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Pavankumar Reddy Muddireddy leads audio research at Mistral AI. He joins Tim Scarfe for a deep technical tour of Voxtral — and explains why the frontier of deployed voice is still a cascade of specialised models rather than one end-to-end system.IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MISTRAL AI:---This episode was produced in partnership with Mistral AI.Mistral AI: https://mistral.ai/---The conversation opens on architecture. Voxtral Chat feeds a 3B Ministral text trunk with continuous embeddings from an audio encoder, passed to the decoder as direct token input rather than through cross-attention as in Whisper, so the model can answer questions about emotion, timing and who spoke when without an intermediate transcript to lose them. The real-time model becomes a dual-stream decoder that consumes audio and emits text at once, at a target delay down to 160ms, with slower streams in parallel for anything that can wait for more context.On generation, Pavan explains why Voxtral TTS predicts continuous latents rather than discrete codec tokens, traces the lineage from SoundStream through EnCodec to Mimi's split of semantic and acoustic codebooks, and places FSQ and flow matching in it. Tim presses on the priors underneath: why a mel spectrogram instead of raw waveform, what noise augmentation buys, and when acoustic overfitting becomes somebody's fine-tuning problem. Then the failure modes. Diarisation is emitted autoregressively inside the transcript rather than by a separate head, which makes streaming diarisation fragile — less context, late speaker changes, invented extra speakers. And because the architecture commits to what it has already predicted, one out-of-distribution mistake compounds into looping or skipped segments, which is what DPO corrects: the negative supervision pre-training and SFT cannot give.The last third is the argument Tim keeps returning to. Customers running voice agents over millions of sessions describe scaffolding, not a solved problem, with a sharp drop outside the top few languages. Cascades survive because each component stays separately adaptable, observable and constrainable. And voice alone is cognitive debt: absorbing information and deciding in one serial stream is harder than glancing at a menu. Voice becomes ubiquitous beside a screen, not instead of one.---TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 Cold open00:00:46 Why Mistral moved into audio00:09:27 Inside Voxtral: trunk, encoder, dual streams00:20:22 Speech that works in real time00:30:52 How a voice becomes tokens00:39:59 Flow matching, FSQ and the new codec00:52:51 When speech models lose the speaker01:03:23 Correcting hallucinations with preferences01:12:12 Controlling synthetic speech01:20:06 Why cascades still win01:29:25 Speech in the wild01:33:46 Audio models as interfaces01:37:54 Why voice still needs a screen---REFERENCES:paper:[00:01:42] Mistral 7Bhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06825[00:09:38] Voxtralhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13264[00:14:41] Whisper: Robust Speech Recognitionhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04356[00:19:11] Voxtral Realtimehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11298[00:21:52] Delayed Streams Modeling (Kyutai)https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08753[00:30:52] Voxtral TTShttps://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25551[00:32:38] SoundStream neural audio codechttps://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03312[00:34:59] Flow Matching for Generative Modelinghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02747[00:37:03] EnCodec: High Fidelity Neural Audio Compressionhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2210.13438[00:37:42] Moshi and the Mimi codechttps://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00037[00:39:05] Finite Scalar Quantization (FSQ)https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15505[01:03:33] Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18290dataset:[00:46:14] Mozilla Common Voicehttps://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasetsorganization:[00:50:47] Hugging Facehttps://huggingface.co/
Send us Fan MailWelcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal cover a week in privacy, enforcement actions, breaches, settlements (dud you see the one with Meta?), and more. Check out this website for visualizations of data breaches https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/ If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us!Subscribe today HERE Back the Board Game! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seriousprivacy/serious-privacy-the-data-gamePowered by TrustArcFrom Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Send us Fan MailThe real problem with complaints isn't that people are complaining.It's that unhappy people don't usually show up unless something already went wrong. So when the ICO says it has to triage harder, that's the tension.Welcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal connect with Dom Smith of the UK's Information Commissioner's Office to discuss his role in addressing complaints and changes he has seen over the last 12 years. We'll learn a little about him and how his experiences and perspective over the years has shaped him as a data protection professional.Before you hear the episode, you will first hear an emergency segment to discuss the settlement Meta reached with U.S. states in the children's harm court case. @trustarc If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us!Subscribe today HERE Back the Board Game! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seriousprivacy/serious-privacy-the-data-gamePowered by TrustArcFrom Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
