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How AI Interviewers Cut Time To Hire And Improve Candidate Experience

2026-10-0627:10

Interested in being a guest? Email us at [email protected] Resumes are getting easier to generate and harder to trust and that is forcing HR teams to rethink how hiring works from the ground up. We sit down with Navneet “Nav” Singh the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Eightfold AI. Nav from Eightfold to explore what happens when AI agents enter talent acquisition, not as a gimmick, but as a skills-first system designed to match people to roles based on capability, potential, and learnabil...

Safe AI Data Resilience

2026-10-0218:32

Interested in being a guest? Email us at [email protected] Everyone is flipping on Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI agents, and then realizing they can’t answer a basic question: what data can those agents actually reach? We sit down with Rick from Veeam to unpack the messy reality behind “safe AI at scale” and why AI success starts with data resilience, not demos. When agents can search, summarize, move, and delete content at machine speed, the cost of unclear permissions and unmanaged data ...

What Happens To A Telco When Networks Get Autonomous

2026-09-2926:57

Interested in being a guest? Email us at [email protected] AI is forcing a hard reset in telecom, and it’s not just about models or GPUs. The real shockwave hits the CIO’s mandate: reinvent IT fast enough to enable enterprise AI while still keeping the lights on across sprawling legacy stacks. We sit down with TM Forum leader and veteran CIO Willie Stegmann to break down why this moment feels different from past digital transformation and cloud migrations, and why boards are pushing for m...

What Tech Expo 26 Reveals About The Future Of Broadband

2026-09-2312:17

Interested in being a guest? Email us at [email protected] Speed used to be the headline for broadband. Now the real question is tougher: did your internet actually feel reliable all day, on every device, in every room? We talk with Janelle Morse from SCTE, an industry insider helping shape Tech Expo 26 in Atlanta, about why the broadband world is pivoting toward end-to-end customer experience and what that means for operators, engineers, and anyone building modern networks. We break dow...

Why 100G Networking Is Suddenly A Day To Day Enterprise Problem

2026-09-2121:53

Interested in being a guest? Email us at [email protected] 100G Ethernet quietly crossed a line from “carrier-only” to “normal enterprise,” and the operational fallout is real: bigger links mean bigger outages, higher stakes, and far less room for sloppy assumptions. We sit down with NetAlly CEO Jeff O’Mara and Product Lead Thomas Doumas to break down why 100G networking is showing up in enterprise environments now, how AI-driven demand is accelerating the bandwidth curve, and what networ...

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