AI was supposed to make work easier. So why is everyone more burned out than ever? On this IT Visionaries episode, guest co-host Lacey Peace and I get into the real drivers — the "do more with less" culture, the false promise of automation, and the loneliness creeping through tech teams.
Your people aren't tired of change — they're saturated, and that distinction decides whether an AI rollout lands or bounces. On my IT Visionaries channel, I talked with KPMG Chief Digital Officer Kelle Fontenot about how 40,000 employees built 25,000 AI agents in six months, and what most leaders get wrong about adoption.
What happens when AI stops making mistakes and starts misleading you? I talk with fellow podcaster Lacey Peace on this IT Visionaries episode to unpack AI deception — the incentives, the enterprise risks, and the governance gaps every leader steering an AI transformation needs to understand.
The internet you know is about to get a successor — one built for AI agents, not browsers. Vijoy Pandey, who runs Outshift by Cisco, walked me through the "Internet of Agents," post-quantum cryptography, and a Quantum Internet that's closer than you think. One of the most forward-looking conversations I've had on my IT Visionaries channel.
A 90-year-old brand isn't where you'd expect to find cutting-edge AI. Vineet Mahajan, CTO of U.S. News & World Report, proved me wrong — semantic search, generative AI, agentic tools, all built on decades of data most companies would call a liability. How a legacy institution reinvents itself, on my IT Visionaries channel.
Government procurement is where good tech goes to die — or so the cliché goes. Bryana Tucci, who leads the AWS Marketplace for the US Intelligence Community, told me a different story: how agencies are cutting two-year buying cycles down to size and adopting AI and cloud faster than you'd think. From my IT Visionaries channel.
Everyone says AI will replace your content team. Ravi Singh, President & CPO of Brightspot, makes the opposite case — AI works best when it keeps human creators at the center. We dug into governance, content sprawl, and the costly AI missteps IT leaders keep making, over on my IT Visionaries channel.
Just had a great conversation with Mike Trkay, CIO and Chief Customer Officer at FICO, over on my IT Visionaries channel. Everyone's racing to bolt AI onto what they already do — and Mike's argument is that's the exact mistake companies made with cloud. We dig into why 95% of AI projects never reach production, why LLM repatriation is already happening, and what really separates automation from transformation.
Your AI looks 80% done. In reality, it's 20% done — and the last mile is a cliff. Greg Whalen, CTO of Prove AI, breaks down why CTOs are getting blindsided by AI, why vibe coding creates a false sense of progress, and what most teams are missing when it comes to AI telemetry and observability.
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.
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.
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.
Tim Seward built a 65 MPH electric moped in his garage to one-up his buddies. People wouldn't stop asking where to buy it. So he started Onyx Motors, raised almost a million bucks on Indiegogo in 3 hours… then sold the company for $1. When his successor died unexpectedly, Tim came back to rebuild from scratch. This is that story.
Check out a Podcast I did on The Fleet on the Mission.org podcast network!
What if you could have all the freedom of owning a car without actually owning one? Sampo Hietanen, founder of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and CEO of Aspectu, explains why our transportation system is broken and what's coming next.
Most people see train tracks and think "obstacle." Kevin Damoa sees the ultimate highway hack. After six years in the Army doing rail operations and stints at SpaceX and Northrop Grumman, he's realizing something crazy: America has 140,000 miles of rail that's basically empty while our highways are parking lots.
