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

Most enterprises struggle to see beyond their immediate priorities. Toyota built a system to solve that.

In this episode of Technoventure, Ro Gupta, Managing Director of Woven Capital, explains how Toyota uses a “speedboat” venture strategy to identify and act on emerging technologies before they become obvious. Drawing on his experience as both a founder and investor, Ro shares how corporate venture capital can unlock not just financial returns, but strategic foresight.

Key topics include:

The “speedboat” model for enterprise innovation

Inside-out vs. outside-in investment strategy

How Toyota partners with startups at global scale

The future of mobility across AI, energy, and space

Lessons from operating at both startup and enterprise levels

AI disruption is no longer a future scenario, it’s already reshaping the workforce. In this episode of Technovation, Andrew Yang, Founder & CEO of Noble Mobile, author of Hey Yang, Where’s My Thousand Bucks? shares why job displacement is accelerating faster than leaders and policymakers can respond.

A former presidential candidate and founder of the Forward Party, Yang has been warning about automation’s impact for years. Now, he explains why those predictions are becoming reality, and what must change.

Key highlights include:

Why AI is already eliminating white-collar jobs

The case for taxing AI instead of human labor

How universal basic income could stabilize the economy

Why policymakers continue to lag behind innovation

Lessons from launching Noble Mobile to challenge incumbents

AI is becoming the missing layer that transforms agriculture from a physical practice into a data-driven system.

In this episode of Technovation, Feroz Sheikh, Chief Information and Digital Officer of Syngenta, shares how AI, data, and digital platforms are reshaping how farmers make decisions and how innovation scales across global agriculture.

Key highlights include:

How AI completes the evolution of agriculture’s “jigsaw puzzle”

The role of interdisciplinary teams in driving innovation

Real-world AI applications across R&D, supply chain, and farming

Democratizing advanced science for farmers worldwide

Using data at scale to predict and prevent crop disease

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