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Informa TechTarget senior news writer Beth Pariseau and analyst Jason Andersen break down the top news at IBM's Think conference this week, including the general availability of the IBM Bob AI coding tool, a long-awaited tie-in with HashiCorp for AIOps now in public preview and updates to the Watsonx Orchestrate AI agent platform.

Featuring: Jason Andersen, principal analyst, Moor Insights & Strategy

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An observability company CEO discusses the shifting requirements – and growing role -- for such tools in AI development. From Shahar Azulay's point of view, observability has evolved from a post-production downtime prevention system to "the source of truth for everything from code creation to shipping and testing code, remediation and production."

Featuring: Shahar Azulay, co-founder and CEO, Groundcover

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Greetings from fabulous Las Vegas! Informa TechTarget's Beth Pariseau catches up at Google Cloud Next with Andi Gutmans, VP and GM of Data Cloud at Google. This week, Google previewed a new Agentic Data Cloud: what does it mean for enterprise IT buyers? How does it slot in with the many other Google Cloud products rolled out and updated this week? Tune in to find out.

Featuring: Andi Gutmans, VP and GM of Data Cloud, Google

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As the dust settles on Tax Day 2026, Intuit's chief AI officer envisions not a SaaS apocalypse but a SaaS transformation enabled by AI agents, with an emphasis on human-AI collaboration and predictive capabilities. In this interview, he shares data on the results of Intuit's AI strategy so far in millions of customers and transactions, cost savings, ROI and accuracy rates.

Featuring: Ashok Srivastava, senior vice president and chief AI officer, Intuit

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As chief technology and innovation officer at IT consulting and services company Avanade, Aaron Reich sits at the intersection of enterprise AI adoption trends among IT vendors, enterprise clients and internal customers. He offers his insights on why so many enterprise AI deployments get stuck in the pilot stage, his advice on AI governance best practices and his predictions for how 2026 and 2027 will unfold.

Featuring: Aaron Reich, chief technology innovation officer, Avanade

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Serverless computing is nothing new, but it's poised for major growth, according to recent market research. This week's guest has had a front-row seat to that growth both at AWS and Capital One, where he led the company's efforts to use serverless at scale and helped shape its Serverless Center of Excellence. In this episode, he discusses the pros and cons of serverless computing for enterprises, recent advances in adjacent technologies such as observability, and shares his lessons learned.

Featuring: Brian McNamara, distinguished engineer at Capital One

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Outshift by Cisco published a whitepaper titled "Scaling out Superintelligence" in January that suggests that new standard network layers will be required for AI agents and humans to work together at scale. It also began designing a distributed infrastructure to support those layers, which it calls the "Internet of Cognition," that helps agents and humans think together with a shared semantic context. In this episode, Guillaume de Saint Marc, vice president of engineering at Outshift, discusses how the project evolved and what's coming next.  

Featuring: Guillaume de Saint Marc, VP of Engineering, Outshift by Cisco 

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There are two sides to the mainframe modernization coin, according to Asa Kalavade, vice president of AWS Transform, an agentic AI service that modernizes Windows, mainframe, and VMware environments. In late February, Asa wrote a blog post about misconceptions regarding AI and mainframe modernization that were revealed by work with more than 400 AWS Transform customers. In that post and during this episode's discussion, she explains why successful mainframe modernization requires both reverse and forward engineering – and why AI is only good at one of those things.

Featuring: Asa Kalavade, VP of AWS Transform

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"I would love there to be a SaaS apocalypse" in observability – that's the spicy take from Ari Zilka, CEO at data pipeline engine startup MyDecisive.ai, and a former exec at New Relic and Hortonworks. MyDecisive's open source software targets data management costs from observability vendors such as Datadog by reducing data at the source; it can also proactively alert on and take action on OpenTelemetry data as it comes in from enterprise applications. If Zilka has his way, observability will return to enterprises as an in-house discipline, but without requiring an army of engineers to set it up.

Featuring: Ari Zilka, CEO at MyDecisive.ai

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Tom Chi has played many roles inside and outside the tech industry, including serving as head of Google X, where he helped develop Google Glass and self-driving cars. Now a founding partner at the environmentally focused venture capital firm At One Ventures, Chi has published a book, Climate Capital: Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future. The book offers dark warnings about the possible future of humans on Earth amid threefold crises in the environment, the AI economy, and geopolitics and also proposes a framework for change.

In this wide-ranging and provocative interview, Chi puts forth his opinions on why a world in which billionaires are building doomsday bunkers is one in which no one is really winning, and how that would could be re-imagined.

Featuring: Tom Chi, founding partner, At One Ventures

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