Full Tech Ahead
On this podcast, I sit down with business leaders, researchers and executives to explore innovative technology solutions and products, whether they’re transforming industries today or still in development. But we go far beyond the tech itself. From real-world use cases and business implementation journeys to cybersecurity challenges and future trends, we uncover what’s shaping the digital landscape. We also dive into topics that matter to every tech professional: Work/life balance, business communication, education and training. Think of it as your one-stop shop for meaningful technology discussions that inspire and inform.
Episodes
In this episode of "Full Tech Ahead," host Amanda Razani interviews Joe Sykora, CEO of Coro. They discuss the massive cybersecurity challenges facing small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) who struggle with limited resources and complex "Franken-stacks"—a fragmented mix of disconnected, multi-vendor security tools stitched together via APIs.
Sykora outlines how Coro eliminates this ...
In this episode of "Full Tech Ahead," host Amanda Razani interviews DJ Spry, Head of Product for Aria Networks. The discussion focuses on the rapidly shifting AI landscape and the critical infrastructure bottlenecks facing organizations building out AI factories and computing clusters.
Spry introduces the pioneered concept of "Deep Networking," a vertically integrated hardware and software solution that embeds telemetry down t...
In this episode of "Full Tech Ahead," host Amanda Razani interviews Nidhi Aggarwal, Chief Product Officer (CPO) of HackerOne. They discuss the paradigm shift in cybersecurity risks caused by AI-accelerated software development. Aggarwal introduces HackerOne’s new continuous threat exposure management platform, H1, designed to bridge the "find-to-fix" lifecycle gap.
She reveals that following the release of advanced AI mo...
In this episode of "Full Tech Ahead," host Amanda Razani interviews Matthew Shaxted, CEO of Parallel Works. The conversation centers on a major obstacle facing enterprises today: skyrocketing token consumption and the ballooning costs of using frontier AI models. Shaxted explains that opening up unrestricted API access to hundreds or thousands of users leads to rapid budget depletion, citing recent industry examples like Uber. Draw...
In this episode of "Full Tech Ahead," host Amanda Razani interviews Chris Yates, SVP of Product, Design and Engineering at Pantheon. They discuss the critical "trust factor" and governance bottlenecks emerging as organizations rapidly adopt AI tools.
Yates explains that while AI has massively accelerated the velocity of creating code and content, companies are hitting a wall because their existing review and security processes...
In this episode of "Full Tech Ahead," host Amanda Razani interviews Sarah Edwards, CPSO at Kantata. They discuss the strategic implementation of AI in the services industry (consulting firms, agencies, and B2B IT service teams).
Edwards argues that measuring AI success solely through the lens of traditional productivity and speed is a massive mistake for services firms, as charging by hours while simply doing tasks faster inev...
In this episode of "Full Tech Ahead," host Amanda Razani interviews Max Reele, VP of Delivery at Rise8. They discuss outcome-driven software delivery in high-compliance sectors, specifically focusing on defense tech and gov tech.
Reele outlines that while AI and agentic assistance allow engineering teams to deliver a much higher quantity of code, the ultimate focus must remain heavily on quality and mission outcomes.
Draw...
In this episode of "Full Tech Ahead," host Amanda Razani interviews Mark Talbot, AVP Customer Success AI Incubation at Appian. They discuss transitioning enterprise AI from isolated experiments into governed production workflows, focusing on recent research conducted in collaboration with Harvard Business Review.
Talbot reveals a stark contrast in enterprise adoption: while 59% of organizations have AI in production, only 16% ...
In this episode of "Full Tech Ahead," host Amanda Razani interviews Dr. Jason Corso, Toyota Professor of AI at the University of Michigan and Co-Founder of Voxel51. They discuss Voxel51’s role as a developer tool software company for physical and visual AI, which has achieved over 4 million downloads.
The core of the conversation focuses on Vigil, an innovative healthcare AI project led by Dr. Corso and funded by ARPA-H&...
