PODCAST · business
CXOTalk
by Michael Krigsman
C-Suite Conversations on AI & Strategy. Join industry analyst Michael Krigsman for unfiltered discussions with the leaders shaping the future of business. From AI implementation to digital transformation, hear directly from CIOs, CTOs, CEOs, and more from the world's largest companies. No scripts. No PR fluff. Just real questions from our live audience and honest answers from the C-Suite. Want to participate?Get invited to the next live show: https://www.cxotalk.com/subscribe
Episodes
-
Atlassian Chief AI Officer: Building Products for Agents and Humans
Check out Gartner Symposium: https://cxo.news/KGg8XY === Tamar Yehoshua is Chief Product and AI Officer at Atlassian, where AI agents are now direct users of the software her team builds. She led product at Google Search and Slack before joining Atlassian, and in this conversation she explains…
more -
How Snap Built a Production System Where Agents Write 90% of Code
Check out Gartner Symposium: https://cxo.news/KGg8XY ======== More than 90% of the code at Snap is now written by AI agents, and a code review agent checks most of it within ten minutes. Saral Jain, SVP, Head of Engineering and CIO at Snap Inc., built the system that makes that safe for nearly a...
-
Enterprise AI Biggest Opportunities: A Top VC's Take
Enterprise AI has moved past experimentation and now has to prove its return. Ed Sim, Founder and General Partner of boldstart ventures, ranked the No. 1 seed investor in the Business Insider Seed 100 two years running, sees hundreds of AI startup pitches a year, and writes the first check into...
-
Why Your Enterprise AI Pilot Won't Scale (with Nate B. Jones)
Most enterprise AI pilots stall or fail before production, and the blocker is rarely the model. Nate B. Jones, an AI analyst and advisor who works with Fortune 500 companies and global banks, tells Michael Krigsman that naming an effort a pilot invites small budgets and safe goals. He explains…
more -
AI Agents in Banking: UBS Former Chief Information Officer
Are AI agents ready for banking and financial services? Former UBS Group CIO Oliver Bussmann explains the risks to trust and reputation in banking. This session examines the current adoption landscape of AI agents within the financial sector. With roughly 50% of financial institutions now...
-
Palo Alto Networks EVP: Securing AI Agents in the Enterprise
Enterprises are running more AI agents than their security teams realize, and attackers only need to be right once. Anand Oswal, EVP of Network Security at Palo Alto Networks, explains how to secure agents across four surfaces: enterprise, SaaS, endpoints, and the browser. With host Michael...
-
The CIO Agenda for AI (with IBM Consulting)
CIOs are accountable for AI results but often not in control of how AI is actually used across the business. Andy Baldwin, Senior Vice President of Consulting Offerings and Growth at IBM Consulting, explains how CIOs regain visibility and control as AI moves from small pilots to industrial scale....
-
Eric Ries: Can AI Startups Stay Ethical?
Can AI startups keep their promise to benefit humanity? Eric Ries explains why business success often leads to corporate "corruption" of the founder's mission. Eric Ries, creator of the Lean Startup Method, breaks down the inherent tensions between scaling a business and maintaining its core...
-
McKinsey: Why Agentic AI Pilots Stall
Fewer than 100 companies have scaled enterprise AI from pilots to production to capture great value. Alexander Sukharevsky, who leads QuantumBlack, McKinsey's AI practice, joins Michael Krigsman to lay out the repeatable recipe behind those results and why the winners earn roughly three dollars...
-
Aaron Levie, Box CEO: Advice for CIOs on AI Agents
Agentic AI has taken off in software engineering, but most CIOs still cannot make agents work in everyday knowledge work in the enterprise. Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box, explains why that gap exists and what enterprises must change to close it. Drawing on what Box sees across its...
-
Mozilla CTO: Why Most Enterprises Don't Control Their AI
Most enterprises are renters, not owners, of their technology and AI. Raffi Krikorian, Chief Technology Officer of Mozilla, explains why dependence on a handful of closed model providers means losing control over model behavior, pricing, and your own data. In CXOTalk episode 920, Krikorian lays…
more -
Enterprise AI: Shadow AI and Agentic Risk - CIO advice
AI agents are entering enterprise AI faster than CIOs can govern them. Line-of-business users are vibe-coding their own tools, agents are operating with employee credentials, and foundation models are changing under running systems. In CXOTalk episode 919, Anthony Scriffignano, PhD, a prominent...
-
Autonomous Software Development at Enterprise Scale: Inside a 1,000-Developer Pilot (with Blitzy) | CXOTalk #918
Enrique Ibarra, CIO and Head of Business Transformation at GNP, Mexico's largest insurance company, walks through an enterprise-scale pilot of autonomous software development involving roughly 1,000 internal and external developers. The episode examines how agentic AI changes developers' roles…
more -
How AI Swarms Weaponize Disinformation | CXOTalk #915
AI swarms are now considered the most dangerous influence weapons ever created, actively fabricating grassroots consensus and corrupting enterprise AI training data through disinformation. Daniel Thilo Schroeder, Research Scientist at SINTEF, and Jonas R. Kunst, Professor at BI Norwegian Business...
