Tech Talks Daily
Neil C. Hughes
13 episodes
Electrifying Collection Fleets and Improving Driver Safety With Republic Services
3 Nov · 26 min
- In-cab AI alerts cut Republic Services' unfocused driving by 20% to 30%, and coaching lifted that to 95%.
- Brett Rogers says 1,000-stop residential routes are the best electrification candidates because regenerative braking boosts efficiency.
Building Trust in Production AI Agents With Caylent.
2 Nov · 27 min
- A Caylent survey finds almost 60% of enterprise leaders are ready to let agents run autonomously in production, but only with defined guardrails.
- CEO Valerie Henderson says Caylent reinvented its human-based, time-and-materials delivery model because AI changed how its developers work.
Connecting AI Fall Detection With Care Workflows at KamiVision.
1 Nov · 25 min
- KamiVision's three-layer system, an edge chip, cloud AI filter and human review of a blurred clip, reports 99.5 percent alert accuracy by the time alerts reach users.
- KamiVision says its camera-based KamiCare system needs no action from a fallen person, unlike wearable alarms that fail when users forget to press them or the battery is flat.
What Proof of Reserves Can Tell You With LeveX
31 Oct · 28 min
- Harvey Liu, cofounder and CEO of LeveX, says proof of reserves is a static monthly or quarterly snapshot that cannot reveal bank loans or debts.
- LeveX uses a Merkle tree to show total platform assets without publishing user IDs, so each user can verify their own balance.
Reducing IT Firefighting With ControlUp
31 Oct · 28 min
- ControlUp CEO Jed Ayres defines autonomous IT as AI finding a problem's cause, taking an authorized action, and verifying the problem is gone, not just running a script.
- ControlUp says its agents can take 30 to 50 percent of help desk tickets out immediately, letting first-line technicians handle work once sent to costlier second and third-level staff.
Making AI the ERP Interface With NetSuite
30 Oct · 23 min
- Brian Chess, who leads AI product for Oracle NetSuite, says companies must now design loops with far more AI and fewer humans.
- Ask Oracle taught a controller at MCNC to run payroll when the payroll administrator was out, so payroll ran on time.
Turning AI Experiments Into Business Value With Newton
29 Oct · 30 min
- Ben Grinnell, chief AI and capabilities officer at Newton, says letting one consultant both hear the problem and build the first version removes the handoffs where context gets lost.
- Grinnell warns that a fast AI demo can look finished while security, nonfunctional requirements and architecture are still missing, so experienced people must ask the right questions.
NetSuite Founder on the End of ERP and What Comes Next
28 Oct · 18 min
- Evan Goldberg, NetSuite founder and now Oracle executive vice president, argues AI is the new user interface and marks the end of ERP as users know it.
- Goldberg says trust in AI depends on reliable answers, so NetSuite built SuiteSkills to give consistent results whether customers use NetSuite Next, ChatGPT, or Claude.
Giving Enterprise AI Agents the Business Context They Need With SAP
28 Oct · 27 min
- Irfan Khan says enterprise AI agents cannot coordinate reliably until they have business context such as purchase order status and inventory levels.
- Khan argues leaders should measure end-to-end productivity rather than generated content, which he calls an activity measure rather than a result.
Putting Engineering Judgment to Work With AI and Southworks
27 Oct · 29 min
- Johnny Halife, CTO of Southworks, says engineers should treat AI coding assistants like a very junior developer who knows nothing about the project or what success looks like.
- Halife argues that continuous integration, continuous delivery and live deployment are now requirements because AI-built code must be verified and tested.
Understanding the Infrastructure Behind Stablecoin Payments With Noah
26 Oct · 21 min
- Shah Ramezani, CEO of Noah, says stablecoins can move money across borders in seconds, versus three to five days and 5 to 8 percent costs through correspondent banking.
- Noah's infrastructure bundles local-currency liquidity, routing, KYC handled once for partners, and settlement, so partners can plug in without building each piece.
Designing ERP Access Governance Before Go Live With Pathlock
25 Oct · 35 min
- Chris Radkowski, a Pathlock adviser and former SAP global solution owner for GRC products, says ERP risk is often missing from boardroom discussions because transformations become a mad dash to go live.
- Radkowski says toxic access once concerned only the ERP system but now extends to Ariba, SAP BTP and Salesforce as regulation evolves, and AI agents are hard to tell apart from users after the fact.
How Dwelly Is Rebuilding The Rental Market With AI
1 Apr · 41 min
- Dwelly, an AI-native platform for independent letting agencies, cut average maintenance resolution time roughly in half to about 25 days, targeting seven to ten.
- Dwelly co-founder Dan Lifshits argues that buying agencies lets a company change workflows directly, which software sellers often cannot do because teams resist radical change.