TalkingHeadz Podcast

By Dave Michels

Arts Technology Business

What's TalkingHeadz Podcast about?

This podcast features the movers and shakers of enterprise communications. We also have great guests. In each episode Dave Michels and Evan Kirstel speak (similar to messaging, but verbal) with various guests about enterprise communications.

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Not Doug from Crexendo

06.25.2022

Dave and Evan discuss how Crexendo is providing new options for enterprises and service providers with Jon Brinton, CRO of Crexendo. Jon triumphantly stepped in after a last minute scheduling change. That was probably for the best. Evan and I ...

TalkingHeadz Podcast episodes:

06.25.2022 Not Doug from Crexendo Dave and Evan discuss how Crexendo is providing new options for enterprises and service providers with Jon Brinton, CRO of Crexendo. Jon triumphantly stepped in after a last minute scheduling change. That was probably for the best. Evan and I ...
06.14.2022 Coaching Tips from Marc Bernstein at Balto Dave and Evan discuss how Balto can improve CX with automated coaching with Founder and CEO Marc Bernstein. Marc Bernstein is the Founder and CEO of Balto, which offers real-time automated guidance for contact center agents. Like most founders, Marc ...
05.24.2022 David Sipes Answers the Call at 8x8 Dave and Evan discuss life in the UCaaS driver's seat with Dave Sipes, the CEO of 8x8. We cover XCaaS, the economy, Teams, stadiums, and much more. Many of us met Dave during his 12 year stint at RingCentral, ending ...
05.14.2022 Talking DRaaS with Dawn-Marie Elder of SIPPIO TalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode Dave and Evan discuss how carrier services can improve services such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom with ...
04.26.2022 Gideon Wants to Give Employees a Workvivo Voice TalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode Dave and Evan discuss employee engagement with Gideon Pridor, CMO and Chief Storyteller of Workvivo. Gideon drives ...
04.14.2022 The Brand Behind the UCaaS Brand, Brian Beutler CEO of Alianza TalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode Dave and Evan discuss the lack of creativity of sports in El Salvador with Brian Beutler, CEO ...
03.29.2022 We Volley a Barrage of Questions at Josh Little TalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode Dave and Evan toss questions back and forth with Josh Little of VolleyApp. Josh is a serial ...
03.15.2022 We Grilled Gregg Johnson of Invoca TalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we have great guests. In this episode Dave and Evan grill Gregg Johnson, CEO of Invoca, about AI. As a seasoned digital marketing and SaaS ...
02.23.2022 Enterprise-wide Social with Ujjwal at Workplace From Meta TalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we have great guests. In this episode Dave and Evan hangout with Ujjwal Singh, Head of Workplace from Meta. Ujjwal Singh is a product and ...
02.15.2022 Conversational Intelligence and Dan Miller TalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we have great guests too! In this episode Dave and Evan discuss trends and possibilities of conversational AI platforms with Dan Miller of Opus research. ...
01.25.2022 Michael Gold Thinks Your Brand Should be on the UCaaS Menu TalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast that features the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we have great guests too. In this episode Dave and Evan discuss the importance of brand with Michael Gold, the CEO of Intermedia. Michael ...
01.12.2022 Video gets personal with Michael Litt of Vidyard TalkingHeadz is an ongoing interview podcast that features the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we have great guests too. In this audio-only episode Dave and Evan discuss the importance of video with Michael Litt. Michael Litt is CEO ...
12.14.2021 Cullen Improves the TalkingHeadz Standard In this TalkingHeadz podcast Dave and Evan Go deep, well beyond the app layer, with Cullen Jennings of Cisco. This is the final episode of 2021. Cullen Jennings is the CTO for Security and Collaboration Business at Cisco. How do ...
11.18.2021 Alex(a) What is Advanced Communications? In this TalkingHeadz podcast Dave and Evan have One Talk with Alex Doyle of Verizon. Alex is the Executive Director, Advanced Communications Products at Verizon. If you thought 5G was advanced, you are missing out on all the great solutions ...
11.09.2021 Intelligent Conversation with Philipp Heltewig of Cognigy Dave and Evan meet with Philipp Heltewig, Co-Founder and CEO of Cognigy. Philipp is a German-Australian entrepreneur with profound technology experience working for companies in Europe, APAC and North America. He had the foresight to start up a conversational AI ...
10.28.2021 Say BRB with Feeling with Yac Dave and Evan meet with Justin Mitchell, Founder and CEO of Yac. Sometimes voicemail can convey a message better than text, but voicemail isn't really a conversational tool. The answer is conversational voicemail. Yac provides conversational voicemail, and if you ...
