Techstrong TV Interviews
Techstrong TV interviews with technology leaders, founders, practitioners, analysts and executives across AI, cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud and digital transformation.
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Stateless MCP Moves AI Agents Toward Enterprise Scale
Stateless MCP Changes the Scaling Equation
Stateless MCP gives enterprises a cleaner path for connecting AI agents to tools, services and data. It also makes remote MCP endpoints easier to run at production scale. Clare Liguori, senior principal software engineer at Amazon Web Services, explains ... -
Content Provenance in the Age of AI
Content provenance is fast becoming the missing layer of trust in the AI era, and this Techstrong TV conversation makes the case in plain language. Mike Nelson, VP and Field CTO at DigiCert, joins Alan Shimel to unpack C2PA, content credentials and the digital chain of custody now shaping courtro...
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vDefend Security Stack: Broadcom's VCF Update
The vDefend security stack is Broadcom's answer to AI fueled attacks that laugh at yesterday's fragmented private cloud defenses. Umesh Mahajan, VP and GM of Application Networking and Security at Broadcom, joins Alan Shimel on Techstrong TV to unpack the latest vDefend and Avi load balancer rele...
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Shadow AI Security: Protecting the New Builders
Shadow AI security is the new frontline for enterprise security teams. Gil Geron, CEO and co-founder of Orca Security, returns to Techstrong TV. Furthermore, he joins Alan Shimel to explain what changes when every employee in the company is suddenly a builder shipping code with AI tools.
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Building a Speech AI Platform for Human Communication
A speech AI platform now sits at the core of enterprise communication. Shawn Zhang, co-founder and CTO of Sanas, joins Alan Shimel on Techstrong TV. Furthermore, they explore how his team turned a Stanford dorm project into a working speech AI platform. It now serves contact centers and voice cha...
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Enterprise AI Adoption Moves Beyond Bubble Thinking
AI Investment Meets Enterprise Reality
Enterprise AI adoption is entering a more practical phase. Companies are looking beyond hype, market speculation and infrastructure buildouts. Roman Stanek, Founder and CEO of GoodData.AI, joins Techstrong.ai to explain why an AI bubble is not always bad for... -
OpenWALDO Brings Open Source Discipline to AI Training Data
AI Training Data Needs a Trust Layer
OpenWALDO puts a spotlight on one of the least transparent parts of AI development. Even open-weight models can leave users guessing about what data shaped the model, what licenses apply and whether unwanted behavior was introduced during training. Gregory Kur... -
AI Infrastructure Readiness Drives 2027 IT Budget Priorities
AI Budget Planning Starts With Infrastructure
AI infrastructure readiness is becoming a core budget issue for CIOs as they prepare for 2027. Jack Lodge, Executive Vice President of Customer Success at NWN, explains why many organizations cannot simply add agentic AI on top of existing environment... -
Gravitee Sets a Framework for AI Agent Governance
AI Agent Governance Needs Clear Accountability
AI agent governance is becoming urgent as enterprises move from experiments to production systems. In this Techstrong TV conversation, Mike Vizard talks with Rory Blundell, CEO of Gravitee, about a framework for securing AI agents before they create ... -
Micro VMs Secure Agentic AI Workloads
Micro VMs Move Into the AI Infrastructure Spotlight
Micro VMs are becoming more important as agentic AI workloads create new demands for speed, scale and security. In this Techstrong TV conversation, Barry Cooks, vice president of compute abstractions at Amazon Web Services, explains why a techno... -
ZenBusiness Velo Prime Brings Agentic AI to Small Business Creation
Small Business AI Moves Beyond Advice
Small business AI is moving from basic guidance to hands-on execution. In this Techstrong TV Leadership Insight interview, Mike Vizard talks with Ross Buhrdorf, CEO and co-founder of ZenBusiness, about Velo Prime. The platform is positioned as an AI co-founde... -
Enterprise Data Governance Becomes the AI Agent Bottleneck
### AI Agents Need Governed Enterprise Data
AI agent data governance is becoming a core requirement for enterprise AI success. In this Techstrong.ai Leadership Insights episode, Mike Vizard talks with Tim Bond, Chief Product Officer at Adeptia, about why many AI agent projects stall when they re...
