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Evan Kirstel

Tech Transformation with Evan Kirstel: A podcast exploring the latest trends and innovations in the tech industry, and how businesses can leverage them for growth, diving into the world of B2B, discussing strategies, trends, and sharing insights from industry leaders!With over three decades in telecom and IT, I've mastered the art of transforming social media into a dynamic platform for audience engagement, community building, and establishing thought leadership. My approach isn't about personal brand promotion but about delivering educational and informative content to cultivate a sustainable, long-term business presence. I am the leading content creator in areas like Enterprise AI, UCaaS, CPaaS, CCaaS, Cloud, Telecom, 5G and more!

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    From Reactive to Proactive: Inside Microsoft’s Agentic Security Revolution

    Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Cybercrime now rivals the GDP of major nations, and the pressure on defenders is relentless. We sit down with Microsoft’s CVP Security Vasu Jakkal to explore how AI is becoming the operating system of defense—turning 84 trillion daily signals into clear decisions, faster action, and a truly proactive posture. If you’ve felt stuck in alert fatigue or trapped by tool sprawl, this conversation offers a practical blueprint to simplify your stack, sharpen your visibility, and reclaim time. We break down the core pillars of a modern security strategy: unifying telemetry with Microsoft Sentinel, using data lake tiers to keep rich history without blowing up costs, and mapping attacker movement with graph-driven insights. Vasu explains why attackers think in graphs, how defenders can do the same, and where consolidation across Defender, Purview, Entra, and Intune cuts complexity across 50+ categories. You’ll hear real results from healthcare and critical industries, with savings up to 50% and better detection through a single, connected view. The episode also dives into Security Copilot and the new no-code Agent Builder—so any team can create specialized security agents that triage phishing, enrich alerts, and accelerate investigations without writing scripts. We talk about the Microsoft Security Store for discovering partner-built agents, the skills defenders need to thrive with AI, and how to prepare for the expanding attack surface, from prompt injection and jailbreaks to deepfakes and model poisoning. The takeaway is clear: when AI, graph analytics, and unified tooling meet, defenders can move from firefighting to foresight. If you care about reducing noise, preventing lateral movement, and upskilling your team with AI, this one’s for you. Listen, share with your security peers, and tell us what agent you’d build first. Subscribe for more conversations at the edge of cybersecurity and AI, and leave a review so others can find the show. Support the show More at https://linktr.ee/EvanKirstel

    19min

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    Broadcasting the Ryder Cup: Private 5G, Slicing, and Real-Time Media

    Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com A golf course shouldn’t have to choose between great shots and great signal. From the first tee to the grandstands, we show how a portable private 5G network turned Bethpage Black into a live broadcast studio, a responsive venue, and a real-time storytelling machine for the Ryder Cup. With Scott Jacka, Senior Director of Technology Development Strategy at T-Mobile, we unpack the decisions that make roaming rigs reliable, explain why uplink capacity is the unsung hero of live production, and map how network slicing keeps critical services humming when crowds surge. We go inside partnerships with NBC, Omaha Productions’ Breakfast at Bethpage, and PGA Digital to see how untethered cameras, helmet POVs, and drones change the creative palette. Then we dive into the camera-to-cloud pipeline that pairs Sony’s portable transmitters with 5G so editors receive images seconds after capture—no more SD card sprints across 300 acres. On the operations side, we break down how dedicated slices keep ticketing and point of sale fast and secure, while push-to-talk over 5G keeps staff connected without the constraints of legacy radios. Fans feel the upgrade, too. SeatFinder uses computer vision to surface real-time seating availability in the app, turning guesswork into guidance and reducing frustrating treks. AI-powered Roar Moments pushes clutch highlights across the venue in near real time, so a putt on nine can electrify fans at five seconds later. And beyond golf, we lay out a repeatable playbook for stadiums, festivals, financial institutions, factories, and smart cities—anywhere mobility, low latency, and dependable uplink matter. If you’re building the next great venue experience or rethinking mission-critical connectivity, this conversation is your field guide. Follow and subscribe for more deep dives, share with a colleague who needs a blueprint, and leave a review to tell us which use case you want us to break down next. Support the show More at https://linktr.ee/EvanKirstel

    9min

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    How Teletracking Uses AI to cut delays, free capacity, and keep patients moving safely

    Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Waiting in a hospital is not just frustrating—it’s costly, risky, and fixable. We sit down with Michael Guidry from Teletracking to unpack how smart operations, grounded in AI and clear workflow design, can turn stalled discharge lists into steady movement, open beds sooner, and get patients to the right place without the usual maze of phone calls and guesswork. Think “air traffic control” applied to care access and bed turnover, with a practical lens on what actually works on the floor. We dive into the stubborn length‑of‑stay problem and why shaving hours—not just days—creates real capacity for the ED and beyond. Michael explains why Teletracking trains models at the facility level to reflect local services, staffing, and patterns, and how Decision IQ uses clinical signals like orders, labs, and imaging to prioritize discharge work. We also explore where generative AI shines now—ambient documentation that gives clinicians time back—and where it needs careful guardrails, keeping a human in the loop and building trust with transparent reasoning. There’s a look under the hood at partnerships and platforms too. By building on Palantir’s secure analytics and AI stack, the team can focus on hospital‑specific optimization instead of infrastructure plumbing. And with computational twins—data‑driven simulations adapted from industries like aerospace—leaders can test the impact of prioritizing ED versus PACU before changing policy on a live unit. Add in practical governance tips, from extending existing councils to clarifying data lineage, and a clear picture emerges: technology should fade into the background so clinicians can face patients, not screens. If you care about patient flow, discharge readiness, and hospital capacity management, this conversation offers concrete tactics and a hopeful roadmap. Subscribe, share with a colleague who lives the bed crunch, and leave a review with the one workflow you’d automate first. Support the show More at https://linktr.ee/EvanKirstel

