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A Journey through Organizational Transformation with Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Mar 21, 2022

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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Google Cloud recently announced a new strategic partnership to accelerate digital transformation across consumer and enterprise segments in Indonesia. Part of their efforts includes digitally transforming Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison's operations ‒ To continue on its path to innovation and build a cloud-first organization, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison will modernize its infrastructure and applications on Google Cloud. In particular, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Google Cloud will define a clear roadmap for advanced data analytics modernization and AI/ML adoption that will not only enable the telecommunications leader to improve its core operations, costs, and customer experiences, but also help the company advance its position in the telecommunications ecosystem and enable it to identify and maximize new business model opportunities in future. In this episode, we continue our conversation with Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, featuring Bayu Hanantasena, Chief Business Officer, to dive deeper into their innovation and transformation journey and how they are building a cloud-first organization to improve their core operations.

Accelerating Digital Transformation in Indonesia with Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison Mar 01, 2022

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Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Google Cloud recently announced a new strategic partnership to accelerate digital transformation across consumer and enterprise segments in Indonesia. Strongly aligned to the Indonesian government's digital economy development program goals, the multi-faceted partnership will serve Indonesia's SMBs as a priority target segment and spans many areas that are core to the capabilities of both organizations. The pillars of the strategic partnership will see the two organizations working jointly to; Digitally transform Indonesia's SMBs across their business lifecycles, Digitally transform enterprises and communities with the power of 5G, and Digitally transform Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison's own operations. In this episode, we are joined by Vikram Sinha, President Direct and CEO at Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and Rob Enslin, President, Cloud Sales at Google to dive into the strategic partnershp and learn more about the three pillars of digital transformation and the impact they will have on Indonesia.

Creating Trustworthy AI Assistants with Federal Bank and Riafy Technologies Feb 22, 2022

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Jitesh of Federal Bank and John of Riafy join your hosts this week to chat about what it takes to build and maintain a specialized digital banking representative. John starts the show with a history of Riafy, including how he and his co-founders chose this magically-inspired name. Jitesh walks us through Federal Bank’s journey to a digitization strategy that started in 1996. With an eye for the future, the bank adopted mobile banking early on, supporting this feature along with international banking and more for 20 plus years. In 2016, Federal Bank started a campaign of research and development to strategize the continuing build-out of digital and mobile banking offerings. These efforts paid off, and now 88% of customer interactions occur in mobile or digital banking. Jitesh details the individual projects that make up their robust digital presence, like their revolutionary mobile banking signup that makes getting started easy. With the help of Riafy, Federal Bank has implemented beneficial tools like Feddy, the AI chat agent who offers 24/7 assistance to online customers. John and Jitesh tell us how Feddy was created to be not only helpful but friendly, acting as a mascot for the bank. We learn how Feddy was engineered, including the planning process for building the AI and how John and his team designed Feddy’s training program. With the help of Google solutions like Dialogflow, the team created Feddy quickly and efficiently with a likable personality all his own. Overcoming initial consumer reservations, Federal Bank chose a slow rollout for Feddy. Through research into customer behaviors, Federal Bank planned to start small, keeping him external, and slowly introducing him to more banking areas as customer trust developed. In the future, Riafy and Federal Bank will continue to grow Feddy and foster a trusting relationship between Feddy and customers through advanced conversation, context principles, and more. John and Jitesh offer advice to other companies looking to incorporate AI into their digital platform.

Transforming the Customer Experience with Data at Woolworths Feb 08, 2022

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This week, the APAC Podcast welcomes Ram Radhakrishnan, the Head of Analytics, Loyalty, and Customer Data at Woolworths. He starts the show with a brief history of Woolworths’ online presence, including how WooliesX was introduced to leverage modern technologies and facilitate a smooth online grocery shopping experience. As the company evolved, leadership had to grow and adapt. The startup culture of WooliesX enables an innovative, future-thinking environment that gives employees autonomy in learning things like AI to solve problems. Understanding customers is vital to improving the online shopping experience, so data collected from rewards programs are essential metrics. Ram describes how this data is collected, analyzed, and used to meet high customer expectations. For example, in the app, personalized lists make it easy for customers to select their everyday items quickly. Google Cloud’s myriad capabilities have fostered the digital growth of WooliesX. Ram details the Cloud Platform tools used by the company and how Google’s commitment to innovation means new, valuable features are continually released. We hear about the structure of WooliesX and how the practices and tribes in the company are supported to foster continued learning and growth. Ram closes the show with a look into the future of WooliesX and retail in general. He talks about the challenges and exciting advancements in analytics he anticipates in areas like robotics and AI.

