That DOS Won’t Hunt (Informa TechTarget)

A recent in-person event started off with the usual keynote address from a CEO onstage who paused to share a video testimonial from one of their clients. Pretty standard stuff until the speaker onstage revealed that the “testimonial” we had just watched was actually an AI story -- generated from a very real company and based on real information but it was all still a digital creation.

Oftentimes there is some general acknowledgement that AI is still in development and has much more to learn before it can take over the world. Missing from that acknowledgement is a detailed breakdown of how AI might function as coded yet produces flawed or tainted results by design.

Events in the first quarter of the year stirred some thoughts about the persistent push to build up the tech economy and establish tech hubs. Are our expectations too high for tech hubs?

Did a fast-rising startup founder bilk JPMorgan Chase of $175M by using synthetic data? Will the escalation of AI make such alleged crimes easier?

If the cryptocurrency exchange returns, would its new leadership take a deliberate, consistent stance on security?

A throwaway line from comedic legend Eric Idle at the RSA Conference provokes a thought -- can the layperson help tech become stranger and stronger?

A tale of two approaches, based on comments from Sam Altman and Dr. Michio Kaku, to introduce oversight and governance of the rapidly growing generative AI sector, which might upend careers as well as disrupt society.

Maybe what we got wrong was not cementing a real-world use case for something virtual. Instead of trying “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” the Metaverse needs to simplify its bedrock.

The astrophysicist downplayed doomsaying about AI recently. Part of his argument presumed society would ultimately reject misinformation.

Regulator says the exchanges flouted its rules on securities. Crypto stakeholders say unclear regulations put the US at risk of falling behind other nations.

Sonar CEO Olivier Gaudin brings up some points to consider as generative AI becomes part of the software development cycle.

Disruption from the startup community often inspires change within enterprises, but where should organizations look for transformative ideas?

Vikas Ranjan, senior manager for data intelligence and innovation at T-Mobile, discusses developing a strategy for data platform modernization at the evolving mobile communications company.

Dystopian science fiction can reflect the ways we let current technology seize control, trading decision making for convenience and profit.

As more AI rushes to market, does this increase the risk of digital hallucinations manipulating human perception?

Policy meant to create guardrails on AI usage continues to evolve, but should it go further and borrow a page from Frank Herbert’s landmark story?

James Barrood, of Innovation+, visits and explores whether AI will follow trend patterns of prior technology that promised to revolutionize business and the world.

Why the sports industry is a ripe space for digitization, data, and swaying public interests on a grand scale.

As Google Cloud Next is underway, we look to the stars for a sobering look at the risks and need for security that come with the continued proliferation of cloud-first strategies.

Exploring how Stanley Kubrick’s prescient depiction of an overly confident HAL 9000 relates to AI hallucinations seen today.

In this episode, Vanguard’s chief data analytics officer speaks on centralizing data and co-locating analytics teams to identify trends to advise clients.

Automakers have plenty on their plates as they chase the promise of bringing autonomous vehicles to the highways and byways of the country.

FICO's chief product and technology officer discusses how development through a DevOps model accelerated FICO’s time to release and ways AI and machine learning helped improve quality.

Threat of fines looms as X faces questions whether its policies empower digital lies that further incite emotional responses to a grim conflict.

Should we unfetter tech -- teach sand to think in the form of silicon chips and AI -- versus build guardrails around risky innovation?

Google and Apple are reportedly restricting map information amid the Israel-Hamas War, rekindling questions of tech’s role in international affairs.

It’s not just Cartman’s paranoia though -- if Elon Musk is right, AI might eradicate jobs. What the @#$%! happened to the future ‘The Jetsons’ promised?

Questioned by critics from the start, Elon Musk is expected to finally deliver the production version of the controversial electric truck this month.

CIO Matt Hough discusses a lift-and-shift migration that took a year to complete and helped prep Cintas to take advantage of AI and other innovations.

‘Fake it till you make it’ should not mean creating imaginary guests to give the false impression of a diverse lineup of speakers.

The anti-woke AI startup filed to raise up to $1 billion, eventually, but will it have a real shot at capturing a tangible slice of the AI market?

Netflix movie about disaster and societal collapse shows how widespread cybersecurity breaches might bring down a nation.

