IT Talks

“We have no time to train staff” is a throwaway comment you hear or see in various forums. However, the most important part of any change process is getting the staff on board and involved in the change. This is the essence of Bunkai – a change management consultant company within digitalization. Today’s guest, Johan Ström, is CEO and operative worker at Bunkai, and in this episode he discusses how to carry out a change process, who’s important to bring on board, and where to start.

Alice Walden works as a software developer specializing in API & Integration at Redpill Linpro Gothenburg. In her daily work, she focuses on building efficient and sustainable solutions, where reusable components are key to avoid reinventing the wheel. But reality often presents challenges - the conditions required for this approach aren't always in place. In this episode, Alice discusses the common pitfalls of integration projects and explore what it takes to create smart, long-lasting solutions.

Gustaf Nilstadius has been working at Redpill Linpro for over four years, and most of the time, he spent on digitalising the Swedish National Agency for Education (Swe: Skolverket). He works with scalable systems and has a strong passion for open source, which he discusses in today’s episode. Gustaf, together with his team, built a service to be able to test Skolverket’s systems. While building this production load with data, they might as well release it so that other people can see it and interact with their service. Tune into this episode to find out more!

Our three guests on today’s episode are directors at three different companies, each representing one of the six members of the European Open Source Consortium (EOSC). Fredrik Svensson is CBDO at Redpill Linpro and cofounder of Swedish Redpill. Jean-Philippe Balança is international director at Smile in France, one of the largest European companies within open source. Peter Ganten is founder and CEO of Univention in Germany, and co-founder of two open source associations, the Open Source Business Alliance and APELL. They’re all engaged in open source, and EOSC aims to: – Promote open source software and solutions across Europe – Strengthen European digital sovereignty – Coordinate resources, projects, and expertise across national borders – Build joint projects, solutions, and standards with a clear European foundation But why is this important, and why was this consortium started so recently? And why does collaboration across all of Europe matter? Tune in to this episode for all the answers.

Platform engineering is both a term and job role that began being discussed around 2018–2019 but has grown significantly lately. Today’s guests, Pontus Ullgren and Leo Jordansson, work as platform engineers and discuss what it is and what it means for them: Maintaining platforms internally and an actual task one has in an organisation that applies DevOps. Pontus and Leo will help you understand all about it, don’t miss out on this episode of IT Talks!