CIO, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Why AI TCO Is So Tricky - And How To Start Calculating It
Direct AI service fees are only about 30% of total cost, with the rest hidden in orchestration, verification, and rework. more →
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CIO, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Human-in-the-Loop AI Is Becoming the Default, Not the Exception
Financial institutions are prioritizing human oversight of AI rather than pursuing full automation. more →
Computerworld, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
What Are 'Open' AI Models?
Computerworld explains why enterprises are shifting from costly frontier models to open-weight ones. more →
Computerworld, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
AI Deployments Bring With Them Risks Companies Are Ill-Prepared For
Computerworld cites Gartner warning enterprises lack security readiness for internal and external AI risk. more →
Computerworld, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Why AI Doesn't Make Companies More Productive
Computerworld's Mike Elgan says AI overload, not employee resistance, explains stalled productivity. more →
eWeek, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
10 Best AI Chatbots for 2026: Features, Pricing, and Use Cases
Ten leading AI assistants compared on models, integrations, pricing, and the kind of work each suits best. more →
SiliconANGLE, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
NVIDIA and Cisco Push the Enterprise AI Factory Into the Rack-Scale Era
Cisco and NVIDIA extend their Secure AI Factory partnership to racks drawing more than 200 kilowatts. more →
Dark Reading, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Offensive Security Investments Surge as AI Threats Increase
Omdia's Theresa Lanowitz on rising offensive security spend and the risks of agentic AI in red teaming. more →
InformationWeek, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Podcast: How CIOs Course-Correct Their AI Initiatives
ServiceNow's chief analytics officer and Axis Communications' CIO discuss when and how to redirect struggling AI projects. more →
SC Media, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Applying Zero Trust Principles to Agents - Kieran Human - ASW #397
ThreatLocker's Kieran Human explains how sandboxing, least privilege, and monitoring apply to AI agents. more →
SC Media, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Connecting Cyber Risks to Board Outcomes & BHUSA Interviews From Mimecast & Zscaler - Dan Bowden, Leslie Nielsen, Brett Stone-Gross - BSW #462
Marsh, Mimecast, and Zscaler leaders on board-level cyber risk, agentic insiders, and ransomware targeting managers. more →
SC Media, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Can Employees Safely Use AI Agents? AI Pentesting Agent Liabilities, and the News - Rob Allen - ESW #473
ThreatLocker's Rob Allen on letting employees use AI agents safely, plus the legal risk of AI pentesting agents. more →
SecurityWeek, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
The Future of AI-Driven Security Depends on Complete Data
AI-powered security needs complete, unfiltered telemetry to detect attacks that span multiple systems. more →
TechTarget, Friday, August 28th, 2026
CISA Red Team Reveals Why Some SOCs Fail and Others Succeed
Parallel CISA red team assessments of two critical infrastructure SOCs produced starkly different outcomes. more →
Virtualization Review, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Gartner: Hypervisor Replatforming Is Reshaping Enterprise Storage
Hypervisor migration is forcing enterprises to evaluate storage and virtualization platforms as one decision. more →
SC Media, Monday, August 24th, 2026
How to Build a Data Discovery and Classification Program
Deploying a DSPM tool is not a program; coverage scope, ownership, and continuous discovery are what matter. more →
StorageNewsletter, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Storage Platforms, 2026
StorageNewsletter challenges the methodology and vendor inclusion criteria behind Gartner's 2026 storage quadrant. more →
Modernization That Ships with AI
Most companies are adding AI agents to legacy systems rather than modernizing how the work actually gets done. That may create isolated productivity gains, but it rarely removes the outdated applications, fragmented data, manual handoffs, and hidden dependencies that continue to slow the business. more →
Techstrong.ai, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Enterprise Scale and Practicality Drive Corporate Adoption, WeWork Report Finds
US business AI adoption reached 22%, with large corporations far ahead of small businesses. more →
Techstrong.ai, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
After Vibe Coding: Why Production AI Is an Accountability System, Not a Deployment State
Production-ready AI requires accountability infrastructure, not just a working demo built by prompt iteration. more →
Techstrong.ai, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
The AI Cost Crisis: Why Observability Is the Missing Layer for AI at Scale
Enterprise token consumption surged 320x, and observability is what makes those costs manageable. more →
