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What"s Up with Tech?

Tech Transformation with Evan Kirstel: A podcast exploring the latest trends and innovations in the tech industry, and how businesses can leverage them for growth, diving into the world of B2B, discussing strategies, trends, and sharing insights from industry leaders!With over three decades in telecom and IT, I"ve mastered the art of transforming social media into a dynamic platform for audience engagement, community building, and establishing thought leadership. My approach isn"t about personal

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32:01

AI's Telecom Revolution

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2025/06/01

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Telecom operators worldwide are facing a profitability crisis. After investing billions in 5G infrastructure with minimal revenue gains to show for it, the industry finds itself at a critical juncture where transformation is no longer optional but existential. Michele from Optiva brings over three decades of telecom software experience to illuminate how AI is becoming the industry's lifeline. The conversation quickly establishes ...

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24:47

Tariffs, Tech, and Transformations: A Retail Reality...

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2025/05/30

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Retail is in an age of perpetual reinvention. From navigating online strategies in the early 2000s to mobile adoption in the mid-2000s and now grappling with tariffs and supply chain disruptions, retailers must continuously evolve to survive and thrive. According to Dominick Miserandino, CEO of Retail Tech Media Nexus, the fundamental truth remains constant amid this change: "You are selling an emotion, the emotion of that thing."...

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17:40

Beyond Connectivity: Reimagining Wi-Fi as Customer...

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2025/05/29

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Connectivity has transformed from a luxury into a necessity. But what if your venue's Wi-Fi could do more than just provide internet access? What if it could become a powerful revenue generator and customer intelligence platform? Sean Bossons, Chief Revenue Officer at Purple, reveals how smart guest Wi-Fi is revolutionizing customer engagement across industries. From sports venues identifying returning fans to promote playoff tic...

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21:57

AI-Powered Workflows: How Zebra Technologies is...

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2025/05/28

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com The frontline workforce revolution is happening right now, and Zebra Technologies is leading the charge. In this enlightening conversation with Joe White, Chief Product and Solution Officer at Zebra Technologies, we explore how decades of operational digitization are culminating in an AI-powered transformation that's redefining what's possible for businesses worldwide. Joe, a 25-year veteran at Zebra, takes us on a journey from t...

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22:34

Why Your Marketing and Sales Outreach Sucks

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2025/05/27

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Ever wonder why nobody picks up your calls or reads your emails anymore? In this eye-opening conversation, Aaron Christopher "AC" Evans, founder of DRIPS, reveals why traditional outreach methods are increasingly ineffective in our distraction-filled world. AC explains how our evolution into an "on-demand society" has fundamentally changed consumer psychology. When everyone is constantly engaged with content they actively choose ...

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Intelligence meets empathy in the future of health

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2025/05/26

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What happens when cutting-edge artificial intelligence meets humanistic healthcare? Aurora Martinez of Keralty unveils a revolutionary approach that's redefining what's possible in global health systems. Unlike conventional healthcare AI applications that focus primarily on efficiency and diagnostics, Keralty's innovative "CHI" ecosystem puts human well-being at the center of technological advancement. Martinez introduces us to K...

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15:27

What if your inbox actually worked for you?

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2025/05/23

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Ever wondered why email hasn't fundamentally changed in 20 years? While countless startups have tried to replace email entirely, Gmeilius is taking a refreshingly different approach by enhancing Gmail itself with powerful AI-driven collaboration tools. Florian's entrepreneurial journey began during his PhD studies when he created a simple Gmail extension to better collaborate on academic papers. What started as a personal product...

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16:23

Transforming Business Through Unified Communications...

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2025/05/22

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Unified communications doesn't have to be complicated or confusing. In this revealing conversation with Jason from Wildix, we explore how a channel-first approach is revolutionizing the way businesses communicate and collaborate. Wildix has carved out a unique position in the crowded UCaaS market by committing 100% to its channel partners. "We are nothing without our channel," Jason explains, detailing how they've transformed fro...

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10:48

A Data Protection Revolution at Dell Tech World

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2025/05/21

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com The data protection landscape has fundamentally transformed, and HYCU's groundbreaking integration with Dell Technologies has arrived just in time. At Dell Technologies World, Simon Taylor, CEO and founder of HYCU, unveiled what he calls the "Tower of Power"—a revolutionary expansion that brings 86 on-premises, cloud, and SaaS integrations fully supported by Dell's Data Domain Virtual Edition (DDVE) This partnership marks a pivot...

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12:38

SASE Evolution: Bridging Legacy Systems and AI...

