Bant Breen:
Monique is the Senior Distinguished Architect of Emerging Technologies at Syniverse. Tell me about what you’re doing.
Monique Morrow:
I’ll take a step back before I go to senators because Cisco offered me a wonderful platform, it was 16, almost 17 years ago. One of the things that we’re able to do was one of their CTOs was to understand the line of businesses to go from research to services to be able to go to sales in the region, like the Asia Pacific. They’ve done a fantastic job and they continue to do a great job in that area. I’ve learned a lot at Cisco, and also being in the valley has been very helpful to me. It’s a small world you take with you these particular skill sets and serve diverse centers. US-based company and they are around mobile technologies, the SMS isn’t the messages that you get in the world. We have like, 700 customers or so. We’re changing to as a company. We’re a technology company. We are also changing with Twilio investing $750 million into our company. Perhaps we don’t know if we’re gonna go public if it’s through us back or not. But there’s a lot of excitement in this space. Being the first senior distinguished architect in emerging technologies has been exciting for me.
Bant Breen:
What are you guys working on in that space?
Monique Morrow:
One of the areas that are part of our strategy is the blockchain, or what we call Distributed Ledger Technology because there are many types of blockchains. Ledger’s, whether they’re Corte, whether it’s a hyper ledger fabric, we have different types. It’s a common one. With us, what we’ve been doing is thinking about smart contracts and what you do in settlements. Because one of the aspects of how we work isn’t around robbing and settlements, how do you carry an agreement together? How do you have that layer of trust or not on trust? Here, we’re rather permissions such that you can create a smart contract for settlement. That gets into blockchain for wholesale and roaming as an example of a business that we are quite engaged and quite active in. Part of what I’m doing too, is I hold the elite industry leadership role at the GSM, a mobile Industry Forum, Sharon co-chairing with my colleague from GSM, on DLT. It’s no longer I can say it’s no longer hype, it’s pay cut, and organizations are adopting DLT. For their business, we see that we see large companies doing it around use cases, whether it is you know, supply chain, typically IBM has been one of the examples here in this space. For us, it’s we see it as a launch pad for other potential use cases businesses for us. Certainly, DLT is and a harder problem to solve. I’m just gonna say there’s one thing, the harder problem to solve is around interoperability. We should not underestimate how difficult that won’t be in the industry.
Bant Breen:
Monique, thank you so much for being on UNCAGED today and we look forward to having you back.
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