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Tech Titans: Lessons From Shipping Felix AI to Market with Mario Ciabarra, CEO of Quantum Metric

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Theoretical Computer Scientist: AI Just Changed Math Forever, with Scott Aaronson

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Reliability Without the Guesswork: Foresight AI with Kolton Andrus, CEO of Gremlin

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Scaling AI Efficiency at LinkedIn with Erran Berger, CTO of Engineering

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Tech Titans: Agents Built Around People with Mohak Shroff, former SVP of Engineering at LinkedIn

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Tech Titans: How Can a Chatbot Steal a Model's Secrets? with Steve Orrin, Federal CTO at Intel

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Why High-Achieving Engineers Still Feel Something's Missing with Ben Fox, Career Coach for Engineers

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Tech Titans: Why Plans Fail and Strategy Doesn't with Seth Godin, Author of This Is Strategy

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Tech Titans: Funding and Building the Safest Nuclear Reactor with Matt Loszak, Aalo Atomics

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Demo Is Not Production, with Ajay Nair, GM of Elasticsearch and Platform at Elastic

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Tech Titans: Why Your Home Alarm Does Nothing to Stop a Crime with Dave “Selly” Selinger

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Disruptor or Disrupted with Jason Silbergleit, Head of Americas at Classiq

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Tech Titans: Solving Cloud Data Issues with Desikan Madhavanur, CPO & CTO at Capital One Software

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Turning AI Hype into Store Ops: Manda Miller & Mariya Zorotovich (Toshiba & Intel)

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The CTO Extinction Event with Etienne de Bruin, Founder of 7CTOs

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Stop Ripping Out Your Legacy Code with Alan Williamson, CTO

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The Red Queen Problem with Anthony Scriffignano, PhD, Data Scientist

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Why You Can't Trust AI Without Governing It, with Tony Davis & John Balsavage of A&I Solutions

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Tech Titans: Hidden Rules of the Brain with Moran Cerf, Neuroscientist and Professor

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The Real Reason Your Body Is a Business Card with Mauro Stara, Six Pack CEO

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Tech Titans: Rethinking Career Five-Year Plans with Francisco Trindade, VP of Software Engineering

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Tech Titans: Designing for Intuition with Campbell Brown, CEO and Co-founder of PredictHQ

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Tech Titans: How to Ask for Help as a Leader with Arnie Katz, CPTO at GoFundMe

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Inside the Tech Stack Behind the Modern Store with Yevgeni Tsirulnik & Naresh Keswani of Toshiba

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Hunting for Alien Technology with Avi Loeb, Harvard Astrophysicist

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Is the Specialist Executive Dead? with Mahesh Guruswamy, COO at Kajabi

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Tech Titans: Go From Burnt Out to Fired Up with Justin Fanelli, Department of Navy CTO

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Can this Company Fix America’s Broken Food System? with Luiz Beling, CEO of Apeel Sciences

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Confronting Plummeting Birth Rates & Banning Superintelligence with Connor Leahy, US Director at ControlAI

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Are Engineers Redundant Now? with Hrishi Dixit, Co-Founder & CTO of Autonomy Finance

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Where Do We Draw the Line on Letting AI Build? With Zach Goldberg, CEO at Gruntwork

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Why do 81% of Mature AI Programs Get Rolled Back? with Daniel Morris, CPO at Sinch

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How Snapchat is Evolving in the Age of AI with Saral Jain, SVP, Head of Engineering

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Why Kubernetes Still Feels So Hard & What to Do About It with Steve Francis, CEO of Sidero Labs

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Why Does AI Momentum Stall in Large Organizations? with Kyle Lagunas & Allyn Bailey

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Are Apps Going to Get Axed by Conversational AI? with Jacques Klick, Director of Market Strategy at Sinch

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When Will Robots Live With Us? Inside 1X's NEO with Dar Sleeper, VP of Design & Product

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The 5 Levels of AI Coding & the Collapse of Human-Written Code with Trevor Hinesley, Co-Founder & CTO at Soundstripe

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Marty Cagan on Product Management Theater in the Age of AI

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From Mammoths to Humans: The Case for Gene Editing with Eriona Hysolli

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Why Your AI Has No Idea What's Happening in the World with Campbell Brown, CEO & Co-Founder of PredictHQ

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Are Our Brains Wired Together? The Power of the Mind in Business & Beyond with Moran Cerf, Neuroscientist & Professor

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Why Being the Best at Your Job Is Holding You Back with Bill Tingle, Executive Coach for Tech Leaders

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Tech Titans: Learn How to Remix as a Leader with Michael Grinich, founder at WorkOS

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Tech Titans: Your Team Should be Acting or Arguing with Brendan Wovchko, CTO at Ramsey Solutions

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What It Looks Like to Give AI 80% of Your Project with Dan Cardinal, CTO at Beghou

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Why Software Is Never “Done” Anymore with Iccha Sethi, SVP of Engineering at Vanta

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The Future of Employee Experience & The Field of Foresight with Jacob Morgan, host of Future Ready Leadership

