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Discover valuable perspectives through executive interviews with top B2B tech leaders. Explore tech leadership insights, strategies & the future of technology.

Louis Blatt on Bringing AI to Life-Critical Emergency Response
Date 07 Aug 2026 Ethical AI

You can’t modernize 9-1-1 the way you modernize ordinary enterprise software. The technology can change. The stakes can’t. Louis Blatt, who oversees Intrado’s next-generation 9-1-1 portfolio,...

David Irecki: AI Needs Operational Foundations Before Innovation
Date 06 Aug 2026 Data Management

The smartest AI in the world can't answer a question your enterprise can't. When systems disagree, data can't be trusted, and governance is missing, AI simply...

Swati Trehan: Human-AI Teams Will Outperform AI-Only Strategies
Date 04 Aug 2026 Employee Experience

Companies are racing to deploy AI. Their operating models are standing still. That disconnect sits at the heart of enterprise AI adoption today. Swati Trehan, COO...

Fred Voccola: AI's Biggest Job Is Doing the Work Businesses Can't Afford
Date 30 Jul 2026 Enterprise AI

For decades, businesses have accepted operational gaps as the cost of staying lean. Fred Voccola thinks that excuse has expired. Fred, Chairman & CEO of Simpro...

Turning Context Into Enterprise AI's Greatest Strength, with Tony Grout
Date 28 Jul 2026 Enterprise AI

Here's a question every enterprise should ask: Can your AI explain why it gave that answer? Tony Grout, CPTO at M-Files, argues that if the answer...

Kevin Nanney Shares His Vision for Continuous Enterprise Planning
Date 23 Jul 2026 Enterprise Solutions

Annual planning made sense when business moved slower. Today, it often becomes outdated long before the quarter ends. Kevin Nanney, Chief Product Officer at Tempo Software,...

Tim Bond on Why Enterprise Software Must Fit the Customer's World
Date 21 Jul 2026 Data Integration & ETL

Enterprise customers rarely wake up hoping to buy another software platform. They just want yesterday's complexity to disappear. That's the lens Tim Bond, CPO at Adeptia,...

From Features to Outcomes: Inside Scott Lee's Product Leadership Playbook
Date 16 Jul 2026 Automation

The toughest product decisions rarely involve choosing the next feature. They involve deciding what not to build. That's a discipline Scott Lee, Chief Product Officer of...

Rupali Jain on the AI Blind Spot Between Productivity and Impact
Date 14 Jul 2026 Enterprise AI

AI has made producing more easier than ever. Creating more value is a different challenge altogether. Without rethinking how work flows across teams, AI risks making...

The Next AI Advantage: Anastasiia Shapovalova on Learning, Leadership & Growth
Date 09 Jul 2026 Generative AI

As AI becomes more accessible, the technology itself is rapidly losing its competitive edge. The real question is no longer "who has AI" but "who...

Beyond Observability: Aditya Ganjam on the Future of AI Agent Analytics
Date 07 Jul 2026 Agentic AI

Observability tells you what your AI agent did. It doesn't tell you whether it actually helped. As enterprises race to deploy AI agents, that distinction...

David McCann on Rethinking Compliance in an Always-On Regulatory World
Date 02 Jul 2026 Agentic AI

Global compliance is becoming more complex by the day. The answer isn't more manual effort; it's a smarter operating model.David McCann, CTO at Sovos, discusses...

Bogdan Botezatu: What Modern Cyber Defenders Need to Learn from Attackers
Date 30 Jun 2026 Threat Detection & Incident Response

Modern cyberattacks rarely begin with a dramatic breach. More often, they start with a stolen identity, a trusted account, or a simple human mistake. Bogdan Botezatu...

Kunal Verma on Why AI Agents Will Redefine Enterprise Finance
Date 25 Jun 2026 Financial Services

AI's biggest impact on finance won't come from doing work faster. It will come from changing who, or what, does the work.Kunal Verma, CTO of...

Matthias Zieger on Making AI Work Across the SDLC
Date 23 Jun 2026 Enterprise AI

AI may be transforming software development, but speed alone isn't solving the problems that matter most. Visibility, predictability, and better decisions are. Drawing on years of...

