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Modern CTO is the #1 place where technology leaders and CTOs hang out. We live to bring tech leaders value. Listen in on our fun, intelligent and engaging podcast. We hang out with interesting and popular CTOs in Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics + Many more industries. All of this, right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast. What do you think of the show? Let us know here!
Episodios 964
Why Storage Is the Strategic Control Point for AI with Jim O'Dorisio of HPE
What if the fastest way to get your AI projects to value starts with the storage layer, not the model? Today, we're talking to Jim O'Dorisio, SVP & GM of HPE Storage. We explore why a trusted data foundation …
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What if the fastest way to get your AI projects to value starts with the storage layer, not the model? Today, we're talking to Jim O'Dorisio, SVP & GM of HPE Storage. We explore why a trusted data foundation shapes how quickly AI projects reach value, how agents can be put to work protecting infrastructure and even watching other agents, and what happens when infrastructure, data, and governance teams start sharing a strategy.
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Explaining Technical Work to Your Non-Technical Leaders with Chris Fenning, Author
What if the hardest part of a technical project isn't the technology, but making the people who fund it understand why it matters? Today, we're talking to Chris Fenning, author of The First Minute and a …
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What if the hardest part of a technical project isn't the technology, but making the people who fund it understand why it matters? Today, we're talking to Chris Fenning, author of The First Minute and a communication coach who started out as an aerospace engineer. We explore why translating technical complexity into language that stakeholders care about is a core leadership skill, how a simple three-part model can reshape a message for a non-technical audience, and what it takes to find an analogy that makes a complicated idea click across a company.
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From Reactive IT to Business Partner: Modernization and AI Readiness with Andreas Diamanti and Alex Danobrega
How do you turn an IT team that reacts to incidents into one that drives business outcomes? Today, we're talking to Andreas Diamanti, General Manager of IT at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. We …
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How do you turn an IT team that reacts to incidents into one that drives business outcomes? Today, we're talking to Andreas Diamanti, General Manager of IT at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. We explore how a 100-year-old institution moved its IT function from reactive to business-focused, what it takes to choose an objective technology partner when costs are climbing, and why on-prem infrastructure with a cloud-style billing model can open up new options. We also get into how speaking up early keeps small problems from growing, and what it looks like to build the data foundations that make AI possible.
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Who Owns Cyber Risk? NIS2 Explained with Matthew Rosenquist, CISO & Cybersecurity Strategist
Who really owns cybersecurity when a company gets breached? Today, we’re talking to Matthew Rosenquist, a cybersecurity strategist with 36 years in the field and host of the Cybersecurity Insights podcast. We …
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Who really owns cybersecurity when a company gets breached? Today, we’re talking to Matthew Rosenquist, a cybersecurity strategist with 36 years in the field and host of the Cybersecurity Insights podcast. We explore how Europe’s NIS2 directive changes what’s expected of boards and executives, how leaders can decide how much security is enough, and what they can do now to be ready when an incident hits.
If you want more of his perspective, follow him on LinkedIn or check out Cybersecurity Insights.
All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewrosenquist/
https://www.cybersecurityinsights.us/
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Run Your AI Software Factory on Agents Confidently with Zohar Einy of Port.io
Why do some AI projects look brilliant in a demo and then fall apart the moment they have to run across a whole engineering org? Today, we're talking to Zohar Einy, CEO and co-founder of Port.io. We get into …
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Why do some AI projects look brilliant in a demo and then fall apart the moment they have to run across a whole engineering org? Today, we're talking to Zohar Einy, CEO and co-founder of Port.io. We get into how teams can move from agents and skills scattered across individual laptops to one factory everyone can build on, why context, governance, and knowing when to keep a human in the loop matter so much, and what leaders can measure to see whether the whole thing is paying off.
If you want to dig deeper, Port shares its AI software factory content on YouTube and its blog, and you can catch them in person at Portcon in San Francisco on November 17th and 18th, 2026.
