Best Metis Strategy Podcasts (2026)

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What Tech Leaders Can Learn from San José’s Data-Driven Approach to Government 40:39

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What happens when a former startup CEO brings performance management discipline into city government? In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with San José Mayor Matt Mahan about applying data-driven decision-making, KPIs, and accountability—practices familiar to tech leaders—to the public sector. Drawing from his experience running vent…

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Inside Amex Digital Labs: Luke Gebb on Piloting and Scaling Emerging Tech 26:34

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How do you build and scale digital innovation inside a 170-year-old company? Luke Gebb, EVP of Global Innovation at American Express, joins Peter High to share how Amex Digital Labs brings emerging technologies to market through a disciplined stage-gate process. Gebb outlines how his team incubates and graduates products that become core to Amex’s …

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Liam Donohue on Fixing U.S. Healthcare: Why AI Alone Won’t Save It 48:57

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AI can’t fix what the healthcare system fundamentally gets wrong. In this episode, Liam Donohue, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at 406 Ventures, shares why his firm is betting on value-based care—and why AI risks breaking the system if applied to the wrong incentives. From launching EdTech’s earliest funds to shaping 406 Ventures’ sector focus in …

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Power and Progress — Nobel Laureate Simon Johnson on Why AI Is Repeating Industrial-Era Mistakes 56:36

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What if AI is repeating the same mistakes society made during the Industrial Revolution? In this episode of Technovation, Peter is joined by Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics and Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management Simon Johnson. Throughout their conversation, they explore why automation has historica…

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From Pilots to Platforms: How Qualcomm Is Scaling Enterprise AI 30:20

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Most enterprises aren’t struggling with AI because of technology. They’re struggling because they’re trying to scale pilots instead of platforms. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Atilla Tinic, CIO of Qualcomm, about how the company is moving beyond one-off AI use cases to build an enterprise AI platform designed for scale. Ti…

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AI for Everyone, Everywhere: Inside BNY’s Playbook for Enterprise-Wide Enablement 39:50

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What does it actually take to move AI from experimentation to enterprise-wide impact? In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Leigh-Ann Russell, Chief Information Officer and Global Head of Engineering at Bank of New York (BNY), about how one of the world’s most systemically important financial institutions is operationalizing AI at…

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How Gallagher Built Enterprise AI on Culture and Data First 21:22

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What if the key to enterprise AI wasn’t a tool, but a mindset? Mark Bloom, Global CIO at AJ Gallagher, joins Technovation to share how the 70,000-person insurance giant is scaling AI by leading with data quality and cultural alignment—not flashy tools. In this episode, Bloom details: How Gallagher eliminated 800+ data silos to centralize insight an…

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The Real Drivers of Cyber Spend: Risk, Compliance, and AI Disruption 32:24

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What really drives cybersecurity investment and why is “threat” often the last reason? In this episode, Rakesh Loonkar, co-founder of Transmit Security and general partner at Picture Capital, shares a contrarian take on how cybersecurity product categories emerge and why compliance and platform shifts often matter more than actual threats. Drawing …

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The CIO as Change Agent and Ecosystem Builder 33:37

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What if your AI strategy is your business strategy? In this episode, three top tech leaders share how they’re embedding AI not as a standalone initiative, but as a lever for enterprise transformation. Mojgan Lefebvre (Travelers), Pawan Verma (Cencora), and Glenn Remoreras (Breakthru Beverage) reveal how they’ve partnered with boards, business units…

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Resilience by Design: Building AI-Ready Infrastructure for Digital Trust 32:07

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What does it really take to design for resilience in an AI-first world? In this panel from the Metis Strategy Summit, Amtrak CDO Judith Apshago, GE Aerospace CIO David Burns, and Zoetis CDTO Keith Sarbaugh explore how resilient infrastructure is becoming the backbone of enterprise trust, uptime, and AI scalability. Tune in to learn how these leader…

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Managing the Digital Workforce: AI’s Role in the Future of Work 34:12

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1036: What does it mean to manage a digital workforce? In this episode of Technovation, we feature a panel from our most recent Metis Strategy Summit where three top executives explore how AI is reshaping work, both automating tasks, and changing the nature of management itself. Peter High speaks with: Jennifer Charters, Chief Information Officer a…