Mark Schopmeyer on Building the Connected Revenue Engine
Date 18 Jun 2026 Sales

Revenue planning isn't an annual exercise anymore. It's a continuous system that has to keep pace with the business. Mark Schopmeyer, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of CaptivateIQ,...

Marc Wilder Explains Why Hiring Has Become a Bigger Business Question
Date 16 Jun 2026 Workforce Management

Businesses used to compete for talent. Now they're competing for adaptability. The challenge for leaders today is building a workforce that can evolve as quickly as...

Building the Operational Backbone Behind Connected Healthcare, with April Gill
Date 11 Jun 2026 Automation

More automation hasn't necessarily made healthcare operations simpler. In many cases, it has made fragmentation harder to see. April Gill, Chief Commercial Officer at Smart Data...

Kamesh Tumsi on the Compliance Blind Spots AI Can Finally Address
Date 09 Jun 2026 IT Compliance & Governance

The biggest compliance risks don't always come with obvious warning signs. And they rarely announce themselves with a keyword. As communication volumes explode across channels, traditional...

Shawn Zhang: The Bigger Mission Behind Accent-Neutral AI
Date 04 Jun 2026 Communications

Speech AI has a bigger job than recognizing words. It has to bridge understanding. That challenge sits at the heart of Shawn Zhang's vision for Sanas....

Mike Hauptman on Streamlining Media Buying Across Fragmented DSPs
Date 29 May 2026 Advertising

Media buying has become an operations problem. Agencies now spend as much time managing platforms and workflows as they do driving performance. Mike Hauptman, CEO of...

Theresa Pham Reveals the Hidden Psychology Behind Great Products
Date 28 May 2026 CDP

As AI makes products look increasingly similar, experience becomes the only thing customers truly remember. Theresa Pham, Director of Product Experience, Growth & Ops at Tealium, explains...

The AI-Commerce Shift Mausam Bhatt Says Most Companies Are Misreading
Date 21 May 2026 E-commerce

Commerce is getting harder to operate, not easier to grow. As brands expand across marketplaces, retailers, and channels, operational complexity is becoming the real bottleneck,...

Sabra Sciolaro: Turning Workplace Communication Into Business Infrastructure
Date 20 May 2026 Employee Experience

Modern workplaces are flooded with communication, yet employees are struggling with clarity. The more companies communicate, the more disconnected and overwhelmed their workforce often becomes. Sabra...

The Engineering Behind Accurate AI Meeting Summaries, with Brian Farrell
Date 15 May 2026 AI Assistants

Meetings are messy by default. People talk over each other, shift contexts constantly, and bury key decisions inside long, chaotic conversations. Turning that into accurate,...

Brandon Spear on Connecting Payments, Invoicing and Customer Experience
Date 13 May 2026 Payments & Wallets

Enterprise growth breaks fast when payment systems don’t scale with it. Disconnected invoicing, manual reconciliation, and fragmented workflows are quietly becoming business liabilities. Brandon Spear, CEO...

The Infrastructure Behind Safe AI Coding at Scale, with Orit Golowinski
Date 09 May 2026 Enterprise Architecture

AI can now generate code faster than teams can govern it. And as autonomous agents enter development workflows, the real challenge is shifting from speed...

Tilman Harmeling: Where Privacy, Data and Trust Finally Converge
Date 05 May 2026 Data Governance & Quality

Marketing chased scale through data for years. That playbook is now breaking; privacy concerns are rising, and trust is eroding. Tilman Harmeling from Usercentrics explains how privacy,...

Yinglian Xie: Why Real-Time Fraud Detection Starts with Data
Date 30 Apr 2026 Security

AI fraud is no longer just more sophisticated; it’s faster than the systems designed to detect it. And when detection lags, even the best AI...

Steve Kramer on Making Payments Work Beyond the “Happy Path”
Date 25 Apr 2026 Payments & Wallets

Self-service in payments promises ease, but often delivers friction. When systems can’t handle edge cases or guide users forward, drop-offs are inevitable. Steve Kramer, VP Product...

Solving Endpoint Drift Before It Breaks Enterprise Security, with Apu Pavithran
Date 23 Apr 2026 Endpoint Security

Enterprise endpoints are multiplying and slipping out of sight. What you can’t see, you can’t secure. Apu Pavithran, Founder & CEO of Hexnode, shares how modern...