From autocorrect to full-fledged conversationalists, discover how a few tweaks transformed language models—and why understanding this shift exposes urgent questions about AI safety and control. Trusting an open source AI proxy might bite you. France's under-15 social media ban hits its constitution. A bit of AI prompting found a serious bug in Zoom. AI-based network defenders see a stock price jump. A (very) deep dive into the operation of AI chatbots Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1092-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT joindeleteme.com/twit-biz doppel.com threatlocker.com/twit scribe.how/securitynow
From autocorrect to full-fledged conversationalists, discover how a few tweaks transformed language models—and why understanding this shift exposes urgent questions about AI safety and control. Trusting an open source AI proxy might bite you. France's under-15 social media ban hits its constitution. A bit of AI prompting found a serious bug in Zoom. AI-based network defenders see a stock price jump. A (very) deep dive into the operation of AI chatbots Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1092-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT joindeleteme.com/twit-biz doppel.com threatlocker.com/twit scribe.how/securitynow
From autocorrect to full-fledged conversationalists, discover how a few tweaks transformed language models—and why understanding this shift exposes urgent questions about AI safety and control. Trusting an open source AI proxy might bite you. France's under-15 social media ban hits its constitution. A bit of AI prompting found a serious bug in Zoom. AI-based network defenders see a stock price jump. A (very) deep dive into the operation of AI chatbots Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1092-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT joindeleteme.com/twit-biz doppel.com threatlocker.com/twit scribe.how/securitynow
From autocorrect to full-fledged conversationalists, discover how a few tweaks transformed language models—and why understanding this shift exposes urgent questions about AI safety and control. Trusting an open source AI proxy might bite you. France's under-15 social media ban hits its constitution. A bit of AI prompting found a serious bug in Zoom. AI-based network defenders see a stock price jump. A (very) deep dive into the operation of AI chatbots Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1092-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT joindeleteme.com/twit-biz doppel.com threatlocker.com/twit scribe.how/securitynow
From autocorrect to full-fledged conversationalists, discover how a few tweaks transformed language models—and why understanding this shift exposes urgent questions about AI safety and control. Trusting an open source AI proxy might bite you. France's under-15 social media ban hits its constitution. A bit of AI prompting found a serious bug in Zoom. AI-based network defenders see a stock price jump. A (very) deep dive into the operation of AI chatbots Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1092-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT joindeleteme.com/twit-biz doppel.com threatlocker.com/twit scribe.how/securitynow
From autocorrect to full-fledged conversationalists, discover how a few tweaks transformed language models—and why understanding this shift exposes urgent questions about AI safety and control. Trusting an open source AI proxy might bite you. France's under-15 social media ban hits its constitution. A bit of AI prompting found a serious bug in Zoom. AI-based network defenders see a stock price jump. A (very) deep dive into the operation of AI chatbots Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1092-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT joindeleteme.com/twit-biz doppel.com threatlocker.com/twit scribe.how/securitynow
Send us Fan MailWelcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal, review the Meta Smart Glasses and privacy issues just before a solar eclipse occurs. We've decided we like the Duck, Duck, Go version. They include a brief week in privacy. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us!Subscribe today HERE Back the Board Game! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seriousprivacy/serious-privacy-the-data-gamePowered by TrustArcFrom Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
From autocorrect to full-fledged conversationalists, discover how a few tweaks transformed language models—and why understanding this shift exposes urgent questions about AI safety and control. Trusting an open source AI proxy might bite you. France's under-15 social media ban hits its constitution. A bit of AI prompting found a serious bug in Zoom. AI-based network defenders see a stock price jump. A (very) deep dive into the operation of AI chatbots Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1092-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT joindeleteme.com/twit-biz doppel.com threatlocker.com/twit scribe.how/securitynow
From autocorrect to full-fledged conversationalists, discover how a few tweaks transformed language models—and why understanding this shift exposes urgent questions about AI safety and control. Trusting an open source AI proxy might bite you. France's under-15 social media ban hits its constitution. A bit of AI prompting found a serious bug in Zoom. AI-based network defenders see a stock price jump. A (very) deep dive into the operation of AI chatbots Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1092-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: canary.tools/twit - use code: TWIT joindeleteme.com/twit-biz doppel.com threatlocker.com/twit scribe.how/securitynow
