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Tech Transformation with Evan Kirstel: A podcast exploring the latest trends and innovations in the tech industry, and how businesses can leverage them for growth, diving into the world of B2B, discussing strategies, trends, and sharing insights from industry leaders!
With over three decades in telecom and IT, I've mastered the art of transforming social media into a dynamic platform for audience engagement, community building, and establishing thought leadership. My approach isn't about personal brand promotion but about delivering educational and informative content to cultivate a sustainable, long-term business presence. I am the leading content creator in areas like Enterprise AI, UCaaS, CPaaS, CCaaS, Cloud, Telecom, 5G and more!
Episodes
588 episodes
Turning IT From Cost Center To Growth Engine
Your next hire shouldn’t spend their first week waiting on a laptop while projects sit in limbo. In this episode, we pull back the curtain on the $5B device lifecycle management market and explore how modern IT teams are shipping fully prov...
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19:07
How NinjaOne Uses Data And Human-In-The-Loop Automation To Fix Endpoint Headaches
Patch Tuesday doesn’t just deliver updates. It delivers pressure. Suddenly, you’re staring at a mountain of fixes, racing to decide what ships now, what waits, and how to keep a single reboot from blowing up your entire week. In our latest conv...
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24:36
Inside Dassault’s 3D Experience Lab: How Startups Build, Scale, And Ship
When the CES show floor goes dark and the crowds thin out, the real conversations begin.We sat down with Dassault Systèmes’ Fred Vacher and Abhishek Bali to explore how early-stage startups turn flashy demos into certified, manufacturab...
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45:47
From Skepticism To Science: How Photobiomodulation Reduces Pain, Heals Tissue, And Boosts Performance
What if pain relief, faster recovery, and better sleep were a matter of getting the right light to the right place with the right dose? We sit down with Tom Kerber, engineer-turned-inventor and founder of SunPowerLED, alongside Dr. Hayman Buwan...
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34:33
Inside The Business Of Recognition And Why Credibility Wins
Trophies are easy to buy; credibility is not. We sit down with Russ Fordyce, Chief Recognition Officer at Business Intelligence Group, to unpack how modern awards can be rigorous, transparent, and genuinely valuable for marketers under pressure...
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15:27
Design, Disruption, And The Next Wave
Most companies call it innovation when they add a feature. Real disruption is when you build the thing that makes the old one irrelevant.That’s where this conversation starts. JJ de la Torre, founder and CEO of **Raven**, joins us to ta...
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20:13
Building Resilient Energy Networks With Decentralized IoT
What if every meter in a city became a tiny base station? That simple shift unlocks coverage where towers fail, slashes operating costs, and floods the grid with the data it needs to stay resilient under the weight of electrification. We sit do...
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26:10
Inside The We Love Tech Awards: Real Innovation, Real Impact
CES is about to flood every feed with AI demos and wall-sized screens, but the real breakthroughs are quieter: teams turning bold ideas into measurable results. We sat down to unpack how the We Love Tech Awards celebrate that kind of progress—t...
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14:51
From Guesswork To Answers: How People.ai Transforms Sales
Forecast calls shouldn’t feel like theater. We sat down with People got ai’s new CEO Jason Ambrose to unpack how turning raw activity—emails, meetings, call transcripts—into crisp answers can transform forecasting, end CRM fatigue, and give lea...
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20:50
How Gifting Pink Socks Sparked A Culture Of Human Connection Across Healthcare And Beyond
A bright pair of pink socks walked into HIMSS and walked out as a global symbol of connection. We sit down with Nick Adkins to unpack how a playful gesture turned into 300,000 gifts, a nonprofit rooted in kindness, and a book that invites all o...
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31:09
Build Fast, Govern Faster: The Real Path To Agentic Success
What if the secret to scaling AI agents has nothing to do with better prompts and everything to do with smarter integration? We sit down with Rich Waldron Co-founder & CEO of Tray dot ai to unpack how an integration-first architecture ...