    14min

  4. HÁ 2 DIAS

    What if energy transition is evolutionary, not ideological?

    Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com AI’s rise isn’t just a software story—it’s an energy story. We sit down with Dynamix CEO Andrejka Bernatova to map the hard tradeoffs behind powering data centers, blockchain networks, and onshored manufacturing, and why the smartest path forward treats the grid as “one energy” rather than a fight between fossils and renewables. Andrejka brings two decades across banking, private equity, and operating roles to unpack how real assets get built, funded, and run when demand is surging and patience is scarce. We dig into the economics that quietly drive the transition: oil and gas don’t lose via slogans; they lose when marginal inventory costs rise and renewables scale down the cost curve. That’s why the near-term decarbonization move is a pragmatic shift from coal and diesel to gas, buying time to scale solar, wind, batteries, and later nuclear—while software orchestrates microgrids and smooths variability. Expect data centers to push from roughly 4% toward 12% of US power, with Bitcoin, Ethereum’s staking economy, and industrial onshoring adding pressure. Against that backdrop, Andrejka explains why valuation discipline beats hype cycles, how operator-led investing de-risks execution, and what “resilience” really means when weather, cyber risk, and geopolitics collide. We also break down Dynamix Ether Machine merger: a clean, pure-play vehicle for investors who want exposure to Ethereum with a focus on staking, restaking, and DeFi participation—without legacy baggage. From European-style efficiency gains in buildings to smarter siting, heat reuse, and contract structures, the conversation offers concrete ways to align reliability, price, and sustainability. If you care about the real constraints behind AI’s growth—and the capital strategies that will actually deliver—this is your guide to the grid we’re building next. Support the show More at https://linktr.ee/EvanKirstel

    20min

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    Behind the Scenes: How Galileo Helps Companies Make AI Trustworthy

    Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Ensuring AI systems actually work as intended might be the most crucial challenge facing developers and enterprises today. As these powerful tools become more embedded in our daily workflows and critical business processes, their non-deterministic nature presents unique reliability challenges unlike anything we've faced with traditional software. Conor Bronsdon from Galileo.ai offers a compelling framework for understanding and addressing these challenges. The fundamental issue? LLMs don't follow the predictable input-output relationships we've come to expect from software. "They have this massive amount of data they've been trained on... and this is where the magic piece comes in, where they can create and do things outside of your expectations," Conor explains. While this unpredictability enables AI's most impressive capabilities, it also introduces significant risks. The conversation explores common failure modes organizations encounter when deploying AI in production: tool execution errors, security vulnerabilities, context management problems, and inconsistent content quality. These aren't just theoretical concerns - they're practical challenges facing enterprises like Comcast, JP Morgan, and other Galileo customers working to harness AI reliably at scale. Rather than treating AI as a mysterious black box, Conor advocates for a structured approach to reliability through evaluation, observation, and guardrails. By using purpose-built small language models that can operate with minimal latency and cost, organizations can implement 100% sampling of AI interactions while protecting against harmful outputs. This creates a continuous improvement cycle where production data feeds back into system refinement. Perhaps most insightful is Conor's framing of AI as "a junior async digital employee" - highly capable but requiring proper context, feedback, and guidance to perform effectively. This mental model helps bridge the gap between AI's technical capabilities and the practical needs of organizations deploying it. The goal isn't to constrain AI's potential but to channel it productively within appropriate boundaries. Crossing BordersCrossing Borders is a podcast by Neema, a cross border payments platform that...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show More at https://linktr.ee/EvanKirstel

    29min

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    Unlocking Enterprise Value: AI-Powered Document Management

    Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com Imagine your organization's most valuable information locked away in digital filing cabinets, scattered across departmental silos, and buried in decades of accumulated documents. What competitive advantages could you gain if all that knowledge became instantly accessible and actionable? Dr. John Bates, CEO of SER Group and former Cambridge computer science professor, takes us beyond the AI hype cycle to reveal where the real business value lies - in applying artificial intelligence to the massive document ecosystems that power every enterprise. Drawing from his experience as a five-time CEO and deep learning pioneer, Dr. Bates explains why the AI conversation needs to shift from models to data. We explore fascinating real-world applications where companies transform their document management approach to deliver what Dr. Bates calls "return on information." From a manufacturer processing 50,000 daily customer emails automatically to healthcare organizations connecting fragmented patient records, we see how document AI solves tangible business problems. The conversation reveals how retrieval augmented generation (RAG) enables enterprises to enhance AI with their proprietary document content, making responses more domain-specific and business-relevant. Dr. Bates also shares his vision for the future of enterprise content management through SER Group's DOXIS platform, which natively integrates AI-powered document understanding with process automation and management at massive scale. For organizations drowning in documents but starving for insights, this conversation provides a practical roadmap to unlock the knowledge hidden within your existing information assets. Ready to discover the competitive advantages hiding in your document repositories? Listen now to learn how document AI is transforming how businesses understand, manage, and leverage their most valuable information assets. Support the show More at https://linktr.ee/EvanKirstel

