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Most enterprises have deployed Microsoft Teams Rooms and the core meeting experience is working. But beyond the meeting room sits a much larger opportunity, lobbies, huddle spaces, event venues, open collaboration areas, and most organisations are managing those with a disconnected patchwork of point solutions that wasn't designed to scale. Marcus Law sits down with Vic Bhagat, Senior Directo...

In this UC Today interview, host Kieran Devlin speaks with Volker Pfirsching, Partner and Head of Innovation Management (Europe) at Arthur D. Little. Together, they unpack a hard truth many CIOs are now confronting: the biggest barrier to digital transformation isn’t access to technology—it’s the way IT is organized. If you’re navigating AI adoption, cross-functional delivery, and growing pressure...

Join Kieran Devlin, Host at UC Today, as he sits down with Tim Jalland, Solution Manager at VOSS , to unpack the rapid evolution of IT operations. As cloud environments like Microsoft 365 undergo hundreds of feature changes a year, static automation is struggling to keep pace. This session cuts through the AI hype to explore practical, outcome-driven solutions. Tune in to see exactly how intellige...

In this executive conversation, Marcus Law is joined by Dan Nadir, Chief Product Officer at Theta Lake , and Irwin Lazar, President and Principal Analyst at Metrigy , to explore how generative and agentic AI are creating entirely new categories of governance risk. The discussion covers why monitoring isolated prompts and outputs is no longer enough, and why organizations need forensic-level analys...

In this interview, Christopher Carey sits down with Snorre Kjesbu from Cisco to unpack AI’s real impact on the employee experience. Snorre makes the case that AI is an antidote to burnout, not a cause of it – freeing employees from busy work so they can focus on strategy, creativity, and the harder intellectual challenges. He also introduces the concept of “connected intelligence,” where collabora...

Join UC Today’s Kieran Devlin as he sits down with Brad Hintze, Executive Vice President of Global Marketing , and Joel Mulpeter, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Crestron . While the tech industry is understandably captivated by cloud-based software like Copilot and Zoom AI Companion, this insightful conversation shifts the focus to the physical foundation that makes these tools actually w...

Join UC Today host Kieran Devlin as he sits down with William Rubio, Chief Revenue Officer at CallTower , and Elka Popova, Vice President and Senior Fellow at Frost & Sullivan . As AI features rapidly light up across communications platforms, internal IT governance models are struggling to keep pace. This insightful session dives into the hidden vulnerabilities of "shadow AI" and the...

In the first episode of the UC Today AI & Productivity Show, Marcus Law hosts a roundtable on what AI productivity looks like in the real world — what’s delivering value today, what’s still not landing, and what leaders should focus on next. Marcus is joined by Tom Arbuthnot (Founder, Empowering. Cloud & Microsoft MVP), Mark Nixon (AI Business Solutions Go-To-Market Lead, Microsoft UK &amp...

In this UC Today interview, host Christopher Carey speaks with Loopio CEO Zak Hemraj about Loopio’s latest industry report on the impact of generative AI on the workforce - and one headline stands out: over 80% of teams are now using AI in their workflows, with more than half using it daily. Zak also highlights a surprise trend - financial services and banking, often viewed as cautious adopters, a...

Kristian McCann speaks with Ryan Holmes, Digital Workspace Solution Architect at New Era Technology , about how 3D visualization is helping enterprises plan AV refreshes with far more confidence than traditional 2D drawings. Traditional 2D plans can look polished on paper, but they often miss the messy reality of how people actually use meeting rooms. Ryan explains how New Era Technology’s immersi...

Despite billions being spent on AI tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot and Google Workspace, most employees still aren't ready to use them effectively: and it's becoming a productivity problem. In this interview, JP Gownder, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester, breaks down the findings from Forrester's second AIQ report: "AIQ 2.0: Employees (Still) Aren't Ready To Succeed W...

Hybrid work has become the default — and that means the devices, meeting rooms, and collaboration platforms we rely on have to “just work,” every time, for everyone. In this UC Today Devices & Workspace Tech Roundtable, host Christopher Carey (UC Today) is joined by industry leaders to unpack what’s changing across workplace technology: the rise of AI-powered meeting experiences, how IT teams...

Kristian McCann sits down with Dima Gutzeit, Founder and CEO of LeapXpert , to explore how enterprises can finally bridge the gap between conversation and execution. As businesses juggle countless communication channels, from Teams and Slack to WhatsApp and iMessage, Dima unpacks why so much valuable insight gets lost and how connecting conversations directly to workflows can redefine enterprise p...

