Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
by Metis Strategy
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Twice-weekly conversations with top executives and thought leaders at the intersection of business, technology, and innovation. Each episode of Technovation explores the technology trends that are transforming business, and the leaders driving digital change inside their organizations. Produced by Metis Strategy and hosted by firm President Peter High, Technovation is the premier podcast for IT and technology professionals with the largest collection of interviews with elite CIOs, CTOs, and CDOs.
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- Surfing Tsunami Waves: Aydin Senkut on Betting Before the Crowd · 44 min · Episode 31The best venture bets are foundational: companies other companies build on top of, making them structurally irreplaceable no matter which end-user applications succeed. In this…
- No Innovation Without a Market: Ahmad Bahai on TI’s R&D Model · 46 min · Episode 1130Semiconductor development cycles run a decade or longer, but markets shift faster than any company can predict. Ahmad Bahai, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at…
- Data from Thousands of Tests: How Simpson Strong-Tie Is Building an AI Moat · 31 min · Episode 1129A 70-year-old manufacturer’s proprietary test data may be a more defensible AI moat than software capability alone. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Udit…
- Not Just More Pilots: Shweta Gummidipudi on Scaling AI at Twilio · 27 min · Episode 1128Most companies can prove an AI use case works. Scaling it is where they stall. Shweta Gummidipudi, CIO at Twilio, has spent her first year building the infrastructure layer that…
- Sunlife’s Laura Money on Designing AI Around People · 33 min · Episode 1126AI efficiency is not the destination. At Sunlife, it is the means to something harder to automate: meaningful human connection. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High…
- Fix the Process Before the AI: Prakash Kota of UKG · 36 min · Episode 1126AI layered onto a broken process doesn’t fix the process; it just runs it faster. Prakash Kota spent his first 18 months at UKG consolidating two legacy companies into unified…
- AI Fluency Over AI Tools: Kristie Grinnell on Transforming TD SYNNEX · 34 min · Episode 1125The binding constraint on AI adoption is not access to tools. It is the organizational fear and mindset shift required to reimagine work entirely. In this episode of…
- No Pilot Graveyards: How Novant Health’s CAIO Turns AI Into Patient Outcomes · 33 min · Episode 1123Healthcare has accumulated friction that patients have come to accept as normal. Novant Health’s Chief AI Officer is systematically dismantling it. In this episode of…
- 95% AI Adoption: How Zoetis Built a Model-Agnostic Platform That Stuck · 32 min · Episode 1123Most generative AI programs stall at the pilot stage. Zoetis reached 95% computer-based colleague adoption. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Keith…
- Lior Susan on Why Now Is the Time to Build Industrial Giants · 27 minThe next generation of technology giants may not be built in software. They may be built in factories. In this episode of Technoventure, Peter High speaks with Lior Susan…
- How Mastercard Stopped $13B in Fraud With Real-Time AI · 28 min · Episode 1122Mastercard processes billions of transactions, and fraud doesn’t wait for rules-based systems to catch up. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Nirav Mehta…
- From Demos to Deployments: How U.S. Bank Is Industrializing AI · 43 min · Episode 1121Proving AI works was never the hard part. The hard part is industrializing it. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Dilip Venkatachari, Chief Information and…
- From Patterns to Prompts: Pawan Verma on AI Across the Pharma Value Chain · 42 minAI is reshaping every stage of pharmaceutical distribution, but only if the organization is built to absorb it. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Pawan…
- Security by Design: How Ally Financial’s CISO Builds Resiliency Into the Cloud · 33 min · Episode 1119A digital-only bank can’t afford to retrofit security. Ally Financial builds it in from the start. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Spencer Cremers, Chief…
- Ross Fubini on Finding the Wave Behind Breakout Startups · 58 minWhat separates a great founder from a great company? For XYZ Venture Capital Founder and Managing Partner Ross Fubini, execution is only part of the equation. The company also…