-
AI-Enabled Software Development: AI Coding at a Global Insurer, with Blitzy | CXOTalk #917
Autonomous software development creates a dilemma for leaders in regulated industries: adopt AI coding at scale or fall behind on product velocity without compromising auditability and code quality. In CXOTalk episode 917, Kris Tokarzewski, Group Chief Technology Information Officer at Vitality,...
-
Agentic AI in the Enterprise 2026 | CXOTalk #916
Agentic AI is reshaping enterprise software faster than most CIOs, CFOs, and vendors are prepared for. Praveen Akkiraju, Managing Director at Insight Partners, joins Michael Krigsman to examine the state of agentic AI in 2026: what works in production, what remains hype, and how sophisticated...
-
AI Agents in Finance with HPE's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) | CXOTalk 914
Marie Myers, Chief Financial Officer of HPE, explains how she measures business value while deploying agentic AI across a 3,600-person finance organization. Her framework separates direct ROI from indirect value (speed, accuracy, fewer errors) and the operating requirements that make finance AI...
-
Governing AI Agents at Scale: Identity, Scope, and Observability (with Glean and Cvent) | CXOTalk #914
Pradeep Mannakkara (CIO) and Ben Mayrides (CISO) of Cvent explain how they govern AI agents at scale across their 5,500-person organization, which now has over 6,000 agents in production. In this fireside chat recorded at a Glean event in NYC, they walk through the AWARE framework developed by...
-
Deloitte CTO: Advice to CIOs on Enterprise AI | CXOTalk #912
Bill Briggs, CTO of Deloitte, shares findings and advice for Chief Information Officers (CIOs) from the 2026 TechTrends report: 93% of enterprise AI spending goes to technology and tooling, while only 7% of funding goes to culture, change management, and learning. Briggs explains why this…
more -
US Healthcare System Punishes Prevention: Former CDC Director | CXOTalk #911
A healthcare CEO once told former CDC Director, Dr. Tom Frieden, he had "a fiduciary responsibility not to provide good diabetes care" because the ROI takes 7 years and patients leave after 4. That's not a villain talking. That's our system working exactly as designed, without preventive...
-
SANS Institute: AI Agents Are an Attack Surface. Does your CISO know? | CXOTalk #910
Cyberattacks that used to take months now take minutes. And your defenders still can't keep up. Rob T. Lee, Chief AI Officer of the SANS Institute, and David A. Bray, Chair of the Accelerator at the Stimson Center, explain why AI gives attackers a structural advantage. Attackers don't care if…
more -
CIO Agenda 2026: The Enterprise AI Promise | CXOTalk #909
Tim Crawford and Isaac Sacolick, both former Chief Information Officers and world-class CIO advisors, join Michael Krigsman on CXOTalk episode 909 to break down why enterprise AI strategies are failing, what separates transformational CIOs from those who are drowning, and why earning your seat at...
-
Renowned MIT/Stanford Computer Scientist on AI and Collective Intelligence | CXOTalk #909
MIT and Stanford professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland, one of the most cited researchers in the world with over 165,000 citations, explains why the real AI advantage isn't smarter models but collective intelligence. It's smarter humans working together with AI as the connective tissue. Drawing from…
more -
Intelligent Orchestration: Better AI Coding and Software Delivery | #CXOTalk #907
AI coding tools are writing more code than ever, but your software isn't shipping any faster. Welcome to the AI Paradox and the solution, intelligent orchestration. Bill Staples, CEO of GitLab, explains why AI-accelerated coding is actually creating massive downstream bottlenecks in code reviews,...
-
Enterprise AI at Scale: How U.S. Bank's Chief AI Officer Deploys AI Across 70,000 Employees | CXOTalk #906
Prashant Mehrotra, Chief AI Officer at US Bank, discusses how the bank evaluates AI initiatives and scales projects from pilot to production. He explains how to build customer trust through responsible AI design and prepare for the future of autonomous banking in CXOTalk episode 906. This...
-
Robots and Physical AI: Strategy and Technology 2026 | CXOTalk #905
An AI chatbot that hallucinates is annoying. A robot or physical AI that hallucinates can cause injury or death. Burkhard Boeckem, CTO of Hexagon, explains why the bar for physical AI is fundamentally higher than digital AI, and what it takes to deploy robots that actually work in the real world....
-
Cybersecurity and Quantum Computing: A Readiness Guide (with Palo Alto Networks) | CXOTalk #904
Nation-states are already harvesting your encrypted data, betting they'll crack it when quantum computers mature. It's happening now. In CXOTalk episode 904, Anand Oswal, Executive Vice President of Network Security at Palo Alto Networks, explains what business leaders need to understand about...
