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Forward-Deployed Engineers: Why Businesses Need More than the Basics
Eamonn O’Neill
Deloitte
GenAI in M&A: From Strategic Pilots to Organizational Impact
Erik Dilger
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Orca Security’s Gil Geron: AI and the Future of Cloud Security

A perfectly secure app can still expose your entire Salesforce instance, depending on what it's connected to.
James Maguire
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Extreme Networks' Nabil Bukhari: how AI democratizes technology
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Cloudera's Venkat Rajaji: advantages of open source AI
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David Linthicum: LLM trends
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Snowflake's Christian Kleinerman: AI and the speed of data access
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Orca Security’s Gil Geron: AI and the Future of Cloud Security
A perfectly secure app can still expose your entire Salesforce instance, depending on what it's connected to.
James Maguire
OneTrust’s Blake Brannon: How to Govern AI Agents at Enterprise Scale
Guardrails are just instructions an agent might ignore—enterprises need controls that can actually block it.
James Maguire
Meenakshi Dalal: How Tech Executives Can Communicate With More Influence
Expertise and passion aren't enough—even brilliant leaders lose rooms when ideas aren't delivered well.
James Maguire
Dell CSO John Scimone: How AI Transforms Cyber Defense
Defenders currently know more about their own systems than any attacker—but that edge won't last.
James Maguire
Forward-Deployed Engineers: Why Businesses Need More than the Basics
July 27, 2026
GenAI in M&A: From Strategic Pilots to Organizational Impact
June 18, 2026
How Data Teams Are Making Unstructured Data Usable for AI
June 18, 2026
AI Is Generating More Work Than Most Companies Realize
June 18, 2026
Why Data Sovereignty Is Quietly Breaking Global Scale
June 18, 2026
IFM's Hector Liu on Open Source, World Models, and the Future of AI
May 25, 2026
Sage’s Manav Thiara on Why AI Agents Need “Glass Box” Transparency
May 16, 2026
AI’s Cost Curve: What SMBs Need to Know Before the Bill Arrives
May 14, 2026
OneTrust’s Blake Brannon: How to Govern AI Agents at Enterprise Scale
Guardrails are just instructions an agent might ignore—enterprises need controls that can actually block it.
Meenakshi Dalal: How Tech Executives Can Communicate With More Influence
Expertise and passion aren't enough—even brilliant leaders lose rooms when ideas aren't delivered well.
Dell CSO John Scimone: How AI Transforms Cyber Defense
Defenders currently know more about their own systems than any attacker—but that edge won't last.
Zywave's Doug Marquis: Insurance and the AI-Powered "Super Broker"
An LLM that can't tell Montana from California can turn one confident answer into a legal problem.
Saviynt's Jim Routh: Rebuilding Identity Security for AI Agents
Thirty years of identity architecture built for humans is now obsolete for governing thousands of agents.
Everpure's Chadd Kenney: Data Primacy, AI Agents, and Autonomous Infrastructure
An agent that only sees your CRM can approve a 'profitable' order it has no way of actually verifying.
Integrated Quantum Technologies' Jeremy Samuelson: AI Security and Quantum Threats
AI teams chase accuracy, security teams chase firewalls—neither fully understands AI's new attack surface.
GitLab's Manav Khurana: AI Agents, Orbit, and the Future of Coding
Some customer codebases grew 5x in a year—speed that's now outpacing teams' ability to keep it reliable.
Magnific CEO Joaquin Cuenca: AI, Creativity, and the Rise of the No-Collar Economy
One-shot AI video generation gets you 80% there—the rest still needs a human steering the wheel.
Pentera CEO Amitai Ratzon on Cybersecurity: Pen Testing to AI-Driven Defense
Attackers only need to succeed once; defenders have to succeed every single time—AI just raises the stakes.
HiddenLayer CEO Chris Sestito: Security Strategies to Manage Agentic AI
One compromised agent with broad access can now unlock reach across an entire organization's systems.
Relyance AI CEO Abhi Sharma on AI-Native Data Security
Non-deterministic AI breaks every security assumption built for systems that behaved exactly as expected.
Sage CTO Aaron Harris: AI Is Reshaping the CFO Role
CFOs built careers on precision—now they're being asked to trust systems that are inherently probabilistic.
Okta's Stephen McDermid: Security Culture Is a Never-Ending Goal
AI agents need their own identities—including a verifiable kill switch when something goes wrong.
Cyborg CEO Nicolas DuPont on Securing the Vector Database
Centralizing your most sensitive data into one vector database quietly builds an attacker's dream target.
Union.ai CEO Ketan Umare: AI Changes the Software Stack
Most AI workflow failures aren't the model's fault—they're memory limits, bad GPUs, or flaky networks.
