Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)

What does it take to modernize a 120-year-old real estate powerhouse without losing its entrepreneurial edge?

In this episode of Technovation, Kamini Rangappan Lane, President and CEO of Coldwell Banker Realty, shares how she is transforming one of the largest residential real estate networks in the U.S. by standardizing the back end while preserving the human, local nature of the business.

She discusses how AI and automation are reshaping agent workflows, enabling faster deal processing, and unlocking productivity across a network of 45,000 entrepreneurs.

Key highlights include:

Transitioning from 50 operating companies to a unified platform model

Applying AI to reduce listing creation time from hours to minutes

Balancing efficiency with personalization in a highly local business

Driving technology adoption through customer obsession

Redefining leadership through clarity, transparency, and authenticity

AI transformation doesn’t fail because of technology, it fails because of culture.

In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Trevor Schulze, CIO, and Eva Majercsik, Chief People Officer, of Genesys, about how they are jointly leading a human-centric AI transformation across a 6,000-person global organization. Together, they unpack why AI must be treated as a cultural shift and how organizations can drive adoption at scale.

Key insights include:

Why AI literacy is the foundation of enterprise adoption

How CIOs and CPOs must co-own transformation

The shift from automation to augmentation in the agentic era

How experimentation unlocks innovation across the workforce

Why change management is now a core leadership capability

Most career advice gets one thing wrong: it always tells you to follow your passion.

In this episode of Technoventure, Bill Gurley, recent Author of Runnin’ Down a Dream, General Partner at Benchmark and investor in companies like Uber and Zillow shares a more actionable framework: follow your fascination. Drawing from decades in venture capital and insights from his new book, Gurley explains how curiosity, not convention, drives long-term success.

Key insights include:

Why fascination is a stronger signal than passion

How over-structured career paths lead to disengagement

The role of peer networks in accelerating growth

Why non-linear careers produce better outcomes

How AI is reshaping opportunity and speculation cycles

What if claims processing could be 10x faster without sacrificing accuracy?

In this episode of Technovation, Pravina Ladva, Group Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Swiss Re, shares how one of the world’s leading reinsurers is using AI to transform claims processing, unlock insights, and redefine how work gets done across the enterprise.

Key highlights include:

How AI is reducing claims processing time from ~40 days to 4–5 days

Why data ingestion is the biggest unlock for AI in insurance

The importance of building “AI-ready” data foundations

How Swiss Re achieved ~60% enterprise AI adoption

Why AI transformation is more about people and process than technology

Apple’s greatest successes were built on failure.

In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with David Pogue, an Emmy-winning journalist, former New York Times technology columnist, CBS News correspondent and author of Apple: The First 50 Years, about how Apple transformed early product missteps into category-defining innovation.

Drawing on 150 interviews and decades of coverage, Pogue unpacks the hidden lessons behind Apple’s most famous failures—and how they shaped the company’s future.

Key insights include:

Why the Apple III and Lisa failed—and what they enabled

How constraints in the early Mac informed later breakthroughs

The role of leadership in reframing failure as progress

Apple’s near-collapse and improbable turnaround

What today’s executives can learn from Apple’s innovation model