Shawn Malhotra, head of engineering, discusses using a GenAI platform to transform work in legal, compliance, and other fields.

From ransomware attacks to systems collapses, stumbles from the prior year could encourage fresh insights on resilience and cybersecurity.

With attention on software that can “poison” content to make it harder for AI models to interpret, the debate on fair use and copyright intensifies.

Heated calls for action on child protection fueled the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing with the heads of Discord, Meta, Snap, TikTok, and X.

Interview with Tuong Nguyen of Gartner on where this tech niche is heading.

Forrester analyt talks the arrival of Apple’s VR-AR headset and what it means for this tech niche.

The arrival of Apple’s VR-AR headset might be a watershed moment. Forrester and Gartner offer perspective on where this tech niche is heading.

The Guy Fawkes mask is often associated with hacktivists and protesters, but is there a deeper lesson in privacy and responsibility in technology to be learned?

Keri Olson, vice president of IBM AI for Code Initiatives, discusses what benefits developers might realize by using AI in the development process.

Politicos and the private sector clash over ownership of TikTok, smashing together allegations of geopolitical antagonism and data privacy risks.

Antitrust lawsuit questions Apple’s handling of apps and products that might challenge its dominance.

What role can observability, AI, and other tech play in supporting and coordinating disaster response efforts such as the container ship crash that toppled the Frances Scott Key Bridge?

As AI compounds the problem of fraud, the Federal Trade Commission put a new rule in play to combat some $1.1 billion in reported losses that stem from impersonating government and business agencies. Jordan Burris of Socure, AJ Nash of ZeroFox, Chanley Howell from Foley & Lardner, and Chris Briggs with Mitek discuss what the new rule may mean for companies and the fight against AI-powered fraud.

Doug Hathaway, vice president of engineering with Versapay; Prashant Kelker, chief strategy officer with ISG; and Sitaram Iyer, senior director of cloud native solutions with Venafi, discuss how AI and quantum computing may present high risks or big boons to fintech.

Dale Zabriskie, field CISO with Cohesity, and Kim Larsen, CISO with Keepit, discuss ways disaster recovery can work more closely with security, and what that means for zero trust and backup systems.

Meant to arm federal authorities with intelligence gleaned from telecom and other sources, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was renewed recently, but not without debate down to the deadline for renewal. Richard Searle, chief AI officer with Fortanix, and Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, managing director of the Washington, DC office of IAPP, discuss FISA's renewal, questions raised for tech companies and privacy professionals, and what the policy landscape looks like as the US government makes moves, while touting security and privacy concerns, on TikTok.

With executive orders from the Biden administration in play, cloud service providers are being called upon for insight into who uses their services to, ostensibly, thwart bad actors from overseas. Federal authorities want to identify anonymous cyber attackers who try to tap domestic cloud services to launch attacks, but there has been some pushback from aspects of the industry. Some of the complaints against the “know-your-customer” requirements include the potential costs of compliance, effectiveness of the measures, and how it might hurt competition. In this episode, Kyle Dewar, director with Tanium, and Chuck Herrin, field CTO with F5, discuss some of the threats the new rules are aimed at, questions raised about tech companies working more closely with federal authorities, and what this may mean for privacy.

RSA Conference 2024 has come to a close, wrapping up a plethora of announcements on cybersecurity from government authorities, concerns about the continued rise of disinformation, and the roles AI may take, on defense and offense, in the mix. Iain Mulholland, senior director, cloud CISO with Google Cloud; Masha Sedova, vice president of human risk strategy at Mimecast; Jason Mar-Tang, field CISO at Pentera; and Etay Maor, chief security strategist with Cato Networks, shared some of their takeaways from this year's conference.