Learn more at https://www.port.io/
Anthropic’s AI SDLC Playbook: How To Build AI Software Factory at Scale! https://youtu.be/vF8e8gvq65g
Turning Constant Turnover Into a Strength with Sean Phelps of College Works
What if preparing your people to move on is the secret to attracting great talent in the first place? Today, we're talking to Sean Phelps, President of College Works. We explore how to run a business where most …
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What if preparing your people to move on is the secret to attracting great talent in the first place? Today, we're talking to Sean Phelps, President of College Works. We explore how to run a business where most of the team turns over every year, why hiring on objective criteria can beat going with your gut, how a regular shadowing habit keeps even seasoned leaders sharp, and what a college degree is worth in the age of AI.
https://collegeworks.com/
Beyond Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: Your Post-Quantum Game Plan, with Konstantinos Karagiannis
What if the quantum threat everyone is preparing for isn't the one that will actually arrive first? Today, we're talking to Konstantinos Karagiannis, Senior Director of Quantum Computing Services at Protiviti …
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What if the quantum threat everyone is preparing for isn't the one that will actually arrive first? Today, we're talking to Konstantinos Karagiannis, Senior Director of Quantum Computing Services at Protiviti. We explore why "harvest now, forge later" deserves a place next to "harvest now, decrypt later," how falling qubit estimates are sharpening the Q Day timeline and what that means for Bitcoin and Ethereum, and how leaders can build crypto-agility and lead by building while there's still time to act. If you want to hear more from Konstantinos, check out his show, The Post Quantum World Podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-post-quantum-world/id1564148665
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Taming Shadow AI: A CTO’s Guide with Andrius Buinovskis, VP of Product Strategy at NordLayer
What if the biggest AI risk in your company is the tool your team quietly adopted last week? Today, we're talking to Andrius Buinovskis, VP Product Strategy at NordLayer. We explore how shadow IT evolved into …
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What if the biggest AI risk in your company is the tool your team quietly adopted last week? Today, we're talking to Andrius Buinovskis, VP Product Strategy at NordLayer. We explore how shadow IT evolved into shadow AI as work moved into the browser, why the instinct to ban is giving way to securing use instead, what separates human AI from non-human AI, and how CTOs can start protecting data without slowing adoption.
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Tech Titans: Lessons From Shipping Felix AI to Market with Mario Ciabarra, CEO of Quantum Metric
Today, we're talking to Mario Ciabarra, founder and CEO of Quantum Metric. We discuss why a generative AI demo that works in an afternoon proves almost nothing, how testing ten ideas against real customers …
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Today, we're talking to Mario Ciabarra, founder and CEO of Quantum Metric. We discuss why a generative AI demo that works in an afternoon proves almost nothing, how testing ten ideas against real customers beats betting on one big strategy, and why building a multibillion dollar company comes down to loving the daily grind more than anyone expects.
All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
Theoretical Computer Scientist: AI Just Changed Math Forever, with Scott Aaronson
What’s left for humans to do once AI is better at solving problems than we are? Today, we’re talking to Scott Aaronson, a theoretical computer scientist at UT Austin who has spent his career on quantum …
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What’s left for humans to do once AI is better at solving problems than we are? Today, we’re talking to Scott Aaronson, a theoretical computer scientist at UT Austin who has spent his career on quantum computing theory. We explore how AI is changing the way we do math and teach students, what it takes to keep increasingly capable systems aligned with human goals, and why one of computer science’s most famous puzzles, P versus NP, matters to everyday programmers.
All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
Reliability Without the Guesswork: Foresight AI with Kolton Andrus, CEO of Gremlin
The best reliability work is the kind nobody notices, and that's exactly why it deserves more credit. Today, we're talking to Kolton Andrus, founder and CEO of Gremlin. We discuss why the engineers who prevent …
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The best reliability work is the kind nobody notices, and that's exactly why it deserves more credit. Today, we're talking to Kolton Andrus, founder and CEO of Gremlin. We discuss why the engineers who prevent fires deserve as much recognition as the ones who fight them, how testing failure on purpose turned a dreaded holiday on-call into a quiet one, and why teams that pair AI speed with real-world testing can build software that holds up.
