Tech Talks Daily

What happens when the pace of AI innovation collides with the realities of semiconductor development?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Faraj Aalaei, CEO of Cognichip and a semiconductor industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience spanning engineering, venture capital, and two successful IPOs. Faraj joins me to discuss why the future of artificial intelligence may depend on radically rethinking how chips ...

What happens when a country moves from cash-only transactions to instant digital payments that work for everyone?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I sit down with Steve Haley, Director of Market Development at The Mojaloop Foundation, to discuss how open and interoperable payment systems are helping reshape financial inclusion across Africa and other emerging markets.

For many listeners in Europe or North America, instant paym...

How do AI agents safely access the data they need without exposing the business to risk?

In this episode, I speak with Alex Gallego, CEO and founder of Redpanda, about why streaming data is becoming such an important foundation for enterprise AI. Redpanda began as a high-performance streaming data platform, but the company is now building what it calls the Agentic Data Plane, a governed access layer designed to connect AI agents wi...

What happens when AI moves beyond experimentation and becomes part of the creative process itself?

At Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, I sat down with Albert Lai to explore how AI is transforming the media and entertainment industry from content creation and production to personalization, localization, and audience engagement.

Albert works across Google Cloud, Google, and the wider Alphabet ecosystem to help media organizations reth...

What does real ROI from AI and analytics actually look like in the fast-food industry?

At SAS Innovate, I sat down with David Gardner, Senior Director of Analytics at Boddie-Noell Enterprises, the largest franchise operator of Hardee's in the United States, to explore how a 60-year-old family business is transforming itself through data, forecasting, and AI. This is a company processing around 40 million transactional records every...

What happens when the excitement around AI collides with the reality of deploying it inside a business?

At SAS Innovate, that question came up repeatedly, and in this episode, I sit down with Manisha Khanna, global product marketing lead for AI at SAS, to unpack why so many organizations are still struggling to move from AI pilots to meaningful business outcomes. While headlines continue to celebrate the rapid rise of generative AI...

What happens when cybercrime becomes as easy to access as a subscription service, and what does that mean for every business connected to the internet today?

In this episode, I sit down with SentinelOne AI and Cloud Security Evangelist Chris Hosking to unpack a shift that feels both inevitable and deeply unsettling. The rise of what Chris describes as an AI threat market is changing the rules of engagement.

Cybercrime is no longer ...

What happens when the race to deploy AI starts to outpace the ability to control it?

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I sit down with Ken Englund from EY to unpack findings from the latest 2026 Technology Pulse Poll, and the conversation quickly moves beyond theory into something many leaders will recognize from their own organizations. There is a growing tension between speed and oversight, a "velocity paradox" Ken describes, ...

What happens when your financial advisor is no longer limited by time, availability, or even geography, but is always there when you need them, ready to listen, respond, and guide you in real time?

At Citi's announcement at Google Cloud Next 2026, I sat down with Joe Bonanno, Head of Wealth Intelligence, and Karolina Belwal, Global Head of Data Intelligence and Automation for Citi Wealth, to unpack what could become a defining shif...

Are businesses really making progress with AI, or are many still stuck using it for the digital equivalent of making phone calls on a smartphone?

In this episode, I sit down with Alison Kay, VP / Managing Director AWS UKI, to unpack what is actually happening behind the headlines of AI adoption across the UK.

On paper, the numbers look strong. Around 64% of UK businesses are now using AI, a sharp rise from the previous year. But wh...

What if one of the most influential figures in modern technology had almost ignored the opportunity that would define his career?

In this episode, I sit down with Werner Vogels, Chief Technology Officer at Amazon, to explore the story behind Amazon Web S...

Can faster access to real-world data actually change patient outcomes, or are we still too reliant on controlled clinical trials to see the full picture?

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Alex Asiimwe, Executive Director of Epidemiology at Gilead Sciences, to explore a topic that doesn't get enough attention in the AI conversation, real-world evidence.

While much of the industry focuses on AI in drug discovery or diagnostics, Al...

In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I welcome back Dennis Woodside, CEO of Freshworks, to unpack the growing conversation around the so-called SaaS-pocalypse and what it really means for the future of software businesses.

There is no shortage of dramatic headlines suggesting SaaS is under threat, but Dennis offers a far more practical perspective. He explains that this is less about the collapse of software and more about a major ...

How much of your working day is actually spent doing meaningful work, and how much is lost chasing emails, searching for documents, sitting in meetings, and trying to remember where that one important conversation happened?

At Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, I sat down with Yulie Kwon Kim, Vice President of Product for Google Workspace at Google, to talk about how AI is changing the way billions of people work every day.

Yulie lead...

What happens when one of the world's most heavily regulated industries starts moving at AI speed?

At Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, I sat down with Sid Nadella, Director of Financial Services and Market Leader at Google Cloud, to talk about how AI is reshaping banking, wealth management, and capital markets from the inside out.

With more than 20 years of financial services experience, including a long career at Goldman Sachs, Sid ...

What happens when AI starts moving faster than the people meant to control it?

In this episode, I'm joined by Bernard Montel, Field CTO EMEA at Tenable, for a timely conversation about the AI risks many organizations may be underestimating. Bernard believes we are heading toward a defining AI accident and that the first major incident may come through speed, scale, and unintended consequences rather than a malicious attack.

We talk...