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The Cloud Left 70% of the World Behind. This Guy's Coming to Fix It. | Ep. 11

The cloud was supposed to connect everyone. It didn't.

When the hyperscalers built their massive data centers, they reached about 30% of the world and called it a day. The other 70%? Left behind. And as AI explodes into every corner of our lives — from autonomous vehicles to oil rigs to disaster response — that gap is becoming a crisis.

Dan Wright, co-founder and CEO of Armada, is on a mission to close that gap. His answer is modular, rapidly deployable AI factories called Galleons that sail to wherever the data is, not the other way around. Remote mines. Ships in the middle of the ocean. The Alaskan wilderness. Anywhere.

In this episode, Dan joins Jono and Naran fresh off the plane from San Francisco to talk about why sovereign AI is the most important conversation, what the US National AI Action Plan actually means on the ground, and why physical AI — robots, autonomous rigs, self-driving everything — is coming faster than any of us are ready for.

He also makes the case that Australia, with its land, its energy, and its strategic position, has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to matter in the global AI race. The question is whether we'll move fast enough to take it.

Buckle up.

Follow Naran McClung on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/Naranmcclung/

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SCX.ai and the Mission to Build Australia's Sovereign AI With David Keane | Ep. 17

SCX.ai listed a week before this recording, and on the morning of the record the Sydney Morning Herald ran a front page calling AI the most important sovereignty issue for Australians since the Secon...

3 Sep 54min

Telstra Went Dark, Mythos Is Hunting, and Why Technical Debt Should Be a Board-Level KPI | Ep. 16

Episode overview AI adoption is the number one priority for Australian IT leaders, and that is exactly why the unglamorous work of replacing what no longer works keeps sliding down the list. Meanwhile...

28 Juli 32min

The Channel Strategy Most Vendors Get Wrong, With Vic Guerrero | Ep. 15

In February 2026, roughly 285 billion US dollars fell off software valuations in 48 hours, on the theory that AI would gut per-seat SaaS. NinjaOne sells per-seat SaaS and is growing about 70 percent a...

8 Juli 57min

Is AI Creating a Crisis of Purpose in IT? With Luke Clifton | Ep. 14

The IT industry is shedding jobs to cost-cutting, AI restructuring and the usual business cycles, and the man who chairs the Australian Men's Shed Association thinks the real cost, what it does to peo...

16 Juni 45min

Broken Things. Human Reasons | Ep. 13

Twenty years ago, the IT professional's primary qualification was confidence. Nobody had the context to evaluate you. You showed up, tried a reboot, and if it worked, you were a genius. This is the ep...

21 Maj 44min

$10M ARR With 15 People | Jason Serda on How AI Is Rewriting Australia's Startup

Episode overview Australia's startup market just hit an inflection point. $503 million raised across 25 rounds in the first two months of 2026. Twenty five per cent up on the year before. US vent...

28 Apr 51min

Human Things. AI Reasons. | Ep. 10

Artificial intelligence is everywhere, in headlines, boardrooms, and strategy decks. In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Kate Gwynne, who works at the intersection of technology, leadership, and ...

19 Mars 38min