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Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Twice-weekly conversations with top executives and thought leaders at the intersection of business, technology, and innovation. Each episode of Technovation explores the technology trends that are transforming business, and the leaders driving digital change inside their organizations. Produced by Metis Strategy and hosted by firm President Peter High, Technovation is the premier podcast for IT and technology professionals with the largest collection of interviews with elite CIOs, CTOs, and…
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- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Not Just More Pilots: Shweta Gummidipudi on Scaling AI at Twilio
Most companies can prove an AI use case works. Scaling it is where they stall. Shweta Gummidipudi, CIO at Twilio, has spent her first year building the…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Sunlife’s Laura Money on Designing AI Around People
AI efficiency is not the destination. At Sunlife, it is the means to something harder to automate: meaningful human connection. In this episode of…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Fix the Process Before the AI: Prakash Kota of UKG
AI layered onto a broken process doesn’t fix the process; it just runs it faster. Prakash Kota spent his first 18 months at UKG consolidating two legacy…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
AI Fluency Over AI Tools: Kristie Grinnell on Transforming TD SYNNEX
The binding constraint on AI adoption is not access to tools. It is the organizational fear and mindset shift required to reimagine work entirely. In this…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
No Pilot Graveyards: How Novant Health’s CAIO Turns AI Into Patient Outcomes
Healthcare has accumulated friction that patients have come to accept as normal. Novant Health’s Chief AI Officer is systematically dismantling it. In…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
95% AI Adoption: How Zoetis Built a Model-Agnostic Platform That Stuck
Most generative AI programs stall at the pilot stage. Zoetis reached 95% computer-based colleague adoption. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks…
Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)Lior Susan on Why Now Is the Time to Build Industrial Giants
The next generation of technology giants may not be built in software. They may be built in factories. In this episode of Technoventure, Peter High speaks with…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
How Mastercard Stopped $13B in Fraud With Real-Time AI
Mastercard processes billions of transactions, and fraud doesn’t wait for rules-based systems to catch up. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
From Demos to Deployments: How U.S. Bank Is Industrializing AI
Proving AI works was never the hard part. The hard part is industrializing it. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Dilip Venkatachari…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
From Patterns to Prompts: Pawan Verma on AI Across the Pharma Value Chain
AI is reshaping every stage of pharmaceutical distribution, but only if the organization is built to absorb it. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Security by Design: How Ally Financial’s CISO Builds Resiliency Into the Cloud
A digital-only bank can’t afford to retrofit security. Ally Financial builds it in from the start. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks…
Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)Ross Fubini on Finding the Wave Behind Breakout Startups
What separates a great founder from a great company? For XYZ Venture Capital Founder and Managing Partner Ross Fubini, execution is only part of the equation…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
How Nationwide CTO Michael Carrel Is Building an AI-Ready Workforce
In this episode of Technovation, Nationwide CTO Michael Carrel joins Peter High to discuss how the company is building an AI-ready workforce while modernizing…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
How Trane Technologies Uses AI to Make Buildings More Autonomous
What happens when AI moves beyond generating content and starts autonomously optimizing the physical world? In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Goodyear CIO Raman Mehta on Making Speed the Strategy for Enterprise AI
For Goodyear CIO Raman Mehta, enterprise AI cannot remain stuck in pilot mode. His mandate is to bring a startup mindset to a 128-year-old manufacturer by…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
How Bobcat CDO Roy Greco Is Building a Digital Foundation for AI and Growth
Bobcat is transforming machines that were once physical “tool carriers” into software-enabled, connected products. Behind that evolution is a broader effort to…
Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)Shardul Shah of Index Ventures on Why the Founder Is the Investment Thesis
Before the market is obvious, what gives an investor the conviction to act? In this episode of Technoventure, Peter High speaks with Shardul Shah, Partner at…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
PG&E CIO Ajay Waghray on Building Trusted Data for Predictive AI
Moving from reactive operations to predictive AI starts with trusted data. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Ajay Waghray, EVP and Chief…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Tines Co-Founder Thomas Kinsella on Governing the Rise of Wild Code
