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Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if pain relief, faster recovery, and better sleep were a matter of getting the right light to the right place with the right dose? We sit down with Tom Kerber, engineer-turned-inventor and founder of SunPowerLED, alongside Dr. Hayman Buwan, physician and medical advisor, are bringing together deep engineering rigor and clinical in...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Trophies are easy to buy; credibility is not. We sit down with Russ Fordyce, Chief Recognition Officer at Business Intelligence Group, to unpack how modern awards can be rigorous, transparent, and genuinely valuable for marketers under pressure to prove results. From volunteer judges with track records to blockchain certificates that v...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Most companies call it innovation when they add a feature. Real disruption is when you build the thing that makes the old one irrelevant. That’s where this conversation starts. JJ de la Torre, founder and CEO of **Raven**, joins us to talk about what leaders consistently get wrong about digitalization, transformation, and “innovation t...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if every meter in a city became a tiny base station? That simple shift unlocks coverage where towers fail, slashes operating costs, and floods the grid with the data it needs to stay resilient under the weight of electrification. We sit down with Wirepas CEO Teppo Hemiä to unpack how a fully decentralized mesh lets devices make lo...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com CES is about to flood every feed with AI demos and wall-sized screens, but the real breakthroughs are quieter: teams turning bold ideas into measurable results. We sat down to unpack how the We Love Tech Awards celebrate that kind of progress—transparent judging, practical innovation, and stories you can actually learn from. We revisit...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Forecast calls shouldn’t feel like theater. We sat down with People got ai’s new CEO Jason Ambrose to unpack how turning raw activity—emails, meetings, call transcripts—into crisp answers can transform forecasting, end CRM fatigue, and give leaders the clarity they actually need. Instead of forcing reps to feed fields, the platform rea...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com A bright pair of pink socks walked into HIMSS and walked out as a global symbol of connection. We sit down with Nick Adkins to unpack how a playful gesture turned into 300,000 gifts, a nonprofit rooted in kindness, and a book that invites all of us to love more and fear less. Nick takes us back to 2015, when he and cofounder Andrew Ric...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if the secret to scaling AI agents has nothing to do with better prompts and everything to do with smarter integration? We sit down with Rich Waldron Co-founder & CEO of Tray dot ai to unpack how an integration-first architecture turns agent hype into measurable business outcomes. From cloud-native orchestration to resilient A...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Vegas turns into a living blueprint for the future as we sit down with CTA’s Gary Shapiro and best-selling author Jim Harris to unpack why CES 2026 is more than a showcase—it’s where strategy gets decided. We dig into how AI has moved from headline hype to the connective tissue of every sector, shaping robotics, health, mobility, and e...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com A journalist screams, “I’m wasting four hours a day transcribing,” and a product is born. We sit down with Lasse Finderup, CEO of Good Tape to unpack how a newsroom pain point turned into a privacy-first platform used by millions—and why saying no to feature bloat matters more than chasing every shiny AI trick. We trace the spin-out or...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Copilots can suggest the next click, but they rarely deliver the finished job. We dive into a different path: enterprise AI agents that integrate with your systems, understand your business rules, and execute end-to-end workflows with governance, accuracy, and reliability. Rob Bearden co-founder and CEO Sema4.ai shares how their platfo...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Big leaps in AI rarely come from one breakthrough. They emerge when hardware design, open software, and real workloads click into place. That’s the story we unpack with AMD’s Ramine Roane: how an open, developer-first approach combined with high-bandwidth memory, chiplet packaging, and a re-architected software stack is reshaping perfo...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com A billion-dollar talent marketplace doesn’t happen by accident—it happens when access, scale, and experience come together. We sit down with  Michael Morris the head of Torc at Randstad Digital to unpack how a once-independent platform now matches millions of professionals with work, why the talent market feels like a “teenage” phase,...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Most people think of SD cards as camera accessories. We pull back the curtain with the SD Association to show how SD Express turns that tiny card into an SSD-class powerhouse for creators, PCs, and AI at the edge—without losing the flexibility of removable media. By bringing PCIe and NVMe to the SD form factor, SD Express delivers nine...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if your hotel could keep checking guests in even when the primary PMS goes down? We sit with Jason from SNET Communications to unpack how a true all‑in‑one stack—networks, SD‑WAN, security, UCaaS, CCaaS, and a native PMS—eliminates finger‑pointing and keeps operations moving when it matters most. We walk through the realities of l...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Want a clear view of where global voice is headed and how AI changes the math? We sit down with Barbara Dondiego CEO at Avoxi to unpack the shift from legacy telephony to a modern cloud voice backbone that unifies numbers, routes across multiple CCaaS platforms, and puts intelligence at the very top of the stack. If you’ve wrestled wit...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Forget the old playbook of carrier hotels and cross-connects. We sit down with Dave Ward, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Lumen, to map the real shift to Cloud 2.0—an AI-driven rearchitecture of how data moves, where compute lives, and how enterprises keep control as speed and scale explode. Dave explains why data movement has...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com If you could see customer issues before they happen, would you still measure success by hold time? We dive into how CX is transforming from a reactive cost center to a proactive, revenue-positive engine—and why the shift depends on a new orchestration layer that acts as the brain across every channel. With Alorica’s co-CEOs, Max and Mi...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if you could see the internet the way attackers do—before the headlines, before the breach, before the phish hits your inbox? We sit down with Aidan Holland, senior security researcher at Censys, to unpack how daily global scans reveal the live shape of the web: assets you didn’t know you own, services you thought were private, an...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What happens when only 30% of your data fuels decisions and the rest sits idle? We dig into the shift from traditional storage to intelligent data infrastructure and reveal how that change powers AI, real-time insights, and rock-solid resilience across industries. Cesar Cernuda President of NetApp walks us through exabyte-scale growth,...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What happens when a global tech leader turns its entire company into an AI lab? Our conversation with TCS’s CIO Janardhan Santhanam opens the door on a culture-first transformation powered by the world’s largest AI hackathon—half a million ideas, 55 million lines of code in days, and a wave of agentic apps built from no‑code to pro‑cod...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Stop juggling one-time codes and clunky authenticator apps. We sit down with Eddie DeCurtis, CEO and co-founder of Shush, to unpack how carriers can quietly verify users in milliseconds using standards-driven, privacy-guarded data. Think number-to-IP matching, SIM swap checks, and location signals—all done behind the scenes so sign-ins...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Tired of pretty charts that don’t change your strategy? We go straight at the hard truth: social media is evolving from follower-first tactics to value-first systems, and the winners are those who align a crisp ICP with content that solves real problems at scale. Emeric Ernoult is the Founder and CEO of Agorapulse, a serial entrepreneu...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if your enterprise could make the right decision, across every silo, in real time? We sit down with Paul Breitenbach, Founder & CEO r4 Technologies, to unpack how predictive AI goes beyond generative tools and actually drives outcomes: higher revenue, lower costs, and fewer bad events across the board. Paul explains why cross-...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Imagine asking your AI to book the flight, pick the hotel, and reserve the car—and it just does it. That convenience also opens a massive security gap when agents ask for your passwords, impersonate you online, and leave no clean line between what you intended and what was executed. We sit down with Peter Horadan is the CEO of Vouched,...