Evan Kirstel B2B TechFluencer

Create📝Publish🗞️Amplify📣 TechInfluencer, Analyst, Content Creator w/600K Social Media followers, Deep Expertise in Enterprise 💻 Cloud ☁️5G 📡AI 🤖Telecom ☎️ CX 🔑 Cyber 🏥 DigitalHealth. TwitterX @evankirstel

B2B Social Media Maven | Tech Industry Storyteller | Trusted Partner for Global Tech Brands | TV Host | Podcaster | Livestreamer | Blogger | Industry Analyst 

With over three decades in tech, I've mastered the art of transforming social media into a dynamic platform for audience engagement, community building, and thought leadership. My focus? Not personal brand promotion—but delivering educational, authoritative, and thought-provoking content to cultivate sustainable, long-term business growth. 

I am host on a TV show called TechImpact appearing on FOXBusiness and Bloomberg which has a reach millions of viewers. 

From Enterprise IT to AI, UCaaS, CPaaS, Cybersecurity, 5G, and Digital Health, my expertise spans the tech landscape. As a leading content creator, I bring unparalleled insights into the Future of Work, Unified Communications, Collaboration, and Customer Experience , producing impactful narratives that resonate with key decision-makers worldwide. Let’s turn your ideas into stories that captivate and engage audiences while delivering eye-popping ROI.

Social Reach: 600K+ followers across LinkedIn (60K), Twitter (380K), YouTube (110K), Meta platforms (120K), and beyond. Livestreaming, blogs, Newsletter (20K) and podcasts that reach millions globally.  My personal network includes CIOs, CMOs, analysts, media, and key tech industry leaders. 

By leveraging our proven B2B Influencer Marketing methodology, I place your brand at the forefront of decision-makers' minds, ensuring you're the partner of choice when investment and purchasing decisions arise.

Our approach prioritizes Awareness, Education, and Engagement by delivering high-value content that reaches and influences millions globally. Unique stories and narratives position your brand as a trusted leader.  Informative, jargon-free messaging educates decision-makers about your value proposition.  Blogs, videos, podcasts, and live-streams inspire clicks, likes, shares, and meaningful leads.  

I’ve built impactful, long-term partnerships with industry leaders like Palo Alto Networks, Intel, T-Mobile, Microsoft, Cisco, AMD, AT&T, and Broadcom. These collaborations deliver consistent results in reach, thought leadership, and measurable engagement, all while driving growth at a fraction of the cost of traditional marketing.

We work collaboratively with your teams, agencies, and stakeholders to develop, produce, publish, promote, and amplify your content. Whether for evergreen campaigns or point-in-time initiatives, our strategies are built to scale globally

Member and Contributor

Forbes Business Council Is An Invitation-Only Organization For Successful Small And Mid-Sized Business Owners. I look forward to contributing content to Forbes.com!

Evan Kirstel

AI is everywhere right now, but the hard part is turning dozens of pilots into durable systems that actually run a business. We sit down with the Senior Vice President of Product Management at GTT to unpack what changes when enterprises move from “testing AI” to deploying agentic AI at scale across thousands of sites, users, and applications.

We start with how GTT thinks about networking and security as a service, and why the promise is not just bandwidth or a product SKU but a simpler experience that helps customers connect, secure, and simplify. Tom explains the GTT Envision DX platform and how it spans the edge, the core IP backbone, and public cloud so teams can deliver consistent connectivity, SD-WAN, and security outcomes while preparing for new AI workloads that increasingly want compute closer to the premises.

Then we get practical about what agentic AI requires: data readiness, trustworthy context, and APIs that let agents act safely without constant human validation. We talk frameworks versus one-time deployments, why vendor lock-in is riskier in a fast-changing AI cycle, and how an “AI factory” mindset brings manufacturing discipline to data pipelines, orchestration, validation, deployment, and continuous improvement.

We also share real internal examples, including a cash application agent that helps match remittances to invoices across messy real-world variations, plus how GPU infrastructure supports operational intelligence and proactive network issue detection. If you care about enterprise AI, SASE and SSE, edge computing, and building a scalable agentic architecture, this conversation is built for you. Subscribe, share with a teammate, and leave a review, what part of your AI foundation needs the most work right now?

#RSAC #cybersecurity #networking

Evan  Kirstel

TechInfluencer, Analyst, Creator w/600K Social Media followers, Deep Expertise in Enterprise 💻 Cloud ☁️5G 📡AI 🤖Telecom ☎️ CX 🔑 Cyber 🏥 DigitalHealth. TwitterX @evankirstel. Lets meet at RSAC!

