Stratola Spectrum - Tech Conversations about AI, Data, and Automation

Dinesh Chandrasekhar

Dinesh Chandrasekhar, CEO & Founder of Stratola, is a technologist and GTM specialist. In this podcast, he interviews various CxOs and technical leaders across the tech spectrum and discusses various extremely current and relevant topics that span AI, Automation, and Data. For more information about Stratola, visit www.stratola.com.

Episodes

  1. 23/12/2025

    Stratola Spectrum #7 - The World of AI from a Chief AI Officer's Vantage Point - Bob Friday - HPE

    Bob Friday, Chief AI Officer,  @HPE  joins us as a special guest in this episode to discuss the role of a Chief AI Officer in today's world. Dinesh Chandrasekhar, Chief Analyst and Founder, Stratola, discusses relevant topics such as AI adoption, security and trust concerns, replacing humans with AI, Agentic AI's progress, and the future. With his vast industry experience, Bob takes us through his viewpoints from his vantage point as a #CAIO.#AgenticAI #AISecurity #NetworkAI #AIOps #StratolaSpectrum

    28 min

  2. 15/09/2025

    Stratola Spectrum #6 - Synthetic Data - Powering today's AI models - Muckai Girish Rockfish Data

    Muckai Girish of Rockfish Data explains what synthetic data is and talks about its importance in powering the AI models of today. Dinesh Chandrasekhar, Chief Analyst, Stratola, digs up interesting insights from Girish on key concepts like trust, authenticity, security, data privacy, etc., related to #syntheticdata in this episode of #stratolaspectrum.

    39 min

  3. 29/07/2025

    Stratola Spectrum #5 - Solace - Agent Mesh and Integration Workflows with AI

    The problem of integration has evolved to be only more complex over the decades. As Agentic AI starts to address this problem, we find ourselves in need of agents having to communicate with each other. Check out this episode as Dinesh Chandrasekhar, Chief Analyst,  Stratola talks to the Chief AI Officer at Solace , Ed Funnekotter about the concept of #AgentMesh.#SolaceAgentMesh #agenticai #LLM #AI #GenAI #integration

    45 min

  4. 11/04/2025

    Stratola Spectrum #4 - Massimo Pezzini - Agentic Automation and Application Integration

    With agentic platforms on the rise, one of the critical use cases that will be benefitted is enterprise workflow automation. This will be way beyond simple productivity workflows. This will include the integration of various enterprise applications. Will agentic automation complement or replace application integration? This is the area we explore in this episode.Our guest for this episode is Massimo Pezzini, a much-renowned ex-Gartner analyst who heads up research at  @Workato . Dinesh Chandrasekhar, Chief Analyst and CEO of  @stratolallc  talks to Massimo about various topics like -- Evolution of the automation space from BPM to RPA to now agentic automation- Composable applications- Adoption of agents across the industry- Agentic bubbles- Relevance of APIs in the agentic world- Agentic Integration Framework- Scope and relevance of SIs in the agentic world- Future opportunity space for agents#agenticai #rpa #automation #integration #appintegration #agenticautomation

    41 min

  5. 24/02/2025

    Stratola Spectrum #3 - Conor Twomey - AI Code Generation and Autonomous Agents

    Conor Twomey is a vocal AI advocate and evangelist. In his recent trip to Davos, he met with several seasoned tech dignitaries and luminaries. In this episode, he shares with Dinesh Chandrasekhar, Chief Analyst of  Stratola, those conversations, key themes, takeaways, and more. He delves into the topic of Agentic Software Engineering, where he foresees autonomous agents enabling every human being in this world to be an AI Engineer. The conversation then goes into topics of the viability and maturity of autonomous agents today and how they will evolve in the near future. Do NOT miss this episode, as there is so much to unpack that we left the tape rolling even past the half-hour mark.Guest profileConor Twomey - Accomplished executive leader with over 15 years of experience addressing the most demanding data challenges for top corporations worldwide. Conor is the former Head of AI Strategy at KX, a pioneer in real-time data analytics and decision intelligence. Under his leadership, KX successfully transitioned from a time-series database company to the Enterprise AI platform of choice for large-scale AI implementations. Before this role, Conor managed a 400-person organization encompassing Presales, Professional Services, Support, Managed Services, and Customer Success Management. Conor is a sought-after speaker and contributor, renowned for his insights on frontier technology topics including Data, Analytics, Machine Learning, AI, and Generative AI

    43 min

  6. 18/02/2025

    Stratola Spectrum #2 - Unstract - Next-Generation Intelligent Document Processing

    Extracting structured information from unstructured files/text is essential for enabling workflow automations powered by LLMs. However, traditional mechanisms like OCR or even IDP fall short in terms of accuracy, speed, and scale. In this episode, Dinesh Chandrasekhar, Chief Analyst, Stratola, talks to Shuveb Hussain, CEO of Unstract to discuss how Unstract enables such use cases with next-generation IDP. Listen to Shuveb discuss the key challenges that organizations face today in this regard and how Unstract addresses such challenges.#IDP #RPA #unstructured #automation #OCR

    33 min

  7. 17/02/2025

    Stratola Spectrum #1 - Data Security and Privacy in Enterprise Automation and AI

    In our premier episode of the Stratola Spectrum Talk Series, Dinesh Chandrasekhar, Founder and Chief Analyst of Stratola, talks to two senior technology leaders about the importance of data privacy and security within the context of enterprise automation and AI.Guest 1 - Amar Kanagaraj, CEO & Founder, Protecto.aiGuest 2 - Steve Shah, SVP Products, Automation AnywhereAs agentic automation and GenAI applications explode onto the enterprise scene, access to PII and PHI becomes unhinged because LLMs don't have filters for identifying and leaking sensitive information. Watch this episode to see how Amar and Steve take on this complex topic and easily break it down into challenges, tasks to address, technologies that can address such issues, and guidance for technology leaders in this space. @protectoai  @Automationanywhere ​

    40 min
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Dinesh Chandrasekhar, CEO & Founder of Stratola, is a technologist and GTM specialist. In this podcast, he interviews various CxOs and technical leaders across the tech spectrum and discusses various extremely current and relevant topics that span AI, Automation, and Data. For more information about Stratola, visit www.stratola.com.

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