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Best 10-minute, daily tech podcast on emerging technologies, hundreds of Silicon Valley CEOs, Influencers and Celebrities. Hosted by technology executive and creator of Coruzant Technologies.

  1. 3d ago

    Jen Grogono: Every Company Is Becoming a Media Company | Ep 1311

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Jen Grogono, founder and CEO of uStudio, to explore why the future of enterprise training and internal communications looks a lot more like Spotify than a company intranet. Jen opens with the founding story of ON Networks in 2006, where the challenge of syndicating original content across a hundred different endpoints — each with different metadata, formats, and technical requirements — planted the seed for what would become uStudio. When she saw enterprises building massive libraries of training and marketing content with no infrastructure to manage or measure them, the pivot was clear. She breaks down why the measurement layer is so critical to enterprise buyers: it is not enough to send a message, leaders need to know what is landing, who tuned out at the twenty percent mark, and what is actually changing behavior. That feedback loop, built on a secure instrumented platform inside corporate networks, is what separates content that moves people from content that gets ignored. She then addresses AI's role in two directions simultaneously — as the subject of urgent workforce change management that demands better communication, and as the engine making content creation, personalization, and discovery faster and more targeted than ever. Her product AutoCast turns corporate documents and knowledge bases into audio, so AI can surface the right three-second clip or five-minute deep dive exactly when a worker needs it. She closes with a vision of the enterprise as an always-on Spotify-like network — personalized to each worker's role, consumption habits, and learning needs, delivered through their phone at any idle moment — and makes the case that the companies that build that infrastructure now will be the ones whose messages actually land when it matters most. If you liked what you heard today, please leave us a review - Apple or Spotify.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Jen Grogono: Every Company Is Becoming a Media Company | Ep 1311

  2. 4d ago

    Kevin Pickhardt: Your Printer Is a Security Hole | Ep 1310

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Kevin Pickhardt, Executive Chairman of Pharos Systems International, to make the case that one of the most overlooked vulnerabilities in enterprise IT is sitting right there in the corner of every office floor — the printer. Kevin opens with a career that began at Xerox forty years ago and traces the surprisingly consistent thread through every transformation since: printing never went away, but the infrastructure managing it never kept up. He explains why printing has been uniquely resistant to modernization — historically owned by facilities rather than IT, split across drivers, print servers, endpoints, and physical documents with no single accountable owner, and architecturally built on trust rather than zero trust. A printer today accepts any file from anyone who can reach it on the network, which is precisely the opposite of how modern security is supposed to work. He then walks through how hybrid work and COVID fundamentally changed print behavior — breaking the personal relationship between employee and device, driving printing into home networks enterprises couldn't control, and forcing organizations to rethink printing not as a connection from desk to nearby printer but as a cloud-based queue accessible from anywhere. He closes with a clear vision of what modern printing infrastructure has to become: cloud native, user-centric and identity-first, integrated with broader IT systems rather than siloed, and secured end-to-end with data loss prevention that can flag when someone suddenly starts printing sensitive financial documents. The paperless office, Kevin notes, was a prediction made forty years ago and still hasn't arrived — and the organizations that accept print as a permanent fixture and modernize it accordingly will be the ones that close the security gap before someone else exploits it. If you liked what you heard today, please leave us a review - Apple or Spotify.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Kevin Pickhardt: Your Printer Is a Security Hole | Ep 1310

  3. Aug 20

    Shannon Flanagan: Your Soft Skills Are Now Your Superpower | Ep 1309

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Shannon Flanagan, founder and CEO of Retail Women in Tech, to make a case that the most important thing missing from most AI transformation efforts isn't better technology — it's the right people in the room. Shannon opens with a career that started at 18 folding jeans and evolved through merchandising, consulting at Accenture, and leadership roles at Gap, Lands' End, and Macy's, shaped throughout by a single question she discovered at 25: what does it take to create the conditions where people love what they do every day? That question led her to organizational design, change management, and eventually to founding a nonprofit she describes as the hardest, poorest, and most fulfilling chapter of her life. She built Retail Women in Tech not to create another exclusive senior women's network, but to get more women — at every level, function, and age — into the rooms where AI decisions are being made, because she believes the qualities women have historically been told to downplay are exactly the ones the AI era will reward most. On change management, Shannon introduces a framework as simple as it is powerful: potential minus interference equals performance, and argues that most AI transformations fail because leaders lead with technology and ROI instead of starting with human readiness, trust, and psychological safety. She closes with a forward-looking vision of what success will look like in retail and beyond — not functional expertise, but judgment, discernment, ethics, and connection — and a challenge to women entering the field to stop waiting until they feel ready for AI roles and start recognizing that what they bring is exactly what the future needs. If you liked what you heard today, please leave us a review - Apple or Spotify.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Shannon Flanagan: Your Soft Skills Are Now Your Superpower | Ep 1309