Send us Fan MailWelcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien speak with the Privacy Commissioner of Australia, Carly Kind, about the legislative developments in Australia, indigenous privacy, enforcement action on data breaches, and of course the U 16 social media ban. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us!Subscribe today HERE From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Send us Fan MailWelcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal, discuss a week in privacy in the midst of hot temperatures in Europe and multiple fires arund the world. This week, we bring you some enforcement activities, regulator inquiries, old laws for new purposes, and guidance from various regulators on child safety. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us!Subscribe today HERE From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Bonjour à tous !C'est avec beaucoup d'enthousiasme que nous revenons avec un nouveau podcast où nous abordons un sujet essentiel : la confidentialité.Protéger les données des usagers, et notamment les données de santé, est au cœur de nos missions. Mais la confidentialité, ce n'est pas seulement respecter les règles : c'est aussi prévenir les incidents de sécurité et savoir réagir en cas de violation de données.Et justement, nous revenons sur un événement qui a récemment fait parler de lui : la violation de données ayant touché CEGEDIM.L'occasion de décrypter ensemble ce qu'il s'est passé, d'en comprendre les enjeux et d'en tirer quelques enseignements.Bonne écoute !Pour en savoir plus sur notre accompagnement : https://fcn-data.fr/Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
Send us Fan MailWelcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal, discuss a week in privacy. We have some jucy news from Europe, New Jersey, and the United Kingdom. Tune in! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Send us Fan MailWelcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal, celebrate 300 episodes. And for this milestone, we invited Philippe Dufresne - Privacy Commissioner of Canada and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Global Privacy Assembly. It is a fascinating discussion and one not to miss! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Send us Fan MailWelcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal, discuss a week in privacy. Let's be honest though - it's really the US Supreme Court reent decisions in Slaughter and Chatrie. Tune in for a lievely discussion. Oh - and we're also on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@seriousprivacypodcastChatrie v. United States (25-112): Police officers conducted a Fourth Amendment search when they acquired Okello Chatrie's location data from Google because an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his cell-phone location information. Trump v. Slaughter (25-332): The Federal Trade Commission's for-cause removal provision, 15 U. S. C. §41, is contrary to the separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Send us Fan MailWelcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal, ( Paul Breitbarth was out) meet with the phenomenal Samantha Simms. We had the best time going deep on some really substantive issues, even starting with Samantha's answer on the unexpected question. Join us as we discuss key issues and the digital colonization. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Send us Fan MailWelcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien , Dr. K Royal, and Paul Breitbarth explores the implications of proposed social media age restrictions in the UK to under 16s, through the insights of university student (and our editor!) Fey O'Brien, emphasising the importance of digital literacy and open communications.As the debate surrounding social media age restrictions continues, it is vital to consider the implications for minors and their rights. Engaging with younger voices like Fey's adds depth to the discussion, illustrating the importance of balancing safety and freedom in the digital landscape. Instead of imposing blanket bans, fostering digital literacy and open communication can pave the way for a more informed generation of social media users. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Send us Fan MailWelcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien , Dr. K Royal, and Paul Breitbarth each provide a summary of the respective conferences they attended. The IAPP AI conference in Dublin, Games Expo, and Governance of Emerging Tech. Enjoy! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
What happens when a consulting firm decides to start leading M&A transactions and, separately, writing checks into the very deals it consults on? Clint Simkins of DPO&Co joins host Greg Hawver to answer that question, tracing the firm's evolution from a strategy consulting shop into a fully integrated platform spanning consulting, QoE and transaction advisory services, principal investing, and a $100 million fund raise. Clint explains how scrutinizing value creation plans — including spotting internal contradictions that other LPs never get to — is the first place DPO looks when evaluating a deal. He also details how DPO's commercial HVAC roll-up has completed 20 transactions in just 22 months. Tune in for a rare look inside a firm that has built a compounding edge across every stage of the independent sponsor ecosystem. Connect and Learn More☑️ Clint Simkins | LinkedIn☑️ DPO&CO | LinkedIn☑️ McGuireWoods | LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram | X☑️ Subscribe Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicThis podcast was recorded and is being made available by McGuireWoods for informational purposes only. By accessing this podcast, you acknowledge that McGuireWoods makes no warranty, guarantee, or representation as to the accuracy or sufficiency of the information featured in the podcast. The views, information, or opinions expressed during this podcast series are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily reflect those of McGuireWoods. This podcast should not be used as a substitute for competent legal advice from a licensed professional attorney in your state and should not be construed as an offer to make or consider any investment or course of action.
