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229: The Long Game of Leadership: Building Companies That Last ft David Peckinpaugh (opens the original)
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On the Events Demystified Podcast (CEO Edition), host Anca Platon Trifan interviews David Peckinpaugh, President and CEO of Maritz and its first non-family CEO, about leading a 132-year-old, fifth-generation family-owned company with a long-term “stewardship” mindset. Peckinpaugh shares his path from hospitality and a DMO role in San Diego to Maritz, and explains how the Tugboat Institute’s Evergreen “seven Ps” framework (purpose, people, passion, perseverance, performance, principles, profit) s
228: The rise of the hybrid athlete: ironman lessons & limitations | Anca Platon Trifan (opens the original)
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Anca Platon Trifan recounts her Ironman 70.3 at Lucky Peak a month after finishing, explaining her eight-month experiment of training as a “hybrid athlete” by maintaining bodybuilding-level lifting while building endurance and learning to swim as an adult. On race morning, brutal wind made the water dangerously choppy, and Ironman canceled the age-group swim (pros did a modified swim), a decision she supports for safety though relay swimmers were upset. A forgotten T2 bag was rescued by her husb
227: Shadow AI & Event Data Security | 7-Year Podcast Anniversary ft Anca Platon Trifan (opens the original)
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In this final episode of the Events Demystified seven-year anniversary miniseries, host Anca Platon Trifan explains that “shadow AI” is often ordinary employees using tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, or browser extensions to work faster, unintentionally creating data paths outside company controls. She argues shadow AI reflects both employee responsibility and leadership gaps, citing Verizon’s 2026 DBIR data on rising AI use, unauthorized services, and common exposed data types like
226: AI hallucinations | 7-Year Podcast Anniversary ft Anca Platon Trifan (opens the original)
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In this seven-year anniversary episode of the Events Demystified Podcast, Anca Platon Trifan uses live event production examples to show how confident, premature conclusions can waste time, then connects that dynamic to AI hallucinations: confident but false “confabulations” such as fabricated citations, links, dates, and quotes. She explains how large language models generate plausible text without guaranteeing truth, highlights the 2023 Mata v. Avianca case where lawyers filed non-existent cas
225: AI Ethics & Responsibility | 7-Year Podcast Anniversary ft Anca Platon Trifan (opens the original)
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Host Anca Platon Trifan marks the Events Demystified Podcast’s seven-year anniversary miniseries by continuing last week’s discussion on AI bias into a broader AI ethics focus on accountability. Using her own AI agent that scans her Notion speaking database, finds calls for speakers, drafts pitches, and posts updates to Slack/Discord, she explains how risk changes when AI moves from recommending to acting, especially representing someone without review. She argues AI can do work but cannot absor
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