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[Episode #270] – View From the Energy Transitions Commission
In this episode, host Chris Nelder talks with Lord Adair Turner, co‑chair of the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC), about the commission’s role as a cross‑sector coalition that produces techno‑economic roadmaps for net‑zero pathways. Turner explains how the ETC balances diverse member interests—from oil majors to renewables firms and financiers—to create consensus‑based, fact‑driven reports that guide policy and investment. He highlights key reforms needed to speed renewable deployment, such as streamlining offshore wind planning and aligning grid regulation, and discusses the evolving geopolitics of the transition, the outlook for green hydrogen, and the roles of China and the UK in mobilising capital. The conversation underscores that while the transition is progressing, decisive policy action remains essential to meet climate targets.
BREAKING: Inside Nooks’ Launch: Why AI-Native Sales Tools Are Challenging Legacy Platforms, with Co-Founder & CEO Dan Lee
In this episode, Dan Lee, co‑founder and CEO of Nooks, unveils the new Agent Workspace and AI Sequences, explaining how AI‑native tools are reshaping the top‑of‑funnel sales process. He contrasts Nooks with legacy sequencing platforms, highlighting its ability to automate...
Building a Global Legal Operations Community With Anne Graue & Colin McCarthy
In this episode, hosts Mark and Pepe talk with legal operations veterans Colin McCarthy and Anne Graue about launching OLC, a new global legal‑operations community. They discuss their complementary backgrounds—Colin’s experience building the Legal Operators community in the U.S. and...
Biomass Beat: UK Waste Wood for Biomass at a Crossroads, Post 2027
The episode examines the looming loss of Renewables Obligation (RO) support for UK waste‑wood biomass plants in 2027 and the resulting risk of a 3 million‑ton oversupply of waste wood. Richard Coulson of the Wood Recyclers Association explains how the sector...
Is Claude Out of the War Business? W/ Amos Toh
In this brief episode, host explores the controversial use of Anthropic's Claude AI model in the alleged Venezuelan invasion, discussing legal and ethical concerns around its deployment in military operations. Guest Amos Toh, a researcher at the Brennan Center, explains...
The Next Big Ad Platform? How AppLovin Is Quietly Scaling eCommerce Brands
In this episode, Pep Hufen, CEO of Smart Marketer Agency, breaks down AppLovin’s Axon Ads platform, a mobile gaming network now open to eCommerce that boasts over a billion daily users, primarily women in their 30s‑40s. He explains how Axon’s...
EP 721: 3 New NotebookLM Updates You Can’t Miss: Editable Slides, Mobile Updates and More
In this episode Jordan dives into three major NotebookLM updates: enhanced mobile capabilities that let users edit infographics, slide decks, and generate full‑screen video overviews on their phones; a new conversational studio generation workflow that lets users iteratively chat with...
5 OpenClaw Agents Run My Home, Finances, and Code | Jesse Genet
In this episode, host Claire Vo talks with homeschooling mother and AI enthusiast Jesse Genet about how she uses five OpenClaw agents on multiple Mac minis to automate her family’s homeschooling, finances, and personal workflows. Jesse explains how she layered...
Who Pays for Texas Grid Growth? - Roundtable Discussion
In this roundtable, host Michaela with Josh Rhodes and Matt Bombs dissect the surge in Texas electricity costs, pinpointing rapid demand growth from data centers, AI, electrified buildings and transport, and the continued reliance on natural‑gas generation whose fuel price...
Can AI Reduce Medical Errors?
The episode discusses the alarming rate of medical errors—estimated at 800,000 to a million deaths annually—and explores how AI can help reduce these mistakes. The host highlights personal experience using AI tools like OpenEvidence, GPT, and Gemini to obtain specialist-level...
Rethink Networking in Fintech & Mortgage: Liz Short on RelationshipFirst Growth AI Change Management
In this episode, Liz Short discusses her book "Rethink Everything You Know About Networking" and shares practical tips for building genuine, relationship‑focused networks in fintech and mortgage. She explains how her firm, Short Solutions, helps executives overcome implementation gaps and...
Exited Founder Podcast | Sean McKenna: How He Sold His HR Tech Startup to Dayforce in 16 Months
In this episode, Sean McKenna recounts how he founded Data Fusion HCM, a payroll and HR‑tech integration platform, and sold it to Ceridian (now Dayforce) within 16 months. He explains the strategic advantage of building a product that solved a...
