Elizabeth Kays

Elizabeth is a beat writer for SiliconANGLE's roving news desk team theCUBE. She covers theCUBE events worldwide, spanning expert commentary on the hottest trends in IT. Got news? Tweet it to @siliconangle.

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Streamlining university tech | #know15

  With so many universities basing their reputations on STEM subjects, one would expect these educational behemoths to have the best digital infrastructures available. But many universities are still processing applications manually, on paper — not to mention the rest of their infrastructure. And where they do use technology, they often force students and their parents ...

“Emergent behavior” and the second machine age | #MITIDE

  As we enter the second machine age — nearly 300 years after the first began with Europe’s industrial revolution — there are lots of questions to answer about the future of society, politics and economics. But in Europe, according to Peter Day, a host with the BBC World Service, people are still insulated from ...

Education and innovation in Europe | #MITIDE

  As an MIT alumnus, Jean-Jacques Degroof is passionate about education and the potential of new technology to improve the world for our children. Degroof sat down to talk to theCUBE during the MIT IDE 2015 Conference in London. “I came out of this conference with tons of ideas in my head, of course, but ...

Fostering growth and preparing for disruption in London | #MITIDE

  Hasan Bakhshi, director of Creative Economy Policy & Research at London-based innovation agency Nesta, is optimistic about the UK’s future growth. Despite the disruption caused by new technology over the past few decades, he believes that good public policy can help reduce the barriers to innovation and ready the labor market for new opportunities, ...

At Accenture, ServiceNow improves business solutions | #know15

At ServiceNow’s Knowledge15 event in Las Vegas, Sales Director Justin Bean and Solutions Architect Michael Lutz from Accenture LLP were full of praise for ServiceNow and the impact it’s having on enterprise around the world. “ServiceNow as a platform brings a great opportunity for organizations to improve the way their company works,” Lutz told theCUBE ...

Disruption and innovation are key factors to ServiceNow’s success | #know15

  A winning technology strategy in today’s economy requires one of two things: disruption or innovation. ServiceNow has positioned itself to take advantage of both, while also maintaining its core vision. According to Dave Wright, chief strategy officer at ServiceNow, “From a features perspective, what we’re looking to do is get anyone to build anything ...

Using ServiceNow to make better beer | #know15

  Stone Brewing Co. has a lot to be excited about, from its status as the 9th largest craft brewery in the US to the launch of its third brewery in Berlin, Germany, which makes them the first American craft brewers to open anywhere in Europe. But Brian Andrews, VP of IT, is especially excited ...

Supporting success with ServiceNow’s HR suite | #know15

  Promoting a culture of mutual success — something that starts at the very top — is key for ServiceNow, according to Jen Stroud, senior director and GM of HR Products and Applications at ServiceNow. “Everybody is interested in everybody being successful,” Stroud said in an interview with theCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante ...

ServiceNow’s founder Fred Luddy discusses the future of tech | #know15

Fred Luddy, founder and CPO of ServiceNow, is optimistic about the future of the company and the industry as a whole. “I feel ready for the next 10 years. We spent 10 years building something that I think has established a really great foundation. And now, people just want to work differently. They have different ...

Winning developer hearts and minds through flexibility| #know15

With a background as a software engineer, Jonathan Sparks, director of Product Management at ServiceNow, understands what it’s like to be a developer. Fortunately, he says that their platform makes things easy, especially when designing applications for enterprise. “As a developer, I want to solve problems for people and see them get excited …. I ...