Life Lessons: Be confident in your own ability

As Jeremy Cowan hears from Andrew Carr, managing director at Camwood, it is vital to have courage in your convictions and actions. Of course, mistakes will happen sometimes as in the rest of life but it is to be confident in your own ability.

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Life Lessons: From sci-fi and a ZX81 to plane-hopping and building a business

Jawad Ashraf, CTO and co-founder of Terra Virtua, has been a techie ever since playing with his ZX81. These days it’s a passion that drives his business. Here he shares some Life Lessons in choosing a business partner and aligning your goals with foreign partners to achieve what you both want.

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Life Lessons: Keep it simple and put yourself in your customers’ shoes

Simon Wilson is chief technology officer for Aruba UK & Ireland , a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company. In this role, he works as a brand ambassador articulating the Aruba vision for experience-driven infrastructure.

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Life Lessons: Chef to the Queen, weapons trainee, and bank CTO – it’s no ordinary route to the top

Alan Payne describes the extraordinary path that has brought him to become CIO at Sensyne Health, and the lessons learned along the way.

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Life Lessons: Dodging the dockyard, Waite aligned with people first and found business usually follows

Career openings in computer software were non-existent when Gary Waite, head of eSIM Strategy at Sim Local, started job hunting. He’s since travelled the world and learned to get to know people’s objective then find a way to work together.

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Life Lessons: Graduate attorney, consultant, entrepreneur, COO. Don’t be risk averse

Chris Port is chief operating officer of Boomi, a Dell Technologies business, but he’s worn many business hats along the way. They have taught him many lessons, one of the most important being to take entrepreneurial risks early in life. Here he shares his experiences with IoT Now.

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Life Lessons: Rock star to resistors to robotics

A love of guitars led Tom Canning indirectly to the Internet of Things and his role as head of IoT and Devices at Canonical. Here, he tells IoT Now how his imagination was fired up lately by an enhanced computer vision use case, he shares about his worst boss, and the importance of listening to

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