MTMG's IT Roundtable

Pull up a chair to our virtual roundtable as we talk to business partners who are navigating complex challenges in today's evolving technology world. We bring together industry experts and organizational leaders from both sides of the Atlantic to share their experience and solutions, offering valuable insights for IT professionals and leaders alike. This podcast explores the myriad ways technology partners are collaborating to shape the future of business.

MTMG's IT Roundtable is a business podcast hosted by MTMG, with 55 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

MTMG hosts MTMG's IT Roundtable, a business show with 55 episodes published.

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  Episode #12

  MTMG's IT Roundtable with Sean Maguire: Scale, Sell, and the Truth About AI Rollouts

  Aug 11, 202624 minS26

  Sean Maguire spent nearly two decades building Synivate, and in this episode he breaks down the fork every MSP owner eventually hits: learn to scale or get ready to sell. He and Paul dig into why the same habits make a business both scalable and sellable, why so many AI projects just produce a faster broken process, and how feeding AI your own resolution history beats letting it fumble a generic answer. You'll hear a practical take on leading a team through an AI rollout the way you'd lead a CRM rollout, and why the white glove human touch still wins even in a shop that automates aggressively. If you run an MSP and want to stay standing on your own five years out, this one earns its runtime. Key Events 00:00 Welcome & Guest Intro 00:30 Scale or Sell Fork ️ 02:00 Fix Before You Scale 04:45 Faster Broken Process 05:30 Quality In, Quality Out 10:20 Leading An AI Rollout 13:00 Small Tickets, Human Touch 15:40 Five Years Out Tip worth stealing: Work on the business, not in the business. Set aside real time to step back, join a peer group, and talk to other owners about what they changed. When you are only working in the business, everything feels busy and fine, and that is exactly what holds you back. Guest: Sean Maguire, CEO of Synivate — connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maguiresean/ Connect with Us: ✅ Check out our website: https://www.mtmg.eu ✅ Learn more about the amazing software we use to create these podcasts (Descript): https://get.descript.com/mtu0tl2zr3g7 ✅ Want the same microphones we use? Get a discount (use coupon code "MTMG" for 10% off): https://www.maono.com/?ref=ulcbmcjk Suggestions or want to appear on a future episode? Email: podcast@mtmg.eu Need expert help to maximize your IT investments? Reach out: info@mtmg.eu Don't forget to subscribe to the Podcast and follow us on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/company/mtmg-eu

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  Episode #11

  MTMG's IT Roundtable with Reed Savory: Right-Sized Security for Small Business

  Aug 4, 202627 minS26

  What should a small business actually spend its limited security budget on? Reed Savory - 30-plus years across CIO and CISO roles, often at the same time, inside a private equity firm securing a portfolio of startups - makes the case for meeting small companies where they are instead of forcing enterprise tooling on them. He walks through taking a banking-as-a-service platform from zero to SOC 2 Type 2 inside a year, why executive buy-in is the difference between a real security program and a paperwork exercise, and the one high-value fix most small firms are missing. Plus: where AI-driven cybersecurity is still overbuilt for the Bank of Americas of the world and underbuilt for everyone else. Key Events 00:00 Welcome & Guest Intro 02:00 Securing PE Portfolio Startups ️ 06:00 SOC 2 From Scratch 10:00 Why Executive Buy-In Wins 15:00 Where Vendor Buying Goes Wrong 16:00 The 90% Security Fix 22:00 AI, Oversight, and Small Business Tip worth stealing: The highest-return move most small businesses can make isn't a monolithic platform - it's putting an intrusion detection and response (ITDR) tool on your Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace logins so it flags sign-ins from "impossible destinations" (Reed's example: you're probably not logging in from Kuala Lumpur), then unifying access under SSO. He calls it roughly a 90% improvement over where most firms sit today - and most have nothing watching those logs at all. Connect with Us: ✅ Check out our website: https://www.mtmg.eu ✅ Learn more about the amazing software we use to create these podcasts (Descript): https://get.descript.com/mtu0tl2zr3g7 ✅ Want the same microphones we use? Get a discount (use coupon code "MTMG" for 10% off): https://www.maono.com/?ref=ulcbmcjk Suggestions or want to appear on a future episode? Email: podcast@mtmg.eu Need expert help to maximize your IT investments? Reach out: info@mtmg.eu Don't forget to subscribe to the Podcast and follow us on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/company/mtmg-eu