- How Nationwide CTO Michael Carrel Is Building an AI-Ready Workforce · 44 min · Episode 1118In this episode of Technovation, Nationwide CTO Michael Carrel joins Peter High to discuss how the company is building an AI-ready workforce while modernizing technology across…
- How Trane Technologies Uses AI to Make Buildings More Autonomous · 31 min · Episode 1117What happens when AI moves beyond generating content and starts autonomously optimizing the physical world? In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Riaz Raihan…
- Goodyear CIO Raman Mehta on Making Speed the Strategy for Enterprise AI · 27 min · Episode 1116For Goodyear CIO Raman Mehta, enterprise AI cannot remain stuck in pilot mode. His mandate is to bring a startup mindset to a 128-year-old manufacturer by making speed a strategy…
- How Bobcat CDO Roy Greco Is Building a Digital Foundation for AI and Growth · 29 min · Episode 1115Bobcat is transforming machines that were once physical “tool carriers” into software-enabled, connected products. Behind that evolution is a broader effort to modernize the…
- Shardul Shah of Index Ventures on Why the Founder Is the Investment Thesis · 46 minBefore the market is obvious, what gives an investor the conviction to act? In this episode of Technoventure, Peter High speaks with Shardul Shah, Partner at Index Ventures…
- PG&E CIO Ajay Waghray on Building Trusted Data for Predictive AI · 51 min · Episode 1114Moving from reactive operations to predictive AI starts with trusted data. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Ajay Waghray, EVP and Chief Information…
- Tines Co-Founder Thomas Kinsella on Governing the Rise of Wild Code · 43 min · Episode 1113When AI makes everyone a software builder, who governs what gets built? In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Thomas Kinsella, Co-Founder and COO of Tines…
- Maximus CDIO Derrick Pledger on Putting Business Value Before AI · 47 min · Episode 1112AI transformation should start with business value, not technology. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Derrick Pledger, Chief Digital and Information…
- Mouli Venkatesan on AI, Interoperability, and Connecting Healthcare at Scale · 37 min · Episode 1111Healthcare doesn’t lack data. The challenge is connecting it. In this episode of Technovation, Mouli Venkatesan, EVP and Chief Information & Technology Officer of the Blue Cross…
- Matt Witheiler on Why Great Companies Don’t Have to Be AI Companies · 38 minAI may be transformational, but that does not mean every great company needs to be an AI company. In this episode of Technoventure, Peter High speaks with Matt Witheiler, Head…
- Nikhil Narvekar on Driving Bottom-Line Value with AI at Graphic Packaging · 24 min · Episode 1110Enterprise AI is moving beyond experimentation toward a harder question: where does it actually create measurable business value? In this episode of Technovation, Peter High…
- Simplify First, Scale AI Next with Vulcan Materials CIO Krzysztof Soltan · 36 min · Episode 1109Better AI starts with better data, and for Vulcan Materials CIO Krzysztof Soltan that means simplifying first. In this episode of Technovation, Krzysztof Soltan joins Peter High…
- Aetna’s Nathan Frank on Scaling AI to Give Healthcare Workers Time Back · 38 min · Episode 1108What happens when AI gives healthcare workers more time to do the work only humans can do? Nathan Frank, Chief Digital and Technology Officer of Aetna, joins Peter High to…
- Michael Kempe on How AI Is Reinventing the Professional Services Business Model · 26 min · Episode 1107AI may make professional services faster, but Grant Thornton Advisors CIO Mike Kempe believes the bigger opportunity is to rethink what clients are actually buying. In this…
- How Sequoia’s Bogomil Balkansky Identifies Outlier Founders · 54 minWhat separates an exceptional executive from an outlier founder? For Sequoia Capital partner Bogomil Balkansky, learning the difference required recalibrating his own definition…
- Retool CEO David Hsu on Why AI Models Are No Longer the Bottleneck · 49 min · Episode 1106The smartest AI model may no longer be the biggest constraint on enterprise AI. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Retool Co-Founder and CEO David Hsu about…
- Verizon CTO Yago Tenorio on Building the Autonomous Network · 48 min · Episode 1105The next evolution of enterprise networks is not more automation, it is autonomy. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Verizon CTO Yago Tenorio about how…
- The Infinity Machine: The Untold Story of Demis Hassabis and DeepMind · 1 h 8 min · Episode 1104What drives someone to spend decades pursuing artificial general intelligence, not for wealth, but for scientific discovery? In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks…