-
Advice on Agentic AI: A Top Snowflake Exec Explains | CXOTalk #903
Most enterprises aren't ready for agentic AI, but ChristianKleinerman, Snowflake's EVP of Product, shares practical advice on what it takes to succeed: data readiness, governance, AI economics, and workforcestrategy. In this episode of CXOTalk, Kleinerman draws on 25 years ofenterprise technology...
-
The Cardiovascular System, Mapped in Code as a Digital Twin | CXOTalk #901
Can a digital replica of your heart save your life? In CXOTalk episode 902, Michael Krigsman talks with Dr. Joe Alexander, Director of the Medical and Health Informatics Lab at NTT Research, to explore the revolutionary world of Bio-Digital Twins.Discover how researchers are using mathematical...
-
How AI Changed a 150-Year-Old Industrial Manufacturing Company! | CXOTalk #901
How do you turn a 150-year-old industrial giant into an agile, AI-first organization? ======= Please support our sponsor Emeritus: Explore executive education programs from Emeritus, in collaboration with top universities: https://cxotalk.partner.emeritus.org/ ======= For Hexion CEO Michael...
-
Why Your AI Strategy Is Failing: Fortune 500 CEO Advisor Explains | CXOTalk #900
🚨 STOP treating AI like just another automation tool; you're missing the real transformation. Most executives are approaching AI completely wrong. They're focused on automating tasks when they should be reimagining their entire business model. In this landmark 900th episode of CXOTalk, Sangeet...
-
Big Tech's AI Oligopoly: Lords Reveal the Power Grab | CXOTalk 899
Microsoft invested $13 billion in OpenAI. Amazon poured billions into Anthropic. The AI oligopoly is here. Lord Tim Clement-Jones and Lord Chris Holmes, architects of UK AI policy, reveal what business leaders must know about Big Tech's grip on AI - from vendor lock-in risks to circular funding...
-
CIO Advice on AI: How Chief Information Officers Can Lead in 2025 | CXOTalk #898
Is your organization stuck in AI pilot purgatory? CIO strategic advisor Tim Crawford reveals how enterprise AI is fundamentally transforming the CIO role, and why the decisions you make today will determine which IT leaders succeed tomorrow. ======= Please support our sponsor Emeritus: Explore...
-
What is Google's Agentic AI Strategy? (Explained by Google Cloud's CTO) | CXOTalk #897
Please support our sponsor Emeritus: Explore executive education programs from Emeritus, in collaboration with top universities: https://cxotalk.partner.emeritus.org/ ======= Will Grannis, Chief Technology Officer of Google Cloud, explains Google's vision for agentic AI and multimodel LLMs,...
-
Top Data Scientists Explain Bad Data, Poisoned Datasets, and Other AI Killers | CXOTalk #896
Is your AI built on quicksand? Learn how bad data, poisoned datasets, and deep fakes threaten your AI systems, and what to do about it. In this episode of CXOTalk (#896), AI luminaries Dr. David Bray and Dr. Anthony Scriffignano reveal the hidden dangers lurking in your AI foundations. They share...
-
Former Accenture Tech CEO Reveals Top AI Mistakes to Avoid | CXOTalk #895
AI luminary and former Group CEO of Technology at Accenture, author Paul Daugherty, offers a hard-hitting take on enterprise AI and consumer-grade artificial intelligence on CXOTalk episode 895. He examines what's working, where companies stall with their AI transformation, and what new…
more -
How to Make Your Brand Stand Out FAST | CXOTalk #893
How did Salesforce build a $200B company by declaring war on "software"? Branding expert Laura Ries (author of "Strategic Enemy") reveals why the world's best brands choose strategic enemies to dominate their markets. Laura explains the counterintuitive positioning strategy behind iconic brands...
-
RSA Security CEO: Dangers of Weak Identity Security | CXOTalk #892
In cybersecurity, identity has become the primary attack vector. We explore identity in CXOTalk 892, with the CEO of RSA Security, Rohit Ghai, who explains how stolen credentials, social engineering, and AI-enabled impersonation break defenses. And what boards, CISOs, and executives must do now....
-
Data-First Operations: A Zoho Playbook for Measurable Outcomes | CXOTalk #891
Learn how a unified Zoho platform and centralized data analytics reduced app sprawl, speed decisions, and improved customer experience for Zoho customer Nuvia Dental. The discussion provides a practical playbook for leaders seeking fewer apps, stronger data integrity, and clear ROI. 🔷 Show notes...
