TechUnhinged

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...

In this episode, Alexander Carlson, founder of Digital Pop and host of the AI Marketing Navigator podcast, breaks down how AI is redefining what scale means for solo entrepreneurs and small businesses. He shares his exact AI tool stack that replaced an entire team's worth of work, explains why the traditional marketing pyramid is evolving into a "diamond model" with AI agents at the...

In this episode, a Cloud Infrastructure & Product Management leader at Microsoft, with nearly a decade shaping AI solutions at Azure Databricks reveals why the build-versus-buy decision isn’t really about control or cost. It’s about knowing when to invest in in-house expertise versus leveraging existing platforms to move faster. She shares how honesty in a job interview led to an unexpected ca...

Farah Ali, Head of AI Transformation & Technology at Electronic Arts, reveals why innovation fails without allies, what she learned as a startup CTO, and how to move ideas from proof-of-concept to real revenue.

Join Ashar Samdani as he chats with Costanza Balboni Cestelli, Head of Data & Innovation at Generali Real Estate, about how AI and data are shaking up the world of real estate. From rethinking investment strategies to building the City Forward platform, they delve into what it truly takes to modernize a traditional industry and where PropTech is headed next. Powered by Code District.

In this episode, Rabia Javeed sits down with Brendal Kremer to explore what it takes to lead intelligent automation at scale. With two decades of experience in cybersecurity, compliance, and global data operations, Brendal shares how she built resilient systems, balances human oversight with machine efficiency, and drives transformation across distributed teams. Powered by Code District.

In this episode, Rich Tehrani, CEO of TMC and mastermind behind IT Expo, reveals the shocking reality of AI agents taking control of network security. From his unique perspective as both a tech industry veteran and investment banker at Four Points Capital Partners, he shares explosive insights on the coming 99% autonomous cybersecurity future. Powered by Code District.

In this episode, the CIO at what3words, says the hardest part of tech leadership isn’t shiny tools or big budgets; it’s making complex systems actually work for people. He shares lessons from automating the boring stuff, scaling a scrappy startup, and knowing when to keep things manual before going digital. We also dive into the startup vs corporate mindset, the risks of rushing into AI, and why g...

In this episode, Arturas, Engineering Manager & Data Platform Lead at KAYAK, cuts through the hype on data engineering. From early PHP days to leading petabyte-scale platforms, he shares the hard-earned lessons behind building real data systems in the age of AI. We dig into the biggest misconceptions, the data quality crisis, why tools are just “opinions,” and what the future holds for data en...

In this episode, Eric Vaughan, CEO of Ignite Tech and ultramarathon legend, cuts through the AI hype to reveal what's actually working in enterprise. Drawing from his battle-tested experience leading real AI transformations across three companies, he exposes the shocking gap between AI marketing promises and ground-truth reality, and shares explosive insights on which enterprise AI application...