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Tech Talks Daily

If every company is now a tech company and digital transformation is a journey rather than a destination, how do you keep up with the relentless pace of technological change? Every day, Tech Talks Daily brings you insights from the brightest minds in tech, business, and innovation, breaking down complex ideas into clear, actionable takeaways. Hosted by Neil C. Hughes, Tech Talks Daily explores how emerging technologies such as AI, cybersecurity, cloud computing, fintech, quantum computing,

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3324: How Splunk Helps Businesses Cut Through Digital...

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2025/06/23

How do you keep complex digital experiences running smoothly when every layer, from networks to cloud infrastructure to applications, can break in ways that frustrate customers and burn out IT teams? This question is at the heart of my conversation recorded live at Cisco Live in San Diego with Patrick Lin, Senior Vice President and General Manager for Observability at Splunk, now part of Cisco. In this episode, Patrick explains how observability has evolved far beyond simple monitoring and is

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3323: How Outschool is Preparing Kids for Careers...

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2025/06/22

What happens when education stops being about a rigid curriculum and starts focusing on what genuinely sparks a child’s curiosity? This question sits at the heart of my conversation with Amir Nathoo, the founder and CEO of Outschool, a fast-growing online learning platform now trusted by over a million families worldwide. In this episode, Amir shares the personal journey that inspired him to challenge the tired one-size-fits-all approach still dominant in classrooms today. We explore how Outschool’s

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3322: SparkBeyond Unlocks ROI with Always Optimized AI

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2025/06/21

How do you measure success when your AI is learning faster than your own business processes can keep up? That’s the question I set out to answer in my conversation with SparkBeyond, a company that has spent the past decade transforming how enterprises harness AI. From crawling GitHub code in a modest garage experiment to driving measurable performance gains for global firms, SparkBeyond has charted a path that mirrors the rapid evolution of AI itself. In this episode, I explored how their

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3321: Instabug and the Quest for Self Healing Mobile...

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2025/06/20

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I sit down with Jim Douglas, CEO of Instabug, to unpack the hidden world of mobile app development and the hurdles developers face every time you tap an icon on your phone. Mobile apps live in unpredictable conditions, surrounded by millions of device variations and users who are quick to abandon any app that fails to deliver a flawless experience. Our discussion begins with a deep dive into why mobile apps remain so vulnerable to user churn. Jim shares a

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26:47

3320: How Chase for Business Balances Innovation and...

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2025/06/19

How are small businesses influencing the future of financial technology at a scale few can match? In this episode, I sit down with Jameson Troutman, Head of Product for Small Business at Chase for Business. With two decades shaping payment solutions for entrepreneurs, he opens up about how a team inside one of the largest financial institutions stays flexible enough to build smarter tools, quicker payments, and more practical customer insights while serving millions of small business owners across

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3319: Inside Innventure: Pivoting Big Ideas Toward...

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2025/06/19

When did you last pause to consider what it takes to turn daring ideas from a lab into reality? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I spend time with Mike Otworth, Executive Chairman of Innventure, whose career reveals what happens when breakthrough technology leaves the safety of research and collides with real-world demands. Mike's view offers an honest look at what changes when you match influential inventions with a team that moves quickly and welcomes a little discomfort. We begin with Mike's

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3318: RICOH Spaces and the Role of Tech in Workplace...

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2025/06/18

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I sit down with Nathan Thomas, Director of Innovation, Ricoh Europe, who oversees innovation across Ricoh Europe. Nathan joined me to unpack new findings from Ricoh’s study of thousands of workers and business leaders across Europe. We discussed why some countries are advancing in terms of workplace productivity while others struggle to keep pace. Spain, for example, stands out for its high productivity, which Nathan attributes to cultural changes and

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3317: How Sitecore Is Accelerating Agentic AI for...

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2025/06/17

When was the last time you truly paused to consider how far artificial intelligence has come and where it’s heading next? On today’s episode of Tech Talks Daily, I dive into this fast-moving frontier with Mo Cherif, Vice President of Generative AI and Innovation at Sitecore. This conversation explores what 2025 holds for agentic AI and why this technology is poised to completely reshape the marketing landscape. Agentic AI isn’t just an iteration of automation; it’s a rethinking of how AI can operate

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3316: Women in Tech and Data Sovereignty DDN’s...

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2025/06/16

Recorded amidst the buzz of the IT Press Tour in Palo Alto, this episode explores the evolving world of data intelligence through a candid conversation with Amanda R. Lee, Vice President, Marketing Analyst & Public Relations, DDN. Sitting under the California sun, I had the opportunity to unpack how DDN is helping some of the most data-intensive organizations navigate massive volumes of information while transforming raw data into real-time insights that power breakthroughs in AI, autonomous

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3315: The New Age of Cyber Resilience with Cohesity

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2025/06/16

How can organizations protect their most valuable asset, data, while harnessing its true potential through AI-driven insights? These are the questions I set out to answer on the recent IT Press Tour in Silicon Valley. In my latest conversation at the Santa Clara offices of Cohesity, I sat down with Sanjay Poonen, President and CEO, to discuss how this company has positioned itself at the heart of the AI era with a modern data cloud built for speed, security, and intelligence. From my early days

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3314: Cisco Live - Meet the new Duo IAM

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2025/06/15

Have you ever paused to think about how the humble login has quietly become one of the most vulnerable points in cybersecurity? In this episode, I spoke with Matt Caulfield, Vice President of Identity Products at Cisco, to understand why identity is now the prime target for attackers and how Duo is evolving to meet that threat head-on. Matt explained how Duo, once known primarily for multi-factor authentication, is now stepping forward as a complete identity access management solution. He broke down

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3313: Saving Wildlife, Empowering Communities: The...

