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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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16:14

From Hype To ROI: Making Enterprise AI Work

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2025/10/29

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Most AI pilots impress in a demo and stall in production. We wanted to unpack why. Joseph Kim is the President and CEO of Druid AI joins us to break down the real blockers to AI readiness and the playbook that moves teams from wow to working systems. We talk candidly about market hype, sobering stats on failed deployments, and the ingredients that make enterprise agents safe, accurate, and compliant at scale. We start with first ...

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26:12

Building An Open Agent Mesh For Real Enterprise...

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2025/10/28

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What happens when agents can talk to agents—securely, asynchronously, and at scale? We sit down with Edward Funnekotter Chief Architect and AI Officer from Solace to unpack the architecture behind an open agent mesh and why event-driven design is the key to turning AI hype into dependable workflows. Instead of a single chatbot, imagine a network of specialized agents that advertise their skills, discover each other, and coordinate...

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15:41

How AI Is Changing Cyberattacks And How Enterprises...

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2025/10/27

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com The fastest way to lose a security battle is to wait for it to start. We pull back the curtain on a proactive strategy to break the attack chain—disrupting reconnaissance, lateral movement, and exfiltration—by uniting offensive testing with integrated blue team defenses that actually prove what works. John Grancarich Chief Strategy Officer Fortra, joins us to explain how red and blue can operate on a single vision that prioritizes...

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18:57

From Threat Intel To Unified Cyber Risk Intelligence

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2025/10/23

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Noise is the enemy of good defense. We sit down with Jawahar Sivasankaran President of Cyware to unpack how a threat-centered architecture, powered by agentic AI and rich collaboration, can turn scattered data into clear, prioritized action. Rather than adding yet another dashboard, the strategy puts high-fidelity intelligence at the core of the SOC so every control—detection, response, and exposure management—makes smarter moves,...

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18:06

From PKI To Post-Quantum: Building Digital Trust That...

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2025/10/22

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com The lock icon is not a comfort blanket. It’s a contract. We sit down with Chris Hickman, Chief Security Officer at Keyfactor, to unpack what digital trust really means when every person, device, app, and service needs a verifiable identity. From the browser to the factory floor, PKI and certificate management quietly power secure connections, and when they fail, the business feels it fast. Chris pulls back the curtain on the polic...

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2:50

From Telemetry To Time Saved: How Lakeside Cuts Help...

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2025/10/22

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Want proof that better IT experience can be engineered, not wished into existence? From the floor at Gartner, we sit down with Lakeside to explore how a lightweight, 29‑year-old agent design built for scarcity is suddenly perfect for today’s edge. When compute, memory, and network were expensive, the team designed a platform that sips resources, keeps data close to the device, and structures it cleanly. That constraint-driven appr...

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5:48

Speed, Clarity, And Trust In Modern IT Ops

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2025/10/21

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Patch Tuesday shouldn’t feel like roulette. We sat down at Gartner Symposium with Egan from NinjaOne to explore a simple, disciplined idea: beat IT misery with speed, clarity, and trustworthy automation. Guided by decades in the DoD and intelligence community, Egan frames endpoint management as an operational craft where time-to-value, clean data, and risk-aware decisions matter more than shiny features. That lens drives concrete ...

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3:17

Unifying Teams And Mobility For Business

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2025/10/21

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if your mobile number became the single identity that powers every call, text, and meeting—on your smartphone, your desk phone, and your laptop? We sat down at the T-Mobile for Business booth to unpack a 5G connected workplace that unifies communications inside Microsoft Teams while retiring the patchwork of SIP trunks and over-the-top apps that never quite played nicely together. We walk through how Teams Phone Mobile and O...

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2:47

Supermobile For Business

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2025/10/21

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com When communication becomes mission critical, “good enough” isn’t good enough. We sit down at the T-Mobile for Business booth to unpack Supermobile, a bundled plan built for reliability under pressure. Instead of stitching together a dozen add-ons, Supermobile brings unlimited talk, text, and data together with satellite backup via SpaceX Starlink and a priority slice on the network during congestion and disasters. The result: simp...

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6:04

5G On Demand, Anywhere

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2025/10/21

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Ever wished you could roll into a venue and flip on flawless connectivity like a light switch? We sit down with T-Mobile for Business at their booth to unpack a portable private 5G kit built for speed, security, and control—ready to power live broadcasts, pop-up events, and mission-critical enterprise workflows in a matter of hours. We walk through how a compact setup supports roughly a thousand authenticated users with private S...

