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Your people aren't tired of change — they're saturated. There's a difference, and it's the difference between an AI rollout that lands and one that bounces off your workforce entirely.
Kelle Fontenot is the Chief Digital Officer at KPMG US, where the CIO, the CTO, and the Chief Data Officer all report to her. She owns internal innovation, architecture, platform, engineering, and data across a 40,000-person workforce — and she's spent the last four and a half years steering that organization through cloud, data, and now an AI wave reshaping how every one of her people does their job.
In this conversation, Kelle reframes 'change fatigue' as 'change saturation,' reveals that KPMG employees built 25,000 AI agents in the last six months alone, walks through the synthetic-data acquisition powering regulated AI testing at scale, and explains the brand-new Anthropic partnership turning a 140-year-old services firm into a products company.
What you'll learn
• Why 'change fatigue' is the wrong diagnosis — and what 'saturation' changes about how you roll out AI
• Why KPMG refuses to use AI as a head-count lever — and why that decision is actually accelerating adoption
• How 40,000 KPMG employees built 25,000 AI agents in six months — and what that means for who counts as a 'builder'
• Why the CIO, CTO, and CDO all report to one person — and what would break if they didn't
• How synthetic data lets a regulated firm test AI at scale without the breach risk
• What KPMG's Anthropic partnership signals about the future of professional services
Connect
Kelle Fontenot on LinkedIn
KPMG US
IT Visionaries Podcast
Chapters
0:00 AI Change Has Become AI Saturation
1:29 Why “Change Fatigue” Is the Wrong Diagnosis
3:27 Prompting Like It’s November
4:46 Giving People Space to Innovate
6:38 AI Is Not a Headcount Lever
10:07 Building AI in a Regulated Business
11:24 The Risk Container Around AI
14:12 The AI-Augmented Auditor
17:21 The Agent Governance Problem
20:59 Why Digital, Data, and Tech Sit Together
22:59 Building an Inside Startup
30:04 Innovation Has to Happen at the Edge
36:48 The ROI Math for AI Agents
38:50 Why KPMG Bought a Synthetic Data Company
44:09 KPMG’s Anthropic Partnership
51:03 Shipping AI at Scale
52:10 Kelle Fontenot’s Advice for Leaders
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This episode of IT Visionaries is brought to you by Meter - the company building better networks. Businesses today are frustrated with outdated providers, rigid pricing, and fragmented tools. Meter changes that with a single integrated solution that covers everything wired, wireless, and even cellular networking. They design the hardware, write the firmware, build the software, and manage it all so your team doesn't have to.
That means you get fast, secure, and scalable connectivity without the complexity of juggling multiple providers. Thanks to meter for sponsoring. Go to meter.com/itv to book a demo.
---IT Visionaries is made by the team at Mission.org. Learn more about our media studio and network of podcasts at mission.org.
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Companies are making the exact same mistake with AI that they made with cloud.
FICO's CIO Mike Trkay breaks down why 95% of companies are failing at AI alignment, why "automating a bad process faster" is the #1 trap, and why regulated industries are already abandoning LLMs in favor of focused language models.
Key takeaways:
• Only 5% of AI pilots make it to production — and MIT's research backs it up
• The lift-and-shift parallel: cloud costs went up for the same reason AI ROI is missing
• Why the LLM-to-focused-language-model shift mirrors cloud-native vs lift-and-shift
• What "AI native" actually means (and why chatbots aren't it)
Chapters
00:00 The 5% Alignment Problem
01:09 Only 7% Even Measure If Their AI Works
02:15 "You're Just Doing a Bad Process Faster"
06:29 LLM Repatriation and the Rise of Focused Language Models
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This episode of IT Visionaries is brought to you by Meter - the company building better networks. Businesses today are frustrated with outdated providers, rigid pricing, and fragmented tools. Meter changes that with a single integrated solution that covers everything wired, wireless, and even cellular networking. They design the hardware, write the firmware, build the software, and manage it all so your team doesn't have to.
That means you get fast, secure, and scalable connectivity without the complexity of juggling multiple providers. Thanks to meter for sponsoring. Go to meter.com/itv to book a demo.
---IT Visionaries is made by the team at Mission.org. Learn more about our media studio and network of podcasts at mission.org.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Network automation has been "coming soon" for over a decade. So what's actually different this time?
John Capobianco, Head of AI & Developer Relations at Itential, built NetClaw — a CCIE-level AI agent that manages network infrastructure through Slack and WhatsApp. It hit 300 GitHub stars in two weeks. It can analyze packet captures, configure routers, run compliance tests, and generate documentation — all through natural language.
John spent 15 years as a network engineer before becoming one of the leading voices in network automation. He's published multiple books, created dozens of open-source projects, and just launched the VibeOps community where 600+ network engineers share AI code without judgment.
