Tech Disruptors

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  Workday’s Shift From SaaS to AI 04.08.2026 52min

  Workday is transforming “from Workday.com to Workday.ai,” Gerrit Kazmaier, president of product and technology, tells Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana in this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast. They discuss how cognitive computing is reshaping enterprise software, why deterministic systems such as payroll remain essential and how AI agents could transform recruiting, travel, expenses and employee services. Kazmaier explains how Workday is combining trusted HR and finance data, outcome-based pricing and a fleet of specialized models to deliver accurate automation while reducing deployment complexity and expanding further into the midmarket.
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  HubSpot CTO on AI, Application Software Shifts 30.07.2026 35min

  The application software industry is facing a mega restructuring with the arrival of AI agents in enterprise workflows. On this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, HubSpot Chief Product and Technology Officer Duncan Lennox discusses AI’s effect on marketing, sales and service applications. He joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel to explore how HubSpot is leveraging AI across its software portfolio for small and medium-sized businesses. Duncan dives into the company’s proprietary data stack, the changing landscape for customer relationship management, AI’s impact on software buying, managing LLM inference costs, HubSpot’s new agent-builder solution and more.
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  Samsara CEO on Bringing AI to Fleet Ops 28.07.2026 41min

  Artificial intelligence is moving beyond chatbots and into the cab, helping trucking fleets improve safety, efficiency and asset utilization. In this special crossover episode of Talking Transports and Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Samsara co-founder and CEO Sanjit Biswas joins BI senior transportation and logistics analyst Lee Klaskow and senior software analyst Niraj Patel to discuss how AI is transforming physical operations. Biswas explains how Samsara’s platform combines Internet-of-Things devices, AI-powered cameras, telematics and workflow software to help transportation companies optimize routing, automate maintenance, improve shipment visibility and reduce risk. He also discusses why proprietary operational data is becoming a key competitive advantage and how AI agents are evolving from analytics tools into real-time operational assistants across the logistics industry.
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  Solidigm on AI Driving New Era for Data Storage 27.07.2026 28min

  Co-CEO of Solidigm Xin Guo joins Bloomberg Intelligence’s Jake Silverman on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss how AI is reshaping data-center storage as NAND flash-memory prices continue their unprecedented rise. They explore the technologies driving greater solid-state-drive adoption, including KV cache, which stores AI models’ working memory during inference, and why the shift to agentic AI could lift NAND content to as much as 25 exabytes (25 million terabytes) per gigawatt of deployed compute. The conversation also examines how longer-term supply contracts may reshape memory cyclicality, creating a different industry cycle over time.
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  Helix on Easing the AI-Infrastructure Crunch 24.07.2026 48min

  “We literally have CEOs on public earnings calls saying that their revenue is lower than it would have been because they couldn’t serve all of the demand that they have,” says Adam Selipsky, co-founder and CEO of Helix Digital Infrastructure and former AWS CEO. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Selipsky and co-founder Waldemar Szlezak, global head of Digital Infrastructure at KKR, speak with Bloomberg Intelligence associate director of research Alexandra Davidov and senior technology analyst Anurag Rana to discuss how Helix is addressing the bottleneck in physical AI scaffolding. They explain why traditional, uncoordinated data-center projects fail, how strategic partnerships with Vistra and Nvidia provide a single-counterparty solution and what it takes to build repeatable, long-term compute capacity at scale.
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  JPMorgan’s CIO on AI, Global Financial Systems 22.07.2026 30min

  “For what we call our essential services, that’s what supports critical infrastructure, we have to be able to apply a change within 24 hours. Now, think about the implications of that to how you build and deliver, build, package, deliver software,” says Lori Beer, JPMorgan Chase global CIO. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Beer and Alison Williams, Bloomberg Intelligence director of research, global strategy, explore the double-edged sword of AI in cybersecurity, from offensive model threats to automated vulnerability detection. Beer outlines the bank’s proactive posture, the importance of open-source hygiene, and how AI-driven speed is transforming defenses for global financial systems.
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  Lazard’s Bilicic on Power Demand in the AI Era 20.07.2026 41min