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16:30
CES 2026: Where AI Meets Reality
Vegas turns into a living blueprint for the future as we sit down with CTA’s Gary Shapiro and best-selling author Jim Harris to unpack why CES 2026 is more than a showcase—it’s where strategy gets decided. We dig into how AI has moved from head...
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22:02
How AI Transcription Is Rewriting Journalism And Media Workflows
A journalist screams, “I’m wasting four hours a day transcribing,” and a product is born. We sit down with Lasse Finderup, CEO of Good Tape to unpack how a newsroom pain point turned into a privacy-first platform used by millions—and why saying...
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18:38
Beyond Copilots: Agents That Do The Work
Copilots can suggest the next click, but they rarely deliver the finished job. We dive into a different path: enterprise AI agents that integrate with your systems, understand your business rules, and execute end-to-end workflows with governanc...
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18:17
Inside AMD’s AI Strategy From Edge To Data Center
Big leaps in AI rarely come from one breakthrough. They emerge when hardware design, open software, and real workloads click into place. That’s the story we unpack with AMD’s Ramine Roane: how an open, developer-first approach combined with hig...
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30:18
Rethinking Tech Hiring With AI
A billion-dollar talent marketplace doesn’t happen by accident—it happens when access, scale, and experience come together. We sit down with Michael Morris the head of Torc at Randstad Digital to unpack how a once-independent platform now...
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21:15
Your PBX Called; It Wants A Retirement Package
What if your hotel could keep checking guests in even when the primary PMS goes down? We sit with Jason from SNET Communications to unpack how a true all‑in‑one stack—networks, SD‑WAN, security, UCaaS, CCaaS, and a native PMS—eliminates finger‑...
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21:04
From Cameras To AI: The SD Association’s Next Leap
Most people think of SD cards as camera accessories. We pull back the curtain with the SD Association to show how SD Express turns that tiny card into an SSD-class powerhouse for creators, PCs, and AI at the edge—without losing the flexibility ...
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15:41
Why Voice Still Reigns In Customer Experience As AI Scales
Want a clear view of where global voice is headed and how AI changes the math? We sit down with Barbara Dondiego CEO at Avoxi to unpack the shift from legacy telephony to a modern cloud voice backbone that unifies numbers, routes across multipl...
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18:55
From Hyperscalers To Neo Clouds: Rethinking Enterprise Networks For AI
Forget the old playbook of carrier hotels and cross-connects. We sit down with Dave Ward, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Lumen, to map the real shift to Cloud 2.0—an AI-driven rearchitecture of how data moves, where compute lives, and ...
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24:31
From IVR To Orchestration: Building AI-First Customer Journeys
If you could see customer issues before they happen, would you still measure success by hold time? We dive into how CX is transforming from a reactive cost center to a proactive, revenue-positive engine—and why the shift depends on a new orches...
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33:34
What Happens When Critical Infrastructure Is One Click From Disaster
What if you could see the internet the way attackers do—before the headlines, before the breach, before the phish hits your inbox? We sit down with Aidan Holland, senior security researcher at Censys, to unpack how daily global scans reveal the...
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13:44
Inside NetApp’s Intelligent Data Infrastructure For AI-Ready Enterprises
What happens when only 30% of your data fuels decisions and the rest sits idle? We dig into the shift from traditional storage to intelligent data infrastructure and reveal how that change powers AI, real-time insights, and rock-solid resilienc...
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19:42
How TCS Turned A Company-Wide Hackathon Into An AI Engine
What happens when a global tech leader turns its entire company into an AI lab? Our conversation with TCS’s CIO Janardhan Santhanam opens the door on a culture-first transformation powered by the world’s largest AI hackathon—half a million idea...
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20:20
Why Mobile Operators Hold The Keys To Fraud-Proof Sign‑Ins
Stop juggling one-time codes and clunky authenticator apps. We sit down with Eddie DeCurtis, CEO and co-founder of Shush, to unpack how carriers can quietly verify users in milliseconds using standards-driven, privacy-guarded data. Think number...
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