We are here recording live at Medallia Experience at the Wynn in Las Vegas, and have been seeing and hearing some amazing things about how AI can enhance the customer experience as well as enable teams at organizations to create more meaningful connections with customers. Today we’re going to talk about how AI can help to create better experiences for customers before, during, and after their interactions. To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Fabrice Martin, Chief Product Officer at Medallia. RESOURCES Medallia: https://www.medallia.com Catch the future of e-commerce at eTail Boston, August 11-14, 2025. Register now: https://bit.ly/etailboston and use code PARTNER20 for 20% off for retailers and brands Don't Miss MAICON 2025, October 14-16 in Cleveland - the event bringing together the brights minds and leading voices in AI. Use Code AGILE150 for $150 off registration. Go here to register: https://bit.ly/agile150 Connect with Greg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregkihlstrom Don't miss a thing: get the latest episodes, sign up for our newsletter and more: https://www.theagilebrand.show Check out The Agile Brand Guide website with articles, insights, and Martechipedia, the wiki for marketing technology: https://www.agilebrandguide.com The Agile Brand podcast is brought to you by TEKsystems. Learn more here: https://www.teksystems.com/versionnextnow The Agile Brand is produced by Missing Link—a Latina-owned strategy-driven, creatively fueled production co-op. From ideation to creation, they craft human connections through intelligent, engaging and informative content. https://www.missinglink.company…
Edition 417 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Coheed and Cambria – Welcome Home Coheed and Cambria – The Continuum (I-IV) Coheed and Cambria – Key Entity Extraction (I-IV) Coheed and Cambria – The End Complete (I-V) Coheed and Cambria – The Willing Well (I-IV) Coheed and Cambria – The Camper Velourium (I-III)…
Edition 416 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Nospūn – The Effervescent Power Monolith – Oligarchs Past Glories – The Fear I Inherited March Of Scylla – Ulysses’Lies Tiktaalika – Lost Continent Now To Then: Amon Sethis Lord of the Dark Waters Desert Storm (orchestral version) Osiris God of the Dead The Final Struggle The Prophecy Amon Sethis TesseracT – The Grey Skyharbor – Chaos: Trayus Flor de Loto – Hipnotízame Fughu – What If Aeons – Collapse…
Edition 415 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Fates Warning – Nothing Left to Say Fates Warning – The Light and Shade of Things Fates Warning – Still Remains Fates Warning – Leave the Past Behind Queensrÿche – Roads To Madness Queensrÿche – Suite Sister Mary Queensrÿche – Promised Land Queensrÿche – Anybody Listening? Dream Theater – Take The Time Dream Theater – Lost Not Forgotten Dream Theater – Home Dream Theater – Misunderstood…
Edition 414 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Horizon’s End – Be Seventh Dimension – Black Sky: Final Frontier Hemina – Romancing the Ether Trailight – Endure The Fire
Edition 413 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Amon Sethis – At The Threshold of Doom Asymmetry – Denial: Still/Alive Shepherds of Cassini – Slough Teramaze – Ending of All Imminent Sonic Destruction – Memento Mori Now To Then: Lunar Tempora Mutantur (Parts I – III) The Illusionist Your Long Awaited Void Urania Panacea Odd Logic – Iron Skyline Ihlo – Starseeker Amorphis – Silent Waters Borknagar – Cold Runs The River Ramage Inc. – Humanity Has Failed…
Edition 412 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Rioghan – Edge Keoma – A New Beginning Derev – Buried Voice Earthside – Frozen Heart ~ Burning World Lunar – Weakening Winter Touch Now To Then: Dream Theater Night Terror (radio edit) The Alien Paralyzed Forsaken The Root Of All Evil As I Am The Test That Stumped Them All (single edit) You Not Me Lie (edited version) Pull Me Under (2007 remix) Savatage – Of Rage and War Heir Apparent – Cacophony of Anger Headspace – Semaphore…