Send us Fan MailWelcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien , Dr. K Royal, and Paul Breitbarth discuss surveillance in all of its lovely permutations along with some current news. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Send us Fan MailWelcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal, while Paul Breitbarth is out, meet with Ryan Boos of TrustArc. What's on the mic? Simplification of privacy programs. Ryan comes to this with the experience to back up his knowledge - he has fought in the data trenches and flown through the danger zone! Okay... he has major chops. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Send us Fan MailWelcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal, while Paul Breitbarth is out, discuss some reent events, namely graduation speakers, boos, and AI. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Send us Fan MailIn this week's episode of a week in privacy, hosts Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien discuss some key movements in privacy, data protection, cyber law, and AI around the world. Dr. K Royal was off speaking at a Governance or Emerging Tech and Science conference in Arizona. Join Paul and Ralph to cover both the highs and lows and share concerns about trends we are seeing. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Send us Fan MailIf ever there was a time to take AI governance seriously, it is now. Luckily, our guest today has written a great book about it. This week on the Serious Privacy podcast, Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien and Dr. K Royal speak with Shoshana Rosenberg. She is Managing Director of Logical AI Governance, General Counsel at SafePorter and of course one of the founders of the Women in AI Governance network. Shoshana's book, Practical AI Governance - Building a Program for Oversight and Strategy, is published by KoganPage and available now via your local bookstore or your preferred online store. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Send us Fan MailWelcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth and and Dr. K Royal, while Ralph O'Brien is out, discuss some fascinating news. Catch what's happening. First up - a decision from Spain on when data processing starts. We are so confused.#unexpectedquestion what fruit would be disappointed by the name we gave it? If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Send us Fan MailWelcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Dr. K Royal, and Ralph O'Brien connect with Daragh O'Brien of Castlebridge to talk about data governance, the weaponisation of DSARs (data subject access requests), and all the complexities thereof. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Send us Fan MailWelcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Dr. K Royal, and Ralph O'Brien celebrated the 10th anniversary of the #GDPR! Yea!! Okay, there is some debate on the birthday date, whether it is 2016 or 2018... where one is when it was signed into law and the other when enforcement went live. We challenge poeple to vote! We discussed the highs, the lows, the dirty, the clean, the boots on the ground stories - oh what sweet memories. Powered by TrustArcDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Send us Fan MailWelcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Dr. K Royal, and Ralph O'Brien meet with Dr. Alexandra Delaney-Bhattacharya, Information Commissioner for the Isle of Man to discuss her experiences, professional growth, priorities, and outlook. It's a rousing good discussion and one listeners everywhere should love. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
In this episode of the FIT4Privacy Podcast, privacy expert Punit Bhatia speaks with Barry Moult, a longtime data protection professional and mentor to emerging talent. KEY MOMENTS 00:00 – AI & Misinformation: Risks of AI content. 01:42 – Retirement & Mentoring: Barry's ongoing guidance. 06:30 – Human Oversight: Why privacy still needs humans. 10:04 – Mentoring Careers: Advice for newcomers. 13:21 – Making Privacy Fun: Creative training & gamification. 18:33 – Career Tips: Networking and practical skills. 23:26 – Collaboration: Working with cyber & legal experts. 28:57 – Future of Privacy: AI, careers, and opportunities. Their conversation explores how AI is changing the privacy landscape, why human judgment still matters, and what new professionals should know when building a career in data protection. Barry shares practical insights from his decades of experience, emphasizing the importance of mentorship, apprenticeships, and hands-on learning for new privacy professionals. This episode is a guide for anyone entering privacy, offering actionable advice, career strategies, and a glimpse into how the profession is evolving in the age of AI. ⸻ ABOUT THE GUEST Barry Moult is an information governance and data protection consultant who helps people as DPO, trainer, and consultant. Punit was recently won the ICO Excellence in Data Protection Award 2020. Barry founded and chaired the Eastern Region IG Forum since 2003 and is chair of GP-PCN (DPO) National Network 2020 ABOUT THE HOST Punit Bhatia is one of the leading privacy experts who works independently and has worked with professionals in over 30 countries. Punit works with business and privacy leaders to create an organization culture with high privacy awareness and compliance as a business priority. Selectively, Punit is open to mentor and coach privacy professionals. ⸻ Resources & Links Guest Links Barry Moult https://www.linkedin.com/in/barry-moult-5b028319/?originalSubdomain=uk GrowSkills (Privacy Courses & Insights) • Courses: https://growskills.store/courses/ • Insights: https://growskills.store/insights/ • Website: https://growskills.store/ FIT4Privacy • Website: https://www.fit4privacy.com • Podcast: https://www.fit4privacy.com/podcast • Blog: https://www.fit4privacy.com/blog • YouTube: http://youtube.com/fit4privacy Punit Bhatia • Website: https://www.punitbhatia.com Books • Be Ready for GDPR • AI & Privacy – How to Find Balance • Intro to GDPR • Be an Effective DPO
Send us Fan MailIn this slightly chaotic (and mildly censored) April Fools' episode, hosts Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal welcome Simon Pillinger of Pillinger Privacy, also known as the first president of the People's Republic of North Oxfordshire, to discuss how humour, healthcare, and hard-won experience shape a career in data protection—and why the profession sometimes takes itself far too seriously. Along the way, they unpack the risks of “compliance theatre”, the human reality behind privacy decisions, and how a well-timed joke can be more effective than a 6,000-word DPIA. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
