Best TechTarget Podcasts (2024)

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The Marketing Balancing Act: Where Creativity Meets Data 27:25

4h ago27:25

27:25

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, marketers face the challenge of balancing creative intuition with data-driven decision-making. As technology advances and consumer behaviours shift, the art and science of marketing are increasingly intertwined, requiring professionals to master both realms to achieve success. In this episode, I'm join…

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AWS GenAI strategy based on multimodel ecosystem, plus Titan, Q and Bedrock 21:35

8h ago21:35

21:35

AWS is quietly building a generative AI ecosystem in which its customers can use many large language models from different vendors, or choose to employ the tech giant's own models, Q personal assistants, GenAI platforms and Trainium and Inferentia AI chips. AWS is also invested in working with its more than 100,000 AI customers, which the vendor ca…

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AI-enabled digital twins for smarter healthcare 22:58

3d ago22:58

22:58

Artificial intelligence and digital twins are probably the two most hyped information technologies of the 2020s. Yet both are already delivering practical benefits in fields ranging from industrial design and manufacturing to customer service and healthcare. They are especially powerful when used together, with each helping to improve the other. Di…

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Decoding AI: Mastering the art of informed decision-making 25:43

12d ago25:43

25:43

"Your AI journey does not start with AI. It starts by understanding how does our organization create value for our constituents and our stakeholders?" In this episode, Bill Schmarzo (Customer AI and Data Innovation Strategist at Dell Technologies) takes us deep into the dynamic world of AI, sharing his insights on the transformative potential that …

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Walmart uses generative AI for payroll, employee experience 23:55

13d ago23:55

23:55

The biggest global retailer sees itself as a tech giant. And with 25,000 engineers and its own software ecosystem, Walmart isn't waiting to see how GenAI technology will play out. The company is already providing its employees -- referred to by the retailer as associates -- with in-house GenAI tools such as the My Assistant conversational chatbot. …

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Why You Need a Digital Operations Team in Today's Business World of AI and Automations with Michael Greenberg Founder of 3rd Brain 45:51

25d ago45:51

45:51

We discuss the importance of Digital Operations in the age of AI and automation and it's importance for businesses. We discuss the benefits of using tools, global talent, and automation to streamline processes, lower costs, increase profits, and increase productivity. Links from the Episode 3rd Brain - Your Business...automated. https://3rdBrain.co…

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Lenovo stakes claim to generative AI at the edge 42:41

1M ago42:41

42:41

While Apple garnered wide attention for its recent embrace of generative AI for iPhones and Macs, rival end point device maker Lenovo already had a similar strategy in place. The multinational consumer products vendor, based in China, is known for its ThinkPad line of laptops and for mobile phones made by its Motorola subsidiary. But Lenovo also ha…

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Alex Pappas on Overhauling ABM for Riskalyze and Venafi 1:10:44

1M ago1:10:44

1:10:44

As most ABM programs deliver minimal improvement to revenue KPIs, Eric Gruber (CEO of Personal ABM) and his guest Alex Pappas (Senior ABM Manager for Venafi) discuss how teams need to stop retrofitting ABM on top of current processes. During this podcast episode, you will hear: 1. The ABM challenges Alex faced at both Riskalyze and Venafi and how h…

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Ubiquitous generative AI at SAP Sapphire 2024 39:59

1M ago39:59

39:59

Ever since generative AI's debut in late 2022, ERP vendors have raced to embed its human-like communication, research and analytical capabilities into their software. Besides responding to customer demand for AI, they're keen to use the technology to make their complex systems easier to use and more responsive. At its annual Sapphire 2024 conferenc…

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Corporate governance in flux: Diversity, accountability, and community building 29:31

1M ago29:31

29:31

Corporate boardrooms and senior executives are facing unprecedented scrutiny. The convergence of complex social issues, technological advancements, and global events is reshaping expectations around transparency, accountability, and ethical leadership. From sustainability standards to cybersecurity threats, leaders must navigate a challenging envir…

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Understanding S/4HANA's impact on SAP customers 39:12

2M ago39:12

39:12

As the largest ERP vendor, SAP makes the software that runs much of the world's business. And whenever SAP makes a major change in its product portfolio, its customers often must scramble to adapt. No change in the past two decades has had more impact than SAP's decision to replace its popular ERP Central Component (ECC) software and related Busine…

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The importance of open source in GenAI 50:06

2M ago50:06

50:06

The rise of generative AI has also brought renewed interest and growth in open source technology. But the question of open source is still "open" in generative AI. Sometimes, the code is open -- other times, the training data and weights are open. A leader in the open source large language model arena is Meta. However, despite the popularity of the…

