Within Career Growth, Mentorship is an invaluable supporting pillar for many IT/Networking professionals interested. Many professionals can find someone within their company or local user or industry groups who are willing to take them under their wing, but this collection of NPA member suggested articles and video interviews from experts recognized for their achievements in the IT/Network industry provides a trove of insights and actionable steps to integrate into your own career growth.
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VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Susan Drumm J.D., MCC: Bestselling Author; Speaker; Leadership Coach; CEO, Meritage Leadership Development
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Ralf-Gordon Jahns: Entrepreneur; Founder and Managing Director, Research2Guidance; Founder, R2GConnect; past management positions, focused on telecom and media industry
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Harrison Lung: Group Chief Strategy Officer, e&; past Partner at Siris Capital, a leading New York-based private equity firm; formerly held the position of partner for technology, telecom, and digital in North America and Asia at McKinsey & Company; past technical architect for Bell Mobility, Sprint Canada (now Rogers Communications), and Accenture's mobile technology department
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Dr. Shubhra Jain: Key thought leader in healthcare technology; Seasoned healthcare investor and strategic leader; Spearheads healthcare investment at Tarsadia Investments; past Principal at Cota Capital where she established and led the healthcare vertical of a $1.5B fund
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Wes Wheeler: A Chat with Wes Wheeler: CEO & Director, LabConnect; two decades of leadership experience within the pharmaceutical services industry as past CEO/President of five different companies (President of UPS Healthcare; CEO of Marken; President of Valeant Pharmaceuticals (now Bausch Health); CEO of Patheon (now part of ThermoFisher), and Divisional CEO of DSM Pharmaceuticals)
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Mark Fister: Inventor, Award-winning Technologist; Co-Founder, CTO of Haystack
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Bevon Moore: Innovator; Serial Entrepreneur; CEO & Founder of Collabworkx; Founder, ElevateU.work; serves as a Looms Council member, actively supporting initiatives related to the Nuclear Safeguards and Blockchain in Practice programs
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Andreas Welsch: Internationally recognized AI leader; Advisor; Speaker; Founder & Chief AI Strategist at Intelligence Briefing; Adjunct Professor at West Chester University of Pennsylvania; on Editorial Board of the Journal of AI, Robotics, and Workplace Automation; Author, "AI Leadership Handbook"
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Jesh de Rox: Anthropologist; Founder & CEO of HOURS, a company that builds deeply human models of individual minds; Developed Kindrêd, a result of deep research in human
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Matyas 'Maty' Bohacek: student at Stanford University, working on research at the intersection of AI and digital forensics; Specialized in AI for accessibility; Developed a novel architecture for sign language recognition; Co-founded and exited Verifee, an AI-based app for disinformation analysis; frequent Speaker on the broader implications of his research and AI's societal impact
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Rini Greenfield: Founding Managing Partner, Rethink Food; former Co-founder of Adaptive Management where she helped pioneer the use of big data analysis and visualization to make fundamental long-term investments
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Yanni Ching: Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Entomal Biotech; Co-founder, Women Impact Network; Honoured as a Tatler Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow 2024 and a 20 Under 40 Food Systems Change Maker; Recognized as one of Malaysia's most promising entrepreneurs - was a top nominee for EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2024
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Nicole Musicco: Investor; past CIO at CalPERS, a $500 billion US pension plan; past Partner at RedBird Capital Partners; past Senior leadership roles at Ontario Teacher's Pension Plan ("OTPP"), a $200 billion Canadian pension plan; at Investment Management Corporation of Ontario ("IMCO"), led the $20 billion Private Markets investment program, across Private Equity, Infrastructure, and Real Estate
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Yann LeCun: VP and Chief AI Scientist at Meta; Jacob T. Schwartz Professor at NYU affiliated with the Courant Institute, the Center for Data Science, the Center for Neural Science and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department; Founding Director of Facebook AI Research and of the NYU Center for Data Science; 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering; 2018 ACM Turing Award (with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio)
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Mat Micheli: Trailblazing Entrepreneur: Innovator; Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Viral Nation; EY Young Entrepreneur Of The Year; and Joe Gagliese: Dynamic Entrepreneur; Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Viral Nation; first Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Toronto
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Alan Smithson: Serial Entrepreneur; Founder; Futurist; DJ; Author and Julie Smithson: Co-Founder and CEO of METAVRSE; Co-Founder of Unlimited Awesome; Co-Founder of XR Women
