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What if the secret to scaling AI agents has nothing to do with better prompts and everything to do with smarter integration? We sit down with Rich Waldron Co-founder & CEO of Tray dot ai to unpack how an integration-first architecture turns agent hype into measurable business outcomes. From cloud-native orchestration to resilient API handling, Rich explains why the hardest part of agents isn’t connectivity—it’s everything behind it: concurrency, retries, governance, logging, and security.

We dig into the real reasons enterprise pilots stall and the pattern he sees among programs that succeed: IT-led, department-partnered builds with clear ROI, tight scopes, and fast iteration cycles. Rich shares a standout customer story migrating hundreds of integrations off a legacy vendor while launching agentic workflows on a single governed platform—delivering 60% lower integration costs and three times faster builds. Along the way, we explore how engineering teams use AI coding tools to prototype faster and offload grunt work, freeing time for architecture and testing without threatening roles.

If you’re choosing where to start, accelerators for ITSM, HR, support, and knowledge make time-to-value tangible and create a structure teams can adapt to proprietary data and processes. We also cover the growing priority of enterprise governance: controlling which tools agents can access, how data moves, and how identities map across systems. Rich outlines Tray’s Agent Gateway for MCP—adding authentication and permissioning and exposing Trey-built tools to other services in a controlled way—so CIOs can move quickly without giving away the keys to the kingdom.

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Vegas turns into a living blueprint for the future as we sit down with CTA’s Gary Shapiro and best-selling author Jim Harris to unpack why CES 2026 is more than a showcase—it’s where strategy gets decided. We dig into how AI has moved from headline hype to the connective tissue of every sector, shaping robotics, health, mobility, and enterprise workflows. Gary lays out the big picture: a record wave of innovation colliding with real constraints like energy supply, fragmented regulation, and national industrial strategies. The tension is exciting—and actionable.

We walk through what’s truly new this year: a surge in humanoid and wearable robotics, patient-centered health tech powered by continuous sensing, and a startup scene in Eureka Park designed to compress months of business development into days. CES Foundry expands into AI and quantum with live demos, while new categories highlight enterprise tech, filmmaking, logistics, and travel. Keynotes—from Dr. Lisa Su to global brands at the Sphere—frame where compute, platforms, and partnerships are headed next. It’s a global stage, with 40% of attendees from abroad, and a clear signal that innovation is now a team sport.

If you’re an enterprise leader, this isn’t a gadget tour. Nearly half the action is B2B: partner summits, private suites, and tracks that turn tech trends into operating plans. We share practical tips to win your week—map your days by venue, leverage the upgraded AI-driven app, hydrate, and focus on one theme per day to avoid context switching. Looking ahead, we explore how quantum computing, agentic AI, and autonomy could reshape supply chains and healthcare, and why energy and policy choices will determine how fast the future arrives.

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A journalist screams, “I’m wasting four hours a day transcribing,” and a product is born. We sit down with Lasse Finderup, CEO of Good Tape to unpack how a newsroom pain point turned into a privacy-first platform used by millions—and why saying no to feature bloat matters more than chasing every shiny AI trick.

We trace the spin-out origin story and the “instant product-market fit” that came from building for colleagues who needed reliable, fast transcripts yesterday. Lasse explains the decision to never train on user data and to host models in-house, trading flashy add-ons for deep security, ISO-grade compliance, and trust. We explore global AI adoption gaps—from Denmark’s “I’ll just ChatGPT this” culture to regions where automated speech-to-text still feels like magic—and why context matters when you’re designing tools for journalists, podcasters, and creators handling sensitive sources.

From a tech perspective, we dive into an open-source stack centered on Whisper V3 Large and the heavy lifting around the model: optimization, infrastructure, and the real costs of self-hosting LLMs. Lasse lays out a sharp distinction between “record-everything meetings” tools and workflows where the transcript is the output itself. That sets the stage for Good Tape’s next big leap: an “artificial memory” that surfaces relevant past notes at the right moment, with user-controlled reminders that feel helpful, not invasive. We also touch on multilingual transcription’s surge across contact centers and newsrooms, market consolidation on the horizon, and founder advice: build for real needs, not just because AI makes it possible.

