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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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7:54

AI And Telcos: From Hype To Revenue

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2026/03/05

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com AI is loud at MWC, but we wanted signal, not noise. We sat down with Angus CEO from BeyondNow to unpack how telcos can turn hype into real revenue by building an “AI factory” for SMBs, digitizing the front office, and orchestrating partner ecosystems that deliver complete, easy-to-buy solutions. The conversation gets practical fast: what it takes to package connectivity with AI-driven services, why data readiness still gates every...

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8:27

Winning The Wi‑Fi Experience War

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2026/03/05

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Ever wonder why your 4K stream freezes even though your plan boasts blazing speeds? We sat down at MWC with Metin from AirTies to unpack the real reason people switch broadband providers—and it’s not the price tag. Drawing on fresh survey data from the US, UK, and Japan, we dig into churn rates, intent to switch, and the number one culprit behind dissatisfaction: inconsistent user experience. From video stutter to choppy video cal...

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12:09

Inside Amdocs AOS: How Unified AI Reinvents Telecom

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2026/03/03

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if a telecom could think with one brain? We sit down at MWC with Gil Rosen CMO from Amdocs to unpack how the company is shifting from building point solutions to delivering AOS, an agentic operating system that orchestrates many AI agents as a single, contextual layer across the business. Instead of bolt-on automations, AOS connects decisions end to end—governed, explainable, and secure—so outcomes are consistent and measurab...

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10:32

Broadcom’s Telco Cloud Playbook

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2026/03/03

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com The hallways at MWC were buzzing, but our conversation cut straight to what matters for operators right now: shipping new services faster without getting boxed in. We sat down with Broadcom to unpack VMware Telco Cloud Platform 9 and how it blends cloud-native speed with the reliability telco networks demand. This release pulls previously separate components into a single, horizontal stack, pairing one automation engine for both v...

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9:20

Global IoT, Anywhere You Need It

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2026/03/03

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What happens when connectivity grows from a niche tool into the backbone of modern industry? We sit with Erik Brenneis CEO of Vodafone IoT, to explore how a team that started in the M2M era now supports 230 million connections across 180 countries and 760 networks. From connected cars that update themselves over the air to smart meters reshaping utilities, we trace the systems, standards, and strategy that turned scattered pilots ...

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20:28

Trust, Autonomy, And The New Rules Of AI-Driven NetOps

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2026/03/03

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if your network could sense a problem, explain it, and fix it before anyone files a ticket? We sit down with Cisco’s to unpack the leap from AIOps and GenAI to true agentic operations—systems that detect, diagnose, and remediate across complex, multi-domain environments where the internet is your backbone and SaaS is your front door. We trace the journey from ThousandEyes’ “Google Maps for the internet” to today’s AI-driven ...

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27:49

HCLTech’s AI-Native Playbook For Telecom, Media, And...

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2026/03/01

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Ready to move from AI pilots to P&L? We sit down with HCLTech’s Anil Ganjoo to unpack how telecom, media, and technology are converging into an AI-native future where outcomes rule, stacks unify, and partners co-create at speed. The conversation starts with HCLTech’s engineering roots and tracks a bold evolution into an IP-led, platform-driven strategy that spans networks, cloud, edge, data, and silicon—giving operators and me...

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22:26

From HIPAA To AI Agents: How To Scale Secure Digital...

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2026/02/27

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Building great health tech isn’t about stacking features. It’s about clarity, secure architecture, and the courage to automate the real bottlenecks. We sit down with Technology Rivers founder and CEO to unpack how AI is changing the way we design, build, and scale HIPAA-compliant digital health products without cutting corners on privacy or performance. We talk through the full development lifecycle and where AI actually pulls it...

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18:30

From 5G Hangover To AI Monetization: Broadcom’s Telco...

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2026/02/26

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Telco's growth model is broken. Here's the blueprint to fix it. 5G returns are under pressure. Hardware costs keep climbing. And operators are drowning in complexity they can't monetize. We sat down with VMware by Broadcom leaders to cut through the noise and what emerged is a sharp, actionable roadmap for what comes next. Three big shifts every telco leader needs to understand: **1. The mobile core is your highest-leverage as...

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25:14

Designing Trust: How Age Verification Protects Kids...

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2026/02/23

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com How do you protect teenagers online without turning every app into an ID checkpoint? That's the question governments, platforms, and parents are all wrestling with right now — and most of the answers so far have been blunt, binary, and broken. We sat down with our guest from TELUS Digital to go beyond the headlines and into the actual design challenge: what age verification gets right, what it gets dangerously wrong, and how to ...

