The CTO Advisor
Hosted by Keith Townsend and Keith · Keith Townsend
4.4from 17 ratings
- 79
- Episodes
- 30
- Transcribed
- 17
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 758K
- YouTube views
About The CTO Advisor
A conversation geared toward the CTO or Infrastructure Architect. Shows topics focus on future technologies and keeping today's infrastructure in-line with business requirements.
- Publisher
- Keith Townsend
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 9 Nov 2022
- Latest episode
- 20 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
30 of 79 episodes have a transcript.
20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 702: Who Gave Your AI Agent That Authority?
13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 701: Everpure’s Rob Lee on GPUs, Data Gravity, and KV Cache
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 700: A New Co-Host, TypeSafe’s Jev, and Qwen3.8 at Home
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Episode 702: Who Gave Your AI Agent That Authority?
Published 20 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And you've given that maybe you spun up the Slack, the bot as your principal, but you have access to things you wouldn't want it to have full-time access to. You invite that bot into a federated channel with another company, another Slack organization that's not even your company. Now you've got someone from another company who you don't have an employment contract with who can act on your behalf using your bot in your channel. Yeah, and this opens up. So many questions around accountability. So we have authority on one side and then we have accountability on the other side. I have asked this question of plenty of people. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on The CTO Advisor
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Calvin Hendryx-Parker
- Rob Lee
- Joe Onisick
- Lynn Comp
- Melissa Palmer
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 758,430
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 14 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 3 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 77
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 92
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Questions about The CTO Advisor
Who hosts The CTO Advisor?
Keith Townsend and Keith host the show. Published by Keith Townsend.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes monthly, based on its RSS feed.
Does The CTO Advisor take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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