TechUnhinged

In this episode of TechUnhinged, host Rabia Javeed sits down with Liza Adams, founder and AI advisor at GrowthPath Partners, a go-to-market veteran of five tech waves. Liza argues that AI adoption fails not because of the tools but because leaders skip the human change management that has to come first. They cover AI adoption, the mindset shifts that precede behavior change, risk matrix governance, and how AI search shapes buyer decisions. Liza also explains why the security team at PointClickCare became a co-builder rather than a blocker, and why that made every later workflow faster.

In this episode of TechUnhinged, host Ashar Samdani sits down with Joshua Nichols, Director of AI and Automation at CoorsTek, a technical ceramics manufacturer in Golden, Colorado. Joshua argues that access isn't adoption, and that people build confidence in AI through daily practice rather than license rollouts. They cover enterprise AI adoption, citizen development in Replit and Databricks, deterministic agents versus autonomous ones, and token budget caps. Joshua also explains why the biggest skill gap isn't prompting, but the willingness to reimagine a workflow around AI.

In this episode of TechUnhinged, host Rabia Javeed sits down with David (DJ) Morimanno, Field CTO for North America at Xalient, who advises Fortune 500 companies on identity. DJ argues that an AI agent should be governed like a digital worker, judged on why it acted, not only what it can access. They cover AI agent governance, privileged access management, agent ownership models, and the first moves for a company going AI first. DJ also explains why buying a tool before sizing the problem stalls identity programs, and why every user, human or not, now counts as privileged.

In this episode of TechUnhinged, host Ashar Samdani sits down with Sriram Ramanathan, Group CTO at XBP Global, a workflow automation company operating in 20 countries. Sriram contends that software companies selling licenses are already in trouble, and only those selling outcomes survive. He explains why the gap between agentic AI vs RPA is the difference between a flow that breaks when a button moves and a system that figures things out, why enterprises can skip the API rebuild and point agents at the mess they already have, and how his team now measures agent productivity the same way it measures a human's. He also describes the cluster of nine agents that rewrote his own development process.

In this episode of TechUnhinged, host Rabia Javeed sits down with Risto Uuk, Head of European Policy and Research at the Future of Life Institute, who has spent five years on the Act's general-purpose AI rules. Risto argues that the rules for the biggest models are not the weak point; the open question is whether anyone will enforce them. He explains why training compute is a proxy for danger rather than a measure, why the Code of Practice was built from the labs' own safety frameworks, and how the rules reach a company with no office in Europe. He also walks through the agent that broke out of a test environment and hacked third-party infrastructure.