Techstrong.ai, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Trust in AI Is Eroding. Here's How Enterprise Leaders Can Restore It
Leaders must measure AI by employee outcomes and be transparent to rebuild eroding trust. more →
Techstrong.ai, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Why Most AI Agent Deployments Fail, and What Actually Works
AI agent failures come from weak workflows, governance, and data - not from model limitations. more →
Techstrong.ai, Friday, August 28th, 2026
The Infrastructure Behind Agentic AI Is Changing. Here's Where to See It
OpenSearchCon 2026 showcases how search, observability, and security infrastructure is adapting to agentic AI. more →
Techstrong IT, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Open Source vs. Proprietary Is the Wrong Question at the Edge
Edge platform decisions should turn on what an organization can actually operate, not on ideology. more →
Cloud Incident Response: Forensics in Distributed Environments
This webinar addresses the unique challenges of cloud forensics, including ephemeral resources, limited access to underlying infrastructure, and multi-tenant considerations. more →
Analytics Insight, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Top Big Data Trends to Watch in 2027
Seven big data trends - AI analytics, governance automation, lakehouses, and quantum - will reshape data strategy. more →
Migrating Apache Solr Workloads to Amazon OpenSearch Service
This session is ideal for engineering leaders, search architects, and platform teams currently operating Apache Solr who want to understand the benefits, trade-offs, and practical steps involved in migrating to a fully managed search service on AWS. more →
CIO, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Shrewd IT Hiring Strategies Have Never Been More Critical
With AI and cybersecurity talent scarce, CIOs are advised to build internal talent pipelines rather than compete for scarce external hires. more →
Computerworld, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
AI Hits Entry-Level Jobs for Younger Workers the Hardest, Study Finds
A Stanford study cited by Computerworld finds AI has cut entry-level hiring for workers aged 22-25 by 19%. more →
Akamai Technologies, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Deconstructing the Architecture of AI-Orchestrated Web Attacks
Akamai's Security Intelligence Group breaks down the orchestrator-executor architecture behind AI-driven web attacks. more →
Akamai Technologies, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Closing the Gap Between Detection and Protection With AI-Assisted Custom Rules
Akamai's Custom Rule Builder AI Assistant turns natural-language prompts into deployable custom WAF rules. more →
Akamai Technologies, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
The New Face of Financial Fraud: AI-Powered Brand Abuse
Akamai examines AI-powered brand abuse targeting banks and how Brand Guardian helps financial institutions respond. more →
Akamai Technologies, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Not the Coyote, but the Road Runner: The Reality of Autonomous AI Attacks
Akamai argues autonomous AI attacks are not novel super-weapons but relentless low-tech attacks that never stop. more →
Akamai Technologies, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Akamai's Customer-First Approach to Application Protection Costs
Akamai details pricing designed to keep application security costs predictable, including protection from DDoS overage fees. more →
Akamai Technologies, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Identifying Agentic Automation With Behavioral Telemetry: Part 2
Akamai research uses behavioral embeddings and mouse telemetry to detect sparse AI agent traffic that bot detection misses. more →
AMD, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
AMD ROCm 10: Bringing ROCm.AI's AI-Native Developer Experiences to AMD Platforms
AMD releases ROCm 10, bringing AI-native developer experiences from ROCm.AI to its platforms. more →
The Agentic Enterprise: Orchestrating AI at Scale
This webinar is a dialogue between BMC and AWS that sits at the center of how enterprises are navigating this challenge, drawing on real patterns they are seeing across shared customers today. more →
AWS, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Democratizing Institutional Knowledge: Building an AI-Powered Knowledge Management System With AWS
An AWS accelerator captures tribal knowledge and serves it through a voice-first AI avatar backed by Bedrock Knowledge Bases. more →
AWS, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Building a Restaurant Telephony AI Host With Amazon Connect
AWS demonstrates a voice ordering system that takes a restaurant order end to end with no app, website or sign-in. more →
AWS, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
How GoDaddy Transformed Its Analytics With Amazon Quick
GoDaddy's two-year BI migration to Amazon Quick saved 15,000 hours a year and halved its dashboard count. more →
AWS, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Detecting Multi-Stage Attacks on AWS: A Guide to Cross-Service Signal Correlation
AWS explains how correlating signals across security services and business context reveals multi-stage attacks single alerts miss. more →
AWS, Friday, August 28th, 2026
SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 Now Available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)
Grok 4.6, with a 500k context window and configurable reasoning effort, is now available on Bedrock in GovCloud. more →
Beyond the Login: Key Considerations for Evaluating Identity Security
In this interactive session explore key evaluation criteria for identity security, explain why observe-only tools fail in an AI-driven landscape, and outline a framework for complete access control. more →
Databricks, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Beyond Answers: New Genie One Features to Turn Insights into Action
Databricks adds a Genie One desktop app, document collaboration and expanded enterprise context to move from answers to action. more →
Databricks, Friday, August 28th, 2026
How Trackunit Turns Construction Data into Decisions With AI
Trackunit's IrisX, built on Databricks, connects fragmented construction equipment data into actionable operational intelligence. more →
Databricks, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Fast, Fault-Tolerant PyTorch Training on AI Runtime
Databricks explains how smart dataloading and asynchronous checkpointing protect training goodput when GPU failures are routine. more →
Modernize for the AI Era
Join PwC and AWS for a discussion on how AI is redefining cloud modernization priorities. We'll share examples from leaders in their sectors, as well as practical recommendations for building modern cloud platforms that deliver measurable business value, while navigating evolving regulatory, risk, and operational considerations. more →
Dell, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
The Most Efficient Token Is One You Don't Spend
Dell argues token economics is a data problem and that AI-ready data cuts wasted searches, retries and oversized prompts. more →
Dell, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
The One-Trick Pony Problem: Why Best-of-Portfolio Beats Best-of-Breed
Dell argues best-of-breed buying created a complexity tax and that 68% of IT leaders are now consolidating vendors. more →
Glean, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
The Intelligence Era Is Here: Efficient, Governed and Proactive AI Powered by Enterprise Context
Glean argues efficient, protected and proactive AI requires a platform with complete understanding of enterprise context. more →
Glean, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Glean's Proactive AI Suite Drives Organizational Transformation for Single and Multiplayer Work
Glean introduces a proactive AI suite that anticipates priorities and takes action for individuals and teams. more →
Glean, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Glean Agents Can Now Work Independently, Build Faster and Stay Governed at Scale
Glean's agent updates add independence, faster building and governance controls for scaled agent deployment. more →
Glean, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Introducing Glean Transform, Your Company's Mission Control for AI Transformation
Glean Transform provides a central view for managing an organization's AI transformation program. more →
Glean, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Scale AI Usage Without Runaway Spend With Glean's AI Usage Controls
Glean adds AI usage controls giving enterprises visibility and cost governance as AI adoption expands. more →
Glean, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Right-Sizing Intelligence: Glean Saves 81% on Token Costs and Is Preferred 78% of the Time Versus Claude Cowork
Glean reports 81% lower token costs and 78% preference against Claude Cowork through right-sizing model selection. more →
IBM, Monday, August 24th, 2026
IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE
IBM's next-generation dual-architecture processor will let mainframes run Arm-native Linux alongside z/OS. more →
IBM, Monday, August 24th, 2026
IBM and the USTA Introduce New AI-Powered Fan Experiences for 2026 US Open
IBM and the USTA add three AI-powered features to USOpen.org and the US Open app for the 2026 tournament. more →
IBM, Monday, August 24th, 2026
IBM Study: Sports Fans Want Streamlined Digital Experiences as Platform Choices Expand
IBM's survey of 20,000 fans finds 46% now expect more from digital sports experiences than one to two years ago. more →
IBM, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
IBM Completes Acquisition of HRL Laboratories to Accelerate the Future of Quantum
IBM has closed its acquisition of HRL Laboratories, adding quantum computing, sensing and materials science expertise. more →
Leidos, Monday, August 24th, 2026
5 Cyber Shifts Leaders Can't Afford to Ignore
Leidos argues AI raised the speed limit on cyber operations and that advantage belongs to organizations built to adapt. more →
Modernize Your PKI for the Agentic Era without Starting Over
How to enhance existing PKI investments, including Microsoft ADCS, and build a crypto-agile, Agentic AI ready foundation. Attendees will learn how to reduce operational risk, overheads and complexity, preserve valuable infrastructure and expertise, and create a streamlined, better-governed PKI landscape that is easier to manage today, supports Agentic AI initiatives and evolve toward a post-quantum future. more →
NVIDIA, Monday, August 24th, 2026
