Tech Disruptors

“For many companies, they’re moving from experimentation to truly embedding AI in the ways of working, which requires building foundations which connect back to the broader transformation efforts they have,” Publicis Sapient CEO Nigel Vaz explains to Bloomberg Intelligence. Vaz joins BI senior TMT analyst Matthew Bloxham on this Tech Disruptors podcast episode for a detailed discussion surrounding...

Confluent’s platform provides infrastructure for enterprises to connect, stream and process data across applications and systems in real time. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Confluent’s cofounder and CEO Jay Kreps joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior software analyst Sunil Rajgopal to discuss the origins of Apache Kafka and Confluent, the flow of enterprise data and future of softw...

Advertising spending is being pressured by the economic environment and there’s been a deeper focus and requirement for advertisers and marketers to think about the return on investment, and ensuring they have the right tools at their fingertips to measure and evaluate the impact of their spending, Kimberly Bloomston, LiveRamp’s senior vice president of product explains to Bloomberg Intelligence....

The market for customer-experience (CX) software is expected to reach about $85 billion by 2025, with 80% of companies planning to increase customer service budgets over the coming years, according to Zendesk CEO Tom Eggemeier. In his discussion with Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology Analyst Anurag Rana, Eggemeier also points out the 100% turnover in customer service reps on average every y...

“We’re in a period of very high learning, so if you’re a business leader, you have to be prepared to try some stuff that works and some stuff that doesn’t work,” Boston Consulting Group’s global chair and former CEO Rich Lesser explains to Bloomberg Intelligence. Lesser joins BI senior technology analyst Anurag Rana on this Tech Disruptors podcast episode for an in-depth discussion about key aspec...

Runway is an applied research company that’s building artificial intelligence systems for creative content like text-to-video conversion. In this Tech Disruptors podcast episode, Runway’s cofounder and CTO Anastasis Germanidis joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh for an in-depth discussion about generative video and how the company’s foundational models are different from other large...

As enterprises look to invest in generative AI, one of the main considerations is the quality of training data and how to use proprietary data for customized responses. Join Vijay Karunamurthy, field chief technology officer at Scale AI, as he sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology Analyst Mandeep Singh for an in-depth conversation on fine-tuning LLMs for domains and use cases.

Tom Casey, senior vice president of products and technology at Splunk joins Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Analysts Mandeep Singh and Sunil Rajgopal to discuss the company's efforts to build an enterprise security operations center (SOC). The episode was recorded after the company announced its takeover by Cisco.

“It has been said for many years that data is the fuel for AI, but I would argue that data is the brain for AI because it’s the data that decides how effective the model is,” ServiceNow’s President and COO CJ Desai says. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Desai joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana to discuss how ServiceNow is enhancing productivity for it...

There’s still tremendous headroom in terms of the number of companies using workflows that leverage eSignature, and this is even more true outside of the US, DocuSign CEO Allan Thygesen explains to Bloomberg Intelligence. Thygesen joins BI senior technology analyst Anurag Rana on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss the company’s bridge of rapid growth during the pandemic to its...

Artificial intelligence is being increasingly applied to the metaverse and gaming. Inworld AI cofounder and Chief Product Officer Kylan Gibbs joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Mandeep Singh on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss the training and inference for applying generative AI large language models to different types of media and how new tools could lea...

CoreWeave is a cloud-compute provider that focuses on graphics processing units to deliver infrastructure to enterprises. In this Tech Disruptors podcast episode, the company’s cofounder and Chief Technology Officer Brian Venturo joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh for an in-depth discussion of how CoreWeave uses GPUs to develop generative AI models and how it differentiates itself...

Generative AI can drive a step function of change in productivity and efficiency through automation, and most organizations should expect to see about a 100x improvement, Amazon Web Services’ Vice President Matt Wood tells Bloomberg Intelligence. Woods joins BI analyst Anurag Rana on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss AWS’ position in the space, as well as in cloud computing, w...

Artificial intelligence is changing the landscape of cybersecurity and SentinelOne is at the intersection of the two, according to SentinelOne’s Chief Technology Officer Ric Smith. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Smith joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Mandeep Singh for an in-depth discussion about cybersecurity, automation and the potential for generative AI in the field...

One area of research and startups right now is how to run better and better models without upgrading hardware, since consumers don’t have the same infrastructure, says Leigh Marie Braswell, partner at Kleiner Perkins, in her discussion with Anurag Rana, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. Their insightful talk contrasts the experience and priorities of the startup landscape with the...

Businesses need artificial intelligence more than ever, but it’s a long road to get from ChatGPT to answering all of the data security, ethical guardrails and organizational readiness required to operationalize AI, Salesforce’s CEO of AI Clara Shih explains to Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Anurag Rana. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Shih joins Rana for an in-depth conversation ab...

The Dynatrace platform uses its embedded AI engine, Davis, to harness observability, security, and business event data to provide organizations with real-time insights and intelligent automation spanning the entire spectrum of the digital-value chain of business applications and infrastructure. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Dynatrace CEO Rick M. McConnell joins Bloomberg Intellig...

Informatica’s products, like the Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) and Cloud scale AI-powered Real-Time Engine (CLAIRE), harness artificial intelligence for effective data management and analysis, according to CEO Amit Walia, who returns to the Tech Disruptors podcast with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Anurag Ranga to delve into the transformative power of AI, its implications for enterpri...

Multicloud is emerging as a leading IT priority for many companies, as CIOs struggle to navigate a fragmented environment, which includes multiple public and private clouds, colocation and traditional data centers. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Woo Jin Ho to discuss how the company’s hybrid multicloud platf...

Intuit’s artificial intelligence journey has been several years in the making, but today it’s supercharging the technology’s use. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Intuit’s Chief Data Officer Ashok Srivastava sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel to explain how the company’s Generative AI operating system, GenOS, leverages OpenAI’s large-language models. He also d...

Networking has traditionally been one of the bottlenecks within hyperscale cloud infrastructure and is under greater scrutiny in artificial intelligence workloads. Broadcom’s senior vice president of Core Switching Ram Velaga sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence’s semiconductor analyst Kunjan Sobhani and hardware analyst Woo Jin Ho in this Tech Disruptors podcast episode to discuss Broadcom’s gro...

Qualcomm has transformed to connect and power devices beyond traditional handsets and smartphones, and is utilizing advances in technology to further drive this digital shift, including into the electrification of automobiles, CFO Akash Palkhiwala explains to Bloomberg Intelligence. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Palkhiwala joins BI analyst Kunjan Sobhani for an in-depth discussio...

Technology is at the heart of eBay and the disruption it has brought is one to embrace, Chief Technology Officer Mazen Rawashdeh explains. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, he sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Poonam Goyal to discuss how the use of private cloud vs. public has given eBay full control and flexibility and helped the company to reach the second-largest marke...

In a conversation with Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana, Gong co-founder and CEO Amit Bendov discusses the broader reaches of AI for enterprises and how Gong is leveraging this technology to make its customer-relationship management (CRM) product mission-critical for even the largest companies in the sector. The effectiveness of a CRM system is dependent upon its data i...

Rising land costs, climate change concerns and the search for more sustainable food products have food producers looking beyond lab grown meat and into animal free dairy products. Perfect Day co-founder and CEO Ryan Pandya sat down recently with Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Food Analyst Jennifer Bartashus to discuss how his company uses precision fermentation to produce animal-free dairy proteins...