All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
Want to know more about Gremlin? Check their Website https://www.gremlin.com/
Scaling AI Efficiency at LinkedIn with Erran Berger, CTO of Engineering
Most companies at scale can't tell you what a single feature actually costs to run, but Erran Berger, CTO of Engineering at LinkedIn, can. We discuss why that blind spot is more common than you'd think, why …
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Most companies at scale can't tell you what a single feature actually costs to run, but Erran Berger, CTO of Engineering at LinkedIn, can. We discuss why that blind spot is more common than you'd think, why treating AI transformation as bad for employees is a false premise, and how LinkedIn reorganized its teams into small, cross-functional pods now that AI lets one person do the work of several.
Tech Titans: Agents Built Around People with Mohak Shroff, former SVP of Engineering at LinkedIn
Today, we're talking to Mohak Shroff, former SVP of Engineering at LinkedIn. We discuss why the smartest use of AI agents is giving professionals more agency rather than replacing them, how delegating to an …
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Today, we're talking to Mohak Shroff, former SVP of Engineering at LinkedIn. We discuss why the smartest use of AI agents is giving professionals more agency rather than replacing them, how delegating to an agent should look a lot like onboarding a new hire, and what it takes to build the thing that was impossible before instead of making the familiar 20% better. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
Tech Titans: How Can a Chatbot Steal a Model's Secrets? with Steve Orrin, Federal CTO at Intel
Everyone's arguing about whether AI will replace 90% of your job. Steve Orrin, federal CTO at Intel, says that's the wrong number to even be worried about. We discuss how a $25 million deepfake of a bank's own …
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Everyone's arguing about whether AI will replace 90% of your job. Steve Orrin, federal CTO at Intel, says that's the wrong number to even be worried about. We discuss how a $25 million deepfake of a bank's own CFO exposed a whole new category of cyberattack, why sprinkling "AI pixie dust" on a problem doesn't actually solve anything, and why, thirty years into being a CTO, his best advice still comes down to surrounding yourself with people smarter than you.
All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
Why High-Achieving Engineers Still Feel Something's Missing with Ben Fox, Career Coach for Engineers
Today, we're talking to Ben Fox, founder of Ben Fox Coaching. We discuss why financial independence alone rarely convinces a burnt-out engineering leader to actually quit, how leaving a toxic job works the same …
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Today, we're talking to Ben Fox, founder of Ben Fox Coaching. We discuss why financial independence alone rarely convinces a burnt-out engineering leader to actually quit, how leaving a toxic job works the same way as leaving a toxic relationship, and why senior engineers reduced to babysitting language models are quietly heading for the exits.
All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
Tech Titans: Why Plans Fail and Strategy Doesn't with Seth Godin, Author of This Is Strategy
Today, we're talking to Seth Godin, author of This Is Strategy. We discuss why strategy is a philosophy of becoming rather than a plan to execute, how status, affiliation, and freedom from fear quietly drive …
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Today, we're talking to Seth Godin, author of This Is Strategy. We discuss why strategy is a philosophy of becoming rather than a plan to execute, how status, affiliation, and freedom from fear quietly drive almost every decision people make, and why one of Seth's biggest professional failures came down to having a good idea and then walking away from it. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
Tech Titans: Funding and Building the Safest Nuclear Reactor with Matt Loszak, Aalo Atomics
A barrel of uranium holds as much energy as two million barrels of oil, and Matt Loszak, co-founder of nuclear startup Allo, thinks that's just the beginning. In this episode, Joel talks with Matt about …
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A barrel of uranium holds as much energy as two million barrels of oil, and Matt Loszak, co-founder of nuclear startup Allo, thinks that's just the beginning. In this episode, Joel talks with Matt about building factory-made nuclear reactors as safe as a university research reactor, why we're entering a "second atomic age," the team and funding behind Allo, and how small modular reactors could solve the massive power problem facing Microsoft, Google, and Amazon's data centers.