How XPUs Meet a World-Class AI Factory
NVIDIA argues custom XPU silicon must be deployed within full AI factory infrastructure to deliver on token economics. more →
NVIDIA, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Up to 30x More Work per Watt: NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Sets a New Efficiency Standard for AI Agents
NVIDIA measures Vera Rubin NVL72 delivering 30x higher throughput per megawatt and 35x lower token costs than GB300 NVL72. more →
NVIDIA, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Giga-Scale AI and the Ethernet Evolution: How Spectrum-X Ethernet Rewrites the Rules
NVIDIA explains how Spectrum-X Ethernet addresses scale-out networking for training spanning hundreds of thousands of GPUs. more →
NVIDIA, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Maximizing AI Factory Performance per Watt With NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS
NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS targets AI output per megawatt as the binding constraint in power-limited data centers. more →
NVIDIA, Monday, August 24th, 2026
NVIDIA BlueField-4 Powers New Scale-In Network Infrastructure for Agentic AI Factories
BlueField-4 underpins scale-in network infrastructure designed for the diverse traffic of agentic AI factories. more →
NVIDIA, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Solving Agentic AI Fleet Challenges With NVIDIA Vera CPU
NVIDIA uses telemetry from over 163,000 systems to argue CPU capability shapes agentic AI fleet economics. more →
Perplexity, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
A Local-First Agent for Private and Cost-Effective Knowledge Work
Perplexity Research describes co-designing a harness and post-trained model that run entirely on the user's device. more →
Perplexity, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
Introducing Portable Computer for Local-First AI
Perplexity launches Portable Computer, running its agent entirely on NVIDIA DGX Spark with cloud escalation only when needed. more →
Scale AI, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
ALIF: Building AI Fluency, One Cohort at a Time
Scale AI's ALIF program builds workforce fluency and change management to move organizations past isolated AI pilots. more →
AI Trust & Governance Summit
In this expert-led virtual summit, we'll explore practical approaches for establishing governance that can help accelerate innovation while protecting your business. more →
SUSE, Monday, August 24th, 2026
Sovereign Cloud in the Public Sector: Understanding Sovereignty for Public Sector Institutions
SUSE explains what sovereignty means for public sector cloud, covering data control, location and foreign legal reach. more →
SUSE, Tuesday, August 25th, 2026
The Art of the Possible: Unlocking Enterprise Value With Open Source Virtualization
SUSE argues open source virtualization offers clarity amid changing vendor dynamics and rising proprietary costs. more →
SUSE, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Do You Really Need More Than EKS? An Honest Answer
A SUSE engineer answers directly whether a management layer above three Amazon EKS clusters is worth it. more →
SUSE, Friday, August 28th, 2026
From Stalled PoCs to Enterprise AI: Why an Open Platform Holds the Key
SUSE addresses enterprises whose AI proofs of concept validated but never converted into measurable business value. more →
Tenable, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Edge Infrastructure Under Siege: What Two Independent Datasets Reveal About Who's Exploiting Your Perimeter
Tenable and SentinelOne analyze 93 CVE-actor attribution pairs showing state and criminal actors share the same edge targets. more →
Tenable, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
How to Build an Exposure Management Program the Business Trusts: Lessons From Tenable's CSO
Tenable CSO Robert Huber describes moving from technical metrics to business risk communication through exposure management. more →
Tenable, Friday, August 28th, 2026
Why a Cryptographic Inventory Is Key for Addressing the Quantum Computing Threat
Tenable argues harvest now, decrypt later makes quantum an operational threat today, requiring a cryptographic inventory. more →
Trustworthy AI in the Cloud: Observability as a Control System
This session explores why observability is emerging as a foundational capability for trustworthy AI. Rather than focusing solely on infrastructure health, modern observability provides the transparency and context needed to understand how AI systems behave, why they produce specific outcomes, and whether they continue to perform as intended over time. more →
Zscaler, Thursday, August 27th, 2026
Zscaler WebMCP Security Controls: Bringing Zero Trust to the Agentic Web
Zscaler extends zero trust to AI agent tool calls in the browser via the emerging WebMCP standard. more →
Trustworthy AI in the Cloud: Observability as a Control System
This session explores why observability is emerging as a foundational capability for trustworthy AI. Rather than focusing solely on infrastructure health, modern observability provides the transparency and context needed to understand how AI systems behave, why they produce specific outcomes, and whether they continue to perform as intended over time. more →