Telco's growth model is broken. Here's the blueprint to fix it.

5G returns are under pressure. Hardware costs keep climbing. And operators are drowning in complexity they can't monetize.

We sat down with VMware by Broadcom leaders to cut through the noise — and what emerged is a sharp, actionable roadmap for what comes next.

Three big shifts every telco leader needs to understand:

**1. The mobile core is your highest-leverage asset right now.**
Not the edge. Not the RAN. The core and the operators who productize it with disciplined lifecycle management will outpace those still treating software as an afterthought on hardware.

**2. AI monetization is real but only if you architect for it.**
The team walks through VMware Cloud Foundation as the engine for GPU-as-a-service and AI-as-a-service: model stores, runtimes, vector databases, compliance baked in, data isolation from day one. Not someday. Now.

**3. Sovereign cloud isn't a checkbox anymore it's a revenue line.**
Especially in Europe. Jurisdiction and residency are becoming competitive differentiators, not legal formalities. The operators moving fast here will own the enterprise stack.

We also go deep on:
→ Co-innovation with Nokia, Ericsson, Mavenir, and Oracle and why full-stack ecosystem orchestration is replacing the old "software on hardware" mindset
→ How consolidated dashboards, certification, observability, and license governance cut change risk and accelerate upgrades and why this matters more as Kubernetes complexity stacks up
→ Intelligent operations: embedded AI that reads signals across storage, network, compute, and Kubernetes and recommends next actions while keeping humans in the loop
→ Agentic AI traffic: bursty, hard to cache, and arriving fast. Telcos sit at the crossroads of inter-DC connectivity, edge placement, and quality guarantees  and that's a strategic position worth owning

The takeaway: stop selling raw connectivity. Start selling trusted AI capacity and outcomes.

If you're lowering TCO, launching AI services, or charting a pragmatic path toward autonomous networks this conversation will help you act with confidence, not just follow the hype.

#MWC26 #MWC #MWCBarcelona VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) VMware Telco Cloud

TechInfluencer, Analyst, Creator w/600K Social Media followers, Deep Expertise in Enterprise 💻 Cloud ☁️5G 📡AI 🤖Telecom ☎️ CX 🔑 Cyber 🏥 DigitalHealth. TwitterX @evankirstel. Lets meet at MWC26, RSAC, HIMSS, more!

Anthony Bourdain spent years trying to get permission to film in Iran. In 2014, he finally got the green light.

He landed in Tehran with a small crew, not sure what he'd find. What he found surprised him. "Iran does not look, does not feel the way I had expected," he said. "Neither East nor West, but always somewhere in the middle."

His guides were Jason Rezaian the Washington Post's Tehran bureau chief and his wife Yeganeh Salehi, both journalists, both deeply in love with their country. They took Bourdain through the markets and teahouses, introduced him to dizi (a lamb stew that goes back to ancient Mesopotamia), and rode a bus with him out to Isfahan, this stunning ancient city in the southern desert.

Persian pizza with ketchup. Non-alcoholic beer on hilltops with young Iranians showing off their classic American cars. Real conversations about what life actually looked like there the contradictions, the warmth, the complexity.

The episode aired on CNN that November and became one of the most talked-about Parts Unknown episodes ever. American audiences had never seen Iran like that. The laughter. The generosity. The food.

But by the time it aired, things had already gone wrong.

Six weeks after filming, Iranian authorities arrested Jason and Yeganeh at their Tehran home. Espionage charges. The charges were absurd. Yeganeh was released after about two months. Jason wasn't.

He spent 544 days in Evin Prison: solitary confinement, a sham trial, a conviction that the entire international journalism community rejected. He was finally released in January 2016 as part of a prisoner swap.

Bourdain was gutted. He wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post pleading for their release. He called them "a danger to no one" and said there wasn't a hint of anything that should concern any government. "They are nobody's enemy."

When Jason eventually wrote a memoir about his imprisonment, Bourdain published it himself through Anthony Bourdain Books. One of the last acts of solidarity between two men who genuinely believed that sharing a meal with a stranger could change something.

Bourdain died in 2018. Jason is still at the Washington Post and now co-directs a commission on hostage-taking at CSIS, working to make sure what happened to him doesn't keep happening to others.

That Iran episode remains one of the most powerful hours of television Bourdain ever made. Not despite what followed because of it. It captured something real: the warmth of ordinary people can exist right alongside the cruelty of the systems that rule them.

Sometimes sitting down and sharing a meal is the most radical thing you can do.