All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
Demo Is Not Production, with Ajay Nair, GM of Elasticsearch and Platform at Elastic
Today, we're talking to Ajay Nair, General Manager of Elasticsearch and Platform at Elastic. We discuss why most AI hallucinations are really a search problem wearing a scarier name, how the industry's …
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Today, we're talking to Ajay Nair, General Manager of Elasticsearch and Platform at Elastic. We discuss why most AI hallucinations are really a search problem wearing a scarier name, how the industry's obsession with model selection is missing the real bottleneck of context and retrieval, and why the biggest failure mode in enterprise AI is mistaking a working demo for a production system.
All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
Tech Titans: Why Your Home Alarm Does Nothing to Stop a Crime with Dave “Selly” Selinger
Today, we're talking to David Selinger, founder and CEO of Deep Sentinel and co-founder of Redfin. We discuss why he's convinced that virtually every home security tool on the market does nothing to actually …
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Today, we're talking to David Selinger, founder and CEO of Deep Sentinel and co-founder of Redfin. We discuss why he's convinced that virtually every home security tool on the market does nothing to actually stop a crime, how a crossbow-wielding intruder on his own driveway became the ultimate test of that theory, and why he'd rather protect his family with a blurry camera and a real person behind it than a flawless 4K feed with nobody watching. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
Disruptor or Disrupted with Jason Silbergleit, Head of Americas at Classiq
Today, we're talking to Jason Silbergleit, Head of Americas at Classiq. We discuss why the biggest risk in quantum computing isn't moving too early but waiting too long, how the ChatGPT moment offers a preview …
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Today, we're talking to Jason Silbergleit, Head of Americas at Classiq. We discuss why the biggest risk in quantum computing isn't moving too early but waiting too long, how the ChatGPT moment offers a preview of the disruption still coming, and why the real competition in quantum isn't about hardware but about who builds the software layer that makes it usable.
All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
Tech Titans: Solving Cloud Data Issues with Desikan Madhavanur, CPO & CTO at Capital One Software
Today, we're talking to Desikan Madhavanur, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Capital One Software. We discuss why the cloud has quietly resurrected the same data problems companies thought they'd solved …
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Today, we're talking to Desikan Madhavanur, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Capital One Software. We discuss why the cloud has quietly resurrected the same data problems companies thought they'd solved decades ago, why the average enterprise tool now survives just 12 to 18 months, and why understanding customer need will end up mattering more than any single technical skill.
Turning AI Hype into Store Ops: Manda Miller & Mariya Zorotovich (Toshiba & Intel)
Today, we're talking to Manda Miller of Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions and Mariya Zorotovich of Intel, the two people quietly turning retail's AI hype into real store operations. We discuss why …
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Today, we're talking to Manda Miller of Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions and Mariya Zorotovich of Intel, the two people quietly turning retail's AI hype into real store operations. We discuss why conversational AI chatbots are the most overhyped technology in retail, why "AI theater" is easy to stage in a trade show booth but brutal to prove out on a real P&L, and why the best leadership advice either of them ever got was to give trust before it's earned.
All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
The CTO Extinction Event with Etienne de Bruin, Founder of 7CTOs
Today, we're talking to Etienne, founder of 7CTOs and author of the new book Refactor. We discuss why the CTOs who survive this next shift will be the ones who understand how LLMs actually work rather than the …
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Today, we're talking to Etienne, founder of 7CTOs and author of the new book Refactor. We discuss why the CTOs who survive this next shift will be the ones who understand how LLMs actually work rather than the ones optimizing token spend, how the C-suite has quietly moved from sharing knowledge to enrolling people in a point of view, and why curiosity, not seniority, is the closest thing to real job security left.
All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
Stop Ripping Out Your Legacy Code with Alan Williamson, CTO
Today, we're talking to Alan Williamson, professional CTO for private equity-backed companies and author of Think Like a CTO. We discuss why the industry's $20-a-month AI subscriptions can't possibly cover a …
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Today, we're talking to Alan Williamson, professional CTO for private equity-backed companies and author of Think Like a CTO. We discuss why the industry's $20-a-month AI subscriptions can't possibly cover a trillion-dollar cost structure, how some companies are quietly deleting the word "AI" from their marketing to win customers back, and why the old playbook for modernizing legacy systems no longer applies now that AI can out-rebuild it.