Leading FinOps Practices on Google Cloud Feb 03, 2022

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Cloud FinOps is an operational framework and cultural shift that brings technology, finance, and business together to drive financial accountability and accelerate business value realization. Today, Chris Hood is joined by Eric Lam, Bruce Warner and Pathik Sharma to discuss an actionable set of steps that will help your organization implement FinOps and maximize your cloud investment on Google Cloud.

Disrupting Content Delivery with Mlytics Jan 23, 2022

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Jay and Theo are back this week hosting Tony and Tars from Taiwanese company Mlytics. Mlytics strives for a faster, safer internet through cloud-disrupting solutions. Our guests talk about the origins of Mlytics, and how the company closely monitors, refines, and analyzes a plethora of data as part of their AI solution for customers. This system revolutionizes the Content Delivery Network, working faster through caching and compression and safer by protecting the networks from attack. After studying the CDN market, the CEO of Mlytics realized the powerful solutions available, while technically impressive, were not end-user friendly. With Mlytics, he sought to change the space by working backwards and beginning with a detailed picture of customer needs, then building solutions to satisfy them. Mlytics clients are provided with easy access to multiple CDNs quickly and safely to offer ultimate control and tailoring to their particular goals. By building this ecosystem of choice, Mlytics has created a one-of-a-kind brand that enables clients to choose the tools that work best for their company. With standardized CDN usage, clients know they’re using the best networks and paying for only what they use in a centralized billing platform. AI is a big part of this Mlytics Smart Load Balancer solution. Through machine learning techniques, Mlytics analyzes data to find patterns in CDN infrastructure and reactions. They’ve built in a 15 second performance prediction based on this information, allowing them to predict CDN downtime and automatically move client projects to more efficient networks when necessary. The company’s ethos of full transparency has fostered a supportive and collaborative work environment as well. Our guests offer advice for other tech companies looking to exceed customer expectations and empower employees to experiment and innovate.

Verizon's Cloud Transformation Journey with FinOps Jan 20, 2022

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Verizon has been one of the leading innovators in the telco industry and, not surprisingly, is also one of the early adopters of leveraging the cloud for digital transformation. In addition, Verizon has been at the forefront of tackling the cloud FinOps. In this episode, we are joined by Ulaga Subramanian, Director of Cloud in Global Technology Services, to share Verizon's cloud journey, and lessons learned using the tools and practices that help them manage and budget their cloud spend to support continuous innovation.

Cooking up a Customer Data Platform with Jardine Restaurant Group Dec 27, 2021

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Matthew Chan, Chief Digital Officer of the Jardine Restaurant Group, joins Jay and Theo this week on the podcast. Operating KFC, Pizza Hut, and PHD branches in Hong Kong, Vietnam, and other Asia-Pacific cities, JRG has created a robust data collection and analysis system to realize their customer-centric business strategy. In 2019, Jardine Restaurant Group began a digital transformation geared toward creating the best customer experience. By leveraging new technologies, the team developed strategies like TTT. This talkability, traffic, and transactions framework identifies talking points that will encourage curiosity and start meaningful conversations, driving traffic to the site and ending with successful transactions. Through real-world examples, Matthew describes how JRG takes data from sources like Google to pinpoint customer interests. The team then actively engages with customers, gathering more data to enhance their online presence and drive traffic to their offerings. Through detailed site optimization, JRG is able to boast a double digit conversion rate from browsing to transactions. Matthew explains that staying relevant is the best way to grow and adapt with changing client needs. During the pandemic, for example, JRG launched their online ordering and delivery system, Cloud Kitchen, to provide contactless food service for employee and customer protection. Their charity kitchen initiative also grew from the needs of locked down clients with few food options. JRG provides these meals for free to strengthen the communities they serve and bring joy during hard times. In the future, Jardine Restaurant Group will continue their mission to adapt new technologies in smart ways, creating value for customers and exceeding their expectations.

Connected Diagnostics Reshaping Healthcare Delivery with Cue Health Dec 21, 2021

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Cue Health is reshaping healthcare delivery through connected diagnostics to empower individuals to live healthier lives. In this podcast, Chris Hood joins Cue's co-founders Ayub Khattak and Clint Sever to learn how they are leveraging data and AI/ML to democratize healthcare to create a more accessible and more equitable healthcare system. During the episode, you'll also hear about the challenges they've faced and the learnings they've gathered along the way.

Transforming Healthcare with Interoperability at Humana Dec 14, 2021

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The more complex a dataset is, the more difficult it is to build interoperable systems around it. Clinical data is extremely complex, and EHR vendors build and manage their own proprietary data models to handle those data challenges. In this podcast, you'll hear how Humana is democratizing data and focusing on interoperability as a key pillar in its digital and organizational strategies. Chris Hood joins Patrick Murta, Chief Interoperability Architect at Humana, to discuss how they're leveraging Google Cloud, data, and APIs to advance integrated care delivery and transform healthcare within an interoperable ecosystem.

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