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The Forward Slash Podcast

Brought to you by Callibrity, The Forward Slash dives into the world of software engineering, digital transformation, and the future of technology, featuring insights from the people who live and breathe it every day.

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01:07:31

/tech leadership: why climate tech is now a cfo...

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2026/04/15

Is your biggest cost reduction opportunity hiding in your energy bill? Josh Dorfman, CEO of Supercool and climate entrepreneur, joins us to explore why the smartest companies have stopped treating clean energy as a sustainability initiative — and started treating it as a CFO conversation. They break down how AI is compressing diligence cycles, optimizing fleets, and unlocking business models that make clean energy the financially obvious choice.

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00:55:24

/survive the spike: scaling systems for millions of...

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2026/04/08

What does it take to survive a 20x traffic spike? Part two concludes our chat with Matthew McDole. This week, he shares how Yum! Brands scales systems for Super Bowl Sunday—plus lessons on performance, resilience, and AI in engineering.

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01:00:02

/engineering growth / build skills, not titles

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2026/04/01

How do you grow your engineering career without chasing titles? This week, we have a two-parter! Matthew McDole joins James Carman to break down platform engineering, build vs. buy decisions, and why working on the right problems matters more than promotions.

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00:48:34

/skills shelf life: the two year problem

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2026/03/25

How do you keep your workforce competitive when the skills they built two years ago are already expiring? Ben Tasker leads an AI academy upskilling 36,000 employees in the public utility sector. This week, he joins us to unpack why 95% of organizations are getting AI adoption wrong — and why the problem is almost never the technology. They explore what skills-based workforce design actually looks like in practice, how to prepare teams to work alongside AI agents, and why change management is the

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01:11:32

/AI governance: speed without exposure

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2026/03/18

As enterprise AI adoption accelerates, how do you move fast without introducing new security and compliance risk? Cordell Robinson, CEO of Brownstone Consulting Firm, joins James to explore why AI governance and cybersecurity can’t be an afterthought. They break down the risks behind shadow AI, data leakage, and weak vendor oversight — and why organizations that build governance early will be better positioned than those trying to retrofit it later.

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00:57:26

/creative intelligence: scaling influence

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2026/03/10

What happens when AI becomes better than the average designer? This week, Hikari Senju, founder and CEO of Omneky, joins James to explore how generative AI is transforming advertising from an art form into a measurable, automated system.They unpack how AI is redesigning enterprise workflows, why advertising may replace large portions of traditional sales, and what it means when attention itself becomes an auction-based capital market. From automated creative testing to products validated by ads

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01:07:04

/AI development: velocity without fragility

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2026/03/04

As AI accelerates software development, how do you keep complexity from accelerating with it? This week, Mike Spiegel of SpotOn joins us to examine how platform engineering must evolve in an AI-driven development era. As code velocity increases, testing discipline, reliability, and governance become even more critical.They explore how internal developer platforms create organizational clarity, why today’s golden paths can become tomorrow’s constraints, and how SRE principles are being absorbed into

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01:01:55

/product adoption: the design advantage

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2026/02/24

Why do so many well-funded products still struggle with adoption? Mark Brehaut, Head of Design at Clair, joins us to unpack how design directly impacts activation, retention, and business performance — especially in high-stakes industries like FinTech.From onboarding friction and time-to-value to validating assumptions before they hit production, Mark explains how human-centered design moves beyond aesthetics and becomes a measurable growth lever. We also dig into AI-assisted tooling, compliance

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00:56:57

/shadow AI: bringing it into the light

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2026/02/18

If AI is already embedded in your teams’ workflows, are you leading it — or reacting to it? This week, Holly Laiveling, CTO at FEG Investment Advisors, shares what enterprise AI adoption really looks like inside complex, regulated environments. As generative AI moves from experiment to everyday tool, we break down how technology leaders can shift from gatekeeper to enabler through practical AI governance, tiered access models, and production-ready guardrails.James and Holly also explore how to buy

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01:01:14

/platform engineering: the AI inflection point

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2026/02/11

If AI is the future of infrastructure, why does production still feel experimental? Joel Vasallo, Senior Director of Platform Engineering at TAG (The Aspen Group), joins us to explore what AI adoption actually looks like inside real production environments. From agent gateways and MCP servers to AI-assisted monitoring, we discuss the operational tradeoffs, why many pilots never scale, and what it really takes to move from cloud-native to AI-native.

