Ben Beachy's guest appearances

Ben Beachy

Clearing the FOG with co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese

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Upside Down: The CCAN Podcast

Shahid Buttar

Jeff Sessions

Patty Lovera

Ronnie Cummins

Ellen Brown

JILL STEIN

Jim Crow

Christopher Mitchell

Jean Casella

Michael Carlson

Steven Hill

Sandra Steingraber

Miko Peled

Klee Benally

Michael Nagler

OwlTail

Leah Stokes

In this episode, CCAN hosts our second federal webinar! This time about President Biden's climate plan. Included in the American Jobs Plan. We're joined by guest speakers, Dr. Leah Stokes of Evergreen Action, Andres Jimenez of Green 2.0, and Ben Beachy from the Sierra Club.    Click here for the full transcript to this episode!

In this episode, CCAN hosts our second federal webinar! This time about President Biden's climate plan. Included in the American Jobs Plan. We're joined by guest speakers, Dr. Leah Stokes of Evergreen Action, Andres Jimenez of Green 2.0, and Ben Beachy from the Sierra Club.  <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Sw2JVcsq1L3_EM_lq-_SLk-_JPH5fBNzZBlW-nkf4D8/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here for the full transcript to this episode!</a>

All About the Biden Climate Plan w/ Leah Stokes, Ben Beachy, and Andres Jimenez

Anyone who has driven between Orlando and Tampa has likely noticed that “futuristic building” near Lakeland and asked “What is that?”. It’s Florida Polytechnic University‘s Innovation, Science and Technology (IST) Building, and I was fortunate to grab a conversation with Ben Beachy, Chief Information Officer of the 5-year-old institution. Ben has been with the University since 2018, and has taken on the challenge of connecting the faculty and students in a uniquely innovative environment. Ben talks me through his perspective on technology as part of the learning process. Creating a balance of the technology tangibles with those intangibles of how students use, apply and make a difference with those technologies. We both agree that the transition from this is evolutionary, but Ben would be interested to see a comparison between students using paper-based books and the University’s fully digital library, and it’s ubiquitous bring-your-own-device policy, and how over time the newer model affects learning. Florida Poly is, under Beachy’s direction, piloting a wider reaching access for students both on and off campus while maintaining the proper security and robustness for the networks involved. He talks about how the University’s Information infrastructure has similarities to health care, finance and business institutions, along with the education space, and how there are different rules, regulations and procedures in context to them all. As the University grows, while developing enough server power and cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning systems to meet the demands of students and faculty alike, one of Ben’s unexpected focus points is, believe it or not, the challenge of making sure adequate conduit runs are planned into the construction designs to allow for future needs while adhering to the budget constraints of Florida’s public University system. He understands that while wireless technologies are becoming more and more important to student daily life, the hard-wired infrastructure.  Another part of the pilot program involves application streaming solutions such as AutoCAD and Adobe Suite programs, requiring internet connectivity bandwidth the single most important resource from an IT perspective. Ben sees the Internet of Things and the connection to data collection as a bridge to improve academic productivity and student life in ways that are positive and transparent, ultimately supporting student success. Connecting with the business community is an important part of the University’s mandate, and Beachy is looking for more opportunities to grow and foster relationships with local and regional industries. The research institutions being grown at Florida Poly make the transition between academic and commercial research more seamless and productive.  The student population serves a as a huge potential resource for University’s success, notably from the Data Analytics program. Beachy would be interested having the students and faculty work together to collect the myriads of data available regarding campus life, create programs which can use it to improve techniques for developing and improving both curriculum and the student experience.