Edition 411 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Dream Theater – Illumination Theory Dream Theater – In The Name Of God Dream Theater – Octavarium Dream Theater – Breaking All Illusions Dream Theater – A View from the Top of the World Dream Theater – The Count Of Tuscany Dream Theater – The Ministry Of Lost Souls Dream Theater – The Shadow Man Incident…
Edition 410 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Arcane Sight – Las Hormigas de Fuego Teramaze – Desire Colours N Lust Lost Insen – One of Us Dream Theater – Midnight Messiah Seven Sisters – Heart Of The Sun Tiktaalika – Gods of Pangaea Art of Disorder – Legacy Katoaja – Nothing and Nothing More Mastord – Villi Calyces – Flowing Through Storm Jinjer – Kafka Sometime in February – Outside In Seventh Station – Three Days in Dresden Baptiste Brun – Mystical Sphere Joviac – Burn Besna – Krásno Lunar – Tempora Mutantur – Part III: Watch The Weather Change Astral Experience – Némesis Riverside – Conceiving You (live)…
Edition 409 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Vola – Cannibal Sunburst – Nocturne Seventh Dimension – The Great Unknown Whom Gods Destroy – In The Name Of War Haishen – Flesh of the Earth, Child of the Sea Painted As Monsters – The Signal Of… Sevastopol Vanden Plas – My Icarian Flight Iotunn – The Anguished Ethereal Erra – Wave OU – 淨化 Purge Devin Townsend – Knuckledragger Wheel – Submission Turbulence – Hybrid Persefone – Lingua Ignota Ihsahn – The Promethean Spark Myrath – To The Stars…
Edition 408 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Evergrey – Falling From The Sun Aeons – Collapse Dvne – Sarmatæ Blood Incantation – The Message (Tablets I-III) Leprous – Like a Sunken Ship Oceans of Slumber – Poem of Ecstasy Triton Project – Beyond The Mazes Lowen – Waging War Against God Anciients – Is It Your God Caligula’s Horse – Charcoal Grace (pts. I-IV) Opeth – §5…
Edition 407 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Mekong Delta – Dance on a Volcano (Genesis cover) Toehider – I Don’t Believe In Love (Queensrÿche cover) Queensrÿche – Synchronicity II (The Police cover) Vanden Plas – Shape of My Heart (Sting cover) Sergeant Thunderhoof – Cloudbusting (Kate Bush cover) Moonsorrow – For Whom The Bell Tolls (Metallica cover) Seventh Dimension – A Change of Seasons (Dream Theater cover) Dream Theater – Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (Elton John cover) Anubis Gate – Experiment (Voïvod cover) Voïvod – The Nile Song (Pink Floyd cover) Ghost on Mars – Hey You (Pink Floyd Cover) Opeth – Would? (Alice in Chains Cover) Between The Buried And Me – Little 15 (Depeche Mode cover) Persefone – Train of Consequences (Megadeth cover) Avenged Sevenfold – Paranoid (Black Sabbath cover) Iris Divine – Easy Lover (Phil Collins cover) Jorn – The Final Frontier (Iron Maiden cover) Nevermore – The Sound Of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel cover) Turisas – Rasputin (Boney M cover)…
Edition 406 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Dream Theater – A Broken Man Beriedir – Halo Lastera – Displaced By Dark Lowen – Najang Bah Divhayeh Mazandaran Jinjer – Someone’s Daughter Now To Then: DGM Final Call To The Core Fate Ghosts of Insanity Numb Away Unkept Promises Pride Blind!! Guiding Light Do What You Want! Hyper Planet – Beyond The Laniakea Amaseffer – Midian Between the Buried and Me – Revolution In Limbo…
A special Heavy Elements Opeth playlist is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Opeth – §4 Opeth – The Garroter Opeth – The Wilde Flowers Opeth – Cusp of Eternity Opeth – The Devil’s Orchard Opeth – Burden Opeth – Reverie / Harlequin Forest Opeth – Closure Opeth – Deliverance Opeth – Bleak Opeth – Serenity Painted Death Opeth – Demon Of The Fall Opeth – To Bid You Farewell Opeth – In Mist She Was Standing…
Edition 405 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Teramaze – Bullet to a Pharoah Labyrinth – Welcome Twilight Empire Springs – Hollow Sight of Theia – Children of the Uplift Alberto Rigoni – Blade of Despair Now To Then: Klone The Unseen Bystander The Great Oblivion Nebulous Into the Void Rite of Passage All Seeing Eye Never Surrender Anubis Gate – World in a Dome Until Rain – 13-8 Pain of Salvation – Used Bad Salad – Crowded Sky Watchtower – Mathematica Calculis Abnormal Thought Patterns – Nocturnal Haven Redemption – Eyes You Dare Not Meet in Dreams…