In this episode of the FIT4Privacy Podcast, privacy expert Punit Bhatia speaks with Barry Moult, a longtime data protection professional and mentor to emerging talent. KEY MOMENTS 00:00 – AI & Misinformation: Risks of AI content. 01:42 – Retirement & Mentoring: Barry's ongoing guidance. 06:30 – Human Oversight: Why privacy still needs humans. 10:04 – Mentoring Careers: Advice for newcomers. 13:21 – Making Privacy Fun: Creative training & gamification. 18:33 – Career Tips: Networking and practical skills. 23:26 – Collaboration: Working with cyber & legal experts. 28:57 – Future of Privacy: AI, careers, and opportunities. Their conversation explores how AI is changing the privacy landscape, why human judgment still matters, and what new professionals should know when building a career in data protection. Barry shares practical insights from his decades of experience, emphasizing the importance of mentorship, apprenticeships, and hands-on learning for new privacy professionals. This episode is a guide for anyone entering privacy, offering actionable advice, career strategies, and a glimpse into how the profession is evolving in the age of AI. ⸻ ABOUT THE GUEST Barry Moult is an information governance and data protection consultant who helps people as DPO, trainer, and consultant. Punit was recently won the ICO Excellence in Data Protection Award 2020. Barry founded and chaired the Eastern Region IG Forum since 2003 and is chair of GP-PCN (DPO) National Network 2020 ABOUT THE HOST Punit Bhatia is one of the leading privacy experts who works independently and has worked with professionals in over 30 countries. Punit works with business and privacy leaders to create an organization culture with high privacy awareness and compliance as a business priority. Selectively, Punit is open to mentor and coach privacy professionals. ⸻ Resources & Links Guest Links Barry Moult https://www.linkedin.com/in/barry-moult-5b028319/?originalSubdomain=uk GrowSkills (Privacy Courses & Insights) • Courses: https://growskills.store/courses/ • Insights: https://growskills.store/insights/ • Website: https://growskills.store/ FIT4Privacy • Website: https://www.fit4privacy.com • Podcast: https://www.fit4privacy.com/podcast • Blog: https://www.fit4privacy.com/blog • YouTube: http://youtube.com/fit4privacy Punit Bhatia • Website: https://www.punitbhatia.com Books • Be Ready for GDPR • AI & Privacy – How to Find Balance • Intro to GDPR • Be an Effective DPO
Send us Fan MailWe are back again, and why so Serious?We are well into to season 7 of the Serious Privacy podcast, with dr. K Royal, Ralph O'Brien and Paul Breitbarth. Ahead of IAPP Washington DC, we discuss the new Oklahoma SB546, the Global CBPR forum meeting in Lima Peru, regulatory capture, Trademarking your image, Delve compliance controversy and the HUGE news of court cases regarding Social Media addiction which may open the floodgates to more cases... and much much more!CBPR updates: Social Media addiction case: Image Trademarking: Delve controversy: Also this season, we will keep you up to date of developments in the data protection and privacy community, artificial intelligence and some cybersecurity. And of course we'll bring you interviews with great guests! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
On today's episode, Dr. Mark Costas welcomes back fan-favorite Dr. Paul "Nacho" Goodman for an unfiltered conversation on entrepreneurship, associate hiring, live events, and the evolving dental landscape. They dive into the realities of running multiple businesses, transitioning from clinical dentistry to CEO life, and why so many dentists wait too long to hire an associate—often creating unnecessary chaos in their practices. Paul shares insights from Dentist Job Connect, discusses the ongoing hygienist shortage, and offers a balanced perspective on DSO and DPO "drama." The episode also highlights the power of live events, mentorship, and surrounding yourself with the right people to accelerate growth. As always, it's real talk, practical wisdom, and plenty of laughs between two seasoned dental entrepreneurs. Be sure to check out the full episode from the Dentalpreneur Podcast! EPISODE RESOURCES https://www.dentalnachos.com https://www.truedentalsuccess.com Dental Success Network Subscribe to The Dentalpreneur Podcast
Send us Fan MailWelcome to the newest episode of the Serious Privacy podcast, where hosts Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal address the hot topics of the month, as we have been so full of guests that the time has flown by!Latest regulatory penalties, new legislation and news from around the globe, as K and Ralph attempt the impossible - to convey all that has occurred to you - our dear "Serious Privettes"!Paul Breitbarth, our dearly beloved friend is out this week, so send him much joy! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Send a textWelcome to the newest episode of the Serious Privacy podcast, where hosts Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal address the hot topic of data in Elections and Democratic engagement with James Robson, former DPO of the UK's Labour Party. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
A Inteligência Artificial está redefinindo a forma como as empresas trabalham com temas como privacidade, governança e responsabilidade no uso de dados e ainda influindo fortemente na competitividade. Um novo estudo da Cisco revela que, no Brasil, 95% das organizações ampliaram seus programas de privacidade e 91% planejam investir ainda mais para acompanhar a complexidade da IA. Porém, o desafio vai além do compliance, já que 73% das empresas brasileiras enfrentam dificuldades para acessar dados relevantes e de alta qualidade. E apenas 20% delas consideram essas estruturas maduras o suficiente para lidar com a rápida evolução dos modelos de IA, inclusive os agênticos. Para falar deste cenário e desafios, o apresentador Daniel Gonzales recebe, no Start Eldorado desta semana, Marcia Muniz, diretora jurídica da Cisco América Latina e Canadá e DPO da Cisco no Brasil. O Start vai ao ar todas as quartas-feiras, às 21h, na Rádio Eldorado FM (107,3 para a Grande SP), no app e site e também pode ser ouvido nas principais plataformas de áudio em formato de podcast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
AI is transforming the world—but is it transforming privacy for better or for risk? We trust our GP with our deepest secrets, but can we extend that same trust to AI-powered systems and cloud-based suppliers? And if AI can re-identify people even in anonymized research data, is “anonymous” still real anymore? In this episode, Punit Bhatia and Tania Palmariellodiviney reveals how AI tools reshape confidentiality, integrity, availability, cloud sprawl, supplier risk, clinical transcription accuracy, re-identification, and even personal fears like voice-based deepfakes. The voice of experience rings clear: digital trust isn't a checkbox…it's engineered early with transparency, responsible data use, privacy by design, and safety by design.
