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Tech Talks Daily
If every company is now a tech company and digital transformation is a journey rather than a destination, how do you keep up with the relentless pace of technological change? Every day, Tech Talks Daily brings you insights from the brightest minds in tech, business, and innovation, breaking down complex ideas into clear, actionable takeaways. Hosted by Neil C. Hughes, Tech Talks Daily explores how emerging technologies such as AI, cybersecurity, cloud computing, fintech, quantum computing…
Episodes
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Testing the Blast Radius of Agentic AI With NTT DATA
What happens when an AI agent follows your documented process perfectly, but that process bears little resemblance to how decisions are actually made? In this…
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Building Legal Accountability for AI Agents With Norm AI
Who carries responsibility when an AI agent begins reviewing contracts, applying regulatory rules or making commercial decisions on behalf of an organization?…
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Moving Enterprise AI From Hype to Accountable Results With Freshworks
Has enterprise AI finally reached the point where impressive demonstrations are no longer enough? In this episode, I speak with Murali Swaminathan, CTO at…
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Building Infrastructure That Can Govern AI Agents With Broadcom
What happens when an organization writes careful AI governance policies but its infrastructure cannot enforce any of them? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily…
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Turning Rising AI Cloud Costs Into Business Value With Unravel Data
What does a rising cloud bill actually tell you about the value your business is creating? Eight years after our first conversation, I welcome Kunal…
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Testing AI That Never Stops Changing With UL Solutions
How can an independent safety evaluation remain meaningful when the AI inside a product may change after its next update? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily…
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Reducing NHS Waiting Times Through Patient Self Scheduling With Nordic
Could allowing patients to choose their own appointment times help reduce missed visits and shorten NHS waiting lists? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I…
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Breaking Customer Service Silos With Fin AI Agents
What would change if a customer could return three days later through a different channel and continue the same conversation without repeating a single detail?…
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Moving AI Beyond Black Box Answers With Neo4j
Can organizations trust an AI recommendation when they cannot understand the evidence, relationships, and previous decisions behind it? In this episode of Tech…
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Building the Business Context Autonomous AI Agents Need With Reltio
What does an AI agent need to understand about your business before you allow it to make decisions and take action without waiting for human approval? In this…
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The Swivel Chair Problem Holding Back Enterprise AI With Clio
How much of your technology stack is being held together by people swiveling between screens, copying information, and quietly compensating for systems that…
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Preparing Small Businesses for Making Tax Digital With ANNA Money
Could Making Tax Digital improve the way small businesses manage their finances, or will it become another administrative burden competing for an already…
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Regaining Control of Enterprise Software With Origina
Who really controls your enterprise technology strategy: your organization or the vendors writing its software contracts? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily…
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Fixing Broken Customer Service Before Agentic AI Arrives With Parloa
Why are companies preparing for agent-to-agent customer service when many customers still cannot get a chatbot to answer a straightforward question? In this…
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Building an AI Ready Workforce Without Abandoning Entry Level Talent With Year Up United
What happens to tomorrow's leadership pipeline when employers automate the entry-level tasks through which beginners learn? In this episode of Tech Talks…
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When Trusted Mobile Apps Become a Security Risk With Jamf
Can an app approved by Apple or Google still expose your business to security, privacy, and governance risks? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I welcome…
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How BlackLine Turns Finance AI Investment Into Measurable ROI
How should finance leaders measure AI ROI when adoption has slowed and the cost of models, tokens and disconnected tools remains difficult to predict? In this…
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Securing AI Agents at Machine Speed With C1
What happens when an autonomous AI agent can complete thousands of actions before a traditional access review has even identified that something has gone…
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Building Evidence Based Trust for AI Agents With Vijil
What evidence would convince you that an AI agent is ready to make decisions involving employment, money, healthcare, or legal rights? In this episode of Tech…
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Securing Mobile Work Without Putting Data on the Device With Hypori
What if employees could access sensitive business applications from personal phones without storing company data on those devices? In this episode of Tech…
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Turning Payment Terms Into Strategic Working Capital With Calculum
Could your company be paying suppliers earlier than its competitors and unintentionally financing their advantage? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I…
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Could Disease Chemistry Help Treat the Brain With Enabled Therapeutics
What if the chemistry created by neurological disease could help activate medicine precisely where it is needed? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak…
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Preparing Unstructured Data for Enterprise AI With CTERA
Could the real reason enterprise AI projects remain stuck in pilot mode be hidden inside the company's unstructured data? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily…
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Quillbot on How Is AI Changing the Way People Think at Work
What happens to the value of human judgment when AI makes execution faster, cheaper, and available to almost everyone? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I…
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Industrializing AI: How Enterprises Turn AI Into Measurable Business Value
Has enterprise AI finally reached the point where impressive demonstrations are no longer enough? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Bruce…
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AI Agent Security: Why Identity and Access Control Matter More Than Guardrails
What happens when an AI agent is compromised, manipulated, or simply does something nobody expected, but already has permission to access your most sensitive…
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Is Your Network Holding Back Your AI? Kentik CEO Avi Freedman on AI Infrastructure
Companies are spending billions on GPUs, data centers, foundation models, and AI infrastructure. But what happens when the network connecting all of it cannot…
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What Clarecast Data Reveals About AI and Quiet Restructuring
Is AI really causing widespread job losses, or are a small number of announcements creating a much larger narrative? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I…
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Creating a Coordination Layer for AI Agents With Blue Language Labs
What happens when an AI agent is authorized to make a payment, but nobody can verify the wider agreement behind it? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I…
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Scaling Embedded Finance Around Customer Value With Zip Co
What separates an embedded finance partnership that changes customer behavior from an integration nobody would miss? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I…
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Building Creator Trust Through Better Payments With Tipalti
What happens to creator loyalty when somebody delivers the work, attracts an audience, and then waits weeks to be paid? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I…
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Building Reliable AI Agents With Knowledge Gardens and MongoDB
What happens when an enterprise AI agent can retrieve thousands of data points but cannot understand the customer, decision, or business moment in front of it?…
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Turning Warehouse Blind Spots Into Real Time Intelligence With Dexory
What happens when a warehouse management system believes stock is present, but nobody can find it on the warehouse floor? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily…
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How Infobip Uses AI Companions to Keep Sports Fans Coming Back
What can Formula One and football teach businesses about building customer relationships that continue long after a single event? In this episode of Tech Talks…
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How Technology Can End the Late Payment Crisis Costing UK Businesses £11 Billion
Late payments have become so common that many businesses simply accept them as part of commercial life. But should they? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I…
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AI, Value Creation and the Future of Business: Why Automation Is Only the Beginning
Most AI conversations begin with productivity. Joanna Pachnik thinks that's the wrong place to start. In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Joanna…
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Preparing 911 for AI Satellite Calls and Cloud Infrastructure With Intrado
What happens behind the scenes when you dial 911, and is the infrastructure ready for AI, satellite messaging, video, and precise location data? In this…
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AI-Powered Cyberattacks Are Coming for Your Printers. Is Your Business Ready?
