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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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28:09

Stopping Shadow AI Without Slowing Employees With...

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2026/10/05

Can an organization control employee AI use without making the approved tools so restrictive that people simply work around them? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Steven Walchek, Co-Founder and CEO of Liminal, about shadow AI, enterprise governance, data privacy, and the growing tension between employee productivity and corporate security. Steven's career includes leadership roles at FIS and AWS, along with involvement in three successful exits. His experience has given him a close

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20:34

Making Better Marketing Decisions With Braze AI

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2026/10/04

How can marketers make better decisions for individual customers without spending their working lives designing, running, and maintaining separate tests? Recorded at Braze Forge 2026 at the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas, this episode of Tech Talks Daily features my conversation with George Khachatryan, Head of AI Decisioning at Braze. George describes leading product management for AI Decisioning Studio and shares the story behind OfferFit, the company he cofounded before it became part of Braze. We

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17:22

Forge26: AI Marketing With Human Creativity With Braze

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2026/10/03

How can marketers use AI to improve the customer experience without filling every channel with increasingly similar content? Recorded at Braze Forge 2026 in Las Vegas, this episode of Tech Talks Daily features my conversation with Christy Poulos, VP of Product Marketing at Braze. We discuss the practical choices behind AI marketing, from deciding what a campaign should achieve to keeping creative work, compliance, and customer relationships under human direction. Christy describes Forge as an

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23:50

Building Governed AI Across Distributed Data With...

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2026/10/02

Can an enterprise move quickly with AI when the information it needs remains spread across business units, acquired companies, private data centers, multiple clouds, and systems governed by different privacy rules? In this episode , I speak with Justin Borgman, co-founder and CEO of Starburst, about the data architecture decisions now affecting how quickly businesses can turn AI investment into useful results. The conversation begins with a reality many established companies will recognize. Their

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29:45

Measuring AI by Business Results Instead of Adoption...

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2026/10/01

How should a business measure AI success when employee adoption tells leaders very little about revenue, savings, risk, or better decisions? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Thomas Robinson, better known as T-Rob, who recently moved from Chief Operating Officer to CEO of Domino Data Lab. After ten years inside the company, he has seen enterprise AI move through several phases, from specialist data science projects to generative AI tools available across the workforce. T-Rob argues

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24:07

Braze at Forge 2026: Where Should Human Judgment End...

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2026/09/30

What happens when artificial intelligence moves beyond helping marketers create content and begins making decisions on their behalf? Recorded at Forge 2026 in Las Vegas, I speak with Astha Malik, Chief Business Officer at Braze, about how AI is changing customer engagement and what marketers should retain control over as more operational work is handed to software. Astha explains why the long-standing promise of genuine one-to-one personalization has been so difficult to deliver and why she believes

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23:14

Security Posture at Machine Speed With Barracuda

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2026/09/28

What happens when attackers can discover and exploit a weakness faster than your organization can patch it? Recorded at Barracuda TechSummit 2026 in Alpbach, Austria, this conversation features Arve Kjoelen, CISO at Barracuda. Arve is responsible for protecting Barracuda's systems, environment, and code, which makes him the person answering the familiar question of who checks the checker. Our conversation begins with the collapse in response time. Security teams once had hours or days to investigate

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21:28

Turning Disposable Research Into Continuous Insight...

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2026/09/27

What if every market research project could continue contributing to business decisions after its original question had been answered? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I'm joined by Phil Ahad, Managing Director of Data at Cint, to discuss why he believes companies should move away from disposable research. For decades, the familiar model has been straightforward. A business asks a question, commissions a study, receives the answer and begins again when the next question appears. Phil argues that

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21:08

Giving Enterprise AI the Context It Needs With Orange...

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2026/09/27

Why do increasingly capable AI models struggle to produce reliable answers inside large organizations? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Misti Vogt, SVP of Engagement at Orange Logic. Her career spans military intelligence, data science, and enterprise content technology, and she also teaches in the DAM and AI program at Rutgers University. That combination gives her an unusually practical perspective on how machines interpret information and why business meaning cannot be assumed

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34:11

Building the Five Foundations of AI Value With Mobile...

