TalkingHeadz Podcast

By Dave Michels

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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TalkingHeadz Podcast episodes:

04.10.2023
Five Video Cameras Walked into a Bar...
TalkingHeadz is a series of interviews with the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode, we check in with Brad Hintze, EVP Marketing at Crestron. Brad beleives that the foundation for marketing success...
02.13.2023
David Petts On Mitel, ShoreTel, and Unify
TalkingHeadz is an interview format series featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode, we check in with David Petts, SVP Cloud to Cloud Business Group at Mitel. Our podcast was recorded...
01.13.2023
Low Code Conversation with Michael Beckley of Appian
TalkingHeadz is an interview format series featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode, we check in with Michael Beckley, Founder and CTO of Appian. Appian is the unified platform for change....
01.06.2023
How to Use Chrome to Give Contact Centers a Shine
TalkingHeadz is an interview format series featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode, we check in with Raluca Monet of Google's Chrome Enterprise Recommended (CER) Team. Chrome is a very popular internet...
12.11.2022
CPaaS Alone Doesn't Organize Customer Data with Jeff Lawson
The 2022 Season Finale of TalkingHeadz features Jeff Lawson, CEO and co-Founder of Twilio. Jeff is always clear, articulate, and friendly. I'm proud to say Twilio was born during my shift as a telecom analyst, and it's been exciting to...
11.26.2022
Amazon's CPaaS: Sid Rao talks about the Chime SDK
TalkingHeadz is an interview format series featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode, we check in with Sid Rao, the GM of Amazon Chime SDK. I fondly remember Biba, a WebRTC...
11.09.2022
October Insider Report
Most TalkingHeadz episodes are interviews, but in this episode we Dave and Evan cover current events. TalkingPointz Insider Reports publish the first week of every month and cover the enterprise news that mattered the prior month. In this podcast, Dave...
10.31.2022
TalkingHeadz with Einat, CMO of NICE Ltd
TalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast series featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode, we chat with the CMO of NICE Ltd, Einat Weiss. Einat has over 24 years of experience...
09.27.2022
Alan Masarek on Righting Avaya
TalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast series featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode, we check in with the new CEO at Avaya: Alan Masarek. Many people in the industry met...
08.23.2022
A Global Perspective on UCaaS and CCaaS from Ram Menghani of NEC
TalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast series featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode Dave and Evan realize that NEC is one of the largest companies in enterprise communications, and...
08.12.2022
Chatting and Branding with Jamie, the GoTo CMO
TalkingHeadz is an interview format podcast series featuring the movers and shakers of enterprise communications - we also have great guests. In this episode Dave and Evan discuss the rebranding and differentiation of GoTo UCaaS with its CMO Jamie Domenici. In...
07.27.2022
Joe Manuele on TalkingHeadz UNCENSORED #NoFilter
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 contact center, video, UCaaS, and life as an entrepreneur with Joe Manuele,...
07.19.2022
Zooming into Agent Performance with Janelle Raney at Pathlight
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 contact center can better see the path, or light the path with...
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 have...
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 with...
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 marketing...
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 entrepreneur....
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 leader...
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 engineering...
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. Dan Miller...
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 Gold...
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 you...
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 Big...
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 technology...
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 don't know...
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 have...
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 created...
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 discovered...
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 on...
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 Labs....
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 community...
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 OneCloud...
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 Panacast...
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 R&D.; ...
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 pioneering...
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 the...
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...
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 Sprint...
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 through...
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 and...
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 down...
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,...
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 a...
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 formation...
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 and...

What's TalkingHeadz Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

TalkingHeadz Podcast episodes:

Five Video Cameras Walked into a Bar...

David Petts On Mitel, ShoreTel, and Unify

Low Code Conversation with Michael Beckley of Appian

How to Use Chrome to Give Contact Centers a Shine

CPaaS Alone Doesn't Organize Customer Data with Jeff Lawson

Amazon's CPaaS: Sid Rao talks about the Chime SDK

October Insider Report

TalkingHeadz with Einat, CMO of NICE Ltd

Alan Masarek on Righting Avaya

A Global Perspective on UCaaS and CCaaS from Ram Menghani of NEC

Chatting and Branding with Jamie, the GoTo CMO

Joe Manuele on TalkingHeadz UNCENSORED #NoFilter

Zooming into Agent Performance with Janelle Raney at Pathlight

Not Doug from Crexendo

Coaching Tips from Marc Bernstein at Balto

David Sipes Answers the Call at 8x8

Talking DRaaS with Dawn-Marie Elder of SIPPIO

Gideon Wants to Give Employees a Workvivo Voice

The Brand Behind the UCaaS Brand, Brian Beutler CEO of Alianza

We Volley a Barrage of Questions at Josh Little

We Grilled Gregg Johnson of Invoca

Enterprise-wide Social with Ujjwal at Workplace From Meta

Conversational Intelligence and Dan Miller

Michael Gold Thinks Your Brand Should be on the UCaaS Menu

Video gets personal with Michael Litt of Vidyard

Cullen Improves the TalkingHeadz Standard

Alex(a) What is Advanced Communications?

Intelligent Conversation with Philipp Heltewig of Cognigy

Say BRB with Feeling with Yac

A Storm in the Redwoods with Martin Taylor of Content Guru

Mike Tessler on Building A UCaaS Empire Before UCaaS Existed

Is that a Blockchain in your Pocket? Hugo Feiler on TalkingHeadz

To boldly go where no #voip #video #collaboration company has gone before: Mo of Subspace on TalkingHeadz BONUS

TalkingHeadz with Ray Pasquale CEO Unified Office

TalkingHeadz with Brett Shockley of Journey.AI

TalkingHeadz with Darren Schreiber of 2600Hz

TalkingHeadz Bonus Episode with Davide and Laura of Avaya OneCloud CPaaS

TalkingHeadz with Aurangzeb Khan from Jabra

TalkingHeadz with Kira Makagon of RingCentral

TalkingHeadz Bonus with Evan Macmillan at Gridspace

TalkingHeadz with Rowan Trollope of Five9

TalkingHeadz with Salesforce VP and Author Karen Mangia

TalkingHeadz with John Saw, EVP at T-Mobile

TalkingHeadz Podcast with Bill Wignall, CEO of Sangoma

TalkingHeadz with OJ and Simen of Neat

TalkingHeadz with Karl Hantho, President Americas, Pexip

Talkingheadz with Chris MacFarland, CEO of Masergy

TalkingHeadz with Logitech's Scott Wharton

TalkingHeadz with Tom Puorro

TalkingHeadz with Jeff Teper, CVP Microsoft Teams