Marcus East: Technical Director, Office of the CTO at Google: cloud, culture, collaboration and innovation (103)

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4.8 • 50 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Google’s products are playing an increasingly important role helping insurance companies innovate and grow. There are also lessons for everyone in how the company has developed a culture to keep its own innovation fresh and relevant. Marcus East, Technical Director, Office of the CTO at Google, joins Matthew on Episode 103 to explain how Google is driving change in the industry, and share some fascinating insights into Google’s culture of innovation. Talking points include: Lessons on the role of culture in fostering innovation in within large companies The future of AI and Machine Learning Advice for selecting cloud partners Case studies from the UK and the US Support for start-up and early-stage companies Where Google sees the biggest opportunities in supporting insurance companies Look out for our future live chat discussions with Marcus and his colleagues from the Office of the CTO. Find out what we are up to at InsTech London and sign up to our newsletter for a fresh view on the world every Wednesday morning. If you like what you're hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use, or contact Matthew Grant on Linkedin. Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives InsTech London is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to an InsTech London podcast, or reading the accompanying transcript, you can claim up to 0.5 CPD hours towards the CII member CPD scheme. Complete the InsTech London Podcast Feedback Survey to claim your CPD time.

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0:00.0	What's amazing is that people who have used that experience to get a quote at 350 you're going to hear a lot more about that
0:33.6	soon hello and welcome or welcome back mat Grant here partner at INSTECH
0:39.4	London and as the nights draw in and autumn is definitely in the air over here in London
0:44.2	it's great to be talking again at least virtually to another guest from California this week.
0:49.8	Now of course this company needs no introduction but I was surprised to find out just
0:54.9	how much Google and Google Cloud are doing to support the analytics that are driving change
0:59.3	across so many areas of insurance these days.
1:02.3	Marcus East has a fascinating job and a really interesting career behind him, working for some
1:07.3	major companies around the world.
1:09.4	And today as part of the office of CTO, he has a chance to work with some of the largest companies around the world and today as part of the office of
1:10.9	CTO he has a chance to work with some of the largest companies in the world also
1:15.0	some of the most innovative and is also now spending time in looking at
1:18.9	insurance himself now there's so much in this episode I'm not even going to try and
1:22.3	summarize it so you have to crack on and listen.
1:41.8	So, Marcus, delighted to have you joining us for the Instac, London podcast.
1:43.6	You've got a fascinating career.
1:45.1	You are most definitely the first person I've interviewed. I think you can across, who actually started or actually at one point
1:49.4	in their career was working for comic relief. So really looking forward to hearing about your
1:54.6	career journey and then of course what you're up to these days at Google. Yeah, thank you for
1:59.3	having me, Matthew. It's an absolute pleasure to be on the podcast,
2:02.3	and I think we're going to have a very exciting conversation.
2:05.8	My journey into technology has been an interesting one in that,
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