In this insightful session, UC Today Host Kieran Devlin sits down with Will Morey, Managing Director of Channel at Gamma , to unpack the hidden costs of treating migration as a routine task. If you're an MSP or reseller feeling the strain of balancing new business with the heavy lifting of legacy tech upgrades, this conversation is a must-watch. Will breaks down the commercial risks of inacti...

Join Kieran Devlin, Host at UC Today, alongside an elite panel of unified communications experts and analysts—Mel Brue, Irwin Lazar, Evan Kirstel, Zeus Kerravala, Jon Arnold, and Craig Durr. The enterprise tech landscape is shifting faster than ever, and in this episode, we unpack exactly what that means for your business. From the identity crisis facing major tech conferences to the rise of auton...

In this UC Today interview, Christopher Carey speaks with Don McElligott, VP of Compliance Supervision at Global Relay , about how organisations are rethinking supervision in a multi‑channel, AI‑enabled world. The discussion explores why legacy keyword‑based approaches are struggling, how understanding context and intent changes risk detection, and why archives are evolving from passive storage in...

Many people are being asked to make big career decisions with very little real insight into the jobs they are choosing. At the same time, employers are struggling to fill high‑growth roles, and education systems are under pressure to modernise career guidance. Christopher Carey speaks with Bharani Rajakumar, Founder at Transfr , and John Iaia, Global Head of Strategic Alliances for XR and Vision A...

Kristian McCann sits down with Ryan Zoehner, CEO at Algo , and Bryan McCarthy, VP Global Partnerships at Algo , to explore how education providers can take unified communications beyond screens and extend it reliably across the entire campus. Schools have relied on copper wire PA systems for decades — and for a long time, they did the job well enough. But as campuses grow, those legacy systems are...

As regulations evolve, use cases multiply, and businesses demand more flexibility, many organizations are finding that a one‑size‑fits‑all UC approach simply doesn’t work anymore. In this UC Today interview, Vivek Kar, Head of Employee Interaction Suite at Tata Communications , explains why multi‑platform collaboration has become the norm, how an ecosystem‑led UC strategy helps enterprises balance...

In this session, Kieran Devlin of UC Today sits down with Chris Stapenhurst, Director of Product Management at Arctera , to unpack a critical shift in the financial services sector. If you are a compliance leader looking to reduce operational drag and gain global visibility, this conversation sets the stage for a more agile, cloud-first future. The era of managing sprawling data centers just to sa...

With a wave of retirements about to hit workforces, companies have to be prepared to keep avenues open for experienced workers who want to adapt to AI, and to teach junior workers so they can still learn the core skills that AI now performs. Key takeaways include: The day-to-day challenges this shift will bring What kinds of responses can HR leaders experiment with to protect and grow expertise am...

Join Kieran Devlin from UC Today as he sits down with Chris Stapenhurst, Director of Product Management at Arctera . If you are navigating the complexities of modern compliance and data governance, this conversation highlights exactly why the "build it yourself" model is becoming obsolete. As data volumes explode and regulations tighten ahead of 2027, the traditional on-premise data cent...

AI is no longer experimental. From Microsoft Copilot to Zoom AI Companion, AI is now embedded across enterprise collaboration platforms - and leaders are under pressure to deploy it at scale. But here’s the challenge: the pace of innovation is outstripping traditional governance models. New behaviors are emerging. AI-to-AI interactions are happening. Shadow AI is spreading. And regulators are watc...

Join our host Kristian McCann and CEO of UC Today Rob Scott as they wrap up the final episode of the Microsoft Teams Show. Alongside Tom Arbuthnot, and our panel of regular guests, Kevin Kieller, Satish Upadhyaya, Amanda Sterner, and Ryan Herbst, the team reflects on seven years of Teams’ evolution—from Skype for Business to a hub for AI-driven collaboration. In this final episode, the panel exami...

Join host Kieran Devlin from UC Today for this video on The Rise of Digital Sovereignty and What It Means for UC Tech Dominance. He is joined by an all-star panel of industry experts: Jon Arnold (Principal, J. Arnold & Associates), Craig Durr (Chief Analyst), and Dom Black (Director of Research, Cavell Group). In this episode, the panel tackles the "elephant in the room" for 2026: Di...