Computer Weekly Downtime Upload

About this podcast

A light-hearted look at the week in tech by the Computer Weekly team

Episodes

• AI & cybersecurity: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast12 Nov 2026We speak to Gartner's Akif Khan about the need for organisations to reassess employee cyber training and agentic AI identity and access management
• Gartner on AI ROI: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast2 Nov 2026Yogesh Bhatt, a senior director analyst at Gartner discusses why run-time metrics linked to P&L are needed for AI cost control
• AI and education: Learning to dance – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast30 Oct 2026Brian McKenna and Ascendion’s chief strategy and marketing officer, Paul Roehrig, discuss AI education, stressing the importance of critical thinking, curiosity and human judgement
• Machine-speed security: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast5 Oct 2026Rudra Mitra, vice president of security services at AWS discusses why we need to rethink cybersecurity in order to tackle AI-powered attacks
• Agentic AI governance: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast8 Sep 2026Getting tech infrastructure right is just one piece of a complex puzzle that needs to be solved to deploy AI safely in business
• Amazon S3 & AI: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast2 Sep 2026We speak to AWS’ Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec about S3 growth, DuckDB and how AI is helping people understand their data
• AI and the economy – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast1 Sep 2026Brian McKenna and Paul Roehrig, chief strategy and marketing officer, Ascendion discuss AI and the economy, avoiding the Scylla and Charybdis of catastrophism and boosterism
• Chatbots with skills: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast20 Aug 2026We speak to Starling Bank’s deputing CIO, Fred Laurent, about smart tools for the bank’s customer facing AI agent
• Privacy vs Grok GenAI: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast17 Aug 2026In June, MP Jess Asato began a legal case over AI-generated explicit images of herself generated without her permission by the xAI Grok AI engine
• The LEO story: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast23 Jul 2026We speak to Peter Byford, chair of the LEO Computer Society about the world’s first business computer and his experiences programming it
• AI in fashion retail: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast29 Jun 2026We speak to Przemek Czarnecki, chief technology officer of Asos, about how the company is deploying AI and agentic AI
• Empathy with business: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast23 Jun 2026We speak to Reema Jain, CIO of Unilever about how to ensure IT teams remain focussed while innovating with new technology
• Agentic workflows: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast15 Jun 2026We speak to Joel Hron, chief technology officer at Thomson Reuters about how MCP-connectivity into Claude to streamline legal work
• Why AI won’t cut jobs: A Computer Weekly Downtime upload podcast5 Jun 2026We speak to Gartner analyst Helen Poitevin about why business leaders should not use AI to reduce headcount
• IT project success: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast28 May 2026A discussion on why, in spite of industry best practices, IT projects are still failing
• Agentic orchestration: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast21 May 2026We speak to Jakob Freud, CEO of Camunda about who business processes are being reinvented in the age of agentic AI
• Integrity with AI: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast11 May 2026We speak to Jill Luber, CTO of academic publisher, Elsevier, about creating AI tools to support researchers and protecting against fake science
• Software billing gap: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast20 Apr 2026We speak to Griff Parry, CEO and co-founder of m3ter about why billing based on consumption sometimes fails
• AI skills for IT pros: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast8 Apr 2026Artificial intelligence is changing the way IT professionals work. We speak to Matt Stava, CEO of Spinnaker Support', about reskilling