What if we lived in a world without semiconductor chips? Tony Moor, senior director of silicon lab services with IOActive, and Shane Snider, senior writer with InformationWeek, join in for a conversation on our reliance on semiconductor chips. In the alternate retrofuture of the popular "Fallout" streaming series and video game franchise, semiconductors never caught on as a backbone for computer technology. Instead of silicon chips, vacuum tubes became the mainstay of technology, which had a variety of repercussions after the world of "Fallout" went thermonuclear. In the real world, just a couple of years ago a shortage in semiconductor chips had companies and manufacturers scrambling for ways to compensate. Even now, demand conitnues for semiconductor-based chips from smartphones to supporting the latest strides in AI. This episode of DOS Won't Hunt takes a look at what was learned from dealing with past shortages in chips as current demand continues, and how that might change is technology needs evolve. Are there any alternatives to current chip tech that might be put to work for compute? Could industry get by through recycling chips to meet future demand? Will innovation stall if there are not enough chips to go around?

With the rollout of Google’s Generative AI Overview for web searches, the game changed for businesses that relied on understanding how to leverage their sites and content for higher ranking. AI Overview puts an AI-generated summary at the top of the page in response to searches. Links still appear below the summary and AI Overview might not appear for every search. This raised concerns among brands and content publishers, who fear the loss of online traffic to their sites if summarized answers suffice for users. If AI Overview, which gathers available information from the web, why visit websites? Changes Google made to search were meant to de-rank sites that tried too hard to feed into Google’s search algorithm. How beneficial is that to ad revenue and getting products and brand names out there? In this episode, Pierre DeBois, CEO of Zimana Analytics, and Duane Forrester, vice president of industry insights with Yext, discuss some of the fears stirred by AI Overview, what the changes may mean, and potential long-term ways businesses will evolve in response.

A weeklong exploration of the technology scene in New York kicks off June 3. Startups and incumbents, new founders and veterans of the market will come together at NY Tech Week to discuss their respective innovations as well as what they are curious to see evolve. New York continues to make its presence known as a tech hub as startups rise from its streets while big names such as Google and Meta have offices here. Sometimes those big players even offer supportive resources to up-and-coming New York tech companies. But is New York still just a work in progress as a tech center? What are New York’s strengths when it comes to tech and innovation? Where could it mature further? In this episode, Julie Samuels, president and CEO of Tech:NYC; Julian LaNeve, CTO with Astronomer; and Spencer Kimball, CEO of Cockroach Labs, share their thoughts on the New York tech ecosystem, what their organizations find engaging about the local tech scene, and what they hope to see develop.

Votiro, IAPP, AvePoint, and Lookout discuss the intersection of data monetization, security, data privacy, and data ownership.

In this episode, Matias Madou, CTO and co-founder of Secure Code Warrior; Anthony Aurigemma, chief revenue officer with Anomali; and Ed Frederici, CTO of Appfire discuss the impact AI has on career skills and professional advancement. Despite the hype, are AI skills actually vital to doing jobs?

Nicholas Mattei, assistant professor of computer science at Tulane University; Barbara Bickham, founder and managing partner with Trailyn VC; Robert Clougherty, CampusWorks CIO for Drew University; and Muddu Sudhakar, CEO of Aisera, discuss how AI applies inductive reasoning.

In this episode of DOS Won’t Hunt, Chaim Mazal, chief security officer, Gigamon; Kat Traxler, principal security researcher, Vectra AI; Joel Moses, distinguished engineer and CTO, platforms and systems, F5; Tsvi Korren, field CTO, Aqua Security; and Shane Snider, senior writer, InformationWeek discuss ways cloud security must evolve.

In recent weeks we have seen the EU go after Apple for breaching the Digital Markets Act, and Microsoft for Teams bundling in violation of antitrust law. Alberto Gimeno, CEO of Invofox, discusses what challenges and considerations a young tech company may face trying operate in the EU compared with the United States.

The latest AWS Summit New York has come and gone, but enterprise pain points, needs, and opportunities in the cloud still warrant discussion.   There was much talk of artificial intelligence, generative AI (GenAI) in particular, at the conference, especially in relation to the use of cloud resources to further its spread and development. Other aspects of the cloud naturally need their time in the spotlight, even if they are not the shiniest tech on the market right now that gobbles up attention. Does AI take up too much spotlight in cloud? Should other aspects of the cloud get the same level of interest that GenAI now enjoys? Are major cloud providers speaking to real needs versus hype? What is the chatter in the industry trenches? In this episode of DOS Won’t Hunt, Erik Peterson, founder and CTO of CloudZero, and Doug Houghton, director of channels with Alkira, share some of their takeaways from the conference -- including thoughts on elements of the keynote by AWS Vice President of AI Products Matt Woods, what enterprises look for in their cloud deployments and resources, and what drove some of the conversations they had while on site.

