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Join Jez Ward & Darren Bowling on the Cloudbusting Podcast as they explore what it means to live, work, and solve business challenges as a cloud-native organization. Each week they invite thought-leaders, innovators and experts to the show to share their insights and experience.
Focusing on transformation, leadership, ways of working and emerging technology they explore the significant impact that cloud is having on people and businesses.
The Cloud Insights Infobrief
July 18th, 2023
This week, Jez and Darren receive a special guest, Carla Arend, IDC’s Associate Vice President for Cloud Research in Europe. Carla and…
Unilever’s unique cloud migration journey
June 20th, 2023
Darren is on the spot this week with his two bosses on the show; Jez and Darren’s client, Phil Parr, Cloud Platform…
Future Tech Innovations Unleashed
June 13th, 2023
Welcome to this week’s episode of CloudBusting! Our special guest, Sue Daley, Director of Tech Innovation at techUK joins Jez and Darren…
Hyping up hospitality: The customer experience in the cloud
April 25th, 2023
Welcome back to Cloudbusting! This week, Jez and Darren receive Tristan Gadsby, CEO of Alliants, the experts at enabling exceptional customer experiences…
The challenging role of today’s CIO
April 12th, 2023
This week Jez and Darren receive Doug Drinkwater, Director of Strategy at HotTopics for a sit down to unpick the ever-evolving role…
Is mankind’s approach to sustainability really sustainable?
April 4th, 2023
This week, Jez and Darren receive Anthony Levy, Founder & Chairman of Circularity First, and discuss the real issues surrounding the progress…
ChatGPT, the rise of Generative AI
March 21st, 2023
This week the Cloudbusting crew, Jez and Darren get chatting with Andy Barraclough, founder & CTO of Voxpopme about ChatGPT, its unmatched…
The inside story of a cloud modernization journey
March 14th, 2023
Cloudbusting is back with a bang starting with the first season of 2023! A very exciting line up of guest speakers awaits….
Bar Raiser
December 13th, 2022
Join Jez and Darren chat with Jeff Barr, Vice President and Chief Evangelist and listen to him talk about his illustrious career…
Picking the bones of Cloud FinOps
December 6th, 2022
Straight talking John Finch, technology adviser to private equity funds & FSIs tells it how it is. FinOps, Cloud cost optimisation, cloud…
AWS re:Invent: It’s a Wrap!
December 2nd, 2022
Darren, Jez and Mark Ross, Global Chief Architect at Atos round the circle by giving us a neat wrap up of the…
A Live AWS re:Invent Special: Cloud Trend #6, Cloud-enabled Climate Action
December 1st, 2022
Decarbonizing digital assets directly impacts 2% of global energy consumption. But how can it help us impact the 98%? We believe climate…
A Live AWS re:Invent Special: Cloud Trend #5, The Talent Crisis
December 1st, 2022
In 2022, over 50% of organizations reported the skills shortage to be severely impacting growth or posing an existential crisis to business…
A Live AWS re:Invent Special: Cloud Trend #4, Evolution of the CIO
December 1st, 2022
Join Darren and Jez from the conference floor at re:Invent in Las Vegas as they continue to unveil the Cloud Trends for…
A Live AWS re:Invent Special: Cloud Trend #3, The Financial Quotient
November 30th, 2022
This week the Cloudbusting team is in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent, a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the…
A Live AWS re:Invent Special: Cloud Trend #2, The Cloud Native Enterprise
November 30th, 2022
This week the Cloudbusting team is in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent, a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for…
A Live AWS re:Invent Special: Cloud Trend #1, Connected Worlds
November 30th, 2022
Live from AWS’ re:Invent conference floor in Las Vegas this week is the Cloudbusting team receiving various expert guests to talk about…
A sneak peek into re:Invent
November 22nd, 2022
It’s countdown time to re:Invent: Jez and Darren together with Mark Ross, Global Chief Architect AWS at Atos go through a preview…
Understanding the Data-Driven Enterprise
November 15th, 2022
This week’s guest is Marcos Cadena, CTO & CDO of Jollibee Foods, owners of fast food brand Jollibee, the equivalent of McDonald’s…
Gartner Symposium Highlights – Part II
November 10th, 2022
Day II at the Gartner Symposium, Jez and Darren report on what they saw and heard covering new tech, how the future…
Gartner Symposium Highlights – Part I
November 9th, 2022
Jez and Darren are in Barcelona at the Gartner Symposium finding out the latest and greatest in cloud world this week. Tune…
Lessons in Sustainability
November 1st, 2022
In the hot seat this week, Jez and Darren receive Stuart Lemmon, Managing Director of ecoact, an Atos company to learn about…
Security or more security, that is the question!
October 25th, 2022
Returning guest Paul Crichard, Chief Information Security Officer at Serco UK and Europe is back in the hot seat with Jez and Darren…
Digital Trailblazing
October 18th, 2022
Jez and Darren are going on a digital trailblazing adventure this week with Isaac Sacolick, StarCIO founder, digital transformation influencer, strategic advisor…
What creates Cloudflation and what deflates it
October 11th, 2022
Jez and Darren are back to get into the weeds of cloudflation with this week’s guest David Linthicum, Influencer and Chief Strategy…..
Cloud Modernisation: Preparing for recession
October 4th, 2022
Jez and Darren are at it again this week with our guest speaker Simon Withers, Global Head of Cloud Portfolio & Engineering…..
The Cloud Talent Crisis
September 27th, 2022
In this week’s episode, Darren makes his return as podcast cohost and we welcome Chris Gabriel, Chief Strategy Officer at Sapphire to…..
Evolution of the CIO
September 20th, 2022
We are so glad to be back with a brand new season of Cloudbusting! This week we welcome new co-host, Darren Bowling…..
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Jez Ward
Jez is the Global head of Advisory and Executive Cloud Advisor, dedicated to helping CxOs deliver high-impact business outcomes in the cloud. He is a trusted IT leader with 30 years in diverse industry roles, including the COO for iRiS Software, SVP for IT at Kempinski Hotels and CIO for JJW Hotels and Resorts.