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Send us Fan Mail In this special episode recorded at Optics and Photonics Days 2026 in Jyväskylä, Finland, we speak with:  • Tomi Salo — Kvanttinova  • Sesha Manuguri — Dispelix  • Byron Seabolt — Optikos  • Mikko Närhi — Coherent  • Sampo Härkönen — Business Tampere  • Julian Gallego Urrea — Horiba Together, we explore the technologies quietly powering the future of optics, photonics, quantum sys...

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode recorded at Optics and Photonics Days 2026 in Jyväskylä, Finland, we speak with: • Juha Purmonen — Photonics Finland • Matti Pesonen — Noptel • Julia Matthes — Laser 2000 • Derrick Defever — TactoTek • Pierre Brochard — Silentsys • Oliver Grass — Assemblify Together, we explore the technologies quietly powering the future of AI, quantum systems, lidar, sens...

Send us Fan Mail Quantum computing is moving from lab experiments to scalable machines. This episode explores the "unglamorous" ingredients of this transition: infrastructure, specialized engineering, and the national strategies turning breakthroughs into products. Guests in this episode: Mikko Möttönen (QMill) George Schwartz (Global Quantum Intelligence) Katri Raevuori (Business Finlan...

Send us Fan Mail Tariffs do not feel abstract when you are the one trying to get a container released from the port. We sit down with Liz Picarazzi, founder and CEO of Citibin, to trace the full arc from a Brooklyn streetscape problem to a real manufacturing company selling rat-proof, weather-resistant trash and parcel enclosures across the US. What starts as an “eyesore” story quickly becomes a p...

Send us Fan Mail This episode, recorded in collaboration with Katri Raevuori (Business Finland),  at the APS March Meeting, explores why Finland is a global hub for quantum and deep tech. Guests in this episode: Sirpa Salmi (Kvanttinova) Harry Smith (SemiQon) David Gunnarsson (Bluefors) Galina Leväsluoto (IQM) Dominic Lennon (QuantrolOx) Bilge Can Yildiz (Arctic Instruments) Tommi Hakulinen (Vexlu...

Send us Fan Mail A landmark Supreme Court decision on IEEPA has redefined the tariff landscape, ending broad emergency powers and forcing a shift to Section 122. For importers and manufacturers, this means a renewed focus on managing landed costs and navigating the legal scramble for tariff refunds. In this episode, we break down: Tariff Refunds & Compliance: The complexity of passing savings...

Send us Fan Mail Joensuu is a small city in eastern Finland, close to the Russian border, and it keeps producing founders who think and build globally. Kasey Snyder steps in as guest host, bringing you conversations recorded at SOHJO with entrepreneurs proving that distance is not a disadvantage when the work is real. Across transit, manufacturing, robotics, retail, and climate tech, the common th...

Send us Fan Mail Big enterprise customers can feel like the finish line: massive budgets, brand-name logos, and the kind of “we made it” credibility that looks great on a homepage. But we’ve seen the other side too, where the same deal becomes a slow grind of checkpoints, approvals, internal politics, and change resistance that can drain a young company’s time and cash. Alex Romanovich sits down w...

Send us Fan Mail The old way to grow an IT services firm is brutally straightforward: hire more people, ship more projects, track bench percentages, and hope margins hold. But that model starts to feel like a trap the moment “people” becomes your biggest constraint. I’m joined by tech industry veteran Igor Kruglyak to unpack the pivot from services to software products, and why the next wave of le...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when the former CMO behind the Grammys decides prestige isn’t enough and builds an AI platform designed to make people think better, not just faster? We sit down with Evan Greene to unpack the leap from Disney, Sony, and the Recording Academy to Kwieri, a human-in-the-loop learning system that blends the speed of AI with the judgment of real mentors. Evan explains why...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when an entrepreneur stops narrating risk and starts pricing it? We sit down with Bruce Talley to follow a rare arc—from American capital markets to Russian real estate, from building Sochi’s Olympic logistics engine to advising on Ukraine’s reconstruction—and extract a practical playbook for operating in volatile markets. Bruce shares how transparency and owning deli...

Send us Fan Mail Your core systems might be old, but the logic inside them still runs your business. We break down how to modernize those foundations without losing the rules that protect revenue, compliance, and reliability. With guest Ankit Shah of Netweb Software, we unpack what AI truly does well—rapid code analysis, business rule extraction, dependency mapping—and where human judgment remains...