Warehouse Continuous Improvement at Atomix: Culture and Data
In this episode, VP of Operations Drake Meyer discusses Atomics' rapid growth, its unique high‑touch 3PL model, and the development of its proprietary WMS. He shares how his hands‑on warehouse background informs his leadership style, emphasizing a continuous‑improvement mindset rooted...
Foundations Before Acceleration - a Planning Aces Episode
In this Planning Aces episode, three CFOs—Kevin Rubin (Zscaler), Bruce Schumann (Universal Technical Institute), and Rizak Jalloh (Flowcast)—share how disciplined, foundation‑first approaches to planning and AI adoption drive growth and decision speed. Rubin emphasizes a centralized AI governance function that...
Reprogramming Cancer From Within
In this episode, Dr. Aaron Vinnie shares his journey from a leukemia survivor to a Columbia University hematology‑oncology researcher, advocating a shift from traditional cytotoxic chemotherapy to precision strategies that rewire malignant blood cells. He explains how hematologic cancers stem...
SaaStr 843: Software Stocks Have Massively Crashed. Here's What Founders Need to Know.
In this episode, SaaStr host Jason Lemkin discusses the recent crash in software stock valuations and what it means for SaaS founders, emphasizing that true AI companies must show accelerating growth. He critiques public SaaS companies for superficial AI hype...
INTX’s Lewis: Radical Automation Shapes Future of Insurance Workforce
In this episode, John Weber talks with Rob Lewis, CEO of Intex Insurance Software, about Chubb’s plan to automate 85% of underwriting and claims functions and cut 20% of its workforce. Lewis explains that legacy core systems have hit a...
Turning Real World Data Into Safer Outcomes for Fleets and Physical Operations - with Hemant Banavar of Motive
In this episode, Matthew DeMello talks with Hemant Banavar, Chief Product Officer at Motive, about applying purpose‑built AI to the physical economy—industries like transportation, construction, and energy that make up about half of global GDP but have been under‑served by...
Korea Commodities Market Highlights Episode 4
The episode reviews South Korea's energy commodities market, noting a modest dip in thermal coal prices and major tenders favoring Indonesian, Australian, and Canadian supplies while limiting Russian and Chinese coal. It highlights the government's push to cap Russian coal...
Risky Business #826 -- A Week of AI Mishaps and Skulduggery
In this episode of Risky Business, host Patrick Gray and panelists James Wilson and Adam Wallow dissect a wave of AI-driven cyber incidents, from a threat actor leveraging AI to mass‑compromise Fortinet devices to Chinese labs attempting large‑scale model distillation...
SANS Stormcast Wednesday, February 25th, 2026: Open Redirects; setHTML in Firefox; Telnetd Issues
In this episode, Johannes Ulrich discusses a surge in scans targeting open redirects, explaining how these vulnerabilities can be exploited in OAuth 2 flows and phishing attacks, and notes that many originate from a bullet‑proof hosting IP. He then introduces...
From Idea to £25m Exit - Jimmy's Iced Coffee Founder, Jim Cregan
In this episode of Uncensored CMO, founder Jim Cregan recounts how he turned a personal craving for iced coffee into Jimmy's Iced Coffee, launching the brand in Selfridges just four months after forming the company and eventually exiting for £25 million....
The Rise of the Anti-AI Movement
The episode examines the emerging anti‑AI sentiment, noting that while it isn’t a single organized movement, public skepticism is growing and is reflected in recent media coverage and polls. Host highlights data showing a majority of Americans distrust AI, fear...
Unifying Federal Data Management and Security with Hitachi VSP One
In this episode, Hitachi Vantara Federal’s Guy Garwich and Todd Hansen explain how the Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP1) unifies block, file, object, and mainframe storage into a single data plane with a unified control plane, delivering high‑performance file services,...
Anthropic and OpenAI Battle for Enterprise AI
The episode examines the escalating competition between Anthropic and OpenAI to dominate the enterprise AI market, focusing on each company's recent strategies for deploying AI agents within organizations. Anthropic unveiled an aggressive enterprise agent program that offers pre‑built, department‑specific AI...
