Tech Unheard

Through a career in hardware at software giant Microsoft and now managing devices and services at Amazon, Panos Panay has led teams to launch products like Alexa Plus, Windows 365, Windows 11 and the Microsoft Surface. In this conversation, Panos underlines the importance of a clear and well-communicated mission and vision in managing effective teams. He also shares how his team works to predict c...

Before leading one of America’s foremost tech companies, Jayshree Ullal worked in both large companies and startups, as an engineer and executive. She and Rene chat about everything from Cisco’s acquisitions to programming with batch cards as young product engineers, as the two CEOs swap stories about their parallel paths to the C-suite. Tech Unheard is a podcast from Arm. Find each episode in you...

Ashwini Vaishnaw has a unique background for a Member of the Indian Parliament: before he entered the government, he was an engineer. Now he brings that experience to bear as India’s Minister for Railways, Information & Broadcasting, and Electronics & Information Technology.  In this conversation, recorded on location at Arm’s new Bengalaru office, the minister tells Rene about India’s semiconduct...

In this President Lecture Series conversation, Farnam Jahanian flips the script and asks host Rene Haas about his path to becoming CEO of Arm, how his time working with Jensen Huang at NVIDIA helped shape his leadership, and the evolving role of AI in our world. The two also discuss the future of education and how universities like Carnegie Mellon can best prepare students for an AI-inclusive tech...

Perhaps best known for hit songs like “Solsbury Hill” and “Sledgehammer”, Peter has long been an early adopter of new technologies in music. He was on the front edge of digital recording, download, and distribution tech, and he joined Stability AI in 2023 to run a competition for AI-generated animated music videos set to his music. Peter shares his thoughts on the role of innovative technology lik...

Before leading research at OpenAI, Mark Chen was a self-proclaimed “late-bloomer” to computer science. He pivoted from an initial career in finance to heading up OpenAI’s frontiers research, where he led the teams that created DALL-E, developed Codex, and incorporated visual perception into GPT-4. Mark tells Rene about his roundabout path to AI research and about how he integrates research and pro...

When CEO Alex Kendall co-founded Wayve in 2017, he was simultaneously writing his PhD thesis at Cambridge University. From that point onwards he’s been in the driver’s seat, as Wayve pioneers a new way to create self-driving cars using end-to-end machine learning. Alex tells Rene about Wayve’s embodied AI and about the challenges of growing a company from a garage in Cambridge to offices around th...

CEO Alex Wang founded Scale AI in 2016 at the age of only 19. Now Scale AI works with companies like Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and more, and Alex is a major voice for AI, both in Silicon Valley and Washington, DC. Alex and Rene discuss connections between humans, data, and artificial intelligence. They also dig into Alex’s roots growing up among scientists near Los Alamos National Laboratory and le...

Aicha Evans began her journey in tech by hacking the family’s long-distance phone to call friends in Paris. From there, with stops along the way to open a Senegalese restaurant and serve as Intel’s Chief Strategy Officer, Aicha is now the first non-founder CEO of autonomous vehicle company Zoox. She shares with Rene the biggest joys and challenges of both her current role and her career thus far....

Chris Miller discovered the semiconductor industry by way of Russian history and is now a highly sought-after advisor to tech companies, investors, and government entities. Chris and Rene discuss the global connectedness of chip production and why some countries have thrived in their semiconductor industry development while others have stagnated. They also theorize about the future of AI and the w...

Having first served in the Marine Corps and later in Congress, Mike Gallagher now manages Palantir’s defense business in the private sector. Now, he shares his story with Arm CEO Rene Haas, explaining the role of AI in national security, both present and potential, and revealing his best “life hack.” Join Mike and Rene to learn whether leaders are born or made, and why great leaders aren’t afraid...

In this unfiltered conversation between two long-term colleagues and friends, we hear how Jensen has reimagined NVIDIA to focus on systems and help lead the AI Industrial Revolution. You’ll also find out why Jensen wants the pace of innovation to move even faster than it already is.  Subscribe to get each episode of Tech Unheard in your podcast feed monthly. The future of AI is built on Arm.  Tech...

Arm CEO Rene Haas takes you behind the boardroom door with technology’s most inspiring visionaries. Tech Unheard lets you listen in on one-on-one conversations with industry leaders, everything from the potential of artificial general intelligence to pre-keynote nerves.  Haas and his guests explore the drivers behind each leader’s path and analyze the most pressing trends in their space — plus tel...