All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
To learn more about Alan Williamson, check out his website here https://thinklikeacto.com/
The Red Queen Problem with Anthony Scriffignano, PhD, Data Scientist
Today, we're talking to Anthony Scriffignano, PhD, a longtime chief data scientist now working on hyperspectral space intelligence and global AI policy. We discuss why AI has put technology leaders in what he …
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Today, we're talking to Anthony Scriffignano, PhD, a longtime chief data scientist now working on hyperspectral space intelligence and global AI policy. We discuss why AI has put technology leaders in what he calls a "Red Queen problem," where you have to run faster just to stay in place, how most people wildly overestimate how much of the internet an LLM can actually see, and why leading with the technology instead of the problem is one of the costliest mistakes in enterprise AI right now.
All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
Why You Can't Trust AI Without Governing It, with Tony Davis & John Balsavage of A&I Solutions
Today, we're talking to Tony Davis and John Balsavage of A&I Solutions, the team behind Scout, their AI agent governance platform. We discuss why they built a literal terrain map to visualize what's happening …
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Today, we're talking to Tony Davis and John Balsavage of A&I Solutions, the team behind Scout, their AI agent governance platform. We discuss why they built a literal terrain map to visualize what's happening inside an AI agent's mind, how two agents secretly colluded to overturn a vote in their own testing lab, and why every AI agent you build today will be obsolete within a year no matter how well you built it.
To learn more about A&I Solutions, check out their website here
Tech Titans: Hidden Rules of the Brain with Moran Cerf, Neuroscientist and Professor
Today, we're talking to Moran Cerf, neuroscientist and professor who studies live human brains through implanted electrodes during surgery. We discuss why the person who sees reality clearly drives more change …
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Today, we're talking to Moran Cerf, neuroscientist and professor who studies live human brains through implanted electrodes during surgery. We discuss why the person who sees reality clearly drives more change than the one with official authority, how ant colonies and corporate boardrooms follow the same hidden rules of swarm leadership, and why the smell in a room might quietly decide the outcome of your next negotiation.
All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
To learn more about Moran’s work, check out his website here.The Real Reason Your Body Is a Business Card with Mauro Stara, Six Pack CEO
Today, we're talking to Mauro Stara, founder of Six Pack CEO. We discuss why working out less, not harder, was the real fix behind one of his most dramatic client transformations, how a health scare in his …
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Today, we're talking to Mauro Stara, founder of Six Pack CEO. We discuss why working out less, not harder, was the real fix behind one of his most dramatic client transformations, how a health scare in his twenties pushed him out of banking and into coaching high-performing men, and why getting genuinely healthy often means letting go of the people and identity that made staying unhealthy feel comfortable.
All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! To learn more about Six Pack CEO, check out their website here
Tech Titans: Rethinking Career Five-Year Plans with Francisco Trindade, VP of Software Engineering
Today, we're talking to Francisco Trindade, VP of Software Engineering at Braze. We discuss why code review, not code generation, has become the real bottleneck in AI-driven engineering, how the leap to a …
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Today, we're talking to Francisco Trindade, VP of Software Engineering at Braze. We discuss why code review, not code generation, has become the real bottleneck in AI-driven engineering, how the leap to a codebase run by thousands of autonomous agents could repeat the failed promise of microservices at ten times the scale, and why the best career advice only makes sense once you stop trying to plan five years ahead. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
Tech Titans: Designing for Intuition with Campbell Brown, CEO and Co-founder of PredictHQ
Today, we're talking to Campbell Brown, CEO and co-founder of PredictHQ. We discuss why the world's smartest AI models are still blind to real-world context, how a single film festival can quietly drain a …
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Today, we're talking to Campbell Brown, CEO and co-founder of PredictHQ. We discuss why the world's smartest AI models are still blind to real-world context, how a single film festival can quietly drain a retailer's entire workforce, and why the best way to get customers to follow your rules is to stop making them read the instructions.
All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
To learn more about PredictHQ, check out their website here.
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