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From dog ear filters to financial planning AI: Farseer’s CTO & CFO
Cofounder, CFO & CTO Luka Mijatovic on why scattered spreadsheets are blocking AI’s productivity gains in finance
From Wi-Fi hack to CISO: Corelight’s Bernard Brantley
Corelight’s first CISO on hacking his way into security, why AI hasn’t rewritten attacker tradecraft and why defenders should point...
Why coding faster isn’t making deployment faster
ClearRoute CEO James Jarvis on why AI-accelerated coding hasn’t sped up software delivery, what going AI-native really takes and the...
Why Teradata merged its chief information, data and AI officer roles
Josh Fecteau on why AI’s real payoff lies in governance and ‘temporal truth,’ not the models
AI ate the easy bugs. Undo’s CTO isn’t worried
Mark Williamson has spent more than a decade helping engineers untangle code no human understands — and now he’s teaching...
How governments are using chatbots
Mercator Digital Chief Innovation Officer Sheldon Gold talks conversational AI, government red tape and agentic AI trust
Secondmind’s CEO on building the engineer’s second brain
The Secondmind chief talks turning around a startup, swapping PR for technology and the buzz around ‘physical AI’
Shadow AI at work: NordVPN’s CTO on the risk
NordVPN CTO Marijus Briedis on why employees bypass AI policies, the data risks of shadow AI and how enterprises can...
Slalom’s ‘joy mapping’ fix for failed AI rollouts
Slalom's Sonali Fenner argues most AI rollouts fail because they sell efficiency, not agency, and shares the five-phase framework she...
Vega CTO Eli Rozen on matching the speed of modern attacks
Eli Rozen on agentic threat intelligence, the limits of legacy SIEM and why sprinkling AI on old data architecture is...
Origina CRO Antonia Ellis on her winding path to tech
Antonia Ellis went from goldsmithing to revenue chief at software maintenance firm Origina by saying yes, learning fast and giving...
Why ‘better AI’ no longer wins in customer service
As companies move from AI pilots, Zendesk's VP UKI & MEA says customer service has become the proving ground for...
BBC R&D’s Manon Dave on AI as a creative instrument
Manon Dave, head of Future World Design at BBC R&D, on AI as a creative instrument, the licensing fight ahead...
From UNESCO to AWS: Building bridges between AI and social good
Sasha Rubel has spent her career making technology work for people — now, at AWS, she's helping purpose-driven businesses cut...
CEO Susan Odle on three decades of doing the homework
StorMagic's CEO on why curiosity is a superpower and how doing the homework cuts through the bias she says still...