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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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20:50

From Guesswork To Answers: How People.ai Transforms...

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2025/12/23

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Forecast calls shouldn’t feel like theater. We sat down with People got ai’s new CEO Jason Ambrose to unpack how turning raw activity—emails, meetings, call transcripts—into crisp answers can transform forecasting, end CRM fatigue, and give leaders the clarity they actually need. Instead of forcing reps to feed fields, the platform reads what is already happening and returns guidance you can use right now: which deals are at risk,...

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30:23

How Gifting Pink Socks Sparked A Culture Of Human...

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2025/12/22

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com A bright pair of pink socks walked into HIMSS and walked out as a global symbol of connection. We sit down with Nick Adkins to unpack how a playful gesture turned into 300,000 gifts, a nonprofit rooted in kindness, and a book that invites all of us to love more and fear less. Nick takes us back to 2015, when he and cofounder Andrew Richards skipped the booth, packed a backpack with socks, and discovered the power of intentional g...

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16:30

Build Fast, Govern Faster: The Real Path To Agentic...

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2025/12/19

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if the secret to scaling AI agents has nothing to do with better prompts and everything to do with smarter integration? We sit down with Rich Waldron Co-founder & CEO of Tray dot ai to unpack how an integration-first architecture turns agent hype into measurable business outcomes. From cloud-native orchestration to resilient API handling, Rich explains why the hardest part of agents isn’t connectivity—it’s everything...

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22:02

CES 2026: Where AI Meets Reality

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2025/12/18

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Vegas turns into a living blueprint for the future as we sit down with CTA’s Gary Shapiro and best-selling author Jim Harris to unpack why CES 2026 is more than a showcase—it’s where strategy gets decided. We dig into how AI has moved from headline hype to the connective tissue of every sector, shaping robotics, health, mobility, and enterprise workflows. Gary lays out the big picture: a record wave of innovation colliding with re...

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18:38

How AI Transcription Is Rewriting Journalism And...

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2025/12/17

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com A journalist screams, “I’m wasting four hours a day transcribing,” and a product is born. We sit down with Lasse Finderup, CEO of Good Tape to unpack how a newsroom pain point turned into a privacy-first platform used by millions—and why saying no to feature bloat matters more than chasing every shiny AI trick. We trace the spin-out origin story and the “instant product-market fit” that came from building for colleagues who neede...

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18:17

Beyond Copilots: Agents That Do The Work

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2025/12/16

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Copilots can suggest the next click, but they rarely deliver the finished job. We dive into a different path: enterprise AI agents that integrate with your systems, understand your business rules, and execute end-to-end workflows with governance, accuracy, and reliability. Rob Bearden co-founder and CEO Sema4.ai shares how their platform moves beyond brittle scripts and UI macros to reasoning-driven automation that adapts to chang...

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30:09

Inside AMD’s AI Strategy From Edge To Data Center

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2025/12/15

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Big leaps in AI rarely come from one breakthrough. They emerge when hardware design, open software, and real workloads click into place. That’s the story we unpack with AMD’s Ramine Roane: how an open, developer-first approach combined with high-bandwidth memory, chiplet packaging, and a re-architected software stack is reshaping performance and cost from the edge to the largest data centers. We walk through why memory capacity a...

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21:15

Rethinking Tech Hiring With AI

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2025/12/12

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com A billion-dollar talent marketplace doesn’t happen by accident—it happens when access, scale, and experience come together. We sit down with Michael Morris the head of Torc at Randstad Digital to unpack how a once-independent platform now matches millions of professionals with work, why the talent market feels like a “teenage” phase, and how AI is reshaping recruiting without removing humans from the loop. The conversation ...

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15:41

From Cameras To AI: The SD Association’s Next Leap

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2025/12/11

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Most people think of SD cards as camera accessories. We pull back the curtain with the SD Association to show how SD Express turns that tiny card into an SSD-class powerhouse for creators, PCs, and AI at the edge—without losing the flexibility of removable media. By bringing PCIe and NVMe to the SD form factor, SD Express delivers nine to forty times the performance of legacy cards and far better random I/O, so burst capture, rapi...

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21:04

Your PBX Called; It Wants A Retirement Package

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2025/12/11

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if your hotel could keep checking guests in even when the primary PMS goes down? We sit with Jason from SNET Communications to unpack how a true all‑in‑one stack—networks, SD‑WAN, security, UCaaS, CCaaS, and a native PMS—eliminates finger‑pointing and keeps operations moving when it matters most. We walk through the realities of legacy PBX in hospitality and why a cloud approach finally fits the property workflow. SNET’s pla...

