Leadership strategies for CIOs and IT and data leaders: governance, spend, talent, and tech bets shaping modern data, storage, and enterprise AI.
Brendan Andrews, Vice President of Energy and Infrastructure at Bureau Veritas, on why upgrading existing infrastructure beats waiting a decade for new capacity.
Peter Wilson, Chief Technology Architect at Fujitsu, shares why sensor data pays off only when it answers a cost, space, or productivity decision the business already faces.
IBM AI strategy leader Prashant Parida joins the Data Wire podcast to explore what companies can create with the capacity AI releases.
Bill Wright, Head of Government Affairs at Everpure, makes the case for AI-ready data infrastructure that supports national innovation without burdening taxpayers.
Emily Nightingale, Director of Marketing Data Science at The Knot Worldwide, on how disagreement between sources becomes its own decision-grade signal.
Paul Neuman, Founder and Head of GTM Services at IT Services Demystified, explains why the industry's most common performance metric is also its most misleading, and what it takes to close the gap between technical delivery and business outcomes.
Daniel Davenport and William duPont of Applied Identities explain why treating agents like software instead of employees leaves companies with generic tools that fail to reflect their strategy, values, or competitive differentiation.
Anuj Nanda, Co-Founder of Neural Nomad, explains why agent sprawl is an architecture problem rather than a tooling problem and why pilots designed for controlled environments break at production scale
Allan Duarte, GenAI Implementation and Adoption Lead, claims that AI companies locked in long-term PPAs miss out on massive cost reductions from energy innovation without forward-looking agreements with their providers.
Dr. Michael Ginsberg, President of Tokamak Energy, explains why power supply is only the first bottleneck, why community opposition is being systematically underestimated, and why smarter infrastructure technology matters more than raw speed to interconnection.
Andrew Hill, Chief Operating Officer of FiveLumens, argues that without an expert straddling technology and operations, AI may just end up amplifying underlying data and IT dysfunctions.
Prithpal Khajuria, Segment Leader for Energy & Utilities at Intel and Co-Founder of the vPAC Alliance, explains why electricity delivery, not GPUs or silicon, determines how fast AI scales, and why every unpowered cluster costs millions per day.
Sohan Sethi, Unit Manager of Analytics and Reporting at HCSC, argues that top-performing analysts are those who can go beyond data fetching tasks to understand their business and the insights that will support it.
Rod Schatz, Chief AI Transformation Officer at Alidade Strategies Inc., explores the connections among AI risk, executives' financial stake, and the demand for clear leadership to guide AI projects to success.
Paul Neuman, Head of Go-To-Market Services at IT Services Demystified, explains how service agreements are evolving from technical checkboxes to quantifiable business risk mitigation as AI reshapes expectations.
Nate Amsden, a Principal Systems Engineer and longtime VMware customer, explains how the Broadcom deal has stalled enterprise infrastructure by exposing gaps no alternative can yet fill.
Jeff Adams, Country Leader for Hybrid Multicloud at Nutanix, frames the VMware shakeup as a turning point that forces IT leaders to treat workload placement as an ongoing business discipline, not a static infrastructure choice.
Mark Wyly, Founder and CEO of LogiCloudiQ, says Broadcom’s VMware shock exposed how years of convenience stripped enterprises of leverage and now force transformation.
Jeremy Stierwalt, Chief Data & AI Officer at Paradigm Technology, explains how taking a "governance-as-a-product" approach can help organizations deliver measurable business outcomes.
Nachiket Mehta, former Head of Data and Analytics Engineering at Wayfair, on why governance should be a shared responsibility rather than isolated to IT or compliance teams.
José Ignacio Sordo Galarza, Professor in Digital Transformation at Tecnológico de Monterrey, on why trust is a powerful accelerant over speed.
Ashwin Raj, CEO of LeafLink, on the need for businesses to transition from static systems to intelligent, autonomous workflows.
Liz Miller of Constellation Research on the need for a CEO-led digital transformation and the role of a Chief AI Officer.
