AI Fraud vs AI Scams, Alloy CEO Tommy Nicholas Explains The Difference
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Have you noticed how every week brings a new headline about AI driven fraud, yet it still feels hard to tell what is real risk and what is noise? In this Tech Talks Daily episode, I’m joined by Tommy Nicholas, CEO of Alloy, for a candid conversation that cuts through the fear driven commentary and gets into what fraud teams are actually dealing with right now. We start with a simple but important distinction that gets blurred all the time. Tommy separates classic “fraud,” where institutions take the hit, from “scams,” where individuals are manipulated into handing over...
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How Lenovo Is Preparing Classrooms For The AI Era
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How do you prepare an entire generation for a world where AI is already shaping how we work, create, and solve problems? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I’m joined by Dr. Tara Nattrass, Chief Innovation Strategist for Education at Lenovo, for a grounded and thoughtful conversation about what responsible AI integration really looks like in K–12 classrooms. Tara brings more than 25 years of experience inside school districts, including serving as Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning in Arlington Public Schools, so this isn’t a theory-led discussion. It’s informed by...
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ServiceNow, Dynatrace And The Future Of End-To-End IT Autonomy
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What does autonomous IT really look like when you move beyond the slideware and start wiring systems together in the real world? At Dynatrace Perform in Las Vegas, I sat down with Pablo Stern, EVP and GM of Technology Workflow Products at ServiceNow, to unpack exactly that. Pablo leads the teams focused on CIOs and CISOs, building the workflows and security products that sit at the heart of modern IT organizations. From service desks and command centers to risk and asset management, his remit is clear: enable AI to work for people, not the other way around. We began with ServiceNow’s...
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Scrut Automation And The Security Blind Spot Facing The 99%
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What happens when nearly half of organizations admit they have no AI-specific security controls, yet AI-driven data leaks are accelerating at the same time? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I spoke with Aayush Choudhry, CEO and co-founder of Scrut Automation, about what he sees as a blind spot in the cybersecurity industry. While much of the market continues to design tools for Fortune 500 enterprises with deep pockets and large security teams, Aayush argues that the real existential risk sits with the 99 percent of businesses that cannot survive a serious breach. Aayush brings a...
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Inside Epicor’s Approach To Inclusive, High-Performing Tech Teams
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How do you build enterprise software for the companies that keep the world turning, while also building a leadership culture where people can actually thrive? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I spoke with Kerrie Jordan, Chief Marketing Officer and SVP at Epicor, about her journey from studying literature to helping shape cloud ERP strategy at a global software company serving more than 20,000 customers worldwide. Kerrie’s story is a reminder that there is no single path into technology leadership. Sometimes the foundations are laid in unexpected places, through storytelling, creativity,...
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Miro CIO Tomás Dostal Freire On Reclaiming Creative Time With AI
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Why do so many of us feel busy all day, yet struggle to point to the meaningful work we actually completed? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I sit down with Tomás Dostal Freire, CIO of Miro, to unpack a challenge that quietly drains modern organizations. Tomás brings experience from companies like Google, Netflix, and Booking.com, and now leads both IT and business acceleration at Miro. His focus is simple but ambitious. Move beyond AI experimentation and rethink how work itself gets done. We explore new research revealing that for every hour of creative work, employees lose up to three...
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From 1.16 BillionReactive Logs A Day To Proactive Insight: Storio Group And Dynatrace
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How do you protect millions in revenue during your busiest hour of the year when your entire business depends on digital performance? At Perform 2026, I caught up with Alex Hibbitt, Engineering Director responsible for the customer platform at Storio Group, to unpack what happens when observability moves from an engineering afterthought to a board-level priority. Storio Group was formed from the merger of Photobox and Albelli, bringing together multiple brands and five separate e-commerce platforms into one unified customer journey. That consolidation created opportunity, but it also exposed...
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How The IOWN Global Forum Is Reinventing Financial Infrastructure With Photonics
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How do you design financial infrastructure that keeps running when the unexpected hits, whether that is a regional outage, a regulatory shift, or a sudden spike in digital demand? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I’m joined by Katsutoshi Itoh from Sony and Masahisa Kawashima from NTT, both representing the IOWN Global Forum, to unpack how photonics-based networks could change the foundations of digital finance. Speaking with me from Kyoto, they share how the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network vision is moving beyond theory and into practical, finance-specific use cases....
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Drata And The Rise Of The Chief Trust Officer In The AI Era
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Have you ever wondered why “compliance” still gets treated like a slow, spreadsheet-heavy chore, even though the rest of the business is moving at machine speed? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I sit down with Matt Hillary, Chief Information Security Officer at Drata, to talk about what actually changes when AI and automation land in the middle of governance, risk, and compliance. Matt brings a rare viewpoint because he lives this day-to-day as “customer zero,” running Drata internally while also leading IT, security, GRC, and enterprise apps. We get practical fast. Matt shares...
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Rethinking Prevention And Recovery With Barracuda XDR
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Can designing for human error become the strongest cybersecurity strategy in an AI-accelerated world? In this episode, I sit down with Yaz Bekkar, Principal Consulting Architect for Barracuda XDR and a member of the company’s Office of the CTO, to explore why the speed introduced by AI is changing the risk equation for every organization. As automation allows teams to move faster, it also means small mistakes can scale at machine speed. Yaz argues that resilience in 2026 is no longer about trying to prevent every incident. It is about anticipating failure, containing the blast radius, and...
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Adam Khan, CEO, and Founder of AKHAN Semiconductor, talks about how diamonds are grown, what differentiates them from jewelry, and how they are planning to use diamonds in the next generation of technology.
Adam has authored several patents and technical publications and is also a frequent speaker on Diamond Semiconductor & Clean Technology. As a result of his award-winning research, which he began as an electrical engineering student at age 19, Adam is the inventor of the Miraj Diamond® Platform.
Adam has also served as a speaker and expert witness to a variety of Federal bodies, including the U.S. House Space, Science, & Technology Committee, and the U.S. Department of Energy. He has been everything from a CleanTech Open Midwest Innovation Summit winner, a Forbes 30 Under 30, to a Modern-Day Nikola Tesla in the International Documentary Film' Tesla's Children' (2016).