Edition 404 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Mother of Millions – Feral Stranger Vision – Nothing Really Matters Painted As Monsters – Mariana Blood Incantation – The Stargate (Tablets I-III) Now To Then: Vola Bleed Out Head Mounted Sideways Whaler Starburn I Am Not Here Giants Queensrÿche – Promised Land Nevermore – The Learning Theocracy – Ghost Ship Odd Logic – Of the Nightingale Protest the Hero – From The Sky Intronaut – Tripolar Threshold – King of Nothing…
Edition 403 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: 1994: Atomic Opera – New Dreams 1993: Conception – Soliloquy 1992: Dream Theater – Metropolis, Pt. 1: The Miracle And The Sleeper 1991: Galactic Cowboys – Speak To Me 1990: Mekong Delta – Dances of Death 1989: Heir Apparent – One Small Voice 1988: Fates Warning – The Ivory Gate of Dreams 1987: Savatage – Prelude To Madness/Hall Of The Mountain King 1986: Sacred Blade – The Englightenment/Master of the Sun 1985: Watchtower – Energetic Disassembly And starting the next forty years… 2025: Dream Theater – Night Terror…
Edition 402 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: 2004: Orphaned Land – Birth Of The Three (The Unification) 2003: Deadsoul Tribe – In A Garden Made Of Stones 2002: Threshold – Critical Mass (Part 1-3) 2001 : Evergrey – The Masterplan 2000: Green Carnation – My Dark Reflections Of Life And Death 1999: Tomorrow’s Eve – Changes 1998 : Mastermind- When The Walls Fall 1997: Devin Townsend – Bastard 1996: Symphony X – The Divine Wings Of Tragedy 1995: Ayreon – Act I: The Dawning – The Banishment…
Edition 401 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: 2014: Need – Orvam 2013: Leprous – Foe 2012: Ne Obliviscaris – Forget Not 2011: Arch/Matheos – Stained Glass Sky 2010: Vanden Plas – On My Way To Jerusalem 2009: Amorphis – Sampo 2008: Soul Secret – Tears of Kalliroe 2007: Dreamscape – 5th Season 2006: Tool – Vicarious 2005: Opeth – The Baying of the Hounds…
Edition 400 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: 2024: Haishen – Goddess in the Machine 2023: Nospūn – The Death of Simpson 2022: Persefone – Consciousness (Pt.3) 2021: Wheel – Hyperion 2020: The Progressive Souls Collective – Destiny Inc. 2019: Wilderun – When the Fire and the Rose Were One 2018: Temples on Mars – Dining with the Devil 2017: Caligula’s Horse – Songs for No One 2016: Haken – The Architect 2015: Teramaze – Delusions of Grandeur…
Edition 399 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Vola – Cannibal Devin Townsend – Jainism Opeth – §3 Leviathan – Echo Chamber At Night I Fly – From the Ashes Now To Then: Leprous My Specter The Silent Revelation Foreigner The Weight of Disaster Rewind The Valley Mb. Indifferentia White The Enigma Division – The Escapist The Vicious Head Society – Judgement Amorphis – Death Of A King Mattergy – Turbulence Unknown The Reticent – The Hypocrite…
Edition 398 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Devin Townsend – PowerNerd Chaosbay – Are You Afraid? Manuel Barbará – Dead Hand Framing Skeletons – Reflections of the Deathless Jotungrav – Ulven Now To Then: Oceans of Slumber Poem of Ecstasy Star Altar The Adorned Fathomless Creation A Path to Broken Stars …This Road Solitude (Candlemass cover) Coffins Like Kites Dream Theater – As I Am Speaking to Stones – Echoes Queensrÿche – Resistance Savatage – Of Rage And War TrYangle – Landslide Soen – Sectarian Megadeth – Peace Sells…
Edition 397 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Burned Out Youth – Tarquinius Ascension Ritual – Resurrection Giant Sleeper – Planet Dreamer DGM – The Great Unknown Leprous – Like a Sunken Ship Now To Then: Dvne ** Prog Mag Limelight artist ** Abode of the Perfect Soul Satuya (live) Court of the Matriarch Omega Severer Descent of the Asheran Of Blade And Carapace Protostar Anima Tempo – The Infinite Eye Iotunn – Waves Below Cloudscape – Cloak and Daggers Ark – Burn the Sun Enslaved – Distant Seasons…