Eric Wenger, senior director for cyber and emerging tech policy, with Cisco; Roman Arutyunov, co-founder and senior vice president of products with Xage Security; Dennis Dayman, CISO with Code42; TK Keanini, CTO with DNSFilter; and Akash Agarwal, director of engineering and DevSecOps with LambdaTest, discuss ways to address possible cyberthreats and misinformation in the workplace during this intensely partisan era.

Was the cloud the perfect safe haven away from the massive IT outage attributed to CrowdStrike’s mishandled update to Microsoft Windows machines? The answer is complex and this episode speaks to some of the considerations organizations might make about their cloud strategies in the fallout of the outage that knocked out some 8.5 million devices more than one week ago. The nature of the cloud, and the options available through many providers, can offer some resources that enterprises want for continuity of operations and IT disaster recovery. This is not to ignore major services outages that cloud providers have faced in separate, unrelated incidences. Before organizations that stayed on prem and held out on migration rush to the cloud, John Raven, managing director of Microsoft Cloud transformation with TEKsystems, and Octavian Tanase, chief product officer with Hitachi Vantara, share insights on cloud strategy in this post-outage phase.

In this episode, John Lovelock, chief forecaster with Gartner; Steve Ross, director of cybersecurity with S-RM; Erin McFarlane, vice president of operations with Fairmarkit; Sree Mallikarjun, chief scientist and head of AI innovation with Reorg; and Ryan Johnson, chief product officer with CallRail, offer their insights on what is happening with AI investment, what enterprises are exploring, and what the expectations might be for the money put into the technology.

In this episode, Keatron Evans, vice-president of portfolio and product strategy with Infosec; Ramona Schindelheim, host of the Work in Progress podcast and editor-in-chief of WorkingNation; Prukalpa Sankar, co-founder of Atlan; and Ashok Reddy, CEO of KX, talk about the reskilling dilemma and where AI actually stands in its development as a tool for companies.

Do AI-generated job applications gum up the recruitment process for hiring managers by filling inboxes with dubiously written CVs? In this episode, Gretchen Jacobi, senior vice president of enterprise with General Assembly; Chris Camicas, head of engineering with DataDome; and Josh Bersin, CEO of The Josh Bersin Company, discuss what the AI component can mean for both hiring managers and job applicants that want to sort out the job market.

In this episode, Anand Kashyap, founder and CEO of Fortanix; Kristin Milchanowski Gilkes, Ernst & Young’s global innovation quantum leader; Michael Osborne, CTO for IBM Quantum Safe; Omar Santos, distinguished engineer with Cisco; and Volker Krummel, post-quantum cryptography chapter lead for Utimaco discuss what enterprises should know to get their arms around NIST’s post-quantum cryptography standards.

In this episode, Zachary Smith, board member with the Sustainable & Scalable Infrastructure Alliance; Aidan Madigan-Curtis, partner with Eclipse; and Ugur Tigli, CTO with MinIO, discuss whether the limits of chips, energy, and other materials may hinder innovation and if a point of inflection is on the horizon.

In this episode, Camden Swita, head of AI and machine learning innovation at New Relic; Efrain Ruh, CTO for Europe with Digitate; and Paul Davis, field CISO, with JFrog, discuss ways enterprises work to leverage AI for more than dazzling consumers with conversational bots or content generation.

From CrowdStrike’s infamous bad update to cloud, network, and service failures, IT took its share of hits this year. How does it hold up going into the final quarter?

This episode brought together Juan Orlandini, chief technology officer, North America with Insight Enterprises, and Sandeep Chandna, chief sustainability officer with Tech Mahindra, to discuss how energy starved data centers are, whether ESG efforts can improve energy management among data centers, and whether sentiment led to the villainization of nuclear power in this equation.

In this episode, Angela Friend, vice president of data science and AI with DailyPay; Adnan Masood, chief AI architect with UST; and John Lin, investor with F-Prime Capital, discuss how the spread of AI among incumbent financial institutions might affect their pursuit of innovation through startups.

