Think AI Podcast

🎙️ Speed Is No Longer a Moat | Alex Galert, BRNZ

Everyone in AI is racing to ship faster. Alex Galert, CEO of BRNZ, says that race is already over, and speed was never the real advantage. In this conversation he breaks down why accountability, not velocity, is the new moat, and how his studio builds complete AI-powered companies for equity, with a 67% founder floor in writing and zero investors.

In this episode:

00:00 The thesis: why speed stopped being a moat

01:31 The Hero Founder and 10,000 hours in one industry

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🎙️ There Is No Magic Wand: What AI Can (And Cannot) Actually Do

Dilip Bagrecha built mission-critical financial systems at RBS and UBS where failure wasn't an option. Now, as founder and CEO of Wishtree Technologies, he's watching enterprises treat AI like it can solve everything—and it's not working. In this episode, we unpack why only 5% of enterprises have truly adopted AI, the reliability discipline that separates real engineering from hype, and the uncomfortable truth most AI consultants won't say out loud: there is no magic wand.

In this episode:
(00:00) The reliability standard that built g...

🎙️ The Myth of Too Small to Hack

Tom Kirkham, founder and CEO of Kirkham IronTech and two-time Amazon bestselling author of Hack the Rich, sits down with Dave to break down how AI has turned phishing and ransomware into a high-volume numbers game, and why he says over 90% of breaches still come down to one thing: human failure.

In this episode:

00:00 Tom's ISIS kill list story and why "why would a hacker want me" is the wrong question

03:37 How AI personalizes phishing emails at scale

08:41 The C...

🎙️ Data First, AI Second, People Always | Scot Burdette, ABB CIO

"𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻." - Scot Burdette

Scot Burdette runs digital transformation at ABB across 3 business lines, 60+ countries, and 17 factories. 40 years in technology, from HP and EDS to global division CIO, and a 2025 Ohio ORBIE Awards global finalist. In this conversation with Dave Goyal, he lays out a simple order of operations: 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁. 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱. 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀.

We get into the unglamorous data plumbing nobody celebrates, why a demo is the easy part, what good data means across 60 countries, capturing hard-won knowledge before people retire, and how the CIO role moved from the basement to the boardroom.

If you lead data, AI, or a team through change, this one is for you.

⏱️ Chapters:
00:00 Meet Scot Burdette: 40 years, 60+ countries, 17 factories
01:01 A day when...

🎙️ Prescription Before Diagnosis is Malpractice | Sung Paik, Data QI

"Prescription before diagnosis is malpractice." Most AI is sold backwards, and Sung Paik came with the autopsy. In this episode, Dave Goyal sits down with Sung Paik, VP of AI Go-To-Market for North America and Field CTO at Data QI, to break down why most manufacturing AI projects die in pilot purgatory, and what the 5 percent that actually work do differently.

They get into the data foundation nobody wants to fix, the 6 percent output jump that added $3.6 million to one production line, the silver tsunami retiring out o...

🎙️ Meet My AI Crew

I opened the garage door on the system that runs my company. Not a chatbot. A real crew of AI employees with names, jobs, and shifts that show up on my calendar every morning. I will not hand you the secret wiring, but by the end you will know exactly what is possible and have the shape to build your own.

**In this episode:**
00:00 The handbike and the garage door
01:11 The real bottleneck was me
03:24 What an AI employee actually is (not a chatbot)
05:29 Meet the c...

🎙️ The 5F's of a Legendary Life | Coach Kevin

Coach Kevin has coached more than 40,000 people across five continents, from everyday entrepreneurs to heirs and billionaires. In this episode he tells Dave Goyal what almost every single one of them got wrong about success, why his first three billionaire clients were suicidal, and how to build KPIs for the parts of your life that actually matter: your marriage, your kids, your fitness, your faith.

We get into the Five Facets framework (Fitness, Faith, Family, Finance, Fun), why a grind season is fine but a "season" without an en...

🎙️ Grow Without Sacrifice

This is an episode about three things that looked unrelated and turned out to be the same thing: a composer, a hand bike, and an AI workforce. If you have ever felt like the business you built was the thing standing between you and the life you actually wanted, this one is for you. By the end, I'll show you how an AI workforce gave me back my Saturdays, my hobby, and my today.

In this episode:

00:00 The dark monitor moment that changed everything

03:30 Why s...