Edition 396 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Adamantra – Hypocrites Athena XIX – Frames Of Humanity Paralydium – Sands Of Time NightWraith – Whispers of Dragonflies Lux Terminus – Mosaic Mind Now To Then: Kingcrow Hopium Drenched Eidos In Crescendo Numb: Incipit, Climax & Coda Between Now and Forever The Killing Hand Children of Technology Chaos Divine – Soldiers Breaking Orbit – Time Traveller Dante – Lazarus Leaving Anubis Gate – From Afar Amorphis – Sky Is Mine…
Edition 395 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Diamantide – Madness Forever in Transit – Streams of Thought Alone In The Arena – Halfway to Nowhere Orra – Infinity ∞ Haishen – Flesh of the Earth, Child of the Sea Now To Then: Witherfall What Have You Done? … And They All Blew Away Vintage Medley (Vintage, Pt. I/Nobody Sleeps Here/Vintage, Pt. II) We Are Nothing End Of Time Red Circuit – Canonize Your Sins Dissona – Inverted Swarm The Progressive Souls Collective – Fractional Emotion Ghost on Mars – Lost Signal Coheed & Cambria – Here We Are Juggernaut…
Edition 394 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: The Aphelion – Deserter Klone – Interlaced World On Alert – Insecurities The Lucidia Project – Soul Killer Sunburst – The Flood Now To Then: Entering Polaris Heresy A Song Of Distant Earth Six Directions of Space Gordian Pristine Always in Motion (as In Motion) Nostalgia for Infinity Mendel – The Darkest of Days Ramage Inc. – Nothing To Fear Fates Warning – Like Stars Our Eyes Have Seen Queensrÿche – Condition Hüman Gojira – Ah! Ça Ira! (live)…
Edition 393 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Inner Strength – The Art of Moving Forward Opeth – §1 (Radio Edit) Anciients – In The Absence of Wisdom If I Fall – Duplicitous Fading Echoes – The Final Act Now To Then: Hail Spirit Noir The Road to Awe The Monsters Came From the Sky The First Ape on New Earth Lost in Satan’s Charms The Mermaid Into the Gates of Time Need – Riverthane Poem – My Own Disorder Wolverine – Communication Lost Shattered Skies – You Will Know My Name Sleep Token – Ascensionism…
Edition 392 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Turbulence – Binary Dream Aeons – Ghosts Almo – Reconciliation Triton Project – Lighthouse of the World Confirmation Bias – Century Mornings Vanden Plas – March of the Saints Requests/comments to steve@progzilla.com…
Edition 391 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Eden Architect – Lost Inside Vola – Break My Lying Tongue Oceans of Slumber – Poem of Ecstasy Rendezvous Point – Utopia Crimson Glory – Triskaideka Now To Then: Seventh Dimension The Great Unknown Bad Blood Invitation Walk With Me The Raven Beyond Time Spheric Universe Experience – Burning Box Gala Uneven Structure – The Bait Avandra – Daybreak Charlie Griffiths – In Alluvium Dream Theater – Beyond This Life Requests/comments to steve@progzilla.com…
Edition 390 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Kingcrow – Kintsugi Seventh Dimension – Mind Flayer Humanity Gone – Tossing Stones Synthetic Embrace – Callirrhoe Candamius – Visitor Now To Then: Fughu Killing Me For Fun Told You The Facts Mayhem Pain; Craving; Broken; Stop Pagan’s Mind – Evolution Exceed Pyramaze – The Midnight Sun The Butterfly Effect – Great Heights Chaos Divine – Soldiers Vola – Head Mounted Sideways Anubis Gate – Breach of Faith Opeth – Heart in Hand Requests/comments to steve@progzilla.com…
Edition 389 of Steve Blease’s Heavy Elements is now available as a podcast. Playlist: Evergrey – Misfortune Evergrey – Closed Eyes Evergrey – Solitude Within Evergrey – The Masterplan Evergrey – End of Your Days Evergrey – In The Wake of the Weary Evergrey – Mark of the Triangle (live) Evergrey – Obedience Evergrey – Fear Evergrey – Leave it Behind Us Evergrey – Wrong (acoustic version) Evergrey – The Grand Collapse Evergrey – Distance Evergrey – A Silent Arc Evergrey – The Beholder Evergrey – Weightless (live) Evergrey – The Orphean Testament Evergrey – Recreation Day (live) Evergrey – Cold Dreams Evergrey – A Touch of Blessing (live) Requests/comments to steve@progzilla.com…