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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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27:10

How AI Interviewers Cut Time To Hire And Improve...

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2026/10/06

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Resumes are getting easier to generate and harder to trust and that is forcing HR teams to rethink how hiring works from the ground up. We sit down with Navneet “Nav” Singh the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Eightfold AI. Nav from Eightfold to explore what happens when AI agents enter talent acquisition, not as a gimmick, but as a skills-first system designed to match people to roles based on capability, potential, and learnabil...

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18:32

Safe AI Data Resilience

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2026/10/02

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Everyone is flipping on Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI agents, and then realizing they can’t answer a basic question: what data can those agents actually reach? We sit down with Rick from Veeam to unpack the messy reality behind “safe AI at scale” and why AI success starts with data resilience, not demos. When agents can search, summarize, move, and delete content at machine speed, the cost of unclear permissions and unmanaged data ...

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26:57

What Happens To A Telco When Networks Get Autonomous

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2026/09/29

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com AI is forcing a hard reset in telecom, and it’s not just about models or GPUs. The real shockwave hits the CIO’s mandate: reinvent IT fast enough to enable enterprise AI while still keeping the lights on across sprawling legacy stacks. We sit down with TM Forum leader and veteran CIO Willie Stegmann to break down why this moment feels different from past digital transformation and cloud migrations, and why boards are pushing for m...

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12:17

What Tech Expo 26 Reveals About The Future Of Broadband

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2026/09/23

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Speed used to be the headline for broadband. Now the real question is tougher: did your internet actually feel reliable all day, on every device, in every room? We talk with Janelle Morse from SCTE, an industry insider helping shape Tech Expo 26 in Atlanta, about why the broadband world is pivoting toward end-to-end customer experience and what that means for operators, engineers, and anyone building modern networks. We break dow...

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21:53

Why 100G Networking Is Suddenly A Day To Day...

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2026/09/21

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com 100G Ethernet quietly crossed a line from “carrier-only” to “normal enterprise,” and the operational fallout is real: bigger links mean bigger outages, higher stakes, and far less room for sloppy assumptions. We sit down with NetAlly CEO Jeff O’Mara and Product Lead Thomas Doumas to break down why 100G networking is showing up in enterprise environments now, how AI-driven demand is accelerating the bandwidth curve, and what networ...

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28:19

How Enterprise AI Agents Break Budgets And How To Fix It

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2026/09/18

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Your AI budget isn’t blowing up because someone asked too many questions. It’s blowing up because AI agents turn one request into a chain reaction of inference calls, and the infrastructure underneath can’t deliver fast tokens efficiently at scale. We sit down with Vasanth Mohan from SambaNova to get specific about what changes when AI moves from “chat” to “do,” and why enterprises suddenly feel latency, throughput, and cost as op...

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15:13

How Enterprise Tech Awards Help Buyers Find Real...

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2026/09/08

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Enterprise tech is having a weird moment: innovation is real, but so is the noise. AI shows up in every pitch, “leading” is used in every sentence, and buyers who actually have budgets and deadlines are stuck asking the same question: what’s genuinely worth my time? I’m joined by Rose Ross, founder and chief Trailblazer at the Tech Trailblazers Awards, to talk about how credible startup awards can act as a practical filter for ent...

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15:01

How To Secure Enterprise AI Agents With VMware Tanzu

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2026/09/01

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Frontier AI is changing the rules of security, and enterprises feel it first. From the floor at VMware Explore, we sit down with Purnima Padmanabhan Vice President and General Manager, Tanzu Division, to unpack what customers are asking for as AI agents move into real systems and real data. The headline: private AI is getting a serious bump, not as a trend, but as a control strategy for regulated industries and anyone worried abou...

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12:16

How Broadcom And VMware Protect Dynamic AI Workloads

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2026/09/01

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Agentic AI is showing up everywhere, and it is not waiting for your security program to catch up. From the VMware Explore floor, we talk with Umesh Mahajan, General Manager for Broadcom’s Application Networking and Security Division, about what changes when AI agents become real workloads that talk constantly, call tools through APIs, and evolve by the week. The headline is uncomfortable but useful: AI helps defenders ship faster,...

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16:56

Trustworthy AI For High Stakes Decisions

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2026/08/28

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com AI is making decisions that shape real lives, yet most people cannot see how those decisions get made. We sit down with Scott Zoldi, Chief Analytics Officer at FICO, to unpack what “trustworthy AI” actually requires when the stakes include fraud, credit risk, and customer outcomes in heavily regulated financial services. If you have ever wondered why black box models create so much fear and backlash, this conversation puts clear l...