- How M&T Bank Built a Technology-First Culture with Michael Wisler · 48 min · Episode 1103Technology transformation isn’t about AI, it’s about building the foundations that make AI possible. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High sits down with Michael Wisler…
- Wesley Chan on Building 100-Year Companies and Investing Against Consensus · 49 minThe companies that define an era often appear irrational before they appear inevitable. In this episode of Technoventure, Peter High speaks with FPV Ventures Co-Founder &…
- Kimberly-Clark’s Francesco Tinto on Leading AI-First Enterprise Transformation · 35 min · Episode 1102Artificial intelligence isn’t the transformation, it’s the catalyst. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Francesco Tinto, Chief Information & Global Business…
- How AGCO’s Jena Holtberg-Benge Is Using AI to Transform Precision Agriculture · 22 min · Episode 1101How can AI help farmers produce more with fewer resources? That’s the challenge driving digital transformation at AGCO. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with…
- How PPG’s CIO Turned IT into a Competitive Advantage · 43 min · Episode 1100Technology creates competitive advantage when it helps the business move faster, remove friction, and solve customer problems more effectively. In this episode of Technovation…
- How ElevenLabs Turns AI into Measurable Business Outcomes · 47 min · Episode 1099In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Alex Holt, Field CTO at ElevenLabs, about what separates successful enterprise AI initiatives from those that never move…
- Annie Lamont on Reinvention and Winning Across Four Decades of Venture Capital · 52 minFor more than four decades, Annie Lamont, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Oak HC/FT, has invested through every major technology wave, from the early days of personal…
- Gary Sorrentino on How Zoom Is Moving AI from Conversation to Completion · 28 min · Episode 1098Zoom became synonymous with video meetings, but its next chapter is about delivering business outcomes through AI. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Gary…
- David Epstein: How Constraints Drive Innovation, Creativity, and Better Leaders · 49 min · Episode 1097What if the key to breakthrough innovation isn’t more freedom—but better constraints? In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with bestselling author David Epstein…
- Priceline CTO Sejal Amin on Building AI-Powered Travel · 36 min · Episode 1096AI is transforming travel, but according to Priceline CTO Sejal Amin, technology alone isn’t enough. The real competitive advantage comes from redesigning how organizations work…
- Tamar Yehoshua on Building AI with Enterprise Context at Atlassian · 36 min · Episode 1095What gives one enterprise an AI advantage over another? According to Atlassian Chief Product & AI Officer Tamar Yehoshua, it’s not simply access to the latest models, it’s the…
- Avi Eyal on Why Great Founders Still Matter Most in the Age of AI · 57 minArtificial intelligence may be transforming how companies are built, but Avi Eyal believes the fundamentals of identifying exceptional founders haven’t changed. In this episode…
- Jim Peko on Building the Future of Professional Services at Grant Thornton · 40 min · Episode 1094Professional services is undergoing its biggest transformation in decades, and AI is only part of the story. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Jim Peko…
- The Complexity Problem: Gus Shahin on Simplifying the Enterprise for AI · 29 min · Episode 1093Most companies don’t have a technology problem. They have a complexity problem. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Gus Shahin, EVP of Business Technology…
- How Jack Henry Uses AI and Data Science to Transform Community Banking · 45 min · Episode 1092What happens when a technology provider can see patterns across 244 million account holders and thousands of financial institutions? In this episode of Technovation, Peter High…
- How SailPoint’s CIO Is Securing AI Agents, Machine Identities, and Enterprise · 30 min · Episode 1091As AI agents gain access to enterprise systems, identity security is becoming the control layer for responsible AI adoption. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks…
- Stephen Ward on Why Great Cybersecurity Leaders Think Beyond Technology · 60 minCybersecurity leadership isn’t ultimately about technology, it’s about judgment, influence, and the ability to lead through uncertainty. In this episode of Technovation, Peter…