  4. Aug 20

    Allen Dine: ER-Level Care, Delivered to Your Front Door | Ep 1308

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Allen Dine, Chief Business Officer at Care2You, to explore what it actually takes to deliver emergency and hospital-level care inside someone's home — and how AI is making that possible at scale across one of the most complex urban environments in the world. Allen opens by tracing a career defined by a refusal to wait for someone else to solve the problem, from learning SQL to build his own data warehouse to deploying AI voice agents for patient intake — because in home care, if you want change, you have to build it yourself. He then walks through how Care2You uses voice AI for the highest-stakes first contact in healthcare: patient intake screening. The agents collect vitals, demographics, and recent history, cut a five-minute clinical call to under two minutes, and flag red flags — but they never make clinical decisions. Every conversation is fully audited so clinicians can review exactly what happened before stepping in, keeping the human always in the loop and the process never a black box. The dispatch and routing challenge gets equal attention: matching the right clinician to the right patient across New York City's five boroughs in real time, accounting for traffic, acuity, and a patient load that isn't fully known until the day unfolds. AI compresses what used to take ten minutes of dispatcher judgment into seconds, presenting ranked options that humans can override and adjust. Allen closes with a vision of hospital-at-home that goes beyond just moving the site of care — arguing that the real opportunity is educating patients about what conditions can be safely and comfortably treated at home, so that recovery happens surrounded by family, pets, and familiar routines rather than hospital walls, at lower cost to everyone involved. If you liked what you heard today, please leave us a review - Apple or Spotify.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Allen Dine: ER-Level Care, Delivered to Your Front Door | Ep 1308

  5. Aug 19

    Furkat Kasimov: Don't Copy Success. Learn From Failure Instead. | Ep 1307

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Furkat Kasimov, London-based entrepreneur, angel investor, and author, to explore what it takes to build and invest wisely in the AI era — before the crowd figures it out. Furkat opens with a origin story that predates the current AI boom by a decade, tracing his first investment to an InsureTech conference where he spotted a deepfake detection company called PinDrop Security and recognized that every dangerous technology creates a market for its antidote. That insight became the founding logic of Applayerai, a venture studio built around predicting what solutions large corporations will need in five to ten years — and building them before those corporations think to ask. He then unpacks the philosophy behind his book Don't Do This, explaining why he focused on cataloguing over 150 business mistakes rather than celebrating success stories: timing and luck can't be replicated, but someone else's mistakes can be avoided. He closes with sharp advice for executives navigating the AI stack: treat foundation models like cloud providers and build for model independence so you can swap them out without rebuilding everything; match model cost to task complexity rather than defaulting to the most powerful option for everything; and always measure the cost of completing a workflow so you can actually optimize it. His parting message cuts through the noise simply — don't lose sight of what makes your business great, treat AI as a utility, and build the knowledge base that lets your agents keep improving over time. If you liked what you heard today, please leave us a review - Apple or Spotify.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Furkat Kasimov: Don't Copy Success. Learn From Failure Instead. | Ep 1307

  6. Aug 19

    Edwin Miranda on Business Singularity: Where Human Judgment and AI Become One | Ep 1306

