- DisrupTV
DisrupTV is a weekly podcast with hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. The audience can expect A-list guests, the latest enterprise news, hot startups, insight from influencers, and much more. Tweet questions to #DisrupTV or @DisrupTVShow. We broadcast live on StreamYard.
Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConstellationR
Featured Guests:
James Whitemore
Chief Growth Officer
Celigo
James brings 25 + years of experience leading marketing organizations in both startups and big tech companies. Most recently, he was the CMO at NetApp and played a significant role in building their cloud business from zero to a $500m + run rate. Prior to NetApp, James led marketing organizations at two very successful startups, Smoothstone and SolidFire, both of which grew fast, challenged the status quo, and led big technology shifts in networking and cloud storage. In his early career, James led sales and marketing teams at IBM and Sun Microsystems and had the opportunity to live and work in Europe, Asia, and the US.
Throughout his career, James has demonstrated the ability to align sales and marketing teams to drive significant revenue growth and market expansion. He is passionate about both the art and science of marketing and is known to be an innovative leader and a team player with a real entrepreneurial spirit.
James is originally from the UK but has lived in the US for the past 25 years. He currently lives in Boulder, CO, with his wife Clare, and as of August 24th this year, they will be “empty nesters” as their youngest son, Alfie, heads off to college. After raising kids for 31 years, he thinks they are absolutely ready to send the last one off! James and Clare spend a lot of time in Southern California, where their three other children, Albert, Millie, and Matilda, live along with their two grandbabies, Goldie and Betty-Belle.
Outside of work, James loves to sail, fly, bike, and ski. He is passionate about music, mostly centered around 80’s hip-hop. He is also a strong ally of the LGBTQ community and volunteers for several organizations that promote and support mental health for LGBTQ teens.
Twitter: @Jwhitemore
Joe Boggio
Host of The AI Age Begins, Advisor, Entrepreneur, Investor. Ex-Microsoft. Ex-Capgemini.
Boggio has held leadership positions at Microsoft and Capgemini, where he co-founded the Innovation Outreach Program (IOP) and established the Applied Innovation Exchange (AIE), respectively. These initiatives brought together peer-level companies to navigate disruptions, co-create new opportunities, and drive meaningful change. Boggio has also held advisory roles at Stanford University's Disruptive Technology Lab, startups, and family offices, providing him with a unique perspective on navigating and adopting emerging technologies.
Peter Leyden
Host & curator of The AI Age Begins event series. Founder of Reinvent Futures, a strategic foresight advisory firm.
Thought leader on new tech & the future through keynote talks & writing — see The Great Progression.
Peter Leyden has spent his career in a wide range of roles figuring out the future, explaining what’s probably coming next, and helping envision how we can build a better world. Since coming to San Francisco at the beginning of the digital revolution to work with the founders of WIRED magazine, he has become a thought leader on the future and new technologies. Leyden has given keynote talks for the last 25 years on roughly a monthly basis throughout America as a futurist and tech expert working through Keppler Speakers. He regularly speaks in Europe and abroad too.
Leyden currently is the founder of Reinvent Futures where he and his team convene remarkable innovators in a range of fields impacting the future, create media that can spread what they learn through these gatherings, and advise senior leaders in strategic foresight. Leyden hosts The AI Age Begins, an event and media series based in San Francisco that convenes top technologists and explores the many positive ways that AI could impact America and the world. He also hosts a roundtable event series The New Ways Forward that convenes senior leaders and thinks through the strategic implications of the arrival of AI.
Leyden writes up what he is learning about artificial intelligence through these series in essays open to all in Substack called The Great Progression. He is the coauthor of two influential books on the future that were published in multiple languages, including The Long Boom, and periodically writes magazine pieces like his recent The Great Progression: 2025 to 2050.
Leyden ended up as managing editor of WIRED magazine in the heyday of the 1990s and he subsequently founded two of his own media startups that helped pioneer the early use of the new medium of YouTube and the early days of interactive video like Zoom. He learned the futures business working at the pioneering strategic foresight and scenario planning firm Global Business Network, with the legendary Stewart Brand.
Leyden spent a four-year cycle helping transition politics to the internet and served on Barack Obama’s Technology and Media Advisory Committee in his groundbreaking 2008 campaign. Leyden started his career as a journalist, including working as a foreign correspondent in Asia for Newsweek magazine, and has traveled to more than 50 countries. He graduated summa sum laude at Georgetown University in Washington D. C. and has two master’s degrees from Columbia University in New York.
Twitter: @peteleyden
Jeff Willinger
Microsoft MVP, Advisory and Digital Experience Director
Empowering Digital Transformation and Collaboration
Jeff Willinger is not your typical tech expert. He’s a digital maestro, orchestrating harmonious symphonies of innovation across the digital landscape. As an internationally recognized online influencer, speaker, and analyst, Jeff’s passion lies in weaving together the threads of technology, collaboration, and enterprise strategy.
Twitter: @jwillie