🎙️ Why 90% of Manufacturing POCs Die with Naresh Mehta

After 20+ years building enterprise tech for global manufacturers across India, Mexico, and the US, Naresh Mehta has lived through every wave from Excel dashboards to digital twins to agentic AI to physical AI. In this conversation, he gets blunt about why most manufacturing AI projects never make it to production, names a brand new trap nobody is talking about (intelligence silos), and walks through two real deployments that prove what works when you stop chasing the model and start respecting the plumbing.

We get into a real agent...

The Long Arc of Data and AI with Reza Rad

Reza Rad has watched every Microsoft data platform turn since SQL Server. 15-time MVP. Founder of RADACAD. Author of seven books. 10 million YouTube views. In this episode he tells Dave Goyal exactly which workforce AI is replacing, why your Copilot output is only as good as your star schema, and what a 22-year-old should spend the next two years learning if they want to survive the next decade.

In this episode:

00:00 Cold open: Who AI is actually replacing

00:34 Welcome and intro<...

What do music and regulated manufacturing AI have in common? More than you'd think. Nilesh Maheshwari, founder of Emorphis, Emorphis Health, and Yuktra AI, joins Dave Goyal to unpack why the hardest places to deploy AI (pharma, healthcare, regulated plants) demand faithfulness over cleverness — and why structure and freedom aren't opposites.

In this episode:

00:00 Why a "knowledge thread" beats a database on the shop floor

04:17 The real pain signal that built Yuktra (hint: it wasn't "we want AI")

07:08 Guardrails for regulated AI — why clever LLMs are dangerous

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What happens when a cybersecurity leader who has sat on every side of the tech table — customer, reseller, distributor, and vendor — decides the future belongs to AI? Alex Ryals, CISO and SVP at MicroAge (celebrating 50 years!), breaks down why most companies are getting AI security dangerously wrong, and what to do before you flip the switch on Copilot or any AI tool.

In this episode:
00:05 — Intro: Alex's rare career journey across all four sides of the tech channel
03:47 — Why Alex traded global scale at TD SYNNEX for a smaller, more impactful role
10:53 — As a CISO, how...

Everyone wants AI. But most companies are skipping the step that determines whether it works or blows up in their face. Alex Ryals, CISO and SVP at MicroAge, has seen it from every angle — customer, reseller, distributor, and vendor. His message is simple: get your data in order first, or Copilot will expose every permission mistake you made in the last 20 years.

In this episode:
00:05 — Alex's journey across all four sides of the tech channel
03:47 — Why he chose smaller and broader over bigger and specialized
10:53 — How a CISO balances "move fast" with "stay safe"
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What happens when someone with 17 years of IT strategy experience gets a front-row seat to the AI transformation inside a global tech enterprise? Priya Udeshi is Chief of Staff to the CIO and Head of IT PMO, sitting at the intersection of AI strategy, governance, and execution. She shares how she balances enterprise-scale agent deployments with democratized AI for every employee, why old governance frameworks are breaking, and what CIOs need to do right now to stop falling behind.

In this episode:
00:00 Meet Priya Udeshi: From PMO leader to Chief of Staff
05:25 AI curious vs...

🎙️ Inside the Factory: Real-Time AI Intelligence for Manufacturing | Think AI Podcast Ep. 3

Your machines already know what's wrong — but nobody's listening. Dave Goyal takes you inside 4 real manufacturing companies to show how real-time data and AI transformed their operations. Plus: a 4-layer framework to get started and 7 AI use cases you can implement now.

⏱️ In this episode:

00:21 – Why your factory machines are smarter than your spreadsheets

03:15 – The data silo problem: ERP, MES, and PLCs that don't talk

06:30 – 98% exploring AI, only 20% ready — here's why

08:45 – Case Study 1: Professional audio eq...

The U.S. healthcare system loses $260 billion a year. Not from malpractice. From paperwork, billing errors, and missing data.

In this episode, Dave Goyal — founder of Think AI (top 1% of 500,000 Microsoft partners), Harvard-trained in AI for healthcare — shares 15+ years of real healthcare projects. No theory. No hype.

You’ll hear how he built a claims system from zero that generated $100M+ in annual revenue. How he designed data strategies for entire health networks. How he helped non-profit hospitals turn buried patient records into life-saving insights.

Plus: six back-office AI use cases any healthcare org ca...

Episode 1: From Leg Braces to Leading AI — My Story
What does a kid who couldn't walk in central India have to do with artificial intelligence? Everything.

In this debut episode of the Think AI Podcast, Dave Goyal shares the unfiltered story behind the brand — from growing up with a physical disability in Indore, India, to building one of the top 1% Microsoft Data & AI consulting firms in the world. You'll hear about the father who carried him to school, the best friend who taught him to ride, 400 walk-in interviews in six months, building a system that took a me...