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Brought to you by Callibrity, The Forward Slash dives into the world of software engineering, digital transformation, and the future of technology , featuring insights from the people who live and breathe it every day.
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Signup to Generate a PitchBrought to you by Callibrity, The Forward Slash dives into the world of software engineering, digital transformation, and the future of technology, featuring insights from the people who live and breathe it every day.
The Forward Slash Podcast is hosted by Callibrity. The show has published 95 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "/ai output: is a sea of same good enough" (21 October 2026, 77 minutes), "/software factories: the governance gap nobody closed." (14 October 2026, 80 minutes), and "/AI spend: why it still doesn't know your business" (7 October 2026, 66 minutes).
The Forward Slash Podcast publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 68 minutes across 95 episodes.
Booking probability for The Forward Slash Podcast is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Forward Slash Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Forward Slash Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
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Callibrity hosts The Forward Slash Podcast, a business podcast with 95 episodes published.
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Everyone has the same AI now — so what’s left to compete on? UX researcher Colleen Pellissier and James Carman dig in on this week’s Forward Slash. Her read, after eight years studying what people do versus what they...
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What happens when your engineers stop writing code and just tell the machines what to build? That’s a software factory, and in 2026 every IT leader is being pushed to stand one up. Adam Barrett returns to The Forward...
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Your AI budget keeps going up. The business feels about the same. Michael Schank has a theory about why: AI trained on the whole internet, and it still knows nothing about your company. He calls that the context gap...
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Your engineers are shipping code faster than ever with AI — so why hasn't your time-to-market moved? Thanos Diacakis's answer: the bottleneck just moved with it. The fractional CTO who led Uber's JUMP bikes integration...
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Loving a technology and trusting it are two very different things — and Tamara Laine would know. She's the founder of MPWR, where her team builds policy-bound, audit-ready AI for highly regulated financial-services...
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Your AI costs keep climbing, and the power bill climbs with them. The usual answer is just "buy more compute." But what if the real ceiling is the 80-year-old design inside every chip? Steve Brunker, a 30-year...
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Your AI bill went up this year, so why does it feel like you're paying to ask the same question twice? Ilan Man's fix: stop using AI everywhere and start using it on purpose. The founder of Paradox Machines and former...
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Who's actually reviewing the open source code your business runs on? Rich Bowen — Apache Software Foundation member since the late '90s, six terms on its board, now an open source strategist at AWS — tells host James...
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Nearly every company is "using AI" now — but for most, it still isn't showing up in the P&L, and boards have noticed. Todd James says that gap is a leadership problem, not a technology one. The former Chief Data &...
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When an AI agent starts writing and shipping code inside your platform, who is it — and what is it allowed to do? Host James Carman sits down with Ajay Chankramath — founder and CEO of Platform Metrics and former head...
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Your company just gave everyone a Claude or ChatGPT seat — so why isn't the ROI showing up? Host James Carman and YNDR founder Chris Thomas break down why handing out AI licenses isn't a strategy, why tokenmaxxing and...
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Cancel the SaaS contract and vibe code it yourself? In this episode, host James Carman talks with Kendra Ramirez, CEO of KR Digital and a global Claude ambassador who's been building bots since 2018, about where AI...
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Cancel the SaaS contract and vibe code it yourself? In this episode, host James Carman talks with Kendra Ramirez, CEO of KR Digital and a global Claude ambassador who's been building bots since 2018, about where AI...
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If you're running AI on Kubernetes, you've probably hit this question: does the cluster actually help with inference, or is it just where everything ends up? Host James Carman gets a straight answer from William Morgan...
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June 2026: the month AI stopped being a tool and became actual infrastructure. Covering the 19-day Fable 5 regulatory blackout, GLM 5.2's un-censorable open weights, and the supply chain attacks that made self-hosting...
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What if AI adoption didn't have to mean layoffs? Diane Weaver, co-founder and COO of Baryons, joins James to explore the "uncomfortable middle" of enterprise AI — the gap where jobs are being reshaped but new ones...
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Most companies are buying AI tools before they've decided what they're for. James Carman, Callibrity CTO, and Jason Swafford, founder of Drag6, make the straight-talking case for the other way around. From there they...
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<p>Bubble about to burst, or a wave you can't sit out? In Part 2, James and Sid Dutta go from technical to strategic: why AI is a wave, not a bubble; the "harvest now, decrypt later" threat and what's just hype; the...
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<p>Your AI agent inherits your permissions. It doesn't inherit your intent — and that's the gap nobody's watching. James sits down with Sid Dutta — founder of Privaclave and a 24-year data protection executive (Amex...
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<p>Leadership mandated AI. Now they want the return — and your pilots have nothing to show for it. James sits down with Bob White, a 20-year ed-tech and SaaS operator (Cengage, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, VPG) who now...
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