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Serious Insights Interviews

Serious Insights is privileged to meet regularly with technology, entertainment and social leaders. We are proud to share their insights with you.

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The Serious Insights Interviews

Jared Knapp on Using AI to Turn Lead Lists into Revenue Systems:  A Serious Insights Interview

Jared Knapp on Using AI to Turn Lead Lists into Revenue Systems: A Serious Insights Interview

on 8 June, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

An interview with Jared Knapp Most sales teams do not lose deals because they lack data; they lose them because they lack a system. In this interview, Jared Knapp, founder of Jared’s Leads and the L…

Heather Holmes, Founder of Publicity For Good, on PR as the New SEO in the Age of AI:  A Serious Insights Interview

Heather Holmes, Founder of Publicity For Good, on PR as the New SEO in the Age of AI: A Serious Insights Interview

on 2 June, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

An interview with Heather Holmes PR is supposed to help small brands get found, but what happens when the finder is an AI that returns a single synthesized recommendation instead of 10 blue links? I…

Fergonn Fernandez on Risk and Resilience in the AI Era:  A Serious Insights Interview

Fergonn Fernandez on Risk and Resilience in the AI Era: A Serious Insights Interview

on 29 May, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

AI-enabled attackers are exposing how slowly financial institutions still move, even after years of investment in controls, governance, and tooling. This Serious Insights interview with NewRocket fina…

Dr. Jamika Bivens Interview on Gen Z, Burnout, and Authentic Leadership:  A Serious Insights Interview

Dr. Jamika Bivens Interview on Gen Z, Burnout, and Authentic Leadership: A Serious Insights Interview

on 27 May, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

An interview with Dr. Jamika Bivens Gen Z isn’t just changing the workforce; they are exposing what was always broken in it. In this conversation with Dr. Jamika Bivens, organizational psycholog…

Justin Corres on Building an AI-Native Agency Where Human Insight and Authentic Voices Still Matter:  A Serious Insights Interview

Justin Corres on Building an AI-Native Agency Where Human Insight and Authentic Voices Still Matter: A Serious Insights Interview

on 22 May, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

An interview with Justin Corres We’ve been tracking the intersection of artificial intelligence and human expertise across industries, including libraries reimagining their futures and organizat…

Michael Privat, Chief Data and Engineering Officer at Availity on The Necessary People Power Behind Agents:  A Serious Insights Interview

Michael Privat, Chief Data and Engineering Officer at Availity on The Necessary People Power Behind Agents: A Serious Insights Interview

on 19 May, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

An interview with Michael Privat Most enterprise AI conversations get stuck in one of two dead ends: agents are either failing spectacularly or about to automate everything. Michael Privat, Chief Data…

Beth Rudden, CEO & Chair of Bast.ai, on Ontology-Driven, Agentic AI for trustworthy enterprise decisions: A Serious Insights Interview

Beth Rudden, CEO & Chair of Bast.ai, on Ontology-Driven, Agentic AI for trustworthy enterprise decisions: A Serious Insights Interview

on 17 May, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

Beth Rudden, CEO & Chair of Bast.ai Beth Rudden, CEO and Chair of Bast.ai, offers a candid, technically grounded tour of what it really takes to make enterprise AI trustworthy, auditable, and econ…

Stuart McClure, CEO WethosAI on Reimagining Work with Cognitive Twins in Meeting-Light Organizations:  A Serious Insights Interview

Stuart McClure, CEO WethosAI on Reimagining Work with Cognitive Twins in Meeting-Light Organizations: A Serious Insights Interview

on 16 May, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

An interview with Stuart McClure, CEO WethosAI In this Serious Insights interview, WethosAI CEO and co-founder Stuart McClure explores how AI-powered cognitive twins will transform meetings, decisions…

Access Innovations Leaders on Semantic Enrichment and Why The Scholarly Publishing Model Is The Blueprint for AI Readiness: A Serious Insights Interview

Access Innovations Leaders on Semantic Enrichment and Why The Scholarly Publishing Model Is The Blueprint for AI Readiness: A Serious Insights Interview

on 21 April, 2026 by Sheri McLeish

Access Innovations Leaders on Semantic Enrichment and Why The Scholarly Publishing Model Is The Blueprint for AI Readiness And the days of XML Are Numbered The AI revolution is exposing a fundamental …

Aravind Parthasarathy, Client Partner for the Telecom and Technology sector at NewRocket, on why autonomous AI is an organizational problem: A Serious Insights Interview

Aravind Parthasarathy, Client Partner for the Telecom and Technology sector at NewRocket, on why autonomous AI is an organizational problem: A Serious Insights Interview

on 4 April, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

Aravind Parthasarathy, Client Partner for the Telecom and Technology sector at NewRocket, on why autonomous AI is an organizational problem Autonomous AI will not fail in the enterprise because o…

Pramin Pradeep, CEO of BotGauge AI on Shadow Code, Governance, and Control: A Serious Insights Interview

Pramin Pradeep, CEO of BotGauge AI on Shadow Code, Governance, and Control: A Serious Insights Interview

on 2 April, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

Pramin Pradeep, CEO of BotGauge AI on Shadow Code, Governance, and Control: A Serious Insights Interview AI coding assistants are transforming how software gets built, but they are also not so su…

Henry Young, Founder & CEO of Avari Research on AI Slop and the Future of Marketing: A Serious Insights Interview