Key takeaways:
• Why natural language is the breakthrough that makes network automation finally work (hint: nobody has to learn Python anymore)
• The 5 use cases beyond config management that deliver value on day one — all read-only, all low-risk
• How to go from human-in-the-loop to fully agentic network operations without triggering panic
• Why "shadow AI" is the new shadow IT — and what leadership needs to do about it
• The contrarian case that writing configs by hand is now a solved problem
Guest: John Capobianco — Head of AI & Developer Relations, Itential
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/john-capobianco-644a1515
X/Twitter: @John_Capobianco
NetClaw: github.com/automateyournetwork/netclaw
VibeOps Forum: Reach John on LinkedIn or X for invite
Chapters
0:00 Why AI Is Different for Network Automation
2:32 Natural Language: The Interface That Changes Everything
3:51 "The Network Should Be Like a Telephone" — Why Engineers Resist Change
6:08 The No-Win Life of a Network Engineer
8:08 OpenClaw: More GitHub Stars Than Linux
10:15 What NetClaw Actually Does (90 Skills, 43 MCPs)
11:37 The RFC Documentation Problem AI Can Solve
13:03 Day One Agent Rules: Start Read-Only
13:58 When Was the Last Time We Hired a Junior?
15:54 How NetClaw Hit 300 Stars in Two Weeks
19:54 Deterministic vs Non-Deterministic: Getting Engineers Over the Hump
23:36 War Stories: Fat Fingers, MTU Issues, and the DNS Nightmare
28:32 Documentation: The AI Use Case Nobody Can Argue With
32:34 Beyond Config Management: 5 AI Use Cases That Matter Now
36:00 The IDS/IPS Analogy: Why AI Agents Succeed Where Signatures Failed
40:02 AI Hallucination Is Overstated — Misalignment Is the Real Problem
41:53 Model Convergence: Why the Stuff Around the Model Matters More
46:00 Shadow AI Is the New Shadow IT
47:59 What Happens When AI Understands Your Business Context
53:59 The Optimistic Case for AI and Humanity
56:05 VibeOps: Building a Safe Space for AI-Curious Engineers
1:00:36 Is Vibe Coding Just Coding Now?
1:01:54 "Don't Write the Configs Anymore"
1:02:43 Closing & Where to Find John
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This episode of IT Visionaries is brought to you by Meter - the company building better networks. Businesses today are frustrated with outdated providers, rigid pricing, and fragmented tools. Meter changes that with a single integrated solution that covers everything wired, wireless, and even cellular networking. They design the hardware, write the firmware, build the software, and manage it all so your team doesn't have to.
That means you get fast, secure, and scalable connectivity without the complexity of juggling multiple providers. Thanks to meter for sponsoring. Go to meter.com/itv to book a demo.
---IT Visionaries is made by the team at Mission.org. Learn more about our media studio and network of podcasts at mission.org.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Your basic search is missing a massive section of the internet.
In this IT Visionaries Spotlight, Chris Brandt talks with Sudheesh Nair, Co-Founder and CEO of TinyFish, about the hidden layer of the internet - the data, pricing, and real-world context that never shows up in search results.
The future isn’t better search. It’s AI that can operate the web for you - executing multi-step tasks, navigating complexity, and returning answers that actually reflect your situation.
Chapters:
0:00 The Internet You Never See
1:55 From Search to “Operating the Web”
4:30 The Real Value - From Pricing to Taste
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This episode of IT Visionaries is brought to you by Meter - the company building better networks. Businesses today are frustrated with outdated providers, rigid pricing, and fragmented tools. Meter changes that with a single integrated solution that covers everything wired, wireless, and even cellular networking. They design the hardware, write the firmware, build the software, and manage it all so your team doesn't have to.
That means you get fast, secure, and scalable connectivity without the complexity of juggling multiple providers. Thanks to meter for sponsoring. Go to meter.com/itv to book a demo.
---IT Visionaries is made by the team at Mission.org. Learn more about our media studio and network of podcasts at mission.org.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Think AI is about automating what you already do? That's the same mistake companies made moving to cloud, and FICO's Mike Trkay says you're about to waste millions proving it.
Mike is Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Customer Officer (CCO) at FICO, an analytics software company that processes billions of decisions per day and powers 80% of fraud detection.
