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#973
#973 The CTO Extinction Event with Etienne de Bruin, Founder of Seven CTOs
#972
#972 Stop Ripping Out Your Legacy Code with Alan Williamson, CTO
#971
#971 The Red Queen Problem with Anthony Scriffignano, PhD, Data Scientist
#970
#970 Why You Can't Trust AI Without Governing It, with Tony Davis & John Balsavage of A&I Solutions
#969
#969 Tech Titans: Hidden Rules of the Brain with Moran Cerf, Neuroscientist and Professor
#968
#968 The Real Reason Your Body Is a Business Card with Mauro Stara, Founder of Six Pack CEO
#967
#967 Tech Titans: Rethinking Career Five-Year Plans with Francisco Trindade, VP of Software Engineering
#966
#966 Tech Titans: Designing for Intuition with Campbell Brown, CEO and Co-founder of PredictHQ
#965 Inside the Tech Stack Behind the Modern Store with Yevgeni Tsirulnik & Naresh Keswani of Toshiba
#964 Hunting for Alien Technology with Avi Loeb, Harvard Astrophysicist
#963 Is the Specialist Executive Dead? with Mahesh Guruswamy, COO at Kajabi
#962 Tech Titans: Go From Burnt Out to Fired Up with Justin Fanelli, Department of Navy CTO
#961 Can this Company Fix America’s Broken Food System? with Luiz Beling, CEO of Apeel Sciences
#960 Confronting Plummeting Birth Rates & Banning Superintelligence with Connor Leahy, US Director at ControlAI
#959 Are Engineers Redundant Now? with Hrishi Dixit, Co-Founder & CTO of Autonomy Finance
#958 Where Do We Draw the Line on Letting AI Build? With Zach Goldberg, CEO at Gruntwork
#957 Why do 81% of Mature AI Programs Get Rolled Back? with Daniel Morris, CPO at Sinch
#956 How Snapchat is Evolving in the Age of AI with Saral Jain, SVP, Head of Engineering
#955 Why Kubernetes Still Feels So Hard & What to Do About It with Steve Francis, CEO of Sidero Labs
#954 Why Does AI Momentum Stall in Large Organizations? with Kyle Lagunas & Allyn Bailey
#953 Are Apps Going to Get Axed by Conversational AI? with Jacques Klick, Director of Market Strategy at Sinch
#952 When Will Robots Live With Us? Inside 1X's NEO with Dar Sleeper, VP of Design & Product
#951 The 5 Levels of AI Coding & the Collapse of Human-Written Code with Trevor Hinesley, Co-Founder & CTO at Soundstripe
#950 Marty Cagan on Product Management Theater in the Age of AI
#949 From Mammoths to Humans: The Case for Gene Editing with Eriona Hysolli
#948 Why Your AI Has No Idea What's Happening in the World with Campbell Brown, CEO & Co-Founder of PredictHQ
#947 Are Our Brains Wired Together? The Power of the Mind in Business & Beyond with Moran Cerf, Neuroscientist & Professor
#946 Why Being the Best at Your Job Is Holding You Back with Bill Tingle, Executive Coach
#945 Tech Titans: Learn How to Remix as a Leader with Michael Grinich, founder at WorkOS
#944 Tech Titans: Your Team Should be Acting or Arguing with Brendan Wovchko, CTO at Ramsey Solutions
#943 What It Looks Like to Give AI 80% of Your Project with Dan Cardinal, CTO at Beghou Consulting
#942 Why Software Is Never “Done” Anymore with Iccha Sethi, SVP of Engineering at Vanta
#941 The Future of Employee Experience & The Field of Foresight with Jacob Morgan, host of Future Ready Leadership
#940 Tech Titans: The Art of Making Yourself Redundant with Hrishi Dixit, Principal at Gordian Labs
#939 Tech Titans: How Do You Lead When No One's Looking? with Jack Tam, Intuit
#938 Tech Titans: How to Stop Fitting In and Start Leading with Tony Martignetti
#937 Tech Titans: Your Team Can't Trust You If They Can't Predict You with Noah Cantor
#936 Will AI Kill Code Review? with Francisco Trindade, VP at Braze
#935 When AI Writes All the Code, Who's Watching? with Kayvon Beykpour, Cofounder & CEO of Macroscope
#934 Why AI is Actually Artificial Creativity with Brian Alvey, CTO of WordPress VIP
#933 The AI Bubble Nobody's Talking About with Brian Singer, CTO as RSI
#932 What Will Usher in the Next Renaissance with Zack Kass, Author & Former OpenAI GTM Lead
#931 Tech Titans: How to Know You’re Not Really a CTO with Alan Williamson
#930 Why Everybody Has Something to Hide with Guy Kawasaki, Chief Evangelist at Canva
#929 Why You Can’t Go Off Vibes in Software Development with Stephen Poletto, Field CTO at Span
#928 Tech Titans: A Masterclass in Change Management with Ashley Goodall
#927 Why Regenerative Tech Needs to be the Future with Tom Chi, Google X Founder & author of Climate Capital
#926 From Inventing a Microprocessor to Full-Time Tech Comedian with Don McMillan
#924 A Step By Step Process to Accelerate Your Career Goals with Rob Kalwarowsky
