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Welcome to The Next Thing Now —a podcast for bold thinkers and entrepreneurial spirits shaping the future of business. Hosted by CxOs Rob Borley & Kev Smith, each episode dives into the cutting edge of innovation, exploring: New and Emerging Technologies – The tools and platforms redefining industries. Disruptive Business Ideas – Bold strategies and startups challenging the status quo. Trends at the Intersection – Where these forces collide to create transformative opportunities. Tailored for CxOs, senior leaders, and ambitious professionals, The Next Thing Now delivers the inspiration, insights, and fresh ideas you need to stay ahead of the curve. With a lively, conversational tone, we make complex concepts accessible and actionable, helping change makers like you spark innovation within your organisation. If you’re ready to e
TNTN hosts The Next Thing Now Podcast, a business show with 26 episodes published.
Most organisations were never built to decide. Hierarchy, committees and sign-off chains exist to slow things down, spread the risk and keep any one person clear of the consequences. That was survivable while information
The era of instant access to frontier AI is ending. A big model launches, the benchmarks are stunning, and then you're told you can't use it. In this episode, Rob and Kev unpack what this change really means: the rise of
AI that your security team will actually approve. Everyone wants to use AI. Almost nobody has worked out how to trust it. In this episode Rob Borley sits down with Abbas Khan, co-founder of Togii, to unpack the question
Everyone's being told they're miles behind on AI. At the AI Summit the floor told a very different story to the stage. This week we get into the gap between what gets said about AI and what's actually happening in the ro
The Free AI Era Is Over What happens when AI stops feeling free? In this episode of The Next Thing Now, Rob and Kev unpack the growing reality behind token pricing, disappearing “all-you-can-eat” AI plans, and why the ec
The Future of Software Engineering What is actually changing inside engineering teams? In this episode of The Next Thing Now, Rob Borley is joined by Gordon Lucas, Group Software Engineering Director at PureGym, to explo
The Reality of AI in Critical National Infrastructure Can AI be trusted where failure isn’t an option? In this episode, we’re joined by Simon Ayley, Director of Strategic Growth Partnerships at WRC. Drawing on 30+ years
What happens to higher education when knowledge becomes instantly accessible, essays can be generated on demand, and AI starts to challenge the very basis of assessment? In this episode of The Next Thing Now, Rob Borley,
Agents Are Building Software Now A year ago, AI was helping engineers write code. Now, agents are building real enterprise software. In this episode of The Next Thing Now, we unpack what has changed and why it matters. T
The high performance expert who has coached leadership teams in some of the biggest organisations on the planet, now questioning whether performance still means what we think it does. For more than 30 years, Matt Barker
AI Has a Constitution Now. What Does That Mean for Us? This week, Rob and Kev unpack one of the strangest and most revealing signals in AI right now. Anthropic has published a “constitution” for Claude. Not internal poli
OFFICIAL: AGI by 2030! Is this the moment everything quietly changed? In this episode of The Next Thing Now, we unpack the restructure of OpenAI, the reworked AGI clause with Microsoft, and why the date 2030 suddenly mat
Most companies talk confidently about net zero — but few can prove it. In this episode of The Next Thing Now, Rob and Kev sit down with Owen from Fynlo AI to explore one of the biggest hidden challenges in sustainability
OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) signals the next evolution of e-commerce, replacing user interfaces with intelligent, intent-driven agents. e013 The Next Thing Now Podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy
How AI Agents Are Transforming Financial Services | ProveIt x Dootrix In this episode, we speak with Adrian Defta, founder and CEO of ProveIt, about how AI agents are revolutionising financial services—starting with unde
🎙️ Episode 011 – Hope, Hype, and Heating Engineers: Agentic AI Gets Real In this episode of The Next Thing Now, Rob and Kev dive deep into the maturing world of agentic AI — and the quietly powerful new standard driving
The conversation delves into the recent redundancies at Microsoft, exploring the implications of AI integration in the workplace and the evolving dynamics of job roles. The discussion highlights the shift towards efficie
Apple's recent AI whitepaper caused a stir, but did it reveal anything new? We break down what it means, what it missed, and why the future may belong to agents and automation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for
In this conversation, Kevin and Rob delve into the recent acquisition of Johnny Ive's design company by OpenAI, exploring the implications of this move in the context of AI technology and design. They discuss the potenti
In this episode of the Next Thing Now Podcast, Ang McKenna, an award-winning head of people and culture, shares her journey in HR and the evolving landscape of workplace culture. She discusses the importance of mental he
Kevin Smith
former chef, certified clinical nutritionist, advocate for regenerative agriculture · Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County
4 appearances on this show
Matt Barker
VP and Global Head of Workload Identity Architecture · New Image Media
1 appearance on this show
Abbas Khan
Togii
1 appearance on this show
Gordon Lucas
PureGym
1 appearance on this show
Simon Ayley
WRC
1 appearance on this show
Owen
Fynlo AI
1 appearance on this show
Adrian Defta
ProveIt
1 appearance on this show
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