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Red Hat CentOS Stream vs HashiCorp BSL: the view from downstream 26:12

1M ago26:12

26:12

Josh Koenig and David Strauss are co-founders at Pantheon, a platform for building and operating websites. Josh is the chief strategy officer, and David is the CTO. Open source software is a big part of the web, and Pantheon is a downstream user as well as a contributor to several open source projects. David is an early contributor to systemd, a co…

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Weighing open source project funding options, from taxes to anarchy 21:35

2M ago21:35

21:35

Justin Warren is founder and principal analyst at PivotNine, a technology consulting and analyst firm based in Melbourne, Australia. Until 2023, he was a board member at Electronic Frontiers Australia, a non-profit national organization representing Internet users. At KubeCon North America last year, he asked a press conference panel of enterprise …

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A vision of an AI future that may not include humans 47:04

2M ago47:04

47:04

In intellectual tech circles, a debate over artificial general intelligence and the AI future is raging. Dan Faggella is in the middle of this highly charged discussion, arguing on various platforms that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will be here sooner than many people think, and it will likely take the place of human civilization. "It is …

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An open source security leader's call to action 26:10

2M ago26:10

26:10

Emily Fox has held multiple roles at household-name organizations in her 13-year IT career and is currently senior principal software engineer at Red Hat. Previously, she worked as an engineer at Apple, and DevOps Security Lead at the National Security Agency. She also serves as chair of the CNCF's technical oversight committee and is involved in a…

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Chainguard CEO's keys to open source software success 17:45

2M ago17:45

17:45

How is open source sustainability similar to the subprime mortgage crisis? And what can an episode of South Park teach us about open product business models? Dan Lorenc has a uniquely multifaceted view of these and other questions – he worked at Google from 2012 to 2021, began contributing to open source projects in the Kubernetes community in 2016…

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Salesforce open model AI strategy aims for trust, automation 36:26

2M ago36:26

36:26

Salesforce was an early adopter of generative AI, seizing on large language model technology from OpenAI to integrate into its own applications. But the CRM and CX giant quickly evolved an open model strategy. It now gives customers access to multiple third-party LLMs while providing its own AI trust layer to try to ensure that Salesforce users can…

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Advocate seeks $1B for open source code project maintainers 16:17

2M ago16:17

16:17

Tobie Langel is Principal and Managing Partner at UnlockOpen, a consulting firm in Geneva that advises clients on working with the open tech ecosystem. Langel is a passionate advocate for open source, and in February, he gave a presentation at the State of Open Conference in London urging funding for open source maintainers. Here, he discusses the…

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Digital adoption platforms for enterprise applications 35:46

3M ago35:46

35:46

E-learning technologies, such as online courses, instructional videos and augmented reality apps, are in hot demand at corporations. Much of that demand is driven by the sheer number and complexity of the software applications employees must learn to use. It's a massive training and onboarding challenge, one that many organizations are addressing w…

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Bruce Perens' Post-Open vision 29:09

3M ago29:09

29:09

Bruce Perens created the definition of open source and co-founded the Open Source Initiative in 1998. He has said in recent public interviews, however, that open source has failed, and called for its overhaul under his Post-Open project. In this episode, Beth caught up with him to hear more about his ideas for the world after open source.…

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Examining developers' perception of AI tools at GitHub 38:51

3M ago38:51

38:51

The explosive popularity of generative AI has been accompanied by the question of whether developers are finding great uses for the new technology. While the hype around GenAI has grown, the perception of its usefulness for developers has changed. "Developers are eager to kind of embrace AI more into their complex tasks, but not for every part, and…

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Open source business models must evolve past "rug pulls" 23:26

3M ago23:26

23:26

Adam Jacob is CEO and co-founder of System Initiative, an infrastructure automation software startup that came out of stealth in 2023. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Chef Software, which also focused on infrastructure automation, and was sold to Progress Software in 2020. Chef had roots in open source, and underwent a license change in 20…

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Leadership in times of turmoil: A Ukrainian saga 26:26

3M ago26:26

26:26

In February 2022, Alexander Radchenko, leading a team of developers based in Ukraine, faced an unimaginable challenge: his team came under physical attack. Despite the chaos, Radchenko managed not only to keep his team intact but also achieved a remarkable feat—maintaining 100% customer retention during this tumultuous period. In this episode, we d…

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A Weaveworks post-mortem and the open core business model 23:02

3M ago23:02

23:02

Alexis Richardson co-founded a company in 2014 called Weaveworks, which created an open source GitOps project called Flux CD. In February, the company ceased operations, despite having gained new customers in 2023. Among the events that precipitated the closure of the business were acquisition talks with a larger company that fell through "at the 1…