More laws and scrutiny of AI may be on the way, but that does not mean every implementation of the technology evolves with nefarious intent. In this episode of DOS Won’t Hunt, Octavian Udrea, chief scientist with Code Metal; Kjell Carlsson, head of AI strategy with Domino Data Lab; and Sohrob Kazerounian, distinguished AI researcher with Vectra AI, share their perspectives on AI development and use with ethics and regard for the public good in mind.

The next major moves in quantum computing are expected to take technology on a generational journey, though it will still be some years before tangible results emerge.

Justin Ging, chief product officer; and Remy Notermans, director of strategic planning, both with Atom Computing. The next major moves in quantum computing are expected to take technology on a generational journey, though it will still be some years before tangible results emerge.

The next major moves in quantum computing are expected to take technology on a generational journey, though it will still be some years before tangible results emerge.

The next major moves in quantum computing are expected to take technology on a generational journey, though it will still be some years before tangible results emerge.

The next major moves in quantum computing are expected to take technology on a generational journey, though it will still be some years before tangible results emerge.

The next major moves in quantum computing are expected to take technology on a generational journey, though it will still be some years before tangible results emerge.

What long-term considerations must organizations make on changes that might come with a new administration? How might that affect tech regulation? What if there is a loss of tech knowledge among agencies and policymakers? Pierre DeBois, founder of Zimana; and Gary Barlet, public sector CTO with Illumio, share their perspectives on those questions and more in this episode.

Scott Crowder says IBM’s development in the space has been on target but also remains cautious about hyping up promises for the future -- reiterating the dilemma that comes with capabilities and use cases for quantum computing cannot be proved until they are proved.

This brought together Carl Wearn, head of threat intelligence analysis and future ops at Mimecast; Robert Johnston, co-founder and CEO of Adlumin; Mike Wiacek, CEO of Stairwell; Armaan Mahbod, vice president of security and business Intelligence with DTEX Systems; and Adam Darrah, vice president of Intelligence with ZeroFox. They discussed ways organizations might orient their cybersecurity and defenses for the post-election world, the prevalent types of attacks launched on behalf of aggressor states, and how the current cybersecurity infrastructure measures up to the potential threats that are in play.

Final rules from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau further the march towards open banking -- what will it take to keep such data sharing secure? In this episode, Ben Shorten, Accenture’s finance, risk and compliance lead for banking and capital markets in North America; Adam Preis, director of product and solution marketing with Ping Identity; and Fernando Luege, CTO with Fresh Consulting, came together to discuss security hurdles and the way ahead for open banking

What role does AI have in the current state of cloud? What types of cloud systems and resources stand to benefit from, or need to adapt to, AI? In this episode, Sundaram Lakshmanan, CTO with Lookout, and Amrit Jassal, co-founder and CTO of Egnyte, share their insights on how this space has shaped in the AI era and the potential road ahead.

This episode, DOS Won’t Hunt brought together Andy Lunsford, a former privacy attorney and current co-founder and CEO of BreachRx; Krysten Jenci, Cisco’s data privacy policy lead; Sean Costigan, managing director of resilience strategy at Red Sift; and Ravi Srinivasan, CEO of Votiro. They discussed such matters as how state-level policies compare with international data privacy laws, whether a national consensus on data privacy law seems to be on the horizon, and whether current data privacy laws stifle how companies operate.

This episode saw Matt Bishop, principal architect at Bitwarden; Artem Kroupenev, vice president of strategy at Augury; Matias Madou, Secure Code Warrior’s CTO and co-founder; and Joel Carusone, senior vice president of data and AI at NinjaOne come together. They discussed the use of AI in software development, its benefits and risks, and how developers want AI to be implemented in the cycle.

Did any forecasts for 2024 hold water? Are organizations better served by not chasing predictive trends or does that mean giving up a competitive edge? This episode brought together Rocky Cole, co-founder and COO of iVerify; Bogdan Raduta, head of AI with FlowX.AI; Bryan Wood, machine learning solutions engineer at Snorkel AI; Dave Merkel, CEO and co-founder of Expel; Alvaro Oliveira, chief talent officer with Andela; and John Peluso, Chief Technology Officer at AvePoint.