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25:07

How NVIDIA Turns Computing Into A New Lab Partner

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2026/08/27

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Drug discovery is one of the hardest engineering problems on Earth, except it has not always been treated like engineering. Costs can hover around $2 billion per successful drug, timelines can run 10+ years, and too many patients still wait without a cure. We sit down with Rory Kelleher, who leads global business development for life sciences at NVIDIA, to talk about what changes when accelerated computing meets foundation models,...

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17:15

How To Store And Serve AI Data At Scale

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2026/08/07

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Everyone is obsessed with bigger models and faster GPUs, but the part that decides whether AI actually works in the real world is the data behind it. We talk with Paul Speciale CMO at Scality, about what happens when enterprises try to store, protect, and serve AI data at petabyte and exabyte scale, and why the rise of huge context windows turns “just a chat” into a massive storage and latency problem. We walk through the full en...

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9:16

How Pega Blueprint Changes Who Builds Software

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2026/07/31

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com AI is cranking out more code than ever, but that doesn’t mean teams are shipping the right outcomes. From PegaWorld, I sat down with Steph Lewis, Senior Director of Community Developer Programs at Pega Systems, to unpack what’s actually changing for developers, architects, and business stakeholders as AI, agents, and LLMs reshape enterprise delivery. We get specific about the Solution Designer role Steph helped build and wh...

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13:29

Why CRM Still Fails Sellers And How AI Fixes It

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2026/07/24

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Your CRM knows a lot about your customers, so why does it still feel like a place you go to do homework? We talk with SugarAI CEO David Roberts about the hard truth many sellers live every week: CRM has mostly evolved into a management tool, not a system that makes reps better in the moment that matters, right before a call, a meeting, or a critical follow-up. We dig into why the “360-degree view of the customer” often backfires....

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19:28

When AI Learns Your Workflow Who Wins The Market

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2026/07/23

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Your AI demo is easy. Shipping AI inside a regulated insurance workflow is the hard part and that’s where the real advantage gets built. We sit down with Doug Marquis, CTO at ZyWave, to get specific about what’s changing in insurance technology and why “agentic AI” only matters when it reliably drives growth outcomes for agencies and brokers. We dig into ZyWave’s front office focus from lead identification and marketing to quotin...

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27:54

Stop Drowning In Security Alerts

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2026/07/20

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com AI isn’t just changing cybersecurity tools, it’s changing the pace of the entire fight. When attackers can scale campaigns with automation and operate at machine speed, the old rhythm of annual pen tests and quarterly reviews stops making sense. We sit down with Hom Bahmanyar Global Enablement Officer at Ridge Security, to talk about what security teams are up against right now and how continuous security validation can turn an en...

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22:26

HIPAA-Ready AI Health Tech

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2026/07/17

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com AI is rewriting the rules of healthcare software development, but building a secure scalable healthcare platform still comes down to fundamentals: clear requirements, strong ownership, and serious engineering discipline around HIPAA compliance and PHI protection. We sit down with Ghazenfer Mansoor, founder and CEO of TechnologyRivers, to talk through what’s working right now as digital health teams race from prototype to productio...

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Why AI Era Security Needs Hardware Keys

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2026/07/17

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Phishing used to be a numbers game. With AI, it’s becoming a personalization game and that’s exactly why “good enough” login security is quietly turning into a liability. We sit down with Dawn Manley, PhD, SVP, Product Management of Yubico to talk about why phishing-resistant authentication is now a must-have for anyone protecting high-value accounts, especially as AI tools become central to daily work and decision-making. ...

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15:14

Real Leadership Development Starts With A Deep...

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2026/07/14

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com The leadership playbook a lot of us grew up with is starting to fail in the moments that matter most: high pressure decisions, fast growth, founder stress, and team conflict that can’t be solved with a new script. We sit down with Peter Carnochan , an executive coach who is also a psychologist and trained psychoanalyst, to talk about a simple idea with big consequences: the next frontier of leadership development is within, not wi...

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How Tech CMOs Are Embedding AI Across The Marketing...

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2026/07/13

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com AI isn’t a side project for marketing anymore. It’s becoming the way work gets done, and that shift is happening faster than most teams can measure, govern, or even fully see. We sit down with Ed from Callan Consulting to unpack what he’s hearing directly from CMOs and heads of marketing about real-world AI adoption in tech marketing, from early-stage startups to multi-billion-dollar enterprises. We talk about the move from...

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