Maciej Kranz - Vice President of Strategic Innovation
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Maciej Kranz helped pioneer the Internet of Things industry through more than 30 years of computer networking and technology innovation experience in multiple industries. He authored the New York Timesbestseller, "Building the Internet of Things," and its companion book, "Building the Internet of Things – A Project Workbook." He also oversees a newsletter and leadership forum for IoT insiders.
As a faculty member of Singularity University, frequent keynoter, and sought-after media authority, Kranz is recognized worldwide as a pragmatic visionary on industrial IoT and corporate innovation. Currently, Vice President of Strategic Innovation at Cisco Systems, Kranz previously built the company's IoT business from the ground up as General Manager of the Connected Industries Group.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.0 | Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:21.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Future Tech Podcast. This is Juliet Lamar and joining us today is Matchek Kranz. He is among so many |
| 0:38.0 | other things he is an author and currently he's an innovator at Cisco. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome Mat Matche. |
| 0:43.0 | Thank you, Julia. |
| 0:44.0 | Thank you for having me over. |
| 0:45.0 | Oh, it's fantastic. |
| 0:46.0 | My pleasure. So we have a lot of things to talk about today, |
| 0:48.0 | but let's go ahead and kick it off with something that you have a lot of knowledge about, |
| 0:51.0 | which is the crypto and blockchain world and you |
| 0:54.4 | and I are chatting earlier about all there's so many misconceptions about there about this |
| 0:58.5 | space so let's jump right in. |
| 1:00.5 | Sounds great you know when I've been sort of involved in the blockchain world for a couple of years and so I've sort of seen that the hype and now sort of be marching towards reality, but so many times and I'm sure you've had the same challenge. |
| 1:16.0 | We still have some conversations that sort of surprise me at this stage and a lot of misconceptions |
| 1:22.0 | and myth about blockchain. |
| 1:23.6 | So the first one of course is, I would say in half of the conversation when I mentioned |
| 1:28.2 | blockchain, usually the response is, yes, I love crypto and I love the I see oh right okay great and and of |
| 1:36.6 | course as we both know and as you've been covering a lot of this of of course |
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