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3:24

Flying Cell Sites Keep Communities Connected

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2025/10/21

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Picture a cell tower that takes to the sky when the ground route is blocked. We sit with Chris, senior disaster recovery manager at T‑Mobile for Business, to unpack how a tethered drone becomes a flying cell site—rising to 400 feet, running 24/7, and restoring coverage where trucks can’t reach. From islands off Puerto Rico to rugged stretches near Hawaii, this portable system can ride on a boat or UTV, spin up quickly, and hold th...

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25:49

How Megaport Built A Thousand-Data-Center Backbone In...

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2025/10/20

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if spinning up a 100G connection took less time than making coffee? We sit down with Megaport’s CEO Michael Reid and technical evangelist Alexis Bertholf to explore how a fully automated, software-defined backbone turns global networking into a click-and-go experience across 1,000+ data centers. We trace their unconventional paths from aerospace to IT, then dive into the engine room: why no one logs into devices, how code dr...

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14:37

From Factory Floor To Frontline: Why Mission-Critical...

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2025/10/17

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if customer communications weren’t an island, but the heartbeat of your business? We dive into how we’re unifying contact center and collaboration with an AI-powered CX platform designed for end-to-end automation, tight integrations, and real-world reliability. The goal: make every interaction faster, smarter, and easier to act on—without forcing a rip-and-replace. We unpack why hybrid UC is accelerating w/ Martin Bitzinger ...

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6:30

Empowering Experts: Tupl’s Path to Scalable, Agentic...

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2025/10/16

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Stuck with slow processes, rising OPEX, and customers who expect fixes in seconds, not hours? We sit down with Hector Montes from Tupl to unpack a pragmatic blueprint for telecom automation that starts with the people who know the work best—domain experts—and turns their know‑how into solutions that scale. From first-contact technical support that slashes escalations to smarter energy management across the network, this conversati...

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28:12

From Courses To Enablement: Reinventing Corporate...

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2025/10/16

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if your best coach was available at any moment you needed help on the job? We sit down with industry analyst Josh Bersin to unpack how generative AI is replacing one-size-fits-all courses with real-time, conversational enablement that helps people perform, learn, and grow in the flow of work. Instead of chasing completion rates, teams can tap living knowledge: the latest field fixes, sales plays that actually worked, leadersh...

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6:30

Autonomous networks begin where predictive AI meets...

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2025/10/16

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if AI in telecom had to earn its keep from day one? We sit down with Petri, CEO of Tupl, to unpack a no-nonsense approach to automation where every workflow ties back to a clear business case. From shrinking customer care handle times to orchestrating energy savings that don’t dent performance, this conversation shows how practical AI reshapes the daily work of carriers—and why adoption by 30,000+ frontline users is the metri...

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24:35

Automation grows, humans stay: the real shape of AI...

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2025/10/15

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com The most natural way to ask for help is to speak—and that’s exactly why voice CX is so hard to get right. We sit down with Babelforce CEO & Co-Founder Pierce Buckley to unpack why the real challenge isn’t the AI model at the front, but the orchestration behind it: identity, contracts, logistics, field service, and payments spanning a dozen-plus systems that must work in lockstep to deliver a short, sweet resolution. From “my f...

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23:11

What happens when a $70 phone meets smart financing...

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2025/10/14

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com A billion smartphones ship every year, yet billions of people still can’t get online. The barrier isn’t coverage—or even a $70 device—it’s trust, credit, and the lack of banking rails in places where daily income leaves no room for upfront purchases. We sit down with Trustonic CEO Dion Price to unpack a counterintuitive solution: secure device locking that makes micro‑installments viable, protects lenders, and teaches first-time b...

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17:13

We started fresh in Bermuda to prove a faster, open,...

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2025/10/13

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What happens when a carrier starts fresh, ditches the black boxes, and treats a nation like a living lab? We sat down with the CEO of Paradise Mobile to unpack how Bermuda—just 21 square miles and 65,000 people—became a launchpad for cloud-native, OpenRAN telecom that ships features in weeks, not years. The story begins with a team that cut its teeth solving “hairy, scary” projects for tier-one operators and now builds a modular, ...

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29:39

How a Small Team Rewrote Mobile for Billions

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2025/10/10

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Your phone’s most magical moments—messages turning blue, a watch pairing in seconds, an eSIM activating from Settings, a text sent from the middle of nowhere—don’t happen by accident. They ride on a quiet protocol called entitlements, and today we sit down with Emir Aboulhosn, CEO of NetLync to unpack how this invisible layer is being rebuilt for speed, security, and scale. We start with Emir’s path from MVNO experiments to colla...

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