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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
642 episodes
How Tugger Turns Scattered Business Systems Into Trusted AI Answers
Your AI assistant is only as smart as the mess behind your dashboards. When business data lives across CRM, accounting, HR, and job systems, “connect ChatGPT to our data” quickly turns into rate limits, broken joins, confusing IDs, and answers ...
Securing Agentic AI Identities
AI agents are starting to do real work inside real companies and they often do it by acting as us. That’s exciting, and it’s also a security wake-up call. We sit down with Matthew Immler Regional CSO, Americas at Okta, to unpack why identity se...
How To Cut Costs And Errors With A Single Source Of Medical Truth
Healthcare keeps getting more expensive, yet most of us feel like we’re doing more work just to get the same care: more portals, more forms, more phone calls, and more confusing lab results. We sit down with Greg Brady the founder and CEO of Co...
From Data Quality To Autonomous Networks In Telecom
AI is finally forcing a scoreboard moment in telecom: some organizations are seeing massive productivity gains, while others are stuck between fear of missing out and fear of getting it wrong. From the floor at IBM Think in Boston, we sit down ...
AI Security Only Works When It Matches Business Goals
AI didn’t just change how enterprises innovate, it changed how they get breached. One month you’re racing to deploy new copilots and agentic workflows; the next you’re asking a harder question: did we build any of this to match our risk posture...
Why The Browser Became The Modern Office And How To Secure It
Your browser is no longer a passive window to the internet. It’s becoming a worker with autonomy and that single shift changes everything about cybersecurity, identity, and data protection.We sit down with Anupam Upadhyaya SVP, Products...
6G Beyond The Pipe
6G is closer than most people think, and the biggest surprise is that the headline might not be “faster.” We sit down with Mats Karlsson from Ericsson to talk about the move toward physical AI, where networks help systems sense and ...
How A Modern CMO Connects Brand To Revenue
Marketing isn’t “soft” when you can tie it to the numbers that run the business. Evan sits down with Meghan Keough, a modern, business-first CMO with decades in enterprise tech, to unpack how marketing leaders can operate at the intersection of...
Smart Pool Robots
Pool season is back and so is the annual question: why does keeping water clean still feel so manual? We sit down with Patrick from Beatbot to talk about what changes when a robotic pool cleaner stops being a “dumb” tethered machine and becomes...
rApps for Mobile Networks Autonomy
Autonomy in telecom sounds like a pure technology race until you look at where operators actually get stuck. It turns out the models aren't the bottleneck. The humans around them are.We're joined by @Ibrahim Eldeftar, who leads...
Identity Security After RSAC 2026
Identity is where the fight is moving fastest, and RSAC 2026 proved it. Fresh off the show floor, we sit down with Jim Taylor, President, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at RSA Security, to break down what’s truly changing in identity securi...
Building An Agentic Operating System For Cybersecurity And Beyond
Agentic AI is no longer a side experiment running in a lab. It’s starting to look like the next operating layer inside the enterprise, and that raises a hard question: do you want a scattered collection of point tools, or a standardized agentic...
Device Management Without The Drama
AI is everywhere in IT operations right now, but most sysadmins don’t need more buzzwords. We need fewer tickets, cleaner patching, faster deployments, and a clear view of what’s happening across every device. That’s why we sat down with Jaren ...
From Martech Stacks To AI Ecosystems For Modern Marketing
The martech stack used to feel complicated. Then generative AI showed up and turned “complicated” into “constantly changing.” We sit down with Scott Brinker, the analyst behind ChiefMartec, to unpack what’s really happening as marketing teams m...
From Manual Alert Triage To Autonomous Security Operations
Manual SOC work is collapsing under its own weight. After RSAC, we sit down with Dave Mcginnis, who leads IBM Consulting’s threat management practice, to get brutally practical about what “autonomous security operations” really means when you s...
AI For The Trades
Trade businesses keep our world running, but most of them operate on painfully thin margins. We talk with Fred Voccola CEO from Simpro Group about what happens when you bring practical AI to the job site and the back office, not as hype, but as...
Enterprise Voice AI That Actually Works
Pressing zero to reach a human should not be the default plan. We talk with Fred Fontes CEO from Acclaim about what’s finally making enterprise voice-first AI work in the real world, especially inside regulated industries like banking and finan...
How The We Love Tech Awards Spot Real Innovation
AI is making a weird problem even worse: it’s getting harder to tell what’s authentic. That’s why we sat down with Russ from Business Intelligence Group to talk about the We Love Tech Awards ( https://welovetechawards.com/) and what real, trans...
Autonomous Networks Now
AI hype is everywhere at Mobile World Congress, so we went looking for something rarer: real operational proof. From the Ericsson booth in Barcelona, we sit down with Ibrahim Eldeftar, who leads Cognitive Network Solutions product and portfolio...
How Brevo Builds Customer Loyalty With Conversational CRM
CRM is about to feel less like a database and more like a conversation. We sit down with Brevo to unpack how a fast-growing customer engagement platform thinks about the next era of CRM, where large language models change the “entry point” for ...
Agentic Voice AI For Business
The fastest way to understand agentic AI is to stop thinking about chatbots and start thinking about outcomes. From Enterprise Connect, we sit down with RingCentral’s John Finch to talk about agentic voice AI that can handle real customer work ...
How Verified Caller Identity Gets Answered
Your phone rings. The screen shows an unknown number or “spam likely.” Do you pick up, or do you protect yourself and ignore it? That split-second decision has become the default for millions of people, and it’s crushing legitimate communicatio...
Agentic AI For Customer Service
Agentic AI sounds like magic until you have to ship it inside a real enterprise contact center where every mistake becomes a compliance problem and every bad interaction hits customer trust. From Enterprise Connect, we sit down with Dialpad to ...
How Samsung SDS Makes Mobile Devices Work For Hospitals;
A check-in tablet passes from one patient to the next, and a single leftover photo of an ID or an auto-filled keyboard suggestion becomes a PHI nightmare. From the Samsung booth at HIMSS, we sit down with Ray to unpack how Samsung SDS approache...