In this episode, Mike explains why 95% of AI projects never reach production, why companies are already repatriating workloads from large language models, and what really separates automation from transformation.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:23: Why FICO's CIO Is Also the Chief Customer Officer
4:52 The Office Space Problem: Why CIOs Are Really Translators
6:02 "Conduit in Chief" — The CIO's Real Job
6:45 How CIOs Accidentally Become Cost Centers
7:40 What FICO Actually Does (It's Not Just Credit Scores)
12:59 How Missile Guidance Tech Became Fraud Detection
17:59 When LLMs Can't Meet 150-Millisecond Latency
21:32 Why AI Strategy Is Harder Than It Looks
24:50 The Cloud Parallel: 5% Alignment and Why AI Projects Stall
27:08 "You're Just Doing a Bad Process Faster"
31:44 LLM Repatriation Is Already Happening
37:40 A FICO Score for AI Decisions
43:10 Global Regulation and Staying Ahead of Compliance
45:22 The Australian Banking Example: Focused Language Models in Practice
52:08 From Cost Center to Innovation Driver
54:40 What's Next: Agentic Architecture and Focused Sequence Models
57:49 "What's the Opportunity Today?" — The CIO Mindset Shift
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This episode of IT Visionaries is brought to you by Meter - the company building better networks. Businesses today are frustrated with outdated providers, rigid pricing, and fragmented tools. Meter changes that with a single integrated solution that covers everything wired, wireless, and even cellular networking. They design the hardware, write the firmware, build the software, and manage it all so your team doesn't have to.
That means you get fast, secure, and scalable connectivity without the complexity of juggling multiple providers. Thanks to meter for sponsoring. Go to meter.com/itv to book a demo.
---IT Visionaries is made by the team at Mission.org. Learn more about our media studio and network of podcasts at mission.org.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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AI is forcing enterprises to rethink everything from hardware to governance, and most organizations are attacking it in silos.
Mano Bhattacharyya (CTO, Nutanix) breaks down why AI isn't just an application layer problem, but an end-to-end transformation that spans compute (GPUs, ARM, DPUs), data management (unclean enterprise data, knowledge graphs), security (agent gateways, MCP server risks), and economics (token costs vs. usage explosion). He explains why CIOs need cross-functional AI committees, not isolated strategies, and why use case driven AI beats exploratory projects that burn budgets in months.
The solution is to form AI committees where CIO, CTO, and CDO work together, not in silos. Focus on use case driven AI by learning from peers, rather than exploratory AI that becomes a budget trap. Start with small prototypes with dedicated use cases, not a free-for-all where every team tries something.
Chapters:
0:00 AI as an End-to-End Infrastructure Challenge
2:16 Networking, Storage, and Bare Metal VM Performance
4:43 Agent Security, Gateways, and Enterprise Governance
6:33 Use Case Driven AI and Learning from Peers
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This episode of IT Visionaries is brought to you by Meter - the company building better networks. Businesses today are frustrated with outdated providers, rigid pricing, and fragmented tools. Meter changes that with a single integrated solution that covers everything wired, wireless, and even cellular networking. They design the hardware, write the firmware, build the software, and manage it all so your team doesn't have to.
That means you get fast, secure, and scalable connectivity without the complexity of juggling multiple providers. Thanks to meter for sponsoring. Go to meter.com/itv to book a demo.
---IT Visionaries is made by the team at Mission.org. Learn more about our media studio and network of podcasts at mission.org.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Think 5G is about faster phones? That's what telecom companies want consumers to believe. The truth is far more interesting.
In this episode, Elena Fersman (VP and Head of AI Innovation at Ericsson) reveals what 5G networks are really built for: industries, not consumers. Through network slicing, edge computing, and cognitive systems, 5G creates the infrastructure that makes AI applications possible at scale—from remote surgery where milliseconds matter, to AR/VR without wearing a backpack of GPUs, to factory floors with autonomous heavy machinery.
Elena also shares surprising stories: how establishing a simple communication link led to 20% fuel savings for a shipping company, why autonomous networks are safer than human operators (the elevator operator analogy is perfect), and why Ericsson's trustworthy AI research has been running for 15 years.
If you're an IT leader trying to understand where networks and AI intersect, or you're struggling with AI deployment and don't know where to start, this conversation cuts through the hype with practical frameworks and real-world examples from someone who's been in the trenches for two decades.
Chapters:
00:00 - The Risk of Not Deploying AI
03:05 - The AI RAN Alliance: AI and Networks as Symbiotic Partners
10:03 - Why 5G Is Built for Industries, Not Consumers
13:54 - How AI Optimizes Networks (Energy, Predictions, Handoffs)
21:06 - Cognitive Networks and Self-Organization
29:02 - Real-World Impact: 20% Fuel Savings for Shipping
30:52 - What Makes AI Projects Scale vs Fail
41:11 - The Critical First Step: Data Management Over Algorithms
57:25 - Confessions of an AI Brain: The Positive Future
1:01:02 - Why Autonomous Systems Are Safer Than Humans
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This episode of IT Visionaries is brought to you by Meter - the company building better networks. Businesses today are frustrated with outdated providers, rigid pricing, and fragmented tools. Meter changes that with a single integrated solution that covers everything wired, wireless, and even cellular networking. They design the hardware, write the firmware, build the software, and manage it all so your team doesn't have to.
That means you get fast, secure, and scalable connectivity without the complexity of juggling multiple providers. Thanks to meter for sponsoring. Go to meter.com/itv to book a demo.
