Best Change Agent Cto Podcast Podcasts (2025)

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Lyft CEO David Risher on paying drivers more and the shift to robotaxis 1:18:02

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David Risher was on Lyft's board for years, but only stepped in as CEO in 2023, to help turn the company around. He's done pretty well so far, but there are still a lot of open questions for him to face. It's not just competition for riders and drivers Lyft has to deal with; it’s the future of transportation itself, and new AI tools that might take…

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Why CIOs Make Great CEOs: Saul Van Beurden’s Leadership Playbook 40:39

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1025: What does it take to go from CIO to CEO? For Saul Van Beurden, tech leadership was the ideal proving ground. Now CEO of Consumer, Small, and Business Banking at Wells Fargo, Saul shares how his background in IT helped him lead at enterprise scale. In this episode, he speaks with Peter High about the strategic, operational, and cultural mindse…

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284 - Qiyun Cai on Why Insurance Agencies Leave Money on the Table (And How to Fix It) 36:57

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Summary In this episode of That Annuity Show, Paul Tyler and Bruno Caron engage with Qiyun Cai, founder and CEO of Fintary, to discuss the challenges and innovations in the insurance industry, of managing and optimizing compensation and revenue. Qiyun shares her background in insurance and technology, explaining how Fintary aims to streamline reven…

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How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet 1:09:41

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This is Sarah Jeong, features editor at The Verge. I’m standing in for Nilay for one final Thursday episode here as he settles back into full-time hosting duties. Today, we’ve got a fun one. I’m talking to Cory Doctorow, prolific author, internet activist, and arguably one of the fiercest tech critics writing today. He has a new book out called Ens…

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State of AI 2025 with Nathan Benaich: Power Deals, Reasoning Breakthroughs, Real Revenue 1:03:15

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Power is the new bottleneck, reasoning got real, and the business finally caught up. In this wide-ranging conversation, I sit down with Nathan Benaich, Founder and General Partner at Air Street Capital, to discuss the newly published 2025 State of AI report—what’s actually working, what’s hype, and where the next edge will come from. We start at th…

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How Norfolk Southern Measures Real Impact from AI and Data 24:24

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Where is AI actually moving the needle in industrial operations? In this episode, Anil Bhatt, Chief Information and Digital Officer of Norfolk Southern, shares how the $12B freight rail company is turning AI into measurable value without overhyping its potential. Topics include: A disciplined approach to AI deployment with measurable ROI Norfolk So…

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LexisNexis CEO says the AI law era is already here 1:05:07

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LexisNexis is one of the most important companies in the entire legal system. For ages it's been where you went to look up case law and do legal research. There isn’t a lawyer today who hasn’t used it — it’s fundamental infrastructure for the legal profession, just like email or a word processor. But in 2025, apparently nobody can resist the siren …

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Balancing Innovation and Risk: AI Leadership at T. Rowe Price 23:33

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What does it really take to scale AI responsibly across a global enterprise? In this episode, Ramon Richards, Chief Technology Officer at T. Rowe Price, shares how his team is advancing AI capabilities with discipline and speed—balancing innovation with the need for risk controls, data readiness, and workforce enablement. Ramon unpacks T. Rowe Pric…

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283 - Portable, Bundled, Digital: Life Insurance for the Next Generation with Capgemini's Sam Chow 40:27

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In this episode of That Annuity Show, Paul Tyler, Tisa Rabun-Marshall, and Bruno Caron talk with Samantha Chow from Capgemini to discuss the findings of the World Life Insurance Report. They explore consumer sentiment towards life insurance, the challenges of product design, and the importance of education in the industry. The conversation highligh…

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Barry Eggers on How Lightspeed Uses Learning Investments to Find the Next Big Thing 46:45

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How can venture investors consistently identify the next breakout market? Barry Eggers, Founding Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, reveals the firm’s thesis-driven approach to venture capital of using early “learning investments” to test conviction, then scaling fast into emerging markets before the crowd arrives. In this episode, Barry share…

