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Tech Disruptors

Tech Disruptors

By: Bloomberg
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Tech Disruptors by Bloomberg Intelligence features conversations with thought leaders and management teams on disruptive trends. Topics covered in this series include cloud, e-commerce, cybersecurity, AI, 5G, streaming, advertising, EVs, automation, crypto, fintech, AR/VR, metaverse and Web 3.0. This podcast is intended for professional investors only. It is being prepared solely for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer or investment advice.2022 Bloomberg Economics Personal Finance
Episodes
  • Apollo on Funding AI Infrastructure

    Apollo on Funding AI Infrastructure
    Jun 11 2026
    “It’s clear to us that the world is short compute right now, and the industry is racing to catch up,” Rob Bittencourt, partner and head of thematic investing at Apollo, tells Bloomberg Intelligence’s Alexandra Davidov and Paul Gulberg on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast. Bittencourt discusses why AI is becoming a private-credit story, with trillions of dollars of data-center, power, chip and infrastructure investment needed to support the next phase of adoption. He also explains how Apollo underwrites AI infrastructure risk, why hyperscaler demand and investment-grade financing matter, and how investors should separate temporary software valuation resets from true business-model disruption.
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    42 mins
  • SAP COO on Why AI Needs Better Foundations

    SAP COO on Why AI Needs Better Foundations
    Jun 10 2026
    “This year is a much more radical technology shift and the most consequential, I believe, ever. But still, you need all foundations of the house to be in order,” Sebastian Steinhaeuser, Chief Operating Officer at SAP, tells Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology Analyst Anurag Rana. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, the pair discuss SAP’s autonomous enterprise vision, the rise of Joule assistants and agents, and why AI may strengthen the case for cloud migration, data modernization, and application consolidation. Steinhaeuser explains how SAP is embedding business process context, governance, and industry-specific knowledge into its agentic layer while navigating shifts in software pricing, model strategy, and customer demand for measurable AI adoption.
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    48 mins
  • Microsoft on Azure’s AI Data Center Stack

    Microsoft on Azure’s AI Data Center Stack
    Jun 9 2026
    “Every data center will need some part of AI capabilities to run workloads like inference, because it’s just becoming such a fundamental part of all of this cloud technology,” says Alistair Speirs, general manager of Microsoft’s Azure Infrastructure. Speirs joins Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology Analyst Anurag Rana on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss how AI infrastructure is reshaping the modern data center, from liquid cooling and dense networking to custom silicon and distributed supercomputing. Speirs explains how Azure is preparing for a world where training, inference and traditional workloads increasingly converge, making software-defined infrastructure, power availability and global scale central to Microsoft’s cloud strategy.
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    48 mins
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