#923 Why Your Document Workflows Are a Hidden Compliance Crisis with Anand Narasimhan, CTO at S-Docs
#922 How To Understand & Optimize Agentic AI Workforces with Promise Theory with Tony Davis & Dr. Mark Burgess
#921 The Top Scaling Lessons from Zapier's AI Transformation with Wade Foster, Co-Founder & CEO of Zapier
#920 How Jensen Huang Built the World's Most Valuable Company with Stephen Witt, Author of "The Thinking Machine"
#919 How AI Will Collapse, Blur, and Rebuild Tech Teams with Kevin Adams, CIO at Edward Jones
#918 Why You’ll Never Plan Another Vacation with Vipul Hingne, CTO at Booking.com
#917 How to Build Defense for AI Cyber Attack Waves with Ariful Huq, Co-Founder at Exaforce
#916 Will AI be the End of SaaS? with Rob Woollen & Marwan Mattar of Sigma
#915 CES and WEF 2026: What’s the Global State of Tech? with Jim Harris
#914 How AI Will Dissolve Our Brains Just Like Google Maps with Jacob Ward, Author of "The Loop"
#913 Why We Need the Rich for Democracy & Tech Progress with John McGinnis, Professor at Northwestern University
#912 The 9 Skills Every Tech Leader Needs in the Age of AI with Andrea Iorio, Author of "Between You and AI"
#911 The Cost Crisis Facing CTOs and How to Solve It with Albert Strasheim, CTO at Rippling
#910 How Agentic SDLC Turned a 5-month Project Into 5 Days with Brian Elliott, CEO at Blitzy and Tom Jackson, CTO at RSM US LLP
#909 The Modern CTO of 2025 is Rob Duffy, CTO at HealthEdge!
#908 The Business Strategy of the Biggest Player in Travel Tech with Rob Ransom, SVP at Booking Holdings
#907 The MCTO Awards: Who is THE Modern CTO of 2025?
#906 How Shazam went from a 4-digit Phone Number to $400m with Chris Barton, Founder
#905 How to Nail Business Automation in the Agentic Age with Micha Kiener, CTO at Flowable
#904 Building Peacock at Scale with António Vieira, Director of Global Apps Engineering at Sky
#903 MIT Sloan’s Guide to Navigating a New Age of AI, with Sam Ransbotham, Host of the Me, Myself and AI Podcast
#902 How Morpheus is Transforming the Hybrid Cloud Model with Brad Parks, CloudOps and Private Cloud Leader at HPE
#901 How the New York Times is Harnessing Tech in the News Industry with Jason Sobel, CTO
#900 Transforming IT at Hewlett Packard Enterprise through Agentic AI with Brian Gruttadauria, CTO of Hybrid Cloud
#899 How AI Agents Are Redefining Customer Experience with Adrian McDermott, CTO at Zendesk
#898 TECH TITANS: Our Best Advice on Communication and Hiring Strategies with Mark Porter, CTO at dbt Labs
#897 The Father of the Cable Modem on Broadband, AI & Hype with Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard
#896 How to Complete an AI Transformation in 18 Months with Rebecca Carr, CEO at SmartRecruiters
#895 Leadership Lessons from Business and Church with Jay Owen, CEO at Business Builders
#894 Web3 Was a Failure…Will Gaming Save it? with Chris Hewish, President at Xsolla
#893 From 2 Guys in a Garage to 700 Employees with Scott Henderson, CTO & Co-founder at Celigo
#892 The AI Coding Arms Race is Transforming Software with Henrik Plate & Amod Gupta of Endor Labs
#891 How The Telegraph is Redefining the News with AI with Dylan Jacques, CPTO
#890 Will AI Ever Create Its Own Meaning? with Bryan McCann, CTO of You.com
#889 The AI SRE Hype and How to Get it Right with Yotam Yemini, CEO of Causely
#888 Rewiring Lenovo with Art Hu, SVP & CTO
#887 How Yahoo is Taming the Modern Digital Wilderness with Lee Zen, CTO
#886 Launching ChatGPT with Zack Kass, Former Head GTM at OpenAI
#885 Securing Everything from 40-Year-Old C++ to GenAI Code with Varun Badhwar, CEO of Endor Labs
#884 Should We Use AI to Bring Back Loved Ones? With Miles Spencer, Founder at Reflekta
#883 Scale Differently in the Age of AI with Robert Duffy, CTO at HealthEdge
#882 Working with Steve Jobs & Becoming a Wiser Guy with Guy Kawasaki, Chief Evangelist at Canva
#881 From Nothing to a $10 Billion Rocket Ship with Jeff Buzzelli, Regional SVP at Comcast
#880 How GoFundMe is Changing Fundraisers in the Age of AI with Arnie Katz, CPTO
#879 Leading Superworkers in the Public Sector with Denise Hemke, CPO at NEOGOV
#878 Why Agility is Your Greatest Business Survival Skill with Robert Parsons, VP of Hardware Portfolio at TOSHIBA
#877 Capitalize on Chaos & Lead Through Toxic Workplaces with Rob Kalwarowsky
#876 Shifting From Career Mode to Coaching Mode with Nick Calver, VP at Palo Alto Networks
#875 His Worst Coach Made Him Into a Great Leader with Damon Lembi, CEO at LearnIt
#874 Why AI Is Stalling in the Enterprise, and How Leaders Can Fix It with Greg Shewmaker, CEO at r.Potential
