patchperfect

For the season three finale, I'm bringing you something a little different. I have been following Courtney de Vries for a while now and she has this way of breaking down how to put outfits together that felt very true to how we break things down here on patch. She is a stylist and wardrobe consultant based in Toronto and if you are not already following her, you need to be. You know how every...

Greg Richardson has spent decades where AI and cybersecurity meet, long before they became major headlines. He's a former engineer, former executive, advisory CISO at BlackBerry and Palo Alto Networks. He also founded 6 Levers AI Consulting and Coaching and has spent years translating all of this into language that actual humans can understand and act on. This week on patch we are getting into...

This week I'm getting into the woman behind the tool you probably used to make your last pitch deck. Melanie Perkins is the co-founder and CEO of Canva, and her story is one of the most interesting in tech right now. We get into how a frustrating Photoshop class at a Perth university became a design platform used by 170 million people, how democratizing design means that a freelancer in Lagos...

This week I'm breaking down one of the most important conferences in the tech world. RSAC 2026 is happening right now in San Francisco, and even if cybersecurity isn't your world yet, I think this one is worth your attention. We get into how a single room of cryptographers (the people who figured out how to keep your data private using math) in 1991 became a 40,000-person global institutio...

Lauren Wilson was one of my very first friends in tech. She took me under her wing, showed me the ropes, and now she's doing something I think is genuinely rare: she spent eight years at one of the biggest companies in the world, left it all behind, and went to teach and coach the next generation at the University of Alabama. On top of having an MBA in business analytics, Lauren is also a cert...

Chelsea Squires is an AI and data leader at Slalom , a consultancy that believes the best technology outcomes start with people, not the other way around, and one of Forbes' top ranked management consulting firms in 2025. She spends her days helping companies move past the noise and actually implement AI in ways that stick. She also happens to spend her weekends building Claude-powered apps to...

The robotics market is already worth over $50 billion and projected to hit $200 billion by 2033 . It is one of the fastest growing areas in tech and one of the most exciting spaces to be paying attention to right now. This week I sit down with Hiten Sonpal, CEO of Rise Robotics , based out of Somerville, Massachusetts. He has spent his entire career in the robotics industry, from iRobot to leading...

Sabrina Pasterski is a theoretical physicist at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Canada. She built a plane at twelve, graduated top of her class at MIT, earned her PhD at Harvard, and is now leading one of the most ambitious research programs in modern physics. Stephen Hawking cited her work. And people are calling her the next Einstein. This episode is about her. And honestly it is one of my...

India hosted the AI Impact Summit , bringing together global tech leaders, heads of state, and record-setting commitments around responsible AI. Beyond the headlines, the week signalled a shift in who shapes artificial intelligence and how it is deployed at scale. India represents roughly one in five people on earth, yet until recently received only a small share of global AI funding. That tension...

Welcome to season three of patchperfect! To kick things off, I'm doing something a little different. I sat down with my 93-year-old grandfather, Papa Ben, for a coffee chat about technology, connection, and what actually matters when the world keeps moving faster. This episode features someone who's lived through almost a century of innovation. We're talking Ford Model Ts with literal...

In this season two finale of patchperfect, we close out the year with a story that brings together tech, discipline, and modern leadership in a powerful way. This episode spotlights Luana Lopes Lara , the youngest self made woman billionaire in the world and co founder of Kalshi ⁠ , the regulated prediction market reshaping how people think about future events. Before fintech, before MIT, and long...

Can a background in broadcast journalism actually make you a stronger product designer? In this episode of patchperfect, I sit down with Grace Donoso ⁠ , managing director of content at BlackBerry and former UX designer, to talk about her non linear path from the arts into the fast paced world of cybersecurity. We get into the craft of user experience, why the best designed products feel almost ef...

In this episode of patchperfect, we take a step back from the AI buzz to ask one of the biggest questions showing up in headlines right now: are we in an AI bubble? AI is clearly here to stay, but when hype and investment start moving faster than real progress, things can get shaky. We look back at the dot com era to unpack what people actually mean when they talk about an AI bubble, where the rea...

patchperfect is officially at episode 21, and we are marking the moment with a forward looking dive into the tech shaping 2026. In this episode, I am guided by futurist and Forbes columnist Bernard Marr ⁠ as we walk through his biggest predictions for the year and what they actually mean in practice.⁠ We get into AI's growing energy demands, the shift toward more practical quantum computing, and h...

