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Modern CTO is the #1 place where technology leaders and CTOs hang out. We live to bring tech leaders value. Listen in on our fun, intelligent and engaging podcast. We hang out with interesting and popular CTOs in Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics + Many more industries. All of this, right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast.

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Thursday · 40 min
Why Storage Is the Strategic Control Point for AI with Jim O'Dorisio of HPE
What if the fastest way to get your AI projects to value starts with the storage layer, not the model? Today, we're talking to Jim O'Dorisio, SVP & GM of HPE Storage. We explore why a trusted data foundation shapes how quickly AI projects reach value, how agents can be put to work protecting infrastructure and even watching other agents, and what happens when infrastructure, data, and governance teams start sharing a strategy. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
Monday · 36 min
Explaining Technical Work to Your Non-Technical Leaders with Chris Fenning, Author
What if the hardest part of a technical project isn't the technology, but making the people who fund it understand why it matters? Today, we're talking to Chris Fenning, author of The First Minute and a communication coach who started out as an aerospace engineer. We explore why translating technical complexity into language that stakeholders care about is a core leadership skill, how a simple three-part model can reshape a message for a non-technical audience, and what it takes to find an analogy that makes a complicated idea click across a company. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
November 5 · 50 min
From Reactive IT to Business Partner: Modernization and AI Readiness with Andreas Diamanti and Alex Danobrega
How do you turn an IT team that reacts to incidents into one that drives business outcomes? Today, we're talking to Andreas Diamanti, General Manager of IT at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. We explore how a 100-year-old institution moved its IT function from reactive to business-focused, what it takes to choose an objective technology partner when costs are climbing, and why on-prem infrastructure with a cloud-style billing model can open up new options. We also get into how speaking up early keeps small problems from growing, and what it looks like to build the data foundations that make AI possible. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
November 2 · 51 min
Who Owns Cyber Risk? NIS2 Explained with Matthew Rosenquist, CISO & Cybersecurity Strategist
Who really owns cybersecurity when a company gets breached? Today, we’re talking to Matthew Rosenquist, a cybersecurity strategist with 36 years in the field and host of the Cybersecurity Insights podcast. We explore how Europe’s NIS2 directive changes what’s expected of boards and executives, how leaders can decide how much security is enough, and what they can do now to be ready when an incident hits. If you want more of his perspective, follow him on LinkedIn or check out Cybersecurity Insights. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewrosenquist/ https://www.cybersecurityinsights.us/ Modern CTO listeners can use code MODERNCTO10 for an extra 10% off at nordlayer.com/browser/moderncto.
October 29 · 35 min
Run Your AI Software Factory on Agents Confidently with Zohar Einy of Port.io
Why do some AI projects look brilliant in a demo and then fall apart the moment they have to run across a whole engineering org? Today, we're talking to Zohar Einy, CEO and co-founder of Port.io. We get into how teams can move from agents and skills scattered across individual laptops to one factory everyone can build on, why context, governance, and knowing when to keep a human in the loop matter so much, and what leaders can measure to see whether the whole thing is paying off. If you want to dig deeper, Port shares its AI software factory content on YouTube and its blog, and you can catch them in person at Portcon in San Francisco on November 17th and 18th, 2026. Learn more at https://www.port.io/ Anthropic’s AI SDLC Playbook: How To Build AI Software Factory at Scale! https://youtu.be/vF8e8gvq65g
October 26 · 46 min
Turning Constant Turnover Into a Strength with Sean Phelps of College Works
What if preparing your people to move on is the secret to attracting great talent in the first place? Today, we're talking to Sean Phelps, President of College Works. We explore how to run a business where most of the team turns over every year, why hiring on objective criteria can beat going with your gut, how a regular shadowing habit keeps even seasoned leaders sharp, and what a college degree is worth in the age of AI. https://collegeworks.com/
October 22 · 41 min
Beyond Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: Your Post-Quantum Game Plan, with Konstantinos Karagiannis
What if the quantum threat everyone is preparing for isn't the one that will actually arrive first? Today, we're talking to Konstantinos Karagiannis, Senior Director of Quantum Computing Services at Protiviti. We explore why "harvest now, forge later" deserves a place next to "harvest now, decrypt later," how falling qubit estimates are sharpening the Q Day timeline and what that means for Bitcoin and Ethereum, and how leaders can build crypto-agility and lead by building while there's still time to act. If you want to hear more from Konstantinos, check out his show, The Post Quantum World Podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-post-quantum-world/id1564148665 Modern CTO listeners can use code MODERNCTO10 for an extra 10% off at https://nordlayer.com/browser/moderncto/
October 19 · 41 min
Taming Shadow AI: A CTO’s Guide with Andrius Buinovskis, VP of Product Strategy at NordLayer
What if the biggest AI risk in your company is the tool your team quietly adopted last week? Today, we're talking to Andrius Buinovskis, VP Product Strategy at NordLayer. We explore how shadow IT evolved into shadow AI as work moved into the browser, why the instinct to ban is giving way to securing use instead, what separates human AI from non-human AI, and how CTOs can start protecting data without slowing adoption. Modern CTO listeners can use code MODERNCTO10 for an extra 10% off at nordlayer.com/browser/moderncto. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
October 17 · 55 min
Resurrecting a Woolly Mammoth with Eriona Hysolli of Colossal
