In this episode of Unleashing Genius, NetApp Chief Marketing Officer Gabie Boko is joined by Justin Prettyman, Executive Vice President of Philanthropy for the San Francisco 49ers Foundation, for a conversation about data literacy, opportunity, and preparing students for a rapidly changing world.

Through classrooms inside Levi's Stadium, career exploration programs, and hands-on experiences with real-world data, the 49ers Foundation helps students connect what they learn in school to careers they may never have considered. Justin shares how sports can create an unexpected entry point into data science, technology, engineering, and other professions that increasingly depend on data skills.

Gabie and Justin also discuss STEM education, workforce development, AI, and the importance of helping young people build confidence with technology early. At the center of the conversation is a simple idea: familiarity with data is becoming valuable across nearly every profession, and access to those skills can open doors long before someone enters the workforce.

Hosted By: Gabie Boko, Chief Marketing Officer, NetApp

Guest: Justin Prettyman, Executive Vice President of Philanthropy, 49ers Foundation

Produced By: Kenya Hayes

In this episode of Unleashing Genius, NetApp Chief Marketing Officer Gabie Boko is joined by Thomas “T-Rob” Robinson, CEO of Domino Data Lab, for a conversation about one of the most persistent challenges in enterprise AI: moving from promising pilots to systems the business can trust and run every day.

T-Rob explains why many AI initiatives struggle long before they reach production and why the underlying challenge often has less to do with models than with data, governance, and operational processes. The discussion covers the hidden cost of data scientist time, the growing importance of bringing AI to the data, and how organizations can build trust into their systems from the start rather than layering it on later.

Gabie and T-Rob also discuss AI agents, reproducibility, data sovereignty, and why the most effective organizations treat their data infrastructure as a strategic advantage rather than operational overhead.

Continue the conversation at NetApp INSIGHT 2026, September 29-October 1 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, where customers, partners, and technology leaders will come together to discuss what's next across AI, data, cloud, and cyber resilience.

Hosted By: Gabie Boko

Produced By: Kenya Hayes

In this episode of Unleashing Genius, NetApp Chief Marketing Officer Gabie Boko is joined by Den Jones, Founder and CEO of 909Cyber, for a conversation about a challenge nearly every leader faces: moving faster while managing risk.

Drawing on his experience leading security programs at some of the world's largest technology companies and advising smaller organizations that operate with far fewer resources, Den discusses why security is often treated as a tradeoff rather than an enabler. The conversation covers how organizations create guardrails that help teams move confidently, why the real impact of a breach is ultimately measured at the data layer, and what changes as AI introduces new forms of identity, access, and decision-making. 

Den also shares lessons on building trust across organizations, designing protection that scales with the business, and keeping security focused on outcomes rather than bureaucracy. He also discusses why security teams that engage early tend to create more business value than those brought in at the end of a project.

Continue the conversation at NetApp INSIGHT 2026, September 29-October 1 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, where customers, partners, and technology leaders will come together to discuss what's next across AI, data, cloud, and cyber resilience.

Hosted By: Gabie Boko

Produced By: Kenya Hayes

In this episode of Unleashing Genius, NetApp CMO Gabie Boko sits down with Rob Tiffany, Research Director at IDC and author of Saving the Earth with the Internet of Things, to discuss how technologies originally built for the world's largest organizations can help solve real-world problems in communities, NGOs, agriculture, environmental monitoring, and beyond. 

The discussion explores why simplicity often beats complexity, how organizations can avoid carrying old processes into new technology eras, and why ownership, automation, and practical execution matter more than theoretical possibilities. From flood monitoring and water management to AI adoption and infrastructure design, Rob shares lessons from a career spent building technology at global scale and applying those same ideas to challenges that affect people everywhere. 

The result is a conversation about turning ideas into action and ensuring technology creates value for the people it is intended to serve. 

Host: Gabie Boko

Produced By: Kenya Hayes

In this episode of Unleashing Genius, NetApp's Chief Marketing Officer, Gabie Boko, is joined by Izzie Rivers, CEO and Founder of Realm B2B and Founder of R-ai Technologies, to explore how AI is reshaping the way buyers find and trust a brand, and what it takes for marketers to stay visible and credible in a world where discovery increasingly happens inside an AI answer.

As large language models absorb more of the buyer journey, the strategies marketers built for search and owned properties are no longer enough on their own. Izzie draws on her experience advising B2B brands and building an AI-native platform for enterprise media planning and buying to examine what a modern content and media strategy actually requires, from feeding multiple AI and search engines simultaneously to understanding where paid media still delivers an edge that organic reach cannot.

Underneath both shifts is the same foundation this series keeps returning to: accurate, current, and well-governed data is what separates AI that performs from AI that guesses. For marketers navigating the move from traffic metrics to pipeline impact, this episode is a practical look at what it means to build brand and media strategy on infrastructure that AI systems, and the buyers they serve, can actually trust.

Host: Gabie Boko

Produced By: Kenya Hayes

In this episode of Unleashing Genius, Gabie Boko welcomes Jesse Evans, Principal Solutions Architect at Infor, a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry, to discuss what happens when infrastructure stops working seamlessly in the background and starts affecting day-to-day operations.

As organizations scale healthcare workloads, deploy cloud-native applications, and manage AI workloads, the need for consistency and reliability becomes paramount. Drawing on Infor's healthcare applications running on Amazon EKS, the conversation examines how data access, storage efficiency, and infrastructure design directly influence performance and user experience.

The discussion focuses on what it takes to build environments that teams can rely on without hesitation. As AI becomes more deeply integrated into healthcare workflows, clean, consistently available data is becoming the foundation for innovation and better business outcomes.

Host: Gabie Boko

Produced By: Kenya Hayes

In the debut episode of Unleashing Genius, NetApp’s Chief Marketing Officer, Gabie Boko, is joined by Lisa Watts, Co-Founder and CEO of CREE8, to explore how creative teams keep work moving in real-time across distributed environments. 

Together, they examine the real-world pressures on workflows, including data access and movement. Lisa shares how her teams reduce bottlenecks and rethink data management to make real-time collaboration feel effortless.

In creative production, fast and reliable data access is essential. Drawing on CREE8’s experience, the episode shows what it takes to build consistent foundations for real-time collaboration at scale, helping organizations move from possibility to execution and deliver stronger creative outputs and better business results at scale. 

Host: Gabie Boko

Produced By: Kenya Hayes