GlobalEdgeTalk
GlobalEdgeTalk is a podcast about Global entrepreneurs, executives, and innovators. In our episodes, we will be combining the best of storytelling with the richness of our guests' experiences in business, market-entry, entrepreneurship, and lifestyle. We strive to inspire, empower and transform entrepreneurs, businessmen, business owners, and all involved and determined around the world. Our episodes feature guests with global experiences, from CEOs of Fortune 500 companies to software developers, from healthcare workers to published authors!
Episodes
107 episodes
What Happens When A Country Treats Quantum Like Infrastructure
Quantum computing is moving from lab experiments to scalable machines. This episode explores the "unglamorous" ingredients of this transition: infrastructure, specialized engineering, and the national strategies turning breakthroughs into produ...
What If Tariff Money Stayed In Your City
Tariffs do not feel abstract when you are the one trying to get a container released from the port. We sit down with Liz Picarazzi, founder and CEO of Citibin, to trace the full arc from a Brooklyn streetscape problem to a real manufacturing co...
Finland's Quantum Revolution: Inside the APS Summit
This episode, recorded in collaboration with Katri Raevuori (Business Finland), at the APS March Meeting, explores why Finland is a global hub for quantum and deep tech.Guests in this episode:Sirpa Salmi (Kvanttinova)
Goodbye Duty Free Shopping Hello Customs Entry Fees
A landmark Supreme Court decision on IEEPA has redefined the tariff landscape, ending broad emergency powers and forcing a shift to Section 122. For importers and manufacturers, this means a renewed focus on managing landed costs and navigating...
From Remote Finland To Global Markets: Founders Solving Transit, Industry And Climate
Joensuu is a small city in eastern Finland, close to the Russian border, and it keeps producing founders who think and build globally. Kasey Snyder steps in as guest host, bringing you conversations recorded at SOHJO with entrepreneurs proving ...
Is AI Making Enterprise Safer Or Scarier
Big enterprise customers can feel like the finish line: massive budgets, brand-name logos, and the kind of “we made it” credibility that looks great on a homepage. But we’ve seen the other side too, where the same deal becomes a slow grind of c...
The Best Way To Scale A Tech Company Is To Stop Selling Hours
The old way to grow an IT services firm is brutally straightforward: hire more people, ship more projects, track bench percentages, and hope margins hold. But that model starts to feel like a trap the moment “people” becomes your biggest constr...
How Rebuilding Ukraine Reveals The Smartest Risks Entrepreneurs Can Take
What happens when an entrepreneur stops narrating risk and starts pricing it? We sit down with Bruce Talley to follow a rare arc—from American capital markets to Russian real estate, from building Sochi’s Olympic logistics engine to advising on...
AI Can Ace The Test, But Who’s Grading The Soul?
What happens when the former CMO behind the Grammys decides prestige isn’t enough and builds an AI platform designed to make people think better, not just faster? We sit down with Evan Greene to unpack the leap from Disney, Sony, and the Record...
Legacy Rules, New Intelligence
Your core systems might be old, but the logic inside them still runs your business. We break down how to modernize those foundations without losing the rules that protect revenue, compliance, and reliability. With guest Ankit Shah of Netweb Sof...
AI Readiness In Healthcare, Without The Hype
The pressure to “do AI” in healthcare is real, but shipping a model isn’t the same as changing care. With Dr. Saima Anis—physician turned public health leader and enterprise IT strategist—we unpack how hospitals can adopt agentic AI responsibly...
Your Brand Isn’t A Robot, So Stop Marketing Like One
What happens when a Division I athlete turns a gaming refuge into a playbook for inclusive growth and human-centered marketing? We sit down with Erin Ashley Simon to trace her path from family-fueled passion to industry leadership and explore w...
Your Insulin Pump Wants A Cybersecurity Update
Healthcare breaches aren’t news anymore—they’re routine. I sat down with IEEE’s Maria Palombini to unpack how connected devices multiply risk, where vulnerabilities hide, and how “security by design” can harden medical tech without slowing inno...
From Wall Street To AI: Building Products That Actually Solve Problems
What if the fastest way to innovate is to protect what matters most — people, trust, and purpose? That’s the thread in our conversation with product leader Josette Simon, who moved from global finance to a high-velocity AI startup to build tool...
From Layoff to Legacy: Building a Personal Brand That Pays
Stop waiting for a title to validate your value. Alex sits down with internationally recognized mentor and TEDx speaker Katrena Friel to map a 90-day path from layoff anxiety and plateaus to a market-ready expert brand. A painful early misstep ...
From Tariffs to Checkout: Navigating Trade, Logistics, E‑commerce, and AI
Prices climb, promises hold, and the rules keep shifting—so how do we still deliver value? We bring together a tariff and compliance leader, a logistics operator, an e-commerce veteran, and an AI strategist to decode a market where volatility i...
How a Chef-Marketer Built Experiences That Scale
The story starts with a name and a camera, then crosses continents, kitchens, and boardrooms. Meet chef-turned-CMO Mariko Amekodommo — a career spanning broadcast journalism, Los Angeles supper clubs, and fractional marketing leadership for AI-...
From Code & Coffee to AI Ethics: Community, Creativity, and Careers
A packed hackathon, pizza boxes, and a room full of devs trading ideas—that’s where our conversation with Code & Coffee leaders Israel Santana and Charles Inwald begins. From there, we dive into what really moves a developer’s career forwar...
The Fourth Effect: Turning Boards into Growth Engines
Boardrooms don’t have to look like a scene from a courtroom drama. Alex sits down with Breen Sullivan—former big-law IP attorney turned startup general counsel and founder of The Fourth Effect—to unpack why so many startups avoid boards, how th...
AI in Regulated Industry Segments
Dive into the complex relationship between artificial intelligence and heavily regulated industries with our expert panel representing government, healthcare, energy, insurance, and telecommunications sectors. This compelling roundtable explore...
Expert Networks in the Age of AI: Transformation or Replacement?
What happens when specialized human expertise meets artificial intelligence? That's the fascinating question at the heart of my conversation with Alex Khomyakov, founder of
Real Coaching. Real Results — Leading with Clarity in a Chaotic World
What separates successful leaders from fulfilled ones? According to recovering Wall Street executive Marla Bace, it’s not another mindset hack—it’s getting real about what coaching is (and isn't) in a world addicted to “high-ticket offers” and ...
From Banking Profitability to ScienceTech Innovation: An Investor’s Journey with Konstantin Shvarts
What drives an accomplished physicist with expertise in international banking to pivot toward healthcare, finance, and other science investments? For