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Create New Futures | How Leaders Produce Breakthroughs and Transform the World through Conversation

Welcome to Create New Futures. Every episode, best-selling author and host Aviv Shahar will explore ideas and insights that can awaken and inspire you to the opportunities you have to create new futures for you, your family, your teams, and for your business. Life is too short to not be engaged in fascinating conversations that open, inspire and unleash new ways of thinking and seeing possibilities and beauty. Through Create New Futures, Aviv will engage in conversation with leaders and experts to explore practices that you can use to create and shape the future. With his guests, Aviv will put a magnifying glass on strategies and frameworks that he has applied to help senior executives and their teams achieve significant breakthroughs that lead to game changing results. Ideas, strategies, breakthroughs and practices that you can apply. With his innovative ideas and frameworks, Aviv walks you through what you need to lead and transform an organization, and redesign your life to achieve new goals. Together with his guests, Aviv will explore how to develop strategy, how to lead to enable teams to unleash their brilliance and what is the inside work leaders must engage in to develop executive presence and charisma. More than ever, humanity now needs people who are open and prepared to imagine, create, and sustain new futures. This is a time of great transformative and disruptive change. It demands our best imagination, courage, and creativity. Through this podcast, Aviv will inspire you to be tomorrow's agent by creating conversations that birth new possibilities for you and for the people in your life. Through his concept of Architecture Thinking™, Aviv walks you through what is needed to lead change, transform an organization, redesign your life to achieve new goals, serve new needs and realize new possibilities. Leaders need to consider how to bring about and enable a compound set of outcomes by concurrently integrating multiple inputs.
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Now displaying: September, 2018
Sep 17, 2018

David Harding is an executive with over 25 years of technology leadership experience. David is the Senior Vice President and CTO of ImageWare Systems, Inc. Of his many accolades, David is credited with transforming this traditional software company into a leading cloud and software as a service provider, with services and products that are licensed and resold by some of the world’s largest corporations. He is an expert in the field of biometrics, identity management and enterprise security. In addition to his business acumen, David is also a prolific inventor, holding multiple patents with even more pending, and an avid musician.

In this episode, Aviv and David cover a variety of technology and business topics, ranging from blockchain to data breaches. David discusses his current role and breaks down the distinction between biometrics and identity management. He cautions about the ever-growing need for cyber security in our society and discusses the outdated nature of passwords. David also touches on government and private sector misuse of cyber security, even going so far as to describe the Equifax data breach as one of the most catastrophic in history. Aviv asks David about how he got his start in the software industry and what advice he would give his younger self. Finally, Aviv and David discuss the importance of passion, empathy, and learning to adapt in the workplace.

  • 01:07 – Introducing David Harding
  • 02:24 – David’s latest projects
  • 03:31 – What excites David about working in cyber security
  • 05:33 – Understanding the distinction between biometrics and identity management
  • 07:35 – Cyber security and the ever-evolving need to adapt to cyber threats
  • 09:28 – David discusses public and private sectors that use identity management
  • 13:30 – David explains blockchain technology
  • 16:42 – Why it is difficult for companies to transition into “software as a service” model
  • 19:05 – The practical application of transactional scalability
  • 20:26 – How music provided a source of inspiration for David
  • 22:17 – How the skills David learned while playing in a band transferred to business success
  • 25:48 – The importance of mutual trust and respect to business team success
  • 26:34 – When did David know that he wanted to work in software?
  • 29:28 – Why artificial intelligence (AI) overpromised and under delivered
  • 32:54 – Are we on the precipice of delivering on technologies such as artificial intelligence?
  • 34:53 – David’s innovation process looks to identify pain points to reach solutions
  • 37:22 – David describes a seminal experience that shaped his career
  • 42:35 – What the future holds for biometric technology
  • 46:07 – The rapidly growing fields of behavioral analytics and machine learning
  • 46:48 – David’s advice to his younger self
  • 49:15 – Parting words of wisdom from David
  • 51:00 – Aviv provides steps to create your new future

FULL SHOW NOTES: https://www.avivconsulting.com/cnf45

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