  “The searches that you’re doing on Claude require the consumption of energy and at some point the system should hit a breaking point,” says George Bilicic, Lazard vice chairman of investment banking and global head of power, energy and infrastructure. Bilicic joins Bloomberg Intelligence’s Alexandra Davidov and Rob Barnett on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss why AI and data-center demand are reshaping the outlook for utilities, power markets and infrastructure investment. They also explore why the next phase of the build-out will require more than simply adding generation wherever demand appears. The conversation covers financing, M&A, grid constraints, gas, renewables, storage, nuclear, permitting and Lazard’s latest work on the levelized cost of energy (LCOE).
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  Booking.com on Global Demand, AI in Travel 17.07.2026 36min

  “One of the things that’s been universally true ... is the human desire to travel is really strong. It’s very consistent,” says James Waters, chief business officer of Booking.com. Waters joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Nicole D’Souza on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss the outlook for global travel demand. They also explore the effect of macroeconomic and geopolitical trends on the industry and how Booking.com is using AI to enhance trip planning, customer service and marketing. The conversation examines the company’s competitive positioning, loyalty strategy and growth in alternative accommodations and experiences, as well as how Booking is preparing for an AI-driven future in travel.
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  Synopsys Hits Agentic Status With AgentEngineer 15.07.2026 32min

  The chip design industry continues to push the frontier of semiconductor power, performance and area. On this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Synopsys Vice President of AI and Machine Learning Thomas Andersen discusses the evolution of the company’s AI portfolio. He joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel to explain how Synopsys progressed from leveraging AI through reinforcement learning across design, verification and test workflows to introducing AgentEngineer, a multi-agent AI-orchestrated workflow. Andersen also discusses the intersection of simulation and electronic design automation (EDA), the role of humans in the loop for chip design, AI’s current shortcomings, the pace of AI-tool adoption, the industry’s path beyond Moore’s law and much more.
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  IOWN’s Wright, Wang on Photonics-Based Networks 13.07.2026 41min

  In this episode IOWN Global Forum board members Chris Wright (Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Global Engineering, Red Hat) and Jefferson Wang (Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, Cloud, Accenture) talk through the accelerating shift towards photonics-based networks and how this next-generation technology can help unlock the full potential of the AI economy. Replacing electrical-based connectivity with optics promises to drastically increase processing speeds, reduce latency, and lower power consumption for high-demand AI, cloud computing, and financial networks.
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  Uniphore’s Sachdev on FDEs and Data Ontologies 10.07.2026 37min

  Uniphore CEO Umesh Sachdev joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss his company’s platform for developing ontologies compared with the use of forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) by hyperscalers and frontier large-language-model companies. He explores Uniphore’s approach to leveraging small language models for use cases such as claims and billing, as well as the trade-offs with frontier models used for cybersecurity and coding agents.
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  CoreWeave CTO on AI Cloud Infrastructure 08.07.2026 46min

  “So, there are plenty of failure points, and when you have hundreds of thousands or millions of something, something will eventually fail,” Peter Salanki, co-founder and CTO of CoreWeave, tells Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology Analyst Anurag Rana. “Instead of throwing out half the potential capacity, we say that we expect some of these to fail. Then we build systems, automation and processes around handling those failures gracefully.” In this episode of Tech Disruptors, the pair discuss why AI infrastructure requires a fundamentally different architecture to traditional CPU-based cloud. Salanki also explains how CoreWeave is addressing training, inference and agentic workloads while navigating token costs, Nvidia chip demand and power constraints.
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  SailPoint’s Mills on Governance for AI Agents 06.07.2026 38min

  The governance landscape for AI agents is evolving amid new developments around agentic workflows, says SailPoint President Matt Mills. He joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast. The conversation also explores how agentic AI could reshape identity governance, from internal functions and product capabilities to potential shifts in pricing models and customer adoption.
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  JFrog CEO on Coding Agents, Supply-Chain Risk 01.07.2026 38min