Send a textWelcome to the newest episode of the Serious Privacy podcast, where hosts Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal address the hot topic of agentic AI and the risks to #privacy, #dataprotection, #security, and #humanrights. We cover the basics as well as human attributes (or not) along with how to take the risks into consideration as a professional. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
AI is transforming the world—but is it transforming privacy for better or for risk? We trust our GP with our deepest secrets, but can we extend that same trust to AI-powered systems and cloud-based suppliers? And if AI can re-identify people even in anonymized research data, is “anonymous” still real anymore? In this episode, Punit Bhatia and Tania Palmariellodiviney reveals how AI tools reshape confidentiality, integrity, availability, cloud sprawl, supplier risk, clinical transcription accuracy, re-identification, and even personal fears like voice-based deepfakes. The voice of experience rings clear: digital trust isn't a checkbox…it's engineered early with transparency, responsible data use, privacy by design, and safety by design.
Send a textWelcome to the newest episode of the Serious Privacy podcast, where hosts Paul Breitbarth and Dr. K Royal discuss the privacy and data protection news of the past couple of weeks. This week, Paul rants about digital sovereignty, K discusses new American legislation, especially to protection children's data, and together they also talk about the latest WhatsApp decision from the Court of Justice of the European Union. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Are you relying on the sale of your practice to fund your retirement? Before you accept an attractive offer from a DSO, it's critical to understand what those numbers really mean — and what alternatives exist.In this episode, Kirk Behrendt interviews Dr. Bob Margeas, founder of Iowa Dental Group in Des Moines, Iowa, about how he evaluated multiple DSO offers, broke down EBITDA and earn-outs, and ultimately chose a different transition strategy. They discuss adjusted EBITDA, recap risk, associate buy-ins, creative ownership structures, and why equity matters more than a headline purchase price. If you're considering selling your practice — or simply want to understand your options — listen to Episode 1010 of The Best Practices Show!Main TakeawaysEBITDA is calculated differently than a dentist's net income and often includes add-backs that significantly change a practice's valuation.Most DSOs evaluate practices on an accrual basis rather than cash basis accounting, which affects perceived profitability.Earn-outs and recapitalization payouts are tied to performance and market conditions and are not guaranteed.Selling to a DSO typically requires the dentist to stay for several years, effectively replacing future EBITDA with the sale proceeds.Structuring an associate buy-in based on trailing three-year profits can allow debt to be serviced without increasing production.Ownership equity creates long-term wealth potential that an associate-only model does not provide.Dentists who are financially independent have more flexibility and leverage when evaluating transition options.Snippets00:00 Intro03:00 The difference between a DSO and a DPO.05:00 Understanding EBITDA and common add-backs.08:00 Why DSOs prefer accrual accounting over cash basis.10:00 How earn-outs and clawbacks work.13:30 Hiring an associate based on personality and communication skills.15:00 Structuring a 20% buy-in using trailing three-year profits.17:00 Reducing clinical days while maintaining profitability.21:00 Merging practices into a holding company model.24:00 Why saving early creates flexibility at transition.30:00 “I'm just a referee” — communicating treatment without pressure.34:00 Why equity ownership is essential for long-term wealth.Guest Bio/Guest ResourcesDr. Bob Margeas is the founder of Iowa Dental Group in Des Moines, Iowa. He is a nationally recognized...