Most tech companies start with a business model. Moxie Marlinspike started with a question.

Why should private conversations on the internet be readable by anyone other than the people actually having them?

It sounds obvious. But in the late 2000s, messaging was exploding and security was an afterthought. Billions of conversations were moving online while platforms collected metadata, stored messages in plaintext, and treated privacy as a feature they might get around to someday. The assumption baked into the architecture was that someone, somewhere, could always read what you wrote.

So he built what eventually became Signal. Not a messaging app with encryption bolted on, but a platform designed from the ground up around one uncompromising idea: only the sender and receiver can read the message. Not the company. Not advertisers. Not a government with a subpoena. Nobody in between.

Early on, the audience was small and self-selecting. Cryptographers. Investigative journalists. Privacy researchers who already understood the stakes. But the underlying technology was so rigorous, so well-constructed, that it didn't stay contained. The Signal protocol spread far beyond the app itself. Today it protects conversations for billions of users across platforms they use every day, often without knowing it.

Then came the decision that separated Signal from everything else.

Rather than take venture money and chase growth metrics, Marlinspike helped establish the Signal Foundation. No ads. No user data sold. Minimal metadata collected. Code open to public inspection by anyone who wanted to look. It was the kind of structural choice that forecloses certain futures permanently, and that was exactly the point. Without investors pushing monetization, Signal could focus on the one thing it was actually built to do.

That clarity of purpose compounded over time.

Today Signal is infrastructure. Journalists use it to protect sources. Executives use it for conversations that can't be intercepted. #Security teams coordinate breach response on it. In conflict zones and under heavy surveillance, where the wrong message to the wrong person can have irreversible consequences, encrypted messaging isn't a convenience feature. For activists, diplomats, citizens, and reporters operating in those environments, it can be the difference between safety and exposure.

A cryptography side project became a pillar of global communication.

As the RSA Security Conference approaches and the security community gathers to talk about what comes next, Signal holds up as a useful reminder about how durable technology actually gets built. Not by optimizing for engagement. Not by treating user trust as a variable to be managed. By starting with a principle that doesn't bend, and building everything else around it.

Private communication should actually be private.

Marlinspike proved that wasn't a naive idea. It was an engineering requirement.

#RSAC RSAC #infosec Signal Messenger

David Danto

David has had over four decades of delivering successful business outcomes in media and collaboration technology for various firms in the corporate, broadcasting and academic worlds.  Including:

•	The building/management of the world’s largest commercial Cisco TelePresence ecosystem  (at the time & other than within Cisco) for JP Morgan Chase.

•	The design/implementation/operation of global video & audio conferencing facilities, TV and AV facilities and digital signage solutions for Lehman Brothers.

•	The design of TV and radio facilities for Bloomberg, including the development of their revolutionary multi-screen TV format and the design and construction of studios for PBS.

•	The development of the TV & Media Services department for NYU, including the design and implementation of America's first urban, self contained, multi-building university cable TV system using microwave links to cross public rights of way.

•	The design and/or management of multimedia / TV facilities for many organizations, including AT&T, Financial News Network, MTV, NBC, Rutgers University, and many others.  

•	Acting as Engineer in Charge for countless commercial and industrial TV productions.

David's efforts have been recognized by many premiere industry organizations, serving as The Director of Emerging Technologies for the IMCCA; as an InfoComm Emerging Technology Fellow; as a NAB “Pick-Hits” judge for Broadcast Engineering; and as a repeat judge for the CES Innovation Awards. David is an award-winning blogger and contributor to technology publications, a frequent presenter at conferences, and is a member of many industry advisory boards. His full bio is at www.Danto.info 

Specialties: Designing, managing and setting strategy for audio/visual, video conferencing, telepresence and UC systems and facilities - as well as those for streaming and broadcasting - and creating award winning content across all media.  Frequent industry presenter.  David can be reached at Linkedin@danto.com

Director Emerging Technologies

Interactive Multimedia and Collaborative Communications Alliance 
www.IMCCA.org

IMCCA is a non-profit industry association resolved to strengthen and grow the overall collaborative conferencing and unified communications industry by providing impartial information and education about people-to-people, environmentally friendly communication and collaboration technology and applications.

As the Director of Emerging Technology David vets new companies and technologies for inclusion into the group.  He also represents the IMCCA at industry conferences and seminars, ensuring that IMCCA members not present can stay on top of industry news and events.  In addition, he manages the IMCCA’s web presence including designing and managing the IMCCA website and moderating the various industry discussion forums on LinkedIn and other sites.

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