Public Speaking

Technical Talks

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Here is a nice summary of a user curated list of technical talks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18217762

Some I have watched and enjoyed:

Control engineering:

Gunter Stein’s inaugural Bode prize lecture from 1989 titled “Respect the Unstable” [0]. In this talk, he uses a minimum of mathematics to clearly demonstrate the fundamental (and inevitable!) trade-offs in control systems design. He effortlessly makes the link between his (in)ability to balance inverted rods of various lengths on his palm (with shorter rods being harder to balance) to why the X-29 aircraft was almost impossible to control and why Chernobyl blew up.

The fundamental message is extremely important and the derivation is so crystal clear that it is simply marvelous to watch him present it. I like it so much that I re-watch it about once a year. read more

2018 SAP TechEd Live Interview

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I had a nice Live Studio interview with Britt Womelsdorf at the 2018 SAP TechEd event chatting about the SAP Cloud Platform SDK’s. Check it out here:

(The video has since been taken down, but here are a few photos).

The general script below is what I planned to use:

1.) Paul: Quick introduction …

  • SAP IT, responsible for developing Android apps for SAP’s 90k employees.
  • And today we will be chatting with Britt Womelsdorf, who is part of product management for the new SAP Cloud Platform Android SDK

2.) Paul: “With mobility being a key priority for organizations, it seems like SAP has responded to this by delivering some important user experience frameworks over the past 7 or 8 years, including SAPUI5, OpenUI5, Apple iOS SDK and now the Android SDK, why do you think these are important to organizations?”

   Britt: Mobility high-level, IT department, enterprise and organizational level opportunities read more

Phillips 66

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I had a nice opportunity to present some offer internal IT work we were doing at SAP, with the oil giant, Phillips 66. It was a great conversation sharing what, where and how we are deploying SAP BTP, apps and mobile solutions to help our company and its employees be successful. Here are a few slides and key take aways from the meeting.

SAP IT mission statement is “Empowering our people to work anywhere, anytime”

Whats also interesting is that just about every department within IT, has some variation of our IT mission statement.

We have noticed a significant change in User Expectation towards Business Models and IT and somewhat of a quest to build user centric IT services, and our efforts are increasingly focused on simplifying and improving the quality of work life for employees. read more

GSVU Student Presentation

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Mentoring, coaching and sharing is an opportunity I am always willing to go the extra mile for. When one of my friends Sihma from Grand Valley State University (a fellow SAP mentor and part of the SAP University Alliance Program) asked me to do a personal presentation for their Computer Science students, I took a untraditional approach and shared the presentation below.

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