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2025/06/15

Have you ever wondered what happens when cutting-edge network technology meets the rugged frontlines of wildlife conservation? In this episode, I sat down with Sophie Maxwell, the driving force behind the Connected Conservation Foundation, to understand how digital infrastructure and real-time data are changing the odds for endangered species and local communities across more than a dozen countries. Sophie walked me through the journey from a desperate battle to protect rhinos in South Africa’s Sabi

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3312: WiFi 7 at Cisco Live: What It Means for Your...

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2025/06/14

Talking wireless at Cisco Live brings you face to face with what tomorrow’s connectivity looks like, and my recent chat with Matt McPherson, Enterprise Wireless CTO at Cisco, and Jerome Henry, standards guru and author, did precisely that. When two people this deep in the trenches start describing how our networks cope with thousands of devices at concerts, hospitals, or homes brimming with smart gadgets, it hits you how invisible yet vital great wireless is. Matt walked me through how Cisco’s

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3311: Inside Softcat’s Cisco Live Experience:...

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2025/06/13

What does it take to future-proof the modern workplace? For Softcat, one of the UK’s top IT infrastructure providers, it started with reimagining their own headquarters in London. In this episode, I speak with Thomas Rowley, Chief Technologist for Networking and Connectivity at Softcat, about the real-world challenges of managing a high-density office and how the company turned to Cisco to create a more intelligent, responsive environment. As more employees returned to the office, Softcat began to

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3310: From Power to Fiber: Panduit's AI-Driven Vision...

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2025/06/12

As AI continues to dominate the conversation at Cisco Live, the infrastructure needed to support this transformation often gets overshadowed. That’s why I was eager to visit the Panduit booth and explore the physical backbone enabling the shift from cloud to on-prem. I sat down with several Panduit experts including Renee Lang, Mason Khan, Vince, and Mike to understand how their high-density power, fiber, and sustainability solutions are equipping organizations for the AI-powered future. This

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3309: Inside Cisco Live: Rethinking Network...

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2025/06/12

Walking the show floor at Cisco Live, it’s impossible to ignore the rising volume of conversations around network resilience. But what does resilience actually look like in today’s distributed, AI-driven enterprise environment? To explore this, I sat down with Patrick Quirk, President and GM of Opengear, right at their booth near the center of the event. In our conversation, Patrick explained how Opengear has become a platform focused on proactive infrastructure management. As AI workloads expand

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3308: Freshworks CIO Ashwin Ballal on Making AI...

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2025/06/11

Earlier this year, I spoke with Dennis Woodside, CEO of Freshworks, about why speed and ROI matter more than ever in AI adoption. Today, we continue that conversation—this time from the IT frontline. In this episode, I’m joined by Ashwin Ballal, CIO of Freshworks and a 30-year tech industry veteran with a track record of driving transformation across global enterprises. From his days leading intelligence and data strategy at KLA to his role as CIO at Medallia, Ashwin knows what it takes to modernize

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3307: From Chatbots to AI Agents: Rethinking Customer...

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2025/06/10

Customer service has undergone significant changes in just a few years. We’ve moved from clunky chatbots with limited menus to sophisticated AI agents that understand, respond, and solve problems in real-time. But we’re now standing on the edge of something even bigger. In today’s episode, I spoke with Matthias Goehler, EMEA CTO at Zendesk, about what the next wave of AI-powered customer experience looks like and how businesses can prepare for it. According to Matthias, up to 80 percent of customer

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3306: How Zebra Technologies Is Bringing AI to the...

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2025/06/09

Most of the noise around AI focuses on developers, creatives, and knowledge workers. But what about everyone else? The nurses, store associates, logistics teams, and warehouse staff make up nearly 80 percent of the global workforce. In today's conversation, I sat down with Tom Bianculli, Chief Technology Officer at Zebra Technologies, to talk about AI that meets people where they work. Not in a document editor or code repository but on the shop floor, in hospital corridors, and inside fulfillment

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3305: Deepfakes, Digital Trust, and the Future of ID...

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2025/06/08

The last time Philipp Pointner joined me on the podcast, AI was just a whisper on the horizon. We discussed the foundational role of digital identity in establishing trust between individuals and platforms. But fast forward to 2025, and the conversation has shifted dramatically. We're no longer just discussing verification for compliance. We're reckoning with synthetic identities, deepfake armies, and the growing push for reusable digital credentials. In today's episode, Philipp returns to unpack

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