When AI makes everyone a software builder, who governs what gets built? In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Thomas Kinsella, Co-Founder and…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Maximus CDIO Derrick Pledger on Putting Business Value Before AI
AI transformation should start with business value, not technology. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Derrick Pledger, Chief Digital and…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Mouli Venkatesan on AI, Interoperability, and Connecting Healthcare at Scale
Healthcare doesn’t lack data. The challenge is connecting it. In this episode of Technovation, Mouli Venkatesan, EVP and Chief Information &…
Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)Matt Witheiler on Why Great Companies Don’t Have to Be AI Companies
AI may be transformational, but that does not mean every great company needs to be an AI company. In this episode of Technoventure, Peter High speaks with Matt…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Nikhil Narvekar on Driving Bottom-Line Value with AI at Graphic Packaging
Enterprise AI is moving beyond experimentation toward a harder question: where does it actually create measurable business value? In this episode of…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Simplify First, Scale AI Next with Vulcan Materials CIO Krzysztof Soltan
Better AI starts with better data, and for Vulcan Materials CIO Krzysztof Soltan that means simplifying first. In this episode of Technovation, Krzysztof…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Aetna’s Nathan Frank on Scaling AI to Give Healthcare Workers Time Back
What happens when AI gives healthcare workers more time to do the work only humans can do? Nathan Frank, Chief Digital and Technology Officer of Aetna, joins…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Michael Kempe on How AI Is Reinventing the Professional Services Business Model
AI may make professional services faster, but Grant Thornton Advisors CIO Mike Kempe believes the bigger opportunity is to rethink what clients are actually…
Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)How Sequoia’s Bogomil Balkansky Identifies Outlier Founders
What separates an exceptional executive from an outlier founder? For Sequoia Capital partner Bogomil Balkansky, learning the difference required recalibrating…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Retool CEO David Hsu on Why AI Models Are No Longer the Bottleneck
The smartest AI model may no longer be the biggest constraint on enterprise AI. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Retool Co-Founder and…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Verizon CTO Yago Tenorio on Building the Autonomous Network
The next evolution of enterprise networks is not more automation, it is autonomy. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Verizon CTO Yago…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
The Infinity Machine: The Untold Story of Demis Hassabis and DeepMind
What drives someone to spend decades pursuing artificial general intelligence, not for wealth, but for scientific discovery? In this episode of Technovation…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
How M&T Bank Built a Technology-First Culture with Michael Wisler
Technology transformation isn’t about AI, it’s about building the foundations that make AI possible. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High…
Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)Wesley Chan on Building 100-Year Companies and Investing Against Consensus
The companies that define an era often appear irrational before they appear inevitable. In this episode of Technoventure, Peter High speaks with FPV Ventures…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Kimberly-Clark’s Francesco Tinto on Leading AI-First Enterprise Transformation
Artificial intelligence isn’t the transformation, it’s the catalyst. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Francesco Tinto, Chief…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
How AGCO’s Jena Holtberg-Benge Is Using AI to Transform Precision Agriculture
How can AI help farmers produce more with fewer resources? That’s the challenge driving digital transformation at AGCO. In this episode of Technovation…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
How PPG’s CIO Turned IT into a Competitive Advantage
Technology creates competitive advantage when it helps the business move faster, remove friction, and solve customer problems more effectively. In this episode…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
How ElevenLabs Turns AI into Measurable Business Outcomes
In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Alex Holt, Field CTO at ElevenLabs, about what separates successful enterprise AI initiatives from…
Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)Annie Lamont on Reinvention and Winning Across Four Decades of Venture Capital
For more than four decades, Annie Lamont, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Oak HC/FT, has invested through every major technology wave, from the early days…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Gary Sorrentino on How Zoom Is Moving AI from Conversation to Completion
Zoom became synonymous with video meetings, but its next chapter is about delivering business outcomes through AI. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
David Epstein: How Constraints Drive Innovation, Creativity, and Better Leaders
What if the key to breakthrough innovation isn’t more freedom—but better constraints? In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with bestselling…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Priceline CTO Sejal Amin on Building AI-Powered Travel
