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In this Big UC Update interview for UC Today, Marcus Law speaks with Dan Nadir, Chief Product Officer at Theta Lake, about how enterprises are rethinking compliance, security, and archiving for modern communications. Dan explains how Theta Lake helps regulated organizations capture, archive, and supervise communications across collaboration platforms, including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, RingCe...

In this episode of UC Today, Kristian McCann sits down with Vishnu Shankar, Chief Data Officer at Draup, to explore why hiring, workforce planning, and skills strategy have moved beyond HR and into the CFO's office.  As AI agents, automation, and evolving regulations transform the workplace, organizations can no longer think about recruitment as simply filling vacancies. Every hiring decision...

In this episode of UC Today, host Kristian McCann sits down with Nick Gonios, VP of Learning Transformation and Company Ambassador at TalentLMS, to explore one of the biggest hidden challenges in corporate learning: the Completion Trap.  As AI rapidly transforms the workplace and organizations race to reskill their workforces, traditional learning metrics are increasingly falling short. Completion...

In this episode of UC Today, host Kristian McCann sits down with Magen Gicinto, Chief People Officer at Nisos, to discuss one of the fastest-growing threats facing technology companies: fraudulent job applicants linked to nation-state operations. Drawing from her own experience interviewing a suspected North Korean operative for a technical role, Gicinto provides rare insight into how these actors...

In this UC Today interview, host Kristian McCann sits down with Irwin Lazar, President and Principal Analyst at Metrigy , and Josh Blalock, Global Director of Alliances & Engagement at Shure , to unpack a growing issue in enterprise collaboration: why AI-powered productivity tools are failing to deliver without the right infrastructure underneath. AI is transforming how work gets done, but if...

In this UC Today interview, Marcus Law speaks with Bill Dellara, Chief Product Officer at VOSS , about why meeting room analytics has become a critical issue for IT, workplace, and real estate leaders navigating hybrid work. Bill explains why booking data often shows intent rather than reality, and how unused or poorly utilized rooms can quietly undermine return on investment, employee experience,...

In this UC Today interview, Marcus Law speaks with Matthew Carey, Director of Product Management at Theta Lake , about why cloud voice migration is not just an IT modernization project. As organizations move away from legacy on-premises phone systems, Carey explains how the compliance model changes, where governance gaps can appear, and why regulated businesses need to think beyond basic call reco...

In this InfoComm 2026 interview, Marcus Law sits down with Josh Arnold, Director of Collaboration Product Strategy at Q-SYS , to uncover why IT and facilities leaders must rethink their collaboration spaces. With the launch of the RoomSuite Collaboration Bar and new scheduling panels, Q-SYS is transforming how organizations deploy Microsoft Teams Rooms. Learn how to turn basic audio and video sign...

Why are so many organisations still stuck in AI pilot purgatory – and what does it actually take to move from experimentation to real operational impact? Christopher Carey sits down with Alex Ayers, Sales Director at Gamma , fresh from the company's GX 2026 event. Alex shares what he's hearing from enterprise leaders across every major sector: the real barriers to AI execution aren'...

In this episode of UC Today, host Kristian McCann sits down with Ivan Jackson, President of Interim Technology at Korn Ferry, to explore why traditional hiring models are struggling to keep pace with today's rapidly evolving technology landscape and why the concept of "renting tech talent" is gaining traction.   The technology talent market is changing rapidly, and organizations tha...

In this episode of UC Today, host Kristian McCann sits down with Laura Maffucci, Head of HR at G-P, to explore one of the biggest questions facing enterprise leaders today: is AI delivering on its promises, or are organizations beginning to question the return on their investments? According to G-P's latest research, a significant number of executives report that AI investments have failed to...

In this roundtable, Kristian McCann brings together a panel of experts to unpack one of the biggest AI challenges in business today: why usage numbers are rising, but real productivity gains are still lagging. The conversation explores the gap between management perception and employee reality, and what organizations can do to turn AI from a checkbox into meaningful workflow improvement. Featuring...

In this UC Today interview, host Kristian McCann sits down with Kunal Shukla, GM and Head of Network APIs at Vonage, and Chung H. Lee, AVP of Product Innovation at AT&T Business, to unpack why traditional authentication methods are breaking down—and what comes next. From the hidden cost of fraud to the growing limitations of SMS-based verification, the discussion reveals why enterprises must r...

