Tech Disruptors

One of the critical components of the software value chain is resiliency, or how quickly a system can recover with the fewest people affected or noticing, says PagerDuty Chief Technology Officer Tim Armandpour. He joins Sunil Rajgopal, Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior software analyst, to discuss the IT operations landscape, key changes in incident-response software and the importance of integration with the broader software value chain, including observability and IT-service software platforms. The two also discuss the potential impacts of artificial intelligence, focusing on demand dynamics and potential opportunities.

Coupling AI with more complex workflows is where companies such as Canva can differentiate themselves, Cameron Adams, co-founder and chief product officer of the graphic-design platform, tells Bloomberg Intelligence. In his second appearance on BI Tech Disruptors, Adams joins senior technology analyst Anurag Rana for a conversation on innovations in AI and how the technology is shaping privacy and copyright concerns. Additionally, they discuss how Canva is trying to create value across its 170 million customers and drive greater usage through additional features.

Vaccine-maker Moderna is also a data company, and that’s enabling it to use AI to drastically reduce drug-development times, Chief Information Officer Brad Miller tells Bloomberg Intelligence’s Sam Fazeli and Mandeep Singh. This episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast looks at a wide range of related topics, from the use of mRNA technology, to applying data for speeding up R&D for rare diseases. The discussion also touches on the deployment of generative AI across different parts of the Moderna platform tech stack.

Cato Networks is looking to challenge network security incumbents including Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet by deploying its Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform offering to enterprise customers. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, CEO Shlomo Kramer sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Mandeep Singh to talk about the convergence of point products such as secure web gateway, SD-WAN and endpoint detection with a SASE approach.

Vast Data is quickly reshaping the AI-infrastructure providers landscape by breaking down the silos of structured and unstructured data to reach smarter generative-AI results. In this Tech Disruptors podcast, Vast CEO Renen Hallak speaks with Woo Jin Ho, Bloomberg Intelligence hardware and networking analyst, about how its differentiated storage approach has allowed it to move up the AI stack to the data layer and possibly to compute, resulting in several high profile customer wins and a multibillion valuation.

Enterprise data architecture is highly complex, databases deeply fragmented and demand for high-speed information flows continues to grow. In this edition of the Tech Disruptors podcast, SingleStore CEO Raj Verma joins Sunil Rajgopal, Bloomberg Intelligence senior software analyst, to discuss the convergence of transactional and analytical databases, enterprises’ need for real-time data and analytics and the changing competitive landscape. The two also talk about potential impacts of AI on productivity, the job market and the company’s long-term ambitions.

Automating the collection of dispersed, divergent and disjointed pools of enterprise data on to a single repository to drive analytics and build applications remains complex. In this edition of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Fivetran cofounder and COO Taylor Brown joins Sunil Rajgopal, BI’s senior software analyst, to discuss the evolution of data integration and management platforms in light of the explosion in enterprise data and shift to the Cloud. They also talk about product differentiation against rival platforms such as Informatica, potential disruption from Zero ETL initiatives and AI and overall market prospects.

Technological advances and changing consumer behavior have driven a shift in online commerce, from one-click purchases on e-commerce sites to buying from within various forms of content and digital experiences such as social commerce, in-app transactions, QR codes and more. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Bolt CEO Maju Kuruvilla talks about evolution in e-commerce payments with Diksha Gera, senior fintech and payments analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. This conversation was recorded on Dec. 12.

E-commerce’s leap to capture a bigger share of the overall retail pie is just starting to take hold. In this Tech Disruptors podcast, eBay Chief AI Officer Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Poonam Goyal for an in-depth discussion about the democratization of AI and the step-level change we’re seeing from AI to generative AI. Mekel-Bobrov also highlights successful AI investments at eBay, and why companies should embrace the disruption.

Deere & Co. showcased several agriculture-equipment features at this year’s CES that gave a glimpse of changes that are in the works for modern machinery. In this Tech Disruptors podcast episode, Chief Technology Officer Jahmy Hindman sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Mandeep Singh and Christopher Ciolino discuss the company’s strategy around AI, robotics and satellite technology, as well as the challenges they will have to overcome to drive widespread adoption.