Interviews

Paul Harbidge

2025-10-24

People wanted clean energy but didn’t connect that mining makes it possible; civilization doesn’t exist without mining and metals, yet this industry is largely taken for granted.

Victor Riparbelli

CEO & Co-Founder

Synthesia

2025-10-23

We’re already close in many cases. Watermarking, provenance metadata, and “AI-generated” labels will become standard across major platforms, including ours. These aren’t perfect—bad actors will try to circumvent them—but they provide meaningful consumer cues and a basis for enforcement.

AJ Abdallat

CEO & Founder

Beyond Limits

2025-10-21

Our approach combines data with expert knowledge, leveraging both to design hybrid AI systems that generate trustable results. Scaling is never easy, but we’ve built a methodology that allows us to design once and scale broadly. On top of that, we prioritize explainability and auditability. By embedding these into the technology itself, we build trust with human operators, making adoption smoother across organizations.

Randy Smallwood

CEO

Wheaton Precious Metals

2025-10-20

Geopolitical instability, de-globalization, and central banks diversifying their reserves away from the US dollar are all contributing to the growing demand for gold

Gabe Clark

Managing Principal, Sector Leader — Data Centers

Corgan

2025-10-17

That urgency forces a strategic balance of speed, cost and future-proofing. We must deliver designs that are fast to build, fit the ever-evolving technical requirements, and allow clients to deploy dense compute while minimizing schedule and budget.

Gleb Budman

Chairman of the Board & CEO

Backblaze

2025-10-17

This expansion is part of our broader strategy to increase our global presence. With data centers in regions across the U.S., Canada, and Europe, we are positioning ourselves to scale alongside the ever-growing demand for data storage. As AI continues to drive data growth, our infrastructure expansion will help us meet the needs of customers worldwide, particularly in AI and other high-performance computing areas.

Matt McClernan

CEO

Augment Code

2025-10-17

We firmly believe it will complement. In fact, that belief is embedded in our name — Augment Code. Our mission is to elevate developers by taking away mundane work and letting them focus on higher-order thinking. The same logic applies across professions.

Adam Bry

CEO

Skydio

2025-10-17

We’ve secured hundreds of customer waivers and refined a repeatable playbook—operating paradigms, mitigations, allowed altitudes—that minimise risk. A proposed Part 108 rule, now out for review, would be the next chapter for BVLOS. There’s good progress with areas to refine, but the direction is clear: if the U.S. wants to lead the next century of aviation, getting these rules right is essential.

Kevin Cochrane

CMO

Vultr

2025-10-14

We picked “Vultr” as a nod to the ecological role of vultures: they are crucial to a healthy, vibrant open ecosystem. Remove the vulture and the ecosystem slowly collapses; they keep systems healthy by cleaning up and cycling resources. The metaphor extends to our industry: an open, healthy AI ecosystem needs independent, specialised players who ensure innovation can thrive without collapse into single-vendor dominance.

Michael Reid

CEO

Megaport

2025-10-14

As AI drives arbitrage of compute cost and availability, the only viable response is an automated network that can re-route and resize on demand. You can’t survive three-month delays when the “cheapest/fastest” location changes every quarter. The hard part is automating physical infrastructure at global scale—that’s why few, if any, others do what we do today—but the direction of travel is clear: software-defined control atop pre-provisioned capacity.

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