Digital Disruption
with Geoff Nielson
Our Guest John Bruce Discusses
Taking Back Your Data: Why the Next Web MUST Protect Digital Freedom
What if your data worked for you and not the platforms controlling it?
Today on Digital Disruption, we’re joined by John Bruce, CEO and co-founder of Inrupt.
With a background as both a founder and an executive at global tech firms, John Bruce is uniquely qualified to help engineer the next phase of the web alongside his co-founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He brings to bear decades of successful business leadership and experience creating new markets around innovative software. Prior to partnering with Tim, he was the co-founder and CEO of Resilient, now an IBM company, that developed a new approach to cybersecurity. Through Resilient and four other successful startups, John has experienced firsthand the strategic challenges that the current structure of the web causes for users, developers, and organizations around the world.
John Bruce sits down with Geoff Nielson to talk about a future where individuals and not platforms own their data. John shares how AI, consent-driven data sharing, and a decentralized digital wallet called Charlie could fundamentally reshape how we interact with technology, institutions, and each other. He explains why we must reclaim personal data from tech giants and what “agentic wallets” are and how they work.
The Next Industrial Revolution Is Already Here
Digital Disruption is where leaders and experts share their insights on using technology to build the organizations of the future. As intelligent technologies reshape our lives and our livelihoods, we speak with the thinkers and the doers who will help us predict and harness this disruption.
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Our Guest Amy Webb Discusses
AI Convergence: Amy Webb on Why This Is the Year of Creative Destruction
On this episode of Digital Disruption, we’re joined by the CEO of the Future Today Strategy Group and tech futurist Amy Webb.
Amy joins Geoff Nielson to unpack what 2026 really looks like through the lens of artificial intelligence, programmable biology, quantum computing, biological computing, geopolitics, and systems-level change. Amy argues that we’ve officially entered a new convergence cycle, a rare historical moment where AI, biotech, computing architectures, economic systems, and geopolitics collide to create an entirely new reality. This isn’t incremental innovation. It’s structural transformation.
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Our Guest Bala Muthiah Discusses
Will AI Replace Software Engineers? Here’s What Lyft’s Engineering Director Says
Bala Muthiah, Director of Engineering at Lyft, sits down with Geoff to cut through the hype around AI in software development and explore what’s actually changing inside high-performing engineering teams.
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Our Guest Deborah Liu Discusses
Ex-Ancestry CEO: AI Will Wipe Out Businesses
Deborah joins Geoff to share a candid, practical look at modern leadership in 2026. Drawing on her experience scaling billion-user platforms and transforming legacy organizations, she explains why “adding AI” isn’t a strategy and what it truly means to build an AI-native company.
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Our Guest Sebastian Raschka Discusses
LLMs in 2026: What’s Real, What’s Hype, and What’s Coming Next
Is AI actually going to replace developers? Or is the hype getting ahead of reality? Sebastian Raschka joins Geoff Nielson to unpack the real state of LLMs in 2026.