Valeriya Ionan on Ukraine’s Digital State Vision, Diia, and Innovation During War
1008: Ukraine's Digital Revolution: From Warzone to Innovation Hub
In this episode of Technovation, host Peter High speaks with Valeriya Ionan, Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine on Innovation, Digitalization, and Global Partnerships. Previously Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Digital Transformation, Valeriya played a pivotal role in launching Ukraine’s groundbreaking Diia ecosystem and driving the nation's goal of becoming the world’s most convenient digital state.
She shares how digital public services, AI-driven education, and defense-tech innovation are reshaping Ukraine’s future, even in the face of war. With partnerships spanning global governments and tech giants, Valeriya offers a masterclass in crisis-driven transformation, digital infrastructure, and building agile government at scale.
Key insights include:
The evolution of Diia: from IDPs to e-marriage to war bonds
Scaling drone production from 7 to 500+ in three years
Ukraine’s “Win-Win” Innovation Strategy and defense tech surge
The rise of the CDTO and building a digital-first public sector
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Baxter CIO Rusty Patel on Connected Care, Resilience, and AI Value
1008: Resilience is earned, not given. In this episode of Technovation, host Peter High speaks with Rusty Patel, Chief Information Officer at Baxter, about leading IT through one of the most consequential 13-month periods in the company’s history. Rusty reflects on Baxter’s mission to save and sustain lives, the resilience required to restore operations after natural disasters, and the CIO's role in both enabling innovation and enforcing enterprise discipline. He shares insights into simplifying a complex IT ecosystem, building financial acumen across the org, and advancing connected care and AI across Baxter’s portfolio of 1.5 million devices and 350 million patients served annually.
Key topics include:
How Baxter IT responded to floods and cyber incidents without a playbook
Rationalizing thousands of systems to reduce IT cost-to-serve
Creating segment-aligned tech leadership and shared services
Applying AI to connected care and enterprise transformation
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JLL CTO Yao Morin on AI, Data Strategy, and the Future of Real Estate
1007: Can AI transform a 200-year-old commercial real estate company?
In this episode, Peter High speaks with Yao Morin, Chief Technology Officer of JLL, a $24B global commercial real estate leader. Yao shares how she is leading JLL’s AI and data transformation which is reshaping how buildings are operated, how software is developed, and how employees work.
Yao details how JLL is building customer-facing AI products like the JLL Property Assistant, driving cultural change through AI literacy programs, and launching internal tools like JLL GPT that already see 17,000 daily users. She also explains why she believes Scrum teams will shrink, engineers will code less, and AI adoption will soon be table stakes across industries.
Key topics include:
AI strategy across internal and external JLL platforms
The APEX program for AI-driven software engineering
Metrics for measuring AI impact beyond efficiency gains
Ethical AI design, data privacy, and client trust
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Greylock Partners’ Asheem Chandna on First-Check Investing, Founders, and the Age of AI
1: Where is software value heading in the age of AI?
In the premiere episode of Technoventure, host Peter High speaks with Asheem Chandna, General Partner at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture firms. Asheem has led early investments in industry-defining companies such as Palo Alto Networks, AppDynamics, Rubrik, and Abnormal Security.
With over 20 years at Greylock and a background in product management and cybersecurity, Asheem offers a masterclass on how he assesses founders, identifies breakout potential, and mitigates risk—often before a single line of code is written. He also explores the evolving dynamics of enterprise software, the impact of agentic AI, and how cybersecurity must adapt to combat both bad and good AI.
Key themes include:
Assessing founders in a world of younger AI entrepreneurs
The changing nature of enterprise software and data platforms
The immigrant’s mindset and risk tolerance in venture
The venture capitalist’s evolving toolkit in the AI era
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Apple in China: Financial Times’ Patrick McGee on Tim Cook, Scale, and Risk
1006: Apple’s success in China is more complicated—and consequential—than most realize.
In this episode, Peter High speaks with Financial Times journalist and author Patrick McGee, who covered Apple for years and recently published Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company. Patrick’s reporting reveals how Apple became deeply intertwined with China’s manufacturing and political landscape, why the company’s investment strategy mirrors the scale of the Marshall Plan, and what it means for America’s technological and geopolitical future.
Patrick explains how Apple trained tens of millions of Chinese workers, enabled critical industrial know-how, and inadvertently supported the rise of China’s tech and military capabilities. He also discusses the internal tensions between product design and supply chain mastery, Tim Cook’s evolution as a CEO, and the risks of Apple’s continued dependence on a single nation for its most critical operations.
Key insights include:
The little-known “Gang of Eight” and Apple’s in-China-for-China strategy
Why Apple’s $275B China deal dwarfs U.S. tech investments like the CHIPS Act
How Apple’s success helped catalyze Huawei’s resurgence and HarmonyOS
The supply chain realities that make shifting manufacturing nearly impossible
About Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)
Twice-weekly conversations with top executives and thought leaders at the intersection of business, technology, and innovation. Each episode of Technovation explores the technology trends that are transforming business, and the leaders driving digital change inside their organizations. Produced by Metis Strategy and hosted by firm President Peter High, Technovation is the premier podcast for IT and technology professionals with the largest collection of interviews with elite CIOs, CTOs, and CDOs.
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