Hosted by Boaz Ashkenazy
The Shift AI podcast explores how AI and ML is changing the way that we work in the digital age. The show's creator Boaz Ashkenazy interviews thought leaders who are redefining how businesses and employees will be impacted by emerging technology today and in the future | Visit shiftaipodcast.com
102 episodes · publishes weekly · latest 2026-06-26 · ~34 min/episode
Rank
#2155
Substance
66.0
/ 100
Breakdown
Scored 2026-07
Updated monthly
General rank
#118 of 267
Across the index
#2155 of 6182
Substance
Top 35%
outscores 65% of the index
Shift AI Podcast ranks #2155 on The B2B Podcast Index with a substance score of 66.0 out of 100, scored across 1 recent episode. It scores highest on guest caliber and insight density. Genuinely senior and relevant: former Smartsheet CTO with long Microsoft tenure and nonprofit leadership - a real practitioner who operated at enterprise scale, though now no longer affiliated and speaking generally.
Averaged across 1 recently scored episode, with cited evidence.
A few useful points on governance, process bottlenecks beyond engineering, and security basics, but much is padded with career history, generic AI-opportunity talk, and platitudes about being 'bold' and 'curious'.
“you can accelerate everything within their realm all the way up to the deployment. But for example, what is your process for enabling the sales team or the customer support team to learn and support this?”
“if you don't have those basics nailed, it is going to be so painful”
Mostly familiar AI-era takes - MCP explained via Google Translate analogy, 'learn to use the tool,' non-technical people building apps. The point about accelerating the whole feature lifecycle rather than just engineering is somewhat fresher but still cited from a LinkedIn post.
“I read a very great post on LinkedIn that was recently posted about this, which is like the rest of your process and the rest of your organization ecosystem also has to think about it”
“the pace of reinvention and upskilling that it really imposes on people and organizations”
Genuinely senior and relevant: former Smartsheet CTO with long Microsoft tenure and nonprofit leadership - a real practitioner who operated at enterprise scale, though now no longer affiliated and speaking generally.
“you were just finishing up as the CTO of smartsheet”
“I've worked at Microsoft for a number of years... a range of products there, the operating system, Windows being one”
Some named products and features (Smartsheet formula generation, MCP/Claude integration, ADA, SVP) but almost no hard numbers, metrics, timelines, or dollar figures - examples stay largely anecdotal and abstract.
“I know they recently released integration with Claude through MCP”
“she just made a wonderful resume website that adapted itself depending on who came”
Host is warm and asks reasonable setup questions but never pushes back, challenges claims, or digs for specifics; several questions are generic ('two words') and the security topic was almost skipped until the guest prompted it herself.
“Did they talk enough about security? I feel like we didn't. We may not have.”
“how would you describe that in two words and then you can elaborate on it”
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