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Disruptor or Disrupted with Jason Silbergleit, Head of Americas at Classiq
Tech Titans: Solving Cloud Data Issues with Desikan Madhavanur, CPO & CTO at Capital One Software
Turning AI Hype into Store Ops: Manda Miller & Mariya Zorotovich (Toshiba & Intel)
The CTO Extinction Event with Etienne de Bruin, Founder of 7CTOs
Stop Ripping Out Your Legacy Code with Alan Williamson, CTO
The Red Queen Problem with Anthony Scriffignano, PhD, Data Scientist
Why You Can't Trust AI Without Governing It, with Tony Davis & John Balsavage of A&I Solutions
Tech Titans: Hidden Rules of the Brain with Moran Cerf, Neuroscientist and Professor
The Real Reason Your Body Is a Business Card with Mauro Stara, Founder of Six Pack CEO
Tech Titans: Rethinking Career Five-Year Plans with Francisco Trindade, VP of Software Engineering
Tech Titans: Designing for Intuition with Campbell Brown, CEO and Co-founder of PredictHQ
Inside the Tech Stack Behind the Modern Store with Yevgeni Tsirulnik & Naresh Keswani of Toshiba
Hunting for Alien Technology with Avi Loeb, Harvard Astrophysicist
Is the Specialist Executive Dead? with Mahesh Guruswamy, COO at Kajabi
Tech Titans: Go From Burnt Out to Fired Up with Justin Fanelli, Department of Navy CTO
Can this Company Fix America’s Broken Food System? with Luiz Beling, CEO of Apeel Sciences
Confronting Plummeting Birth Rates & Banning Superintelligence with Connor Leahy, US Director at ControlAI
Are Engineers Redundant Now? with Hrishi Dixit, Co-Founder & CTO of Autonomy Finance
Where Do We Draw the Line on Letting AI Build? With Zach Goldberg, CEO at Gruntwork
Why do 81% of Mature AI Programs Get Rolled Back? with Daniel Morris, CPO at Sinch
How Snapchat is Evolving in the Age of AI with Saral Jain, SVP, Head of Engineering
Why Kubernetes Still Feels So Hard & What to Do About It with Steve Francis, CEO of Sidero Labs
Why Does AI Momentum Stall in Large Organizations? with Kyle Lagunas & Allyn Bailey
Are Apps Going to Get Axed by Conversational AI? with Jacques Klick, Director of Market Strategy at Sinch
When Will Robots Live With Us? Inside 1X's NEO with Dar Sleeper, VP of Design & Product
The 5 Levels of AI Coding & the Collapse of Human-Written Code with Trevor Hinesley, Co-Founder & CTO at Soundstripe
Marty Cagan on Product Management Theater in the Age of AI
From Mammoths to Humans: The Case for Gene Editing with Eriona Hysolli
Why Your AI Has No Idea What's Happening in the World with Campbell Brown, CEO & Co-Founder of PredictHQ
Are Our Brains Wired Together? The Power of the Mind in Business & Beyond with Moran Cerf, Neuroscientist & Professor
Why Being the Best at Your Job Is Holding You Back with Bill Tingle, Executive Coach
Tech Titans: Learn How to Remix as a Leader with Michael Grinich, founder at WorkOS
Tech Titans: Your Team Should be Acting or Arguing with Brendan Wovchko, CTO at Ramsey Solutions
What It Looks Like to Give AI 80% of Your Project with Dan Cardinal, CTO at Beghou Consulting
Why Software Is Never “Done” Anymore with Iccha Sethi, SVP of Engineering at Vanta
The Future of Employee Experience & The Field of Foresight with Jacob Morgan, host of Future Ready Leadership
Tech Titans: The Art of Making Yourself Redundant with Hrishi Dixit, Principal at Gordian Labs
Tech Titans: How Do You Lead When No One's Looking? with Jack Tam, Intuit
Tech Titans: How to Stop Fitting In and Start Leading with Tony Martignetti
Tech Titans: Your Team Can't Trust You If They Can't Predict You with Noah Cantor
Will AI Kill Code Review? with Francisco Trindade, VP at Braze
When AI Writes All the Code, Who's Watching? with Kayvon Beykpour, Cofounder & CEO of Macroscope
Why AI is Actually Artificial Creativity with Brian Alvey, CTO of WordPress VIP
The AI Bubble Nobody's Talking About with Brian Singer, CTO as RSI
What Will Usher in the Next Renaissance with Zack Kass, Author & Former OpenAI GTM Lead
Tech Titans: How to Know You’re Not Really a CTO with Alan Williamson
Why Everybody Has Something to Hide with Guy Kawasaki, Chief Evangelist at Canva
Why You Can’t Go Off Vibes in Software Development with Stephen Poletto, Field CTO at Span
Tech Titans: A Masterclass in Change Management with Ashley Goodall
