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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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25:46

Identity Security After RSAC 2026

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2026/04/10

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Identity is where the fight is moving fastest, and RSAC 2026 proved it. Fresh off the show floor, we sit down with Jim Taylor, President, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at RSA Security, to break down what’s truly changing in identity security as AI reshapes both the threat landscape and the defenses enterprises rely on. We dig into why “sovereign” and “deploy anywhere” identity deployments are suddenly mission critical. Cloud...

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19:18

Building An Agentic Operating System For...

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2026/04/09

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Agentic AI is no longer a side experiment running in a lab. It’s starting to look like the next operating layer inside the enterprise, and that raises a hard question: do you want a scattered collection of point tools, or a standardized agentic operating system that your teams can actually run? I sit down with Anurag Gurtu Chief Executive Officer @ AIRRIVED to unpack what “agentic OS” means in practical terms. We get specific abo...

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20:29

Device Management Without The Drama

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2026/04/08

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com AI is everywhere in IT operations right now, but most sysadmins don’t need more buzzwords. We need fewer tickets, cleaner patching, faster deployments, and a clear view of what’s happening across every device. That’s why we sat down with Jaren Nichols, President and COO of PDQ to talk about modern enterprise device management the way admins actually live it: too many endpoints, too many apps, constant updates, and zero tolerance f...

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22:57

From Martech Stacks To AI Ecosystems For Modern...

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2026/04/06

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com The martech stack used to feel complicated. Then generative AI showed up and turned “complicated” into “constantly changing.” We sit down with Scott Brinker, the analyst behind ChiefMartec, to unpack what’s really happening as marketing teams move from a familiar martech stack to a broader AI ecosystem filled with new tools, copilots, and early stage agents layered on top of the systems we already depend on. We get concrete about...

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24:43

From Manual Alert Triage To Autonomous Security...

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2026/04/03

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Manual SOC work is collapsing under its own weight. After RSAC, we sit down with Dave Mcginnis, who leads IBM Consulting’s threat management practice, to get brutally practical about what “autonomous security operations” really means when you strip away the marketing. The headline is simple: humans can’t be the bottleneck in threat monitoring anymore, and “AI-assisted” alert triage won’t cut it when machines can generate more dete...

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26:17

AI For The Trades

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2026/04/02

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Trade businesses keep our world running, but most of them operate on painfully thin margins. We talk with Fred Voccola CEO from Simpro Group about what happens when you bring practical AI to the job site and the back office, not as hype, but as an operating platform for the trades that helps contractors finish more work right the first time. We get specific about where the ROI shows up fast: cutting “retreads” (repeat visits) by ...

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15:59

Enterprise Voice AI That Actually Works

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2026/04/01

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Pressing zero to reach a human should not be the default plan. We talk with Fred Fontes CEO from Acclaim about what’s finally making enterprise voice-first AI work in the real world, especially inside regulated industries like banking and financial services where compliance, auditability, and data security are not negotiable. For teams burned by old IVR trees and brittle chatbots, the conversation gets practical fast: what has cha...

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13:07

How The We Love Tech Awards Spot Real Innovation

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2026/03/31

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com AI is making a weird problem even worse: it’s getting harder to tell what’s authentic. That’s why we sat down with Russ from Business Intelligence Group to talk about the We Love Tech Awards ( https://welovetechawards.com/) and what real, transparent judging looks like when trust is on the line. We get specific about how awards can be more than marketing, especially when real people review nominations, score the work, and give fee...

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8:45

Autonomous Networks Now

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2026/03/27

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com AI hype is everywhere at Mobile World Congress, so we went looking for something rarer: real operational proof. From the Ericsson booth in Barcelona, we sit down with Ibrahim Eldeftar, who leads Cognitive Network Solutions product and portfolio for telco AI software, and Claudia Muñiz Garcia, Global Head of Sales for the same unit, to talk about what it actually takes to run autonomous networks. We break down the autonomy journey...

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17:26

How Brevo Builds Customer Loyalty With Conversational...

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2026/03/20

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com CRM is about to feel less like a database and more like a conversation. We sit down with Brevo to unpack how a fast-growing customer engagement platform thinks about the next era of CRM, where large language models change the “entry point” for customer data and where the old battle over slick UI starts to disappear. We walk through Brevo’s evolution from an agency to an email automation tool (many will remember the Sendinblue day...