EqualityMD’s Pre-Insurance Strategy to Reduce Care Avoidance and Lower Healthcare Costs
In this episode, Unity Stokes chats with Justin Ayers, CEO of EqualityMD, about the company’s shift from a direct‑to‑consumer, membership model to a B2B/B2B2C platform that offers employers an insurance‑free telehealth solution with culturally competent clinicians and free prescriptions. Ayers...
Why Teaching AI Right From Wrong Could Get Everyone Killed | Max Harms, MIRI
In this episode, Max Harms of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute discusses the existential risks posed by artificial superintelligence, emphasizing that a misaligned AI could irrevocably reshape the world and threaten humanity’s survival. He critiques the prevailing approach of instilling...
Andy Yeoman: When AI Rewrites Risk Transfer | TRP #162
In this episode, Andy Yeoman of Concierus walks hosts Jared and Ben through the evolution of InsurTech, from early marine analytics to the current AI‑driven platform that delivers both speed and certainty in underwriting. He stresses that technology must be...
The Sales Tax “Nexus” Trap Most Brands Miss
In this episode, Richard interviews Ryan Pinkham, VP of Go‑to‑Market at TaxCloud, about the complexities of sales‑tax compliance for growing e‑commerce brands. They explain why sales tax is far from simple—50 states, multiple jurisdictions, and ever‑changing rules can lead to...
LawNext on Location: The View From Tiburon – A Conversation with Pablo Arredondo, Casetext Cofounder
In this Law Next on Location episode, co‑founder of Casetext Pablo Arredondo reflects on the rapid evolution of legal AI—from early brief‑analysis tools like CARA to the launch of Co‑Counsel, the first AI legal assistant built on GPT‑4, and its...
The New Rules of Ecommerce with Alex Dewison, Global Payments | Episode 469
In this episode, Alex Dewison, Director of Digital Solutions at Global Payments, explains how e‑commerce payments have shifted from basic checkout pages to seamless, invisible experiences driven by speed, security, and digital wallets. He outlines the hallmarks of a best‑in‑class...
The Rise of Mike’s Hot Honey: Founder Mike Kurtz on Authentic Growth & Collaboration in the Hospitality Business
In this episode, founder Mike Kurtz recounts the origins and explosive growth of Mike's Hot Honey, from a spontaneous discovery on a Brazilian hiking trip to its adoption by major chains like Taco Bell and KFC. He details the grassroots...
Automated, Insightful, and Connected: The Future of Finance with Hari Sankar, SVP of Applications Development at Oracle
In this episode, Oracle SVP Hari Sankar discusses how finance is evolving toward automation, AI‑driven predictive insights, and seamless connectivity. He explains that finance has been slower to adopt new tech due to its high standards for accuracy, governance, and...
Exclusive First Interview with Edge Retail Academy's New CEO Ft. Becka Johnson Kibby
In this episode, Michael Burpo interviews Becca Johnson‑Kibbe, the newly appointed CEO of Edge Retail Academy, about the company's role as a business‑coaching and data‑analytics arm of the Edge POS system, the industry’s most widely used jewelry point‑of‑sale platform. Becca...
EP264 Measuring Your (Agentic) SOC: Two Security Leaders Walk Into a Podcast
In this episode, Tim Peacock and Anton Chuvakian host Alex Pabst, Deputy CISO at Allianz, and Mike Sinnoh, Director of Detection & Response at Google, to discuss evolving SOC metrics in the age of AI and automation. They critique traditional...
Leading in the Age of Generative AI and Exponential Technology: A Conversation with Andrea Bonime-Blanc
In this episode, Michael Keegan talks with Andrea Bonime‑Blanc, author of *Governing Pandora*, about the unprecedented convergence of generative AI and other exponential technologies and what it means for leadership and governance. Bonime‑Blanc explains her "exponential governance mindset," a five‑part...
Confessions Of Supply Chain Executives | 2026 Is the Year Supply Chain Technology Stops Being a Prediction and Starts Being...
In this episode, host Chris Walton and Amir Khoshniyadi, VP at Williott, dissect five supply‑chain trends that will define 2026, emphasizing that technology adoption is moving from pilot‑phase hype to mandatory, budget‑driven implementation. They explain "physical AI" as the fusion...
Candidates in the Loop | Doug Berg From Match2
In this episode, Chris Russell talks with Doug Berg of Match2 about the flaws of post‑apply AI screening and the need for a pre‑apply, candidate‑centric approach. Berg explains Match2’s universal candidate profile, which lets job seekers create a portable, consent‑based...