Why Regenerative Tech Needs to be the Future with Tom Chi, Google X Founder & author of Climate Capital
From Inventing a Microprocessor to Full-Time Tech Comedian with Don McMillan
A Step By Step Process to Accelerate Your Career Goals with Rob Kalwarowsky
Why Your Document Workflows Are a Hidden Compliance Crisis with Anand Narasimhan, CTO at S-Docs
How To Understand & Optimize Agentic AI Workforces with Promise Theory with Tony Davis & Dr. Mark Burgess
The Top Scaling Lessons from Zapier's AI Transformation with Wade Foster, Co-Founder & CEO of Zapier
How Jensen Huang Built the World's Most Valuable Company with Stephen Witt, Author of "The Thinking Machine"
How AI Will Collapse, Blur, and Rebuild Tech Teams with Kevin Adams, CIO at Edward Jones
Why You’ll Never Plan Another Vacation with Vipul Hingne, CTO at Booking.com
How to Build Defense for AI Cyber Attack Waves with Ariful Huq, Co-Founder at Exaforce
Will AI be the End of SaaS? with Rob Woollen & Marwan Mattar of Sigma
CES and WEF 2026: What’s the Global State of Tech? with Jim Harris
How AI Will Dissolve Our Brains Just Like Google Maps with Jacob Ward, Author of "The Loop"
Why We Need the Rich for Democracy & Tech Progress with John McGinnis, Professor at Northwestern University
The 9 Skills Every Tech Leader Needs in the Age of AI with Andrea Iorio, Author of "Between You and AI"
The Cost Crisis Facing CTOs and How to Solve It with Albert Strasheim, CTO at Rippling
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
The Modern CTO of 2025 is Rob Duffy, CTO at HealthEdge!
The Business Strategy of the Biggest Player in Travel Tech with Rob Ransom, SVP at Booking Holdings
The MCTO Awards: Who is THE Modern CTO of 2025?
How Shazam went from a 4-digit Phone Number to $400m with Chris Barton, Founder
How to Nail Business Automation in the Agentic Age with Micha Kiener, CTO at Flowable
Building Peacock at Scale with António Vieira, Director of Global Apps Engineering at Sky
MIT Sloan’s Guide to Navigating a New Age of AI, with Sam Ransbotham, Host of the Me, Myself and AI Podcast
How Morpheus is Transforming the Hybrid Cloud Model with Brad Parks, CloudOps and Private Cloud Leader at HPE
How the New York Times is Harnessing Tech in the News Industry with Jason Sobel, CTO
Transforming IT at Hewlett Packard Enterprise through Agentic AI with Brian Gruttadauria, CTO of Hybrid Cloud
How AI Agents Are Redefining Customer Experience with Adrian McDermott, CTO at Zendesk
TECH TITANS: Our Best Advice on Communication and Hiring Strategies with Mark Porter, CTO at dbt Labs
The Father of the Cable Modem on Broadband, AI & Hype with Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard
How to Complete an AI Transformation in 18 Months with Rebecca Carr, CEO at SmartRecruiters
Leadership Lessons from Business and Church with Jay Owen, CEO at Business Builders
Web3 Was a Failure…Will Gaming Save it? with Chris Hewish, President at Xsolla
From 2 Guys in a Garage to 700 Employees with Scott Henderson, CTO & Co-founder at Celigo
The AI Coding Arms Race is Transforming Software with Henrik Plate & Amod Gupta of Endor Labs
How The Telegraph is Redefining the News with AI with Dylan Jacques, CPTO
Will AI Ever Create Its Own Meaning? with Bryan McCann, CTO of You.com
The AI SRE Hype and How to Get it Right with Yotam Yemini, CEO of Causely
Rewiring Lenovo with Art Hu, SVP & CTO
How Yahoo is Taming the Modern Digital Wilderness with Lee Zen, CTO
Launching ChatGPT with Zack Kass, Former Head GTM at OpenAI
Securing Everything from 40-Year-Old C++ to GenAI Code with Varun Badhwar, CEO of Endor Labs
Should We Use AI to Bring Back Loved Ones? With Miles Spencer, Founder at Reflekta
Scale Differently in the Age of AI with Robert Duffy, CTO at HealthEdge
Working with Steve Jobs & Becoming a Wiser Guy with Guy Kawasaki, Chief Evangelist at Canva
From Nothing to a $10 Billion Rocket Ship with Jeff Buzzelli, Regional SVP at Comcast
How GoFundMe is Changing Fundraisers in the Age of AI with Arnie Katz, CPTO
Leading Superworkers in the Public Sector with Denise Hemke, CPO at NEOGOV
Why Agility is Your Greatest Business Survival Skill with Robert Parsons, VP of Hardware Portfolio at TOSHIBA
Capitalize on Chaos & Lead Through Toxic Workplaces with Rob Kalwarowsky