-
Top Data Scientist Reveals AI Challenges | CXOTalk #890
Too often, AI breaks in the wild. Why? CXOTalk 890 dissects the adversarial economy with Steven C. Daffron (fintech private equity leader) and Anthony Scriffignano (distinguished data scientist), hosted by Michael Krigsman. Discover the challenges of **ai implementation** and the strategies…
more -
Jobs at Risk from AI Right Now - Future of Work! | CXOTalk #889
Is AI coming for your job? Boston Consulting Group's Global Lead for People and Organization, David Martin, reveals the truth about workforce disruption, survival strategies, reskilling, and the future of work. With only 20% of employees effectively using AI tools despite 80% expressing…
more -
Top AI Ethicists Reveal RISKS of AI Failure | CXOTalk #888
When AI systems hallucinate, run amok, or fail catastrophically, the consequences for enterprises can be devastating. In this must-watch CXOTalk episode, discover how to anticipate and prevent AI failures before they escalate into crises. Join host Michael Krigsman as he explores critical AI risk...
-
Inside Lenovo’s AI Plans for 2025! | CXOTalk #887
Art Hu, Global CIO at Lenovo, shares proven strategies for implementing AI at scale in one of the world's largest technology companies. Learn how to navigate uncertainty, build organizational agility, and drive real business value from AI investments. In this episode, you'll learn: Why "no…
more -
Zendesk CEO on AI for Customer Experience | CXOTalk #866
Zendesk CEO Tom Eggemeyer joins Michael Krigsman to discuss the impact of AI CX on customer expectations. They explore real-world lessons from the Zendesk AI journey, including what has worked and what hasn't. Learn how customer service is being reshaped by ChatGPT and artificial intelligence and...
-
What Really Happens Inside Big Money Exchanges? | CXOTalk #885
What does it take to keep global financial markets stable during extreme volatility and AI-driven trading? Chris Isaacson, Chief Operating Officer of Cboe Global Markets, the world's largest options market exchange, reveals the high-stakes playbook for building resilient systems, people, and...
-
Can AMD Change the Future of AI in 2025? | CXOTalk 884
The generative AI revolution has created an insatiable demand for efficient, powerful computing. How is a key industry leader like AMD navigating this critical inflection point? In CXOTalk episode 884, Michael Krigsman sits down with Mark Papermaster, CTO and Executive Vice President of AMD, to...
-
Prompt Engineering Advice | CXOtalk 883
AI expert Nate B. Jones joins Michael Krigsman on CXOTalk episode 883 to discuss prompting strategies and how they impact the performance of large language models (LLMs). Learn how to use ChatGPT to generate better results and understand the importance of AI prompt engineering. Discover effective...
-
AI Inequality EXPOSED: When Algorithms Fail | CXOTalk #882
In episode 882 of CXOTalk, Michael Krigsman sits down with Kevin De Liban, founder of TechTonic Justice and former legal aid attorney, who reveals the shocking truth about AI's impact on vulnerable communities. De Liban shares how 92 million low-income Americans now have critical life decisions,...
-
Are You Making These COMMON AI Organization Mistakes? | CXOTalk #881
How do you transform a tech giant into an AI-first (or AI-native) organization? In CXOTalk episode 881, Cisco's President and Chief Product Officer, Jeetu Patel, reveals the blueprint for building AI-native companies in 2025. Discover why AI won't replace your job – but someone using AI better…
more -
What Big Changes Are Coming to AI in 2025? | CXOTalk #880
AI strategist and TikTok commentator Nate B. Jones joins CXOTalk host Michael Krigsman to explain the high-stakes race among OpenAI, Google, Meta, and others to advance large language models. The discussion explores token economics, model specialization, and hands-on prompting skills every...
We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.
No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.
No topics indexed yet for this podcast.
Loading reviews...
ABOUT THIS SHOW
C-Suite Conversations on AI & Strategy. Join industry analyst Michael Krigsman for unfiltered discussions with the leaders shaping the future of business. From AI implementation to digital transformation, hear directly from CIOs, CTOs, CEOs, and more from the world's largest companies. No scripts. No PR fluff. Just real questions from our live audience and honest answers from the C-Suite. Want to participate?Get invited to the next live show: https://www.cxotalk.com/subscribe
HOSTED BY
Michael Krigsman
CATEGORIES
Loading similar podcasts...
Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does CXOTalk have?
CXOTalk currently has 541 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is CXOTalk about?
C-Suite Conversations on AI & Strategy. Join industry analyst Michael Krigsman for unfiltered discussions with the leaders shaping the future of business. From AI implementation to digital transformation, hear directly from CIOs, CTOs, CEOs, and more from the world's largest companies. No scripts....
How often does CXOTalk release new episodes?
CXOTalk releases new episodes frequently with a large back catalog of 541 episodes. Check the episode list for recent publication dates.
Where can I listen to CXOTalk?
You can listen to CXOTalk on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.
Who hosts CXOTalk?
CXOTalk is created and hosted by Michael Krigsman.
URL copied to clipboard!