Send a textWelcome to the newest episode of the Serious Privacy podcast, where hosts Paul Breitbarth, Ralph O'Brien, and Dr. K Royal connect with Josh Schwartz of Phaselaw to discuss the increasing use of data subject access rights (DSARs) as a weapon. The resources required to handle such requests can be quite extensive. How do companies keep up? Maybe Josh has some insight. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Send us a textWelcome to the Serious Privacy podcast, where Paul Breitbarth, Dr. K Royal, and Ralph O'Brien meet with Tom Kemp of the California Privacy Protection Agency. We talk about the new DROP system, priorities, history, and coordination with other agencies and lawmakers. Tom was previously on Serious Privacy, before his CPPA days. If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
Send us a textWe are back! Welcome to season 7 of the Serious Privacy podcast, with dr. K Royal, Ralph O'Brien and Paul Breitbarth. Also this season, we will keep you up to date of developments in the data protection and privacy community, artificial intelligence and some cybersecurity. And of course we'll bring you interviews with great guests! If you have comments or questions, find us on LinkedIn and Instagram @seriousprivacy, and on BlueSky under @seriousprivacy.eu, @europaulb.seriousprivacy.eu, @heartofprivacy.bsky.app and @igrobrien.seriousprivacy.eu, and email podcast@seriousprivacy.eu. Rate and Review us! From Season 6, our episodes are edited by Fey O'Brien. Our intro and exit music is Channel Intro 24 by Sascha Ende, licensed under CC BY 4.0. with the voiceover by Tim Foley.
In this episode of Business Brain, Shannon Jean and Dave Hamilton are joined by Juliana Berger, Head of Payments at QuickBooks, to unpack where founders most often misunderstand how cashflow systems actually connect. They explore the “mycelium” of a business—the meaningful connectivity layer where every dollar in and every dollar out matters—and why fragmented tools quietly create anxiety, inefficiency, and blind spots that erode confidence. The conversation dives into what truly defines business health: durable, predictable cashflow. From cashflow run rate and cash efficiency to DSO, DPO, and operational resiliency, the hosts break down how accuracy, automation, and smart guardrails create leverage instead of chaos. With insights on using AI the right way—through permissions, visibility, and trust-building controls—this episode shows how clarity fuels better decisions and a more intentional, Charmed Life. 00:00:00 Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs' Podcast #720 for Wednesday Casual FridAI, January 21st, 2026 January 21st: Thank Your Mentor Day Guest Co-host: Juliana Berger, Director of Product Management, Head of Payments at Intuit QuickBooks SPONSOR: Intuit QuickBooks Payroll – Leave the chaos behind and start the new year off right with QuickBooks Payroll. Learn more by visiting QuickBooks.com/payroll Where do founder misunderstand how all the cashflow systems interconnect What's the mycelium of your business – what's the connectivity layer? Where do things connect in a MEANINGFUL way? Every dollar in and every dollar out matters… and QuickBooks gets to see that Helping the anxious candlemaker who was using 16 different apps/tools to manage her business What determines the health of a business? Durable and predictable cashflow are the keys to this! Cashflow run rate: how much in and out? Is it consistent? Know your business. Know your cash efficiency. DSO vs. DPO DSO: Days sales outstanding DPO: Days payable outstanding Know Your Resiliency – What's the riskiest part of your business and how are you managing that? Using AI and automation the RIGHT way Accuracy is power When things are accurate, that's great. When they're inaccurate, you just created WAY more work for yourself Important guardrails to look for when evaluating a tool Permissions and approvals Visibility and defensibility of information Controls… UNDO is important for trust Intuit also has trusted live experts in addition to all the other tools Business Brain 720 Outtro Tell Your Friends! Review Business Brain Subscribe to the show feedback@businessbrain.show Call/Text: (567) 274-6977 X/Twitter: @ShannonJean & @DaveHamilton, & @BizBrainShow LinkedIn: Shannon Jean, Dave Hamilton, & Business Brain Facebook: Dave Hamilton, Shannon Jean, & Business Brain The post Juliana Berger, QuickBooks Head of Payments – Business Brain 720 appeared first on Business Brain - The Entrepreneurs' Podcast.
Rising costs don't have to automatically mean less profit. If your supply spend is sitting around 7–8%, this episode will show you how your practice can get group-level pricing and support without selling or partnering with a DSO.Jeff Cellucci of MB2 Dental introduces Carabelli Club as an option for people who want all the benefits of a group without the commitment. That means group-level pricing, vetted vendors, and a simpler way to order everything your practice needs!Topics discussed:How dentistry and the DSO space has changedWhy MB2 Dental's partnership model differs from traditional groupsThe benefits of joining a DPO like MB2 DentalWhat Carabelli Club offers practice ownersHow you can reach 5% supply spend or less“Same-store” growth and why it mattersSign up for Carabelli Club today with code HEROES26 to get 4 FREE MONTHS with your membership! https://www.carabelliclub.com/This episode was produced by Podcast Boutique https://www.podcastboutique.com SET UP A CONSULTATION WITH GARY @ LEGALLY MINE CLICK HERE Get Free DPH Trainings, Download the App and Join our Community! CLICK HERETake Control of Your Practice and Your Life We help dentists take more time off while making more money through systematization, team empowerment, and creating leadership teams. Ready to build a practice that works for you? Visit www.DentalPracticeHeroes.com to learn more.