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Delivering the Product Operating Model (and Mindset) at Scale 29:32

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Our broadcast today features a panel from our most recent Metis Strategy Summit on the topic of Delivering the Product Operating Model (and Mindset) at Scale. In this panel episode, we explore the limits and lessons of scaling the product operating model. Sal Companieh (Cushman & Wakefield), Jim Fowler (Nationwide), and Diane Schwarz (Smurfit WestR…

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Jamie Montgomery on Why AI Applications Will Power the Next Wave of Venture Returns 58:53

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What if the most defensible companies of the AI era aren’t the ones building the infrastructure—but the ones using it to rethink workflows? In this Technoventure episode, Peter High speaks with Jamie Montgomery, Founder and Managing Partner of March Capital, about why the firm is investing heavily in the AI application layer—not chips, not clouds, …

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Madhu Ramamurthy on Balancing AI Innovation With Responsible Governance 35:11

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What’s stopping AI from scaling across the enterprise? For Madhu Ramamurthy, CIO of Zurich North America, it’s not the technology. It’s the culture. In this episode, Madhu shares how he’s navigating the paradox of AI: a tool with unprecedented potential, surrounded by institutional resistance, unclear regulations, and cultural misalignment. He outl…

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Inside General Mills’ AI Playbook: Clean Data, Cloud Speed, and Business Trust 37:02

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What does it really take to scale AI across a global enterprise? In this episode, Jaime Montemayor, Chief Digital and Technology Officer at General Mills, shares the AI playbook behind the company’s digital transformation from foundational investments in cloud and data governance to business-led innovation across supply chain, e-commerce, and marke…

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From Bottleneck to Accelerator: How NiSource’s CIO Repositioned IT as a Growth Engine 27:03

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What does it take to transform IT from a bottleneck into a business accelerator? In this episode, Waco Bankston, Chief Information Officer at NiSource, shares how he’s repositioning the IT organization to support growth, enable speed, and shift decades of technical and cultural inertia. Leading a 6.5-year enterprise transformation effort, Waco disc…

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How Unum’s CTO Reimagined the Enterprise with a Digital-First Architecture 24:54

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What does it take to reimagine a 10,000-employee enterprise for a digital-first future? In this episode, Unum CTO Gautam Roy breaks down how he transformed the company’s operating model, culture, and technology foundation by reshaping experiences from the customer backward. Gautam shares how Unum evolved from applications to journeys to value strea…

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Mission-Driven Startups Win: Mike Hayes on Building Companies That Last 42:30

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What if your company’s greatest advantage isn’t the product—but the purpose behind it? Mike Hayes, Managing Director at Insight Partners and former COO of VMware, believes mission clarity is more than culture—it’s a strategic asset. Drawing on 20 years as a Navy SEAL and senior tech executive, Mike shares why knowing “who you want to be” is a super…

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Why Snowflake’s CIO Rebranded IT for the AI Era 30:35

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What does it take to evolve IT into a forward-looking innovation engine? Mike Blandina, CIO of Snowflake, shares how he’s reimagined IT as “Enterprise Technology” as a way to describe what ‘IT’ really does: lead a solutions-first mindset at Snowflake designed for the AI era. In this conversation, Mike reflects on his first eight months leading tech…

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Chandra Dhandapani on Balancing Talent Strategy with Data, Flexibility, and ROI 26:14

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What if your hiring strategy were fueled by the largest contingent workforce dataset in the world? Magnit CEO Chandra Dhandapani joins Technovation to explore how data is reshaping how companies think about talent—from role design to sourcing strategy to real-time labor cost insights. Chandra also shares lessons from her journey from CIO to CEO and…

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Designing AI from the Customer Back: Hari Gopalkrishnan on Bank of America’s Approach 35:25

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How can AI be designed from the customer back and not the model forward? Hari Gopalkrishnan, Chief Technology and Information Officer at Bank of America, joins Peter High to share how one of the world’s largest financial institutions grounds its AI strategy in user behavior. From developing Erica to enabling employees with tools like Ask Merrill, H…