Thor Olof Philogène on How to Fix the Insight-to-Action Gap
Date 22 Apr 2026 Business Intelligence

Organizations aren’t short on insights; in fact, they’re buried under them. Valuable research sits scattered across decks, tools, and teams, rarely showing up when real...

Matthew Wensing on Building AI That Compounds Over Time
Date 20 Apr 2026 Customer Engagement

Marketing today isn’t short on tools; it’s drowning in them. Disconnected platforms, stitched workflows, and AI that responds but rarely acts have turned execution into a...

Building Always-On Threat Intelligence Systems, with Manmeet Bhasin
Date 16 Apr 2026 Threat Intelligence

Smishing attacks are getting smarter. Is your intelligence? As attackers exploit mobile channels with greater speed and coordination, legacy threat intelligence models are falling behind. Manmeet...

Matthew Carroll Explains Why Data Governance Needs a Reset for AI Workflows
Date 09 Apr 2026 Data Governance & Quality

AI is scaling your data mistakes in real time. Matthew Carroll, Co-Founder & CEO of Immuta, highlights how flawed access models don’t just persist; they amplify...

Ana González on Bridging GPUs and Photonics for AI Scale
Date 26 Mar 2026 Network Monitoring & Management

At what point do more GPUs stop making a difference? Ana González, VP of Business Development for iPRONICS, explains why interconnect performance is now the real limiter...

Tyler Denk on How Newsletters Are Rewriting the Media Business
Date 13 Mar 2026 Customer Engagement

Newsletters are no longer just a publishing format. They’re fast becoming the backbone of the modern media business. Tyler Denk, Co-Founder & CEO of beehiiv, talks...

DAPs Unlocking AI Adoption at Scale, with Khadim Batti
Date 26 Feb 2026 Enterprise AI

Billions are being spent on AI. The real question is: who’s actually using it? In this conversation, Khadim Batti, Co-Founder & CEO of Whatfix, explains why...

Nikolaos Vasiloglou on Why the Future of Enterprise AI Is About Architecture, Not Just Models
Date 12 Feb 2026 Enterprise AI

AI models are getting smarter. So why are enterprise decisions still fragile? Nikolaos Vasiloglou, VP of Research ML of RelationalAI, argues that the real bottleneck in...

Levelling the Playing Field and Driving Programmatic Efficiency at Scale with Larraine Criss
Date 16 Jan 2026 Advertising

More spend doesn’t win in programmatic advertising. Better bidding does. In this conversation, Larraine Criss, COO at Preciso, unpacks what it takes to level the playing field...

Amit Sharma on Building Financial Leverage Through Contract Intelligence
Date 14 Jan 2026 Enterprise AI

Contracts were never meant to slow businesses down. Yet for years, they’ve quietly done exactly that. Amit Sharma, CFO at SpotDraft, breaks down how contract intelligence...

Why Storage Sits at the Heart of AI and Enterprise Growth, Franziska Huber Explains
Date 09 Jan 2026 Storage & Backup

Storage rarely makes headlines, until it becomes the reason businesses scale, secure & succeed. Franziska Huber, Communications Lead for EMEAI at Western Digital, breaks down how...

Steve Karp’s Take on Getting the Most Out of AI Copilots
Date 18 Dec 2025 AI Assistants

This fall, the software provider Unanet unveiled ChampAI, its platform of natural language copilots for companies in the worlds of government contracting and architecture, engineering,...

Building the Backbone of Yandex’s RecSys Boom with Nikolai Savushkin
Date 10 Dec 2025 Machine Learning

What does it take to deliver the right recommendation to hundreds of millions instantly? Nikolai Savushkin says it’s a mix of scientific rigor, architectural discipline, and...

Richard Hills Explains How Visitor Management 2.0 is Revamping GRC
Date 21 Nov 2025 Risk & Compliance

If your company does business in a tightly regulated industry and if it regularly handles sensitive data, then a sizable chunk of your organizational bandwidth...

Pavlos Pavlou Breaks Down the Future of Retail, Value & Consumer Intent
Date 19 Nov 2025 Business Intelligence

Consumers are buying differently. And brands can’t afford to guess why. Pavlos Pavlou, MD - Saudi Arabia at NIQ, sheds light on the behavioral changes sweeping...