  “Source code became almost free, like cheap and not important. And binaries became king because this is the outcome,” says Shlomi Ben Haim, co-founder and CEO of JFrog. Ben Haim joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh in this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss the impact of large-language-model coding agents, the challenges of keeping up with model guardrails, and why software supply-chain security and governance are top of mind for modern enterprises. Ben Haim explains how JFrog acts as the infrastructure and control plane for developer workflows, using JFrog Boost, a Model Context Protocol registry and JFrog Curation to help customers optimize token consumption, block malicious packages and automate software governance without compromising speed.
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  Red Hat, Open Source, and Enterprise AI 29.06.2026 49min

  “The minute it worked, we actually started to use smaller models for the things we knew that it worked and see what they could accomplish at a fraction of the price,” says Matt Hicks, CEO of Red Hat, in a discussion with Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology Analyst Anurag Rana. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, the pair discuss Red Hat’s role inside IBM, the durability of hybrid cloud and why OpenShift, virtualization and AI are becoming key growth drivers. Hicks explains how Red Hat is applying AI across engineering and business operations, using smaller models, containers and OpenShift to help customers build more flexible, cost-efficient AI infrastructure.
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  Financing the AI Data Center Boom 26.06.2026 33min

  “Data centers are here to stay, and the world is going to need them as AI adoption accelerates,” says Steven Siesser, partner at Lowenstein Sandler, chair of the firm’s private equity practice and co-lead of its data center practice, in conversation with Bloomberg Intelligence’s Associate Director of Research Alexandra Davidov and Senior Technology Analyst Anurag Rana. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, they discuss how AI data centers are reshaping infrastructure finance, from hyperscaler-backed leases and neo-cloud credit risk to private equity, private credit and sovereign capital. Siesser explains why power, community acceptance and supply-chain constraints remain key bottlenecks, while long-term leases and hyperscaler demand are reshaping how lenders underwrite the build-out.
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  SentinelOne CEO on Security Changes, AI Agents 24.06.2026 39min

  The cybersecurity industry is facing unprecedented challenges as AI models become more capable. On this episode of Tech Disruptors, SentinelOne co-founder and CEO Tomer Weingarten talks about deploying security for AI agents and the evolution of the security operations center (SOC) with LLMs. He joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh to discuss the impact of Anthropic Mythos, M&A in cybersecurity and the changing nature of attacks as tools become more sophisticated.
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  Invisible Technologies on RLHF and LLM Training 19.06.2026 40min

  Matt Fitzpatrick, CEO of Invisible Technologies, joins Bloomberg Intelligence’s Mandeep Singh on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss the use of reinforcement learning by frontier model providers for training, as well as the company’s enterprise business. They explore reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), agentic AI and self-improvement, the evolution of large language models, coding agents and contact centers.
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  Fiserv on the Modern Banking Tech Stack 17.06.2026 40min

  Artificial intelligence is reshaping banking infrastructure, from accelerating core migrations to enabling agentic experiences that can automate complex workflows. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Vishal Dalal, chief product officer of financial solutions at Fiserv, joins BI fintech and payments analyst Diksha Gera to discuss how banks are using AI to modernize legacy systems and improve data quality while managing security, compliance and governance risks. The conversation explores Fiserv’s vision for AgentOS, an intelligence layer that sits on top of bank data and applications, enabling agents to interact dynamically across platforms.
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  DDN CEO Bouzari on Solving AI Data Bottlenecks 15.06.2026 48min

  As AI infrastructure scales up, the conversation is moving beyond graphic processing units (GPUs). Faster compute creates new pressure on the data layer, and companies are increasingly focused on whether their infrastructure can move, manage, protect and deliver data fast enough to keep AI systems productive. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Woo Jin Ho speaks with Alex Bouzari, CEO of DDN, about the company’s role in AI data infrastructure, the shift from storage to broader data platforms, DDN’s high-performance computing heritage, its work with Nvidia and the business-model changes taking shape as AI moves from experimentation to production.