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Red Hat Lightwell Targets the AI Vulnerability Patch Crisis
AI Vulnerability Patching Moves Into a New Phase
AI vulnerability patching is becoming a higher priority as models expose technical debt across older enterprise systems. In this Techstrong TV interview, Mike Vizard discusses the issue with Brian Gracely, senior director of portfolio strategy at R... -
AI Agent Access Controls Become Critical as Enterprise Automation Scales
### AI Agent Access Controls Need a New Model
AI agent access controls are becoming a priority as enterprises move from experimentation to deployment. In this Techstrong.ai Leadership Insights episode, Mike Vizard and Tony Grout, Chief Product and Technology Officer at M-Files, examine why unman...
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Securing Rogue AI Agents with BlueRock CEO Harold Byun
### Agentic AI Security Needs Runtime Control
AI agents are creating new security questions for enterprise teams. In this Techstrong.ai Leadership Insights episode, Mike Vizard talks with Harold Byun, CEO of BlueRock, about why agentic AI security needs to move beyond traditional monitoring. The...
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Enterprise AI Agents Need Governance Before Autonomy
### AI Agent Governance Starts With Risk
AI agent governance is becoming a must-have discipline as enterprises move from experiments to production deployments. In this Techstrong.ai Leadership Insights episode, Mike Vizard talks with Harshil Shah, Head of Generative AI at R Systems, about the ri...
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AI Native Cloud Infrastructure Beyond the Hyperscalers
AI native cloud infrastructure is the enterprise story most buyers miss. Kevin Cochrane, chief marketing officer at Vultr, joins Alan Shimel on Techstrong TV. Furthermore, they unpack how a twelve year old cloud built for developers turned into a serious alternative to the traditional hyperscaler...
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AI Powered Tax Compliance and the Road to CRUSH 2026
AI powered tax compliance is not a place for a probabilistic answer. Hugo Sarrazin, new CEO of Avalara, joins Alan Shimel on Techstrong TV. Furthermore, they preview CRUSH 2026 in Fort Lauderdale and unpack how AI powered tax compliance actually works at Avalara scale across the globe.
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Graph Memory for LLMs and the Enterprise AI Stack
Graph memory for LLMs is the missing layer in the enterprise AI stack. Stephen Chin, VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j, joins Alan Shimel on Techstrong TV. Furthermore, they trade notes on a year of AI conferences, the state of open weight models and why graph memory for LLMs now defines real en...
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Agentic AI Observability and the Data Behind Trust
Agentic AI observability is now a first class production concern. Yanbing Li, Chief Product Officer at Datadog, joins Alan Shimel on Techstrong TV. Furthermore, she frames how AI agents force observability to grow up as a governance layer.
About Yanbing Li
Yanbing is a lifelong engineer who...
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Trusted Open Source Catalogs for AI and Developers
A trusted open source catalog is now table stakes for AI agents and developers alike. Leslie Pascual, Field Engineering Manager for AI and Security Solutions at ActiveState, joins Alan Shimel on Techstrong TV. Furthermore, they walk through how a trusted open source catalog shifts security all th...
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AI Token Costs Fall While Enterprise AI Spending Climbs
### AI Cost Management Moves Into Focus
AI token costs are falling, but enterprise AI spending is still rising. In this Techstrong AI Leadership Insights conversation, Mike Vizard talks with Jon Knisley, Director of AI Value Management at ABBYY, about why lower token prices do not always transla...
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AI Is Collapsing the Vulnerability Patch Window
### AI Vulnerability Management Gets More Urgent
AI vulnerability management is becoming a priority as attackers move faster after disclosure. In this Techstrong TV conversation, Mike Vizard talks with Andrew Obadiaru, CISO at Cobalt, about why the gap between vulnerability discovery and exploit...
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Federal Cyber Hack-Back Plan Raises Attribution Risks
### Federal Cyber Hack-Back Enters a New Phase
Federal cyber hack-back policy is moving into a more formal phase as government agencies explore deeper collaboration with private cybersecurity firms. In this Techstrong TV interview, Mike Vizard talks with Chris Nyhuis, President and CEO of Vigila...