43 - Enhancing DirecTV: AI, Cybersecurity, and Lessons in Corporate Separation with Manish Khadiya

43 - Enhancing DirecTV: AI, Cybersecurity, and Lessons in Corporate Separation with Manish Khadiya

From Cloud Currents by Merchants Media

October 31, 2025 · 49 min

About this episode

The episode features insights from Manish Khadiya on DirecTV's transformation and challenges during its separation from AT&T.

Join host Matt Pacheco as he sits down with Manish Khadiya, VP of IT Enterprise Architecture and Cybersecurity at DirecTV, for insights into one of the most complex enterprise transformations happening today—DirecTV's separation from AT&T. With nearly three decades of technology leadership across GE, NBCUniversal, Facebook, and Parker Hannifin, Manish shares how they're building enterprise architecture and cybersecurity functions from scratch while maintaining business continuity for millions of customers. The conversation covers DirecTV's AI implementation strategy that's delivering 15% productivity gains, the unique challenges of vendor relationship management during corporate separations, and emerging technologies like agentic AI and autonomous vehicle entertainment opportunities.

People in this episode

Host: Matt Pacheco

Guest: Manish Khadiya

Topics covered

  • AI implementation
  • cybersecurity
  • corporate separation
  • enterprise architecture
  • vendor relationship management
  • emerging technologies

Keywords

  • DirecTV
  • AT&T
  • AI
  • cybersecurity
  • enterprise architecture
  • corporate separation
  • productivity gains
  • vendor management
  • emerging technologies

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DirecTV, AT&T, GE, NBCUniversal, Facebook, Parker Hannifin

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