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9:29

Agentic Voice AI For Business

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2026/03/19

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com The fastest way to understand agentic AI is to stop thinking about chatbots and start thinking about outcomes. From Enterprise Connect, we sit down with RingCentral’s John Finch to talk about agentic voice AI that can handle real customer work end to end: answering the call, connecting to back-end systems, completing a transaction, confirming the result, and closing the loop without bouncing the customer between departments. We a...

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11:06

Agentic AI For Customer Service

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2026/03/19

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Agentic AI sounds like magic until you have to ship it inside a real enterprise contact center where every mistake becomes a compliance problem and every bad interaction hits customer trust. From Enterprise Connect, we sit down with Dialpad to unpack how they’re building agentic customer service on top of an end-to-end UCaaS and CCaaS platform, and why having AI deeply integrated into the communications stack matters more than fla...

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7:41

How Samsung SDS Makes Mobile Devices Work For Hospitals;

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2026/03/19

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com A check-in tablet passes from one patient to the next, and a single leftover photo of an ID or an auto-filled keyboard suggestion becomes a PHI nightmare. From the Samsung booth at HIMSS, we sit down with Ray to unpack how Samsung SDS approaches healthcare IT with a simple goal: make devices and workflows safer, easier, and more useful for the people on the front line. We get specific about what Samsung SDS does beyond distributi...

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8:10

How Verified Caller Identity Gets Answered

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2026/03/19

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Your phone rings. The screen shows an unknown number or “spam likely.” Do you pick up, or do you protect yourself and ignore it? That split-second decision has become the default for millions of people, and it’s crushing legitimate communication from banks, healthcare providers, insurers, and service teams that genuinely need to reach customers. From the Enterprise Connect show floor, we talk with Nick Moss from TransUnion’s comm...

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21:14

What Does It Mean To Trust A Machine Anywhere

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2026/03/19

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com RSAC Season Is Here. Your Certificates Expired Last Month. RSAC is coming, and I'll be there — so expect more conversations like this one dropping in the weeks ahead. But here's the thing: the most important security story this season isn't happening on the conference floor. It's already inside your network, running on devices most organizations barely think about. In this episode, I sit down with OmniTrust co-founders David Se...

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10:32

Global Talent Without The Guesswork

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2026/03/19

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Talent gaps don’t feel strategic when they hit, they feel personal: missed deadlines, burned-out managers, and the slow bleed of “we can’t grow because we can’t hire.” From the floor at Enterprise Connect, we sit down with Brett and Sebastian from Gr8 Global to talk about a practical answer: building global capability center (GCC) teams that give companies real access to experienced remote talent. We dig into Gr8 Global’s origin ...

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10:17

Zoom’s Shift From Meetings To Work Products

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2026/03/18

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Meetings create the most valuable raw material in a company: the ideas people say out loud. The problem is that those ideas usually evaporate into scattered notes, half-remembered decisions, and action items no one can trace. From the floor of Enterprise Connect, we sit down with Zoom Chief Product Officer Jeff Smith to unpack how Zoom is trying to close that gap by turning conversation into completed work. Jeff explains why tran...

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12:15

CRM-Agnostic AI For Customer Calls

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2026/03/18

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Missed calls cost more than you think, especially when leads come in after hours or demand spikes without warning. From the Enterprise Connect show floor, we sit down with https://www.girikon.com and their product and innovation leaders to unpack how AI-first customer engagement is changing the way contact centers and sales teams respond in real time. We talk through Girikon’s path from a decade of CRM onboarding and consulting i...

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5:43

Contextual Intelligence For Contact Centers

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2026/03/18

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Your contact center already tells you what’s happening. The harder question is why and what you should do next. From the Enterprise Connect floor, we sit down with Ray Bohoac CEO of Spearfish.ai to unpack a practical approach to contextual intelligence that connects customer conversations to the back-office data that actually explains outcomes. We get specific about how Spearfish moves teams beyond classic contact center KPIs lik...

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How AI Turns Contact Center Calls Into CX And Revenue...

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2026/03/18

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com A single customer call can reveal why people churn, what drives complaints, and where sales get stuck, but only if you can actually see the patterns. On the Enterprise Connect show floor, we sit down with John from MiaRec to unpack how AI-powered conversation analytics turns everyday contact center recordings into clear actions you can take the same day. We get specific about the biggest wins: automated QA that replaces slow manu...

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