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18:55

Why Voice Still Reigns In Customer Experience As AI...

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2025/12/10

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Want a clear view of where global voice is headed and how AI changes the math? We sit down with Barbara Dondiego CEO at Avoxi to unpack the shift from legacy telephony to a modern cloud voice backbone that unifies numbers, routes across multiple CCaaS platforms, and puts intelligence at the very top of the stack. If you’ve wrestled with six vendors, inconsistent quality, and opaque billing, this conversation shows how enterprises ...

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24:31

From Hyperscalers To Neo Clouds: Rethinking...

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2025/12/09

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Forget the old playbook of carrier hotels and cross-connects. We sit down with Dave Ward, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Lumen, to map the real shift to Cloud 2.0—an AI-driven rearchitecture of how data moves, where compute lives, and how enterprises keep control as speed and scale explode. Dave explains why data movement has become the bottleneck that decides AI ROI, and how distributed on-ramps, 400G to 1.6T connectivit...

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33:34

From IVR To Orchestration: Building AI-First Customer...

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2025/12/08

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com If you could see customer issues before they happen, would you still measure success by hold time? We dive into how CX is transforming from a reactive cost center to a proactive, revenue-positive engine—and why the shift depends on a new orchestration layer that acts as the brain across every channel. With Alorica’s co-CEOs, Max and Mike, we unpack the practical architecture of AI-first customer journeys, the role of empathy in au...

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13:44

What Happens When Critical Infrastructure Is One...

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2025/12/05

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if you could see the internet the way attackers do—before the headlines, before the breach, before the phish hits your inbox? We sit down with Aidan Holland, senior security researcher at Censys, to unpack how daily global scans reveal the live shape of the web: assets you didn’t know you own, services you thought were private, and the malicious infrastructure gearing up for its next move. Aidan explains how distributed scan...

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19:42

Inside NetApp’s Intelligent Data Infrastructure For...

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2025/12/03

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What happens when only 30% of your data fuels decisions and the rest sits idle? We dig into the shift from traditional storage to intelligent data infrastructure and reveal how that change powers AI, real-time insights, and rock-solid resilience across industries. Cesar Cernuda President of NetApp walks us through exabyte-scale growth, why outcome-driven design beats tool-first thinking, and how to prepare data so AI actually deli...

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How TCS Turned A Company-Wide Hackathon Into An AI...

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2025/12/02

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What happens when a global tech leader turns its entire company into an AI lab? Our conversation with TCS’s CIO Janardhan Santhanam opens the door on a culture-first transformation powered by the world’s largest AI hackathon—half a million ideas, 55 million lines of code in days, and a wave of agentic apps built from no‑code to pro‑code. The result isn’t just energy; it’s a blueprint for scaling AI responsibly, measurably, and fas...

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25:16

Why Mobile Operators Hold The Keys To Fraud-Proof...

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2025/12/01

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Stop juggling one-time codes and clunky authenticator apps. We sit down with Eddie DeCurtis, CEO and co-founder of Shush, to unpack how carriers can quietly verify users in milliseconds using standards-driven, privacy-guarded data. Think number-to-IP matching, SIM swap checks, and location signals—all done behind the scenes so sign-ins feel almost invisible while fraud defenses tighten. Eddie explains why the real barrier hasn’t ...

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25:34

Why Narrow Targeting And Scalable Content Will Decide...

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2025/11/28

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Tired of pretty charts that don’t change your strategy? We go straight at the hard truth: social media is evolving from follower-first tactics to value-first systems, and the winners are those who align a crisp ICP with content that solves real problems at scale. Emeric Ernoult is the Founder and CEO of Agorapulse, a serial entrepreneur with two decades of experience in social media and SaaS and breaks down how brands can prove im...

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19:44

From Silos To Systems: Cross-Enterprise AI With R4

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2025/11/26

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if your enterprise could make the right decision, across every silo, in real time? We sit down with Paul Breitenbach, Founder & CEO r4 Technologies, to unpack how predictive AI goes beyond generative tools and actually drives outcomes: higher revenue, lower costs, and fewer bad events across the board. Paul explains why cross-enterprise management matters now, how it automatically pulls data from legacy systems, and how i...

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31:48

Agents With IDs: Trust In The Age Of AI

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2025/11/25

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Imagine asking your AI to book the flight, pick the hotel, and reserve the car—and it just does it. That convenience also opens a massive security gap when agents ask for your passwords, impersonate you online, and leave no clean line between what you intended and what was executed. We sit down with Peter Horadan is the CEO of Vouched, to map a safer path where digital identity, consent, and reputation tame the chaos without killi...

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