Why the podcast is called Udienza

Udienza is an Italian word. It means an audience in the old sense: time granted by someone you do not usually get to meet. A pope holds one every Wednesday. So does a judge, which is why a search for the bare word returns court hearings and the Vatican before it returns this show. The footer of every page here gives the meaning the show has in mind: Italian for an audience with someone you don’t usually get to meet.

Why that word

The people in these episodes are the founders, maintainers and CTOs of open source, cloud native and AI infrastructure. Most of them do not have an hour for an interview. Most of the people the show is made for, the engineer who runs production and the lead who decides what goes into it, do not have an hour to watch one. Ten minutes is what both sides can give.

That is the audience the title promises: ten minutes with the people who build what you run. One idea per episode, on camera, filmed where they work, so you see the room and not a studio. The five rules the show films by are on the home page: one idea, the hard part, where they work, no booth, and for the people who run it.

How to say it

oo-DYEN-tsa, with the stress on the second syllable. The English word from the same root is audience.

How to find it

Search for “Udienza podcast”, or for Udienza together with the host’s name, Luca Berton, and the show comes first; the word alone brings the courts. Every episode is published on YouTube first, on a Tuesday, and then on Apple Podcasts, with a separate video edition, on Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. The show is called Udienza on every one of them; the video feed is called Udienza (Video). The audio feed is at udienza.com/feed.xml.

Who makes it

Udienza is hosted by Luca Berton, who spent fifteen years building enterprise infrastructure, automation and Kubernetes platforms, and is produced by Open Empower BV in Amsterdam. Being a guest is free, and guests are chosen for what they built: how it works. Where the show has filmed so far, and which events list it as a media partner, is in Where Udienza films.