- DisrupTV
DisrupTV is a weekly podcast with hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. The audience can expect A-list guests, the latest enterprise news, hot startups, insight from influencers, and much more. Tweet questions to #DisrupTV or @DisrupTVShow. We broadcast live on StreamYard.
Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConstellationR
Featured Guests:
Karthik Narain
Group Chief Executive, Technology and CTO at Accenture
Karthik Narain is Accenture’s Group Chief Executive of Technology and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and is a member of the company’s Global Management Committee. Karthik oversees all aspects of Accenture’s Technology business and leads the company’s technology strategy. Additionally, he is Chair of the Board of Avanade, Accenture’s joint venture with Microsoft. Karthik’s role spans cloud, data & AI, enterprise & industry technologies and security, as well as technology ecosystem partnerships and Accenture’s Advanced Technology Centers.
Prior to his appointment as Group Chief Executive and CTO, Karthik served as the lead for Accenture Cloud First and the company’s Data & AI business. In this role, he led teams helping clients move, shape and operate their businesses in the cloud and unlock the power of data & AI. Since the formation of Cloud First in 2020, cloud has become a top growth driver for the company. Accenture is recognized as a leader in cloud services market share and thought leadership by the technology ecosystem and industry analysts. He has extended the company’s leadership with ecosystem partners and driven substantial investments in solutions, acquisitions and talent to keep Accenture at the forefront of the industry.
Most recently, Karthik helped define Accenture’s approach and establish an early lead in generative AI through investments in its Center for Advanced AI; new ecosystem partnerships; and a new data & AI strategy for the company.
Karthik, who joined Accenture in 2015, brings a diverse set of experiences to his roles as Group Chief Executive and CTO. Over his 24-year career, he has led many strategic and innovative programs for clients across a variety of industry sectors, including Financial Services, High Tech and Software and Platforms. Karthik previously led Accenture Technology in North America, helping guide Global 2000 brands in using the power of the cloud and other technologies to transform their businesses. He is also an active sponsor in the Technology Women’s Executive Leadership program, supporting the growth of Accenture’s most senior women leaders in Technology.
Patrick McGee
Author of Apple in China: the Capture of the World’s Greatest Company
Investigative journalist Patrick McGee draws on 200+ interviews with former Apple executives and engineers to reveal how Cupertino’s choice to anchor its supply chain in China has increasingly made it vulnerable to the regime’s whims.
Both an insider’s historical account and a cautionary tale, Apple in China is the first history of Apple to go beyond the biographies of its top executives and set the iPhone’s global domination within an increasingly fraught geopolitical context.
A journalist with the Financial Times since 2013, Patrick has reported from Hong Kong, Germany, and California. He led the FT’s Apple coverage from 2019 to 2023 and won a San Francisco Press Club Award for his deep dive into Apple’s HR problems.
Previously, he was a bond reporter at The Wall Street Journal in New York. He has a Master’s in global diplomacy from SOAS, University of London, and a degree in religious studies from the University of Toronto. Originally from Calgary, Canada, he resides in the Bay Area.
X: @PatrickMcGee_
Andrés Tapia
Co-author of The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Teams: Unlocking Collective Power to Achieve Breakthrough
Andrés Tapia is senior client partner and a global Culture Transformation and Inclusion strategist at Korn Ferry. He has twenty-five years of consulting experience with Fortune 500 organizations and non-US multinationals in Brazil, South Korea, India, and across Latin America. He has also authored The Inclusion Paradox and Auténtico: The Definitive Guide to Latino Career Success. He resides in Chicago.
Michel Buffet
Co-author of The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Teams: Unlocking Collective Power to Achieve Breakthrough
Michel Buffet is a senior client partner and Top Team Performance Solution Lead at Korn Ferry. He has 25 years of experience advising C-suite leaders on organizational and leadership development. He serves on the Board of the French-American Chamber of Commerce in New York. He holds a PhD in organizational psychology from Columbia University and a doctorate in clinical human sciences from the University of Paris VII. He lives in Princeton, NJ.