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Are We Misreading the AI Exponential? Julian Schrittwieser on Move 37 & Scaling RL (Anthropic) 1:09:56

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Are we failing to understand the exponential, again? My guest is Julian Schrittwieser (top AI researcher at Anthropic; previously Google DeepMind on AlphaGo Zero & MuZero). We unpack his viral post (“Failing to Understand the Exponential, again”) and what it looks like when task length doubles every 3–4 months—pointing to AI agents that can work a …

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The CIO as Matchmaker: How América Móvil Finds and Scales External Innovation 47:40

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What if your innovation team operated more like a venture fund than a lab? In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Andres Vazquez, Chief Digital Intelligence Officer of América Móvil, about how he leads open innovation at scale, evaluating thousands of companies a year to drive customer value, operational efficiency, and revenue. Ke…

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Why GM will give you Gemini — but not CarPlay 1:18:03

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Today’s guests are General Motors CEO Mary Barra and new GM Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson. There’s a lot of big news the company just announced, including a Google Gemini-powered AI assistant that's coming to new cars and an entirely new hardware and software platform coming to the Escalade IQ in 2028 alongside true Level 3 autonomous dri…

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Zocdoc CEO: "Dr. Google is going to be replaced by Dr. AI" 1:06:06

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Hey everyone, it’s Nilay. I’m back from parental leave, and I’m really excited to jump back into Decoder. Today’s episode is a special one: I’m talking to Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz, and we chatted live on stage at the TechFutures conference in New York City. You’re almost certainly familiar with ZocDoc — it’s a platform that helps people find and b…

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Turning Buildings into Energy Assets: Manish Kumar on AI-Powered Infrastructure 27:40

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Is your infrastructure ready to flex? In this episode of Technovation, Manish Kumar, EVP of Digital Energy at Schneider Electric, explains how buildings can become interactive energy assets with the help of AI, real-time data, and distributed energy systems. He shares the strategy behind Schneider’s Energy Command Center model, which reduced energy…

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Can we solve AI's "deer-in-headlights" problem? (with Dan Miller, founder of Opus Research) 33:00

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Send us a text The conversational AI market has exploded: ~650 companies, even more tools, and way too many promises. For business leaders, navigating all this can be paralyzing. In this episode of Deep Learning with PolyAI, your host Nikola Mrkšić sits down with Dan Miller, founder of Opus Research and the analyst who coined the term "conversation…

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Should hyper-growth brands still pick up the phone? (with Austin Towns, CTO of Hello Sugar) 24:35

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Send us a text Hello Sugar is one of the fastest-growing service brands in America, with more than 140 locations and counting. From the start, they built a text-first, digital experience that customers loved. But growth brought new insights: even in a digital-first world, voice calls were still critical to winning — and keeping — customers. In this…

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The EV tax credit is dead. What now? 39:43

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This is Jake Kastrenakes, executive editor at The Verge. I’m filling in for Nilay here while he settles back into full-time hosting duties. We’ve got a very good episode for you today. My guest is Verge transportation editor Andy Hawkins, and we’re talking about the federal EV tax credit. The tax credit expired at the end of September, and there ar…

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How GPT-5 Thinks — OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek 1:16:04

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What does it really mean when GPT-5 “thinks”? In this conversation, OpenAI’s VP of Research Jerry Tworek explains how modern reasoning models work in practice—why pretraining and reinforcement learning (RL/RLHF) are both essential, what that on-screen “thinking” actually does, and when extra test-time compute helps (or doesn’t). We trace the evolut…

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AI Needs Power: Duke Energy CIO on Fueling the Future of Data Centers 26:04

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What happens when the CIO responsible for powering AI also has to manage its energy demands? Richard Donaldson, SVP & CIO of Duke Energy, joins Technovation to discuss the unique position utilities now face: supporting exponential growth in data center power needs while simultaneously using AI to optimize grid performance, customer experience, and …

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Announcing an ad-free Decoder feed for Verge subscribers 0:22