    22min

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    Why AI Needs Empathy: Healthcare's Human-Technology Balance

    Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What happens when you apply four decades of customer experience expertise to healthcare's most pressing challenges? David Shapiro, COO of Premier Annex, offers a masterclass in transforming patient experiences through what he calls "tech-enabled human in the loop" solutions. Healthcare providers excel at medical care but often struggle with patient experience – those crucial moments when patients schedule appointments, seek information, or navigate the healthcare system while already feeling vulnerable. Shapiro's revolutionary approach doesn't force a choice between technology and human touch; instead, it harmonizes both. "If you use only technology, you'll lose empathy," he explains, describing how AI serves as a co-pilot that retrieves information while human representatives deliver it with genuine understanding. This interview introduces groundbreaking concepts reshaping healthcare service delivery. "Right-shoring" replaces outdated offshoring stereotypes by strategically placing operations based on specific client needs – including leveraging the Philippines' abundant nursing graduates to provide medical expertise at competitive rates. Meanwhile, "co-sourcing" represents a deeper partnership where Premier Annex seamlessly extends healthcare providers' capabilities rather than functioning as a separate entity. Despite AI's transformative potential, Shapiro maintains that the future belongs to balanced approaches where technology handles routine tasks while humans focus on complex, empathy-requiring interactions. Premier Annex embraces this evolution through their internal AI lab, continuously developing applications that enhance rather than replace human connections. For healthcare leaders navigating this changing landscape, Shapiro offers timeless advice: stay open-minded, foster creativity, and build learning organizations that constantly evolve. Tired of being stuck on hold while feeling unwell? Frustrated by healthcare's administrative hurdles? Listen as Shapiro reveals how Premier Annex is breaking down these barriers to create seamless patient experiences. Connect with Dave on LinkedIn or visit premierannex.com to learn how these innovations might transform your organization's approach to patient care. Support the show More at https://linktr.ee/EvanKirstel

    17min

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    AI in MedTech: Transforming Patient Care

    Interested in being a guest? Email us at admin@evankirstel.com What happens when your medical device company becomes a data company? The entire healthcare landscape transforms. Bernard from Orthogonal reveals how the convergence of sensors, connectivity, and artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing medical device development and patient care. After 30 years in software and 15 years specifically in medical devices, Bernard brings a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities facing the industry. The conversation explores how consumer devices like smartphones, smartwatches, and even the latest AirPods are collecting medical-grade data at unprecedented scale. "The ear is actually a really good sensor bed," Bernard explains, highlighting how health monitoring capabilities that hearing aid manufacturers could have implemented years ago are now being pioneered by consumer electronics companies. This democratization of health data collection is creating new possibilities for early detection, prevention, and treatment. Security emerges as a critical consideration in this connected ecosystem. With the FDA significantly raising cybersecurity requirements, medical device manufacturers must implement "secure by design" practices from the outset. While cloud infrastructure providers invest billions in security, vulnerabilities in technologies like Bluetooth require special attention to ensure patient safety. Perhaps most exciting is AI's impact on development efficiency. Bernard reports that AI tools have already made his company 50% more efficient, with expectations to double that improvement next year and achieve a fourfold increase within five years. The challenge remains translating these efficiencies into better outcomes and lower costs within a healthcare system whose reimbursement structures often resist innovation. Ready to embrace the future of connected healthcare? Listen now to understand how thinking of data as your most valuable asset can transform your approach to medical technology development. Crossing BordersCrossing Borders is a podcast by Neema, a cross border payments platform that...Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show More at https://linktr.ee/EvanKirstel

    25min
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Tech Transformation with Evan Kirstel: A podcast exploring the latest trends and innovations in the tech industry, and how businesses can leverage them for growth, diving into the world of B2B, discussing strategies, trends, and sharing insights from industry leaders!With over three decades in telecom and IT, I've mastered the art of transforming social media into a dynamic platform for audience engagement, community building, and establishing thought leadership. My approach isn't about personal brand promotion but about delivering educational and informative content to cultivate a sustainable, long-term business presence. I am the leading content creator in areas like Enterprise AI, UCaaS, CPaaS, CCaaS, Cloud, Telecom, 5G and more!

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  • Criado por
    Evan Kirstel
  • Anos de atividade
    2024 - 2025
  • Episódios
    516
  • Classificação
    Livre
  • Copyright
    © 2025 TechInfluencer
  • Site do podcast
    What's Up with Tech?