---IT Visionaries is made by the team at Mission.org. Learn more about our media studio and network of podcasts at mission.org.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Compliance and regulatory reporting used to mean endless spreadsheets, fragmented data sources, and teams drowning in manual work. Today, AI is transforming how the world's largest companies manage financial reporting, sustainability disclosures, and audit workflows—not by replacing humans, but by giving them time back to do strategic work.
In this episode of IT Visionaries, host Chris Brandt sits down with Kim Huffman, CIO of Workiva, the platform used by 85% of the Fortune 100 for critical financial and compliance reporting. Kim shares her unique perspective as both a former Workiva customer and now the CIO steering the company into an AI-powered future.
They explore how the office of the CFO is evolving under pressure from new sustainability regulations, how AI governance actually works in practice, and why collaboration between IT, finance, sustainability, and risk teams has become essential. Kim also discusses the changing role of the CIO, the coming wave of autonomous agents in the workplace, and why having more data doesn't always mean making better decisions.
Key Moments:
00:58 – The State of Compliance Today
02:18 – Why Standards and Regulations Matter
05:48 – The Complexity of Global Compliance
07:36 – Data Collection Across Teams
08:36 – Single Source of Truth
10:20 – The Sustainability Data Challenge
13:36 – The Endless Spreadsheet Problem
16:12 – What's Driving the CFO Office
19:46 – AI's Strategic Role at Workiva
23:02 – Beyond Repetitive Tasks
25:20 – Transforming How Teams Work
27:03 – Will AI Replace Jobs or Create Capacity?
30:00 – Measuring AI's Business Impact
33:06 – Speed vs. Data Overload
36:25 – The Evolving Role of the CIO
40:00 – Technology Leadership in Transition
43:09 – The Next Five Years for CIOs
46:14 – Managing the Coming Wave of AI Agents
50:02 – AI Will Create Its Own Security Industry
52:26 – The Sustainability Reporting Reality
55:31 – Resource Constraints and AI Consumption
57:34 – Why ESG Data Is Now Critical Business Intelligence
59:23 – Keeping NPS High While Innovating
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This episode of IT Visionaries is brought to you by Meter - the company building better networks. Businesses today are frustrated with outdated providers, rigid pricing, and fragmented tools. Meter changes that with a single integrated solution that covers everything wired, wireless, and even cellular networking. They design the hardware, write the firmware, build the software, and manage it all so your team doesn't have to.
That means you get fast, secure, and scalable connectivity without the complexity of juggling multiple providers. Thanks to meter for sponsoring. Go to meter.com/itv to book a demo.
---IT Visionaries is made by the team at Mission.org. Learn more about our media studio and network of podcasts at mission.org.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Most companies don’t realize it yet, but the way they built their technology foundations is quietly becoming a liability.
Cloud costs are rising. Platforms change underneath you. AI is reshaping infrastructure from hardware to data to governance. And the strategies that once felt “safe” are now the ones creating the most risk.
In this episode of IT Visionaries, host Chris Brandt sits down with Mano Bhattacharya, CTO of Nutanix, to unpack what’s really happening inside enterprise technology right now. This isn’t a conversation about chasing the newest tools or betting on a single future. It’s about why adaptability has become the most important design principle in modern tech.
Mano explains why many organizations are rethinking long-held assumptions about virtualization, cloud, and containers, and why the smartest teams are building infrastructure that gives them options over the next three to five years. They explore how AI changes the entire stack, not just applications, why data has become the real bottleneck, and why moving fast without a coherent plan can be more dangerous than moving slowly.
Chapters:
00:00 - The VMware Exodus Wave is Coming
03:34 - VMware Broadcom Acquisition: What Changed and Why It Matters
05:56 - Three Migration Paths: Stay, Move to Cloud, or Modernize
09:59 - Why Containers on VMs Make Sense for Most Enterprises
15:40 - The Five Stages of VMware Migration Grief
21:20 - VMware Admin to Nutanix Admin: Closing the Skills Gap
24:14 - The Cloud-in-a-Box Philosophy: From Boxes to Software
32:30 - Opening Up the Platform: Pure Storage and Third-Party Integrations
40:54 - AI Infrastructure: The End-to-End Challenge
48:01 - Enterprise AI Strategy: Use Cases, Economics, and Governance
56:44 - What's Next: Building the Invisible Platform for AI
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This episode of IT Visionaries is brought to you by Meter - the company building better networks. Businesses today are frustrated with outdated providers, rigid pricing, and fragmented tools. Meter changes that with a single integrated solution that covers everything wired, wireless, and even cellular networking. They design the hardware, write the firmware, build the software, and manage it all so your team doesn't have to.
That means you get fast, secure, and scalable connectivity without the complexity of juggling multiple providers. Thanks to meter for sponsoring. Go to meter.com/itv to book a demo.
---IT Visionaries is made by the team at Mission.org. Learn more about our media studio and network of podcasts at mission.org.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Most people assume the internet is stable, durable, and ready for whatever comes next. The truth is a bit more complicated. Modern networks were never designed for today’s scale, and for the first time we are seeing technology that can make them smarter, simpler, and far more reliable.
