Connecting Dots with Usama

Jan 12 2024 59 ep. 33 mins 2

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The concept behind this podcast is to primarily demystify the job titles and connect dots to where did the professionals - in different fields - start their journey; how they reflect on their learnings, career trajectory; and where did their decisions land them in life.

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#59 Yasir Naqvi | MP Ontario Liberal Party | Ottawa, ON

Jan 12 2024 35 mins

Welcome to Connecting Dots! We all share the desire to contribute positively to our communities.While making a difference individually is meaningful, engaging in politics amplifies our impact. Today, we have the privilege of discussing the experiences and insights into political life with Yasir Naqvi - a Canadian politician, who has served as the member of Parliament for Ottawa Ce

#58 Kevin Stoodley | Chief Technology Officer | Toronto, Canada

Dec 25 2023 42 mins

Welcome to Connecting Dots! Leaders are generally expected to inspire and create a vision for their team or company, and unite people, processes and systems to enable that vision. On the contrary, engineers are typically more focused on creating products and services; taking ideas and making them into reality. However, there are a number of overlapping attributes and experiences t

#57 Vidya Krishnan | Chief Learning Officer | Plano, TX

Oct 18 2023 44 mins

Welcome to Connecting Dots! Today, we are thrilled to welcome our guest, Vidya Krishnan, the Chief Learning Officer at Ericsson, who is steering the helm of the company's global learning and development team. Vidya's life story is nothing short of a mesmerizing odyssey - interwoven with the rich tapestry of diverse cultures, globe-trotting across coastlines, and her remark

#56 Clare Ashamallah | Head of IC&E | Cairo, Egypt

Aug 08 2023 33 mins

Welcome to Connecting Dots! Most people grow up imagining a dream career that encompasses their passion, makes money, and doesn’t feel like, well, work. But then adulthood hits, and most people think that they arrived at their job because that’s how life unrolled for them, and now they feel stuck. If you feel like you’ve also gone down the wrong career path, it’s not too l

#55 Marie Hogan | 6G Portfolio Strategy leader | Sweden, SE

Jul 25 2023 37 mins

Welcome to Connecting Dots! Do you remember the times when you wanted to download a movie to watch for a long plane ride? On a 3G network, it would take over an hour to download a Netflix movie. With 5G, that gets cut down to a few seconds. With 6G, you will download 142 hours of Netflix movies in just one second! As 5G is already being deployed worldwide, it is thus a great time

#54 Osaid Khaliq | Sr. Standards Strategist | Berlin, DE

Jul 04 2023 49 mins

Welcome to Connecting Dots! We’d like to think that innovation comes from freewheeling chaos. Think again: it's an extreme order that begets breakthroughs in business. In fact, many of the innovations that have changed the world, including railroads, the Internet, and even language, only succeed because of standardization. Similarly, in the telecommunications industry, stand

#53 Tatiana Zander | Director | Disruptive Technologies | Santa Clara, US

Jun 16 2023 37 mins

Welcome to Connecting Dots! The world is in the middle of a great digital transformation and leading telcos are also embracing digital disruption. From mobile edge computing to creating the next generation of Quantum Internet, and much else besides, telecommunication innovation can be seen everywhere. To dive deeper into how this industry can have a truly transformational impact, w

#52 Zahid Mubarik | Founder and CEO | HR-Metrics | Islamabad, PK

Jun 03 2023 42 mins

Welcome to Connecting Dots! With the ‘‘Great Resignation’ spreading its tentacles worldwide, companies are beginning to realize the importance of workforce analytics and HR metrics to stem this tide of workers exiting their companies. To further connect the dots on the key performance indicators of HR in an organization, we have Zahid Mubarak with us today, who’s the founde

#51 Ali Hasnain Rizvi | CTO | ID-Ware | DE

May 04 2023 36 mins

Welcome to Connecting Dots! As our dependence on technology grows, so does our vulnerability to cyber attacks. Therefore, businesses today are devoting an increasing amount of resources to detecting and preventing cybercrime; hence, resulting in an increasing demand for skilled cybersecurity professionals. To reflect more about this booming field, we have today, Ali Hasnain Rizvi,

#50 Karen Biehl | Head of Portfolio Marketing | Munich, DE

Apr 25 2023 32 mins

Welcome to Connecting Dots! With an increasing emphasis on understanding customers, companies today are evolving from the traditional role of being product oriented to focusing on customer solution. While product marketing focus on product, and solution marketing is about marketing solutions, "portfolio marketing" is the term that captures “all of the above" - the