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The Serious Insights Interviews
Sean Iannuzzi, Global Agentic AI Center of Excellence Practice Lead for NewRocket: Turning Agentic AI Into Enterprise Outcomes, A Serious Insights Interview
Sean Iannuzzi from his portrait. Created via ChatGPT from a prompt written by the author. The interview with Sean Iannuzzi reinforces the shift I’m seeing in the AI market from abstract promises of “AI transformation” to the gritty, operational realities of deploying intelligent systems in real enterprises. Over the last year, I’ve explored governance, orchestration,…
Melissa Loble, Chief Academic Officer at Instructure Explores AI, The Readiness Gap, and Adaptive Future-Ready Learning: A Serious Insights Interview
Melissa Loble, Chief Academic Officer at Instructure Melissa Loble The conversation with Instructure’s Chief Academic Officer, Melissa Loble, raises urgent questions about what it really means to be “ready” in an era shaped by artificial intelligence (AI) and constant change. Loble argues that learners are not failing for lack of motivation, but because the systems…
Empowering Entrepreneurs: Inside June Zhu’s Visionary AI-Driven Charging Revolution: A Serious Insights Interview from CES 2026
It was a pleasure to correspond with June Zhu, the visionary CEO of ChargerGoGo, to discuss the evolving landscape of mobile charging and the launch of their ambitious new platform, GoGoSpark. As urban environments become increasingly data-driven, Zhu is positioning ChargerGoGo not just as a hardware provider, but as a critical layer of “connected infrastructure”…
David “Prz” Przygoda on Detecting AI-Generated Voices on Conference Calls: A Serious Insights Interview
David “Prz” Przygoda drawn from his headshot via Gemini. David “Prz” Przygoda, CEO of OmniSpeech recently reached out to share his insights on identifying AI-generated voices, now available in the OmniSpeech AI-Detect plug-in for Zoom. I asked David several questions about the company’s product and business model. You can read our extensive interview below. The…
Robin Guignard-Perret on his Learning Journey to Create Video Editor Tellers.ai: A Serious Insights Interview from CES 2026
Robin Guignard-Perret on his Learning Journey to Create Video Editor Tellers.ai: A Serious Insights Interview from CES 2026 ChatGPT version of Robin Guignard-Perret portrait from LinkedIn (WSJ -inspired). In a market where AI-driven creativity tools proliferate, Robin Guignard-Perret stands at the intersection of automation and artistry, challenging the boundaries of what it means to edit…
From the Serious Insights Archives: Neil deGrasse Tyson Interview: ‘Cosmos: Possible Worlds’ at San Diego Comic-Con 2018
From the Serious Insights Archives: Neil deGrasse Tyson Interview I had the pleasure of hanging out with Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson at the San Diego Comic-Con Cosmos: Possible Worlds press room. We were in a shared roundtable in our little corner of the press room. This is a complete transcript with just a few minor edits for…
Anant Kale, CEO and Co-Founder of AppZen on AI and Fraud in the Back Office: A Serious Insights Interview
Anant Kale, CEO and Co-Founder of AppZen on AI and Fraud in the Back Office: A Serious Insights Interview Anant Kale ChatGPT drawing from LinkedIn profile portrait. Generative AI has shifted from novelty to infrastructure, and as it evolves, it is rewriting the risk profile of basic finance workflows. Expense reports and invoices once felt…
Nashay Naeve on Career, Global Manufacturing and AI: A Serious Insights Interview
Nashay Naeve on Career, Global Manufacturing and AI: A Serious Insights Interview Nashay Naeve drawing by Gemini from LinkedIn portrait. I recently had the opportunity to interview Nashay Naeve, President of the Engineered Plastic Components Business Unit at Tsubaki Nakashima. Our interview explores how a global manufacturing leader thinks about the real constraints and levers…
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Rafsan Bhuiyan Interview. AI in The Trades: Noise, Accents and Spotty Connections Test AI’s Edges.
Rafsan Bhuiyan interview: AI in The Trades. Serious Insights Analysis If AI is to succeed in reshaping work, it will reshape all kinds of work. I recently had the opportunity to interview Rafsan Bhuiyan, who. While his new endeavor, OrionQ appears focused on traditional marketing and lead generation, Rahsan would rather talk about AI in…
An Interview with OWC CEO Larry O’Connor on Innovation and Customer Centricity
An Interview with OWC CEO Larry O’Connor on Innovation and Customer Centricity I recently had the pleasure of hopping on a video conference with OWC CEO and Founder, Larry O’Connor. The following is a transcript of our conversation about innovation, the history of computing, and the power of the customer. This interview has been edited…
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An Interview with SCOTTeVEST’s Scott Jordan, the Pocket Man
My introduction to Scott Jordan. I was an analyst at the Giga Information Group, it was 1990 something and I was collecting “toys” for a conference. I contacted a start-up called SCOTTeVEST and I talked to Scott, told him about my presentation and he sent me a jacket. I have been wearing a SCOTTeVEST of some…
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What Marketers Need to Learn from Kim Kardashian West
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com Kim Kardashian has faced some rocky PR with a quickly failed marriage, a self-serving app, and a very public pregnancy shared with rapper, baby-daddy, and now new husband, Kanye West. Regardless of what she is facing, Kim remains a good case study in marketing. With the announcement of her yet-to-be-published Rizzoli…
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Celebrity Insights: Star Trek’s Chase Masterson: Leadership Lessons from a Dabo Girl
Celebrity Insights: Star Trek’s Chase Masterson: Leadership Lessons from a Dabo Girl What can we learn about leadership from a Dabo girl? Well, a lot as it turns out. I had the pleasure of hanging out with several Star Trek celebrities over the course of a recent Seattle convention weekend. I was particularly struck by…
Celebrity Insights: Tyler Oakley’s Take on Personal Branding for the Rest Of Us
If you are young and spend your time on YouTube, or if you track the world of pop culture through Twitter, you probably know Tyler Oakley. If your YouTube experience is limited to talking dog videos, expand your horizons, and go find Tyler Oakley. Tyler has something to teach you about personal branding, and more…
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