In this episode of IT Visionaries, host Chris Brandt talks with Anil Varanasi, CEO and Co-Founder of Meter, about how the next era of networking is taking shape. Anil explains why traditional infrastructure struggles to keep up, how a unified approach can remove layers of complexity, and why the future of the internet is moving toward faster and more resilient systems.
He also shares how natural language tools and purpose-built models are transforming the work of network engineers, and why autonomous networking may arrive sooner than most people expect. These advancements are creating a path to networks that can configure, maintain, and optimize themselves without increasing operational burden.
Key Moments:
00:00 – Why Modern Networks Are Broken
02:50 – The Pain of Multi-Vendor Sprawl
05:04 – Rebuilding the Entire Stack From Scratch
08:31 – Why Meter Refused to Ship Until It Was Great
11:39 – Hardware, Software, Delivery: A Single Platform
13:34 – No CapEx and Automatic Hardware Refresh
18:26 – How Meter Handles Growth, Migration & Space-Level Infrastructure
20:32 – The Real Reason Networks Fail (Configuration + Compatibility)
23:51 – GUI vs CLI: What Engineers Really Want
25:56 – Introducing Command: Natural-Language Networking
27:37 – Auto-Generated Dashboards and Custom Software
30:38 – Why AI Shouldn’t Be an Empty Buzzword
32:51 – Toward Fully Autonomous Networks by 2027
36:46 – The Network Engineer Shortage & What Comes Next
38:33 – What Autonomous Networking Actually Means
41:38 – Why the Internet Will Keep Growing Faster
43:02 – The Customers Who Need Meter Most
45:39 – Factory Floors, Warehouses, Data Centers, and Edge
48:32 – Nine New Hardware Platforms & Design Philosophy
52:56 – How Meter Maintains Networks Without Downtime
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This episode of IT Visionaries is brought to you by Meter - the company building better networks. Businesses today are frustrated with outdated providers, rigid pricing, and fragmented tools. Meter changes that with a single integrated solution that covers everything wired, wireless, and even cellular networking. They design the hardware, write the firmware, build the software, and manage it all so your team doesn't have to.
That means you get fast, secure, and scalable connectivity without the complexity of juggling multiple providers. Thanks to meter for sponsoring. Go to meter.com/itv to book a demo.
---IT Visionaries is made by the team at Mission.org. Learn more about our media studio and network of podcasts at mission.org.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Most leaders assume AI and search already see the whole internet. In reality, they all operate on the same tiny slice of the web.
In this episode of IT Visionaries, host Chris Brandt sits down with Sudheesh Nair, Co-Founder and CEO of TinyFish and former CEO of ThoughtSpot, to unpack why only a small percentage of the web is indexable and how that cripples enterprise AI.
Sudheesh explains why the next breakthrough won’t come from bigger models or better search, but from agents that can operate the web at scale, logging in, filling forms, running workflows, and surfacing the long tail of opportunities that never appear on page one. He also shares why human craft, taste, and presence will matter more than ever in an agent-driven world.
Key Moments:
00:00 - The Deep Web Problem
02:48 - The Amazon Search Trap
04:26 - Why Search is Broken
07:01 - Internet is No Longer a Library
08:29 - AI Answers vs Blue Links
13:05 - Introducing Tiny Fish's Mission
16:00 - Search as a Poor Experience
18:29 - The Deep Web: APIs, Workflows & Logins
22:11 - Tackling the 93% Problem
25:47 - The Eight-Room Hotel Success Story
29:04 - Operating the Web vs Skimming It
32:42 - Real-Time Personalized Workflows
38:31 - Enterprise B2B Strategy
40:18 - Taste Over Tools
43:08 - AI Freeing Human Experience
46:36 - Travel Experiences & Local Discovery
50:00 - Democratizing the Internet
56:39 - The Waving Guide in China
1:01:12 - Optimism for AI's Future
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This episode of IT Visionaries is brought to you by Meter - the company building better networks. Businesses today are frustrated with outdated providers, rigid pricing, and fragmented tools. Meter changes that with a single integrated solution that covers everything wired, wireless, and even cellular networking. They design the hardware, write the firmware, build the software, and manage it all so your team doesn't have to.
That means you get fast, secure, and scalable connectivity without the complexity of juggling multiple providers. Thanks to meter for sponsoring. Go to meter.com/itv to book a demo.
---IT Visionaries is made by the team at Mission.org. Learn more about our media studio and network of podcasts at mission.org.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Most organizations are sitting on mountains of documents, PDFs, emails, and images they still cannot fully search, organize, or understand.
In this episode of IT Visionaries, host Chris Brandt sits down with Tim McIntire, CTO of Hyland, to unpack why unstructured data is still one of the biggest blockers between AI hype and real results. Tim breaks down why so many companies struggle to access the content they already have and what it really takes to make that information usable, trustworthy, and valuable.