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Tech Titans: The Art of Making Yourself Redundant with Hrishi Dixit, Principal at Gordian Labs

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Tech Titans: How Do You Lead When No One's Looking? with Jack Tam, Intuit

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Tech Titans: How to Stop Fitting In and Start Leading with Tony Martignetti

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Tech Titans: Your Team Can't Trust You If They Can't Predict You with Noah Cantor

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Will AI Kill Code Review? with Francisco Trindade, VP at Braze

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When AI Writes All the Code, Who's Watching? with Kayvon Beykpour, Cofounder & CEO of Macroscope

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Why AI is Actually Artificial Creativity with Brian Alvey, CTO of WordPress VIP

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The AI Bubble Nobody's Talking About with Brian Singer, CTO as RSI

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What Will Usher in the Next Renaissance with Zack Kass, Author & Former OpenAI GTM Lead

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TECH IN THE MORNING: OpenAI Axes Sora, Disney Pulls Out, and Slop Dominates

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Tech Titans: How to Know You’re Not Really a CTO with Alan Williamson

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Why Everybody Has Something to Hide with Guy Kawasaki, Chief Evangelist at Canva

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Why You Can’t Go Off Vibes in Software Development with Stephen Poletto, Field CTO at Span

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Tech Titans: A Masterclass in Change Management with Ashley Goodall

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Why Regenerative Tech Needs to be the Future with Tom Chi, Google X Founder & author of Climate Capital

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From Inventing a Microprocessor to Full-Time Tech Comedian with Don McMillan

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Tech Titans: Why Accidental Managers are the Best Leaders with Rajeev Rajan, CTO at Atlassian

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A Step By Step Process to Accelerate Your Career Goals with Rob Kalwarowsky

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Why Your Document Workflows Are a Hidden Compliance Crisis with Anand Narasimhan, CTO at S-Docs

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How To Understand & Optimize Agentic AI Workforces with Promise Theory with Tony Davis & Dr. Mark Burgess

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The Top Scaling Lessons from Zapier's AI Transformation with Wade Foster, Co-Founder & CEO of Zapier

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How Jensen Huang Built the World's Most Valuable Company with Stephen Witt, Author of "The Thinking Machine"

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How AI Will Collapse, Blur, and Rebuild Tech Teams with Kevin Adams, CIO at Edward Jones

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Why You’ll Never Plan Another Vacation with Vipul Hingne, CTO at Booking.com

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How to Build Defense for AI Cyber Attack Waves with Ariful Huq, Co-Founder at Exaforce

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Will AI be the End of SaaS? with Rob Woollen & Marwan Mattar of Sigma

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CES and WEF 2026: What’s the Global State of Tech? with Jim Harris

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How AI Will Dissolve Our Brains Just Like Google Maps with Jacob Ward, Author of "The Loop"

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Why We Need the Rich for Democracy & Tech Progress with John McGinnis, Professor at Northwestern University

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The 9 Skills Every Tech Leader Needs in the Age of AI with Andrea Iorio, Author of "Between You and AI"

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The Cost Crisis Facing CTOs and How to Solve It with Albert Strasheim, CTO at Rippling

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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

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The Modern CTO of 2025 is Rob Duffy, CTO at HealthEdge!

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The Business Strategy of the Biggest Player in Travel Tech with Rob Ransom, SVP at Booking Holdings

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The MCTO Awards: Who is THE Modern CTO of 2025?

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How Shazam went from a 4-digit Phone Number to $400m with Chris Barton, Founder

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Merry Christmas from Modern CTO!

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How to Nail Business Automation in the Agentic Age with Micha Kiener, CTO at Flowable

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Building Peacock at Scale with António Vieira, Director of Global Apps Engineering at Sky

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MIT Sloan’s Guide to Navigating a New Age of AI, with Sam Ransbotham, Host of the Me, Myself and AI Podcast

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How Morpheus is Transforming the Hybrid Cloud Model with Brad Parks, HPE

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How the New York Times is Harnessing Tech in the News Industry with Jason Sobel, CTO

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Transforming IT at Hewlett Packard Enterprise through Agentic AI with Brian Gruttadauria, CTO of Hybrid Cloud

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How AI Agents Are Redefining Customer Experience with Adrian McDermott, CTO at Zendesk

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Our Best Advice on Communication and Hiring Strategies with Mark Porter, CTO at dbt Labs

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The Father of the Cable Modem on Broadband, AI & Hype with Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard

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How to Complete an AI Transformation in 18 Months with Rebecca Carr, CEO at SmartRecruiters

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Leadership Lessons from Business and Church with Jay Owen, CEO at Business Builders

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Web3 Was a Failure…Will Gaming Save it? with Chris Hewish, President at Xsolla

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From 2 Guys in a Garage to 700+ Employees with Scott Henderson, CTO & Co-founder at Celigo

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The AI Coding Arms Race is Transforming Software with Henrik Plate & Amod Gupta of Endor Labs

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How The Telegraph is Redefining the News with AI with Dylan Jacques, CPTO