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Ehsan Vaghefi: Founder, President & CEO of Toku Inc., a health technology company leveraging AI and retinal imaging
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Jacqueline Henle: Vice Department Manager of Embedded Systems and Sensors Engineering at FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Ali Khademhosseini: CEO and Founding Director at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation; previous Professor of Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering and Radiology at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Thippaporn Ahriyavraromp: Founder & Chairman, Dhanin Tawee Chearavanont Foundation; Chairman, Buddharaksa Foundation; Vice President, Blue Carbon Society Association; Founder & Chairman, Chairman of The Executive Committee DTGO Corporation Limited (DTGO)
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Bronson Messer: Distinguished Staff Scientist and Director of Science for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Taylor Shead: Founder and CEO of Stemuli (named the 2024 Global Champion of AI For Good, the U.N. platform on AI) and Dr. Matt Cummins: PhD, Head of Engineering & AI, Stemuli
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with David Solomon: Founder, BES; Founder of the first Global Impact Summit for the Financial Times; a Founding Steward of the World Indigenous Forum
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Anya Smith: Entrepreneur; Founder, CEO SelfFull Inc., an AI-driven platform for personalized accountability
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Noor Sweid: Author; Investor; Founder and Managing Partner of Global Ventures
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Geoffrey E. Hinton: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024; the "Godfather of AI"; Pioneer in the field of deep learning; Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award recipient (alongside Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun)
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Patrick Tammer: Senior Investment Director at Scale AI; Steering Committee Member of the Canadian Centre for the Innovation Economy (CCIE); Editor for the Journal of Business and Artificial Intelligence.
VIDEO INTERVIEW: From Youthful Prodigy to Young AI Trailblazer: Samay Veeral Lakhani's Journey in R&D, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Pedro Domingos: Machine Learning Pioneer; Renowned AI researcher; Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington; Founding director of the D. E. Shaw machine learning lab; Best selling Author of The Master Algorithm and his new book, 2040: A Silicon Valley Satire
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Rob Follows: Founder and Chairman, STS Capital Partners; Founding Chairman of Altruvest Charitable Services
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Fernando Garibay: Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, The Garibay Institute; academic polymath; record producer; songwriter; entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker, and scholar
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Olga Muller: Leader in healthtech and digital product innovation; CEO & Founding Partner at Kepler Team
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Alvin Wang Graylin: Author; Investor; Technology pioneer; Serial Entrepreneur; Global VP at HTC; Chairman of the Virtual World Society; Vice-Chair of the Industry of VR Alliance; President of the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Michael Langer: Co-Founder and Managing Partner of T.Rx Capital; former Head of Search, Evaluation & In-licensing at Pear Therapeutics; Active in non-profit organizations: serves on the Leadership Board at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Global Board of Directors for MassChallenge, the Leadership Board at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation, is Senior Advisor of Special Projects at the Galenus Foundation
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Eugenio Zuccarelli: AI Leader; a Forbes Under 30; a Fortune Under 40; TEDX Speaker; WEF Global Shaper
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Jane Metcalfe: Entrepreneur; Editor; Advisor; Board chair of the Human Immunome Project; Founder & CEO of proto.life; cofounder and former president of WIRED
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Guru Madhavan: Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar; senior director of programs of the National Academy of Engineering; founding director of the Forum on Complex Unifiable Systems (FOCUS)
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Celina Lee: International development executive; Entrepreneur; CEO, Co-founder of Zindi (an official platform for the ITU AI for Good Summit)
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Neil Friedman: Serial Entrepreneur; Co-founder and COO of BodiMetrics; Founder, Garden of Hope
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Rosalyn Breedy: Managing Director of Breedy Henderson; member of the Integrity and Ethics committee of the Chartered Institute of Securities Investment, a member of Bristol Innovations board (a committee of the University Executive Board and advisory to UEB); former associate fellow of Said Business School Oxford University
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Jerry Luftman, PhD: Professor; Founder and Managing Director, GIIM; International Authority on IT Business Alignment and IT Trends
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Moshe Becker: Innovator; Tech Entrepreneur; CEO and co-founder of RADLogics
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Hassan Dayekh: Founding managing director at Blindspot Ventures
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Christoph Santner: AI strategist; Speaker; Futurist; Author; Consultant
