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by Metis Strategy · English

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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Mouli Venkatesan on AI, Interoperability, and Connecting Healthcare at Scale

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association’s approach to healthcare interoperability and responsible AI to reduce friction, improve affordability, and enable value-based care at national scale while staying…

31 Aug 2026 · 37m · 17 chapters

Matt Witheiler on Why Great Companies Don’t Have to Be AI Companies

Matt Witheiler (Wellington Management) explains how late-stage investors evaluate companies that may go public in 1–4 years, why valuation risk matters more later, and why great companies don’t need…

28 Aug 2026 · 38m · 16 chapters

Nikhil Narvekar on Driving Bottom-Line Value with AI at Graphic Packaging

How Graphic Packaging’s CIO/SVP uses AI and data to drive measurable “top line and bottom line” value, with a cautious approach to avoid hallucinations, plus transformation across multiple ERPs and…

27 Aug 2026 · 24m · 13 chapters

Simplify First, Scale AI Next with Vulcan Materials CIO Krzysztof Soltan

Vulcan Materials’ multi-year digital transformation and how it uses data, AI, automation, and change management to simplify processes, modernize its tech stack, and improve operational efficiency and…

24 Aug 2026 · 36m · 13 chapters

Aetna’s Nathan Frank on Scaling AI to Give Healthcare Workers Time Back

Aetna’s Nathan Frank discusses how Aetna (CVS Health) is scaling AI and digital experiences to reduce friction for members, providers, and internal colleagues—shifting from reactive care to…

20 Aug 2026 · 38m · 17 chapters

Michael Kempe on How AI Is Reinventing the Professional Services Business Model

How AI is reshaping professional services and Grant Thornton’s technology/business transformation, with emphasis on human-in-the-loop governance, trust, and outcome-based value.

17 Aug 2026 · 26m · 12 chapters

How Sequoia’s Bogomil Balkansky Identifies Outlier Founders

Sequoia partner Bogomil Balkansky explains how he identifies “outlier” founders, how disruption shapes durable companies, and why AI is changing enterprise software and cybersecurity (including the…

14 Aug 2026 · 54m · 20 chapters

Retool CEO David Hsu on Why AI Models Are No Longer the Bottleneck

Retool CEO David Hsu argues enterprises’ AI bottleneck isn’t model intelligence; it’s the “harness” around LLMs—governance, context, monitoring, rollback, and human-gated deployment—so non-technical…

13 Aug 2026 · 49m · 16 chapters

Verizon CTO Yago Tenorio on Building the Autonomous Network

Verizon’s vision for autonomous networking—moving from static, appliance-based networks to software-defined automation and toward “human-supervised” agentic autonomy (targeting level 4).

10 Aug 2026 · 48m · 17 chapters

The Infinity Machine: The Untold Story of Demis Hassabis and DeepMind

Sebastian Mallaby discusses Demis Hassabis and DeepMind’s rise in the global race toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), blending business history, scientific breakthroughs, and ethical risks.

6 Aug 2026 · 1h 9m · 21 chapters

How M&T Bank Built a Technology-First Culture with Michael Wisler

Michael Wisler (M&T Bank) explains how M&T built a technology-first culture and data foundation to enable AI, while expanding his remit to include operations.

3 Aug 2026 · 48m · 18 chapters

Wesley Chan on Building 100-Year Companies and Investing Against Consensus

Building 100-year companies and investing “against consensus” in AI/enterprise, with lessons from Google and venture investing.

31 Jul 2026 · 49m · 20 chapters

Kimberly-Clark’s Francesco Tinto on Leading AI-First Enterprise Transformation

Francesco Tinto, Kimberly-Clark’s CIO/GBS leader, explains how “Powering Care” uses AI-first enterprise transformation to drive durable growth—linking data foundations, operating model change, and…

30 Jul 2026 · 35m · 15 chapters

How AGCO’s Jena Holtberg-Benge Is Using AI to Transform Precision Agriculture

AGCO’s precision agriculture and AI strategy—using connected-farm data, dealer/service AI agents, and cybersecurity/data governance to help farmers “produce more with less” and reduce input costs,…

27 Jul 2026 · 22m · 12 chapters