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  Episode #10

  MTMG's IT Roundtable with Kabir Roy: Closing the AI Experience Gap

  Jul 28, 202622 minS26

  AI is being bolted onto everything right now — but does adding intelligence actually help your customers, or just hide the mess underneath? Kabir Roy, a UX and CX product leader with two decades of work spanning global names like BlackRock and Ford, joins Paul Knittle to unpack the AI experience gap: why companies keep repeating the feature-piling mistakes of the early 2000s, and how to tell whether a client needs a new AI tool or just a simpler human touchpoint. He shares a painfully familiar customer-service story, the hard lesson from taking his own idea to Shark Tank India, and why the next evolution isn't UX or CX but what he calls AIX. A practical listen for any leader deciding where AI belongs — and where it doesn't. Key Events 00:00 Welcome & Guest Intro 02:00 When Good Tech Fails Users 04:20 His Shark Tank India Journey ⚠️ 07:45 The AI Experience Gap 10:00 Fighting a Support Bot 13:20 Add AI, or Simplify? 18:50 The Rise of AIX Tip worth stealing: Before adding AI to anything, ask why you actually need it. Bolting intelligence onto a complex system just amplifies the complexity instead of removing it — reduce the friction underneath first. Connect with Us: ✅ Check out our website: https://www.mtmg.eu ✅ Learn more about the amazing software we use to create these podcasts (Descript): https://get.descript.com/mtu0tl2zr3g7 ✅ Want the same microphones we use? Get a discount (use coupon code "MTMG" for 10% off): https://www.maono.com/?ref=ulcbmcjk Suggestions or want to appear on a future episode? Email: podcast@mtmg.eu Need expert help to maximize your IT investments? Reach out: info@mtmg.eu Don't forget to subscribe to the Podcast and follow us on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/company/mtmg-eu

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  Episode #8

  MTMG's Rosie Rewired with Aisling Mooney: Half a Million Papers and the Answer Nobody Had

  Jul 15, 202621 minS26

  Aisling Mooney spent 15 years navigating infertility before finding her own answer in research her doctors had never heard of - a simple switch in medications and timing that worked straight away. In this episode she tells Tara how that sent her to teach herself Python, index over half a million peer-reviewed papers and trials, and whittle them down to 25,000 core articles for Fertally, the platform she founded. She also explains why a master's in psychoanalysis shapes how she builds: pacing, white space, and keeping cognitive load light when the data is heavy. Plus the rating matrix that keeps humans in the loop with the AI, why she is upfront about every AI-generated summary, and the annual habit behind the novel she wrote. 📌 Key Events 🎯 00:00 Welcome & Guest Intro 🎨 01:00 Lunch with Dorothea Tanning 🧬 04:00 Fifteen years, one protocol 🔍 09:00 From 500,000 papers to 25,000 🧠 12:00 Psychoanalysis meets system design 🤖 16:00 Practical AI workshops in Wexford 💡 Tip worth stealing : Do one thing every year that scares you. Aisling's habit is deliberate - one year it was writing a novel. Twenty publishers said no. She counts it anyway, because the point was doing the frightening thing, not selling it. 🎵 Music: Under Pressure - Queen and David Bowie. Aisling's pick for the first song on the playlist of her life, and she explains why: a constant sense of urgency, test the idea now, drop it fast if it's bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a01QQZyl-_I 📝 Worth a look : Fertally - sign up for early access to the platform Aisling built. https://fertally.com/ 🔗 Connect with Us: 🌐 The show: https://rosierewired.com/ · MTMG: https://www.mtmg.eu 💼 Follow on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/rosie-rewired/ · https://www.linkedin.com/company/mtmg-eu 📧 Suggest a guest or come on the show: rosie@mtmg.eu

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  MTMG's IT Roundtable

  MTMG's IT Roundtable with Mike Onystok: Building an Honest, Vendor-Neutral Channel

  Jul 14, 202628 min

  Mike Onystok, Founder and CEO of HonestStok, joins Paul to make the case for a TSD built on relationships and radical transparency. He breaks down his crawl, walk, run model for bringing new advisors into the channel with minimal investment and their existing relationships, and explains why he keeps MDF, SPIFFs, and backend bonuses out of the vendor conversation so the customer always gets the right solution. From the School of Hard Knocks to a 20-year channel career, Mike shares why attitude and aptitude beat pedigree, and why white-glove, roll-up-your-sleeves support is what turns a dormant advisor into an active one. A candid look at where the channel is heading as agnostic advisory hits its tipping point. 📌 Key Events 🎯 00:00 Welcome & Guest Intro 🛠️ 01:32 School of Hard Knocks & Leadership 📈 07:20 Crawl, Walk, Run Explained 🤝 12:30 Vendor Neutral & Staying Honest 🔑 22:00 Reactivating Dormant Advisors 💡 Tip worth stealing: Keep short-term incentives out of the recommendation. Mike refuses to let MDF, SPIFFs, or backend bonuses steer which vendor lands in front of a customer — put the right solution in place the first time and you build a 10-year customer instead of a churn risk. 📚 Books: The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell — Mike ties the channel's agnostic-advisory moment to Gladwell's idea of a tipping point about to break wide open. https://www.amazon.com/Tipping-Point-Little-Things-Difference/dp/0316346624 🔗 Connect with Us: ✅ Check out our website: https://www.mtmg.eu ✅ Learn more about the amazing software we use to create these podcasts (Descript): https://get.descript.com/mtu0tl2zr3g7 ✅ Want the same microphones we use? Get a discount (use coupon code "MTMG" for 10% off): https://www.maono.com/?ref=ulcbmcjk 📧 Suggestions or want to appear on a future episode? Email: podcast@mtmg.eu 💡 Need expert help to maximize your IT investments? Reach out: info@mtmg.eu 🔔 Don't forget to subscribe to the Podcast and follow us on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/company/mtmg-eu

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