If you care about accuracy, confidentiality, and simple tools that get out of your way, this conversation will sharpen how you evaluate transcription tech and where the industry is heading. Subscribe, share with a teammate who fights transcripts, and leave a quick review to help more builders and storytellers find the show.

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Copilots can suggest the next click, but they rarely deliver the finished job. We dive into a different path: enterprise AI agents that integrate with your systems, understand your business rules, and execute end-to-end workflows with governance, accuracy, and reliability. Rob Bearden co-founder and CEO Semaphore.ai shares how their platform moves beyond brittle scripts and UI macros to reasoning-driven automation that adapts to changing contracts, policies, and supply constraints—turning strategy into repeatable, measurable outcomes.

We trace the journey from big data to autonomy: insights and KPIs used to point the way, but humans still had to do the work across dozens of apps and tabs. Agents close that last-mile gap by reading documents, joining data across ERPs and CRMs, and following rule-bound reasoning paths to finish the task. You’ll hear concrete wins like multi-page invoice reconciliation done in minutes with higher accuracy, AP help desk cases resolved without swivel-chair searches, and quote-to-cash automated across fragmented systems. The result is less toil, fewer errors, and outcomes you can audit and scale.

If you’re stuck in AI pilot purgatory, the way out is a platform strategy and tight guardrails. We break down a crawl-walk-run approach: pick a high-leverage use case, define the outcome, run a focused proof, measure ROI, then rinse and repeat. We also scan the broader agent ecosystem—Salesforce, ServiceNow, and hyperscalers are leaning in—while making the case for an enterprise-wide layer that spans SaaS apps, data warehouses, and data lakes. Finance operations lead early adoption, but healthcare, insurance, and manufacturing are close behind, wherever people juggle multiple systems to make a decision.

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Big leaps in AI rarely come from one breakthrough. They emerge when hardware design, open software, and real workloads click into place. That’s the story we unpack with AMD’s Ramine Roane: how an open, developer-first approach combined with high-bandwidth memory, chiplet packaging, and a re-architected software stack is reshaping performance and cost from the edge to the largest data centers.

We walk through why memory capacity and bandwidth dominate large language model performance, and how MI300X’s 192 GB HBM and advanced packaging unlock bigger contexts and faster token throughput. Ramin explains how Rocm 7 was rebuilt to be modular, smaller to install, and enterprise-ready—so teams can go from single-node experiments to fully orchestrated clusters using Kubernetes, Slurm, and familiar open tools. The highlight: disaggregated and distributed inference. By splitting prefill from decode and adopting expert parallelism, organizations are slashing cost per token by 10–30x, depending on model and topology.

The conversation ranges from startup-friendly workflows to hyperscaler deployments, with practical insight into VLLM, SGLang, and why open source now outpaces closed stacks. We also look ahead at where inference runs: the edge is rising. With performance per watt doubling on a steady cadence, AI PCs, laptops, and phones will take on more of the work, enabling privacy, responsiveness, and lower costs. Ramin shares a sober view on quantum computing timelines and a bullish take on the broader compute shift—moving once-sequential problems into massively parallel deep learning that changes what’s even possible.

If you care about real performance, total cost of ownership, and developer velocity, this conversation brings a grounded blueprint: open ecosystems, smarter packaging, and inference architectures built for high utilization. Subscribe, share with a colleague who cares about LLM throughput and cost, and leave a quick review to help others find the show.

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A billion-dollar talent marketplace doesn’t happen by accident—it happens when access, scale, and experience come together. We sit down with Michael Morris the head of Torc at Randstad Digital to unpack how a once-independent platform now matches millions of professionals with work, why the talent market feels like a “teenage” phase, and how AI is reshaping recruiting without removing humans from the loop.