In this episode of "Full Tech Ahead," host Amanda Razani interviews John Edwards, SVP of Citius Healthcare Consulting at CitiusTech. They discuss the rapid acceleration of AI in the healthcare sector, shifting from simple proof-of-concepts to full-scale, operationalized enterprise solutions.
Edwards highlights that the primary barriers to healthcare AI are not technical, but human and procedural. He notes that healthcare data ...
In this episode of "Full Tech Ahead," host Amanda Razani interviews Amit Sharma, CEO and Founder of CData. They discuss the critical challenge of enterprise AI: securely connecting advanced AI models to proprietary enterprise data (like CRM and accounting systems). Sharma explains that while AI models have vastly improved, the real bottleneck is providing them with the right business context.
He introduces the Model Context Pr...
In this episode of "Full Tech Ahead," host Amanda Razani interviews Josh Koenig, co-founder and SVP of Marketing at Pantheon.
They discuss how the rapid adoption of AI agents and LLMs is fundamentally changing web traffic and search behavior. As more people "ask" AI instead of searching Google, organic website traffic is dropping, but the visitors who do click through are highly "primed" and ready to act.
Koenig advises c...
In this episode of "Full Tech Ahead," host Amanda Razani interviews Leslie Nielsen, CISO at Mimecast. They discuss Mimecast's recently released "2026 State of Human Risk Report."
Nielsen explains that human-centric cyberattacks are escalating annually, driven by economic uncertainty and employee fears that AI might replace their jobs, making them more susceptible to malicious recruitment or carelessness.
A major highlight...
In this episode of "Full Tech Ahead," host Amanda Razani speaks with Prashanth Saradesai, Head of AI for Wiss, about how accounting and finance organizations can successfully implement artificial intelligence.
Saradesai shares insights from evaluating over 200 AI vendors, noting that many finance teams hesitate to adopt AI because they struggle to prove a clear Return on Investment (ROI). He explains that treating AI as an iso...
In this episode of "Full Tech Ahead," host Amanda Razani interviews Javed Hasan, CEO and Co-Founder of Lineaje.
They discuss the critical importance of software supply chain security, emphasizing that 95% of modern software risks come from open-source ingestion.
Hasan introduces Lineaje's new product, "UnifAI," which is designed to make AI applications secure by design. He highlights a major industry blind spot: AI ...
In this episode of "Full Tech Ahead," host Amanda Razani interviews Reza Azizian, CEO of Ferveret.
They discuss the company's innovative liquid cooling technology for data centers and AI factories, which is inspired by nuclear reactor cooling.
Azizian highlights a recent benchmarking study conducted with UCLA, revealing that Ferveret's adaptive cooling solution delivers 35% more compute power from the same...
In this episode of "Full Tech Ahead," Amanda Razani interviews Mery Zadeh, SVP of AI Governance and Risk Consulting at Lumenova AI. The conversation centers on the complexities of building AI governance teams and navigating the "three-language problem" where technical, regulatory, and business teams struggle to communicate.
Zadeh advises companies to stop searching for "unicorn" candidates who possess all these skills and inst...
In this episode of "Full Tech Ahead," Amanda Razani interviews Ryan Johnson, CPO of CallRail, about how Artificial Intelligence can benefit small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Johnson explains CallRail's evolution into a conversation intelligence platform and advises business owners to use AI to solve long-standing "legacy problems"—such as managing after-hours calls or handling peak call volumes—rather than inven...
Join us as we welcome Karen Cohen, VP of Product Management at Apiiro, who shares her expertise on securing enterprise software in the age of AI. Discover how Apiiro helps companies innovate rapidly while maintaining robust risk controls, and hear groundbreaking research findings on how AI is transforming coding practices—improving velocity yet introducing new security challenges. Karen reveals practical advice for leaders, t...
In this episode, host Amanda Razani sits down with Jeremy Ung, Chief Technology Officer of Black Line, to explore how AI is transforming the financial world. Jeremy shares insights from his work leading innovation in finance automation, delving into critical topics like building trustworthy AI, ensuring data quality, and setting solid audit trails to foster confidence in AI-driven systems. Discover practical advice for financial le...
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