AI is transforming travel, but according to Priceline CTO Sejal Amin, technology alone isn’t enough. The real competitive advantage comes from…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Tamar Yehoshua on Building AI with Enterprise Context at Atlassian
What gives one enterprise an AI advantage over another? According to Atlassian Chief Product & AI Officer Tamar Yehoshua, it’s not simply access to…
Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)Avi Eyal on Why Great Founders Still Matter Most in the Age of AI
Artificial intelligence may be transforming how companies are built, but Avi Eyal believes the fundamentals of identifying exceptional founders haven’t…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Jim Peko on Building the Future of Professional Services at Grant Thornton
Professional services is undergoing its biggest transformation in decades, and AI is only part of the story. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks…
Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)The Complexity Problem: Gus Shahin on Simplifying the Enterprise for AI
Most companies don’t have a technology problem. They have a complexity problem. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Gus Shahin, EVP…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
How Jack Henry Uses AI and Data Science to Transform Community Banking
What happens when a technology provider can see patterns across 244 million account holders and thousands of financial institutions? In this episode of…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
How SailPoint’s CIO Is Securing AI Agents, Machine Identities, and Enterprise
As AI agents gain access to enterprise systems, identity security is becoming the control layer for responsible AI adoption. In this episode of Technovation…
Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)Stephen Ward on Why Great Cybersecurity Leaders Think Beyond Technology
Cybersecurity leadership isn’t ultimately about technology, it’s about judgment, influence, and the ability to lead through uncertainty. In this…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
How Freudenberg Built a Startup-Style Innovation Engine for Emerging Tech
How does a 177-year-old industrial company maintain startup speed while preparing for technologies that may not mature for another decade? In this episode of…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
How Curt Garner Built Chipotle’s $5B Digital Commerce Engine
Most digital transformation stories begin with customer-facing technology. Chipotle’s began by redesigning operations. In this episode of Technovation…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Inside Southwest’s Modernization Journey: Resilience and Operational Excellence
Southwest Airlines has spent the last several years modernizing one of the most complex operational environments in the world. In this episode of Technovation…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Sankar Chinnathambi on AI, Forecasting, and Digital Agriculture at Driscoll’s
How do you apply AI to one of the world’s most perishable supply chains? In this episode of Technovation, host Peter High speaks with Sankar…
Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)Arpan Shah on AI Agents, Venture Capital, and the Future of Knowledge Work
Artificial intelligence is changing how knowledge work gets done, and AI agents may be the next major leap. In this episode of Technoventure, Peter High speaks…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
How Vanguard Is Preparing for an AI-Powered Future
Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology in decades, but only if it moves beyond automation. Recorded live at Vanguard’s…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Toward Clinical-Grade AI: Shaping the Healthcare Experience
Healthcare accounts for nearly one-fifth of the U.S. economy, making it one of the most consequential sectors for AI-driven transformation. In this special…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
How Ralliant Is Building AI-Native Operating Systems for Industry
AI is changing more than software, it’s redesigning how enterprises operate. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Amir Kazmi, Chief…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
From Pilot to P&L: Scaling AI with Financial Discipline
Enterprise AI is entering a new phase, one defined less by experimentation and more by measurable business value. In this summit panel episode of Technovation…
Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)Paige Craig on Why Great Founders Matter More Than Great Ideas
What makes a founder truly exceptional? In this episode of Technoventure, Peter High speaks with Paige Craig, Founder and Managing Partner of Outlander VC…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Steve Jobs in Exile: How Failure at NeXT Forged a Legendary Leader
Steve Jobs’ greatest leadership lessons did not come during Apple’s rise, they came during exile. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
The Insight Economy: Turning Intelligence into Revenue
AI is quickly evolving from a productivity tool into a growth engine, and the organizations that can operationalize enterprise intelligence at scale will…
- Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Reinventing the Operating Model in an Era of Disruption
AI productivity gains alone are no longer enough. The organizations creating real enterprise value are redesigning their operating models around data, decision…