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Everyone loves to celebrate "Digital Transformation" in the boardroom, but no one wants to talk about the grueling, unglamorous foundational work required to actually pull it off. If your culture ignores the teams keeping the lights on, your transformation is already failing. Welcome to Part 2 of our special DTX Edition of the SECURE | CYBER CONNECT Podcast, recorded live in Manchester. If Part 1 was about the vision of the future, Part 2 is the ultimate reality check. Today, Jay and Warren take you inside the trenches. Featuring an exclusive walk-around and interviews with a leading IT Director and the elite vulnerability management team at Patch My PC, we expose the massive friction between "shipping the future" and "securing the present." 🔥 WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER: - 📍 Live From the Trenches: Unfiltered, raw insights straight from the DTX expo floor. We capture the genuine frustrations, fears, and triumphs of the people actually doing the heavy lifting in tech today. - 📉 The 'Digital Transformation' Lie: Why the majority of massive tech projects fail. We expose the dangerous, expensive disconnect between boardroom buzzwords and the raw reality of frontline IT operations. - 🛑 The Silent Tech Burnout: The tech industry is exhausted. We shine a light on the real-world burnout of IT Directors and operators tasked with keeping a business running while the landscape constantly shifts beneath their feet. - 🏗️ The Unsung Heroes of Cyber: The flashy side of tech gets the funding, but the foundation keeps you out of the news. Discover why automated patching and vulnerability management are the true, unglamorous lifesavers of corporate survival. - 🤝 Ending the 'Tech vs. Business' War: How the best leaders finally bridge the toxic gap between a sales team's demand for rapid digital growth and the IT team's rigorous demand for security. Providing POV, day in the life and real stories. Careers Advice and Guidance: For Information and cybersecurity, sales, account management, customer engineering, technical support and software engineering. 🔹 David Price - IT & Digital Transformation Director at Curtins. With a strong focus on cyber security, risk, and building resilient IT functions in complex organisations. He leads technology strategy across multi-site environments, making sure systems are secure, reliable, and actually support how the business operates day to day. David works closely with senior leadership on cyber risk, data protection, and how to balance security with performance and growth. 🎁Learn More About Curins: https://www.curtins.com/ 🔹 The Team at Patch My PC (Keeran Mistry, Andrew Osiname, Ada Aitonean & Sam Bamber) - The absolute defenders of the foundation. They shed light on the critical, often-overlooked world of automated patch management and why third-party vulnerability management is the bedrock of enterprise defence. 🎁Learn More About Patch My PC: https://patchmypc.com/ 📅 Learn more about the Digital Transformation EXPO: https://dtxevents.io/ 👇 The Challenge: What is the most unglamorous, frustrating part of your daily grind in tech that people outside the industry just don't understand? Drop your truth bomb in the comments below! ✅ Join the Ecosystem: Get FREE access to salary guides, career pathways, certs, resources, tools, and opportunities, as well as our new platform helping with both individual and organisational growth. Use the code “DTXM26” and bypass the waiting list: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdiJ3kC2UDadnnLfP91u2K18XEiwV9n7J-l_-Dt8icUzP00bA/viewform?pli=1 🔔 We appreciate your support - Please SUBSCRIBE, LIKE and SHARE to encourage diverse and inclusive knowledge sharing.