Chris Dankberg's guest appearances

Chris Dankberg

Travel Is Your Business

Providence College Podcast

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Lidia Bastianich

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Paul Tremblay

Michael McDowell

Elise Italiano

Evelyn Badia

Justa Lujwangana

Dan Devine

Chris Christie

Richard Harris

Steve Smith

Paul Mecurio

OwlTail

In this episode of the Providence College Podcast, we hear from Chris Dankberg ’03, who studied economics at PC. As part of the Economics Department Career Speaker Series, Dankberg discussed his career, which has focused on the intersection of data analytics and sports entertainment. Dankberg has held positions at the San Diego Padres, eBay, and StubHub, and now works at ViaSat, bringing live sports and other content to airline passengers. This podcast was prerecorded.

Chris Dankberg ’03 — Sports, Economics, and Information

The real story behind WiFi on flights with Viasat… Chris Dankberg, who runs Partnerships for Viasat (a global communications company that believes everyone and everything in the world can be connected) joins John Matson and Bess Chapman in the MouthMedia Network studios powered by Sennheiser. In this episode:  How Viasat is about solving really hard problems Why WiFi is slow on flights Prior to 5 years ago,ViaSat was about WiFi via satellite for government and private air services People got used to texting and checking sites that were urgent for destination (weather, hotels, etc.) The growth of market for Viasat’s tech , high capacity satellites over different frequency bands enabled differently, market wasn’t ready Why WiFi on planes is so expensive Allocating capacity on an as-needed basis Unprecented bandwidth economics The abiity that you could hand off seamlessly from ground to air started being palatable The opportunity waited for Viasat to launch a satellite Demand wasn’t forecasted correctly, so there wasn’t enough supply for demand Started with business travelers with expense accounts Battery life on laptops got better, people started using phones Something not considered was that the whole plane would use wifi Tech is evolving, organizing data on what is important to customers how they used it Second and third screen use and solving that need Pain point – trains – slower with more tunnels, different angle to sky On the early side of making online video streaming real with companies like Amazon Disconnecting when traveling because of little kids demanding full attention Trips that changed Dankberg’s life, created big decisions See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The real story behind WiFi on flights with Viasat… <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisdankberg/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Chris Dankberg</a>, who runs Partnerships for Viasat (a global communications company that believes everyone and everything in the world can be connected) joins John Matson and Bess Chapman in the <a href="http://mouthmedianetwork.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">MouthMedia Network</a> studios powered by Sennheiser. In this episode: <ul> <li>How Viasat is about solving really hard problems</li> <li>Why WiFi is slow on flights</li> <li>Prior to 5 years ago,ViaSat was about WiFi via satellite for government and private air services</li> <li>People got used to texting and checking sites that were urgent for destination (weather, hotels, etc.)</li> <li>The growth of market for Viasat’s tech , high capacity satellites over different frequency bands enabled differently, market wasn’t ready</li> <li>Why WiFi on planes is so expensive</li> <li>Allocating capacity on an as-needed basis</li> <li>Unprecented bandwidth economics</li> <li>The abiity that you could hand off seamlessly from ground to air started being palatable</li> <li>The opportunity waited for Viasat to launch a satellite</li> <li>Demand wasn’t forecasted correctly, so there wasn’t enough supply for demand</li> <li>Started with business travelers with expense accounts</li> <li>Battery life on laptops got better, people started using phones</li> <li>Something not considered was that the whole plane would use wifi</li> <li>Tech is evolving, organizing data on what is important to customers how they used it</li> <li>Second and third screen use and solving that need</li> <li>Pain point – trains – slower with more tunnels, different angle to sky</li> <li>On the early side of making online video streaming real with companies like Amazon</li> <li>Disconnecting when traveling because of little kids demanding full attention</li> <li>Trips that changed Dankberg’s life, created big decisions</li> </ul>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

054 – Chris Dankberg of Viasat – Chasing a 700mph Plane with WiFi