Send us Fan Mail The pressure to “do AI” in healthcare is real, but shipping a model isn’t the same as changing care. With Dr. Saima Anis—physician turned public health leader and enterprise IT strategist—we unpack how hospitals can adopt agentic AI responsibly while actually making clinicians’ jobs easier. We start with the human questions a good diagnostician asks: where is the pain, who does it...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when a Division I athlete turns a gaming refuge into a playbook for inclusive growth and human-centered marketing? We sit down with Erin Ashley Simon to trace her path from family-fueled passion to industry leadership and explore what truly earns trust in a noisy digital world. Erin shares how her time at the University of Kentucky sharpened her storytelling instincts...

Send us Fan Mail Healthcare breaches aren’t news anymore—they’re routine. I sat down with IEEE’s Maria Palombini to unpack how connected devices multiply risk, where vulnerabilities hide, and how “security by design” can harden medical tech without slowing innovation. From pharma operations to launching a blockchain media venture to leading healthcare and life sciences at the IEEE Standards Associ...

Send us Fan Mail What if the fastest way to innovate is to protect what matters most — people, trust, and purpose? That’s the thread in our conversation with product leader Josette Simon, who moved from global finance to a high-velocity AI startup to build tools that solve real customer pain and deliver measurable impact. We explore how large enterprises can modernize without losing their soul, an...

Send us Fan Mail Stop waiting for a title to validate your value. Alex sits down with internationally recognized mentor and TEDx speaker Katrena Friel to map a 90-day path from layoff anxiety and plateaus to a market-ready expert brand. A painful early misstep forged her resilience and her done-for-you, book-first method: codify your philosophy in a short, publishable book; use that rigor to drive...

Send us Fan Mail Prices climb, promises hold, and the rules keep shifting—so how do we still deliver value? We bring together a tariff and compliance leader, a logistics operator, an e-commerce veteran, and an AI strategist to decode a market where volatility is normal and optionality wins. The discussion starts with the real pain points: retaliatory tariffs that wreck forecasts, currency swings t...

Send us Fan Mail The story starts with a name and a camera, then crosses continents, kitchens, and boardrooms. Meet chef-turned-CMO Mariko Amekodommo — a career spanning broadcast journalism, Los Angeles supper clubs, and fractional marketing leadership for AI-driven companies across Vietnam, India, and now Prague. What unites it all is a relentless focus on audience—how people feel, what they nee...

Send us Fan Mail A packed hackathon, pizza boxes, and a room full of devs trading ideas—that’s where our conversation with Code & Coffee leaders Israel Santana and Charles Inwald begins. From there, we dive into what really moves a developer’s career forward today: community that shortens feedback loops, AI that accelerates but doesn’t replace judgment, and small public signals—talks, workshop...

Send us Fan Mail Boardrooms don’t have to look like a scene from a courtroom drama. Alex sits down with Breen Sullivan—former big-law IP attorney turned startup general counsel and founder of The Fourth Effect—to unpack why so many startups avoid boards, how that hesitation quietly limits growth, and what it takes to design advisory and governing structures that actually move revenue, fundraising,...

Send us Fan Mail Dive into the complex relationship between artificial intelligence and heavily regulated industries with our expert panel representing government, healthcare, energy, insurance, and telecommunications sectors. This compelling roundtable explores how AI is fundamentally transforming traditional operational models while navigating the unique constraints of regulated environments. Ou...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when specialized human expertise meets artificial intelligence? That's the fascinating question at the heart of my conversation with Alex Khomyakov , founder of Productera and expert in the knowledge economy. For years, expert networks have connected investors and researchers with subject matter specialists who possess real-time insights not yet captured in publi...

Send us Fan Mail What separates successful leaders from fulfilled ones? According to recovering Wall Street executive Marla Bace, it’s not another mindset hack—it’s getting real about what coaching is (and isn't) in a world addicted to “high-ticket offers” and quick-fix transformations. In this sharp, refreshingly unfiltered conversation, Marla gets brutally honest about how coaching has evol...

Send us Fan Mail What drives an accomplished physicist with expertise in international banking to pivot toward healthcare, finance, and other science investments? For Konstantin S hvvarts ,  of Nordvik Investments , the answer is refreshingly straightforward: profitability. In this revealing conversation, Shvarts explains how declining bank valuations following the 2008 financial crisis prompted h...