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What's Up with Tech?
Evan Kirstel
582 episodes
2 days ago
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 local decisions on channel, power, and routing—no single point of failure, no shouting across long ...
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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 local decisions on channel, power, and routing—no single point of failure, no shouting across long ...
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What's Up with Tech?
Building Resilient Energy Networks With Decentralized IoT
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 local decisions on channel, power, and routing—no single point of failure, no shouting across long ...
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1 day ago
25 minutes

What's Up with Tech?
Inside The We Love Tech Awards: Real Innovation, Real Impact
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 standout winners who proved utility at scale: TD’s immersive learning programs that used VR and...
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4 days ago
14 minutes

What's Up with Tech?
From Guesswork To Answers: How People.ai Transforms Sales
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 reads what is already happening and returns guidance you can use right now: which deals are at risk,...
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1 week ago
20 minutes

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How Gifting Pink Socks Sparked A Culture Of Human Connection Across Healthcare And Beyond
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 Richards skipped the booth, packed a backpack with socks, and discovered the power of intentional g...
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1 week ago
31 minutes

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Build Fast, Govern Faster: The Real Path To Agentic Success
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 API handling, Rich explains why the hardest part of agents isn’t connectivity—it’s everything...
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1 week ago
16 minutes

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CES 2026: Where AI Meets Reality
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 enterprise workflows. Gary lays out the big picture: a record wave of innovation colliding with re...
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1 week ago
22 minutes

What's Up with Tech?
How AI Transcription Is Rewriting Journalism And Media Workflows
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 origin story and the “instant product-market fit” that came from building for colleagues who neede...
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1 week ago
18 minutes

What's Up with Tech?
Beyond Copilots: Agents That Do The Work
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 platform moves beyond brittle scripts and UI macros to reasoning-driven automation that adapts to chang...
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2 weeks ago
18 minutes

What's Up with Tech?
Inside AMD’s AI Strategy From Edge To Data Center
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 performance and cost from the edge to the largest data centers. We walk through why memory capacity a...
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2 weeks ago
30 minutes

What's Up with Tech?
Rethinking Tech Hiring With AI
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, and how AI is reshaping recruiting without removing humans from the loop. The conversation ...
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2 weeks ago
21 minutes

What's Up with Tech?
From Cameras To AI: The SD Association’s Next Leap
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 to forty times the performance of legacy cards and far better random I/O, so burst capture, rapi...
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2 weeks ago
15 minutes

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Your PBX Called; It Wants A Retirement Package
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 legacy PBX in hospitality and why a cloud approach finally fits the property workflow. SNET’s pla...
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2 weeks ago
21 minutes

What's Up with Tech?
Why Voice Still Reigns In Customer Experience As AI Scales
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 with six vendors, inconsistent quality, and opaque billing, this conversation shows how enterprises ...
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2 weeks ago
18 minutes

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From Hyperscalers To Neo Clouds: Rethinking Enterprise Networks For AI
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 become the bottleneck that decides AI ROI, and how distributed on-ramps, 400G to 1.6T connectivit...
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3 weeks ago
24 minutes

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From IVR To Orchestration: Building AI-First Customer Journeys
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 Mike, we unpack the practical architecture of AI-first customer journeys, the role of empathy in au...
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3 weeks ago
33 minutes

What's Up with Tech?
What Happens When Critical Infrastructure Is One Click From Disaster
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, and the malicious infrastructure gearing up for its next move. Aidan explains how distributed scan...
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3 weeks ago
13 minutes

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Inside NetApp’s Intelligent Data Infrastructure For AI-Ready Enterprises
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, why outcome-driven design beats tool-first thinking, and how to prepare data so AI actually deli...
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3 weeks ago
19 minutes

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How TCS Turned A Company-Wide Hackathon Into An AI Engine
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‑code. The result isn’t just energy; it’s a blueprint for scaling AI responsibly, measurably, and fas...
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4 weeks ago
20 minutes

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Why Mobile Operators Hold The Keys To Fraud-Proof Sign‑Ins
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 feel almost invisible while fraud defenses tighten. Eddie explains why the real barrier hasn’t ...
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4 weeks ago
24 minutes

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Why Narrow Targeting And Scalable Content Will Decide Who Wins On Social
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 entrepreneur with two decades of experience in social media and SaaS and breaks down how brands can prove im...
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1 month ago
25 minutes

What's Up with Tech?
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 local decisions on channel, power, and routing—no single point of failure, no shouting across long ...