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Fostering a positive culture in the age of hybrid work 26:35

3M ago26:35

26:35

During the COVID-19 pandemic, millions more people than ever before began working almost exclusively from home. Now, in the pandemic's aftermath, many employees continue to work remotely several days a week while employers struggle to find ways to entice them back into the office. This emerging hybrid work model is challenging managers to set reali…

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Musicians and the fight for fairness in the age of GenAI 37:32

3M ago37:32

37:32

The growth of generative AI technology has led to concerns about the data AI technology companies use to train their systems. Authors, journalists and now musicians have accused generative AI vendors of using copyrighted material to train large language models. More than 200 musicians signed an open letter released Tuesday by the Artists Rights All…

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Linkerd's existential question about open source code 17:44

3M ago17:44

17:44

William Morgan is CEO at Buoyant, a company that sells commercial and SaaS support for the Linkerd service mesh project and employs all of its maintainers. In February, Buoyant announced it would no longer be making a certain class of the project's code, called stable release artifacts, available for free to production users with more than 50 emplo…

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Open source vs source available code and balancing freedom with sustainability 17:52

4M ago17:52

17:52

Chad Whitacre is head of open source at Sentry, an application and performance monitoring software maker that moved to a business source license for its products in 2019, and then to a functional source license in November 2023. Most recently, Chad has been working on a new project called Software Commons over the last six months, with the goal of …

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Chris Rack on How Most Intent is Nothing More Than Intent to Learn 23:27

4M ago23:27

23:27

In this ABM Done Right Podcast, Chris Rack (CEO of MRP) mentioned that most intent is nothing more than intent to learn vs. intent to purchase. By listening to this episode, you will learn how to differentiate between the two different types of intent -- and what you need to do from an ABM standpoint based on where the buyer is in their journey.…

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Trailer: IT Ops Query Season 1. Tech's Tragedy of the Commons 2:28

4M ago2:28

2:28

I'm Beth Pariseau, senior news writer at TechTarget, and this is IT Ops Query, a new podcast that distills the signal from the noise about enterprise digital transformation and IT operations. In this first season, I'm talking to guests about the ongoing friction between open source software principles and sustainability. Join me March 28 for a seri…

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Security, bias risks are inherent in GenAI black box models 37:20

4M ago37:20

37:20

From bias to hallucinations, it is apparent that generative AI models are far from perfect and present risks. Most recently, tech giants -- notably Google -- have run into trouble after their models made egregious mistakes that reflect the inherent problem with the data sets upon which large language models (LLMs) are based. Microsoft faced critici…

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Marketing After the Death of 3rd Party Cookies with Rich Stone of TechTarget 1:06:57

4M ago1:06:57

1:06:57

Google Chrome is phasing out third parties cookies by the end of the year. All the other browsers are already blocking them, Safari, Firefox etc... We talk about what online marketing looks like after 3rd party cookies are gone. About Rich Stone Rich is a B2B tech intent data SaaS sales VP with 16 years of experience across a number of sales and le…

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Eric Dates on Why ABM Programs Fail & the ABM Readiness That Needs to Be Completed 55:22

4M ago55:22

55:22

Eric Dates (Head of Marketing for V Comply) recently joined Kristina Jaramillo and Eric Gruber on the ABM Done Right Podcast. They discussed: 1. Why previous ABM programs failed for Eric Dates -- and what he did differently with his most successful ABM programs. 2. The questions we should be asking internally before we even focus on building an dem…

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Generative AI puts humans at the center of the customer service loop 26:10

4M ago26:10

26:10

For years, artificial intelligence has helped to improve customer service by making automated chatbots more intelligent and enabling voice-controlled phone menus. But now the human-like communication abilities of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT are helping contact-center agents find quick answers for customers. And despite AI's reputation as a …

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A look at independent AI hardware and software vendor SambaNova's open source strategy 50:43

4M ago50:43

50:43

AI hardware and software provider SambaNova Systems seeks to put enterprise customers in charge of their data while using open source models. A smaller competitor of AI hardware vendor Nvidia, the AI vendor is trying to distinguish itself by helping enterprises train and deploy large models that they can't train on Nvidia's systems. "What we try to…

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Risk & Repeat: Alphv/BlackCat's chaotic exit (scam)

4M ago

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This podcast episode discusses the possible exit scam of ransomware-as-a-service gang Alphv/BlackCat, as well as the chaotic months the gang had leading up to its closure.By Alexander Culafi

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Scott Gillum on the Role of Challenger and Personality Based Marketing in ABM 46:54

