The Catalyst by Softchoice
A documentary-style podcast about how IT leaders tackle high-stakes transformations.
Each episode weaves together real voices, expert insights, and compelling narratives that reveal universal challenges and practical wisdom.
Season 7: "Small Teams, Big Dreams" explores the human stories behind IT transformations—from AI adoption experiments to burnout crises, from toxic job markets to infrastructure decisions that matter. These aren't polished case studies. These are authentic accounts from IT professionals navigating the same impossible gaps between expectations and resources that you face every day.
From Softchoice, a World Wide Technology company.
Podcasting since 2020 • 104 episodes
The Catalyst by Softchoice
Latest Episodes
The Agentic AI Episode: What IT Leaders Need to Know
Every vendor in the industry is slapping the word "agentic" on their roadmap. But, what is agentic AI, really? And should IT leaders care?In this episode, we bring together three voices with very different answers: a skeptic who says it'...
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Season 7
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Episode 10
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28:16
The Incident Response Episode: What Really Happens When Ransomware Hits
When David Koopmans' IT manager started sending strange messages to employees, David knew something was wrong. By then, threat actors had been inside his network for 30 days.What followed was a ransomware nightmare that cost $14 million,...
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Season 7
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Episode 9
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24:42
The Multi-Cloud Mandate: How Agentic AI Became the Unexpected Answer
Multi-cloud used to be a dirty word — something that happened to you through mergers, shadow IT, or teams gone rogue with corporate cards. But the walls came down, the standards converged, and best-of-breed finally seemed within reach. Then AI ...
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Season 7
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Episode 8
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26:49
The Save Money Episode: Foundation Over Flash
Everyone's chasing AI. Meanwhile, most organizations are wasting 25-30% of their software budget on tools nobody uses.In this episode, we meet James Malek, Senior VP of IT Infrastructure at Lexitas, who inherited chaos—45 acquisitions in...
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Season 7
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Episode 7
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20:56
The School’s Broken Episode: What AI Did to Education—And Who's Fixing It
AI is transforming education—but not evenly, and not easily.In this episode of The Catalyst, we step inside classrooms, school boards, and districts, navigating the AI revolution with tight budgets, limited staff, and high stakes for stu...
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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27:43