Today we’re talking to Eriona Hysolli, Head of Biological Sciences at Colossal Biosciences; and we discuss how Colossal is working on bringing wooly mammoths back from extinction, the role de-extinction will play in conservation in the future, and the DNA editing and printing technology that’s being used for de-extinction efforts. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
October 15 · 16 min
Tech Titans: Lessons From Shipping Felix AI to Market with Mario Ciabarra, CEO of Quantum Metric
Today, we're talking to Mario Ciabarra, founder and CEO of Quantum Metric. We discuss why a generative AI demo that works in an afternoon proves almost nothing, how testing ten ideas against real customers beats betting on one big strategy, and why building a multibillion dollar company comes down to loving the daily grind more than anyone expects. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
October 12 · 1 hr 4 min
Theoretical Computer Scientist: AI Just Changed Math Forever, with Scott Aaronson
What’s left for humans to do once AI is better at solving problems than we are? Today, we’re talking to Scott Aaronson, a theoretical computer scientist at UT Austin who has spent his career on quantum computing theory. We explore how AI is changing the way we do math and teach students, what it takes to keep increasingly capable systems aligned with human goals, and why one of computer science’s most famous puzzles, P versus NP, matters to everyday programmers. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
October 8 · 58 min
Reliability Without the Guesswork: Foresight AI with Kolton Andrus, CEO of Gremlin
The best reliability work is the kind nobody notices, and that's exactly why it deserves more credit. Today, we're talking to Kolton Andrus, founder and CEO of Gremlin. We discuss why the engineers who prevent fires deserve as much recognition as the ones who fight them, how testing failure on purpose turned a dreaded holiday on-call into a quiet one, and why teams that pair AI speed with real-world testing can build software that holds up. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! Want to know more about Gremlin? Check their Website https://www.gremlin.com/
October 5 · 54 min
Scaling AI Efficiency at LinkedIn with Erran Berger, CTO of Engineering
Most companies at scale can't tell you what a single feature actually costs to run, but Erran Berger, CTO of Engineering at LinkedIn, can. We discuss why that blind spot is more common than you'd think, why treating AI transformation as bad for employees is a false premise, and how LinkedIn reorganized its teams into small, cross-functional pods now that AI lets one person do the work of several.
October 1 · 18 min
Tech Titans: Agents Built Around People with Mohak Shroff, former SVP of Engineering at LinkedIn
Today, we're talking to Mohak Shroff, former SVP of Engineering at LinkedIn. We discuss why the smartest use of AI agents is giving professionals more agency rather than replacing them, how delegating to an agent should look a lot like onboarding a new hire, and what it takes to build the thing that was impossible before instead of making the familiar 20% better. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
September 28 · 17 min
Tech Titans: How Can a Chatbot Steal a Model's Secrets? with Steve Orrin, Federal CTO at Intel
Everyone's arguing about whether AI will replace 90% of your job. Steve Orrin, federal CTO at Intel, says that's the wrong number to even be worried about. We discuss how a $25 million deepfake of a bank's own CFO exposed a whole new category of cyberattack, why sprinkling "AI pixie dust" on a problem doesn't actually solve anything, and why, thirty years into being a CTO, his best advice still comes down to surrounding yourself with people smarter than you. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
September 24 · 51 min
Why High-Achieving Engineers Still Feel Something's Missing with Ben Fox, Career Coach for Engineers
Today, we're talking to Ben Fox, founder of Ben Fox Coaching. We discuss why financial independence alone rarely convinces a burnt-out engineering leader to actually quit, how leaving a toxic job works the same way as leaving a toxic relationship, and why senior engineers reduced to babysitting language models are quietly heading for the exits. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
September 21 · 18 min
Tech Titans: Why Plans Fail and Strategy Doesn't with Seth Godin, Author of This Is Strategy
Today, we're talking to Seth Godin, author of This Is Strategy. We discuss why strategy is a philosophy of becoming rather than a plan to execute, how status, affiliation, and freedom from fear quietly drive almost every decision people make, and why one of Seth's biggest professional failures came down to having a good idea and then walking away from it. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
September 17 · 15 min
Tech Titans: Funding and Building the Safest Nuclear Reactor with Matt Loszak, Aalo Atomics
A barrel of uranium holds as much energy as two million barrels of oil, and Matt Loszak, co-founder of nuclear startup Allo, thinks that's just the beginning. In this episode, Joel talks with Matt about building factory-made nuclear reactors as safe as a university research reactor, why we're entering a "second atomic age," the team and funding behind Allo, and how small modular reactors could solve the massive power problem facing Microsoft, Google, and Amazon's data centers. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
September 14 · 51 min
Demo Is Not Production, with Ajay Nair, GM of Elasticsearch and Platform at Elastic
Today, we're talking to Ajay Nair, General Manager of Elasticsearch and Platform at Elastic. We discuss why most AI hallucinations are really a search problem wearing a scarier name, how the industry's obsession with model selection is missing the real bottleneck of context and retrieval, and why the biggest failure mode in enterprise AI is mistaking a working demo for a production system. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
September 10 · 18 min
Tech Titans: Why Your Home Alarm Does Nothing to Stop a Crime with Dave “Selly” Selinger
Today, we're talking to David Selinger, founder and CEO of Deep Sentinel and co-founder of Redfin. We discuss why he's convinced that virtually every home security tool on the market does nothing to actually stop a crime, how a crossbow-wielding intruder on his own driveway became the ultimate test of that theory, and why he'd rather protect his family with a blurry camera and a real person behind it than a flawless 4K feed with nobody watching. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

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