Digital Medicine: The Human Factor - Guest: Stéphane Bancel, CEO, Moderna

09/30/21 • 24 min

How do you fight for your own life along with the lives of billions of others in the world? While technology was able to dramatically accelerate the development of the COVID-19 vaccine, even with distributed teams, that speed pushed the people on those vaccine teams to their limits. This episode aired live from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMMS) conference on August 11th, 2021, about a month after the Delta variant had become the dominant form of the coronavirus in the US. It is a conversation with Moderna's CEO Stéphane Bancel and VMware President Sumit Dhawan. Bancel talks about the daily reality of developing the vaccine, as well as all the technology that went into it. The conversation covers advanced AI modeling, genetic mapping, and cloud-native computing. In addition, Bancel discusses the human element that made these advancements attainable, and what it means for the quality of life that can be possible for everyone as we learn to live with this new virus in the years to come.

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Stéphane Bancel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sbancel

Sumit Dhawan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sumit_dhawan

CIO Exchange on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmwcioexchange

Yadin Porter de León on Twitter: https://twitter.com/porterdeleon

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Fintech: Leading Innovation with Trust - Guest: Anudeep Parhar, CIO, Entrust

The accelerating growth of Fintech companies is a powerful sign of the unstoppable market dynamics that are currently unfolding. Agile, cloud-native startups backed by large amounts of venture capital were able to take market share from established companies, like legacy consumer banks, by creating the trusted platforms of choice for the next generation. In this episode, I speak with Anudeep Parhar, CIO of Entrust, a trusted identity technology company specializing in highly secure transactions. In this conversation, we cover a broad range of topics including the advantages of building mobile-first customer experiences, the importance of secure transactions in the trust-building process, DeFi (or decentralized finance on the blockchain), international regulatory, and other constraints that can affect the ability of smaller fintech companies to scale globally as well as what larger companies can learn from the success these fintech companies have had.

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Modernizing on Multi-Cloud - Guest: Rob Carter, EVP & CIO, FedEx

FedEx is an $87 billion business with over 560,000 team members around the world. At that scale, how does Rob Carter, FedEx CIO, approach business agility to stay ahead of the curve? In this episode, I speak with Rob Carter about what he has dubbed “the dominant architecture,” which allows industries to scale and has proven throughout history to increase global value creation exponentially. For technology leaders, this dominant architecture is now comprised of critical technologies like multi-cloud, containerized modern applications, AI enabled edge computing, and soon, blockchain. It is these technologies–and a shifting mindset that allows distributed teams to leverage them effectively–that is the driving force behind the next wave of innovation.

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