The WHY

For a future Conversations with Tech Experts podcast, you should sit down with John Bredesen and discuss his new book, The I.T. Leaders' Handbook; he has an awesome blog and website with great advice for IT Professionals. Although I am not a manager myself, I learned a lot from him, starting in IT, and he continues to help and share his knowledge as much as he can, which is really awesome.

An excellent guest would be Adam Curry ("The Podfather"), the inventor of the podcast, former MTV DJ and the current co-host of the No Agenda podcast (you might also consider including his co-host John C. Dvorak, noted IT journalist and professional Curmudgeon). Not unlike your business model, their podcast relies on the hands-on efforts and donations of listeners in their "Value-For-Value" business model. He has some great stories about the early days of the Internet and has great vision for its future. For some incite checkout:  https://noagendashow.net/listen/ 

Other guest suggestions are below:

 Amy Patton, VP of Technology at SPS Commerce. I loved how passionate that company was about its mission to break down "walls" and "hacking the gap" in tech. I think their efforts have grown tremendously since I last was in the Twin Cities. Also, they have an excellent intern program in MN and established a WiT group. SPS continues to host incredible events as well as form local partnerships geared towards showcasing the importance/value that comes from learning how to code and having opportunities to tackle technology at a young age.

Julia Kambiri is another name that comes to mind, she specialized in SCCM and taught me a lot about it.  She used to be the Minnesota System Center User Group (MNSCUG) VP also.

Milinda Rambel Stone  CISA, CISM, CRISC as well.

Susan "Sue" Sako Sr. Systems Engineer @SPS

P.S.  I think it would be cool if EE facilitated a cross-over podcast episode with another podcast to discuss diversity, equality, and inclusion one day or even other tech topics.