This week on patchperfect, we kick things off with a quick look at the 2025 Spotify Wrapped drop, then shift into a spotlight on ⁠ Mira Murati ⁠, former OpenAI CTO and now founder of Thinking Machines Lab .⁠ Raised in post communist Albania, Mira found stability early on in math and physics before building a career that took her through Goldman Sachs in Tokyo, Tesla's Model X and Autopilot tea...

This week on patchperfect, we start with a quick AI update on ⁠ Google’s Nano Banana Pro ⁠ and why it is more interesting as a thinking partner than just another image generator. Then I sit down with Canadian lawyer and privacy expert Neil Proudfoot ⁠ to talk about what privacy really means in 2025. Neil explains how modern AI systems collect and learn from personal data, and why global regulation...

Crypto is often framed as chaotic and speculative, but behind the headlines is a highly regulated world focused on trust, custody, and risk management. In this episode of patchperfect, I sit down with Zoe Seguev ⁠ , Chief Compliance Officer at Tetra Trust ⁠ , Canada's first qualified digital asset custodian, to break down what crypto and stablecoins actually look like in 2025. With a backgroun...

Malware sounds mysterious and intimidating, but at the end of the day it is just code written to do things it should not. In this episode of patchperfect, I sit down with ⁠ Anuj Soni , reverse engineer, cybersecurity expert, ⁠Youtube creator⁠ , and founder of The Malware Lab at Breakpoint Cybersecurity, to unpack how malware actually works and what really happens when systems get compromised. We w...

This week on patchperfect, we are talking about intentionality in tech, in security, and in how early choices shape long term control. This episode is about making smart moves before you are forced to react. First, we break down the new $1.2 billion partnership between NVIDIA and Deutsche Telekom , and why Europe's first industrial AI power plant is a big deal for sovereign computing and regio...

We are surrounded by AI that can talk, but not nearly enough that can actually do. In this episode of patchperfect, I sit down with my former business school classmate Glendon Hass , now a director at Bronson AI ⁠ , to unpack why we may still be in the stone age of AI and what it really takes for models to move from text boxes to real world tools. We get into agentic AI, what practical tool use ac...

When Amazon Web Services went down this week ⁠ , a small glitch in Virginia knocked major apps and even airlines offline around the world. In this solo episode of patchperfect, I break down what actually happened, why so much of the internet quietly runs on AWS, and how one DNS error can make everything from Alexa to Delta suddenly hit pause. We zoom out to talk about our growing dependence on the...

I kick off this episode of patchperfect with a quick update on NVIDIA’s DGX Spark ⁠ , a desk side AI supercomputer bringing serious compute power into home offices. Then we dive into fashion tech with ⁠ Julia Dietmar , CEO and co founder of ⁠ OpenWardrobe , who is using AI to rethink how we shop, style, and sustain what we wear. After two decades building product at Yahoo, Walmart, Vue.ai, and Thr...

That’s a wrap on Season One. Over the last 12 weeks, we explored a lot together, from breaking down data science in plain English, to seeing how AI is reshaping fashion and family businesses, to understanding blockchain’s role in vaccine delivery, and even talking honestly about navigating grief in the middle of a tech career. This highlight reel brings together some of my favorite moments from th...

The creator economy is no longer niche, and it is shaping how brands are built, how media is consumed, and how work itself is starting to look. In this episode of patchperfect, I break down how creators are influencing tech, business, and culture and why this shift matters far beyond social media. From Hailey Bieber's billion dollar Rhode moment to the rise of micro influencers who turn trust...

Episode 10 is here and we are celebrating double digits with a quick, lively rundown of the tech trends shaping summer 2025. In this episode of patchperfect, I share what is actually starting to show up in everyday life and what is worth paying attention to right now. We talk through brain inspired neuromorphic chips, new quantum computing milestones, smarter wearables, green tech innovations, and...