Henry Young, Founder & CEO of Avari Research on AI Slop and the Future of Marketing: A Serious Insights Interview

on 28 March, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

In this Serious Insights interview, I talk with Henry Young, the 18-year-old founder of Avari Research, about the real meaning of “AI slop,” what drives consumer backlash, and where brands…

LiquiDonate’s CTO Aisya Aziz on Fixing “Unsellable” Inventory With Data and APIs: A Serious Insights Interview

LiquiDonate’s CTO Aisya Aziz on Fixing “Unsellable” Inventory With Data and APIs: A Serious Insights Interview

on 27 March, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

LiquiDonate CTO Aisya Aziz is turning the mess of returns and excess inventory into a disciplined, donation‑first supply chain, proving that unsellable doesn’t have to mean unusable. Rec…

David Wachs on using AI to Enhance Customer Communication: A Serious Insights Interview

David Wachs on using AI to Enhance Customer Communication: A Serious Insights Interview

on 26 March, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

In this conversation, Handwrytten founder David Wachs explores how AI and automation can enhance, rather than erode, authentic customer relationships by scaling genuine human gestures, such as handwri…

Mohamed Yousuf, CEO of Smart Workforce AI on Using AI to Give Control Back to Shift Workers: A Serious Insights Interview

Mohamed Yousuf, CEO of Smart Workforce AI on Using AI to Give Control Back to Shift Workers: A Serious Insights Interview

on 13 March, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

In an era where shift-based industries like healthcare and retail still rely on outdated manual scheduling, Mohamed Yousuf, CEO of Smart Workforce AI, is redefining workforce intelligence by moving be…

Bill Mulholland Founder and Owner of Agoyu on AI Disrupting the Moving Industry: A Serious Insights Interview

Bill Mulholland Founder and Owner of Agoyu on AI Disrupting the Moving Industry: A Serious Insights Interview

on 6 March, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

Agoyu founder Bill Mulholland joins Serious Insights to explore how spatial AI is transforming the moving industry, from instant room scans and multi-mover quotes to a reverse marketplace that cuts co…

Sean Iannuzzi, Global Agentic AI Center of Excellence Practice Lead for NewRocket: Turning Agentic AI Into Enterprise Outcomes, A Serious Insights Interview

Sean Iannuzzi, Global Agentic AI Center of Excellence Practice Lead for NewRocket: Turning Agentic AI Into Enterprise Outcomes, A Serious Insights Interview

on 11 February, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

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 …

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 Explores AI, The Readiness Gap, and Adaptive Future-Ready Learning: A Serious Insights Interview

on 9 February, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

Melissa Loble, Chief Academic Officer at Instructure The conversation with Instructure’s Chief Academic Officer, Melissa Loble, raises urgent questions about what it really means to be “ready” i…

Empowering Entrepreneurs: Inside June Zhu’s Visionary AI-Driven Charging Revolution: A Serious Insights Interview from CES 2026

Empowering Entrepreneurs: Inside June Zhu’s Visionary AI-Driven Charging Revolution: A Serious Insights Interview from CES 2026

on 30 January, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

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 urba…

David “Prz” Przygoda on Detecting AI-Generated Voices on Conference Calls: A Serious Insights Interview

David “Prz” Przygoda on Detecting AI-Generated Voices on Conference Calls: A Serious Insights Interview

on 27 January, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

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 D…

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

on 25 January, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

Robin Guignard-Perret on his Learning Journey to Create Video Editor Tellers.ai: A Serious Insights Interview from CES 2026 In a market where AI-driven creativity tools proliferate, Robin Guignard-Per…

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: ‘Cosmos: Possible Worlds’ at San Diego Comic-Con 2018

on 9 January, 2026 by Daniel W. Rasmus

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 wer…

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

on 5 December, 2025 by Daniel W. Rasmus

Anant Kale, CEO and Co-Founder of AppZen on AI and Fraud in the Back Office: A Serious Insights Interview Generative AI has shifted from novelty to infrastructure, and as it evolves, it is rewriting t…

Nashay Naeve on Career, Global Manufacturing and AI: A Serious Insights Interview

Nashay Naeve on Career, Global Manufacturing and AI: A Serious Insights Interview

on 2 December, 2025 by Daniel W. Rasmus

Nashay Naeve on Career, Global Manufacturing and AI: A Serious Insights Interview I recently had the opportunity to interview Nashay Naeve, President of the Engineered Plastic Components Business Unit…

Rafsan Bhuiyan Interview. AI in The Trades: Noise, Accents and Spotty Connections Test AI’s Edges.

Rafsan Bhuiyan Interview. AI in The Trades: Noise, Accents and Spotty Connections Test AI’s Edges.

on 11 November, 2025 by Daniel W. Rasmus

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 Bhuiy…

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

on 18 April, 2022 by Daniel W. Rasmus

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 …

An Interview with SCOTTeVEST’s Scott Jordan, the Pocket Man

An Interview with SCOTTeVEST’s Scott Jordan, the Pocket Man

on 11 March, 2016 by Daniel W. Rasmus

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 SCOTTeVES…

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

on 1 May, 2014 by Daniel W. Rasmus

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 o…

Celebrity Insights: Tyler Oakley’s Take on Personal Branding for the Rest Of Us

Celebrity Insights: Tyler Oakley’s Take on Personal Branding for the Rest Of Us

on 17 April, 2014 by Daniel W. Rasmus

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, …

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