- 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
As a sales and marketing executive with 20+ years of experience in SaaS, cloud, networking, and data storage industries, I am known for driving profitable revenue growth and implementing creative brand and marketing strategies that create true market power.
With a track record of success in both start-up and big-tech companies, I bring a unique perspective to the collaboration between marketing and sales and how they come together to form a predictable and scalable revenue engine. My ability to establish category leadership for high-growth, early-stage disruptors and re-position staid enterprise tech giants has resulted in over $1b in exit value created for the start-ups I have been a part of and doubled the market-cap at NetApp.
I pride myself on my hands-on leadership style and ability to showcase the power of diversity in the workplace. My achievements include taking startups to their first $100M in revenue, growing ARR from zero to $500M+ in emerging cloud businesses, and driving above-market growth in mature, multi-billion dollar systems, software, and service businesses in big-tech.
Twitter: @Jwhitemore
Joe Boggio
Host of The AI Age Begins, Advisor, Entrepreneur, Investor. Ex-Microsoft. Ex-Capgemini.
Throughout his career, Boggio has focused on the strategic application of emerging trends, technologies and capital. He has filled leadership roles at IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Capgemini and Stanford. His core expertise is in helping senior leaders make sense of the future while developing the leadership competencies needed to navigate it.
At Microsoft, Boggio was a founding leader of the Innovation Outreach Program (IOP). The IOP was a trust-based network of peers that conveyed C-Level leaders from more than 30 firms. The IOP served to drive collaborative cross-industry co-innovation.
Boggio then moved to Capgemini where he was a founding leader of the company’s Applied Innovation Exchange (AIE) and led the flagship Exchange in San Francisco. The AIE worked to facilitate high-impact convenings between Corporate leaders and various Silicon Valley leaders.
Boggio is an early-stage investor, leadership coach, and transformation advisor. Boggio also works with Stanford University's Disruptive Technology Program to wheee he works to advance strategic engagement with the select family offices.
Boggio lives in San Francisco, along with his wife and son
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