Ep 719: Google Gemini 3.1 Tops Charts, Claude Sonnet 4.6 Impresses, New OpenAI Leaks Reveal Their Massive AI Hardware Plans...
The episode covers a whirlwind of AI news, highlighting Google’s release of Gemini 3.1 Pro with a three‑tier reasoning system that pushes it to the top of benchmark charts, and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 impressing on similar metrics. It delves...
The #1 Difference Between Sales and Branding
In this brief episode, Gary Vaynerchuk discusses the importance of clear calls‑to‑action, the value of constant community engagement, and his personal vision for the New York Jets, including a youth jersey program to build brand loyalty. He emphasizes that entrepreneurs...
Our Quantum Future with Evan Kubes
In this episode, host Sebastian Hassinger chats with Evan Kubas, a lawyer‑turned‑quantum media entrepreneur, about the origins of Quantum Insider and its parent company Resonance. Kubas recounts how he and co‑founder Alex Challens built a leading quantum news platform from...
E633: I Snuck Into Alibaba’s China HQ
In this episode, host Dave recounts his misadventure of missing Amazon's China conference and unexpectedly gaining access to Alibaba’s Hangzhou headquarters, offering a behind‑the‑scenes tour of the modern campus and its co‑working culture. He contrasts Alibaba’s ecosystem—highlighting Taobao’s massive GMV...
How AI Search Is Reshaping Visibility: From Rankings to Mentions
In this episode, host Jordan Cooney and Otterly AI CEO Thomas Paham discuss how AI-powered search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini are rendering traditional SEO metrics—rankings and clicks—obsolete, with the majority of queries now resulting in zero clicks. Thomas...
VC10X - The Consumer AI Opportunity Nobody Is Chasing Ft. Ankur Sethi, Founder, Winner Capital
In this episode, Ankur Sethi, founder of Winner Capital, explains why he believes consumer AI is the present, not the future, and why it remains vastly underfunded compared to enterprise SaaS. He highlights the democratization of large language models that...
Killing Clusters & Orchestrating Chaos with Colt McNealy | Ep. 20
In this episode Tim Berglund talks with Colt McNealy, founder and CEO of Little Horse, about building a Kafka‑based platform for orchestrating microservice workflows and AI agents. Colt describes how his early experience debugging monolithic code with GDB contrasted with...
#347 Let's Get Physical with AI with Ivan Poupyrev, CEO at Archetype AI
In this episode, Ivan Poupyrev, CEO of Archetype AI, explains that "physical AI" goes far beyond robotics, embedding foundation‑model intelligence into everyday devices—from washing machines to HVAC systems—and enabling them to communicate and optimize as a unified system. He outlines...
Post-Traumatic Growth, Creative Marketing, And Dealing With Change with Jack Williamson
Jack Williamson, a psychotherapist and former music‑industry executive, discusses how personal trauma can become a catalyst for creative growth and how indie authors can apply lessons from the music sector’s disruptive evolution. He outlines post‑traumatic growth strategies, warns against shiny‑object...
SANS Stormcast Monday, February 23rd, 2026: Japanese Phishing; AI Agents Ignoring Instructions; Starkiller MFA Phishing
In this episode, Johannes Ulrich highlights three emerging threats: Japanese-language phishing campaigns that bypass English‑centric defenses, AI agents that ignore security guardrails and inadvertently expose data or make unauthorized changes, and the Starkiller phishing framework which proxies real login pages...
All Hail Purse Computer, Halide App Review, Google Pixel 10a, Samsung Galaxy AI Teasers, Special Apple Experience, Nothing Launch Event,...
In episode 467, host Tnkgrl and Verge writer Allison Johnson dissect the latest mobile tech, championing the innovative Purse Computer concept and praising the Halide camera app’s new Process Zero features. They critique Google’s underwhelming Pixel 10a, anticipate Samsung’s expanding...
Building High-Impact Enterprise SEO Teams: Creative Roles & Personal Branding SEO
In this brief episode, host Tyson Stockton talks with Ahrefs' Patrick Stokes about building an effective enterprise SEO team from scratch. Stokes emphasizes hiring versatile, creative talent for technical, content, and especially video roles, and stresses the importance of personal...