Anyone who has driven between Orlando and Tampa has likely noticed that “futuristic building” near Lakeland and asked “What is that?”. It’s <a href="https://floridapoly.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Florida Polytechnic University</a>‘s Innovation, Science and Technology (IST) Building, and I was fortunate to grab a conversation with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/benbeachy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ben Beachy, Chief Information Officer</a> of the 5-year-old institution. Ben has been with the University since 2018, and has taken on the challenge of connecting the faculty and students in a uniquely innovative environment. Ben talks me through his perspective on technology as part of the learning process. Creating a balance of the technology tangibles with those intangibles of how students use, apply and make a difference with those technologies. We both agree that the transition from this is evolutionary, but Ben would be interested to see a comparison between students using paper-based books and the University’s fully digital library, and it’s ubiquitous bring-your-own-device policy, and how over time the newer model affects learning. Florida Poly is, under Beachy’s direction, piloting a wider reaching access for students both on and off campus while maintaining the proper security and robustness for the networks involved. He talks about how the University’s Information infrastructure has similarities to health care, finance and business institutions, along with the education space, and how there are different rules, regulations and procedures in context to them all. As the University grows, while developing enough server power and cloud-based <a href="https://www.webopedia.com/TERM/E/ERP.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Enterprise Resource Planning</a> systems to meet the demands of students and faculty alike, one of Ben’s unexpected focus points is, believe it or not, the challenge of making sure adequate conduit runs are planned into the construction designs to allow for future needs while adhering to the budget constraints of Florida’s public University system. He understands that while wireless technologies are becoming more and more important to student daily life, the hard-wired infrastructure.  Another part of the pilot program involves application streaming solutions such as AutoCAD and Adobe Suite programs, requiring internet connectivity bandwidth the single most important resource from an IT perspective. Ben sees the Internet of Things and the connection to data collection as a bridge to improve academic productivity and student life in ways that are positive and transparent, ultimately supporting student success. Connecting with the business community is an important part of the <a href="https://floridapoly.edu/about/divisions-and-departments/procurement/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">University’s mandate</a>, and Beachy is looking for more opportunities to grow and foster relationships with local and regional industries. The research institutions being grown at Florida Poly make the transition between academic and commercial research more seamless and productive.  The student population serves a as a huge potential resource for University’s success, notably from the <a href="http://floridapolytechnic.catalog.acalog.com/preview_program.php?catoid=11&amp;poid=590" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Data Analytics</a> program. Beachy would be interested having the students and faculty work together to collect the myriads of data available regarding campus life, create programs which can use it to improve techniques for developing and improving both curriculum and the student experience.

Episode 008 – Ben Beachy – CIO Florida Polytechnic University

Arthur Stamoulis

In this episode we expose the TransPacific Partnership, an agreement that has been negotiated in secret over the past 3 years by the Obama Administration. Our guests are Arthur Stamoulis of Citizen’s Trade Campaign and Ben Beachy of Global Trade Watch from Public Citizen. The US is using the TPP to bully smaller Pacific Rim nations into accepting an agreement that goes beyond trade to put provisions in place that give transnational corporations greater power than sovereign nations. It creates a path to go around regulations that have been put in place to protect the environment, labor rights, consumer rights, internet privacy and economic stability. The Obama Administration is hinting that it will push for Fast Track, now referred to as Trade Promotion Authority, in Congress which would subvert a democratic process to review and pass the TPP. There are numerous opportunities to expose and oppose the TPP and prevent it from becoming law. Visit FlushtheTPP.org. Visit ClearingtheFOGRadio.org for more information.

In this episode we expose the TransPacific Partnership, an agreement that has been negotiated in secret over the past 3 years by the Obama Administration. Our guests are Arthur Stamoulis of Citizen’s Trade Campaign and Ben Beachy of Global Trade Watch from Public Citizen. The US is using the TPP to bully smaller Pacific Rim nations into accepting an agreement that goes beyond trade to put provisions in place that give transnational corporations greater power than sovereign nations. It creates a path to go around regulations that have been put in place to protect the environment, labor rights, consumer rights, internet privacy and economic stability. The Obama Administration is hinting that it will push for Fast Track, now referred to as Trade Promotion Authority, in Congress which would subvert a democratic process to review and pass the TPP. There are numerous opportunities to expose and oppose the TPP and prevent it from becoming law. Visit <a href="http://FlushtheTPP.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FlushtheTPP.org</a>. Visit <a href="http://ClearingtheFOGRadio.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ClearingtheFOGRadio.org</a> for more information.

Clearing the FOG with Arthur Stamoulis and Ben Beachy on the TransPacific Partnership and Democracy