AI Field Day 7 brings together Tech Field Day, TechStrong, and The Futurum Group for two days of in-depth discussions and live demonstrations on practical enterprise AI adoption. Taking place October 29–30, 2025, the event features presentations from Haiku, HPE, Fortinet, Nutanix, Articulate, and...

Despite widespread skepticism, AI is already widely used in the enterprise, often in the form of so-called shadow applications outside traditional IT. This episode of the Tech Field Day Podcast, recorded on the eve of AI Field Day, features delegates Ryan Booth and Dave Graham discussing the real...

At AI Field Day 7, Alex Almeida from Nutanix presented the company’s vision for enabling enterprise AI initiatives through a robust, cloud-native infrastructure built on Nutanix Unified Storage. He began by highlighting a critical industry insight: while interest in AI is surging, a reported 95% ...

In his presentation at AI Field Day 7, Sathya Sankaran, Head of Cloud Products at HYCU, emphasizes the importance of protecting the data and infrastructure that underpin AI systems. He highlights that while much of the AI conversation tends to focus on GPUs and models, the foundational data that ...

In the AI Field Day 7 presentation, Subbiah Sundaram, Senior Vice President of Products at HYCU, highlighted the importance of data protection in the context of AI deployment and insights. Sundaram emphasized that protecting data is not limited to the raw data itself, but also includes configurat...

At AI Field Day 7, Robin Braun presented HPE's "Unleash AI" initiative, emphasizing their collaborative and outcomes-based approach to bringing AI to practical use. Braun was joined by Kamiwaza CEO Luke Norris, in all three sessions. HPE launched the Unleash AI program in early 2024 with the goal...

At AI Field Day 7, HPE presented its latest AI developments announced during NVIDIA's GTC DC 2025, with a strong focus on its collaborative initiatives to simplify and operationalize AI workloads. Robin Braun and Luke Norris highlighted the challenges organizations face in deploying AI applicatio...

At AI Field Day 7, Robin Braun from HPE and Luke Norris from Kamiwaza presented their collaborative smart city solution, highlighting a real-world deployment in Vail, Colorado. The focus was on using agentic AI systems to improve core municipal operations such as information access, public safety...

In his presentation at AI Field Day 7, Max Zeumer from Fortinet discussed how the rapid adoption of generative AI has transformed the threat landscape and the imperative for organizations to secure their AI usage. He began by highlighting the explosive growth of generative AI compared to past tec...

At AI Field Day 7, Fortinet presented its FortiAI Assist technology, emphasizing its integration across the Fortinet Security Operations Center (SOC) platform. Max Zeumer, the speaker, highlighted the growing burden on security teams dealing with massive volumes of alerts and limited personnel. F...

In Fortinet's presentation at AI Field Day 7, Maggie Wu emphasized how the emergence of AI applications has radically altered the cybersecurity landscape, moving beyond traditional web security into more dynamic, conversation-driven AI interactions. The company's approach integrates threat intell...

At AI Field Day 7, Keith Choi from Fortinet presented an overview of Fortinet's AI strategy and portfolio, emphasizing the integration of AI within cybersecurity solutions. He explained that the increasing adoption of AI in enterprises is driven by the need for efficiency and innovation, and Fort...

At AI Field Day 7, Brian Babineau, Chief Customer Officer at HYCU, outlined the company's direction and how data protection plays a crucial role in AI readiness. He introduced his team and emphasized HYCU’s mission to ensure complete data protection and recoverability, especially as businesses em...

In their presentation at AI Field Day 7, Nutanix, represented by Distinguished Engineer Manoj Naix and SVP Vishal Sinha, laid out their vision for supporting AI workflows using Nutanix Unified Storage. They began by walking through a typical AI pipeline—from data ingestion and cleansing to model ...

In this presentation at AI Field Day 7, Manoj Naik from Nutanix outlined the underlying architecture of Nutanix’s unified data platform, which is designed to support next-generation AI workloads with high performance, security, and scalability. He began by analyzing traditional enterprise storage...

At AI Field Day 7, Vishal Sinha of Nutanix presented the company’s comprehensive approach to data mobility and security in the context of AI and enterprise computing. He detailed how Nutanix facilitates seamless data movement across edge, core, and cloud environments by supporting various data op...

In the Nutanix presentation at AI Field Day 7, Mike McGhee showcased the capabilities of Nutanix Data Lens, a data analytics and cybersecurity tool designed to provide visibility across storage environments, including Nutanix file servers and third-party object stores like AWS S3. The tool collec...

At AI Field Day 7, Dr. Arun Subramaniyan, Founder and CEO of Articul8, presented a compelling vision of the future of enterprise generative AI (GenAI) centered on hyper-personalization and domain specificity. The talk addressed the evolution of AI accessibility, highlighting how general-purpose m...

At AI Field Day 7, Parvathi Letha, Head of Product Management at Articul8, and Dr. Arun Subramaniyan, Founder and CEO of Articul8, presented the Articul8 platform, a secure, domain-specific generative AI solution tailored for high-value enterprise use cases. Parvathi detailed the architecture, be...

Dr. Renato Nascimento, Head of Technology at Articul8, and Dr. Arun Subramaniyan, Founder and CEO, presented the technical architecture and capabilities of the Articul8 platform at AI Field Day 7. The platform is built to enable orchestration and management of hundreds or thousands of domain- and...

At AI Field Day 7, Rahul Kelkar, Chief Product Officer at Digitate, presented on powering autonomous IT with ignio, Digitate's agentic AI platform designed for IT operations. Kelkar began by outlining the industry’s evolution from manual IT operations and cognitive automation toward modern AIOps ...

At AI Field Day 7, Rahul Kelkar, Chief Product Officer at Digitate, presented the capabilities of ignio, an AI-based incident resolution agent designed to automate, augment, and improve IT operations. Ignio uses a logical reasoning model for incident resolution, leveraging enterprise blueprints t...

At AI Field Day 7, Rajiv Nayan, Vice President and General Manager of Digitate, presented “Scaling Autonomous IT: The Real Enterprise Impact with Digitate ignio.” Nayan introduced ignio as an agent-based platform designed to bring autonomy to enterprise IT operations, built from the ground up ove...

Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Co-Founder and CTO of Six Feet Up, delivered an insightful presentation at AI Field Day 7, evaluating the efficacy of various AI coding assistants in real-world developer workflows. His talk built upon an earlier session by exploring updates in agentic AI tools, which have ...