Conversing about Conversational AI with Philipp of Cognigy
Transcript Dave Michels 0:12 Tonight Evan and I will be talking to Philip Heltewig, CEO and co founder of Cognigy. But first, Evan, are you in a physical environment or in a meta environment? Evan Kirstel 0:23 I am really…
Talkingheadz with Justin Mitchell of Yac
Remember that scene in Breaking Bad when Heisenberg (Walter White) demands that the drug dealer “say my name”? It was a dramatic conversation that just wouldn’t work over text. That’s because the human voice says a lot (you can quote…
A Storm in the Redwoods with Martin Taylor of Content Guru
TalkingHeadz podcasts are available in most podcast apps. Transcript Dave Michels 0:12 Welcome to talking does Evan and I will be talking with Martin Taylor of content guru but first evon Did you see that on 60 minutes that apparently…
Is That a BlockChain in Your Pocket? @HugoFeiler of @minima_global
This digital asset space is experiencing the fastest adoption of any technology in all of recorded history. It’s currently growing at twice the speed of the Internet. With 114 million users today, it’s likely to get to a billion users…
TalkingHeadz with Brett Shockley, CEO Journey.AI
Journey.ai brings some of my favorite subjects and people together right here in my backyard. Let’s start with subjects. Journey sits at the intersection of Contact Center, Cryptography, and Zero Knowledge security. Security just doesn’t get enough attention in enterprise…
TalkingHeadz Podcast with Kira Makagon of RingCentral
There’s a lot of reasons we can list that have made RingCentral a success. Among them is Kira Makagon. She has touch nearly every successful technical innovation (and acquisition) at RingCentral in the past 10 years. You can subscribe to…
TalkingHeadz with Evan MacMillan, CEO of Gridspace
Gridspace is an amazing company. That’s not even a new conclusion, because I felt the same way in 2018, and I can prove it. In 2018 we (myself, Joseph Williams, and Dan Miller) selected Gridspace (and Evan) for inclusion in…
TalkingHeadz with Karen Mangia of Salesforce
From the inside flap of Working From Home We knew virtual workplaces were coming, but we didn’t think they would come so soon. Yet, here we are, sitting in our home offices, trying to make sense of our now-remote careers. Do…
TalkingHeadz with John Saw of T-Mobile
Transcript Evan Kirstel 2:24 And we’re here at talking heads. In today’s episode, we have john saw executive vice president advanced and emerging technologies at T Mobile events an emerging absolutely so we have high expectations, john and nice to…
TalkingHeadz Podcast with Bill Wignall, CEO of Sangoma
Earlier this month, Sangoma closed on its acquisition of Star2Star Communications. Sangoma (Ontario, Canada) acquired the Florida UCaaS provider for $437M. The merger marks Sangoma’s largest acquisition, which was likely its 8-10th company it bought (no one seems to know…
TalkingHeadz Podcast with OJ and Simen of Neat
Follow TalkingHeadz on your favorite podcast app. Transcript Evan Kirstel 0:12 So Dave, we have a couple of great guests coming up in the video conferencing space. But before that all the excitement seems to be around social audio. And…
TalkingHeadz with Karl Hantho, Americas President for Pexip
I wonder how this pandemic will be remembered, though I suspect it will forever be associated with video. Sometime in the past year just about every company, medical provider, and education institution embraced video like never before. Not to mention…
TalkingHeadz with Scott Wharton, Logitech
I believe Scott is the first guest to return to TalkingHeadz. Our first interview with Scott took place after Infocomm 2018. Once again, in this interview we were able to discuss with Scott recent product announcements from Logitech: The Rally…
TalkingHeadz With Tom Puorro
Poly knows a few things about transformation. Polycom was a pioneer in enterprise video and played a key role in both the maturation of SIP and the transition to VoIP. In late 2018, Plantronics and Polycom merged, that’s two well…
TalkingHeadz with Jeff Teper of #MicrosoftTeams
There was a lot of mixed reactions to the idea that Teams would eventually replace Skype for Business. There were those that had really embraced SfB, and didn’t see Teams at all ready. There were also those that just didn’t…
TalkingHeadz Podcast with Anand Janefalkar, UJET
Running any startup is a tough business. Running a CCaaS is even tougher. It has all the joys of other startups (funding, growing pains, establishing a brand, recruiting managers and employees, and building a product) further complicated by established (entrenched)…
TalkingHeadz with Javed Khan SVP of Cisco Collaboration
It’s impressive how much Cisco Collaboration changed in 2020. We can attribute some of this to the pandemic, but more of it goes to Javed Khan. He was promoted to unit SVP and GM mid year and immediately took action…
Talkingheadz with Craig Malloy, CEO of Lifesize
I remember my first video meeting. My employer at that time, circa 1993, had a big conference room dedicated (though mostly unused) for video meetings. I think it was a Picture-Tel system, but who knows. I think it used ISDN…
TalkingHeadz Podcast with Rory Read, CEO of Vonage
In our effort to get to know Rory we cover a lot of ground in this podcast. We cover his journey to Vonage including IBM wingtips and appreciation for art. We cover the PC world including Lenovo, Dell, AMD, and…
TalkingHeadz with Cory Doctorow
This was a big deal for Dave – I’m a major fan of Mr. Doctorow. I really appreciate how he makes complex topics so accessible. I thoroughly enjoyed the first two Little Brother books (just started the third), and have…