This episode gathered Marcus Merrell, principal tech Advisor at Sauce Labs; Anuj Kapur, CEO of CloudBees; Bina Khimani, chief product officer and chief revenue officer with Kinesis Network; and Richard Munro, business value lead for the VMware Cloud Foundation Division. They spoke to questions that included whether enterprises are now able to tailor cloud resources to fit their actual operational needs, if cloud costs have become more manageable, how cloud usage has scaled in recent years, and whether or not more organizations are going cloud-first.

This episode of DOS Won’t Hunt saw a panel comprised of David Richardson, vice president of endpoint and threat intelligence for Lookout; Kris Lovejoy, senior vice president for security with Kyndryl; Jake King, head of threat and security intelligence with Elastic; Mikhail Ishkhanov, senior director, product strategy and sales enablement with SOTI; Stephanie ”Snow” Carruthers, IBM’s global head of cyber range and chief people hacker with IBM X-Force; and John Paul Cunningham, CISO for Silverfort. They discussed what is at stake during the holidays, security risks that can arise with undertrained seasonal staff, and why it is not a good idea to have someone caught up in holiday festivities tasked with cyber forensic audits. Mind the champagne.

In 1999, under the digital gleam of Keanu Reeves in “The Matrix,” IT teams either sat confidently with the changes they made to resolve the Y2K bug or waited with bated breath to see if the fixes held. The arrival of the year 2000 did not bring about the feared digital apocalypse thanks to fixes to make software and hardware to understand what seemed like a simple, yet crucial change to date formats. This episode saw Greg Rivera, vice president of product at CAST; Paul Davis, field CISO at JFrog; and Theresa Lanowitz, chief evangelist at LevelBlue, discuss how computer infrastructure evolved in the 25 years since worries about Y2K launched IT teams into action.

Before an enterprise can set any strategy in motion for AI, leadership at the top must decide what the plan of action will be. The question is, who should guide the conversation? The CEO, the overall executive leader? A more tech-oriented executive such as the CTO or CIO? How much say should other, operations-driven divisions have? This episode brought together Adam Caplan, president of digital business and AI for Altimetrik; Bradon Rogers, chief customer officer for Island; Max Chan, CIO for Avnet; Ben Waber, PhD, visiting scientist at MIT; and Cliff Jurkiewicz, vice president of global strategy for Phenom. They discussed such questions as how does C-suite leadership tend to regard AI, key considerations when exploring how to leverage new technology, and if managers who are not part of the C-suite should be part of the conversation?

In this early stage of the AI era, it can be easy to think a blank check to develop the technology will deliver success. At what point should the ROI be measured for AI? What happens if a company overspends on AI? Can the project be recovered or should the company cut its losses and move on? This episode of DOS Won’t Hunt featured Manish Goyal, vice president and senior partner for AI and analytics for IBM Consulting; Richard Buractaon, head of AI for Andesite; Carter Busse, CIO for Workato; and Ashok Reddy, CEO and KX. They discussed such matters as whether a barometer exists that companies can compare their AI expenses against and what might be a “reasonable” percentage of budget that can be spent on AI.

In a world dominated increasingly by AI, access to relevant data becomes paramount -- but what if such streams of information dry up? This episode features Shobha Phansalkar, vice president of client solutions and innovation for Wolters Kluwer; Olga Megorskaya, founder and CEO of Toloka; Pete DeJoy, co-founder and senior vice president of product for Astronomer; Melissa Bischoping, senior director of security and product design research at Tanium; and Omar Khawaja, Field CISO, Databricks. They discussed types of data that is necessary and relevant for training AI, how organizations might determine if data is useful or simply junk, what happens if policy stonewalls data access, and whether or not AI simply dies without data.

This episode features Luke Behnke, vice president of product for Grammarly; Cliff Jurkiewicz, vice president of global strategy for Phenom; Ryan Bergstrom, chief product and technology Officer for Paycor; Daniel Avancini, co-founder and chief data officer for Indicium; and Arun Varadarajan, co-founder and chief commercial officer for Ascendion. They discussed how AI already changes staffing, what skillsets organizations want in an AI-powered world, fears about job loss, what this may mean for executives in the C-suite who need to get up to speed on AI, and when organizations can comfortably rely on AI to enhance their workforce.

