GREG SORBER

Many kids grow up dreaming of making video games. For Luis Sempé, those dreams became a reality at an early age. After he had scaled the industry ladder and helped make some of the world’s most popular games, Luis wanted a new challenge. He found it by shifting from game development to the formation – and recreation – of a groundbreaking game engine.

Following her graduate thesis on the exclusion of women in the gaming industry, Suzanne Freyjadis decided to tackle the problem head on. Today, Suzanne is the Director of Global Development at the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), where she is helping democratize game development, boost equity and inclusion in the gaming industry, and provide opportunities for those who have historically been underrepresented and underserved.

It wasn’t long ago that Tom Hulton-Harrop, a software development manager at AWS, was working with a single team to build a proprietary game engine. As we all know, things can change quickly in the software development world. We recently visited with Tom to learn about his leap into the open source community, the benefits of collaborative innovation, and overcoming the anxiety of sharing code with discerning strangers.

The small business ecosystem, arguably our most important economic engine, is at a serious disadvantage. But change is on the horizon, and it is being fueled by data.

Every rock star has a team behind them that helps pave the path to success. And every infrastructure team has an opportunity to play that indispensible role, to be the technological enabler of business enablers.

Business agility is an overplayed marketing term, a nebulous benefit for ubiquitous needs. But the importance and value of agility in the real world are anything but hype.

Banking has traditionally been conducted at branch locations, but Capital One is anything but traditional. The financial titan is actively working to “re-imagine the way customers interact with their money.”

After virtualizing its infrastructure, mission-critical applications, and desktops, Seattle Children’s Hospital is a model of possibility and achievement.

In straddling the line between reactive problem solving and proactive innovation, those within Intel IT Labs must stay true to their instincts, process, and mission. They must also be willing to fail.

Boys Town, a century-old nonprofit serving at-risk youth, has implemented a software-defined architecture to support diverse, nationwide operations.

How Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated is improving the collective efficiency of its workforce.