Electrifying Collection Fleets and Improving Driver Safety With Republic Services
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How do you introduce electric vehicles and AI-assisted safety technology into a collection fleet that customers depend on every day? On Tech Talks Daily, I'm joined by Brett Rogers, Vice President of Operations Technology at Republic Services, to discuss the engineering, infrastructure, and human decisions behind modern waste and recycling operations. Brett's background includes work at Toyota, General Motors, and Cruise. He describes arriving from the automotive sector and discovering how much complexity sits behind a service most people expect to happen without thinking about it. We give...
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Building Trust in Production AI Agents With Caylent.
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What would make you comfortable giving an AI agent the authority to act inside a live business process? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Valerie Henderson, CEO of Caylent, about what has to happen between a successful demonstration and a system a business can depend on. The conversation centers on production readiness, including access controls, spending limits, traceability, workflow design, and the people responsible for the outcome. Valerie describes why introducing agents requires changes to how work gets done. If an organization adds new technology without reconsidering...
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Connecting AI Fall Detection With Care Workflows at KamiVision.
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What makes an AI fall alert useful to the person who needs help and the team responsible for responding? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Mike Link, chief operating officer at KamiVision, about deploying computer vision in residential care. We discuss the connection between the sensor, the people receiving its notifications, and the decisions that follow. The conversation also looks at privacy, connectivity, false alarms, and why a system that works in a care facility needs further work before it can serve a wide range of homes. Mike describes KamiVision's path from...
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What Proof of Reserves Can Tell You With LeveX
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What can a crypto exchange's proof of reserves establish, and what might still be missing from the picture? On Tech Talks Daily, I'm joined by Harvey Liu, co-founder and CEO of LeveX, to discuss transparency, platform engineering, and the responsibilities that come with operating a centralized exchange. Harvey brings a computer science background, an MBA, and experience in venture capital. Our conversation looks at how becoming a founder changed the questions he asks about growth, spending, product delivery, and customer assets. We begin with the community idea behind LeveX. Harvey recalls...
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Reducing IT Firefighting With ControlUp
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What needs to happen before an IT team can trust an AI agent to resolve a problem rather than simply report it? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I welcome Jed Ayres, CEO of ControlUp, and Gadi Feldman, Chief Product Officer, to discuss autonomous endpoint management and the practical work behind it. We begin with a familiar problem for enterprise IT teams, plenty of monitoring data and recurring issues that still require investigation, ticket transfers and manual intervention. Jed explains why the aim is to follow an operational problem through to an authorized action and then verify that...
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Making AI the ERP Interface With NetSuite
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When would you trust your ERP system to move from answering a question to carrying out the work? Recording at SuiteWorld in Las Vegas, I spoke with Brian Chess, who leads AI product and technology for Oracle NetSuite, about what that progression looks like in practice. Brian was an early developer when the business was called NetLedger, later left to build a company, and returned with a different perspective on the needs of small and growing businesses. Our conversation focuses on how AI can help people understand their systems, complete unfamiliar tasks, and gradually delegate work without...
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Turning AI Experiments Into Business Value With Newton
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What if the biggest gain from AI comes from reducing the distance between the person who understands a problem and the person building its solution? On Tech Talks Daily, I'm joined by Ben Grinnell, Chief AI and Capabilities Officer at Newton, a strategic delivery consultancy working with private and public sector organizations. Ben's career stretches from an early web consultancy to enterprise technology delivery and today's AI tools. He describes returning from retirement after reading a draft book about vibe coding and realizing he wanted to be part of what came next. What interested me was...
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NetSuite Founder on the End of ERP and What Comes Next
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What if your ERP system came to you through a conversation, instead of asking you to learn its menus before you could get anything done? Recording at SuiteWorld in Las Vegas, I welcomed Evan Goldberg, founder and executive vice president of NetSuite at Oracle, back to the podcast. We last spoke two years earlier about the company's origins. This time, the discussion centres on his description of AI as the UI and what that could mean for the people using business software every day. Evan describes an ERP experience in which users explain what they want in natural language. One example is adding...
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Giving Enterprise AI Agents the Business Context They Need With SAP
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What needs to happen before AI agents can reliably complete work across the systems that run a business? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I welcome back Irfan Khan, Chief Product Officer for SAP Data & Analytics, to discuss the distance between a useful AI pilot and a dependable operational workflow. Our conversation begins with the autonomous enterprise and what that means for teams working across finance, procurement, supply chain and HR. Irfan explains why agents need a shared understanding of business activity, including the state of purchase orders and inventory, before...
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Putting Engineering Judgment to Work With AI and Southworks
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When AI makes writing code faster, how do you decide whether your team is building the right thing? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Johnny Halife, CTO at Southworks, about what happens to software engineering when code generation becomes easier but decisions still require experience. The pressure to deliver faster is familiar. The harder question is whether teams have the review capacity, testing processes, and deployment infrastructure to turn that extra output into useful software. Johnny describes a different way of directing AI coding agents. Engineers need to specify the...
info_outlineRytis Lauris, the co-founder, and CEO of Omnisend, a marketing automation platform joins me on the Tech Talks Daily podcast. I wanted to learn more about why email marketing alone isn't effective in a digital age.
As a successful entrepreneur, Rytis has spent the last 10 years building and bootstrapping startups and getting involved in the eCommerce world. Rytis discovered eCommerce marketers have very particular needs pertaining to automation. Since then he has been on a mission to use Omnisend to empower small and medium-sized eCommerce merchants.
Omnisend started life in 2014 as an email marketing platform called Soundest. From day one, they made it their priority to put e-commerce marketers at the center of every decision they make. At the time, that meant empowering them with simple yet impactful email marketing tools.
Three years later, they set out to offer even more to our growing number of customers and their growing businesses. They expanded from an email service provider to an omnichannel marketing automation platform. And they launched a new mission: to Make Marketing Relevant. Since then, they have helped thousands of eCommerce marketers build lasting relationships with their customers by sending relevant messages to the right people, at the right time, using the right channel.
Omnisend has become a top-rated app in the Shopify App store and has been listed in the G2’s selection of the Top 50 Products for Marketers 2019 and the Top 100 Software Companies in EMEA. But I wanted to learn more about the story behind the company.
We also discuss how businesses are overcoming the challenges caused by the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19).