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Beyond Adoption — What Meaningful AI Engagement Actually Looks Like
In this roundtable, Kristian McCann brings together a panel of experts to unpack one of the biggest AI challenges in business today: why usage numbers are rising, but real productivity gains are still lagging. The conversation explores the gap ...
SMS OTP Is Failing – Here’s What Comes Next, According to Vonage and AT&T
In this UC Today interview, host Kristian McCann sits down with Kunal Shukla, GM and Head of Network APIs at Vonage, and Chung H. Lee, AVP of Product Innovation at AT&T Business, to unpack why traditional authentication methods are breaking...
The Hidden Risks of Hybrid Work for UC Security
In this UC Today interview, host Kristian McCann speaks with Darren Anstee, Chief Technology Officer for Security at NetScout, about one of the most urgent questions facing IT leaders today: how do you keep business communication running when a...
The New Mobile Edge: Balancing Native UC Mobility with Next-Gen Voice Security
Kristian McCann is joined by William Rubio, Chief Revenue Officer at CallTower, and Craig Durr, Chief Analyst and Founder of The Collab Collective, to explore why traditional mobile UC models are struggling to keep pace wit...
Why Employee Wellbeing Should Start with Data Visibility, Not Perks
In this UC Today interview, host Kristian McCann speaks with Callum Pennington, CEO & Co-Founder of HBHR, to unpack a growing issue facing modern organizations: employee wellbeing that’s treated as a bolt-on rather than a business-critical ...
Frontline-First Communications: Connecting the Workforce Where It Matters Most - Mitel
In this interview, Mitel CTO Luiz Domingos discusses why frontline-first, voice-first communications are becoming essential operational infrastructure — and why organisations can no longer afford to connect their entire workforce with th...
Cisco TMS Sunset: Why the Obvious Next Step Isn’t Always "the Cloud"
Cisco TMS is approaching end of life, and organizations across the enterprise collaboration landscape are now facing major decisions about the future of their video infrastructure.In this episode of UC Today, Kristian McCann speaks with...
Picking a Winner: Why Formula E Selected HiBob's HCM Platform
In this UC Today conversation, host Kristian McCann speaks with Hayley Mann, Chief People Officer at Formula E, about why the all-electric racing series picked HiBob with its people operations.Formula E is not just managing people; it i...
AI-Driven SOCs: What PwC Is Seeing and What Security Leaders Should Do
AI is reshaping the security operations center (SOC), shifting it from a manual, reactive function into a faster, intelligence-driven environment. For organizations dealing with alert fatigue and limited analyst capacity, AI is becoming a pract...
Data Security, AI Compliance: The Two Blind Spots Your Compliance Solution Can't Ignore - Smarsh
In this session of UC Today, host Kristian McCann sits down with Simon Peters, Director of Channel Sales at Smarsh, to unpack one of the most pressing questions facing regulated industries in 2026: Is your compliance solution really secu...
Before the Breach: Translating Cyber Risk So It Stays on the C-Suite Agenda
In this episode of UC Today, host Kristian McCann sits down with Bill Dunnion, Chief Information Security Officer at Mitel, to unpack one of the most persistent challenges in enterprise security: getting cybersecurity onto the C-suite agenda be...
Security & Compliance | Securing the Enterprise in the Age of AI Agents
Agentic AI is moving from a promising productivity tool to a security problem that enterprise leaders can no longer ignore. In the conversation below, Kristian speaks with Irina Tsukerman, President at Scarab Rising; Shlomi Beer, Co-Founder ...
Big UC Update 2026: VOSS
Host Kieran Devlin (UC Today) sits down with Mike Frayne, CEO at Voss, for the 2026 Big UC Update. They unpack what’s changed over the last 12 months—from AI adoption to platform consolidation—and why digital workplace management is beco...
Unseen Exits: Tracking Data Leakage in the Age of UC Collaboration
In this interview, UC Today's Kristian McCann sits down with Bob Pruett, Senior Solutions Architect at Myriad360, to tackle one of the most underappreciated security risks in modern business: data leakage through everyday collaboration tools. M...
Q-SYS + Microsoft: Why Your Teams Rooms Investment Is Only Half the Story
Most enterprises have deployed Microsoft Teams Rooms and the core meeting experience is working. But beyond the meeting room sits a much larger opportunity, lobbies, huddle spaces, event venues, open collaboration areas, and most organisations ...
Why Operating Models – not Tech – Are Blocking Digital Transformation
In this UC Today interview, host Kieran Devlin speaks with Volker Pfirsching, Partner and Head of Innovation Management (Europe) at Arthur D. Little. Together, they unpack a hard truth many CIOs are now confronting: the biggest barrier to digit...
From Automation to Autonomy: How Intelligent Fabrics Are Changing Cloud and UC Operations - Voss
Join Kieran Devlin, Host at UC Today, as he sits down with Tim Jalland, Solution Manager at VOSS, to unpack the rapid evolution of IT operations. As cloud environments like Microsoft 365 undergo hundreds of feature changes a year, static...
From Input to Intent and Beyond: Uncovering Behavioral Risks in the Age of AI
In this executive conversation, Marcus Law is joined by Dan Nadir, Chief Product Officer at Theta Lake, and Irwin Lazar, President and Principal Analyst at Metrigy, to explore how generative and agentic AI are creating entirely ne...
Is AI Causing Employee Burnout – Or Curing It?
In this interview, Christopher Carey sits down with Snorre Kjesbu from Cisco to unpack AI’s real impact on the employee experience. Snorre makes the case that AI is an antidote to burnout, not a cause of it – freeing employees from busy work so...
The Blueprint for the AI-Powered Office With Crestron
Join UC Today’s Kieran Devlin as he sits down with Brad Hintze, Executive Vice President of Global Marketing, and Joel Mulpeter, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Crestron. While the tech industry is understandably captivate...
AI Risk in UC and Contact Centers: How to Reduce Sprawl and Stay Compliant Without Slowing Delivery - CallTower
Join UC Today host Kieran Devlin as he sits down with William Rubio, Chief Revenue Officer at CallTower, and Elka Popova, Vice President and Senior Fellow at Frost & Sullivan. As AI features rapidly light up across communicati...
AI & Productivity Show: Copilot, Agents, and What’s Actually Working
In the first episode of the UC Today AI & Productivity Show, Marcus Law hosts a roundtable on what AI productivity looks like in the real world — what’s delivering value today, what’s still not landing, and what leaders should focus on next...
GenAI’s Unexpected Power Users: Big Banks are Driving Adoption, says Loopio CEO
In this UC Today interview, host Christopher Carey speaks with Loopio CEO Zak Hemraj about Loopio’s latest industry report on the impact of generative AI on the workforce - and one headline stands out: over 80% of teams are now using AI in thei...
From Floor Plan to 3D View: Why Visualizing Your AV Space Saves You from Costly Mistakes
Kristian McCann speaks with Ryan Holmes, Digital Workspace Solution Architect at New Era Technology, about how 3D visualization is helping enterprises plan AV refreshes with far more confidence than traditional 2D drawings....
Why AI Literacy Is Hurting Productivity: Forrester's JP Gownder
Despite billions being spent on AI tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot and Google Workspace, most employees still aren't ready to use them effectively: and it's becoming a productivity problem.In this interview, JP Gownder, VP and Principa...