Vultr CMO Kevin Cochrane has candid conversations spanning the globe with founders, engineers, investors, and the leaders building the next generation of technology.
Episode 10: Jeff Denworth, The AI Conference, San Francisco
From the lobby of the W San Francisco, Kevin Cochrane sits down with Jeff Denworth, co-founder of VAST Data, for a fireside conversation about building the infrastructure behind the AI era. Jeff takes us inside VAST’s unconventional origin story, beginning its first year focused entirely on architecture. They also get into the culture behind the company, the value of educating customers, a few startup stories that probably shouldn’t have worked, and Jeff’s philosophy that business is a ...
8 Oct 2026
Episode 9: Patrick Eden, AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe
Kevin Cochrane sits down with Patrick Eden, CEO and co-founder of Palma AI. Patrick has seen an infrastructure shift like this before. Before Palma, he co-founded Replex during the early rise of Kubernetes, and now he sees a similar moment unfolding around MCP and AI agents. The conversation digs into what happens when agents move beyond answering questions and start accessing the real systems businesses run on. Patrick and Kevin break down permissions, zero-trust governance, enterprise adopt...
1 Oct 2026
Episode 8: Manik Surtani, AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe
From the show floor at the RAI in Amsterdam, Kevin Cochrane sits down with Manik Surtani, CTO and co-founder of the Agentic AI Foundation, for a conversation about what it will take to make the agentic future actually work. Manik spent more than a decade at Block and collaborated with Google on the launch of gRPC, technology that helps software systems communicate at scale. Today, he’s focused on a similar challenge for AI: creating open standards that allow agents built by different companie...
23 Sept 2026
Episode 7: Chris Aniszczyk, AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe
Coming to you from AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe in Amsterdam, Vultr CMO Kevin Cochrane sits down with Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). From leading Twitter's open-source program to helping build CNCF, Chris has spent his career bringing developers and competing companies together. Kevin and Chris explore the importance of open collaboration, and what the cloud-native revolution can teach us about building the next generation of AI infrastructure.
28 Jul 2026
Episode 6: Sanjeet Singh, AMD Advancing AI, San Francisco
Sanjeet Singh, Senior Director of SUSE AI, stopped by the Agent(X) set at AMD's Advancing AI Day to talk about what's actually happening as enterprises move from experimenting with AI to putting it to work. The conversation covers why security is becoming one of the biggest challenges in AI, how SUSE has expanded its decades-long partnership with AMD from CPUs to GPUs, and why running agentic AI means thinking about the entire infrastructure stack. Kevin and Sanjeet also dig into sovereign AI...
24 Jul 2026
Episode 5: Mahesh Balasubramanian, AMD Advancing AI, San Francisco
Kevin explores how modern infrastructure is evolving to meet the demands of the next generation of enterprise AI with Mahesh Balasubramanian, AMD Senior Director of Data Center GPU Product. The discussion dives into AMD's evolving AI roadmap, the growing role CPUs play alongside accelerators, and how open-source software and AI-assisted development are changing the way engineers build and deploy modern workloads. Along the way, Mahesh shares why customer feedback has become one of AMD's bigge...
23 Jul 2026
Episode 4: John Mao, AMD Advancing AI, San Francisco
Kevin sits down with John Mao, VP of Global Business Development at VAST Data, for a discussion covering everything from enterprise AI infrastructure to his childhood days building computers. John explores the rapid evolution of AI hardware, emerging workload demands, GPUs, and the data architectures enabling enterprise AI. He also shares his deepest curiosities - and how they've shaped his career.
11 Jul 2026
Episode 3: Mohsen Moazami, RAISE Summit, Paris
DDN Vice Chairman Mohsen Moazami stopped by the Vultr booth at RAISE and reflected on his remarkable journey from immigrant entrepreneur to global technology leader, shared how DDN is helping power the next generation of AI, and offered his perspective on the qualities that define effective leadership in times of rapid change. From building transformative companies to forecasting where AI is headed next, this episode is packed with insights from one of the industry's most respected voices.
9 Jul 2026
Episode 2: Vik Malyala, RAISE Summit, Paris
Kevin sits down with Vik Malyala, Chief Business Officer with Supermicro, and discusses everything from liquid cooling to trusting your gut.
9 Jul 2026
Episode 1: Negin Oliver, RAISE Summit, Paris
Vultr CMO Kevin Cochrane sits down with Negin Oliver, CVP of Business Development (Instinct Data Center GPU) with AMD, at the 2026 RAISE Summit in Paris.
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