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Edwin Miranda, founder of Konsultora, to explore what it actually means to build an organization for the AI era — not just one with more tools, but one with less distance between a signal, a decision, and an action. Edwin opens by tracing the common thread across his career in advertising, political strategy, and customer experience: competition and decision-making. Every domain is ultimately about understanding what is changing, making better decisions faster, and adapting before your competitors do. AI, he argues, is the first technology that can sit inside that process and accelerate every step of it. He then addresses the economic pressure bearing down on traditional agency and consulting models — research that took weeks now takes minutes, media buying is increasingly algorithmic, content scales infinitely, and reporting can be automated — meaning businesses built on selling hours to produce those outputs are facing an existential reckoning. The answer is not to resist but to rebuild: moving from selling execution to building the systems, workflows, and decision-making capabilities that let organizations operate differently. Edwin then tackles the accountability question head-on, arguing that as AI moves from answering questions to taking actions, agents need identities, permissions, and audit trails just like any employee — because autonomy without accountability is not transformation, it is risk. He closes with a nuanced take on the human-versus-AI debate, rejecting the framing entirely. The goal is not to remove humans but to remove friction around them, freeing up human capacity for the judgment, creativity, and trust that machines cannot replicate. The companies that thrive will not be those that simply bought AI first — they will be the ones that learned to signal, decide, act, and adapt faster than the world around them changes. If you liked what you heard today, please leave us a review - Apple or Spotify.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Edwin Miranda on Business Singularity: Where Human Judgment and AI Become One | Ep 1306

  7. Aug 18

    Antonio Mallia: AI Agents Need a Different Kind of Search | Ep 1305

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Antonio Mallia, founder and CEO of Seltz.ai, to explore one of the most overlooked infrastructure questions in the AI era: what happens to web search when the user is no longer a human? Antonio opens with a career that runs from the University of Pisa's information retrieval tradition through a PhD at NYU to research roles at Amazon, Pinecone, and Bloomberg — and traces the moment the idea for Seltz crystallized while building Alexa's question answering engine, when it became clear that the next consumer of search results was not a person but a machine. He then explains why Seltz took the harder path of building its own full retrieval stack from scratch rather than wrapping Google or Bing like most AI search products — and why that distinction matters deeply. Traditional search engines were optimized for human patience: ranked lists, short snippets, spell correction, ambiguous queries refined over multiple attempts. LLMs need something fundamentally different — full paragraphs without truncation, long and specific queries that nail the topic on the first attempt, and above all, freshness, because the one thing a model cannot learn in training is what happened after its cutoff date. Seltz also focuses its index on the content LLMs struggle most with — tables, financial records, SEC filings, and structured data that traditional crawlers skip and models cannot reliably memorize. Antonio closes with a prediction that reframes the entire stakes of what he is building: human search queries have plateaued, but machine queries are growing exponentially, and as people spawn multiple specialized agents to handle their knowledge work, the query load on web infrastructure will reach a scale never seen before. The companies that build for that future — with efficiency and freshness at their core — will define the next twenty years of the web. If you liked what you heard today, please leave us a review - Apple or Spotify.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Antonio Mallia: AI Agents Need a Different Kind of Search | Ep 1305

  8. Aug 18

    Harvey Liu: The Exchange Built by Traders, for Traders | Ep 1304

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Harvey Liu, CEO of LevX Exchange, to explore what happens when traders stop using exchanges and start building their own. Harvey opens with his origin story — one of the first Bitcoin investors in China in 2013, conducting due diligence on early exchanges like Huobi and OKCoin from a VC firm at a time when blockchain was still the Wild West, and nobody on an investment committee wanted to hear about it. Over the following decade, he tracked the industry, moved to Singapore, reviewed over fifty Web3 projects, and eventually concluded he had the network, the technology background, and the trader's perspective to build something better. That trader-first philosophy shapes everything about LevX — from onboarding that collapses KYC to a single ID and selfie validated in under thirty seconds, to a multi-trade feature that lets users hold up to ninety-nine positions on a single trading pair simultaneously, something Harvey says no other major exchange offers. The community layer is equally distinctive: LevX works closely with reputable crypto KOLs to publish exclusive educational content and live trading feeds, and runs bug bounty and suggestion programs that give the most engaged users real influence over the product roadmap. Harvey closes with a clear-eyed view of where exchanges are heading — toward consolidation, diversification into stocks and commodities, and a flight to quality as the pump-and-dump era fades. His conviction is simple: the exchanges that survive will be the ones that actually help their users build wealth, not just trade volume. If you liked what you heard today, please leave us a review - Apple or Spotify.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    Harvey Liu: The Exchange Built by Traders, for Traders | Ep 1304
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Best 10-minute, daily tech podcast on emerging technologies, hundreds of Silicon Valley CEOs, Influencers and Celebrities. Hosted by technology executive and creator of Coruzant Technologies.

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    Coruzant Technologies
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    2020 - 2026
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