
Coming to you from the Windy City, and hosted by Elias Khnaser! Welcome to Lets Talk Shop! A Podcast about all things cloud and enterprise tech. Listen to insights and guest interviews with IT thought leaders and professionals.
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 69 | Founded | 4 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | BusinessEntrepreneurshipTechnology | |||

Elias Khasner welcomes back Patrick Hevesi and Kevin Railsback to discuss Raven ForeSight — the flagship predictive cybersecurity platform from Cyber Mesh Security.
In this conversation, Patrick Hevesi (Creator of Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture) a... more
Is AI the ultimate tool for humanity—or its greatest security threat?
In this episode of Let’s Talk Shop, host Elias Khnaser sits down with cybersecurity expert Patrick Hevesi to explore the chilling reality of Dark AI. Patrick, a former Gartner co... more
In this special episode, coming to you on the heels of Google Next, host Elias Khnaser sits down with an elite panel of industry experts to dive deep into the intersection of Generative AI and DevOps. We explore how AI is moving beyond simple code ge... more
Welcome to Let’s Talk Shop! In this episode, host Elias Khnaser is joined by cloud industry expert Sanjeev Mohan to break down the biggest takeaways from AWS re:Invent.
The landscape of cloud and enterprise tech is shifting rapidly, and keeping up w... more
How close are we to building Jarvis from Iron Man? Host Elias Khnaser sits down with Ali Maaz, AWS's leader for Go-to-Market Developer Services, to discuss how Amazon Q (Kiro) is transforming from a simple coding assistant to an Autonomous Agent and ... more
Is storage is the new bottleneck in the age of AI? Elias Khnaser and Asad Khan, Senior Director of Google Cloud Storage, discuss this topic in depth. While all the spotlight is on fast, expensive GPUs and TPUs, Elias and Asad are back to basics.
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The honeymoon phase of AI is over. Elias Khnaser discusses with Pankaj Kumar, Executive Partner at IBM Consulting, the practical realities of deploying Agentic AI in the enterprise—beyond simple chatbots.
Recorded live from AWS re:Invent 2025, this ... more
The AI Revolution is here, but what about enterprises dealing with sensitive data, regulatory compliance, and low latency requirements? They can't always move to the public cloud—but now, they don't have to choose between compliance and innovation.
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A focus on cloud, AI, and enterprise infrastructure with a strong emphasis on agentic AI, autonomous workflows, and governance for large-scale deployments. Episodes frequently explore how AI agents change software delivery, DevOps, and data management—from practical use cases in the enterprise to architecture patterns, security considerations, and interoperability standards. Noteworthy threads include governance frameworks, cost-aware AI infrastructure, on-prem and cloud hybrids, and real-world case studies from major tech vendors, which together help listeners assess risks, opportunities, and implementation steps for enterprise-scale AI and cloud initiatives.
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Recent guests on Let's Talk Shop include:
1. Patrick Hevesi
2. Utkarsh (UT)
3. Don Baer
4. Martin Reynolds
5. Ali Maz
6. Asad Khan
7. Pankaj Kumar
8. Justin Boitano
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