and the true test of time is a company like Blackberry
0:50.9	that has led the way with certain capabilities.
0:54.0	It continues to learn and fit in a marketplace to utilize its core capabilities with the
1:00.5	ever-changing fast-paced world of technology, especially communications.
1:06.1	For you, you've been in this space a long time, how in what you see is Blackberry's core
1:12.4	capability and how has it been applied through that evolution that I'm so excited to talk
1:18.1	about?
1:19.1	It's kind of interesting.
1:20.1	DNA and I think I'm probably safe to use sports analogies.
1:25.0	The muscle memory and the activities we learned is really around how to be privacy and
1:28.9	security at scale and we invited the mobile workplace and we pivoted to a software company
1:36.7	around 2015 where we're doing, it turns out, cybersecurity, large-scale communications
1:43.0	were in over 215 million automobiles.
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