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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
678 episodes
What Happens To A Telco When Networks Get Autonomous
AI is forcing a hard reset in telecom, and it’s not just about models or GPUs. The real shockwave hits the CIO’s mandate: reinvent IT fast enough to enable enterprise AI while still keeping the lights on across sprawling legacy stacks. We sit d...
What Tech Expo 26 Reveals About The Future Of Broadband
Speed used to be the headline for broadband. Now the real question is tougher: did your internet actually feel reliable all day, on every device, in every room? We talk with Janelle Morse from SCTE, an industry insider helping shape Tech Expo 2...
Why 100G Networking Is Suddenly A Day To Day Enterprise Problem
100G Ethernet quietly crossed a line from “carrier-only” to “normal enterprise,” and the operational fallout is real: bigger links mean bigger outages, higher stakes, and far less room for sloppy assumptions. We sit down with NetAlly CEO Jeff O...
How Enterprise AI Agents Break Budgets And How To Fix It
Your AI budget isn’t blowing up because someone asked too many questions. It’s blowing up because AI agents turn one request into a chain reaction of inference calls, and the infrastructure underneath can’t deliver fast tokens efficiently at sc...
How Enterprise Tech Awards Help Buyers Find Real Innovation
Enterprise tech is having a weird moment: innovation is real, but so is the noise. AI shows up in every pitch, “leading” is used in every sentence, and buyers who actually have budgets and deadlines are stuck asking the same question: what’s ge...
How To Secure Enterprise AI Agents With VMware Tanzu
Frontier AI is changing the rules of security, and enterprises feel it first. From the floor at VMware Explore, we sit down with Purnima PadmanabhanVice President and General Manager, Tanzu Division, to unpack what customers are asking for ...
How Broadcom And VMware Protect Dynamic AI Workloads
Agentic AI is showing up everywhere, and it is not waiting for your security program to catch up. From the VMware Explore floor, we talk with Umesh Mahajan, General Manager for Broadcom’s Application Networking and Security Division, about what...
Trustworthy AI For High Stakes Decisions
AI is making decisions that shape real lives, yet most people cannot see how those decisions get made. We sit down with Scott Zoldi, Chief Analytics Officer at FICO, to unpack what “trustworthy AI” actually requires when the stakes include frau...
How NVIDIA Turns Computing Into A New Lab Partner
Drug discovery is one of the hardest engineering problems on Earth, except it has not always been treated like engineering. Costs can hover around $2 billion per successful drug, timelines can run 10+ years, and too many patients still wait wit...
How To Store And Serve AI Data At Scale
Everyone is obsessed with bigger models and faster GPUs, but the part that decides whether AI actually works in the real world is the data behind it. We talk with Paul Speciale CMO at Scality, about what happens when enterprises try to store, p...
How Pega Blueprint Changes Who Builds Software
AI is cranking out more code than ever, but that doesn’t mean teams are shipping the right outcomes. From PegaWorld, I sat down with Steph Lewis, Senior Director of Community Developer Programs at Pega Systems, to unpack what’s actually changin...
Why CRM Still Fails Sellers And How AI Fixes It
Your CRM knows a lot about your customers, so why does it still feel like a place you go to do homework? We talk with SugarAI CEO David Roberts about the hard truth many sellers live every week: CRM has mostly evolved into a management tool, no...
When AI Learns Your Workflow Who Wins The Market
Your AI demo is easy. Shipping AI inside a regulated insurance workflow is the hard part and that’s where the real advantage gets built. We sit down with Doug Marquis, CTO at ZyWave, to get specific about what’s changing in insurance technology...
Stop Drowning In Security Alerts
AI isn’t just changing cybersecurity tools, it’s changing the pace of the entire fight. When attackers can scale campaigns with automation and operate at machine speed, the old rhythm of annual pen tests and quarterly reviews stops making sense...
HIPAA-Ready AI Health Tech
AI is rewriting the rules of healthcare software development, but building a secure scalable healthcare platform still comes down to fundamentals: clear requirements, strong ownership, and serious engineering discipline around HIPAA compliance ...
Why AI Era Security Needs Hardware Keys
Phishing used to be a numbers game. With AI, it’s becoming a personalization game and that’s exactly why “good enough” login security is quietly turning into a liability. We sit down with Dawn Manley, PhD, SVP, Product Management of Yubico to t...
Real Leadership Development Starts With A Deep Inventory Of Self
The leadership playbook a lot of us grew up with is starting to fail in the moments that matter most: high pressure decisions, fast growth, founder stress, and team conflict that can’t be solved with a new script. We sit down with Peter Carnoch...
How Tech CMOs Are Embedding AI Across The Marketing Stack
AI isn’t a side project for marketing anymore. It’s becoming the way work gets done, and that shift is happening faster than most teams can measure, govern, or even fully see. We sit down with Ed from Callan Consulting to unpack what he’s heari...
The AI Factory Blueprint
AI is everywhere on stage, but production AI is won in the details. From HPE Discover, we sit down with Jason Schradel, Director of Enterprise Platforms at NVIDIA, to unpack what it really takes to build an “AI factory” that an enterprise can d...
Enterprise 5G That Actually Works
A hospital breach can turn the network “dirty” in minutes. A fiber cut can take a grocery store offline at the worst possible time. And almost every CIO has said some version of the same thing: “I love the technology, help me find the money.” T...
How GTT Rebuilt Global Security For The AI Era
The fastest attackers don’t “hack” like they used to, they drift through systems, blend into normal behavior, and move at machine speed. That reality forces a hard question: if you cannot defend the perimeter anymore, what should a modern secur...
When AI Agents Go Off The Rails
A two-week simulation was all it took for “autonomous AI agents with rules” to reveal how fragile our current guardrails really are. We sit down with Satya Nitta from Emergence AI, an autonomous AI lab working at the intersection of neural netw...
The Real Cost Of Enterprise AI
AI isn’t magic, and it definitely isn’t free. We sit down with Ken from Pega Systems to get brutally practical about the economics of enterprise AI: why token costs are a symptom, why infrastructure spend is so high, and how “murky ROI” happens...