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Neeltje Pavicic: Project Manager in the Department of Innovation, Municipality of Amsterdam; past Information Analyst at ING; past Editor-in-Chief of NPO Doc
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Reddy Mallidi: Distinguished business executive; AI visionary
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Jean-Philippe Courtois: past President and Executive Vice President (EVP) of Global Sales, Marketing, and Operations, Microsoft; past Executive Vice President and President of National Transformation Partnerships, Microsoft; President of Live for Good; member of the ManpowerGroup Board of Directors; Chairman of the Mission Committee at OpenClassrooms
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Ilyas Khan: Founder,/Vice Chair/Chief Product Officer, Quantinuum; Leader in Residence at the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School; inaugural Chairman of The Stephen Hawking Foundation (until 2019); founding Chairman (non-executive) of the Topos Institute
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Melissa Bernstein: Entrepreneur; Co-founder of Melissa & Doug; Co-founder of Lifelines
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Harry Glorikian: Global business expert; Speaker; CEO of Consilience Inc; General Partner at Scientia Ventures
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Aliya Grig: Entrepreneur; Mentor; Certified neuroscience specialist, member of Karman Space Foundation; Founder of Evolwe, the Kosmos Foundation, and The Cosmos City
VIDEO INTERVIEW: Chat with John L. Hennessy, ACM Turing Awardee; IEEE Medal of Honor Awardee; board Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Cisco Systems, chair board Alphabet; Shriram Family Director of the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program; 2000-2016 president Stanford University
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Dr. Vibhor Gupta: Founder, Pangaea Data
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Asha Saxena: Founder & CEO WLDA, Board Member, Columbia University Professor; Best Selling Author of The AI Factor
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Greg Hagin: Principal & Managing Director, CCS Fundraising and Dr. Ashutosh Nandeshwar: Senior Vice President, Data Science & Analytics of CCS Fundraising
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Ben duPont: Co-founder and Managing Director at Chartline Capital Partners, a Venture Capital Fund and Rohit Bhargava: Entrepreneur; Best-selling Author; Speaker; Founder of the Non-Obvious Company and Ideapress Publishing
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Hannah Töpler: Founder and CEO of Intrare
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Daniel Di Giusto: Executive Director and co-founder of the Tech To The Rescue Foundation
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Andrew Palmer: President, CIPS (Canadian Information Processing Society) Ontario Society
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Dr. Asad M. Madni: Multiple awards; Philanthropist; Led development & commercialization of intelligent sensors, systems, and instrumentation (including, the Extremely Slow Motion Servo Control System for Hubble Space Telescope's Star Selector System), and the revolutionary MEMS GyroChip® technology; Independent Consultant; Distinguished Adjunct Professor and Distinguished Scientist at UCLA ECE Department; Co-supervisor of the High-Speed Electronics Laboratory; Faculty Fellow at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies and Connected Autonomous Electrical Vehicle Consortium; past President, COO & CTO of BEI Technologies
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Daniel Goldberg: Digital Media and Computer Science specialist; "Cross-platform" problem solver; CEO of ENGUAGE, LLC (epiqar)
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Carlo Tortora Brayda: Founder and Executive Chairman of Tortora Brayda Institute for AI & Cybersecurity; former Chair of Gorilla Corporation
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Luca Stevanato: Expert in neutron and gamma detection; Founder and CEO, Finapp srl
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Jason Freeman: Collaborative Researcher; Innovative change agent integral in adoption of IT research systems and advanced analytics in health care operations; IT Director Imaging/Radiation Oncology at Stanford Healthcare; CEO for 1MB LLC and CTO for two startups, Dianima LLC and Dataknife LLC
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Mouna Aouri: Social entrepreneur; Impact investor; Engineer; Founder and CEO Woomentum
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Dr. Lana Feng: CEO and Cofounder of Huma.AI
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Ankur Teredesai: Founder and CEO, CueZen Inc.; Professor, Computer Science & Systems, University of Washington
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Dr. Aasim Saeed: Founder and CEO of Amenities; former VP of digital Health at Bayer Scott & White Health (BSWH)
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with David Fuller: Co-founder and CEO of Artificial; past VP of SW R&D at National Instruments
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Justin Breen: Founder/CEO of BrEpic Network
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Tolga Kurtoglu: Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer Leap AI Venture Studio; former Chief Technology Officer of HP and former CEO of Palo Alto Research Center (formerly known as Xerox PARC)
VIDEO INTERVIEW: A Chat with Daniela Herrmann: Tech, Business, Financial Industry Leader; Co-founder of Dynex; President and Founder of the Topan®Ecosystem (2011)
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