TechUnhinged

In this episode of TechUnhinged , host Ashar Samdani sits down with Sriram Ramanathan , Group CTO at XBP Global , a workflow automation company operating in 20 countries. Sriram contends that software companies selling licenses are already in trouble, and only those selling outcomes survive. He explains why the gap between agentic AI vs RPA is the difference between a flow that breaks when a butto...

In this episode of TechUnhinged , host Rabia Javeed sits down with Risto Uuk , Head of European Policy and Research at the Future of Life Institute , who has spent five years on the Act's general-purpose AI rules. Risto argues that the rules for the biggest models are not the weak point; the open question is whether anyone will enforce them. He explains why training compute is a proxy for dang...

In this episode of TechUnhinged , host Rabia Javeed sits down with Charath Ranganathan , Chief Technology Officer at CoreStory , which builds tools that pull specifications out of legacy codebases. Charath argues that AI has replaced coding and has not affected the discipline of engineering, and that conflating the two is the most misleading assumption enterprises bring into an AI rollout. He expl...

In this episode of TechUnhinged, host Rabia Javeed sits down with Randeep S. Bhatia, the ex-CTO at Splash, which runs the largest music stage on Roblox. Randeep argues that AI pilots do not stall because the technology falls short; they stall because nobody gave them a metric and an end date, so they harden into permanent demos. He explains why a pilot with no date is a decision nobody admits to m...

In this episode of TechUnhinged , host Rabia Javeed sits down with Wes Bush , founder and CEO of ProductLed , who, by his own count, has advised more than 400 SaaS companies. Wes argues that AI spending does not fail because of the technology; it fails because most companies cannot say where their product creates value, so the money funds workflows and pricing that are never aligned with that valu...

In this episode of TechUnhinged , host Rabia Javeed sits down with Bob Berbeco , Chief Information Officer at Mahaska Health , a rural hospital in Iowa, and former informatics leader at Indiana University Health . Bob argues that AI strategies do not die because the technology fails, they die because nobody mapped the risk first. He explains why every modernization and AI decision at his organizat...

In this episode of TechUnhinged , host Rabia Javeed sits down with Tia Hopkins , founder of CTRL+EXEC and former Chief Cyber Resilience Officer & Field CTO at eSentire , where she spent nine years rising from solutions engineer to the executive team. Tia argues AI does not change what cyber resilience means, only how organizations build it: every AI agent should earn expanded responsibility th...

In this episode of TechUnhinged , host Rabia Javeed sits down with Lydia, Chief Information Officer at Appreciation Financial , co-founder of Genie AI , and founder of the People's Accords, with over eight years in data and AI strategy across financial services. The conversation digs into the modernization paradox, where 92% of leaders call AI critical yet fewer than a quarter have systems rea...

In this episode of TechUnhinged , host Rabia Javeed sits down with Chris Colinsky , CTO and Principal AI Engineer at Howl , which has been building for the web since 2003 and is the creator of the open-source OpenArmature framework for LLM-powered pipelines. Chris cuts through the AI hype, arguing that large language models are pattern matching at scale, probabilistic, confidently wrong, and only...

In this episode of TechUnhinged , Joel Grossman , CIO of IMG Academy and a 25-year veteran of technology leadership at Legacy.com, iProspect, and Leapfrog Online, explores what happens when frontier AI meets a 20-year-old recruiting platform and a 500-acre training campus. He argues that AI has erased the multi-year data-warehousing work once needed to make it useful, compressing it into weeks. Fu...

Barbara Pender has spent 25 years watching organizations bolt new technology onto old problems and call it transformation. In this episode of TechUnhinged , in conversation with Rabia Javeed , she draws a parallel between how social media scaled without guardrails and where AI is headed, arguing the stakes this time are considerably higher. Most companies are fixing the wrong thing, adding new too...

Christopher Penn has spent over a decade watching marketers chase tools instead of outcomes, and his diagnosis is uncomfortable. On this episode of TechUnhinged , in conversation with Rabia Javeed , he explains how most social media strategies bleed money quietly because nobody measures soft costs like human hours. Organic reach is collapsing, SaaS products are becoming commodities that any skille...