Find YouTube link to watch here: https://youtu.be/uh99t38qgxw Shownotes Welcome to the first Programmatic Digest episode of 2026 with Ellen Parker and Manuela Cortez. This is a quick check-in, plus a trader-friendly breakdown of the biggest 2025 shifts and what to watch in 2026. We cover five trends from 2025 (AI everywhere, privacy and cookieless reality, CTV growth, RMNs going more programmatic, and supply quality/transparency). Then we close with three 2026 predictions: curation becoming "default infrastructure," AI as a co-pilot (not autopilot), and multi-identity strategies becoming standard. This episode also includes the 2026 community focus: subscribe to YouTube + the newsletter, confirm your subscription, and reach out if you want to contribute (writing, audio, or guest spots). Here's What You'll Learn What "AI everywhere" means for traders: less manual tuning, more strategy and interpretation Why privacy-first is still a day-to-day skill, even if cookies hang around longer than expected Why CTV is no longer "experimental" and how measurement expectations are changing Why more RMNs going programmatic changes how you think about signals and audiences What "supply quality + transparency" should actually include (fees, paths, reporting depth) 2026 prediction: curation becomes the baseline (SSP curation vs curation houses vs curation desks) 2026 prediction: AI moves from rules-based automation to agent-style workflows (co-pilot mindset) Why you still need foundations first (know how to do it manually before you let AI help) Subscribe to the Programmatic Digest Podcast on your favorite platform (including Spotify) https://www.heleneparker.com/programmatic-digest-podcast/ Subscribe to the Programmatic Digest YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@programmaticdigest Join the newsletter and confirm your subscription: https://www.heleneparker.com/newsletter/ Access the Programmatic Training here: https://www.heleneparker.com/library/ No String Attached - MediaMath DSP (including Agent AI Connector): helene.parker@infillion.com Timestamps • 00:00 – Intro: Welcome to the first Programmatic Digest of 2026. • 01:15 – Channel Updates: YouTube growth and the importance of the weekly newsletter. • 03:30 – Hands-on Support: Tips, hacks, and activation-focused support in the newsletter. • 05:45 – Calling for Contributors: Opportunities to host, write, and build industry authority. • 08:20 – The Programmatic Training Library: Combining six years of workshops and courses. • 11:00 – Micro-Workshops: Real-world DSP setup support and "programmatic ninja" coaching. • 13:15 – 2025 Trend #1: AI Everywhere—Automated bidding, optimization, and predictive modeling. • 16:00 – AI for Productivity: Using tools like ChatGPT to simplify industry jargon and workflows. • 19:45 – 2025 Trend #2: Privacy-First & Cookieless—The multiple identity approach. • 22:10 – 2025 Trend #3: CTV and Audio—Moving from experimental to action-driven channels. • 25:30 – 2025 Trend #4: Retail Media Networks (RMN)—New players like Loves Media and Go Puff. • 28:45 – The Value of Diversification: How audience insights drive revenue for traders. • 31:15 – 2025 Trend #5: Supply Quality & Transparency—Demanding log-level data and fee clarity. • 34:00 – 2026 Prediction #1: Curation as Default—SSP curation, Curation Houses, and Desks. • 38:15 – 2026 Prediction #2: AI as Co-Pilot—Moving from "automated" to "agentic" intelligence. • 41:30 – Media Math Agent Connector: Managing campaigns via AI prompts without UI clicks. • 45:00 – The "Rice Cooker" Analogy: Why you must understand manual foundations before using AI. • 48:15 – Advanced Reporting: Tying campaign data to real-world consumer behavior and brand impact. • 51:45 – 2026 Prediction #3: Dual Identity Strategies—Using the Media Math X Graph. • 54:30 – Under the Hood: Investigating "proprietary" tech and demanding the "Carfax" for AdTech. • 57:00 – Final Takeaways: "Grace over Guilt" and putting your 2026 plans into action. • 1:00:15 – Closing Encouragement: Mental and spiritual health for the year ahead Meet The Team: Hélène Parker - Chief Programmatic Coach https://www.heleneparker.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/helene-parker Manuela Cortes - Co-Host Programmatic Digest In Espanol: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuela-cortes- Learn Programmatic As a TEAM: https://www.heleneparker.com/workshop/ As a Programmatic Ninja: https://www.heleneparker.com/course/ Programmatic Coaching Newsletter:https://www.heleneparker.com/newsletter/ Programmatic Digest https://www.linkedin.com/company/programmatic-digest-podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBGMMRsZkw0IIUbQIJmMBxw Looking for programmatic training/coaching? 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