When organizations review their cybersecurity posture, printers are rarely the first systems that come to mind. Yet they often account for around 20% of…
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How BOLTS Technologies Brings Crypto Agility to Blockchain Security
What happens to digital asset ownership when the cryptography proving that ownership can no longer be trusted? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak…
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Moving From AI Pilots to Production With Boomi
What prevents a successful AI experiment from becoming a dependable production system that delivers measurable business value? In this episode of Tech Talks…
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Moving From AI Experiments to Autonomous Operations With Dynatrace
What must happen before a business can trust AI agents to detect and resolve operational problems without waiting for human intervention? In this episode of…
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How Saviynt Zuma Secures AI Agents With Zero Trust
How can businesses secure AI agents that read sensitive information, update systems and communicate with other agents on behalf of employees? In this episode…
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Running Enterprise Computer Vision on CPUs With Ultralytics YOLO26
What becomes possible when enterprise computer vision no longer depends on expensive GPU infrastructure? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with…
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How Equifax Connects AI Data and Human Support in Government Services
What can private companies learn from government caseworkers about adopting automation and using data more effectively? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I…
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How Ensono is Building AI Resilience Beyond a Single Model
What happens when an AI experiment becomes a production service that your employees, customers, and daily operations depend upon? In this episode of Tech Talks…
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How RedStone is Connecting Financial AI Agents to Verifiable Data
What happens when an autonomous AI agent makes a financial decision using inaccurate, outdated, or poorly synchronized data? In this episode of Tech Talks…
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How Craftable is Using AI to Protect Restaurant Margins and Human Hospitality
What if a restaurant could identify a margin problem while the ingredients were still being unloaded, rather than discovering it several weeks later? In this…
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How Valliance Fixes the Enterprise AI ROI Problem
Why do so many enterprise AI initiatives begin with impressive demonstrations but struggle to produce measurable business value? In this episode of Tech Talks…
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How Genesys Cloud Helped StepChange Cut Misrouted Calls by 60 Percent
What does a modern contact center need to deliver when the person reaching out may already feel anxious, embarrassed, and unsure where to turn? In this episode…
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Beyond AI Pilots: What Valiantys and Mercedes Can Teach Enterprise Leaders
What does it really take to build an AI-ready enterprise when your data is fragmented, teams operate in silos, and years of technology decisions have created…
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AI in HR: Dayforce on Why Governance Helps Companies Move Faster
What happens when AI moves beyond writing emails and summarizing meetings and starts influencing who gets hired, promoted, and paid? In this episode of Tech…
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How IBM Is Turning Agentic AI Into Measurable Business Value
What separates an impressive agentic AI demonstration from a deployment that produces measurable business value across an entire company? In this episode, I…
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Why Extreme Networks Says Executives Now Expect AI ROI Within Weeks
How quickly should an AI investment begin producing measurable business results? In this episode, I speak with Monica Kumar, Executive Vice President and Chief…
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Commvault: Why Your Disaster Recovery Plan Could Make Ransomware Worse
Could the disaster recovery plan designed to protect your company make a ransomware incident even worse? In this episode, I speak with Darren Thomson, Vice…
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How AI Is Taking the Guesswork Out of Cross Border Delivery
Why can we track a meal traveling across town almost minute by minute, yet an international parcel can seemingly disappear between checkout and delivery? In…
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What Non-Technical Founders Need to Know Before Building With AI
Do you need to understand code before you can build a technology company or lead a team of developers? Five years after our previous conversation, I welcome…
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Why AI Cannot Fix a Business It Does Not Understand
What happens when an AI agent begins influencing business decisions without fully understanding the systems, processes and dependencies behind them? In this…
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How AI Voice Scams Turn Personal Phones Into a Business Risk
Can you still trust an incoming phone call when AI can imitate a familiar voice, personalize the conversation and target information specifically to you? In…
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Why AI Agents Fail in Production: TrueFoundry CEO on Building Reliable AI Systems
Why do AI agents and applications look impressive in demos but struggle when companies try to deploy them in production? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I…
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How Front is Helping Companies Cut the Hidden Coordination Costs Slowing Customer Service.
What if the biggest barrier to better customer service isn't how quickly employees work, but how much time they lose coordinating with everyone else? In this…