Speed, Scale & No Pilots: Arun Varadarajan on AAVA’s Transformative Edge
Date 14 Nov 2025 Agentic AI

When 75% of enterprises use AI but only 26% scale it, something has to change. Arun Varadarajan, Chief Commercial Officer at Ascendion, talks about how AAVA...

Harshit Omar on Cloud Freedom, Portability & the Bold Bet on Cloud Cloning
Date 08 Nov 2025 Cloud Architecture

Migration was the past. Cloning is the new cloud power move. And the CTO leading this shift is Harshit Omar, the architect behind Cloud Cloning™. Harshit...

Inside Priya Vijayarajendran’s AI Playbook: Efficiency with Empathy at Enterprise Scale
Date 05 Nov 2025 Enterprise AI

AI that mimics people is old news. The AI that scales business is the real revolution. In this conversation, Priya Vijayarajendran, CEO at ASAPP, dives into...

Jeswin Mathai on Closing the Security Gap with Browser Detection & Response
Date 28 Oct 2025 Threat Detection & Incident Response

80% of enterprise work now happens in browsers—yet legacy tools can’t see what’s happening there. Jeswin Mathai, Chief Architect at SquareX, believes this is the blind...

Vara Kumar Namburu on People-First Software, Digital Adoption & AI
Date 28 Oct 2025 Enterprise AI

Behind every great software lies a simple question: are people really able to use it to its maximum potential? For Vara Kumar Namburu, Whatfix Co-founder and...

Securing Human and AI Identities: Insights from Mike Towers, Veza’s Chief Security & Trust Officer
Date 26 Oct 2025 Data Security

Every AI agent becomes an identity needing governance. Mike Towers has built his security playbook around spotting shifts in identity, trust, and enterprise risk across global...

From Semiconductors to AI: Dean Chang on Taipei’s Innovation Edge
Date 25 Oct 2025 Enterprise AI

Behind every smart city is a vision that connects policy, innovation, and people. Dean Chang, Specialist at the Taipei City Government Hi-Tech Promotion Center, Taiwan, highlighted...

Story Tweedie-Yates on Product-Led Growth, Enterprise Sales, and Marketing’s Balancing Act
Date 25 Oct 2025 Identity & Access Management

There is always a more powerful buyer in the room. CMO Story Tweedie-Yates has built her marketing playbook around spotting those shifts—across 30+ countries, developer tools,...

Beyond the Lab: Charles Castano on AI, Automation, and the Future of Clinical Trials
Date 08 Oct 2025 AI Assistants

Technology should simplify science, not complicate it. In this conversation, Charles Castano, Chief Technology Officer at LabConnect, shares how his experience at Microsoft, Amazon, Roche, and...

Closing the Malware Blind Spot with Variant Discovery | ft. Mike Wiacek
Date 17 Sep 2025 Threat Intelligence

Malware keeps evolving. Your defenses can’t afford to stand still. Stairwell Founder & CTO Mike Wiacek reveals why legacy tools are missing thousands of malware variants...

Brian D’Agostino on Bridging Language Gaps With AI & Humans
Date 13 Sep 2025 Communications

How do you interpret millions of moments without missing a word? In this conversation, Brian D’Agostino, Co-Founder & CPO at Boostlingo, explains how they’ve been redefining...

Beyond eCommerce: Sumeet Srivastava on Building Connected Ecosystems
Date 10 Sep 2025 E-commerce

Tech should bend to business, not the other way around. In this conversation, Sumeet Srivastava, SVP, Operations & Digital Transformation at Envision, shares how this principle...

AI, Detection & Security: Emmy Linder’s Playbook
Date 05 Sep 2025 Threat Intelligence

Turning endless alerts into clear answers — that’s the new face of security. In this interview, Stairwell CEO Emmy Linder shares how the company’s AI-first approach...

Philipp Wehn on Innovating Heavy Industry the AI Way
Date 29 Aug 2025 Robotics & Automation

AI and engineers: the ultimate industrial duo. In this conversation, Philipp Wehn, Founder & CEO of Nexxa.ai, covers the role of AI in industrial workflows, its...

AI Governance as the Enterprise Edge, Jim Olsen Speaks
Date 22 Aug 2025 Enterprise AI

Can governance be the real accelerator for AI? Jim Olsen, CTO at ModelOp, shares why governance isn’t overhead but a strategic edge. From purpose-built design to...

