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Deconstructing the best practices, principles, and philosophies that lead to building the best product teams.
Welcome to the Convergence podcast! I'm Ashok Sivanand and I've created the Convergence podcast to help you build the most engaged product teams who can ship the most successful products. My passion for products and timing stems from a combination of my working in Japanese manufacturing, building IoT software products for lean manufacturers, and working at industry powerhouses in product like Pivotal Labs. This passion led to founding Integral in 2017, a product engineering consultancy that enables our clients to harness technology to develop better products, grow their revenue streams, and enable new business models. We've had the pleasure to collaborate with brands like Ford, Honda, Rocket Mortgage, Airstream, and Bosch to enable their teams and build some amazing products in artificial intelligence, cloud, mobile, and web. On the Convergence podcast, I'll be speaking with industry leaders, as well as sharing insights from my team on deconstructing the best practices, principles, and philosophies that lead to building the best product teams. If you're a chief product officer, a chief technology officer, or a VP of engineering, or you're growing towards one of those roles, I highly recommend you subscribe to the Convergence Podcast and get some of the insights that will help you lead your product teams and enable them to consistently ideate, validate and ship products that your customers love. Products that will help you grow your business.
How CEOs Can Play AI Offense (Stop Delegating Your Strategy)
Stop treating AI as a sales shortcut and start redesigning your business from the ground up to survive the fastest technology adoption in history. In this episode, Ashok Shivanand deconstructs a recent workshop with veteran CEOs to reveal why so many established leaders are struggling with an AI con...
The AI Adoption Playbook Every Business Needs (From an OpenAI Partner)
Dawid Naude, CEO of Pathfindr and one of Australia's leading AI implementation experts, joins the show to break down what it actually takes to drive meaningful AI transformation inside a business. Drawing from his work with companies ranging from small teams to enterprise retailers like Coles, Dawid...
From Activity to Impact: Harnessing AI to Rebuild the Mid-Market Business Model with Ron Baker, Co-Founder, Threshold
Ashok sits down with Ron Baker, co-founder of THRESHOLD and founder of the VeraSage Institute, to explore how mid-market companies must rethink their economic model in the age of AI. Ron began his career at KPMG before pioneering value pricing and leading a decades-long movement away from time-based...
Stop Delegating AI: How CEOs and Founders Can Take Charge of AI Transformation
Stop letting a software rollout define your leadership. In this episode, we dive into why relying solely on Microsoft Copilot might be giving your team the wrong impression of AI's true potential. While Copilot offers deep integration into your Microsoft 365 environment and enterprise-level security...
Building REAL Business Products Using AI with Jay Singh, Casper Studios
How does a young agency land a partnership with Netflix, Pepsi, and Doritos? Meet Jay Singh, the founder of Casper Studios and a former LinkedIn Business Development lead who is redefining how we think about distribution in the age of AI. Jay's team recently powered a voice AI experience for Strange...