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March 20, 2025
How Infosys is Rebooting AI Innovation For What’s Next In Business – Rafee Tarafdar, CTO Infosys
The vast ocean of AI has become challenging for some companies, while being THE driving force in other organizations innovation strategies across sectors. You could call it an Innovation Crisis. The world’s top companies and governments need better partners who can help them navigate these choppy waters and seize the growth opportunities ahead. In some sectors—it is going to be eat or be eaten.To provide some insider knowledge on how major players are approaching these opportunities, tech. guru and Infosys Chief Technology Officer, Rafee Tarafdar , joins this episode of The Reboot Chronicles. With 300,000 employees operating in 56 countries and over $19B in revenue, Infosys is a titan in digital transformation, AI deployment and other critical growth-path platform development.Watch or listen as Rafee unpacks the challenges of bringing AI to scale, lessons for businesses and CEOs, how Infosys faced those issues by doing it in-house first, and how many of the world’s largest companies are becoming AI-first businesses.

March 12, 2025
What Leaders Can Learn From Sports, Media, and Washington DC Reboots, Ted Leonsis - CEO Monumental
In this Special Extended Edition of The Reboot Chronicles Ted Leonsis joins us with untold stories you will only hear here.
Ted is founder, chairman, and CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment, one of the largest integrated sports and entertainment companies that has the most diverse partnership groups in all of sports. The billion-dollar group includes eight teams, like the NHL’s Capitals, the NBA’s Wizards, and the WNBA’s Mystics; five venues including the Capital One Arena in Washington DC; and massive media, esports, and betting platforms—and other ventures changing the industry.
An early Internet pioneer, Ted was Vice Chairman and President of AOL, and cofounded Revolution Growth with Steve Case. A board member at Groupon and American Express, he also serves on the board of governors for the NBA, NHL, and WNBA—helping them reboot the next generation of sports, media, entertainment, and technology.
Watch or listen as we unpack impactful and entertaining lessons you can use to reboot your business, why he bucked the trend and sold his AOL holdings, how he is upgrading Washington DC—and where he almost dropped the Stanley Cup.
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March 4, 2025
Your Next Career Shift Could Include Moving To Dubai, Jaroslaw Pietraszko - CIO IFFCO
This week’s Reboot Chronicles Show is our second episode coming to you from #ZohoDay25, Zoho’s annual Analyst gathering in Austin Texas. With top global business and financial analysts and CxOs from the world’s top corporations, this invite-only conference, with top speakers from around the world, debuts the hottest technology, AI trends, what people want, and what’s coming next.
One conference speaker is IFFCO CIO Jaroslaw Pietraszko. The multibillion-dollar UAE leader is the most diversified multinational group in the Middle East, employing 15,000 people, in 50 countries, representing 85 nationalities who manage a portfolio of 80 brands, in over 100 markets. Watch or listen in as Jaroslaw shares the latest enterprise trends, innovation challenges, what’s next in the global consumer goods industry—and what its like to reboot yourself and move to Dubai.
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February 23, 2025
You Can’t Always Get What You Want From Broadband Or Phone Providers, Christopher Smith - VP TELUS
This week’s Reboot Chronicles Show is coming to you from #ZohoDay25, Zoho’s annual Analyst gathering in Austin Texas. With top global business and financial analysts and CxO’s from the world’s top corporations, this invite-only conference debuts the hottest technology, AI trends, what people want, and what’s coming next.
Most companies are frantically rebooting their growth plans to meet the realities of fierce AI enabled competition. Though many are focused on how to be more competitive, or provide better experiences for their customers, the telecom sector has often lagged behind. Companies can no longer just provide broadband and mobile services to stay ahead, they have to do more. A lot more. Things like seamless connectivity among devices and even smart homes are table stakes in the hyper-competitive home and office automation enablement landscape.
One company, Telus Communications, is giving customers what they want. One of the world’s largest telecom companies, with 140,000 employees and approx. 20 million customers that generate over $20B in annual revenue, Telus provides commonsense reboot lessons that CxO’s can use now. VP Christopher Smith joins us on this episode of the Reboot Chronicles, for a behind the scenes preview of what he and his colleagues are doing to reboot and expand the category—and how he made the personal transition from startups to corporate life.

February 13, 2025
Radical Drug Discovery-Higher Ed’s Right To Win, Daniel Diermeier - Chancellor Vanderbilt University
As we head into the second half of the decade chock-full of massive change and innovation, The Reboot Chronicles wanted to know how higher education will reboot itself to not just meet our global challenges—but lead the way. While AI has broken the rules of growth and innovation, supercharging most business sectors whether they wanted it or not, most of our institutions are not riding the wave or even keeping up—except for a few.
One of America’s top universities that is ahead of the pack, bucking the trends, and hitting on all cylinders is Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt's top dog, Chancellor Daniel Diermeier, joins us on this action packed episode with a behind the scenes tour of how they are rebooting higher education and preparing to teach future innovators to make an impact.
An internationally renowned political scientist, management scholar, and visionary business leader, under Daniel’s leadership Vanderbilt has been on a tear, with its endowment booming to $10B and over $1B in external research funding, setting record for licensing revenues—surpassing traditional innovation leaders Stanford and MIT. Listen in as we unpack how he is breaking down culture walls and empowering people with the right to win to drive radical collaboration—and his personal reboot that may help you decide to follow your heart.
#growth #innovation #therebootchronicles #deandebiase #BuildBuyBorrow #HigherEducation #UniversityLeadership #EducationReform #InnovationInEducation #FutureOfUniversities #ArtificialIntelligence #AIInEducation #AIInnovation #TechLeadership #AIResearch #BiomedicalResearch #DrugDiscovery #PersonalizedMedicine #MedicalAI #HealthcareInnovation #VanderbiltUniversity #DanielDiermeier