10.11.2021 A Storm in the Redwoods with Martin Taylor of Content Guru Dave and Evan meet with Martin Taylor, a Co-Founder of Content Guru. Content Guru is a leader in cloud-delivered customer engagement. Its Storm CCaaS solution is well known in Europe and expanding in North America. That's one of the topics ...
10.01.2021 Mike Tessler on Building A UCaaS Empire Before UCaaS Existed Dave and Evan meet with Michael Tessler, Managing Partner of True North Advisory, but better known as Co-Founder and CEO of BroadSoft. Mike has a mystical fun yet wise vibe going for him. BroadSoft is a pretty impressive name to ...
09.10.2021 Is that a Blockchain in your Pocket? Hugo Feiler on TalkingHeadz Dave and Evan meet with Hugo Feiler the CEO and co-founder of Minima. A base layer protocol that brings blockchains to smartphones. Minima is the world’s first truly decentralized blockchain protocol that runs in full on mobile phones. Minima has ...
08.30.2021 To boldly go where no #voip #video #collaboration company has gone before: Mo of Subspace on TalkingHeadz BONUS It's not all fun and games when the net is down. Dave and Evan meet with Mo Nezarati, President of Voice at Subspace. A funny thing happened to the folks at Subspace when they set out to improve gaming, they ...
08.26.2021 TalkingHeadz with Ray Pasquale CEO Unified Office Dave and Evan meet with Ray Pasquale, CEO and Founder of Unified Office. Unified Office is a next-generation IT managed services provider focused on the Small and Medium-sized Business (SMB) market. Unified Office was built from the ground up focused ...
08.20.2021 TalkingHeadz with Brett Shockley of Journey.AI Dave and Evan meet with Brett Shockley, CEO and Co-Founder of Journey.ai. Brett's journey, prior to Journey, included being the CTO role at Avaya. He was responsible for Avaya's mergers, acquisitions, major partnerships, corporate strategy, and emerging products including Avaya ...
07.27.2021 TalkingHeadz with Darren Schreiber of 2600Hz Dave and Evan meet with Darren Schreiber, the co-Founder and CEO of 2600Hz. With nearly two decades of telecom experience under his belt, Darren’s core focus is on distributed computing and communications technologies. His contributions to the open source telecom ...
07.20.2021 TalkingHeadz Bonus Episode with Davide and Laura of Avaya OneCloud CPaaS Dave and Evan host their first TalkingHeadz foursome. In this episode we meet with Davide Petramala and Laura Faughtenberry of Avaya OneCloud CPaaS. Avaya is best known for its powerful enterprise contact centers which can now do even more with ...
07.10.2021 TalkingHeadz with Aurangzeb Khan from Jabra Dave and Evan meet with Aurangzeb Khan, SVP GN Jabra. Aurangzeb was co-founder & CEO of Altia Systems which Jabra (GN Netcom) acquired in 2019. Currently, Aurangzeb is the SVP of Intelligent Vision Systems at Jabra, best known for its ...
06.24.2021 TalkingHeadz with Kira Makagon of RingCentral Dave and Evan meet with Kira Makagon, Chief Innovation Officer, RingCentral. Kira is a serial entrepreneur that landed at RingCentral in 2012. In her current role as Chief Innovation Officer she leads product strategy, product management and design, engineering and ...
06.12.2021 TalkingHeadz Bonus with Evan Macmillan at Gridspace Dave and Evan meet with Evan MacMillan, CEO and Co-Founder of Gridspace. We had to pull Evan out of the garage to record this podcast. Gridspace is a collaboration between SRI Speech Labs and some fellow Stanford engineers. It is ...
06.04.2021 TalkingHeadz with Rowan Trollope of Five9 Dave and Evan meet with Rowan Trollope, the CEO of cloud contact center provider Five9. Rowan was named the CEO of Five9 in May of 2018. Though many of us within the industry met him during his three years as ...
05.25.2021 TalkingHeadz with Salesforce VP and Author Karen Mangia Evan and Dave chat with Karen Mangia, VP Customer and Market Insights at Salesforce. Karen Mangia focuses on strategies for personal and professional success, and she regularly works with executives, managers and future leaders at companies of all sizes globally. ...
05.11.2021 TalkingHeadz with John Saw, EVP at T-Mobile Evan and Dave chat with John Saw, the CTO of T-Mobile. John Saw is the EVP of Advanced and Emerging Technologies at T-Mobile, and is responsible for constantly evaluating ways to disrupt wireless communications. John was previously the CTO at ...
04.27.2021 TalkingHeadz Podcast with Bill Wignall, CEO of Sangoma Evan and Dave chat with Bill Wignall, the CEO of Sangoma Communications. You may not be that familiar with Bill or Sangoma, but both are industry giants that have outperformed their peers and the broader industry. Bill has guided Sangoma ...
04.06.2021 TalkingHeadz with OJ and Simen of Neat Evan and Dave chat with OJ Winge and Simen Teigre, the founders of Neat. Neat came out of stealth at Zoomtopia 2019. The company is new, but on day one had extensive expertise in both video and video hardware. OJ ...
03.21.2021 TalkingHeadz with Karl Hantho, President Americas, Pexip Evan and Dave chat with Karl Hantho of Pexip. Pexip is the result of a 2019 merger between Pexip and Videxio -- both started by a group of visionary industry veterans, both offshoots of Tandberg. They set out to break ...
