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Tech Disruptors
Tech Disruptors by Bloomberg Intelligence features conversations with thought leaders and management teams on disruptive trends. Topics covered in this series include cloud, e-commerce, cybersecurity, AI, 5G, streaming, advertising, EVs, automation, crypto, fintech, AR/VR, metaverse and Web 3.0. This podcast is intended for professional investors only. It is being prepared solely for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer or investment advice.
Episodes
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Cohesity CEO on Data Resilience for AI Era
Modern-day businesses are increasingly digital and data dependent, and organizations need to critically monitor their data assets, protect them against…
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Box CEO on Enterprise Content Management
With AI “you can talk to your data for the first time ever. So you can ask almost any question on almost any amount of information in your enterprise,” Box CEO…
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Northern Data Build-Out of GPU Data Centers
Northern Data runs “a full customer platform, which offers that groundbreaking Nvidia GPU infrastructure to help bring AI applications to life,” COO Rosanne…
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SentinelOne Pivots to LLMs in Endpoint Security
What separates SentinelOne from other security-software providers is that you’ll find large language models “in a lot of our automation capabilities that help…
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Glean CEO On AI-led Democratization of Software
“The AI trend still feels significantly larger than all of those previous trends that we’ve seen in technology over the last three decades” Glean CEO and…
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Asana CPO on Rewiring Workflows With AI
It can be difficult to manage people via email or to coordinate work using spreadsheets or documents, raising the need for a “collaboration layer” such as that…
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Gutmans on Bringing Google AI to Existing Data
Andi Gutmans, VP and general manager of Databases at Google, said customers who house information in enterprise-grade databases — durable, reliable and secure…
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The Future of Gen AI, Security With Microsoft
“The workflow doesn’t go away, but the interface and the capability set of what constitutes a SaaS application is going to be very different than what we see…
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Zscaler Sees Cyberthreat Environment Growing
The cyberthreat environment keeps worsening because more business is being conducted online and nation states are looking to steal secrets and intellectual…
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A View From the Top: Chambers’ 2025 Predictions
This is the year that AI will break through to drive company productivity and in what’s becoming a Tech Disruptors annual tradition, tech luminary and former…
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Microsoft Industry Uses Take AI to Next Level
For selecting generative-AI strategy, “there’s usually four drivers before you get into the use case: domain accuracy, efficiency, cost effectiveness and, of…
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Shopify’s Product Innovation Continues Apace
“Merchants can bet on Shopify and not worry about falling behind the cutting edge here,” explains the company’s vice president of product, Glen Coates, to…
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Check Point’s Shwed on Cybersecurity Outlook
US companies are experiencing about 1,800 attacks every week through attempted incursions that are more sophisticated than in years past. Check Point’s…
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Salesforce Chief Scientist on the Ingredients for Effective AI
As AI moves toward agentic systems capable of performing tasks with minimal human intervention, guardrails setting boundaries and human verification of…
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ClickUp CEO on Work Platforms for an AI World
Enterprise work-management tools are likely to show dramatic development with growing machine-learning capabilities, more capable foundational models and the…
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Datastax CEO on Tuning Databases for LLM World
Datastax’s CEO Chet Kapoor talks about his company’s positioning in the database market with Bloomberg Intelligence’s Sunil Rajgopal and Mandeep Singh. They…
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Sonar’s Opportunity in Clean Code for Business
Helping developers identify issues with the computer code they’re writing, from bugs to security vulnerabilities, is Sonar’s mission. CEO Tariq Shaukat shares…
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SAP Placing Customers at the Center of its 3-Pillar AI Strategy
“It's like an orchestra – each AI expert agent has unique expertise and could be an individual musician, Joule would be the conductor, and you can think of the…
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Flexera CEO on IT Spending and Optimization
Companies across industries will continue to scrutinize information-technology spending, looking closely at the IT assets and compute environments and their…
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Cribl CEO on Optimizing and Activating Disparate Customer Data
“The problem today is that data is growing at a 27% compound growth rate and budgets are not. There’s fundamental tension between data growth and budget”…
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Appian CTO on Process Automation in an AI World
Enterprise workflows and tools are likely to see a dramatic shift as AI adoption and prowess grows, and the intensifying race to roll out AI could have…
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Postscript’s CEO on Taking SMS to New Heights
Postscript differentiates itself through SMS marketing and sales software that can power brands to increase engagement with customers and understand them…
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ServiceNow’s AI, Platform Fuse Spurs Automation
“What our customers are looking for is to move out of the pilot phase of projects and delivering enterprise value fast,” says ServiceNow Chief Commercial…
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Adobe’s Belsky on Building a Gen-AI Interface
As interest in generative AI broadens, Adobe’s chief strategy officer Scott Belsky says “The real opportunity is to build the orchestration layer and the…
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Salesforce’s CEO on a Workforce Without Limits
“Ask the fundamental question: What if your workforce has no limits? This is really now about humans with agents driving customer success together,” Marc…
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Drata CEO on Security, Compliance Automation
As enterprises look to harness data that stems and flows through diverse and dispersed source and end-points, robust practices around storing, processing…
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Sanctuary CTO Says Big Gains in Robots at Hand
Sanctuary AI, which focuses on providing humanoid robots to automakers, industrial manufacturers and logistics companies, is uniquely positioned because of its…
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Dialpad CEO on Unifying Communications With AI
Unifying the business communication stack from contact center to sales team to business collaboration is Dialpad’s focus. In this episode of the Tech…
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Pure’s CEO Cracks Code for All-Flash Storage
Mass-scale storage may be ripe for disruption as NAND flash memory plays a bigger role within cloud and corporate IT environments, taking share from more…
