Mike Vizard talks with Brad Hibbert, COO and Chief Strategy Officer at Brinqa, about how AI-driven vulnerability discovery is widening the gap between finding and fixing security risks. Hibbert explains why organizations need to move beyond CVSS-based prioritization toward exposure management tha...

DevOps borrowed value stream mapping and used a sliver of what it can actually do. Jack Maher, Founder of ValueStreamPro, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to argue that the manufacturing world's original toolkit — Kanban, Lean, and value stream analysis proven since the 1950s — is ready for a d...

Marnus Marx, Founder and Delivery Confidence Coach at Elanvia Consulting Ltd, joins Alan Shimel on Techstrong.TV to unpack why enterprise delivery breaks down — and it's rarely the team's fault.

Marnus shares his path from Unix/Linux systems into DevOps and delivery coaching, explains what "deli...

Mike Vizard talks with Bill Long, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at Zayo, about why AI is making enterprise network traffic less predictable and more demanding. Long explains how network-as-a-service, distributed connectivity, private cloud access, flexible capacity and AI-ready infrastructur...

John Morello, Co-Founder and CTO of Minimus, joins Alan Shimel on Techstrong.TV to discuss the problem his previous company, Twistlock, never fully solved: finding vulnerabilities in container images is easy — remediating them at scale is the real challenge.

John explains how Minimus builds hard...

Jimmy White, VP of AI at F5, joins Alan Shimel on Techstrong.TV to discuss the rise of "shadow AI" — the AI equivalent of shadow IT, where employees adopt AI tools and agents that IT and security teams never approved and can't see.

Jimmy traces his path from Mandiant to Qualtrics to founding Cal...

Mike Vizard talks with Arve Kjoelen, CISO at Barracuda Networks, about why AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery and increasing the pressure on security teams to remediate faster. Kjoelen explains why organizations need more automation for patch testing, asset ownership, vulnerability assign...

Robert Morcos, Founder & CEO of NEXA (formerly Social Mobile), joins Alan Shimel on Techstrong.TV to make the case that mission-critical users — from the U.S. Air Force to first responders — should never be handed the same consumer, off-the-shelf device you'd give an 11-year-old.

Robert traces N...

AI has become the panacea for every problem — but should it be? Dr. Gautham Pallapa, Principal Director of AI and Innovation and a PhD in artificial intelligence since 2007, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to introduce Invaluable, the new book he co-authored with Asanka Abeysinghe, CTO of WSO2...

The agentic SOC is not a pipe dream — and Chris Corde has the roadmap. Three months into his role as Chief Product Officer at SentinelOne (and after 20+ years spanning RSA Security, VMware Carbon Black, and Google Cloud Security), Chris joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to make the case that mod...

QA got to automation long before AI showed up — and now agents are rewriting the playbook again. Ole Lensmar, CTO and Co-Founder of Testkube and the creator of SoapUI, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to explain why CI pipelines were never built for test-centric workflows, how Testkube decouple...

Complexity is everywhere, and pattern-matching alone will not carry leaders through the next decade. Esther Ovejero, CEO of Vecta Global, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV for a wide-ranging conversation on systemic thinking, business agility, and the emerging future of AI. From her roots as a t...

Token anxiety is real — and it is quietly reshaping the enterprise AI conversation. Don Schuerman, Chief Technology Officer at Pegasystems and a 25-year Pega veteran, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to unpack the PegaWorld announcement that flips the model on its head: agentic workflow pricing...

Mike Vizard talks with Matt Stern, chief security officer for Hypori, about why digital sovereignty and data sovereignty are becoming more urgent as AI, mobile work and cloud platforms expand where sensitive data can travel. Stern explains why organizations must know where data resides, which clo...

For 20 years, security lived one step behind engineering — chasing vulnerabilities, running assessments, and pushing developers to build things more securely. Tom Tovar, Co-Founder and CEO of Appdome, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to make the case that AI is finally flipping that script. In ...

Identity has become the control plane of the modern enterprise — and, as attackers have figured out, its weakest link. Zohar Alon, Co-Founder and CEO of NewCore, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to introduce his new company, fresh out of stealth with roughly $66 million in funding from Cybersta...

What do thousands of cybersecurity practitioners actually care about — and where is the industry really headed? Laura Koetzle, Head of Community Research at RSAC, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to walk through the newly released Volume 6 report and preview the road to RSAC 2027. A 20-plus-yea...

Site reliability engineering just got a new job description. Harish Gaggar, Staff Software Site Reliability Engineer at Credit Karma, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to explain how traditional platform engineering is being reshaped by the demands of AI agents, agentic workflows and the strict ...

Documents sit behind almost every business process, and most enterprises are about to learn the hard way that AI agents cannot reason about what they cannot read. Slavena Hristova, Director of Product Marketing for Document AI at ABBYY, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to explain how 35+ years ...

Work has to move — but it also has to matter. Phil Clark, the former VP Engineering at Parchment (acquired by Instructure for $835M in 2024) and founder of RYU Advisory & Media, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to preview his Flowtopia 2026 talk: "Flow is necessary but not sufficient. Why leade...

Open source is no longer just a software movement — it is the foundation the entire AI stack is built on, from CUDA to Kubernetes to the models themselves. Duane O'Brien, the new Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to talk about the organizat...

Since the Industrial Revolution, leaders have believed that more control equals better outcomes. That belief is now actively working against them. Erica Engelen, founder of The Flow Hive and a Team Topologies Valued Practitioner, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV from Belgium to preview her Flow...

“The worst thing about AI is it’s accelerating how fast we build the wrong thing.” Jeff Keyes, Field CTO at Allstacks and a 30-year veteran of Microsoft, Atlassian, and Planview, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to preview his Flowtopia 2026 talk — Product Management’s New Operating Model. Jeff...

The network's source of truth can't live in a spreadsheet anymore. Kris Beevers, Co-Founder and CEO of NetBox Labs, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to walk through NetBox's evolution from the de facto open-source system of record for IT infrastructure into a full Infrastructure Intelligence Pl...