June’s live Cloud Wars Expo event featured dozens of industry leaders allowing the Acceleration Economy team access to the inner workings of the greatest growth market the world has ever known.
In this News Desk interview, Principal Analyst Aaron Back welcomes Henna Karna, Managing Director of Google Cloud’s Global Insurance and Risk Management, for a discussion on the differentiating factors of Google Cloud and how it aims to serve customers with increasing industry-specific needs.
Highlights
00:16 — Aaron introduces Google Cloud’s Henna Karna. Karna briefly describes the various industries her role as Managing Director of Global Insurance Risk Management supports, including retail, banking, and financial services.
02:21 — Google Cloud financial service solutions help customers overcome three major industry challenges: customer experience and growth, operational cost efficiency, and regulation management and reporting.
06:04 — Karna explains how Google Cloud differentiates itself from other cloud vendors through streamlining the “data-to-value journey,” with examples of how Google has developed unified data governance. Data security requires real-time data transparency.
07:56 — “More data and more time on creating differentiated value propositions creates more value for the end customer,” Karna says, adding that between 60% to 80% of their time in the financial service industry is spent reconciling, connecting, collecting, and organizing those data factors.
10:16 — Karna describes keeping pace with cyber threats with evolving technology and the Zero Trust model that Google helped pioneer.
12:28 — Co-creation and innovation are critical components to pushing Google and its customers’ respective missions forward. Karna outlines major principles guiding Google Cloud’s approach to security and performance when supporting its partnering customers.
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