Convergence

About Convergence

Welcome to the Convergence podcast! I'm Ashok Sivanand and I've created the Convergence podcast to help you build the most engaged product teams who can ship the most successful products. My passion for products and timing stems from a combination of my working in Japanese manufacturing, building IoT software products for lean manufacturers, and working at industry powerhouses in product like Pivotal Labs. This passion led to founding Integral in 2017, a product engineering consultancy that enables our clients to harness technology to develop better products, grow their revenue streams, and enable new business models. We've had the pleasure to collaborate with brands like Ford, Honda, Rocket Mortgage, Airstream, and Bosch to enable their teams and build some amazing products in artificial intelligence, cloud, mobile, and web. On the Convergence podcast, I'll be speaking with industry leaders, as well as sharing insights from my team on deconstructing the best practices, principles, and philosophies that lead to building the best product teams. If you're a chief product officer, a chief technology officer, or a VP of engineering, or you're growing towards one of those roles, I highly recommend you subscribe to the Convergence Podcast and get some of the insights that will help you lead your product teams and enable them to consistently ideate, validate and ship products that your customers love. Products that will help you grow your business. Thanks a lot for listening.

Publisher

Ashok Sivanand

Category

business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Apr 2024

Latest episode

10 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

90 of 94 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   10 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How CEOs Can Play AI Offense (Stop Delegating Your Strategy)

   Ashok Shivanand interviews veteran CEOs, revealing how they can play AI offense by redesigning their business strategy instead of delegating it.

2. 

   3 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The AI Adoption Playbook Every Business Needs (From an OpenAI Partner)

   Dawid Naude, CEO of Pathfindr and an AI implementation expert, shares a practical playbook for business AI adoption, revealing how to achieve significant wins through accessible tools and strategic capability-building.

3. 

   14 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   From Activity to Impact: Harnessing AI to Rebuild the Mid-Market Business Model with Ron Baker, Co-Founder, Threshold

   Ashok interviews Ron Baker, Co-Founder of Threshold, exploring how AI transforms mid-market businesses from activity-focused to outcome-driven models.

Inside a recent episode

How CEOs Can Play AI Offense (Stop Delegating Your Strategy)

Published 10 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] For most of business history when a new technology emerged, we tended to have time. We could watch it mature. Let someone else take the risk first before we need to do it ourselves. Maybe wait for the economies of scale and the price to come down and have a consultant come and teach us a playbook. That was smart, it worked. And the problem is that instinct is no longer imagining this timeline. Chatchy BT reached 100 million users within two months. Compared to that, television took 13 years, not two months to get there. And radio took nearly 40 years. So this isn't a technology that we have the same time or let alone a decade to observe before deciding whether to move and in what direction. […]

Who has been a guest on Convergence

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Ashok Shivanand
• Dawid Naude
• Ron Baker
• Jay Singh
• Ivan Gekht

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YouTube views

56,607

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

20 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 73 / 100

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Quality

96

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

51

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