How did one of the world’s biggest bureaucracies successfully develop a sleek, efficient, and user-friendly online benefits experience for veterans? Today’s guest, Charles Worthington, CTO of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs shares how he applied a tech startup mentality to help make the VA’s services more accessible to our nation’s finest, and why he ... Show More
Nov 20
How to Maximize ROI on AI in 2026
<p>The promise of agentic AI has been massive, autonomous systems that act, reason, and make business decisions, but most enterprises are still struggling to see results.</p><p>In this episode, host Chris Brandt sits down with Sumeet Arora, Chief Product Officer at Teradata, to u ... Show More
59m 51s
Nov 6
90% of AI Demos Fail. Here’s How to Build One that Won’t
<p>If you’ve ever shipped an AI feature that looked great in testing — only to watch it behave unpredictably in production — you’re not alone.</p><p>In this episode of IT Visionaries, host Chris Brandt talks with Lawrence Jones, Founding Engineer at incident.io, about the critica ... Show More
59m 22s
Oct 31
The Future of Procurement: Real-Time Supply Chain Intelligence
<p>Every product a company ships depends on thousands of tiny decisions happening deep inside the supply chain. But most organizations are still making those decisions using stale spreadsheets, fragmented systems, and guesswork.</p><p>In this episode, we explore how AI-driven pro ... Show More
53m 20s
Mar 2020
S11:E6 - What are the pros and cons of working in civic tech (Aidan Feldman)
In this episode, we’re talking about civic tech with Aidan Feldman, Technology Director at General Service Administration’s Technology Transformation Services. We get into the pros and cons, and hurdles and hoops of working in civic tech, as well as the skills you need if you wan ... Show More
41m 27s
Sep 2021
#473: [African Stories #1] Beyond Technologies
Today Simon is joined by Clive Charlton, Head of Solution Architecture at AWS, and Ian Lester, CEO of Beyond Technologies - A South African based company with a presence in close to 80 countries around the globe. Today we will learn how Beyond is using the Internet of Things (IoT ... Show More
18m 27s
Apr 2024
Predicting the future of tech
The internet plays an important role in most of our lives today. What will it, and other tech, look like in the future ? We take a long view with a veteran of the tech industry. Also on Tech Life this week, some of the biggest social media platforms have been accused of obstructi ... Show More
26m 29s
Jun 2022
#CSUNATC22 Audio: Inclusive Map Viewing Through Any Browser With Audiom
<p>It would be truly wild if you could take the skills you have learned through playing audio games, like Swamp or Tactile Battle, and transfer them into real world Orientation and Mobility. Surprisingly enough, J.J. did just that when he spoke to Brandon Biggs, Engineer with the ... Show More
21m 2s
Sep 2019
The Digital Transformation of Ingka Group with Chief Technology Officer, Susan Standiford
You may think everything in IKEA is easy to piece together, but what you see in-store and online has taken years, even decades, of iteration to create. Unlike their mattress frames, IKEA’s technology takes more than just an Allen wrench to build. And leading it all is Susan Stand ... Show More
54m 17s