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Ep 88 / THE VALUE OF VISUAL THINKING / Priyanka Vergadia Mar 01, 2021

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Priyanka Vergadia, Senior Developer Advocate at Google Cloud, has a profound passion for helping people learn cloud computing through visualization and art. In this episode she reveals the value of visual thinking and how she found the perfect balance of art, design and technology at Google. Hear how she uses visualizations to help make tough business decisions, drive real value and create true understandings of cloud concepts.

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Ep 87 / REFRAMING GRATITUDE, CULTURE AND LEADERSHIP IN A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD / Chris Schembra Feb 22, 2021

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Chris Schembra is the bestselling author of "Gratitude and Pasta: The Secret Sauce for Human Connection", chronicling his adventures as one of the most sought-after dinner hosts in the World. He's also the Founder and Chief Question Asker of 7:47, an advisory firm which helps companies give the gift of community and belonging to their VIP clients and partners. Chris joins to discuss how the pandemic has driven him to hyper-focus on the human connection in order to help transform leadership for a post-pandemic world.

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Ep 86 / THE METHODOLOGY BEHIND SADA'S BEST-IN-CLASS PMO ORGANIZATION / Sharif Naqib, SADA Feb 16, 2021

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Part of SADA's 'secret sauce' is our PM team. This week's Cloud N Clear SADA's Head of PMO Sharif Naqib walks us through what makes our PMO organization not only unique, but best in class. Tune in to hear his methodology for building the PMO organization at SADA and getting customers to the market as fast as possible.

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Ep 85 / DRIVING EFFICIENCY AND MAXIMIZING RETURNS WITH GOOGLE CLOUD'S AI & ML / Lak Lakshmanan, Google Cloud Feb 09, 2021

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Lak Lakshmanan, Director for Data Analytics and AI Solutions at Google Cloud, joins this episode to talk about his experiences leading a team that specializes in building revolutionary software solutions for businesses using Google Cloud's data analytics and machine learning product. Tune in to hear how data science is getting increasingly easier and faster in the cloud and how companies can drive real business value from these advancements.

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Ep 84 / REINVENTING CUSTOMER SUCCESS IN AN EVOLVING TECH LANDSCAPE / John Campbell, SADA Feb 02, 2021

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John Campbell joined SADA last year in a newly created role as the VP of Customer Success & Innovation to drive greater alignment in key SADA services that drive high customer satisfaction, retention and growth. What comes after the sale defines you as an organization, and in this episode, John does a deep dive on how he is reinventing SADA's Customer Success team in order to keep pace with the constantly evolving needs of companies from SMB to enterprise. Tune in to hear more about his history at Rackspace, staying relevant as a MSP in a cloud world, and his future plans for SADA's Customer Success team.

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Ep 83 / HOW GOOGLE CLOUD PROVIDES REVOLUTIONARY RELIEF IN HEALTHCARE AMIDST A PANDEMIC / Chris Sakalosky & Michael Ames Jan 26, 2021

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There have been drastic changes in the healthcare industry over the past year as the world deals with immense challenges caused by the global pandemic. Healthcare industry experts Chris Sakalosky, Managing Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at Google Cloud, and Michael Ames, Senior Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences at SADA join this episode for a deep dive into Google Cloud's pandemic response, how it's helping to transform healthcare across the industry, and what those changes mean for the future.

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Ep 82 / ACCELERATING GROWTH THROUGH SADA'S SAAS ALLIANCE PROGRAM / Nikki Harley, SADA Jan 19, 2021

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Nikki Harley, Director of Strategic Alliances at SADA, joins this episode just one week after the launch of the SaaS Alliance Partner Program to discuss how the program helps to better cater to ISVs and SaaS companies to help them scale and drive GCP consumption. Nikki reveals how she went about creating the program and her journey talking to partners and customers in order to better understand how SADA can fill in the gaps.

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Ep 81 / BEING A CHANGE LEADER AND ENABLING GROWTH AS A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE / Lilah Jones, Google Cloud Jan 12, 2021

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Lilah Jones is a technology leader, focused on helping organizations advance their digital agendas by making smart data decisions through transformative technological implementations. Now the Head of Corporate Sales for North Central US at Google Cloud, Lilah joins this episode to discuss enabling growth through change and thought leadership, and how both give a competitive advantage. Lilah also dives into the behaviors, habits and advancements that are at the core of what she stands for, as it pertains to her commitment in creating a diverse, progressive space within the tech community.

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Ep 80 / EMPOWERING SREs TO "FIGHT FOR THE USER" / Steve McGhee, Google Cloud Jan 05, 2021

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Steve McGhee, Cloud Solutions Architect at Google Cloud, is one of the original greats in the SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) space and has been managing SRE teams at Google Cloud for over a decade. In this episode, Steve will explain how he helps businesses understand and apply SRE practices as well as empower their SRE teams. He also dives into how he rethinks "reliability as a problem set" and not the solution in order to define a truly reliable site (and why GCP is the best platform to do this on).

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