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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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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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15:27

Inside The Business Of Recognition And Why...

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2026/01/14

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Trophies are easy to buy; credibility is not. We sit down with Russ Fordyce, Chief Recognition Officer at Business Intelligence Group, to unpack how modern awards can be rigorous, transparent, and genuinely valuable for marketers under pressure to prove results. From volunteer judges with track records to blockchain certificates that verify logos across the web, Russ explains how trustworthy recognition turns into search-friendly ...

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20:13

Design, Disruption, And The Next Wave

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2026/01/13

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Most companies call it innovation when they add a feature. Real disruption is when you build the thing that makes the old one irrelevant. That’s where this conversation starts. JJ de la Torre, founder and CEO of **Raven**, joins us to talk about what leaders consistently get wrong about digitalization, transformation, and “innovation theater”—and how to re-anchor teams around revenue and outcomes instead of decks and demos. We d...

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25:24

Building Resilient Energy Networks With Decentralized...

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2025/12/29

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if every meter in a city became a tiny base station? That simple shift unlocks coverage where towers fail, slashes operating costs, and floods the grid with the data it needs to stay resilient under the weight of electrification. We sit down with Wirepas CEO Teppo Hemiä to unpack how a fully decentralized mesh lets devices make local decisions on channel, power, and routing—no single point of failure, no shouting across long ...

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14:51

Inside The We Love Tech Awards: Real Innovation, Real...

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2025/12/26

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com CES is about to flood every feed with AI demos and wall-sized screens, but the real breakthroughs are quieter: teams turning bold ideas into measurable results. We sat down to unpack how the We Love Tech Awards celebrate that kind of progress—transparent judging, practical innovation, and stories you can actually learn from. We revisit standout winners who proved utility at scale: TD’s immersive learning programs that used VR and...

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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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