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00:54:49

/AI productivity: effort vs outcomes

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2026/02/04

What happens when AI adoption becomes a leadership challenge, instead of a technology change? This week, James sits down with Nikki Barua, CEO and co-founder of Flipwork, to explore why AI progress often stalls even after real investment. They unpack the growing gap between executive expectations and team readiness, why traditional change management no longer works, and how leaders can rethink identity, value, and work itself in an AI-first era.

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01:01:14

/leadership: escaping constant firefighting

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2026/01/28

When everything feels urgent, how do you make progress instead of just reacting?In this episode, we talk with Erkang Zheng, founder of JupiterOne and Ariso, about why so many leaders get stuck in reactive mode and what it takes to build systems that hold up under pressure. They explore proactive leadership, lessons from scaling companies, and how AI and better structure can help teams move from constant firefighting to real momentum.

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01:09:20

/AI impact: still waiting

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2026/01/21

If AI is so powerful, why hasn’t it changed your organization the way you expected?In this episode, James sits down with strategy advisor Justin Trombold to unpack why GenAI progress feels slower than promised and why the biggest barriers usually aren’t technical. They explore what organizational readiness really means, how small workflow wins create momentum, when agentic automation is worth the risk, and how to avoid scaling the wrong things too early. A grounded conversation for tech leaders

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01:09:50

/AI analytics: the adoption problem

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2026/01/14

Why do AI analytics tools look impressive… but still don’t get used?James Carman talks with Pete Hunt, CEO of Dagster Labs and one of the original engineers behind React, about what it really takes for AI-powered analytics to stick. They unpack why adoption is often the biggest challenge (not accuracy), how bringing analytics into Slack changes decision-making, and what “fast, directionally correct” can unlock when teams trust the path to an answer.

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00:55:16

/production-ready AI: the prototype trap

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2026/01/07

If AI can build a prototype in a day, why does shipping still take months?In this episode, James Carman is joined by David Arenas, a senior technology leader across industrial automation, fintech, and global data platforms. Together, they unpack why AI is accelerating development, but also making the gap between demo and production more expensive. They break down what it takes to ship AI-built work at enterprise scale.

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00:25:43

/AI on AI: a reality check with chatGPT

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2025/12/31

What did we actually learn about AI this year?To close out 2025, James interviews an unexpected guest: ChatGPT. They talk honestly about what teams got wrong, what actually improved, and why AI’s biggest wins came from small workflow shifts — not sweeping transformation. They also dig into software engineering, documentation, onboarding, junior engineers, and what tech leaders will need to operationalize in 2026 as AI becomes a system, not a tool.

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01:02:15

/human-centered design: fixing broken systems

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2025/12/17

What if the systems we rely on every day fail because they were never designed for how work actually happens? This week, we sit down with product design leader and founder Sharmeen Aqeel to explore how human-centered design and AI are reshaping how products get built, decisions get made, and businesses move forward. Sharmeen shares how deep user research exposes where traditional processes break down, how simplifying workflows creates speed without sacrificing trust, and why AI is becoming a true

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01:09:02

/AI engineering: shipping after sundown

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2025/12/10

What happens when shipping software is no longer limited by human hours? This week, Max Heckel — CTO of Arizo and creator of the open-source AI orchestrator “Ivan” — breaks down how his team literally codes while they sleep. Max shares how AI coding agents can tackle tasks overnight, open PRs by morning, double development velocity, and redefine what engineering teams focus on. This conversation is a roadmap to what’s coming next.

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01:05:11

/transformation: the power of simplicity

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2025/12/03

What if the real key to transformation isn’t more technology, but more humanity?This week, Nora Osman joins James to explore why simplicity, trust, and human experience are the real engines of organizational change. From zero-to-hero moments to the “red carpet in, red carpet out” philosophy, Nora shows how better leadership—not bigger tech stacks—drives lasting results.

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00:53:20

/AI agents: keeping systems (and costs) in check

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2025/11/19

Can your AI agents survive production AND your budget? In this episode, Yaron Schneider, CTO and co-founder of Diagrid and creator of the foundational open-source tools Dapr and KEDA, joins James to unpack what it takes to build AI agents that are durable, cost-aware and enterprise-ready.

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