February 4, 2025
Protecting Your Business And Yourself From AI Enabled Cyber Threats , Jay Chaudhry - CEO Zscaler
There is a good chance that a cyberattack is happening while you are reading this or watching a Reboot Chronicles show episode. From phishing email attacks and ransomware threats to malware penetrating old security systems – bad actors are constantly looking for the next way to break through cybersecurity systems. These attacks can impact any of us personally, from identity theft to financial ruin – and they are costing corporations and governments (aka tax payers) billions of dollars every year. With massive threats evolving faster than ever, Jay Chaudhry, Chairman and CEO of industry leader Zscaler, joins us for this action packed episode of The Reboot Chronicles – with advice on how companies can safeguard their future. Approaching $3B in annual revenue, Zscaler is one of the fastest growing cyber companies on the planet and is deployed by 45% of the Fortune 500. Listen in as Dean and Jay unpack critical strategies businesses need to thrive in an AI /Cloud era, as threats get more sophisticated and demands more critical. #growth #innovation #therebootchronicles #deandebiase #BuildBuyBorrow #AI #JayChaudhry #Cybersecurity #ZeroTrust #DataProtection #CloudSecurity #NetworkSecurity #InformationSecurity #CISO #AI #MachineLearning #TechInnovation #FutureofTech #CorporateSecurity #Boardroom #Zscaler #Microsoft #Google #Netflix #Coca-Cola #CloudComputing #CastleAndMoat #Firewalls #PowerUtilities #Utility #Hyperscalers

January 30, 2025
Never Leave Serendipity To Chance, Rob Wolcott - Cofounder Clareo & TWIN Global
Last week’s Reboot Chronicles episode helped people and companies determine where to invest—especially since President Trump announced approximately $1 trillion in AI and infrastructure investments in the U.S. On this episode we look ahead to where CEO’s need to invest to better prepare for the challenging demands and technology opportunities they will face in the second half of this decade. Rob Wolcott, founder of Clareo, the Kellogg Innovation Network, and Twin Global is a thought leader, strategist, and C-suite advisor who has spent decades helping companies see beyond their immediate horizons. Watch or listen in as Rob takes us on a journey through the growth and innovation issues organizations are facing in our upside-down tech-enabled industries, which are pushing leaders to embrace a vision with proximity, adaptability…and even serendipity.

January 22, 2025
Investing In And Seizing The Trump Effect Momentum, Adam Johnson - Bullseye Investment Group
With President Trump sworn into office again, over ½ trillion-dollars of AI infrastructure deals announced with Stargate and DAMAC, and markets up—business leaders and consumers are looking for the best guidance on where to invest in next.
A top FOX Business portfolio manager/panelist and previous Bloomberg Television anchor, Adam Johnson unpacks it all on this episode of The Reboot Chronicles. A sought after investment guru, Adam manages the American Ingenuity Platform at Bullseye Investment Group. Listen in for common sense insights on taking advantage of the “Trump Effect”, where to invest, the state of U.S. competitiveness, and how everyone can navigate change moving forward.

January 15, 2025
Reinventing Companies In The Age Of Intelligence, CEO Josh Bersin
On The Reboot Chronicles Show we predominantly talk to organizations that have undergone or are currently going through a reboot to learn how leaders are adapting to an ever-changing world. Our audience learns best from leaders who take zoomed-out approaches to rebooting, and share the trends and disruptions they are seeing across sectors—with game plans they are formulating toward the future.
Josh Bersin, started several companies, one of which he sold to Deloitte. Since then, he founded The Josh Bersin Company and Academy, a human advisory firm, executive networking and co-learning community. On top of all of that, he is the author of the book Irresistible, and runs a conference under the same name. Listen in and learn about how to reboot organizations with AI, the struggles of getting the C-suite to adapt, and tips for the next generations of workers.

December 18, 2024
How To Democratize Financial Services For 230 Million People, Rodrigo Teijeiro - CEO RecargaPay
Here at the Reboot Chronicles, we have had the pleasure of talking with many disruptive brands shaking up the big dogs of industry. One that has had several disruptors globally has been Fintech with companies like Brex, Affirm (previous episodes) and many others changing how people can interact with their money. Today's guest Rodrigo Teijeiro is a disruptor on a mission to democratize financial services with his RecargaPay mobile app. It has been a long tough journey for Rodrigo to make RecargaPay a one-stop shop for people in Brazil to interact with their finances. Starting as an app that just allowed people to top-up their mobile phone plans from their phone, they now provide mobile wallets, digital financial services, and an even greater payment platform. Over the last handful of years, this 600-person remote-only company has raised over $150 million, serves millions people, and has an annual transaction volume approaching $4B. That’s huge. Follow along as we hear Rodrigo’s story about how he almost didn’t make it and how he will continue democratizing financial services.
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