Brady Lewis on Fractional Marketing, Actionable AI & Real Impact
Date 20 Aug 2025 AI

What happens when AI stops being hype and starts solving? Brady Lewis, Sr. Director of AI Innovation at Marketri, unpacks how Marketri uses AI to tackle...

AI-Powered Autonomous Intelligence That Actually Delivers, with Arun Balasubramanian
Date 15 Aug 2025 Business Intelligence

Is this the moment AI Observability becomes mission-critical? Arun Balasubramanian, Dynatrace MD India & SAARC, explains why the answer is yes, highlighting the urgency for unified,...

Leading the Next Wave of AI-Driven Customer Communications with Sam Allen
Date 13 Aug 2025 Customer Engagement

AI-driven intelligence is only as good as the data — and the decisions — behind it. In this interview, Sam Allen, CEO of Iterable, shares how...

Self-Service Data, Finally Done Right: A Conversation with Prat Moghe
Date 08 Aug 2025 Business Intelligence

Why wait for answers your data already has? Prat Moghe, CEO of Promethium, dives into how their solutions flip the script on data access, delivering answers...

Sadid Hasan on Research, Responsibility & Usability in Enterprise AI
Date 06 Aug 2025 Enterprise AI

Where’s enterprise AI headed next? And are we ready for it? Sadid Hasan, a leader at Microsoft’s MAIDAP, explores how enterprise AI is shifting from standalone...

Inside the Intelligent Data Lakehouse with Rahim Bhojani
Date 31 Jul 2025 Data Lakes & Warehouses

Drowning in data, but starving for insights? Rahim Bhojani, CTO at Dremio, breaks down how intelligent data lakehouses and self-service analytics are helping organizations cut through...

Vishwanathan Arunachalam on What It Takes to Build Payroll That Matters
Date 29 Jul 2025 Payroll & Benefits

In payroll, trust isn’t optional—it’s everything. Vishwanathan Arunachalam (Vish), CEO of Mercans’ Payroll & SaaS business, dives into what it takes to deliver zero-breach payroll at...

From Back Office to Business Driver: Rethinking Payroll & HR with Tatjana Domovits
Date 24 Jul 2025 Payroll & Benefits

Is your payroll platform helping you lead—or making you lag? In this reflective conversation, Tatjana Domovits, Group CEO of Mercans, unpacks the evolving role of payroll...

From SaaS Limits to Developer Control: Brian Bell on the Future of Identity
Date 22 Jul 2025 Identity & Access Management

What if your identity solution actually worked the way your developers do — fast, flexible, and fully in your control? In this conversation, Brian Bell, CEO...

AI for Healthcare: Jon Jaroska on Smarter Claim Denial Fixes
Date 17 Jul 2025 Machine Learning

Denied claims don’t just cost money; they drain time, trust, and resources. But what if AI could turn the tide before the damage is done? In...

Keith Belanger on How to Build Trusted Data Products for Enterprise Teams
Date 15 Jul 2025 DataOps

What do you choose — speed or control — when building enterprise data products? Is it possible to have both? In this conversation, Keith Belanger, Field...

Pradyut Hande on Why AR Automation Is Central to Financial Workflow Efficiency
Date 09 Jul 2025 Automation

If your Accounts Receivable (AR) function is still handled manually, your financial workflows might be suffering more than you realize. In this conversation, Pradyut Hande, Associate...

Vassil Momtchev on Why Knowledge Graphs Are Critical to Building Context-Rich Enterprise AI
Date 12 Jun 2025 Enterprise AI

If your enterprise data is disparate and incomplete, no matter how big your AI investments are, you can't escape LLM hallucinations. In this conversation, Vassil Momtchev,...

Winning Digital Commerce with Smarter Product Experiences | Julie Marobella, CPO at Salsify
Date 03 Jun 2025 Customer Experience

AI is rewriting the rules of digital commerce—how people browse, buy, and engage. What does it take for your brand to stand out and move...

Building Customizable SaaS-Native CIAM Solutions | Amir Jaron, VP R&D at Frontegg
Date 27 May 2025 Identity & Access Management

Does developing enterprise-grade CIAM solutions need to be an uphill battle? Also, how do you ensure security, scalability and usability? In this exclusive interview, Amir Jaron,...