Videos
Here are a variety of talks and interviews I’ve given over time. The opinions I express here are mine, not necessarily those of my employer at the time (GlobalLogic from April 2009-October 2025), the event sponsor or the other speaker(s) if any! Any trademarked terms that I reference in passing are the property of their respective owners. Any mention of them does not necessarily imply any endorsement or relationship.
24-June-2025
Accelerating with AI: A Pragmatic Approach to AI-Driven Software Development for SDVs
This is a keynote I gave at the June 2025 European Automotive Electronics Congress (#AEK_live) in Ludwigsburg, Germany. I describe a pragmatic approach to using GenAI to accelerate the software development process for safety-critical systems such as software-defined vehicles (SDVs), given the then-current (Spring 2025) state-of-the-art. (https://www.linkedin.com/company/automobil-elektronik-kongress/)
13-July-2024
Agility, Leadership, and Innovation: The Journey of Globallogic CTO Jim Walsh
Podcaster Swagata Ashwani of the “The Data Dojo” interviewed me in the video above. She takes me through my thoughts about the differences between large companies and startups; the Agile development methodology; leading transformation within a large organization; dealing with rapid technical change; becoming part of the Hitachi group; my leadership and management style; digital transformation and enablement; and GenAI’s impact on the software development process and on software services companies.
14-June-2024
Unleashing Innovation: The Impact of Hackathons
The above is a promotional piece I did for GlobalLogic hackathons. GlobalLogic regularly hosted hackathons internally, and frequently opened these events to both client teams and people from the global development community. Hacka-thons may be ‘themed’ to brainstorm solutions to some client-specific objective, or to encourage creative exploration of new technologies.
8-Jul-2021
DARQ Matter Disruption | LinkedIn LIVE
This is a panel discussion by the judges of a 2021 GlobalLogic Hackathon that was held during the Covid lock-downs, which focused on exploring DARQ technologies. “DARQ” is an acronym for Distributed Ledger (e.g. Blockchain), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Extended Reality (AR, VR, mixed Reality, etc.) and Quantum. As one of the judges I participate in the discussion at multiple points, but my main comments are around the 27:40 mark. Perhaps interestingly, given the emphasis on AI here, this was over a year before ChatGPT was announced in November of 2022–an event which dramatically raised public awareness of AI technology.
6-Jan-2021
Digital Transformation: A Private Equity Perspective
This panel discussion above was part of an event hosted by the Center for Digital Transformation at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The moderator, Vivek Gurbaxani, was Professor of Information Systems and Computer Science at UCI, and also Founder and Director of UCI’s Center for Digital Transformation. This annual event is normally “physical” and held on the UCI campus in Irvine CA, but was virtual in 2021 due to continuing Covid concerns. I appear audio-only due to technical problems on my side (ironic). The other guest on the panel is Michael Zawalsky, Principal, Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB). At that time, CPPIB had $450B assets under management, and has since grown significantly. Michael and I partnered on the development of a software-centric approach to private equity investment and portfolio management, which Michael liked to call “PE 2.0”. I led the concept development and high-level software architecture of CPPIB’s system on the GlobalLogic side, ramping the GlobalLogic team and handing off to them for continuing implementation and evolution. This panel describes the journey.
30-July-2020
GlobalLogic Cafe: Transformation in a Post COVID-19 World
The conversation above was recorded in July of 2021, about 4 months after the first Covid lockdowns began in the US in March 2020. Restrictions were easing up–temporarily as it turned out–so the positioning in the title as “post-Covid” was optimistic. But even this early in the pandemic, we had already gained some insight into the impact of at-home restrictions on work, and on industries where GlobalLogic operated such as healthcare, education and automotive. At 23:10 in the video, moderator and then Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Arya Barirani and I have a conversation about the innovations that may come out of Covid. I don’t predict GenAI specifically, but I do predict that the enforced isolation of the Covid lockdown was likely to stimulate new and unpredictable innovations, as historical plagues and pandemics have in the past.
GlobalLogic “Cafe” sessions were typically aimed at employees, but this one was made publicly available.
9-Jun-2020
Transformation in a post-Covid 19 World
The above is a keynote I presented at the (virtual) VSE UnIT Conference in Kosice Slovakia in 2020. This annual conference is normally physical, but it was held virtually in 2020 due to the global Covid lockdowns (which began in the US in March 2020). The VSE UnIT conference is a business / academic / technology conference sponsored by leading Slovak energy company VSE Holdings. I discuss the impact on technology that I believed would result from the lessons of Covid–especially as a motivator to accelerate digital transformation in a variety of industries..
17-Feb-2016
5 Minutes with… Jim Walsh, CTO, GlobalLogic
The above is an audio interview with Rich Nass of Embedded Computing Design. Topics covered include what does “product development services” mean; what is meant by the term “digital disruption”; and how companies react to user-centric design.
6-Oct-2015
This Is the Age of Event-Based Architecture: Jim Walsh, CTO, GlobalLogic
The above is a wide-ranging interview by Yashvendra Singh, Executive Editor of India Businessworld’s “BW CIOWORLD” magazine and podcast. Topics covered are the benefits of Agile / Lean product development and the challenges companies have in adopting it; scaling as a CTO as your company grows; Agile and engineering productivity; engineering security and quality into health and safety-critical products; user-centric design; event-driven architectures; the impact of mobile devices on expectations for software quality and usability; the impact of cloud on scale, impact and capital investment; opensource as an enabler for agility; and the role of a CTO in a services company, especially when dealing with disruptive technology.
28-Sep-2015
I woke up one morning and suddenly I’m a software company
Followed by panel: “CIO and CMO: Power couple or strange bedfellows?“
This is the talk where, when asked whether I was a “digital native” or “digital immigrant”, I characterized myself as a “digital aborigine”–because I was already ‘digital’ before the ‘natives’ arrived. (My daughter, my touchpoint for political correctness, later recommended that I amend this to “digitally indigenous”).
This keynote was delivered in Mumbai India at the 2015 “MarTech” conference, sponsored by NASSCOM, India’s IT trade association. The focus of my talk was how digital technologies are disrupting traditional businesses. and how businesses of every type are finding themselves needing to act like software companies. I discuss the impact this realization has on the CIO and CMO in particular, since this was the focus of the conference. I then moderate a panel titled: “CIO and CMO: Power couple or strange bedfellows?”
2-Feb-2015
IoT: What happens when our machines are smarter than we are?
This is a keynote I gave at the NASSCOM “Tech Series: Internet of Things” conference in New Delhi India in 2015. I talk about humanities then-current and projected technical capability to track items in the physical world; a paradigm for near real-time intelligent control of devices using sensor data (key to an area now called “hard tech”); and the value of ‘context’ in intelligence and decision-making. At about the 42:20 mark I close with speculation about whether the future of AI will lead to a ‘skynet’ scenario; a ‘rapture of the nerds’ scenario; or “intelligent agents”. I conclude that the 3rd scenario, “intelligent agents”, is the most likely. I predict that intelligent AI agents, informed by sensors and empowered by control of physical devices, will become our partners.
16-Apr-2014
Engineering great products and customer experience: Trends and strategies
In the video above I moderate an all-star panel at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View (Silicon Valley) California in an event sponsored by the Churchill Club. We discuss how to create great products and customer experiences. The panel consisted of: Catherine Courage, SVP Customer Experience, Citrix; Steve Johnson, VP, User Experience, LinkedIn; Frederik Pferdt, Head of Innovation & Creativity Programs, Google; Larry Tesler, Chief Experience Officer, MINE, Inc.; and Charles Warren, SVP Product Design, Salesforce.com.
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