Chris Hood is a passionate speaker, podcast host, digital strategist, and writer. He currently works at Google as the Head of Business Innovation & Strategy. His leadership and strategic insights on digital and business transformation have propelled digital success at the firm. For more information, click here. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Los Angeles, CA, September 17, 2021 – Chris Hood is a speaker, podcast host, digital strategist, and writer who has made a career out of storytelling. His career experience spans over three decades in television, film, music, and video games. He started as a film student, and theatre attendant was propelled by his endless love for theatre and film which made him rise to the ranks of the digital world. Chris has won numerous awards in the digital marketing world, including the National Association of Theater Owners customer service award and the Hollywood Reporter’s grand prize showmanship award three years in a row. Chris Hood has followed his entrepreneurial spirit to invent, develop, and market digital multimedia advertising and interactive technology platforms for movie theaters. His first Innovation was the Digireel technology, which went on to transform cinema advertising and video programming. This technology is the foundation for onscreen advertising in movie theatres today. In 2003, …
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Thomas Kurian at the Google Cloud campus in Sunnyvale, California. Google Cloud employees were baffled when they learned that their next boss would be Thomas Kurian, an executive who struggled to shepherd Silicon Valley mainstay Oracle Corp. into the promised land of internet computing. It was November 2018 and the cloud division’s then-chief Diane Greene and Kurian held a question-and-answer session with staff who worried about his impending leadership. “A lot of people have concerns about the fact that you came from Oracle, which is a very different culture,” one person said to Kurian. “So how are you going to preserve the culture at Google Cloud?” At a previous meeting that month, an employee described the hire as alarming and sought reassurances from Greene that Kurian was up for the job. More than two years later, no one is befuddled by Kurian’s appointment. Under his supervision, Google Cloud’s revenue has more than doubled and is growing at a quicker pace than that of its parent company, Alphabet Inc. During the Covid-19 pandemic that caused Google to pause most hiring, Kurian’s division snapped up new employees. While other company divisions have fought for internal resources or been shuttered, the cloud unit continues to receive a constant rush of investment. His workforce is …
For the past several years, tech giants have been trying to make artificial intelligence in its many guises HPC, data analytics, and other advanced workloads more available and easier to use for enterprises. Traditional OEMs such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell Technologies, and Lenovo are using a combination of hardware, software, and services to make technologies that in years gone by would only be employed by research institutions and the largest of corporations more widely accessible. The public clouds, particularly those that have their own hyperscale applications driven by machine learning and scale, also function a bit like OEMs when it comes to these workloads. They have exposed the tools they build for their own use through their clouds, giving customers another option to be a modern computing organization. In many cases, this reduces time to market for AI-driven applications and can also reduce costs – particularly huge capital outlays for buying GPU-laden infrastructure but also for high salaried AI experts who are in short supply and high demand. The global AI space is expected to grow from $27.23 billion in 2019 to almost $267 billion by 2027, according to a report from Fortune Business Insights. While on-premises deployments will …
Los Angeles Times: Original Article ANAHEIM — Moviegoers who showed up at Cinemapolis to take in “Fried Green Tomatoes” one night this week got something of an unexpected bonus. A gasp was heard in the complex’s 125-seat screening room when a guest was introduced: Kathy Bates, one of the stars of the movie and winner of last year’s Best Actress Academy Award for her role in “Misery.” Bates, bundled in a sweater, talked to the audience for almost half an hour before the movie began, good-naturedly fielding questions on everything from when she decided to act (“My mother says that when I was born, the doctor slapped me and I thought it was applause”) to whether she has actually tried fried green tomatoes, a Southern delicacy (yes, she has). Along the way, she revealed that after she won her Oscar, “Misery” co-star James Caan sent her a stack of Liberace records (her character’s favorite musician), and that although the Oscar now occupies a prominent place on her mantel, she expects to move it around because “sometimes I like thinking about it, and sometimes I don’t.” Bates’ appearance at the movie house was part of Screening Room, a program the 10-screen Cinemapolis …
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