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The Completion Trap: Why Completion Metrics Are Stalling AI Rollouts
In this episode of UC Today, host Kristian McCann sits down with Nick Gonios, VP of Learning Transformation and Company Ambassador at TalentLMS, to explore one of the biggest hidden challenges in corporate learning: the Completion Trap.
Hiring Fraud: A CPO's Experience Interviewing a Deep Fake—and Lessons for Businesses
In this episode of UC Today, host Kristian McCann sits down with Magen Gicinto, Chief People Officer at Nisos, to discuss one of the fastest-growing threats facing technology companies: fraudulent job applicants linked to nation-state operation...
Hybrid Work, AI Workplace: Why Collaboration Infrastructure Is the Missing Link - Shure
In this UC Today interview, host Kristian McCann sits down with Irwin Lazar, President and Principal Analyst at Metrigy, and Josh Blalock, Global Director of Alliances & Engagement at Shure, to unpack a growing issue in enterp...
The Invisible Workplace: What Meeting Room Behaviour Reveals About Hybrid Work - VOSS
In this UC Today interview, Marcus Law speaks with Bill Dellara, Chief Product Officer at VOSS, about why meeting room analytics has become a critical issue for IT, workplace, and real estate leaders navigating hybrid work.Bill ex...
The Phone Call Is the Easy Part: Governing Cloud Voice in a Multi-Modal World - Theta Lake
In this UC Today interview, Marcus Law speaks with Matthew Carey, Director of Product Management at Theta Lake, about why cloud voice migration is not just an IT modernization project. As organizations move away from legacy on-premises p...
InfoComm 2026: Q-SYS Exposes the Biggest Meeting Room Trap
In this InfoComm 2026 interview, Marcus Law sits down with Josh Arnold, Director of Collaboration Product Strategy at Q-SYS, to uncover why IT and facilities leaders must rethink their collaboration spaces.With the launch o...
From Strategy to Reality: Closing the Enterprise AI Execution Gap
Why are so many organisations still stuck in AI pilot purgatory – and what does it actually take to move from experimentation to real operational impact?Christopher Carey sits down with Alex Ayers, Sales Director at Gamma, ...
The Enterprise AI Wake-Up Call: What's Driving Executive Skepticism?
In this episode of UC Today, host Kristian McCann sits down with Laura Maffucci, Head of HR at G-P, to explore one of the biggest questions facing enterprise leaders today: is AI delivering on its promises, or are organizations beginning to que...
Renting Tech Talent: Why Businesses Are Turning to Interim Experts
In this episode of UC Today, host Kristian McCann sits down with Ivan Jackson, President of Interim Technology at Korn Ferry, to explore why traditional hiring models are struggling to keep pace with today's rapidly evolving technology landscap...
Beyond Adoption — What Meaningful AI Engagement Actually Looks Like
In this roundtable, Kristian McCann brings together a panel of experts to unpack one of the biggest AI challenges in business today: why usage numbers are rising, but real productivity gains are still lagging. The conversation explores the gap ...
SMS OTP Is Failing – Here’s What Comes Next, According to Vonage and AT&T
In this UC Today interview, host Kristian McCann sits down with Kunal Shukla, GM and Head of Network APIs at Vonage, and Chung H. Lee, AVP of Product Innovation at AT&T Business, to unpack why traditional authentication methods are breaking...
The Hidden Risks of Hybrid Work for UC Security
In this UC Today interview, host Kristian McCann speaks with Darren Anstee, Chief Technology Officer for Security at NetScout, about one of the most urgent questions facing IT leaders today: how do you keep business communication running when a...
The New Mobile Edge: Balancing Native UC Mobility with Next-Gen Voice Security
Kristian McCann is joined by William Rubio, Chief Revenue Officer at CallTower, and Craig Durr, Chief Analyst and Founder of The Collab Collective, to explore why traditional mobile UC models are struggling to keep pace wit...
Why Employee Wellbeing Should Start with Data Visibility, Not Perks
In this UC Today interview, host Kristian McCann speaks with Callum Pennington, CEO & Co-Founder of HBHR, to unpack a growing issue facing modern organizations: employee wellbeing that’s treated as a bolt-on rather than a business-critical ...
Frontline-First Communications: Connecting the Workforce Where It Matters Most - Mitel
In this interview, Mitel CTO Luiz Domingos discusses why frontline-first, voice-first communications are becoming essential operational infrastructure — and why organisations can no longer afford to connect their entire workforce with th...
Cisco TMS Sunset: Why the Obvious Next Step Isn’t Always "the Cloud"
Cisco TMS is approaching end of life, and organizations across the enterprise collaboration landscape are now facing major decisions about the future of their video infrastructure.In this episode of UC Today, Kristian McCann speaks with...
Picking a Winner: Why Formula E Selected HiBob's HCM Platform
In this UC Today conversation, host Kristian McCann speaks with Hayley Mann, Chief People Officer at Formula E, about why the all-electric racing series picked HiBob with its people operations.Formula E is not just managing people; it i...
AI-Driven SOCs: What PwC Is Seeing and What Security Leaders Should Do
AI is reshaping the security operations center (SOC), shifting it from a manual, reactive function into a faster, intelligence-driven environment. For organizations dealing with alert fatigue and limited analyst capacity, AI is becoming a pract...
Data Security, AI Compliance: The Two Blind Spots Your Compliance Solution Can't Ignore - Smarsh
In this session of UC Today, host Kristian McCann sits down with Simon Peters, Director of Channel Sales at Smarsh, to unpack one of the most pressing questions facing regulated industries in 2026: Is your compliance solution really secu...
Before the Breach: Translating Cyber Risk So It Stays on the C-Suite Agenda
In this episode of UC Today, host Kristian McCann sits down with Bill Dunnion, Chief Information Security Officer at Mitel, to unpack one of the most persistent challenges in enterprise security: getting cybersecurity onto the C-suite agenda be...
Security & Compliance | Securing the Enterprise in the Age of AI Agents
Agentic AI is moving from a promising productivity tool to a security problem that enterprise leaders can no longer ignore. In the conversation below, Kristian speaks with Irina Tsukerman, President at Scarab Rising; Shlomi Beer, Co-Founder ...
Big UC Update 2026: VOSS
Host Kieran Devlin (UC Today) sits down with Mike Frayne, CEO at Voss, for the 2026 Big UC Update. They unpack what’s changed over the last 12 months—from AI adoption to platform consolidation—and why digital workplace management is beco...
Unseen Exits: Tracking Data Leakage in the Age of UC Collaboration
In this interview, UC Today's Kristian McCann sits down with Bob Pruett, Senior Solutions Architect at Myriad360, to tackle one of the most underappreciated security risks in modern business: data leakage through everyday collaboration tools. M...
Q-SYS + Microsoft: Why Your Teams Rooms Investment Is Only Half the Story
Most enterprises have deployed Microsoft Teams Rooms and the core meeting experience is working. But beyond the meeting room sits a much larger opportunity, lobbies, huddle spaces, event venues, open collaboration areas, and most organisations ...
Why Operating Models – not Tech – Are Blocking Digital Transformation
In this UC Today interview, host Kieran Devlin speaks with Volker Pfirsching, Partner and Head of Innovation Management (Europe) at Arthur D. Little. Together, they unpack a hard truth many CIOs are now confronting: the biggest barrier to digit...