In this UC Today interview, host Kristian McCann speaks with Darren Anstee, Chief Technology Officer for Security at NetScout, about one of the most urgent questions facing IT leaders today: how do you keep business communication running when a cyber incident hits a hybrid workforce?  With employees split across offices, homes, and unmanaged networks, the stakes are higher than ever. From DDoS to...

Kristian McCann is joined by William Rubio, Chief Revenue Officer at CallTower , and Craig Durr, Chief Analyst and Founder of The Collab Collective , to explore why traditional mobile UC models are struggling to keep pace with today’s enterprise demands. As hybrid work, AI-generated voice threats, and compliance pressures continue to reshape enterprise communications, organizations are being force...

In this UC Today interview, host Kristian McCann speaks with Callum Pennington, CEO & Co-Founder of HBHR, to unpack a growing issue facing modern organizations: employee wellbeing that’s treated as a bolt-on rather than a business-critical priority.  If you think wellbeing is about perks, think again. This discussion reveals why the fundamentals—like accurate pay, workload visibility, and unif...

In this interview, Mitel CTO Luiz Domingos discusses why frontline-first, voice-first communications are becoming essential operational infrastructure — and why organisations can no longer afford to connect their entire workforce with the same one-size-fits-all tools. The conversation covers how embedded, real-time communications enable faster decisions, safer work, and better outcomes; why voice...

Cisco TMS is approaching end of life, and organizations across the enterprise collaboration landscape are now facing major decisions about the future of their video infrastructure. In this episode of UC Today, Kristian McCann speaks with Giles Adams, CEO at VQ Communications, about the real-world impact of the TMS transition, the growing divide between cloud and on-prem strategies, and why regulat...

In this UC Today conversation, host Kristian McCann speaks with Hayley Mann, Chief People Officer at Formula E, about why the all-electric racing series picked HiBob with its people operations. Formula E is not just managing people; it is supporting a workforce that spans the world, operates under pressure, and needs tools that make leadership easier, not heavier. Hayley explains why HiBob stood o...

AI is reshaping the security operations center (SOC), shifting it from a manual, reactive function into a faster, intelligence-driven environment. For organizations dealing with alert fatigue and limited analyst capacity, AI is becoming a practical tool for improving how threats are identified and managed. In this UC Today discussion, Kristian McCann speaks with Morgan Adamsky, Principal at PwC ,...

In this session of UC Today, host Kristian McCann sits down with Simon Peters, Director of Channel Sales at Smarsh , to unpack one of the most pressing questions facing regulated industries in 2026: Is your compliance solution really secure — and is its AI even compliant? It’s a wake-up call for compliance, risk, and IT leaders who assume ticking the compliance box equals airtight data protection....

In this episode of UC Today, host Kristian McCann sits down with Bill Dunnion, Chief Information Security Officer at Mitel, to unpack one of the most persistent challenges in enterprise security: getting cybersecurity onto the C-suite agenda before disaster strikes. In this candid conversation, Mitel’s CISO Bill Dunnion explains why security still struggles to compete with revenue targets at the e...

Agentic AI is moving from a promising productivity tool to a security problem that enterprise leaders can no longer ignore. In the conversation below, Kristian speaks with Irina Tsukerman, President at Scarab Rising; Shlomi Beer, Co-Founder & CEO at ImpersonAlly; and Roey Eliyahu, Co-Founder & CEO at Salt Security , about what agentic AI is, where the risks are emerging, and how organizati...

Host Kieran Devlin (UC Today) sits down with Mike Frayne, CEO at Voss, for the 2026 Big UC Update. They unpack what’s changed over the last 12 months—from AI adoption to platform consolidation—and why digital workplace management is becoming mission-critical as tool sprawl, data silos, and policy complexity accelerate. Voss started in UC automation—but in this conversation, Mike Frayne explains ho...

In this interview, UC Today's Kristian McCann sits down with Bob Pruett, Senior Solutions Architect at Myriad360, to tackle one of the most underappreciated security risks in modern business: data leakage through everyday collaboration tools. Most organisations have firewalls, permissions, and email controls in place — but nothing for the conversation happening right now in Teams, Zoom, Slack...