Booking Overview
Metrics
Episodes: 34
Frequency: Every two weeks
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Gender skew: Male
Listener location: Australia
YouTube: 108 subscribers
Instagram: 72 followers
Contact Information
Publicly listed emails
pru@thingsreasons.show
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Host
Naran McClung - Executive, Azure at Macquarie Cloud Services, leading an Azure managed services practice in Australia with a focus on cloud economics and AI.
Jono Staff - Chief Revenue Officer at ASE Group and Executive Director of WinDC, with more than 20 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, managed services, and critical infrastructure.
Booking Intelligence
Booking Requirements
Recent Guest Discussions
Faith Rees - Forward Deployed Engineering, Ai-driven Software Development, Developer Skills, Customer Requirements, And Technology Delivery.
David Keane - Australian Sovereign AI, Inference Infrastructure, Open-weight Models, AI Security, Data Sovereignty, And Model Economics.
Vic Guerrero - Technology Channel Strategy, Partner-led Growth, Saas Economics, Vendor Relationships, And Build-versus-buy Decisions.
Luke Clifton - Ai-driven Workforce Change, Technology Leadership Careers, Board And Non-executive Director Roles, Professional Purpose, And Men's Mental Health.
Recent Topics
Episodes
Forward Deployed Engineers Aren't New. So Why Is Big Tech Spending Billions on Them? With Faith Rees | Ep. 18
September 23, 2026
Between May and July this year, OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS and Microsoft all put billions of dollars behind the same idea: engineers who sit inside the customer's business and build alongside the people who will use the software. The industry has a name for them, the forward deployed engineer, and a lot of Australian IT leaders are hearing it for the first time. Faith Rees has been running a consultancy on that model for more than a decade. Her view is that the role is not new at all. What has ch...
SCX.ai and the Mission to Build Australia's Sovereign AI With David Keane | Ep. 17
September 03, 2026
SCX.ai listed a week before this recording, and on the morning of the record the Sydney Morning Herald ran a front page calling AI the most important sovereignty issue for Australians since the Second World War. At the same time Australian communities are pushing back hard on new hyperscale data centres, and Australian businesses are being told to adopt AI without being told where their data is being processed. This conversation sits directly on that fault line. About the guest David Kea...
Telstra Went Dark, Mythos Is Hunting, and Why Technical Debt Should Be a Board-Level KPI | Ep. 16
July 28, 2026
Episode overview AI adoption is the number one priority for Australian IT leaders, and that is exactly why the unglamorous work of replacing what no longer works keeps sliding down the list. Meanwhile the risk is growing, because AI is now finding and exploiting legacy weaknesses faster than any human team can. The Telstra outage on 8 July, traced to a defect the vendor had flagged since 2022, is what happens when technical debt is left at the bottom of the pile. About the hosts Jono Staff is...
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How many listeners does Things. Reasons: The independent show for Australian IT leaders (AI, Tech & IT Leadership) have?
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Who is an ideal guest for Things. Reasons: The independent show for Australian IT leaders (AI, Tech & IT Leadership)?
Things. Reasons: The independent show for Australian IT leaders (AI, Tech & IT Leadership) typically books industry leaders. Typical guest background: Australian technology founders, CIOs, CTOs, senior executives, cloud and AI specialists, cybersecurity leaders, managed-services operators, and channel or enterprise technology strategists with direct experience and a substantive point of view. Common among recent guests: Founding or leading a technology company; Building or scaling cloud, AI, cybersecurity, SaaS, or managed-services businesses; Holding senior executive, board, or operational leadership roles. Recent guests include Faith Rees, David Keane, and Vic Guerrero.
How hard is it to get booked on Things. Reasons: The independent show for Australian IT leaders (AI, Tech & IT Leadership)?
Medium. Guests usually need solid credentials in the topic and an idea that fits the show.
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