We always hear about the cloud and AI, but the truth is that the mainframe is still the beating heart of the global financial system, and it isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Alan sat down with Robin Macfarlane, President and CEO of RR Mac Associates, to discuss the realities of mainframe modern...

The AI agent revolution is here, but handing over the keys to the kingdom means nothing if we can't establish a verifiable trail of consent. Twilio’s Head of AI, ML, and Data, Zachary Hanif, joins me today to discuss their launch of A2H (Agent-to-Human), a groundbreaking open-source protocol desi...

We are blindly handing over the keys to the kingdom to AI agents, and as Mend.io Field CTO Amit Chita joins us today, it’s clear that the "indirect prompt injection" threat is no longer theoretical—it's a critical boardroom risk. While organizations rush to give chatbots the ability to delete fil...

While the rest of the world is just waking up to the realities of "agentic AI," Akka CEO Tyler Jewell joins us today to explain why his company has actually been building the foundation for it for the last 20 years. From powering systems that handle 2 billion users daily to deploying highly regul...

While large enterprises boast massive budgets for AI experimentation, small and medium businesses (SMBs) are quietly using agility to their advantage by rapidly adopting AI tools to solve real-world operational bottlenecks. Ben Schreiner, AWS's Head of AI and Modern Data Strategy Business Develop...

We are in a gold rush of AI-generated code, but as ImmuniWeb CEO Dr. Ilia Kolochenko makes clear on Techstrong TV, the idea of "perfect AI" is a dangerous illusion. Dr. Kolochenko—who uniquely navigates the intersection of cybersecurity and complex cyber law—warns that because LLMs are trained on...

The age of digital transformation is shifting from platform modernization to a high-stakes battle over execution performance in a world accelerated by artificial intelligence. Israel Forst, the newly appointed CEO of Valiantys, warns that while AI offers a massive multiplier effect for cycle time...

For over 25 years, Active Directory has been the bedrock of enterprise identity, but as Cayosoft Founder and CEO Bob Bobel explains, the shift to the cloud has left IT teams stranded in a complex, high-stakes hybrid reality. While Microsoft pushes toward Entra ID, the majority of organizations ar...

We’ve spent 15 years telling ourselves that quantum computing is a "future problem," but as a Quantum Security 25 leader and Qrypt CTO Denis Mandich makes clear, Q-Day is no longer a distant sci-fi fantasy—it’s an imminent deadline for global economic survival. From the silent gathering of "Harve...

The drive for speed in the ServiceNow era is a double-edged sword that often forces IT teams to port messy legacy workflows directly into the platform, creating a compounding interest of technical debt that can eventually lead to a total platform collapse. Ron Browning, co-founder & CEO of Dyna S...

RUCKUS Networks President Bart Giordano joins Techstrong TV to discuss his journey from software engineer to networking executive and the evolution of enterprise wireless infrastructure. As AI-driven applications, edge computing and bandwidth-intensive workloads reshape network demands, Giordano ...

Tiffany Treacy, Vice President of Power Platform from Microsoft, will lead a deep dive into the operational realities of agentic automation—where apps, agents, and chat converge to reshape enterprise execution. Discover how AI empowers everyone, with a focus on advancing accessibility and disabil...

In this Techstrong.ai Leadership Insights interview, Runloop AI CEO Jonathan Wall examines the operational, security and governance challenges organizations face when deploying AI agents in production environments. He discusses the need for guardrails, observability, testing frameworks and runtim...

As traditional network perimeters dissolve, the "castle and moat" approach to security is failing against modern threats. In this interview, Darren Williams, Founder and CEO of BlackFog, joins Alan Shimel to discuss the shift from legacy Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to anti-data exfiltration. Willi...

Lin Sun, head of open source at Solo.io and a member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee, explains why the retirement of the Ingress NGINX controller marks more than the end of a widely deployed project. As cloud-native architectures evolve, IT teams are being pushed toward next-generation ...

The hype surrounding AI agents is at a fever pitch, but a massive gap remains between experimentation and production. While nearly 80% of organizations are building agents, only a fraction have the confidence to deploy them. Joining Techstrong TV is Kobi Tzruya, co-founder and CEO of OmniGuard AI...

Mayank Kumar, founding AI engineer at DeepTempo, explains how the rise of prompt engineering is introducing a new class of security risks in enterprise IT environments. As organizations operationalize generative AI, poorly governed prompts, model manipulation and indirect injection attacks are ex...

Modern network complexity has officially surpassed human capacity, and "slapping AI" on top of raw data isn't a viable solution for critical infrastructure. Joining Techstrong TV is Nikhil Handigol, Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer of Forward Networks, to discuss the decade-long journey from Softw...

As AI-generated code floods the industry, organizations are grappling with an unprecedented accumulation of technical debt and hidden vulnerabilities within their open-source dependencies. ActiveState CTO/CPO Bob Shaker joins Techstrong TV to discuss how the company is deploying its own agentic A...

RSA Conference 2026 marks a milestone 35th anniversary, celebrating a legacy that has grown from a single panel in 1991 to a global community of over 43,000 security professionals. This year’s theme, "The Power of Community," anchors an agenda dominated by the rapid evolution of AI governance, qu...

Dhawal Sharma, Executive Vice President for Product Strategy at Zscaler, discussed the company's acquisition of SquareX and how it addresses emerging browser security challenges in the AI era. This strategic integration allows organizations to enforce intent-based AI guardrails and data loss prev...

In the Techstrong AI Leadership interview, Dr. Aqib Rashid warns that "agentic" workflows introduce a level of unpredictability that can turn a minor misaligned input into a global production meltdown. While natural language interfaces are finally democratizing high-level automation for the "mere...

Think "Q-Day" is a decade-long fairytale? As Protiviti’s Konstantinos Karagiannis—a inaugural member of our Quantum Security 25—joins Techstrong TV, he makes it clear that the countdown to cryptographically relevant quantum computers is accelerating faster than even the optimists predicted. Karag...