Tech Talks Daily

Who really controls your enterprise technology strategy: your organization or the vendors writing its software contracts?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Tomás O'Leary, founder and CEO of Origina, about enterprise software vendor lock in, forced upgrades, subscription contracts, and the financial consequences of surrendering control over mission-critical systems.

Tomás founded Origina in Dublin after working withi...

Why are companies preparing for agent-to-agent customer service when many customers still cannot get a chatbot to answer a straightforward question?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Latané Conant, Chief Marketing Officer at Parloa, about the state of customer experience and what businesses must repair before agentic AI becomes another barrier between customers and support.

Parloa's State of Agentic CX report assess...

What happens to tomorrow's leadership pipeline when employers automate the entry-level tasks through which beginners learn?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Gary Flowers, Chief Information Officer for Transformation and Technology Services at Year Up United, about AI fluency, human skills, economic mobility, skills-first hiring, and the future of entry-level work.

Year Up United prepares young adults without bachel...

Can an app approved by Apple or Google still expose your business to security, privacy, and governance risks?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I welcome back Michael Covington, Vice President of Strategy at Jamf, for a conversation about the false confidence that can surround mobile security. Apple and Android provide strong protections, including app review processes, sandboxing, and device authenticity controls. However, Mich...

How should finance leaders measure AI ROI when adoption has slowed and the cost of models, tokens and disconnected tools remains difficult to predict?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I welcome Jeremy Ung, Chief Technology Officer at BlackLine, back to the podcast to discuss how businesses can move from finance AI experimentation to operational deployment.

Figures supplied for the interview show AI adoption in finance rising fr...

What happens when an autonomous AI agent can complete thousands of actions before a traditional access review has even identified that something has gone wrong?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Alex Bovee, CEO and co-founder of C1, about identity security, runtime governance, shadow AI, and the controls companies need as humans and agents begin working together.

Alex has spent much of his career in identity and sec...

What evidence would convince you that an AI agent is ready to make decisions involving employment, money, healthcare, or legal rights?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Vin Sharma, founder and CEO of Vijil, about the trust gap preventing many enterprise AI agents from progressing beyond proof of concept.

Vin has spent approximately 30 years building software across security, operating systems, open source, cloud com...

What if employees could access sensitive business applications from personal phones without storing company data on those devices?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Jared Shepard, CEO of Hypori, about virtual mobile infrastructure, BYOD security, employee privacy, zero trust, and the growing mobile threat created by AI.

Jared's personal story deserves attention in its own right. He describes himself as a former home...

Could your company be paying suppliers earlier than its competitors and unintentionally financing their advantage?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I welcome back Oliver Belin, co-founder and CEO of Calculum. Our previous conversation took place around ten years ago when Oliver was working with the Marco Polo Network and blockchain was attracting attention across trade finance. His latest venture concentrates on working capital...

What if the chemistry created by neurological disease could help activate medicine precisely where it is needed?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Sara Isbell, neuroscientist and co-founder of Enabled Therapeutics, about a proposed approach to one of medicine's most stubborn problems: delivering effective drugs to diseased brain tissue without exposing healthy areas to the same activity.

Sara explains how the blood-...

Could the real reason enterprise AI projects remain stuck in pilot mode be hidden inside the company's unstructured data?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I welcome back Oded Nagel, CEO of CTERA. We discuss why enterprise AI success depends on the condition, location, permissions, and business value of the data sitting underneath models and agents.

Oded defines AI-ready data as information that is searchable, classified, and pe...

What happens to the value of human judgment when AI makes execution faster, cheaper, and available to almost everyone?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Eric Wang, Vice President of Product and AI at QuillBot. Eric has worked in artificial intelligence since 2006, with previous leadership roles at Turnitin and Chegg. He now works on AI products used by millions of people to develop ideas, improve their writing, cond...

Has enterprise AI finally reached the point where impressive demonstrations are no longer enough?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Bruce McMahon, Chief Product Officer at CallMiner, about what he describes as the industrialization of AI: the move from experimentation and excitement toward repeatable processes, measurable ROI, better customer experiences, and technology that can operate reliably at enterprise scale.

What happens when an AI agent is compromised, manipulated, or simply does something nobody expected, but already has permission to access your most sensitive systems?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Geoffrey Mattson, CEO of SecureAuth, about why securing enterprise AI requires businesses to think beyond protecting models and start paying much closer attention to identity, authorization, access control, and what AI...

Companies are spending billions on GPUs, data centers, foundation models, and AI infrastructure. But what happens when the network connecting all of it cannot keep up?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I welcome back Avi Freedman, co-founder and CEO of Kentik, five years after our previous conversation. Avi has been operating large-scale networks since the 1990s, including more than a decade at Akamai, and brings a rare combinat...

Is AI really causing widespread job losses, or are a small number of announcements creating a much larger narrative?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Marvin Pohl, chief data scientist and cofounder of Clarecast, about AI layoffs, quiet restructuring, predictive workforce intelligence, and the responsibility that comes with forecasting company growth.

Marvin's career began in physics and physical chemistry. After co...

What happens when an AI agent is authorized to make a payment, but nobody can verify the wider agreement behind it?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Zor Gorelov of Blue Language Labs about the infrastructure businesses may need as AI agents move from answering questions to negotiating, approving, purchasing, coordinating, and settling commercial activity.

Many current business processes depend on human coordination...

What separates an embedded finance partnership that changes customer behavior from an integration nobody would miss?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Rory Herriman, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Operations Officer for Zip's US business. Rory works across product, technology, operations, and business strategy, giving him a broad view of what happens after the API connection is complete and real customers begin ...

What happens to creator loyalty when somebody delivers the work, attracts an audience, and then waits weeks to be paid?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Rob Israch, President at Tipalti, about the payment infrastructure supporting the creator economy. Platforms may be able to add thousands of creators quickly, but the systems behind onboarding, tax collection, approvals, global payouts, communication, and reconcili...