As AI saturates the market, what becomes of its competitive advantages? Does it become a basic, digital commodity in the background? As InformationWeek kicks off “The Cost of AI series,” this episode of DOS Won’t Hunt brought together Andy Boyd, chief product officer with Appfire; Amol Ajgaonkar, CTO of product innovation with Insight; Mike Finley , CTO and co-founder for AnswerRocket; Kashif Zafar, CEO of Xnurta; and James Newman, head of product and portfolio marketing for Augury. The podcast panel discussed what happens if companies start to look like they are just copying each other when they use AI, what the ROI is for AI, and how organizations can differentiate what they get out of AI?

As stakeholders in the cloud try their hands at developing quantum compute chips and related resources, is there a symbiotic evolution of tech in the making?

This episode brought together James Kaplan, partner with McKinsey; Rich Salz, principal architect at Akamai; Matthew Keesan, vice president and general manager of quantum computing and platform with IonQ; and Daniella Pontes, quantum ambassador.

They discussed that question as well as should enterprises make an effort to be quantum-ready, AI-ready, as well as cloud-ready -- or does this become a point of confusion for CIOs?

Sometimes "The Cost of AI" rests in the hands of political players.

International politics can throw disruptive curves into companies’ plans and ambitions to leverage AI to remain competitive. The extent of such disruptions -- or the negotiations to avoid them -- could vary in influence based on how organizations respond.

Could global needs for AI create “strange bedfellows” comparable to agreements seen in the pursuit of fossil fuels? Does a path forward exist for companies stymied by politics that risk narrowing access to international resources for AI technology?

Ian Cohen, CEO of Lokker; Ted Krantz, CEO of Interos; Sahil Agarwal, co-Founder and CEO of Enkrypt AI; and David Brauchler, technical director and head of AI and ML security for NCC Group discussed those and other questions in this episode.

What mindset do enterprises need to adopt in order to make AI happen without breaking the bank and see tangible results?

Leading into the final week of InformationWeek's "The Cost of AI" series, Fred Sala, chief scientist at Snorkel AI; Becky Carroll, partner, IBM Consulting Global - AWS strategic partnership lead for data and AI; Charles Xie, CEO and founder of Zilliz; Srujan Akula, CEO of The Modern Data Company; and Deepak Singh, vice president of developer experience at AWS discussed how companies should structure their AI strategies to deliver positive ROI and other questions.

Will the development of these resources proceed in tandem at enterprises, or must CIOs evolve these technologies with separate strategies?

Luiz Domingos, CTO for Mitel; Jon Kuhn, senior vice president of product for Delinea; Anshu Jain, co-Founder and CTO with Outmarket AI; and Steve Williams, CISO, NTT DATA tackled that and other questions in this episode.

Is putting a data center under the ocean or in orbit just a novelty or a future-forward idea?

Data centers have been installed put undersea and now in space -- do these exotic locations seem more like a novelty than a benefit to enterprise operations? One benefit is access to natural sources of cooling for data centers, either in the freezing temperatures in space or cold waters of the sea.

Dmitry Zakharchenko, chief software officer for Blaize; and Alvin Nguyen, senior analyst with Forrester, discussed these topics with Shane Snider, senior writer with InformationWeek joining in.

This episode brought together Tatum Tummins, senior product manager with Kion; Edward Walsh, senior managing consultant for IBM’s global cloud advisory practice; Jason Hardy, vice president and CTO of AI at Hitachi Vantara; Joe Jacir, cloud architect for enVista; Stephen Manley, CTO with Druva; and Dave Driggers, CTO and founder of Cirrascale.

They discussed whether AI might devour the critical capacity needed at data centers that makes the cloud worthwhile. They dove into other questions such as whether there is a tipping point where cloud loses its viability if AI gobbles up capacity at data centers.

There may be a new era of DeFi in the offing if regulation eases up, and stakeholders in this sector see new potential understandings with watchdogs.

This episode of DOS Won’t Hunt brought together Wenny C., partner with SynFutures; Martin de Rijke, head of growth for Maple Finance; Alan Orwick, co-founder of Quai; and Gerald Gallagher, general counsel at Sei Labs.