Hitachi Vantara CPO Octavian Tanase: Streamlined Data Drives Advanced AI
Most companies aren't short on AI enthusiasm—they're stuck untangling siloed, ungoverned data.
Freepik CPO Omar Pera on AI, Content Creators and Creativity
AI isn't magic—the goal is to make magicians, not to replace the last mile of human judgment.
Vinci CEO Hardik Kabaria: How AI and Physics Reinvents Hardware Design
In hardware, a hallucination means a product overheats or fails—so this AI can't afford to guess.
ManageEngine CEO Rajesh Ganesan: AI Reshapes the Enterprise, But Guardrails Needed
A weekend of vibe coding gets you a 0.01 version—real enterprise software takes a lot more than that.
MediaMint's Rajeev Butani on AI Agents and Services as Software
Agentic AI isn't judged by the tool it hands you—it's judged by whether the outcome actually happened.
RSA CEO Greg Nelson on Key Trends in Cybersecurity
Attackers don't break in anymore—they log in, using stolen credentials as the front door.
OpenText's Savinay Berry: Context Engineering Drives Enterprise AI
The open internet holds 15 zettabytes of data; enterprises are sitting on 200—mostly untouched by AI.
AI in 2026: Five Enterprise Leaders on AI's Future
Five execs agree: the AI honeymoon is over, and 2026 will reward integration over hype.
Jentic's Michael Cordner: Prepping The Enterprise for Agentic AI
APIs were built for human developers, not AI agents—that mismatch is quietly killing enterprise ROI.
InfluxData CEO Evan Kaplan: Time Series Data Drives the Enterprise
Every sensor, physical or virtual, speaks time series—making it the native language of AI-era infrastructure.
Celonis's Dan Brown on How AI Agents Transform Business
A CRM's version of an order rarely matches the ERP's—AI agents inherit that confusion unless it's fixed.
Celonis's Wil van der Aalst on Process Mining and AI
A CRM's version of an order rarely matches the ERP's—AI agents inherit that confusion unless it's fixed.
Cloudera's Manasi Vartak: The Evolution of Enterprise Generative AI
Generative AI is like a two-year-old kitten—full of promise, still learning where not to scratch.
Cloudera's Jason Mills on Enterprise AI: Hybrid Choice, Use Cases, Cost Discipline
High AI pilot 'failure' rates aren't bad news—they're enterprises learning what actually sticks.
Workato's Bhaskar Roy on Agentic AI Trends and ROI
RPA scripts each step; agentic AI just aims for the KPI and figures out how to get there.
AMD's Madhu Rangarajan on Modernizing Infrastructure for AI
Before debating CPU vs. GPU, most enterprises could free up 70% of their space and power just by upgrading.
D-Wave's Murray Thom on the Future of Quantum Computing
A calculation costing a year's worth of global electricity on a supercomputer ran for under a dollar.
SiFive's Krste Asanovic: New RISC-V Designs and AI Innovation
From EV safety systems to NASA spacecraft, open RISC-V cores are quietly running critical hardware.
Salesforce's Marla Hay on AI and Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Think of MCP as a USB-C port for APIs—and treat every new connection like a new attack surface.
Automation Anywhere CEO Mihir Shukla on the Future of Agentic AI
One customer saved $120 million in three weeks—proof agentic AI's ROI is already real.
Commvault's Vidya Shankaran on Recovering from a Cyberattack
Real resilience means knowing your 'minimum viable business' before an attack, not after.
HP's Faisal Masud: Can AI Help IT Staffers?
AI resolves the issue before you even file the ticket—that shift is what changes IT's cost curve.
GitLab's Emilio Salvador on How AI Agents Are Reshaping Software Development
AI agents won't replace developers, but they're already reshaping how dev teams are structured.
SAP's Bharat Sandhu on Gen AI Coding in the Enterprise
Writing code is no longer the differentiator—ideas and systems thinking are what still matter.
Exabeam's Steve Wilson on Cybersecurity and AI Agents
Managing AI security agents is a lot like managing very fast, very junior employees.
Evan Kirstel on Social Media for Enterprise B2B Tech
Posts from real employees consistently outperform polished corporate content—by a wide margin.
Wipro's Brian Rizman on a New Report: AI and Cybersecurity
70% call AI security a shared responsibility, yet only 13% have a dedicated team for it.
Indicium's Daniel Avancini on Using Your Own Data in AI Deployments
Blocking AI to protect data backfires—it just pushes employees toward riskier, unapproved tools.
Nutanix's Lee Caswell on GPT-in-a-Box, LLMs, and Managing Data
A model trained on your data can be more sensitive than the data itself—and harder to protect.
