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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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Signup to Generate a PitchComing 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.
Let's Talk Shop is hosted by Elias Khnaser. The show has published 70 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Dark AI Exposed: The Hidden Cybersecurity Threat No One Is Talking About" (14 April 2026, 44 minutes), "The Future of DevOps: AI, Agents, and the "Impossible" Workflow" (9 April 2026, 53 minutes), and "AI Agents vs. Real Innovation: What Actually Happened at re:Invent 2025" (31 December 2025, 56 minutes).
Let's Talk Shop publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 40 minutes across 70 episodes.
Booking probability for Let's Talk Shop is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Let's Talk Shop requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Let's Talk Shop's contact route on record: public web form.
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Elias Khnaser hosts Let's Talk Shop, a technology podcast with 70 episodes published.
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Episode #41
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...
Episode #40
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...
Episode #39
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...
Episode #38
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...
Episode #37
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...
Episode #36
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...
Episode #35
In this episode, we dive deep into AI infrastructure at Google Cloud—what it means, why it matters, and how it’s evolving. Our guest shares insights from over 8 years at Google and previous experience as a hardware...
Episode #36
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...
Episode #34
The world of enterprise technology is evolving, and networking is more critical than ever. In this episode of Let's Talk Shop, host Elias Khnaser sits down with Muninder Singh Sambi, the General Manager and Vice...
Episode #33
Think Equinix is just about colocation? Think again! In this insightful episode of "Let's Talk Shop," your host sits down with Arun Dev, VP of Interconnection Services at Equinix, to explore how Equinix is...
Episode #32
Welcome back to Let's Talk Shop! In this episode, we dive deep into the world of AI with Russell Fishman (Sr. Director of Solutions Product Management) at NetApp to explore the evolving storage landscape. Forget the...
Episode #31
Prepare for a tech revolution! We dive deep into Google's groundbreaking move: bringing Gemini on-prem with Google Distributed Cloud (GDC). Hear firsthand about the incredible customer excitement and partner...
Episode #30
In this episode of Let's Talk Shop, our guest is Rohit Badlaney, who leads Product Design, Industry Strategy, and Execution for IBM Cloud. Rohit shares deep insights into IBM’s role in shaping the future of AI and...
Episode #29
In this epoxide, Sanjeev Mohan and I comment and share thoughts on the AWS Re:Invent 2024 keynote. We deliver an unfiltered take on the announcements, the storytelling, and the impact of innovations like Tranium 3...
Episode #28
In our continued coverage of AWS Re:Invent 2024, i had the pleasure of speaking to one of the coolest, smartest and most passionate AWS ambassador yet. Rory Richardson was electrifying. In this episode, we discuss...
Episode #27
In this episode of Let's Talk Shop, my guest is Nirav Mehta, Sr. Director of Product Management for Google Cloud. We dive into the latest trends that CIOs are looking for in cloud infrastructure. From a hyperscale cloud...
Episode #27
In today's podcast, I'm giving an update on the VMware Broadcom acquisition that I covered in a previous video. That video received a lot of views and comments, and I'm still getting questions and messages about it. To...
Episode #26
Join us as we discuss the IBM and AWS partnership, AI advancements, and the exciting announcements made at the AWS Summit in New York. Learn how these tech giants are collaborating to enhance AI and machine learning...
Episode #25
Are you planning a cloud migration and worried about potential obstacles? In this video, we dive deep into the biggest hurdles of cloud migration and provide actionable strategies to avoid them. From cost concerns to...
Episode #24
A podcast with food blogger, Dr. Anthony Rahayel about his increasing data storage problem. Anthony publishes 1-2 videos a day on YouTube in 4K, he currently has over 300TB of data that he needs to backup, make...
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