The CTO Advisor

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Episode 702: Who Gave Your AI Agent That Authority?

October 20, 2026

Calvin Hendryx-Parker, co-founder and CTO of Six Feet Up, joins Keith Townsend to ask a question CTOs should be asking now: who gave your AI agent that authority? They start with two recent stories, the reported AWS AgentCore case where an agent fetched IAM session credentials from the metadata server on a user's behalf, and a Codex CLI update that leaves a self-updating daemon running after you quit, restarting itself mid-turn when a new version lands. From there, enterprise persistent memor...

Episode 701: Everpure’s Rob Lee on GPUs, Data Gravity, and KV Cache

October 13, 2026

Rob Lee, Chief Technology and Growth Officer at Everpure (formerly Pure Storage), is back on the show. Keith Townsend asks how a CTO tells a real compute shortage from a data problem dressed up as one. Rob's answer: stop chasing GPU utilization. Measure how long a task takes and how accurate the result is, and utilization follows. From there, data gravity and why agents working inside transactional flows pull compute toward the data, why AI pushes enterprises to reason across every silo at on...

Episode 700: A New Co-Host, TypeSafe’s Jev, and Qwen3.8 at Home

October 01, 2026

Episode 700, and a reboot. Keith Townsend welcomes new co-host Calvin Hendryx-Parker, CTO and co-founder of Six Feet Up, pairing an infrastructure view and a development view on the same CTO problems. First up: Jev, TypeSafe AI's System One classifier that returns typed answers in milliseconds for a fraction of a language model's cost, and what it means to hand a closed-weight third party 200,000 rows of your data. Then Qwen3.8 running locally, and the open-weight classifiers chasing Jev. Nex...

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The publicly listed emails for The CTO Advisor: sales@thectoadvisor.com and keith@thectoadvisor.com.

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Who is an ideal guest for The CTO Advisor?

The CTO Advisor typically books rising experts. Typical guest background: Senior technology practitioners, executives, consultants, or specialists with direct experience in enterprise infrastructure, software, automation, or applied AI. Common among recent guests: Leadership roles in technology companies or consultancies; Hands-on experience delivering enterprise technology or infrastructure projects; Specialized expertise in emerging or applied technologies. Recent guests include Rob Lee, Adam Jacobs, and Ryan Booth.

How hard is it to get booked on The CTO Advisor?

Medium. Guests usually need solid credentials in the topic and an idea that fits the show.

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Recent episodes cover Technology, Enterprise Technology, Artificial Intelligence, It Infrastructure, and Cloud Computing. Pitch an idea tied to one of these topics and mention a recent episode.