Techstrong Gang

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda, Sulagna and special guest Lisa Martin, the CMO Advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into how robots that need to interact with physical environments will be built more cost effectively following a CES keynote from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.

Then, the gang turns its attention to some of the latest gadgets unveiled at CES before taking a look at just how smart the reasoning engines being embedded into the next wave of large language models (LLMs) are.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into how copyright might be protected in the age of generative artificial intelligence (AI) following the signing of an agreement between Anthropic and the music publishing industry.

Then, the gang turns its attention to the impact of mandatory sustainability reporting requirements before sharing an appreciation for Tenable CEO Amit Yoran in the wake of his untimely passing.

At the start of 2025, Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guest Tracy Ragan dive into why technology issues -- such as H1-B visa, relations with China, the impact artificial intelligence (AI) and electronic vehicles are having on the grid and mergers involving Big Tech companies -- are all becoming political talking points.

Then, the gang debates the degree to which platform engineering might drive organizational change in IT organizations.

Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests Tracy Ragan and Guy Currier, CTO for Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, revisit the major issues, starting with artificial intelligence (AI) that impacted the technology industry most in 2024.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Lisa Martin debate the degree to which agentic artificial intelligence (AI) might one day soon make application developers obsolete. Then, they discuss whether society may become too dependent on AI for emotional support, even to the point of being a surrogate for Santa Claus and loved ones that have passed on.

Lastly, the gang turns its attention to how airtags might significantly reduce the amount of lost luggage during a holiday travel season.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the implications of a digital labor workforce enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Then, they debate how popular NVIDIA's $249 developer kit for building AI applications might be this holiday season.

Finally, the gang delves into how DevSecOps is evolving in the wake of a spate of mergers and alliances.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guests Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, and Stephen Foskett, president of The Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into why leaders of the technology industry are making a concerted effort to curry favor with the incoming Trump administration.

Then, the gang turns its attention to a survey that shows most IT leaders are now resigned to the inevitability of more major outages of IT services in 2025. Lastly, we review some of the biggest lessons learned during Tech Field Day events in 2024.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, debate the degree to which a lack of training is holding back adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) before discussing the opportunities AI will present to women.

Then, the gang turns its attention to the kind of mindset that's really required to successfully embrace platform engineering.

Alan, Mike and special guests John Willis, Tracy Ragan and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, debate the degree to which application development is going through a Renaissance period thanks the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) before discussing how vulnerably AI models are to jailbreaks.

The then gang turns its attention to Willow, a quantum computing processor from Google that may or may not be opening up access to a parallel universe.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Anne Ahola Ward and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for the The Futurum Group, dive into the current state of cybersecurity as outlined during the Black Hat Europe 2024 conference. Then, they discuss the rise of drones as a security concern following a wave of espionage and reports of unidentified drone sightings in New Jersey.

Finally, the gang turns its attention to what’s really happening with artificial intelligence (AI) at organizations such as Wells Fargo, AstraZeneca, Airbnb and NASA.