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How Dell Consolidated 800 AI Projects into 4 Scalable Enterprise Platforms 24:57

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What does it take to scale AI from 800 siloed experiments into enterprise-wide impact? Doug Schmitt, President of Dell Technologies Services and CIO of Dell, joins Peter High to unpack the company’s enterprise AI playbook—a journey from fragmented innovation to four scalable platforms used across software development, customer service, supply chain…

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Give First, Build Later: Brad Feld’s Strategy for Ecosystem-Driven Innovation 1:10:11

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What does it take to play the long game in innovation? Venture capitalist Brad Feld has spent four decades answering that question as a founder, mentor, and early-stage investor in companies like Fitbit, MakerBot, and Techstars. In this episode, Feld unpacks the enduring impact of mentorship, the logic behind his “Give First” philosophy, and how st…

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Inside Paychex’s Data Strategy: Monetizing Insight for AI, Clients, and the U.S. Economy 33:56

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What if your company’s data could become a public good and a competitive moat? Beaumont Vance, SVP of Data and AI at Paychex, shares how his team transforms payroll and HR data into real-time economic insight, powering everything from AI copilots to U.S. government response efforts. With 1 in 11 U.S. workers on the platform and 39 million client in…

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Why CIOs Make Great CEOs: Saul Van Beurden’s Leadership Playbook 40:39

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1025: What does it take to go from CIO to CEO? For Saul Van Beurden, tech leadership was the ideal proving ground. Now CEO of Consumer, Small, and Business Banking at Wells Fargo, Saul shares how his background in IT helped him lead at enterprise scale. In this episode, he speaks with Peter High about the strategic, operational, and cultural mindse…

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What Tech Leaders Can Learn from San José’s Data-Driven Approach to Government 40:39

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Inside Amex Digital Labs: Luke Gebb on Piloting and Scaling Emerging Tech 26:34

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Liam Donohue on Fixing U.S. Healthcare: Why AI Alone Won’t Save It 48:57

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Power and Progress — Nobel Laureate Simon Johnson on Why AI Is Repeating Industrial-Era Mistakes 56:36

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From Pilots to Platforms: How Qualcomm Is Scaling Enterprise AI 30:20

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AI for Everyone, Everywhere: Inside BNY’s Playbook for Enterprise-Wide Enablement 39:50

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How Gallagher Built Enterprise AI on Culture and Data First 21:22

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The Real Drivers of Cyber Spend: Risk, Compliance, and AI Disruption 32:24

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The CIO as Change Agent and Ecosystem Builder 33:37

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Resilience by Design: Building AI-Ready Infrastructure for Digital Trust 32:07

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Managing the Digital Workforce: AI’s Role in the Future of Work 34:12

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Delivering the Product Operating Model (and Mindset) at Scale 29:32

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Jamie Montgomery on Why AI Applications Will Power the Next Wave of Venture Returns 58:53

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Madhu Ramamurthy on Balancing AI Innovation With Responsible Governance 35:11

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Inside General Mills’ AI Playbook: Clean Data, Cloud Speed, and Business Trust 37:02

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From Bottleneck to Accelerator: How NiSource’s CIO Repositioned IT as a Growth Engine 27:03

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How Unum’s CTO Reimagined the Enterprise with a Digital-First Architecture 24:54

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Mission-Driven Startups Win: Mike Hayes on Building Companies That Last 42:30

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Why Snowflake’s CIO Rebranded IT for the AI Era 30:35

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Chandra Dhandapani on Balancing Talent Strategy with Data, Flexibility, and ROI 26:14

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Designing AI from the Customer Back: Hari Gopalkrishnan on Bank of America’s Approach 35:25

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How Dell Consolidated 800 AI Projects into 4 Scalable Enterprise Platforms 24:57

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Give First, Build Later: Brad Feld’s Strategy for Ecosystem-Driven Innovation 1:10:11

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Inside Paychex’s Data Strategy: Monetizing Insight for AI, Clients, and the U.S. Economy 33:56

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Why CIOs Make Great CEOs: Saul Van Beurden’s Leadership Playbook 40:39