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Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if your mobile number became the single identity that powers every call, text, and meeting—on your smartphone, your desk phone, and your laptop? We sat down at the T-Mobile for Business booth to unpack a 5G connected workplace that unifies communications inside Microsoft Teams while retiring the patchwork of SIP trunks and over-th...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Ever wished you could roll into a venue and flip on flawless connectivity like a light switch? We sit down with T-Mobile for Business at their booth to unpack a portable private 5G kit built for speed, security, and control—ready to power live broadcasts, pop-up events, and mission-critical enterprise workflows in a matter of hours. We...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Picture a cell tower that takes to the sky when the ground route is blocked. We sit with Chris, senior disaster recovery manager at T‑Mobile for Business, to unpack how a tethered drone becomes a flying cell site—rising to 400 feet, running 24/7, and restoring coverage where trucks can’t reach. From islands off Puerto Rico to rugged st...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com When communication becomes mission critical, “good enough” isn’t good enough. We sit down at the T-Mobile for Business booth to unpack Supermobile, a bundled plan built for reliability under pressure. Instead of stitching together a dozen add-ons, Supermobile brings unlimited talk, text, and data together with satellite backup via Spac...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if spinning up a 100G connection took less time than making coffee? We sit down with Megaport’s CEO Michael Reid and technical evangelist Alexis Bertholf to explore how a fully automated, software-defined backbone turns global networking into a click-and-go experience across 1,000+ data centers. We trace their unconventional paths...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if customer communications weren’t an island, but the heartbeat of your business? We dive into how we’re unifying contact center and collaboration with an AI-powered CX platform designed for end-to-end automation, tight integrations, and real-world reliability. The goal: make every interaction faster, smarter, and easier to act on...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if AI in telecom had to earn its keep from day one? We sit down with Petri, CEO of Tupl, to unpack a no-nonsense approach to automation where every workflow ties back to a clear business case. From shrinking customer care handle times to orchestrating energy savings that don’t dent performance, this conversation shows how practica...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Stuck with slow processes, rising OPEX, and customers who expect fixes in seconds, not hours? We sit down with Hector Montes from Tupl to unpack a pragmatic blueprint for telecom automation that starts with the people who know the work best—domain experts—and turns their know‑how into solutions that scale. From first-contact technical...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if your best coach was available at any moment you needed help on the job? We sit down with industry analyst Josh Bersin to unpack how generative AI is replacing one-size-fits-all courses with real-time, conversational enablement that helps people perform, learn, and grow in the flow of work. Instead of chasing completion rates, t...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com The most natural way to ask for help is to speak—and that’s exactly why voice CX is so hard to get right. We sit down with Babelforce CEO & Co-Founder Pierce Buckley to unpack why the real challenge isn’t the AI model at the front, but the orchestration behind it: identity, contracts, logistics, field service, and payments spanning...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com A billion smartphones ship every year, yet billions of people still can’t get online. The barrier isn’t coverage—or even a $70 device—it’s trust, credit, and the lack of banking rails in places where daily income leaves no room for upfront purchases. We sit down with Trustonic CEO Dion Price to unpack a counterintuitive solution: secur...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What happens when a carrier starts fresh, ditches the black boxes, and treats a nation like a living lab? We sat down with the CEO of Paradise Mobile to unpack how Bermuda—just 21 square miles and 65,000 people—became a launchpad for cloud-native, OpenRAN telecom that ships features in weeks, not years. The story begins with a team tha...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Your phone’s most magical moments—messages turning blue, a watch pairing in seconds, an eSIM activating from Settings, a text sent from the middle of nowhere—don’t happen by accident. They ride on a quiet protocol called entitlements, and today we sit down with Emir Aboulhosn, CEO of NetLync to unpack how this invisible layer is being...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com A single unchecked setting can hand your network to an attacker—and it happens more often than most teams admit. We sit down with Adam BennettCo-Founder and CEO from SureStack to unpack how “resilient intelligence” marries standards, deep practitioner experience, and AI to find misconfigurations fast and guide clear, step-by-step fixes...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if the riskiest part of a megaproject is the part you can’t see? We sit down with Jeremy Suard CEO and co-founder of Exodigo, to unpack how multi-sensor scanning and decision-support AI reveal the utilities and soil conditions that make or break billion-dollar timelines. Instead of relying on incomplete as-builts and sparse boring...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What if the most transformative leap in connectivity isn’t another wireless upgrade, but a smarter wire? We sit down with Valens Semiconductor’s Gili Friedman to explore how high‑bandwidth, zero‑latency, and EMI‑resilient links are quietly powering the systems we can’t afford to fail—cars, factories, clinics, and the collaboration room...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Hiring moved online, but trust didn’t keep up. We sat down with Raj from Trua to explore how HR can stop chasing documents and start consuming reusable, high-assurance credentials that protect privacy, block bots and deepfakes, and get qualified people to work faster. If you’ve felt the friction of delayed background checks, remote onb...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Phishing didn’t fade—it evolved. We sit down with Trevor Hilligoss, SVP of SpyCloud Labs and former Army CID/FBI cyber agent, to map how identity has become the criminal world’s most tradable commodity, why phishing-as-a-service keeps gaining ground, and how adversary-in-the-middle kits are turning session cookies into skeleton keys. F...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Your chatbot just recommended a competitor. Your interns pasted sensitive research into a public model. And your developers fed entire mobile codebases to a chatbot for “optimization.” We’ve seen it all—and we’re turning those hard lessons into a practical, repeatable playbook for safe AI at scale. We sit down with Rick Caccia CEO and...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Cybercrime now rivals the GDP of major nations, and the pressure on defenders is relentless. We sit down with Microsoft’s CVP Security Vasu Jakkal to explore how AI is becoming the operating system of defense—turning 84 trillion daily signals into clear decisions, faster action, and a truly proactive posture. If you’ve felt stuck in al...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Waiting in a hospital is not just frustrating—it’s costly, risky, and fixable. We sit down with Michael Guidry from Teletracking to unpack how smart operations, grounded in AI and clear workflow design, can turn stalled discharge lists into steady movement, open beds sooner, and get patients to the right place without the usual maze of...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com A golf course shouldn’t have to choose between great shots and great signal. From the first tee to the grandstands, we show how a portable private 5G network turned Bethpage Black into a live broadcast studio, a responsive venue, and a real-time storytelling machine for the Ryder Cup. With Scott Jacka, Senior Director of Technology Dev...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com AI’s rise isn’t just a software story—it’s an energy story. We sit down with Dynamix CEO Andrejka Bernatova to map the hard tradeoffs behind powering data centers, blockchain networks, and onshored manufacturing, and why the smartest path forward treats the grid as “one energy” rather than a fight between fossils and renewables. Andrej...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Ensuring AI systems actually work as intended might be the most crucial challenge facing developers and enterprises today. As these powerful tools become more embedded in our daily workflows and critical business processes, their non-deterministic nature presents unique reliability challenges unlike anything we've faced with tradi...

Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What happens when you apply four decades of customer experience expertise to healthcare's most pressing challenges? David Shapiro, COO of Premier Annex, offers a masterclass in transforming patient experiences through what he calls "tech-enabled human in the loop" solutions. Healthcare providers excel at medical care but...