Broadcom's Robin Grindley on the Tomahawk Ultra Switch Chip
Built for HPC before ChatGPT existed, this chip turned out to be exactly what AI networking needed.
Forward-Deployed Engineers: Why Businesses Need More than the Basics
Like cloud and DevOps before it, 'forward-deployed engineering' risks becoming a label more than a practice.
Eamonn O’Neill
July 27, 2026
GenAI in M&A: From Strategic Pilots to Organizational Impact
86% of dealmakers already use GenAI in M&A—the open question now is build it in-house or buy it off the shelf.
Erik Dilger
June 18, 2026
How Data Teams Are Making Unstructured Data Usable for AI
Up to 90% of enterprise data is unstructured, and most of it stays invisible to the AI tools built to use it.
Krishna Subramanian
June 18, 2026
AI Is Generating More Work Than Most Companies Realize
Faster code generation just means longer review queues—output capacity, not review capacity, is what's growing.
Michael Privat
June 18, 2026
Why Data Sovereignty Is Quietly Breaking Global Scale
What looks like one global system on paper is often quietly fragmenting into regional copies underneath.
Avani Desai
June 18, 2026
IFM's Hector Liu on Open Source, World Models, and the Future of AI
IFM's Liu argues language models alone can't understand the physical world—AI needs world models too.
James Maguire
May 25, 2026
Sage’s Manav Thiara on Why AI Agents Need “Glass Box” Transparency
Sage's Thiara says finance leaders won't trust an AI agent unless they can see exactly how it reached an answer.
James Maguire
May 16, 2026
AI’s Cost Curve: What SMBs Need to Know Before the Bill Arrives
A single AI-flagged alert can quietly trigger a chain of billable actions most SMBs never see coming.
Jon Pollock
May 14, 2026
Documentation Is Dead. Long Live Documentation.
Asking engineers to document after the fact has failed for thirty years—the people who know most write the least.
Ari Cavale
May 12, 2026
Networks Aren’t Prepared for AI Demand
WAN traffic could surge 700% by 2034, and most networks were never built for AI's bursty, latency-hungry patterns.
Michael Reid
April 22, 2026
AI-Assisted Coding is the 3D Printing of Software Development. Here’s How to Use It for Maximum Impact.
AI coding tools don't fix broken teams—DORA data shows they simply amplify whatever dysfunction already exists.
Jeremiah Stone
April 7, 2026
AI Adoption is Outpacing Governance. Here’s Why That Matters.
Most enterprise AI tools show up through employee sign-ups, not IT—echoing shadow SaaS, but faster.
Russell Spitler
April 6, 2026
RSA President Jim Taylor: Enterprise Security, from AI to Indirect Attacks
RSA's Taylor says as authentication gets stronger, attackers are pivoting straight to the help desk instead.
James Maguire
April 1, 2026
Five Reasons Your AI Success Depends on a Modern Agentic Platform
Cloud GPUs are cheap to rent for prototyping, but real-time inference often runs cheaper and faster at the edge.
March 11, 2026
ERP Modernization: Output or Prerequisite?
Waiting for a full ERP overhaul before deploying AI means leaving quick, high-value wins on the table.
Tim Wintrip
February 27, 2026
Cyber Recovery vs. Disaster Recovery: What You Need to Know
Restoring from backup after ransomware can reintroduce the very malware that took you down.
Kaushik Ray
February 17, 2026
AI’s Hidden Cost: Why 95% of Data Annotations Go to Waste
One team admitted throwing away 499 out of every 500 annotations it paid humans to create.
Jason Corso
February 13, 2026
How CISOs Plan to Stop AI Attacks Before They Spread
Five prompts and five minutes: that's all it now takes AI to write a phishing email that once took 16 hours.
Nicholas DiCola
February 4, 2026
The Threat Isn’t AI, It’s People
A burned-out employee pasting sensitive data into an AI tool is scarier than any hacker on the outside.
Roland Palmer
January 30, 2026
How AI Code Generation Is Rescuing SAP Customers From a Workforce Squeeze
With just 4,255 ABAP developers left in the U.S., 23,000+ SAP shops face a 2030 deadline with no one to hire.
Maitreya Natu
January 23, 2026
3 Shifts to Move From a “Prevention First” Mindset Toward True Cyber Resilience
AI-assisted attackers now go from breach to data theft in 25 minutes—versus two days for humans.
January 12, 2026
AWS's Ben Schreiner on How Enterprises Succeed with AI
AWS's Schreiner says the hardest part of AI transformation isn't the technology—it's trust and change management.
James Maguire
December 30, 2025
AI Doesn’t Scale Without a Factory Floor: Why AI Templates are Essential
Every AI project reinventing its own networking and compliance review is a sign platform teams are about to burn out.