In this episode of TechUnhinged , Luis Suarez , CTO of H.I.G. Capital , unpacks why AI is forcing tech debt onto the board agenda. Luis explains how AI instantly exposes legacy systems and unready data, noting that tech debt remediation takes four to five times as much effort as modern integrations, and why isolated island systems are a liability in today's interconnected ecosystems. He shares...

In this episode of TechUnhinged , Paul Bockelman, CTO of Qanapi and a 25-year veteran of AWS and Google's defense/intelligence cloud teams, explores the security challenges faced by modern organizations. He warns that AI adoption is outpacing data protection, and employees are bleeding sensitive data into public LLMs without guardrails. Further, Paul also sounds the alarm about post-quantum cr...

TechUnhinged brings you the most fascinating episode as we host Christian Stepien , founder of Experlogix and CTO at the National UFO Reporting Center , reveals what 30 years of tracking the unexplained alongside a corporate career actually looks like. What shapes his conviction is not a personal sighting because he has never had one, but decades of reports from ordinary people whose worldview cha...

In this episode of TechUnhinged, Florian Heinrichs, Partner at The Visible Authority, co-founder of Client Friendly, sheds light on how AI is reshaping consulting, but maybe not in the ways the headlines suggest. Florian has spent 15 years helping mid-size consulting firms figure out who they actually are and what they genuinely solve. During the conversation, he walks through why the firms quietl...

On this episode of TechUnhinged, Ashar sits down with cybersecurity strategist Matthew Rosenquist, a Clutch Top Tech Influencer, to deconstruct the real AI security risks facing modern enterprises. Matthew argues that LLMs themselves aren't the threat, but the broad permissions we hand them are. His advice to leaders is to stop chasing shiny tools and get back to fundamentals like controlling...

On this episode of TechUnhinged, Angelica Rotundo, a senior health and safety leader at OEC Energy and Infrastructure, reveals the reality of safety leadership in modern times. What shapes her belief is a family story about her great-uncle losing an arm in a factory accident. She focuses on safety as a means to protect lives, not just to check the boxes. She sees legacy in the injuries that never...

In this episode of TechUnhinged, we are all set to explore whether AI is a threat to profitability or the greatest opportunity of our time. With David Reid, Chief Technology and Marketing Officer at NOV, joining us, this episode dissects the conventional wisdom that AI is primarily a cost or labor problem, reframing it instead as a design and mindset challenge. Drawing upon his extensive experienc...

In this episode, we explore why the AI boom is headed toward a collision with two systems it cannot fix on its own, the power grid and intellectual property. Stan McClellan joins TechUnhinged to discuss how energy demand and data ownership are the two blind spots at the center of the AI revolution and why most conversations about AI completely miss both.  The conversation covers agentic AI as a po...

In this episode, we explore why cloud computing often fails to deliver its expected value for small and mid-sized businesses. Joseph Damian joins TechUnhinged to discuss how cloud decisions are ultimately about business priorities, cost, control, accountability, and risk; rather than technology alone. With decades of experience in enterprise infrastructure, he explains why many organizations remai...

In this episode, we explore how financial discipline is reshaping the foundations of modern technology companies. Joffrey Ezerzer joins TechUnhinged to discuss why the industry is shifting from growth-at-all-costs to capital efficiency as a defining competitive advantage. As market conditions tightened, many organizations discovered that scale without financial clarity creates fragility rather tha...

Saliha Akram joins Tech Unhinged to unpack what thoughtful technology really means. From systems thinking to real-world scalability, this episode explores how strong foundations and human context shape tech that actually lasts.

Why do so many AI projects fail after the demo? Patrick Jean joins Tech Unhinged to explain the hidden challenges of AI integration, from messy data to disconnected systems and why strong foundations matter more than intelligence alone.

Medtech expert Sabeen Shaikh joins us to reveal what regulated medical AI is actually doing today, what’s working, and what’s all talk. She shares insights from her time collaborating with the US Air Force , explains why hospitals are slow to trust automation, and unpacks the real barriers holding AI back in clinical settings. We explore early Alzheimer’s detection tech, IVF success prediction, an...