Episodes: 84
Frequency: Monthly
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Gender skew: Male
Listener location: Australia
YouTube: 41 subscribers
Publicly listed emails
info@empyreanit.com.au
hymie@webmentum.com
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Tom Leyden - Australian technology-sector leader and CIO with experience discussing enterprise IT strategy, infrastructure, vendors, and technology leadership.
Josh Rubens - Managing Director at IT consultancy Empyrean and an Australian technology-sector leader focused on enterprise IT and digital transformation.
Yitzhak Kesselman - Microsoft Fabric, Enterprise Data, Operational Efficiency, AI Agents, Onelake, Real-time Intelligence, Business Outcomes, And Enterprise AI Strategy.
Andrew Welch - Enterprise AI Strategy, AI Implementation, Architecture, Consulting Models, Customer Outcomes, Partner Challenges, And Converting AI Initiatives Into Practical Business Results.
Andrew Welch - Enterprise AI Adoption, Leadership Judgment, Organizational Culture, Responsible AI Use, And Translating AI Initiatives Into Real-world Outcomes.
Beyond the Firewall: How Do You Keep AI Secure at Work?
September 29, 2026
Firewalls, MFA and patching still matter. But if your team is using AI, is an enterprise plan enough to keep company data safe? Josh talks with David Stevenson, Empyrean’s Cyber Lead, about shadow AI, what staff put into prompts, and what AI agents can access. They discuss practical guardrails beyond a subscription, including data loss prevention (DLP) to block or redact sensitive information, and the concept of an AI “harness”—a governance layer that applies consistent rules across the m...
Cybersecurity at Machine Speed
August 25, 2026
AI is changing the speed and scale of cyber threats, giving attackers new ways to automate, personalise and accelerate attacks. In this episode, Josh Rubens and Tom Leyden speak with leading CISO Dr Kawin Boonyapredee about what this shift means for organisations and the people responsible for protecting them. They explore how agentic AI is changing attack and defence, the growing challenge of deepfakes and shadow AI, and emerging security priorities for IT leaders.
Microsoft Fabric: The Platform That Turns Data into Competitive Advantage
July 26, 2026
Microsoft Corporate VP of Fabric, Yitzhak Kesselman, joins Josh and Tom to explain why operational efficiency — not just productivity AI — is the real multiplier, and how Fabric delivers the fresh data and context needed to make it happen. Drawing on conversations with hundreds of customers, Yitzhak explains how most companies are still stuck in front-end AI use cases while the bigger opportunity lies in using their own business data to drive better decisions and automated actions. He walks ...
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Leading IT - APAC Insights is hosted by Tom Leyden and Josh Rubens. Its publicly listed emails are info@empyreanit.com.au and hymie@webmentum.com. For guest bookings, the host or producer is usually the best person to reach. Podseeker helps you find direct host and producer contacts and pitch from your own inbox.
The publicly listed emails for Leading IT - APAC Insights: info@empyreanit.com.au and hymie@webmentum.com.
Podseeker estimates Leading IT - APAC Insights reaches 100 to 1,000 listeners per episode. Only the publisher has exact numbers.
Leading IT - APAC Insights typically books industry leaders. Typical guest background: Senior technology executives, enterprise AI strategists, cloud and infrastructure leaders, IT consultants, and technology vendor executives with substantial experience delivering or overseeing enterprise transformation. Common among recent guests: Leadership of enterprise technology or AI initiatives; Executive responsibility at major technology vendors or consultancies; Founder or senior strategy roles in technology firms. Recent guests include Yitzhak Kesselman, Andrew Welch, and Andrew Welch.
High. It mostly books established leaders in its field.
Recent episodes cover It Strategy, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, and Leadership. Pitch an idea tied to one of these topics and mention a recent episode.
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