4M ago46:54

46:54

Within this podcast, Scott Gillum from Carbon Design joins Eric Gruber (Personal ABM CEO) to discuss: 1. Why Challenger sales and marketing and ABM goes hand-in-hand 2. How GTM teams can deliver messaging that resonates - This includes how we should create our POV so we can come to each interaction with a POV about the customer's business, how we s…

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Risk & Repeat: LockBit resurfaces after takedown

5M ago

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LockBit returns just days after an international law enforcement operation infiltrated the ransomware gang's network and seized infrastructure, source code and decryption keys.By Alexander Culafi

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It's looking like 2024 is the year of ROI for generative AI 50:00

5M ago50:00

50:00

Generative AI vendors and investors have turned their attention from last year's innovative frenzy to ROI, monetizing the language models that have revolutionized the tech world in a short time. That's the outlook on 2024 from Kashyap Kompella, founder and analyst at RPA2AI Research, who was a guest on the Targeting AI podcast from TechTarget Edito…

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Implementing responsible AI in the enterprise 24:10

5M ago24:10

24:10

Organizations are quickly realizing that AI -- especially generative AI with its human-like creative and analytical capabilities -- raises legal, ethical and managerial issues that must be addressed before it can be deployed responsibly. Workers also need extensive training in developing and using generative AI chatbots, text generation and other a…

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How Field Marketing is Leading ABM for DigiCert and How the Team is Taking a Crawl, Walk, Run Approach to Drive ABM Success 51:07

5M ago51:07

51:07

In other ABM Done Right Podcasts, including the one with the CMO of Hushly, we talked about the state of ABM in cybersecurity and other industries that are in a crowded, undifferentiated space where transactional sales are prevalent. In this podcast with Michelle Radlowski (Senior Director, AMS & EMEA Regional Marketing and ABM at DigiCert), we exp…

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AI, hiring and the need for humans in the loop 49:57

5M ago49:57

49:57

The fear of AI technology eliminating thousands of jobs or affecting the hiring process continues to prevail in the age of generative AI. While many believe that AI technology will augment workers, some are already seeing the effect of AI in the job market. Indeed, tech companies and other large enterprises have laid off thousands of workers in rec…

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The role of cloud ERP in digital transformation 17:32

6M ago17:32

17:32

In most discussions about digital transformation, cloud ERP usually plays a critical role. ERP is the digital nervous system and data repository of a business, deeply embedded in the processes likely to be impacted by a digital transformation project. And cloud ERP is now the preferred – sometimes the only – option for adding the other technologies…

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B Corp Sama responds to AI data labeling criticism 33:32

6M ago33:32

33:32

Data labeling and annotation vendor Sama seeks to make an impact not only in the tech market but also in parts of the world where it's hard for people to partake in the digital economy. As a women-led B Corporation chartered to do social and environmental good, Sama employs numerous people in countries such as Kenya and has created, said CEO Wendy …

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How Will Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Acquisition of Juniper Networks Benefit Customers? 17:56

6M ago17:56

17:56

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s acquisition of Juniper Networks would benefit Juniper shareholders, but what about its customers? In this week’s podcast, Editor At Large Antone Gonsalves and Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Bob Laliberte discuss whether Juniper customers are the losers in the deal.By TechTarget Editorial

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Examining Microsoft venture fund M12’s AI investment approach 44:37

6M ago44:37

44:37

In the age of generative AI, Microsoft has become one of the lead investors after its massive investment in ChatGPT creator OpenAI. Since Microsoft's $13 billion investment in OpenAI, the AI market has seen changes including a tilt toward smaller and open source AI language models. Meanwhile, the tech giant's venture fund, M12, (which did not take …

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How technology improves the employee experience at ServiceNow 20:30

6M ago20:30

20:30

In recent years, HR leaders have strived to use information technology not just to digitize HR processes, but to democratize HR technology, transforming it into a tool every employee can use for personal and professional development. Some practitioners go a big step further by redesigning digital systems with the express goal of improving the overa…

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Guiding generative AI toward responsible use 45:34

7M ago45:34

45:34

When Juliette Powell and Art Kleiner started working on their book, The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology, generative AI had not yet exploded into the public consciousness. But after OpenAI released its blockbuster AI chatbot, ChatGPT, in October 2022, the co-authors went back to revise their narrative to accommodate the sudden em…

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How Do Businesses Justify Gen AI Spending in 2024? 16:34

7M ago16:34

16:34

In 2024, businesses will quickly shift from testing to implementing generative AI in customer-facing apps. Due to high costs, GenAI providers must offer clear pricing, says Mike Leone, a TechTarget Enterprise Strategy Group analyst. Related stories: https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/news/366563445/Small-language-models-an-emerging-GenAI…

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