Is AI evolving beyond software into a new form of digital labor?

In this episode of Technoventure, Peter High speaks with Sandhya Venkatachalam, Co-Founder and General Partner at Axiom Partners, about the next phase of artificial intelligence.

Sandhya argues that AI is moving from a tool that assists humans to systems capable of performing entire jobs, from data science to network engineering. This shift could expand AI’s economic impact far beyond traditional software markets.

Key topics include:

• Why AI is transitioning from software tools to digital workers

• How Axiom Partners is building an AI-native venture capital firm

• Opportunities for AI in industries like construction, legal, and infrastructure

• The importance of creating insanely useful and usable products

• How founders can build companies serving billions of people globally

Enterprise leaders are investing heavily in AI, but many struggle to generate measurable business value.

In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Kellie Romack of ServiceNow about how the company is scaling AI across its operations to produce real, quantifiable results.

ServiceNow has already generated $355 million in AI-driven value internally, with automation resolving many service requests instantly and improving operational efficiency across the enterprise.

Key topics include:

• How ServiceNow runs its own platform internally as Customer Zero

• Examples of AI resolving 90% of some IT service requests on first touch

• Why AI governance and oversight are essential at enterprise scale

• How automation transforms the workforce rather than replacing it

• Lessons for CIOs seeking real ROI from AI investments

Healthcare systems have traditionally been designed around individual encounters, not the patient journey.

In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Rajan Mohan, Chief Marketing and Digital Experience Officer at Ascension Health, about how digital platforms, marketing strategy, and AI are reshaping how healthcare organizations engage patients.

Drawing from leadership roles at Marriott International and Qatar Airways, Rajan explains how consumer-grade experience design can transform healthcare delivery.

Key highlights include:

• Why healthcare must shift from encounters to coordinated patient journeys

• How marketing and digital teams can align around shared growth outcomes

• The role of AI in expanding healthcare capacity

• How personalization removes barriers to accessing care

• Why pricing transparency matters more than faster appointments

In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Stephen Witt, award-winning journalist and author of The Thinking Machine, which has been named Business Book of the Year by Financial Times. Witt writes about Jensen Huang’s improbable journey from near-bankruptcy in the 1990s GPU wars to leading NVIDIA at the center of the AI revolution. Witt unpacks how NVIDIA defeated nearly 70 competitors, why Huang began targeting “zero-billion-dollar markets,” and how CUDA became the backbone of modern AI.

Key highlights from the episode:

• How investing in zero-billion-dollar markets created durable platform advantage

• The emerging bull and bear cases for NVIDIA in robotics, edge computing, and global competition

• The strategic lessons NVIDIA extracted from surviving a 70-competitor GPU market

• Why operating with a constant “near-death” mindset shaped long-term execution discipline

What happens when you put revenue and technology under one executive leader?

In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Drew Pinto, Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue and Technology Officer at Marriott International, a $26 billion hospitality leader approaching its 100-year anniversary. Pinto shares how Marriott is transforming technology from a support function into a strategic growth engine — tightly integrated with capital allocation, AI experimentation, and commercial outcomes.

Key highlights include:

• Why Marriott merged revenue and IT under a single executive mandate

• How disciplined capital allocation is shaping AI investments

• The shift from “tech for tech’s sake” to measurable business impact

• Why most “technology problems” are actually data problems

• How a new product operating model is breaking down silos

🎧 Listen to learn how modern CIOs can align IT strategy directly to top-line growth.

Is AI just another tech bubble or the defining platform shift of this era?

Duncan Davidson, Co-Founder and General Partner at Bullpen Capital, argues that the answer lies in one critical distinction: Is the technology being used for its core purpose? In this episode of Technoventure, Duncan draws on his experience across the PC boom, dot-com era, mobile, and now AI to explain why real adoption signals durability.

He also explores why CIOs can’t afford to sit out a boom, how AI agents may disrupt the SaaS model, and why history suggests productivity revolutions create more opportunity than they destroy. For technology leaders navigating board-level AI pressure, this conversation reframes the question from timing the bubble to strategically participating in the inflection.

Key insights include:

• Why core-use adoption determines whether AI is hype or a true platform shift

• Why leaders must participate in tech booms rather than try to time the peak

• How to distinguish defensible AI innovation from fragile “wrapper” plays

• What historical signals indicate when a technology boom is nearing exhaustion

How do you scale AI in a regulated enterprise without risking trust, compliance, or credibility?

In this episode of Technovation, Nick Colisto, CIO of Avery Dennison, and Sathish Muthukrishnan, Chief Information, Data & Digital Officer at Ally Financial, share how they are moving from AI pilots to measurable enterprise impact.

From governance-first implementation inside a federally regulated bank to CFO-grade ROI tracking across a global manufacturing enterprise, this conversation focuses on the discipline required to operationalize AI at scale.

Key highlights include:

• Why one AI misstep can set a regulated enterprise back years

• How to win over risk, audit, and compliance before scaling

• Embedding “human-in-the-loop” safeguards from day one

• Measuring AI-enabled initiatives using EBIT and IRR

• Taking credit for AI embedded in SaaS platforms

If you’re leading AI in a regulated or board-visible environment, this episode offers a pragmatic blueprint for scaling responsibly.

🎧 Listen to learn how CIOs are turning AI experimentation into enterprise value.

Can trust be engineered into digital systems or is it purely cultural?

In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia and author of The Seven Rules of Trust, about designing platforms that scale without sacrificing integrity. From neutrality policies to radical transparency and human-in-the-loop AI governance, Wales shares how trust must be built, not assumed.

Key highlights from the episode:

• Why trust operates at a human scale, even inside global platforms

• How incentives shape behavior, and why ad-driven models distort integrity

• Lessons from Airbnb’s early trust crisis

• Managing generative AI with human oversight

• Neutrality as a strategic discipline in polarized times