From building content that is ready for AI to unlocking new context-aware agents and improving governance and transparency, Tim explains how leading organizations are finally turning everyday content into real business impact and why the future of enterprise AI starts with cleaning up what is already in the basement.
Key Moments:
02:36 - What Hyland Actually Does
04:18 - Why 80% of Enterprise Data Is Unusable
06:46 - From 30,000 Manual Indexes to Automation
07:47 - Vectorization: Making Documents AI-Ready
09:45 - The ROI of Eliminating Mundane Work
10:55 - AI vs RPA: Why Intelligence Changes Everything
13:23 - Federate Don't Migrate: Meeting Customers Where They Are
16:29 - Governance Can't Be an Afterthought
18:11 - The Explainability Breakthrough
20:10 - Day 1 to Day 90: Faster Time to Value
22:56 - Enterprise Agent Mesh Explained
24:06 - Context Engineering: The New AI Superpower
26:36 - Confidence Scores: When Humans Step In
28:12 - Right Model for the Right Job
31:00 - The 18-Month Prediction: Agents Everywhere
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This episode of IT Visionaries is brought to you by Meter - the company building better networks. Businesses today are frustrated with outdated providers, rigid pricing, and fragmented tools. Meter changes that with a single integrated solution that covers everything wired, wireless, and even cellular networking. They design the hardware, write the firmware, build the software, and manage it all so your team doesn't have to.
That means you get fast, secure, and scalable connectivity without the complexity of juggling multiple providers. Thanks to meter for sponsoring. Go to meter.com/itv to book a demo.
---IT Visionaries is made by the team at Mission.org. Learn more about our media studio and network of podcasts at mission.org.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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If your business relies on video calls, messaging apps, or mobile devices, you are at risk for a new kind of attack.
In this episode of IT Visionaries, host Chris Brandt sits down with Christine Gadsby, Chief Security Officer at BlackBerry, to explore how AI, deepfakes, and weakened telecom infrastructure are reshaping the modern threat landscape.
Christine explains why enterprises can no longer trust what they see or hear, how metadata has become one of the most valuable intelligence sources for attackers, and why encryption alone is no longer enough to protect high-risk communications.
She also breaks down how nation-state groups like Salt Typhoon infiltrate global telco networks, exploit unpatchable 2G and 3G protocols, and use AI to refine attacks in real time.
Key Moments:
00:00 – Where Organizations Are Underestimating Communication Risk
04:05 – Can You Still Trust What You See and Hear on a Call?
08:11 – How Internal Messaging Quietly Became an Attack Surface
12:18 – Why Encryption Alone Does Not Secure Communications
16:24 – What BlackBerry Is Today and Why It Still Matters
20:31 – Why Governments and Enterprises Face a Different Threat Model
24:37 – How AI Deepfakes Changed Executive and Enterprise Risk
28:44 – Which Conversations Inside Your Company Matter Most?
32:50 – The Trust Assumptions Most Companies Don’t Realize They’re Making
36:56 – Why Attackers Wait for Moments of Urgency
41:03 – Is Cyber Extortion Sometimes a Cover for Espionage?
45:09 – Who Salt Typhoon Is and Why Telecom Networks Were Targeted
49:15 – Why Telecom Infrastructure Became an Intelligence Goldmine
53:22 – Why 2G and 3G Networks Still Put Modern Systems at Risk
57:28 – What Secure Communications Actually Require Today
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This episode of IT Visionaries is brought to you by Meter - the company building better networks. Businesses today are frustrated with outdated providers, rigid pricing, and fragmented tools. Meter changes that with a single integrated solution that covers everything wired, wireless, and even cellular networking. They design the hardware, write the firmware, build the software, and manage it all so your team doesn't have to.
That means you get fast, secure, and scalable connectivity without the complexity of juggling multiple providers. Thanks to meter for sponsoring. Go to meter.com/itv to book a demo.
---IT Visionaries is made by the team at Mission.org. Learn more about our media studio and network of podcasts at mission.org.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Security used to be a headache. Now it is a growth engine.
In this episode of IT Visionaries, host Chris Brandt sits down with Taylor Hersom, Founder and CEO of Eden Data and former CISO, to break down how fast growing companies can turn cybersecurity and compliance into a true competitive advantage. Taylor explains why frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and emerging AI standards such as ISO 42001 are becoming essential for winning enterprise business. He also shares how to future proof controls, connect compliance work to real business goals, and avoid the costly pitfalls that stall companies during scale.
Taylor also highlights the biggest blind spots in AI security, including model training risks, improper data handling, and the challenges created by relying on free AI tools. If you are building a SaaS product or selling into large companies, this conversation shows how trust, transparency, and strong security practices directly drive revenue.
