Bits and Bolts With Paulina

Most companies think their vendor contracts are under control. They're not. Steen Steensen Blicher, CEO and co-founder of VendorTel, breaks down the silent financial leak hiding in plain sight. 2 to 5% of total supplier spend lost every year because nobody connects contract terms to real transaction data. In this episode: why a signed contract is not the same as earned money, how AI unlocks ve...

How much of the AI boom is real? Paul Bates, co-founder and Director at Uptiq, spent over two decades in tech and he's cutting through the hype. In this episode we get into why 70-90% of "AI" projects are really just automation, how companies are slashing cloud costs by 90% through app modernization, and why private AI models are becoming the enterprise default. We also talk about sc...

In this episode, Anemari Fiser (former Tech Lead, Product Director, and author of the O'Reilly book Level Up as a Tech Lead) shares what it really takes to succeed in tech leadership. From burnout at ThoughtWorks to building her own coaching business, Anemari reveals why most problems in tech are people problems, not technical ones, and why soft skills and feedback are the true game-changers f...

Adam Malik is a trade show veteran and digital transformation consultant with over two decades of experience launching major tech events and leading digital change inside media businesses. He has managed buyouts, built and sold companies, and spent the last two years running a live experiment: a one-person media business built almost entirely with AI-assisted workflows. He is the founder of Digiti...

Get real about AI security, community building, and why the transformation is never done with Hannah Foxwell, DevOps veteran, AI educator, and founder of AI for the Rest of Us. From securing AI agents to building inclusive tech spaces, Hannah brings a sharp, grounded perspective on what's actually happening in the industry right now.

Stuck in DevOps tutorial hell? In this honest 2026 conversation, Paulina and Szymon (who helped 100+ transition to DevOps) reveal the #1 beginner mistake: jumping to Kubernetes/Terraform/cloud without Linux basics. Learn the real DevOps roadmap 2026, master fundamentals first (Linux, Docker, networking, troubleshooting), escape endless online courses, build job-ready skills, avoid common DevOps mi...

Explore the real challenges of digital transformation in the construction industry with Gökmen Becerik, Head of IT & Digital Transformation at SU YAPI Engineering & Consulting (Turkey).

In this episode, AI architect Alex Velinov reveals why AI won't steal your job, creating weirder ones like "vibe code fixers" and why banning AI in your company is the most dangerous move you can make. Key takeaways: Why does every industrial revolution create more jobs than it destroys How to become "bulletproof" in the AI era The ugly truth about ROI in AI projects Why cr...

In this episode of Beats & Bolts with Paulina, Paulina Dubas sits down with Gert Villemos, CTO & CISO at LeanSpace, a leader with 20+ years of experience building and operating mission-critical space systems that still run European satellites today. We talked about: Why Year-1 architecture decisions are the most expensive ones you’ll ever make How cloud lock-in quietly costs companies year...

Are sales teams secretly sabotaging their own deals by treating engineers like second-class citizens? In this episode of Beats & Bolts, Jennifer Cox (20-year tech veteran, ex-Tenable, Rippling, multiple industry awards) reveals the truth about what works when scaling technical, customer-facing, and sales-engineering teams in 2025 and beyond. If you lead, manage, or work in technical teams, sal...

In this episode of Bits & Bolts with Paulina, Allen Jellas, an industry veteran and agile coach who has helped transform teams at Maersk, Schneider Electric, and Novo Nordisk, unpacks the hacks of proper feedback. Why most companies get it wrong and how leaders can build trust, safety, and continuous learning inside their teams. Key points :- Why feedback should be a dialogue, not a download-...

Dive into the real talk on AI's hype vs. reality with Siddhanta Gupta, a tech trailblazer who's bridged space missions, pharma pipelines, and energy automation. From his DTU master's AI thesis grind to consulting at Ramskov Group, discover how to conquer silos between IT, OT, and AI, and think human body analogies that make it click. Key takeaways:1. Why ChatGPT is just a "smart intern" for enterp...

Join us for a fascinating conversation with Niklas Bork Bøgh, Senior AI Product Manager at Skill Up Finance (now NewCo). Niklas shares his unique career path from being a semi-professional CS:GO gamer (practicing 12 hours a day for two years!) to an AI product leader in the finance world.

In the Bits & Bolts  Wth Paulian pilot, Paulina sits down with Melissa Drew, Founder & Chief AI Trust Officer, author, and former IBM & Deloitte executive, to unpack her 30-year journey from building databases in the 90s to creating frameworks that define trusted AI today. Melissa shares stories from her early work in procurement and healthcare, the evolution of AI before the hype, and...