The conversation gets practical fast. Automation now handles the busywork—sourcing, screening, scheduling—so recruiters and hiring managers can focus on what actually drives outcomes: culture fit at the team level, long-term growth, and a great candidate experience. We challenge sacred cows like resumes and rigid job descriptions, and explore how a next-generation marketplace will let customers express needs via prompts, voice, and examples. The result is faster, clearer matching that opens doors for more diverse, AI-enabled talent, from Python developers to marketers fluent in prompt-driven workflows.

We also dig into the skills that matter most as enterprises chase AI readiness. Coding is no longer the bottleneck; user experience and domain fluency separate good from great. That’s why soft skills and communication sit alongside credentials from Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI, and why personalized learning beats one-track training. Whether you’re building a data team in healthcare, prototyping fintech apps, or scaling a platform, the path forward is the same: invest in people, modernize how you describe work, and use AI to upgrade—not replace—the human touch.

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What if your hotel could keep checking guests in even when the primary PMS goes down? We sit with Jason from SNET Communications to unpack how a true all‑in‑one stack—networks, SD‑WAN, security, UCaaS, CCaaS, and a native PMS—eliminates finger‑pointing and keeps operations moving when it matters most.

We walk through the realities of legacy PBX in hospitality and why a cloud approach finally fits the property workflow. SNET’s platform delivers over 120 PMS integrations and a unique twist: a built‑in PMS that serves as a live failover. That means front desks continue check‑ins, wake‑up calls, and room inventory while the main PMS is offline, then resync automatically. The economics make sense for boutique hotels and big brands alike—reuse analog room phones with ATAs, retire maintenance-heavy hardware, and unlock new revenue from modern in‑room devices and connected TV experiences. Reliability isn’t just promised; redundant data centers in Chicago and Sacramento provide resilience even when hyperscalers stumble.

The conversation travels beyond hotels. We break down a path from fixing broadband contention with SD‑WAN to deploying POS integrations and UCaaS across 1,500+ pizza locations, plus wins with dental groups, spas, auto dealers, and an energy company that needed precise call flows. Custom CRM integrations—often at little or no cost—turn rigid software into tailored workflows. Looking ahead, the roadmap brings practical AI to the front lines: a low‑cost chatbot bundled with UCaaS, a voice bot to deflect routine calls, and real‑time transcription with sentiment analysis to coach teams and protect the guest experience.

If you care about guest satisfaction, uptime, and real ROI from technology—not just new tools for their own sake—this is a deep dive into what modern multi‑location communication should look like. Subscribe, share with an operator who needs a smarter stack, and leave a review with the one feature you want most in your hospitality or retail tech.

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Most people think of SD cards as camera accessories. We pull back the curtain with the SD Association to show how SD Express turns that tiny card into an SSD-class powerhouse for creators, PCs, and AI at the edge—without losing the flexibility of removable media. By bringing PCIe and NVMe to the SD form factor, SD Express delivers nine to forty times the performance of legacy cards and far better random I/O, so burst capture, rapid transfers, and on-device inference all feel instant.

We trace how this shift changes product design and user workflows. Creators get faster shoots and simpler post; device makers can build slimmer hardware that still upgrades in seconds. On the capacity front, SDUC pushes the horizon beyond two terabytes toward a 128TB ceiling, with 4TB microSD and 8TB full-size cards emerging. That makes it practical to keep large datasets, video archives, and full AI model versions local, then rotate or update them in the field, no downtime required.

Security is maturing alongside speed. The SD 9.0 specification adds encrypted drive capabilities and host binding, helping enterprises protect data at rest and perform secure firmware or model updates. We highlight a wave of student projects on NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano using microSD Express as primary storage, proving how edge AI benefits from fast, reliable, swappable media. And we share where the standard heads next: endurance, reliability, and fair, transparent performance metrics that help buyers match cards to real workloads.

If you’re building cameras, drones, robots, or compact PCs—or you just want your gear to feel faster—this conversation maps the road ahead for removable storage. Subscribe for more deep dives like this, share with a friend who loves hardware, and leave a quick review to tell us what you’d build with SD Express.

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