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Let's Talk Shop

Elias Khnaser
Artificial Intelligence
Nvidia
Gemini
Google
Google Distributed Cloud
AWS
Kiro
Dark AI
Google Cloud WAN
Confidential Computing
AI Everywhere
IBM
Amazon
Google Cloud Storage
Devops
TPU
Google Cloud
Amazon Web Services
Raven Foresight
Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture

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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Lead developer experience, AIOps, and database partnerships at Google Cloud
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Leads product partnerships at Atlassian
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Martin Reynolds
Field CTO at Harness
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Ali Maz
From AWS, leads go-to-market for AWS's portfolio of developer services
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Episode: How AWS is Moving Beyond 'Bolt-On AI' to Full Autonomy
Asad Khan
Senior Director of Google Cloud Storage
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Episode: Storage Architect to AI: Is Your Data Performance Fast Enough?
Pankaj Kumar
Executive partner and AWS practice leader for energy, telco, tech and manufacturing at IBM Consulting
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Episode: AI in the Enterprise: Real World Use Cases & Reskilling
Justin Boitano
Executive at Nvidia, involved in enterprise AI strategy
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Episode: From Cloud to On-Prem: Gemini, GPUs, and the AI Anywhere Vision
Rohan Grover
Senior Director and Head of Product for Google Distributed Cloud
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Episode: From Cloud to On-Prem: Gemini, GPUs, and the AI Anywhere Vision

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Inside Raven Foresight: The Stealth Startup Building the First Cybersecurity Mesh Platform
Q: So Patrick, what the heck are you building?
We are building the Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture into the first Cybersecurity Mesh Platform called Raven ForeSight, an integrated SaaS that unifies security tools, runs multiple AI models in concert, and predicts and prevents threats in real time.
Google Cloud WAN: A New Era for Enterprise Networking Powered by AI
Q: Any thoughts on space-based or near-Earth connectivity for remote locations? Is Google planning to integrate such services?
Google is not in the last-mile space for satellite connectivity itself, but customers can connect to Google POPs via telco providers or managed ISVs and then ride the Google backbone for global reach; this remains a complementary option rather than a direct satellite service.
Google Cloud WAN: A New Era for Enterprise Networking Powered by AI
Q: Multi-cloud and openness: how does CloudWan work with AWS, Azure, or Oracle?
Google aims to accelerate the customer journey without locking them in; Cross-Cloud Interconnect and a broad ISV ecosystem enable secure, SLA-backed connectivity across clouds, allowing customers to use Google as a backbone while connecting to other cloud providers.
Google Cloud WAN: A New Era for Enterprise Networking Powered by AI
Q: Elaborate a little bit on CloudWan. How does CloudWan fit into this scenario? What does it do exactly?
CloudWan acts as a managed backbone that unifies enterprise connectivity, enabling secure, high-performance access from any location while integrating with customers' existing SD-WAN investments. It offers on-ramps, cross-site interconnect, and a globally managed security layer, designed to reduce fragmentation and TCO.
Dark AI Exposed: The Hidden Cybersecurity Threat No One Is Talking About
Q: Can you share a realistic example of what a dark AI attack might look like in the wild?
A plausible scenario is a dark AI with access to a broad toolbox of cyber attack techniques, aided by jailbroken LLMs that can systematically probe and exploit cloud environments, guided by prompts that bypass traditional guardrails, leading to rapid, automated exploitation.

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