Kathryn Buford

As a scholar, social entrepreneur, and consultant, Kathryn has led and consulted on projects for The Embassy of Jamaica, Americorps, BBC, Sony Entertainment, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and various small businesses, creative agencies, nonprofits and media brands. Her writings and commentary have appeared in publications like BBC, GOOD, CNBC and Live Unchained -- her former blog (of 6 years) for women and creatives across the African Diaspora. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Maryland, College Park with concentrations in social theory and social and cultural entrepreneurship.

Latest from Kathryn Buford

Here’s a New Formula for CrowdFunding Success

START.ac, a new capital-raising program, combines the incubator and CrowdFunding models.  Given the ever-increasing landscape of incubators and 400+ CrowdFunding platforms, more programs like IndieGoGo are highlighting their distinctiveness. If project success looks to you like half a million dollars raised in a day, perhaps all you need is the digital infrastructure to promote, collect ...

“Imagine a World Where All Data Is In-Memory,” says EMC [Video]

Doc D’Errico, VP of EMC Solutions Group, Big Data, joined Dave Vellante in The Cube for Silicon Angle’s ongoing SAP SAPphire coverage to discuss important trends over the last two years in the cloud, big data, memory and EMC’s new strategies (full video below).  D’Errico stated: “The cloud has definitely become real. More and more ...

SAP Strives for Unified Experience, Even with Varied Underlying Systems [VIDEO]

In their ongoing coverage of SAP SAPphire at #theCube, John Furrier and Dave Vellante interviewed Dinesh Sharma, VP of SAP Cloud Marketing to discuss the company’s new directions (see full video below).  Sharma explained SAP’s new emphasis on money, people and suppliers, a shift from their earlier focus on integrated application.  The transition is a ...

SAP Technology Adoption in the “7th Inning Stretch” says NetApp VP

As part of their continuing SAP SAPphire 2012 coverage at #theCube, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with Thomas Stanley, former baseball player turned tech Global Alliance VP for NetApp (see full interview below).  Vellante noted that SAP SAPphire messaging had changed since last year, now focusing more on “speed, simplicity, personalization [and] mobility.” Using ...

More Big Data Access with Kapow-Informatica Team Up

Kapow Software, an innovator in big data solutions, partnered with Informatica Corporation, a leader in data integration software, to introduce Informatica PowerExchange for Kapow Katalyst.  This new product offers enhanced big data solutions and will be made available as part of Informatica 9.5. Informatica PowerExchange for Kapow Katalyst solves important data problems to potentially add ...