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2025/05/19

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Cybersecurity is undergoing a fundamental transformation as organizations navigate the complex relationship between zero-trust architectures and the realities of hybrid work environments with Anupam Upadhyaya VP of Products for Prisma SASE at Palo Alto Networks, sheds light on how SASE has evolved beyond its initial promise to become the cornerstone of modern security frameworks. With browsers becoming the primary workspace for p...

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20:20

Generative Infrastructure: How StackGen is...

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2025/05/19

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com The complexity of infrastructure as code has become a significant bottleneck in modern software development. Developers struggle with learning Terraform and Helm, while DevOps teams are weighed down by template maintenance and compliance requirements. Enter StackGen's "generative infrastructure platform" – a revolutionary approach that's changing how teams handle cloud deployments. In this enlightening conversation, founder...

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36:17

The Future of IoT: Achieving 100% Global Connectivity

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2025/05/16

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com The promise of connecting "everything" to the internet has remained frustratingly out of reach for over a decade. Despite bold predictions of 50 billion connected devices by 2020, the industry achieved just 11 billion – a mere 20% of expectations. Why? As Nick Earle of Eseye, explains, we dramatically underestimated the complexity of creating truly global connectivity. This conversation unveils the missing piece that's finally en...

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26:04

Smart AI Means Faster Decisions and Better Business...

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2025/05/15

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Meet the team behind Epicor, the business software company on a mission to empower the world's hardest working businesses. For over 50 years, they've been serving manufacturers, distributors, building supply retailers, and the automotive aftermarket with specialized solutions that go beyond standard ERP offerings. Fresh from their annual Insights conference in Las Vegas, which attracted over 4,000 attendees, Epicor has unveiled g...

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23:59

Behind the Scenes: The Winners of This Year's We Love...

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2025/05/14

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What happens when you gather the most innovative companies in enterprise technology and have nearly 200 expert judges evaluate their groundbreaking solutions? The We Love Tech Awards reveals exactly that, and the results spotlight an exciting cross-section of technological innovation that's transforming how businesses operate. Russell Fordyce of Business Intelligence Group joins us to unveil the winners of this inaugural awards p...

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24:22

Building a Seamless Global IoT Network: FlowLive's...

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2025/05/13

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Cellular connectivity forms the backbone of the IoT revolution, but building truly global, reliable solutions has remained challenging—until now. FlowLive is transforming how devices connect worldwide through a revolutionary distributed network architecture that addresses the fundamental limitations of traditional approaches. Most IoT connectivity providers rely heavily on roaming agreements to extend coverage beyond their native...

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19:53

How AI is Transforming the Way We Create Visual Content

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2025/05/12

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Imagine turning your biggest frustration into a business that serves millions. That's exactly what happened when Joaquin and his team got tired of spending hours hunting for quality images while designing websites back in 2010. "The main idea was we're scratching our own itch," explains Joaquin, CEO and founder of Freepik. What began as a simple search engine for free images has evolved into a comprehensive AI-powered design plat...

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16:19

Balancing Security and User Experience: The FrontEgg...

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2025/05/09

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Security should be easy, or people simply won't adopt it. This fundamental truth drives everything at Front Egg, where balancing robust protection with frictionless user experiences has become their mission in the SaaS identity management space. During our conversation with Aviad Mizrachi, CTO and co-founder of Front Egg, and Miriam, their tech support engineer and resident Gen Z expert, we uncovered shocking statistics about how...

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8:30

The Race Against Q-Day: Preparing Your Enterprise for...

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2025/05/06

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com The digital landscape has reached a tipping point. In this eye-opening conversation with David Holmes, CTO for Application Security at Imperva (a Thales division), we uncover the alarming reality that machines now dominate internet traffic. For the first time in over a decade, bot traffic has surpassed human activity online – and a staggering 37% of all traffic is malicious automation. Quantum computing's looming threat to our en...

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14:54

Hybrid Communications is Reshaping How Enterprises...

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2025/05/05

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What happens when one of the longest-standing leaders in enterprise communications acquires another major player in the industry? Eric Hanson, CMO at Mitel, reveals the transformative journey following their acquisition of Unify, which has created what may be the largest install base in the unified communications industry—over 70 million users across more than 100 countries. Hanson pulls back the curtain on Mitel's brand new webs...

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19:19

Building Better: Construction's Digital Revolution

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2025/05/02

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Imagine a world where construction project data flows seamlessly between office and field teams, where disconnected spreadsheets transform into integrated insights, and where project managers can see the complete picture of their operations in real-time. That's the future QuickBase is building for the construction industry. Tim Douglas, GM of Construction at QuickBase, brings 25 years of construction tech experience to this conve...

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