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’ve all heard about the AI disruption, but as Eclipse Foundation CMO Thabang Mashologu joins Alan today, it’s clear that we are hitting a massive "goodness squared" problem of scale that no one was truly prepared for. AI agents are now hitting registries like Open VSX at 20 times the rate of hu...

We’ve spent decades trying to train humans to write secure code and failing, but as Endor Labs Founder and CEO Varun Badhwar joins us today, it’s clear that we finally have an opportunity to get the agents to do it right. With AI coding assistants now producing 61% functionally correct code—but o...

For years, we’ve heard that quantum computing is always "five to ten years away," but as apexanalytics’ Akhilesh Agarwal joins us today, it’s clear that the "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" threat has turned that timeline into an immediate boardroom crisis. apexanalytics is currently protecting over ...

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...

We’ve moved past the era of just putting "walls around the code," and as Snyk’s Chief Innovation Officer Manoj Nair joins us from Lisbon, it’s clear that securing the AI-driven enterprise requires a fundamental shift from gatekeeping to building a pervasive security fabric. With the release of Sn...

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...

Phil Christianson, chief product officer at Xurrent, explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping IT service management (ITSM). As organizations move beyond ticketing and reactive workflows, AI is enabling predictive insights, automated resolution and intelligent service orchestration. Chris...

In this Techstrong AI Leadership interview, Simba Khadder, Context Engine Lead for Redis, warns that while the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) are doubling every few months, the real winners will be the organizations that can feed these agents the right data at the right ti...

The rush to automate is hitting a major speed bump as enterprises realize that bolting a high-performance AI engine onto a legacy horse-and-buggy process is a recipe for a pilot program disaster. Harshil Shah, Director of Engineering for R Systems, warns that the real challenge isn't building the...

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...

We’ve spent 15 years perfecting how businesses buy and sell subscriptions, but as AppDirect CTO Andy Sen explains, the rise of agentic AI is flipping the script on the traditional marketplace. It’s no longer just about humans clicking buttons; we are moving into a world where AI agents are the pr...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Kevin Green, co-founder and CMO for Hapax, makes the case that communication — not just computation — will determine AI’s impact on financial services. He examines the challenges smaller financial institutions face as they weigh AI investments, from cost pressures to integration hurdles, and expl...

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...

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 ...

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...