Key Moments:
00:00 — The Hidden Risks of Scattered Company Data
04:11 — Why Early-Stage Teams Lose Control of Security
08:22 — Compliance Becomes a Competitive Advantage
12:33 — SOC 2 vs ISO 27001: What Founders Need to Know
16:44 — Framework Overload and How to Navigate It
20:55 — Mapping Security Controls to Business Objectives
25:06 — The Gap Between Compliance Audits and Real Threats
29:17 — Startup Security Blind Spots That Lead to Breaches
33:28 — Rising AI Risks Leaders Aren’t Preparing For
37:39 — Building Customer Trust Through Transparency
41:50 — Protecting AI Models and Sensitive Customer Data
46:01 — Why Free AI Tools Create Hidden Data Exposure
50:12 — Automating Security Controls for Scale
54:23 — Continuous Compliance Beats Annual Audits
58:34 — Final Takeaways on Security, Trust, and Growth
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The promise of agentic AI has been massive, autonomous systems that act, reason, and make business decisions, but most enterprises are still struggling to see results.
In this episode, host Chris Brandt sits down with Sumeet Arora, Chief Product Officer at Teradata, to unpack why the gap exists between AI hype and actual impact, and what it takes to make AI scale, explainable, and ROI-driven.
From the shift toward “AI with ROI” to the new era of human + AI systems and data quality challenges, Sumeet shares how leading enterprises are moving from flashy demos to measurable value and trust in the next phase of AI.
CHAPTER MARKERS
00:00 The AI Hackathon Era
03:10 Hype vs Reality in Agentic AI
06:05 Redesigning the Human AI Interface
09:15 From Demos to Real Economic Outcomes
12:20 Why Scaling AI Still Fails
15:05 The Importance of AI Ready Knowledge
18:10 Data Quality and the Biggest Bottleneck
20:46 Building the Customer 360 Knowledge Layer
23:35 Push vs Pull Systems in Modern AI
26:15 Rethinking Enterprise Workflows
29:20 AI Agents and Outcome Driven Design
32:45 Where Agentic AI Works Today
36:10 What Enterprises Still Get Wrong
39:30 How AI Changes Engineering Priorities
55:49 The Future of GPUs and Efficiency Challenges
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If you’ve ever shipped an AI feature that looked great in testing — only to watch it behave unpredictably in production — you’re not alone.
In this episode of IT Visionaries, host Chris Brandt talks with Lawrence Jones, Founding Engineer at incident.io, about the critical gap between AI that demos well and AI that works under pressure. Lawrence shares how his team designs tools that help engineers respond faster, learn from failure, and build systems that don’t crumble when it counts.
CHAPTERS / KEY MOMENTS
00:00 - AI Chaos & The Mike Tyson Rule
00:58 - Meet Lawrence Jones of Incident.io
03:14 - From FinTech Outages to Incident Response
06:22 - The Biggest Mistake in Incident Management
09:08 - Training for Chaos: Game Day Simulations
10:31 - Inside the AI SRE System
13:01 - What SRE Really Means
16:23 - From Prototype to Production AI
20:27 - Keeping Up with AI’s Rapid Evolution
22:50 - Understanding Vector Databases & Embeddings
28:34 - The Architecture Problem: Chaining Prompts at Scale
36:11 - Measuring AI Performance & Reliability
44:02 - The Future of SRE Meets AI
52:10 - Lessons from Real Incidents
56:42 - Final Thoughts: Building AI That Works
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Every product a company ships depends on thousands of tiny decisions happening deep inside the supply chain. But most organizations are still making those decisions using stale spreadsheets, fragmented systems, and guesswork.
In this episode, we explore how AI-driven procurement intelligence is changing the game – moving teams from reactive firefighting to proactive supply chain planning.
Our guest today is Shardul Shah, cofounder of VeritosAI. He breaks down the hidden risks inside modern supply networks, why so many companies still lack real-time component and supplier visibility, and how better data can prevent shortages, backorders, and costly redesigns before they happen.
We discuss:
Why most organizations still rely on Excel for procurement decisionsThe real reason supply chain disruptions keep catching teams off guardHow AI and real-time data can alert teams to risks ahead of timeThe growing need for operational visibility across engineering, finance, and sourcingHow procurement becomes a strategic advantage, not just a cost centerIf you’re responsible for building products, managing vendors, scaling hardware, or supporting manufacturing operations, this conversation will change how you think about supply chain intelligence and the future of procurement.
Key Moments:
0:00 Who Shardul Is & Why This Matters2:10 The Problem That Sparked VeritosAI6:06 Why Procurement Visibility Is Broken15:55 How VeritosAI Works (High-Level Overview)19:40 Why Supply Chain Is So Hard to Manage22:30 Identifying Alternative Parts & Replacements26:43 Real Example: The Power of Component Visibility29:00 The Role of AI in Modern Procurement35:15 The Current State of Procurement (And Its Challenges)38:50 The Biggest Skill Gap in Procurement: Understanding Cost46:00 The Disconnect Between Engineering & Procurement50:40 The Future: AI-Powered Procurement Command Centers--
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AI was supposed to make life easier. So why are tech teams more burned out than ever?
