The Future of Smart Homes & Sustainability: Intelligent Ecosystem

October 5, 2022
Hosted by Bonnie D. Graham

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Buzz 1: For some, a ‘smart house’ is chock-full of gadgets that automate or monitor almost every conceivable part of a house. For others, a smart house is extreme simplicity with only the slightest of technological intrusions as necessity demands…Apple’s Home app, Google’s Nest, Google’s Home app, Airthinx air quality monitors, myQ smart garage doors, Dyson app, Wemo app, Nanoleaf, a Govee Home app. [forbes.com] Buzz 2: Managing smart home is hard. “You do need an ecosystem, fundamentally, because you can’t say, ‘Oh, here’s your brand-new house, but oh, now you’ve got 300 apps with 300 passwords and you now need to connect them all up yourself, and you’ve got to figure out how all these things attach to your wireless network.” [KB Home VP Dan Bridleman Bridleman] Buzz 3: Increasingly, what makes a home smart…is the fundamentals of what a home is supposed to provide: heat, light, shelter, power…a smart house does its job. Even when your power provider doesn’t, or can’t. Buzz 4: At CES 2020, CTA's Steve Koenig suggested the IoT needed a rebrand to the “Intelligence of Things” for the decade ahead…to smartly integrate all these devices in a secure way that makes consumers comfortable sharing the data required to make smart homes truly smart. Builders are front and center in smart home technology conversations. [forbes.com] We’ll ask Lee Miller at RealPage Smart Building, Pierre Calzadilla at Local Logic, Leonard Lee at neXt Curve and Mary Nietschke at RealPage for their take on The Future of Smart Homes & Sustainability: Your Intelligent App Ecosystem?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Wednesday at 8 AM Pacific/11 AM Eastern Time on VoiceAmerica Business Channel

Technology in many shapes, forms, and devices is already shaping nearly every aspect of your life. How? On your smart phone and tablet with thousands of apps to enhance your work and daily living. On streaming media that lets you watch TV and movies anytime anywhere. On social media where your voice is instantly amplified to reach the world. Think you’ve seen it all? Not! There’s more to come and you’re part of making it happen – right now. Join host Bonnie D. Graham as she speaks with future-focused visionaries on Technology Revolution: The Future of Now, broadcasting live every Wednesday at 8 AM Pacific Time/11 AM Eastern Time, on the Business Channel.

Bonnie D. Graham

Bonnie D. Graham produced and hosted her first live talk radio show in 1998 on AM1240–WGBB, Long Island, NY’s oldest terrestrial radio station. A few years later, she moved from terrestrial to Internet radio with her author interview show, “Up Close and Personal.” In 2011, working at the enterprise software leader SAP, she developed the concept for a weekly live global business thought leadership roundtable series on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel – and launched “Coffee Break with Game-Changers” on October 5, 2011. Over the next nine years, Bonnie D. created, produced and hosted 46 additional SAP series on the Business Channel, attracting millions of listeners around the world. Since becoming an independent broadcaster in 2019, she has developed and hosted live radio and podcast series on the Business Channel for eight additional organizations, as well as her own weekly series, “Read My Lips: Cool Conversations with Creatives with akaRadioRed,” on the Empowerment Channel. In 2023, her live-streaming “Technology Revolution: The Future of Now” series was ranked No. 6 on FeedSpot’s Top 70 Technology Podcasts to Listen to in 2023. What powers Bonnie D.’s passion for radio? She “loves speaking with smart people!”

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