03.12.2021 Talkingheadz with Chris MacFarland, CEO of Masergy Evan and Dave chat with Chris MacFarland, Chairman and CEO of Masergy. Masergy Communications is a software defined networking services company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Plano TX. Its offerings include advanced networking services such as Managed SD-WAN, UCaaS, ...
02.23.2021 TalkingHeadz with Logitech's Scott Wharton Evan and Dave chat with Scott Wharton, VP & GM, Video Collaboration at Logitech. Logitech is well known for its PC and USB peripherals, and it has recently emerged as a major player in enterprise video. The company has been ...
02.08.2021 TalkingHeadz with Tom Puorro Evan and Dave chat with Tom Puorro, EVP and GM Products at Poly. Tom leads the global development team, which is responsible for audio, video, and headset solutions at Poly. He joined Poly in 2018 and was part of the ...
01.21.2021 TalkingHeadz with Jeff Teper, CVP Microsoft Teams Evan and Dave chat with Jeff Teper, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft 365 Collaboration with Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive. Jeff leads the product design, and engineering teams for Teams (and a few other areas too) with the aim of empowering people ...
01.12.2021 TalkingHeadz with Anand Janefalkar CEO and Founder of UJET Evan and Dave chat with Anand Janefalkar, CEO and Founder of UJET. UJET is a new kind of CCaaS company, cloud native, designed and built for modern communications. That means it natively integrates with other cloud apps, without duplicating data, ...
12.28.2020 TalkingHeadz with SVP GM Cisco Collab, Javed Khan Evan and Dave chat with Javed Khan, SVP and GM of Cisco Collaboration. Javed Khan leads Cisco’s multi-billion-dollar Collaboration business which includes the Webex portfolio of Meetings, Teams, Rooms, Calling, and Contact Center. In this podcast we discuss the WebexOne ...
12.16.2020 TalkingHeadz with Craig Malloy, CEO of Lifesize Evan and Dave chat with Craig Malloy, the founder and CEO of Lifesize. There are few, if any, executives in enterprise video who have seen what Craig has seen. He founded Lifesize in 2003, and other than a brief break, ...
11.28.2020 TalkingHeadz Podcast with Rory Read, CEO of Vonage Evan and Dave chat with the recently named CEO of Vonage, Rory Read. In this podcast we get to know the new dude in charge at Vonage. Rory Read joined the Company as CEO and a member of the Board ...
11.19.2020 TalkingHeadz with Cory Doctorow Evan and Dave chat with the legendary tech activist and author Cory Doctorow. Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- a contributor to Boing Boing and the author of young adult novels like HOMELAND, PIRATE ...
10.18.2020 Talkingheadz with Javier Soltero on Google Workspace Evan and Dave chat with Javier Soltero, VP & GM of Google Workspace. Javier wants you to re-think G Suite. Actually, he wants you re-think suites and in general. He explains in this podcast the logic and intent of rebranding ...
10.09.2020 TalkingHeadz with Cameron Weeks, CEO of Edify Evan and Dave chat with Cameron Weeks (Twitter/LinkedIn), CEO and co-Founder of Edify. We strive to have guests that span the industry, and this episode has it it all. That's because Edify offers UCaaS, CCaaS, and CPaaS. Actually, that's not ...
09.23.2020 TalkingHeadz with Tony Bates, CEO of Genesys Evan and Dave chat with Tony Bates (Twitter/LinkedIn), CEO of Genesys. Many factors are currently contributing to the interesting and uncharted territories in which businesses now find themselves. From the global pandemic, to the continued rise of AI and the ...
09.09.2020 TalkingHeadz Noreen Allen, Bandwidth Evan and Dave chat with Noreen Allen, CMO of Bandwidth Inc. Noreen has been the CMO of Bandwidth (NASDAQ: BAND) since 2012. She is responsible for driving revenue across all lines of its business. Her specialty is building powerful, category-leading ...
08.27.2020 TalkingHeadz with Alan Duric of Wire Evan and Dave chat with Alan Duric (Twitter), the CTO/COO and Co-Founder of Wire. Wire, based in Zug Switzerland, is a provider of secure collaborative communications, Wire offers messaging, voice and video calling, and file-sharing services all protected with end-to-end ...
08.10.2020 TalkingHeadz with Stewart Butterfield of Slack Evan and Dave chat with Stewart Bufferfield, the co-Founder of Slack. Slack is the leading channel-based messaging platform, used by millions to align their teams, unify their systems, and drive their businesses forward. In this podcast we cover a lot ...
07.21.2020 TalkingHeadz with Bruce McClelland, CEO of Ribbon Communications Evan and Dave chat with Bruce McClelland, the recently named CEO and President of Ribbon Communications. Ribbon Communications is a global communications and network solutions provider to service providers, enterprises, and critical infrastructure sectors. Bruce is a technical business leader ...
07.14.2020 TalkingHeadz With Ryan Hollenbeck of Verint Dave and Evan chat with Ryan Hollenbeck, Senior Vice President, Global Marketing and Customer Experience at Verint. Ryan Hollenbeck is responsible for driving global corporate marketing, solutions marketing, marketing communications and operations, analyst and public relations, and sales enablement. Ryan ...

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