In this episode of IT Visionaries, host Chris Brandt and guest co-host Lacey Peace unpack the real reasons behind the burnout crisis sweeping through tech and cybersecurity teams in 2025. From the “do more with less” culture to the false promise of AI automation, they explore how overwork, layoffs, and unrealistic expectations are reshaping the future of tech work.
Topics we cover:
Why AI adoption is increasing workloads, not reducing them
How company culture drives burnout in IT and engineering teams
The loneliness epidemic in tech — and what to do about it
The generational shift changing expectations around work and life
How to build sustainable tech teams that don’t burn people out
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, under-resourced, or caught between automation and exhaustion — this conversation is for you.
Watch till the end for insights on how to protect your mental health in tech and what the next decade of work might look like.
Watch Next: https://youtu.be/fCFs28kadw0?si=SNDAuua7IamFEr3p
Key Moments:
0:00 Why Tech Teams Are Burning Out
2:21 Is Tech Burnout Actually Getting Worse?
4:15 How AI and Automation Are Fueling Burnout
9:45 Tech Culture Clash: Old Guard vs. New Generation
17:00 Why Burnout Is Becoming a National Security Problem
22:15 The Loneliness Epidemic in Tech (and How to Fix It)
25:00 Can More Headcount Solve the Burnout Problem?
30:50 The Future of Tech Work: What’s Changing Forever
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What happens when AI stops making mistakes… and starts misleading you?
This discussion dives into one of the most important — and least understood — frontiers in artificial intelligence: AI deception.
We explore how AI systems evolve from simple hallucinations (unintended errors) to deceptive behaviors — where models selectively distort truth to achieve goals or please human feedback loops. We unpack the coding incentives, enterprise risks, and governance challenges that make this issue critical for every executive leading AI transformation.
Key Moments:
00:00 What is AI Deception and Why It Matters
3:43 Emergent Behaviors: From Hallucinations to Alignment to Deception
4:40 Defining AI Deception
6:15 Does AI Have a Moral Compass?
7:20 Why AI Lies: Incentives to “Be Helpful” and Avoid Retraining
15:12 Is Deception Built into LLMs? (And Can It Ever Be Solved?)
18:00 Non-Human Intelligence Patterns: Hallucinations or Something Else?
19:37 Enterprise Impact: What Business Leaders Need to Know
27:00 Measuring Model Reliability: Can We Quantify AI Quality?
34:00 Final Thoughts: The Future of Trustworthy AI
Mentions:
Scientists at OpenAI and Apollo Research showed in a paper that AI models lie and deceive: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XuxVSPwW8I8TIME: New Tests Reveal AI’s Capacity for DeceptionOpenAI: Detecting and reducing scheming in AI modelsStartupHub: OpenAI and Apollo Research Reveal AI Models Are Learning to Deceive: New Detection Methods Show PromiseMarcus WellerHugging FaceWatch next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plwN5XvlKMg&t=1s
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Cisco’s Vijoy Pandey - SVP & GM of Outshift by Cisco - explains how AI agents and quantum networks could completely redefine how software, infrastructure, and security function in the next decade.
You’ll learn:
→ What “Agentic AI” and the “Internet of Agents” actually are
→ How Cisco open-sourced the Internet of Agents framework and why decentralization matters
→ The security threat of “store-now, decrypt-later” attacks—and how post-quantum cryptography will defend against them
→ How Outshift’s “freedom to fail” model fuels real innovation inside a Fortune-500 company
→ Why the next generation of software will blur the line between humans, AI agents, and machines
→ The vision behind Cisco’s Quantum Internet—and two real-world use cases you can see today: Quantum Sync and Quantum Alert
About Today’s Guest:
Meet Vijoy Pandey, the mind behind Cisco’s Outshift—a team pushing the boundaries of what’s next in AI, quantum computing, and the future internet. With 80+ patents to his name and a career spent redefining how systems connect and think, he’s one of the few leaders truly building the next era of computing before the rest of us even see it coming.
Key Moments:
00:00 Meet Vijoy Pandey & Outshift’s mission
04:30 The two hardest problems in computer science: Superintelligence & Quantum Computing
06:30 Why “freedom to fail” is Cisco’s innovation superpower
10:20 Inside the Outshift model: incubating like a startup inside Cisco
21:00 What is Agentic AI? The rise of the Internet of Agents
27:00 AGNTCY.org and open-sourcing the Internet of Agents
32:00 What would an Internet of Agents actually look like?
38:19 Responsible AI & governance: putting guardrails in early
49:40 What is quantum computing? What is quantum networking?
55:27 The vision for a global Quantum Internet
Watch Next: https://youtu.be/-Jb2tWsAVwI?si=l79rdEGxB-i-Wrrn
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