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Starburst CEO on Future Of Data-Query Engines
The highly distributed, dispersed and dynamic nature of enterprise data fuels demand for robust data-query engines for analytics and to drive intelligence. In…
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SailPoint CEO on Securing Identity in Companies
Managing identity access to enterprise data for employees, contractors and now non-human users, which will likely include AI agents, may continue to grow in…
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Salesloft’s Obrand on Revenue Orchestration
Revenue orchestration is emerging as a new software category aimed at guiding best practices in sales to drive repeatable outcomes. In this episode of…
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BILL Pushing to Automate SMB Finance Workloads
Automating finance, which spans accounts payable and receivable, payments, spending management and planning for small and medium businesses, remains BILL’s…
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Industry Clouds Lift Salesforce’s Market Reach
Industry-specific cloud products as Salesforce’s fastest-growing business are seeing steady adoption as customers look for out-of-the-box software solutions…
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MongoDB on Developer-Focused Data Technologies
Data architecture is core to building robust enterprise applications, and as enterprises focus on harnessing unstructured data, new non-relational database…
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Copilots, Autonomous CRM and the Future of SaaS with Microsoft
“One of the most important elements of copilots going forward is going to be the context you make available to it. Everybody wants a copilot to understand…
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Uniphore CEO Discusses Bet on Conversational AI
The reason to bring AI or any other such technology into a company is to drive business outcomes, and Uniphore has delivered these outcomes by packaging AI…
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Schneider Electric CEO on AI and Data Centers
How long could the strong growth in the physical infrastructure for data centers last? And what about the impact of AI and other emerging technologies? Could…
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Cerebras Expands by Pushing AI Inference Limits
A race to deliver the fastest AI system is emerging, resulting in a crop of new companies with innovative approaches to AI processing. Cerebras returns to the…
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Sisense CEO on Democratizing Analytics With AI
Businesses are turning to data to build their competitive edge, and AI tools will likely become a core layer of business intelligence and analytics platforms…
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Qlik CEO on Augmenting Data Analytics With AI
AI-fueled product innovation is likely to reset many functions and industries, and companies could look to harness the full power of their data to drive…
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Okta’s McKinnon on Identity Security Resiliency
Okta CEO Todd McKinnon says clients are increasingly asking about resiliency in identity security — a mission-critical enterprise application — amid the…
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Infosys Breaks Down the Enterprise AI Journey
Enterprises implementing AI would likely end up with a combination of their own core specialized models and out-of-the-box frontier solutions, Rafee Tarafdar…
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Webflow’s Co-Founder and CEO on No-Code Website Design
Building responsive and high-powered websites through an intuitive and visual development approach is Webflow’s core strength, with its no-code technology…
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Microsoft Data Platform’s Explosive Growth in the Age of Gen-AI
“Every customer recognizes that it is data that is the fuel that powers AI,” says Arun Ulag, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Azure Data. In this…
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OpenText CEO on Digital Pyramid Rethink With AI
Enterprise information management tools, processes and outcomes are set to evolve with AI and the shift to cloud. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, OpenText…
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AWS’ Swami on Gen-AI’s Expanding Industry Uses
“Generative AI with a combination of cloud and data is poised to transform every aspect of how organizations operate,” Amazon Web Services Vice President of AI…
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Monte Carlo CEO on Honing Knotty Corporate Data
Companies’ decision-making is increasingly driven by data, with the quality of that data critical, especially in AI-driven applications. In this episode of the…
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Credit Karma’s Co-Founder on Gen AI, Consumer
Helping the consumer tackle the financial marketplace for credit cards, auto loans, mortgages, insurance and other financial products is the value that Credit…
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Coding Assistants, Cloud Migrations and Monetization with AWS
“Underlying large language models have advanced significantly in the past six months, so that’s allowed us is to start looking at software development in a…
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Microsoft Reducing AI Compute Requirements with Small Language Models
“Microsoft is making a bet that we’re not going to need a single AI, we’re going to need many different AIs” Sebastien Bubeck, Microsoft’s vice president of…
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Ayar Labs Aims to Eliminate AI’s Bottlenecks
The cloud’s need for a high-performing AI infrastructure to support growing large language models has opened a Pandora’s box of performance bottlenecks. In…
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Cohere’s Path to Differentiation in LLM Race
Cohere is one of the frontier large-language-model companies focusing on enterprise-use cases to differentiate it from OpenAI GPT, Google Gemini, Meta Llama…
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Wrike CEO on AI-Driven Product, Pricing Shift
The workflow-management-solutions sector is evolving fast, yet remains fragmented and likely on the hunt for new revenue models. In this episode of the Tech…
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Salesforce Sales Cloud Exec on Empowering Customers With Data, AI
“On average, a salesperson spends 30-45 minutes after a sales call on processing the sales call,” says Ketan Karkhanis, Salesforce’s executive vice president…
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DeepL CEO on AI-Charged Language Translation
The rising capabilities of AI and progress in large language models are set to reduce communication barriers posed by language diversity. In this episode of…
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Broadcom’s CPO Will Connect Massive AI Clusters
AI computing employs GPU/XPU clusters that are growing at unprecedented speeds, as well the bandwidth and power requirements of networks to support them. Near…
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Precisely CTO Yoğurtçu on Integrating Gen AI
The readiness of companies’ data for AI use cases will be critical to their innovation and market leadership. In this episode of the Bloomberg Intelligence…
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How AWS is Building Data Centers for the New Age of Generative AI
“We’re seeing a big increase in GPU capacity demands and we expect the data centers over the next couple of years will need to support higher power densities…