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2026/09/26

What happens when employees begin using AI before their organization has prepared the data, training, controls and measurement required to support them? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, returning guest Denis O'Shea, CEO of Mobile Mentor, joins me to discuss the 2026 Endpoint Ecosystem Study. The research surveyed 2,500 workers across the United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia to understand how employees experience their devices, applications, sign-in processes, support systems

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25:03

Why AI Favors Whoever Automates Most With Barracuda

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2026/09/25

Can security teams defend an organization when attackers are using AI to research targets, personalize messages, identify weaknesses, and launch campaigns at a scale no human team can match? I returned to Alpbach, Austria, for Barracuda TechSummit 26 and caught up with Neal Bradbury one year after our conversation about being secure today and ready tomorrow. A lot has happened since then. Agentic AI has become a boardroom subject, employee AI use has spread across businesses, and attackers have

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24:36

Inside the Agentic SOC Where Humans and AI Defend at...

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2026/09/24

What does a security operations center need when attacks are arriving at a speed and volume that human analysts cannot manage alone? I recorded this episode with Adam Khan, VP of Global Security Operations and AI Security at Barracuda, during the 20th anniversary of the Barracuda Tech Summit in Alpbach, Austria. Adam has spent over 25 years in technology and security. When we last spoke at the event, he used Home Alone and soccer to make complex security topics easier to understand. This year,

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29:00

Barracuda CEO Rohit Ghai on Cybersecurity in the AI Era

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2026/09/23

How should security leaders respond when AI-powered attacks compress detection and response windows from minutes to seconds? At Barracuda TechSummit 26 in Alpbach, Austria, I spoke with Rohit Ghai, Chief Executive Officer at Barracuda. The conversation took place exactly one year after Rohit joined the company, giving us an opportunity to discuss what brought him to Barracuda, what he inherited, and how his first year has influenced his plans for the business. Rohit explains that Barracuda's focus

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27:14

Zeta Global on Why AI Agents Need Context Before...

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2026/09/23

What happens when enterprises spend trillions of dollars on AI but the systems underneath it still cannot provide the context those models need to make reliable decisions? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I reconnect with Christian Monberg, CTO at Zeta Global, to examine what separates AI experimentation from production systems that organizations can actually trust. Our previous conversation focused on how businesses could use AI to scale marketing without losing the human connection with

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27:02

Turning AI Adoption Into Business Value With BCG

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2026/09/22

Why is employee AI use rising so quickly while measurable business value remains difficult for many organizations to find? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with David Martin, Senior Partner and Global Leader of People and Organization at BCG, about the firm's fourth annual AI and workforce report. The research surveyed 11,749 employees across 14 countries and points to a growing divide between companies that distribute AI tools and companies that give people a clear plan for changing how

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25:18

Building a Trusted AI Voice With Voices

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2026/09/21

What will customers remember about a business when the voice answering their questions becomes the main expression of its identity? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Ruth Zive, who leads marketing at Voices, about the business and human questions surrounding AI voice. Voices is an enterprise marketplace and platform where companies can find professional voice actors, license AI voices with consent, and source custom voice data for training models. The company says its global talent

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34:42

Why AI Transformation Needs Wisdom as Well as Technology

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2026/09/20

Can ideas developed thousands of years ago help leaders make better decisions about AI, data and digital transformation today? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Alfonso Asensio, author of Digital Wisdom: Leading Transformation With the Sophia Factor and head of data measurement for global clients at Google in Tokyo. Alfonso has spent his career working across data, digital business and global client leadership, but his latest work looks beyond technical capability. He asks what

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30:12

Building a New Operating Model for Ecommerce Scale...

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2026/09/19

Why is launching a consumer product easier than ever while turning it into a profitable global brand remains so difficult? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Omer Kaplan, co-founder and CEO of ZyG, about the operational gap between creating a product and building a durable ecommerce business around it. Omer previously helped build ironSource into an $11 billion public company before its acquisition by Unity. He explains how recognizing the move from desktop to mobile helped shape that

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23:10

Rebuilding Trust in Pet Insurance With AI and Lassie

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2026/09/18

Why do pet owners so often learn the limits of their insurance when an animal is already ill and the veterinary bill is growing? That trust problem sits at the center of my conversation with Hedda Båverud Olsson, co-founder and CEO of Lassie, a pet insurer that combines coverage with preventative health guidance, rewards, activity tracking, and AI-assisted claims. Hedda's reason for starting Lassie is personal. Her mother is a veterinarian, and Hedda grew up around healthy pets without fully

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35:26

Proving AI Value in Architecture and Construction...

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2026/09/17

How much of construction's cost, delay, and waste begins with information that fails to survive the journey from design to delivery? That question runs through my conversation with Julian Geiger, Chief AI Officer at Nemetschek Group, as we look at the practical role of AI across architecture, engineering, construction, and operations. Julian describes what he calls the industry's 90, 40, 20 problem. According to the figures he shares, 90 percent of projects are over budget or over time, the built

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