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...

Enterprises are spending heavily on AI tokens and agents — but the network underneath is buckling. Michael Dickman, SVP and General Manager of Campus Networking at Cisco, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV live from Cisco Live to share a striking finding: in a Foundry survey of more than 3,400 CI...

Mike Vizard talks with Gil Geron, CEO and Co-Founder of Orca Security, about why AI-driven vulnerability discovery is turning cloud security into a faster-moving arms race. Geron explains why the challenge is shifting from finding vulnerabilities to prioritizing and remediating the risks that mat...

Two decades of IT service management. A gold medal at Britain's Best Loaf. Zsolt Varga, ITIL Master and founder of the micro-bakery Baked by the Varga, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to share what may be the most unexpected ITIL case study ever — applying the four dimensions of service manage...

Trust used to be a feeling. Now it has to be a metric. Sravish Sridhar, Founder and CEO of TrustCloud, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to make the case that trust between businesses needs a system of record — measurable, transparent, and continuously improving — the same way revenue and custom...

Downtime is no longer an IT problem — it's a $600 billion business crisis. Kamal Hathi, SVP and General Manager of Splunk at Cisco, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to unpack Splunk's newly released Cost of Downtime Report and what the numbers actually mean. Kamal walks Alan through the headlin...

Audio can be cloned in seconds. Video can be faked in minutes. Holding up an ID card to a camera no longer means anything. John Wojcik, Senior Threat Researcher at Infoblox and a seven-year veteran of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime in Southeast Asia, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to lay ou...

AI just rewrote the offense-defense balance in cybersecurity. Jim Sherlock, VP of AI & Cybersecurity R&D at ProCircular, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to explain why a penetration test report is stale within a week of delivery, why annual scans no longer protect anyone, and why the only real...

Frontier models are getting smarter every quarter, but the bottleneck isn't the model — it’s the data underneath it. Ashwin Ramachandran, SVP of Product Management at Precisely, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to walk through the open-vs.-closed AI debate playing out across enterprise IT and w...

AI agents behave like humans, talk like machines, and reason their way around the controls built for both. Jeff Malnick, VP, GM of Developer and AI at 1Password, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to walk through how that collision is rewriting identity and access management. Jeff explains how 1P...

Mike Vizard talks with Rob Zuber, CTO of CircleCI, about how AI coding agents are reshaping the relationship between inner loop development and CI/CD pipelines. Zuber explains why faster code generation is pushing validation, testing, review, standards checks and CI-quality feedback closer to the...

Mike Vizard talks with Courtney Werning, Principal at Meyer Wilson Werning, about how AI is making online scams more convincing, scalable and difficult for victims to recognize. Werning explains how deepfakes, polished messaging and fake investment platforms are fueling pig butchering schemes, cr...

Traditional backup gets you data back. Cyber resiliency gets you trust back — and in 2026, that's the only outcome that matters. James Blake, VP of Global Cyber Resiliency Strategy & Consulting Services at Cohesity, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to draw a hard line between BCDR and cyber res...

Mike Vizard talks with Teana Baker-Taylor, CEO of BasedAI, about why many enterprise AI projects remain stuck in costly experiments rather than delivering measurable business outcomes. Baker-Taylor explains how token shock, frontier model costs, data privacy, context engineering, agent permission...

Attackers have AI. Defenders need AI. But that doesn't mean the SOC can run itself. Lisa Liu, Corporate Marketing and Communications Manager at Stellar Cyber, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to make the case that the human in the loop is not optional — and that treating analysts as a brake ped...

From Pearl Harbor to SolarWinds, the data was always there — what was missing was the governance layer to connect signals and act before damage propagated. Ravi Soin, CIO and CISO at Smartsheet, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to explain why that same lesson now defines the AI era and how secu...

Cybersecurity is no longer a CISO conversation — it is a board-level discussion happening alongside AI, geopolitics, and macroeconomic risk. Dylan Sandlin, Program Manager for Digital and Cybersecurity Content at NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors), joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong ...

Mike Vizard talks with Dave Donatelli, CEO of Riverbed, about the company’s push toward autonomous IT operations and digital employee experience. Donatelli explains how Riverbed combines observability, agentic AI, MCP-based context, AI Assurance and automation to help IT teams prevent, detect and...