December 12, 2025
Sumo Logic's Chas Clawson on AI Agents and Cybersecurity
Sumo Logic's Clawson says enterprises are underestimating how fast AI agents will remake security operations.
James Maguire
December 9, 2025
Celonis's Kerry Brown on Change, Empathy and AI in the Enterprise
Celonis's Brown argues storytelling and empathy, not just dashboards, are what get employees to trust automation.
James Maguire
November 30, 2025
Why Going Back to the Basics Matters in the Age of AI
No matter how advanced the model, AI is still only as reliable as the data and systems underneath it.
November 15, 2025
Surfacing Fraud Playbooks Before They Scale
Fraud tactics are crowdsourced in encrypted chats long before static intelligence feeds ever catch them.
October 29, 2025
Why Model Abliteration Is Essential for Modern AI Safety Evaluation
The safer a model gets, the more it refuses to help test its own defenses—a paradox safety teams must solve.
October 21, 2025
Is It Time to Put Your SIEM on a Diet?
Feeding every log into your SIEM —just in case—quietly inflates budgets without improving detection.
October 9, 2025
Stop Chasing Breaches: Why Cloud Security Needs a Prevention-First Revolution
90% of breaches now start at cloud-based web app servers—detection-first security can't keep up.
October 7, 2025
What AI Assistants Expose About the State of AI Governance
One casual query to an AI assistant can surface data that was never meant to be seen.
September 23, 2025
The Quantum Threat Is No Longer Theoretical: Encryption’s Days Are Numbered
Google's Willow chip ran a task in five minutes that would take a supercomputer 10 septillion years.
September 9, 2025
Determining Your Strategy for Multi-Agent AI: 5 Key Points
The agentic AI market is set to jump from $7.3 billion to $41.3 billion by 2030—fast enough to outrun most strategies.
September 8, 2025
From Cloud to Country: Geo-Repatriation Reshapes the Future of Data Sovereignty
With cloud spend headed past $723 billion, more enterprises are pulling data back to where it's regulated.
August 5, 2025
Your AI Vendor Passed the Demo, but Will It Survive the Real World?
A polished demo can still turn out to be rigid automation dressed up as AI once it hits production.
July 24, 2025
The Virtualization Market Just Got Interesting Again
Broadcom just cut VMware's reseller base from 4,000 to 1,500—and it's reviving competition, not killing it.
July 24, 2025
Building Trust in AI: Why ISO 42001 Matters for Governance at Scale
Just as ISO 27001 brought order to security, this new standard aims to do the same for AI governance.
July 9, 2025
Agentic AI Use Cases for Legacy System Transformation
Legacy platforms and agentic AI seem worlds apart—but agents are already modernizing old systems from within.
July 9, 2025
Stanford AI Index Report 2025: A Roadmap for AI’s Evolution
Coding AI now solves 70% of hard tasks—a tenfold jump in just two years, per Stanford's latest data.
June 11, 2025
AI Spending: To See the Future, Follow the Money
Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet are betting big on AI—that spending pattern reveals where things are headed.
Samuel Greengard
May 20, 2025
What is "Open Source" AI?
Meta calls Llama open source without an OSI license—a labeling fight that's still far from settled.
Sean Michael Kerner
May 13, 2025
Komprise's Krishna Subramanian: an AI model for every task
Komprise's Subramanian says the real AI differentiator isn't compute power—it's how well you manage your data.
James Maguire
May 5, 2025
Small Language Models: Why Enterprises are Betting Big on Going Small
By 2027, Gartner expects task-specific small models to outnumber general LLMs three to one in enterprises.
May 1, 2025
Extreme Networks' Nabil Bukhari: how AI democratizes technology
Extreme Networks' Bukhari expects AI to make human judgment and empathy more valuable, not less.
James Maguire
April 20, 2025
Open Source AI in Action: The Success of Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Even OpenAI, once going its own way, ended up adopting Anthropic's open MCP standard.
Sean Michael Kerner
April 20, 2025
Cloudera's Venkat Rajaji: advantages of open source AI
Cloudera's Rajaji argues open models win long-term because switching costs, not raw capability, decide loyalty.
James Maguire
April 13, 2025
The Problem(s) With Chatbots
78% of users say chatbots can't handle complex issues—and too many block the path to a human.
Samuel Greengard
April 13, 2025
Snowflake's Christian Kleinerman: AI and the speed of data access
Snowflake's Kleinerman makes the case for staying model-agnostic instead of locking into one AI vendor.
James Maguire
April 6, 2025
David Linthicum: LLM trends
Analyst David Linthicum says enterprises are outgrowing big cloud platforms in favor of AI-optimized providers.
James Maguire
April 1, 2025
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