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16:02

Why Unified IT Operations Makes Asset Management Work

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2026/02/20

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Your IT Asset Inventory Is Lying to You Asset sprawl isn't coming. It's already inside your organization, quietly growing through every new SaaS subscription, remote device, and shadow tool your team adopted without a ticket. Most IT leaders know this. Few want to say it out loud. In a recent conversation with Peter from NinjaOne, we got into the real reason IT asset management is back on everyone's radar -- and it's not becaus...

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18:40

From Chat-With-PDF To Enterprise Learning Transformation

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2026/02/17

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if your best trainer is the person who’s retiring next month—and an AI that turns their brain dump into accurate, engaging lessons overnight? We unpack how a scrappy chat-with-PDF experiment grew into an enterprise-grade course creation engine that slashes time, cost, and confusion while boosting trust and adoption. Ro shares the early product choices that mattered: attacking hallucinations head-on, grounding content in sour...

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19:31

How Zynga Turns Free-To-Play Into Brand Value

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2026/02/17

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Think gamers are just kids with consoles? We pull back the curtain with Zynga to show how mobile gaming has become mass-market entertainment—and a must-buy channel for brands. From FarmVille roots to a powerhouse inside Take-Two Interactive, Zynga sits where free-to-play design, rewarded ads, and deep engagement meet real business outcomes. We start with the core shift: only a small fraction of players pay, so advertising powers ...

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19:14

Switzerland’s Edge In Global Innovation

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2026/02/12

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com We sit down with Swiss Tech campaign manager to crack open the machine. This isn't luck—it's a surgical combination of world-class universities, patient capital, and a public-private alliance that treats every spinout like a potential Rolex. From AI and robotics to medtech, biotech, and precision manufacturing, Switzerland weaponizes its obsession with quality. The ecosystem doesn't just fund research; it drags it kicking and scr...

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29:06

How SD-WAN And Managed Connectivity Power Modern...

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2026/02/04

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Redundancy only feels like a boring insurance policy… until it starts delivering real, everyday performance wins. In this conversation with Julian Jacquez, President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of BCN Telecom, we dig into how dual connections, SD-WAN overlays, and intelligent automation transform networks from “hope nothing breaks” into always-on, high-performing platforms that keep cloud apps flying and employees focused o...

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25:52

How A Partner-Obsessed Model Turns Weeks Of Telco...

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2026/02/02

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Your quoting process shouldn’t feel like a scavenger hunt. We sat down with GTT’s channel leaders to unpack how a partner-obsessed strategy and a new digital platform, Envision DX, shrink telco quoting from weeks to minutes while boosting transparency, accuracy, and partner ROI. The conversation gets practical fast: what it means to orchestrate sales, marketing, enablement, and product around outcomes; why legacy programs disinter...

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19:07

Turning IT From Cost Center To Growth Engine

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2026/01/29

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Your next hire shouldn’t spend their first week waiting on a laptop while projects sit in limbo. In this episode, we pull back the curtain on the $5B device lifecycle management market and explore how modern IT teams are shipping fully provisioned devices worldwide, recovering assets cleanly, and protecting data without becoming a global logistics operation. Francis Osifo, third-time founder and CEO of Rayda, breaks down how his...

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24:36

How NinjaOne Uses Data And Human-In-The-Loop...

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2026/01/28

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Patch Tuesday doesn’t just deliver updates. It delivers pressure. Suddenly, you’re staring at a mountain of fixes, racing to decide what ships now, what waits, and how to keep a single reboot from blowing up your entire week. In our latest conversation with NinjaOne, we dig into what practical AI actually looks like when you’re responsible for millions of endpoints and have zero tolerance for downtime. Forget the buzzwords. We wa...

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45:47

Inside Dassault’s 3D Experience Lab: How Startups...

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2026/01/27

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com When the CES show floor goes dark and the crowds thin out, the real conversations begin. We sat down with Dassault Systèmes’ Fred Vacher and Abhishek Bali to explore how early-stage startups turn flashy demos into certified, manufacturable products. Using virtual twins, hands-on mentorship, and a global partner ecosystem, they walk founders through the hard part of innovation, moving from prototype to production. If you’ve ever w...

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34:33

From Skepticism To Science: How Photobiomodulation...

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2026/01/15

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if pain relief, faster recovery, and better sleep were a matter of getting the right light to the right place with the right dose? We sit down with Tom Kerber, engineer-turned-inventor and founder of SunPowerLED, alongside Dr. Hayman Buwan, physician and medical advisor, are bringing together deep engineering rigor and clinical insight to rethink how light-based technologies are applied in real-world health and performance se...

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