Michael Bird
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1,640 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Michael Bird’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Often it's while you're in the middle of something.
That's always when it is.
Yeah.
Anyway, that's just your personal advice.
Imagine if you had to update a system that millions and millions of people use, including the emergency services.
So you need to update with no downtime at all.
Yeah, absolutely, Sam.
And one person who knows this better than anyone is Franz Sizer.
Now, Franz is the head of the data tribe at Deutsche Telekom, a telco who recently upgraded their infrastructure, which I wanted to know all about.
But before we could talk about the upgrade, I wanted him to give me a bit more insight into what the infrastructure had looked like before the upgrade.
Okay, so you mentioned silos.
Can you just talk through the silos, what they are and why they exist?
Yeah.
So why did having individual silos make things more complicated?
And you mentioned slow, like how do you quantify the difference in speed from a siloed way of operating?
And we live in like a post-AI world where everyone is expecting changes to be made yesterday.
So that means the network isn't able to sort of keep up with technological changes or demands from customers.
Yeah.
So let's talk about the new system then.
How have you gone about upgrading and what's changed?
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