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If you're a paid subscriber to the Verge, there's great news: you can now listen to Decoder, Version History, and The Vergecast completely ad-free. Just head to your Account Settings page to opt-in and start listening without ads. Not a member of The Verge yet? No worries! You can sign up at theverge.com/subscribe to get ad-free podcasts, plus othe…

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Building a Scalable Tech Org at Worldpay: Kirk Ball’s Carve-Out Playbook 24:14

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What does it take to build a high-performing IT organization from scratch while navigating a carve-out, preparing for IPO, and pivoting into acquisition? In this episode of Technovation, Kirk Ball, Chief Information Officer at Worldpay, shares his 15-month journey leading digital transformation, tech modernization, and cultural reinvention at a glo…

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282 - Hot Markets, Smarter Machines: Ken Leibow at LIMRA 7:03

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Live from the LIMRA Annual Conference, hosts Paul Tyler and guest co-host, Tom Rios sit down with Ken Leibow of InsurTech Express—a relentless chronicler of what's actually working across carriers and vendors. Ken breaks down the shift from AI talk to agentic AI doing, with underwriting workbenches embedding decision engines, Rx/MIB data, and scori…

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John Chambers: Former Cisco CEO on Why AI Will Move 5x Faster Than the Internet 50:02

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Former Cisco CEO John Chambers returns to discuss why AI is scaling faster than any tech wave before it, including the internet. Now the CEO of JC2 Ventures, Chambers shares lessons from advising 24 AI-native startups and offers a strategic lens on how leaders, companies, and countries can win or be left behind. In this episode: AI’s “5x speed” vs.…

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The AI industry is at a major crossroads 44:02

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This is Hayden Field, senior AI reporter at The Verge and your Thursday episode guest host. It’s been a very big news week in AI, and a lot of it had to do with OpenAI, its DevDay in San Francisco this week, and the viral explosion of AI-generated video thanks to the company’s new Sora app. So I brought in Kanjun Qiu, CEO of AI startup Imbue and a …

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Inside Experian’s Innovation Labs: Agentic AI, Fraud Defense, and the Road to Quantum 26:20

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How is Experian transforming from a data company into a technology-first innovator? In this episode, Kathleen Peters, Chief Innovation Officer at Experian, joins Peter High to reveal how her team is scaling Generative AI, agentic AI, and behavioral analytics to fight fraud, streamline decisioning, and make advanced modeling accessible to everyone. …

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Rivian CEO on CarPlay, Lidar, and affordable EVs 50:38

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I’m Joanna Stern, the senior personal tech columnist at The Wall Street Journal, and this is my final Decoder episode filling in for Nilay while he’s out on parental leave. My guest today: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe. This is RJ’s third time on the show, and it felt like the perfect follow-up to my conversation last week with Ford CEO Jim Farley. I love…

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Lockheed Martin CIO Reveals Digital Strategy for Defense 23:09

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As Senior Vice President for Enterprise Business & Digital Transformation and Chief Information Officer at Lockheed Martin, Maria Demaree is leading one of the world’s largest aerospace and defense companies through a sweeping digital and cultural transformation. In this episode of Technovation with Peter High, Maria shares how Lockheed Martin’s 1L…

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281 - Live from LIMRA - Next-Gen Policy Delivery and The Future of Carrier Communications 16:54

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Live from the LIMRA Annual Conference, host Paul Tyler and guest host, Tom Rios explore the future of carrier communications with Stephanie Warren and Tim Mader of O'Neil Digital Solutions. The conversation looks beyond today's PDFs to a unified, intelligent platform where print and digital are orchestrated together—with auto-failover (email → mail…

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Sonnet 4.5 & the AI Plateau Myth — Sholto Douglas (Anthropic) 1:10:03

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Sholto Douglas, a top AI researcher at Anthropic, discusses the breakthroughs behind Claude Sonnet 4.5—the world's leading coding model—and why we might be just 2-3 years from AI matching human-level performance on most computer-facing tasks. You'll discover why RL on language models suddenly started working in 2024, how agents maintain coherency a…