Tech Disruptors

“The workflow doesn’t go away, but the interface and the capability set of what constitutes a SaaS application is going to be very different than what we see today,” says Chris Young, Microsoft’s executive vice president of business development, strategy and ventures. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Young joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana in a discussion covering a wide range of topics, from generative AI to cybersecurity to autonomous vehicles. The two examine just what Microsoft is looking for when it makes its investments, as well as what Microsoft itself is doing in many of these topics. Find this and other Bloomberg Intelligence podcasts at BI PODCASTS .

The cyberthreat environment keeps worsening because more business is being conducted online and nation states are looking to steal secrets and intellectual property, and get into other countries’ infrastructure, according to Zscaler Chairman and CEO Jay Chaudhry. He sits down with Mandeep Singh, senior technology analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to talk about the relevance of gen AI to cybersecurity and how the deployment of zero trust is likely to grow with more AI workloads. Chaudhry also discusses the risk of data leakage with enterprise data and his expectations around consolidation for the security space in 2025. The US Treasury cyberattack took place in late December, a week after we recorded this episode.

This is the year that AI will break through to drive company productivity and in what’s becoming a Tech Disruptors annual tradition, tech luminary and former Cisco CEO John Chambers sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence tech analyst Woo Jin Ho to share his key themes for 2025 that could weigh on the technology sector and on investors’ minds. John zeros in on his latest thoughts on AI, security, India and the tech IPO/M&A landscape.

For selecting generative-AI strategy, “there’s usually four drivers before you get into the use case: domain accuracy, efficiency, cost effectiveness and, of course, deployment preferences,” says Satish Thomas, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of business and industry solutions. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Thomas sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana to discuss all the ways in which gen AI is being applied by industries. The two cover the nuances of industry application and how it differs from an out-of-the-box foundational model. This episode also goes over several real-world examples of customers already implementing gen-AI solutions and the steps they took to get there.