Techstrong Gang
Techstrong Gang is your go-to weekday show on Techstrong TV and your favorite podcast platform, bringing together a rotating lineup of top thought leaders and technologists to break down the biggest stories and trends shaping the tech world. Hosted by industry veterans Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Mitchell Ashley, Jon Swartz, Lisa Martin, Tracy Ragan, Sulagna Saha, Anne Ahola Ward, Bonnie Schneider, and more, the show dives deep into everything from DevOps and cybersecurity to AI and cloud innovation. Tune in Monday through Friday for insightful discussions, expert analysis, and lively debates on the issues that matter most to today’s tech professionals.
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Monday Jan 12, 2026
Monday Jan 12, 2026
Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Mitch Ashley, Camberley Bates and Jack Poller discuss the state of DevOps in the age of artificial intelligence as 2026 gets underway, focusing on how workflows, tooling and team structures continue to change.The gang then asks where the promised AI jobs are before turning to the critical role identity plays in cybersecurity, an area that remains widely misunderstood as attack surfaces expand.#AI #DevOps #Cybersecurity #Jobs
Thursday Jan 08, 2026
Thursday Jan 08, 2026
Alan, Mike, Jon, Fred Wilmot and Gina Rosenthal dive into an Intel resurgence that might be underway following some announcements made this week at CES.Then the gang debates the merits of a California effort to protect privacy by reining in data brokers before discussing how continuous observability might be the key to cybersecurit
Wednesday Jan 07, 2026
Wednesday Jan 07, 2026
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Teri Robinson dive into the rapid pace of robotics development that manifested itself this week at the CES conference.Then the gang takes a look at the rate of investment being made in data centers that are expected to run artificial intelligence (AI) applications before discussing the degree to which cybersecurity spending might increase in 2026.
Wednesday Jan 07, 2026
Wednesday Jan 07, 2026
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Chris Blask, Kate Scarcella and Dan O'Brien, president and COO of the Futurum Group, dive into an autonomous vehicle push being made by NVIDIA and the launch of a series of AI laptops from HP, Inc. that don't require a graphic processor unit (GPU) that were all launched at the CES conference this week, Then the gang remembers former IBM CEO Lou Gerstner, who passed away over the holidays.
Monday Jan 05, 2026
Monday Jan 05, 2026
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jack Poller and Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of the Futurum Group, dive into a $20 billion licensing agreement that gives NVIDIA access to an artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator developed by Groq AI before delving into why Meta is acquiring Manus to gain access to a set of general purpose AI agents.Then the gang takes a look at MongoDB Bleed, a vulnerability affecting the widely used database that has been actively exploited over the holidays.
Tuesday Dec 23, 2025
Tuesday Dec 23, 2025
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon, Tracy Ragan, Chris Blask, JP Morgenthal, Fred Wilmot, Jack Gold and Teri Robinson wrap up 2025 by discussing how the biggest trends in IT, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI) are, for better or worse, impacting not just businesses but society as a whole.
Monday Dec 22, 2025
Monday Dec 22, 2025
Alan, Mike, Jack Poller and Jack Gold dive into how training will need to evolve in the age of artificial intelligence (AI) following a move by Coursera to acquire Udemy and the extension of an online learning alliance between Pearson and IBM.Then the gang takes a look at an inquiry into the impact AI is having on electric bills that has been launched by three U.S. senators before discussing whether Oracle losing funding for a data center project might be one of the first signs of the AI bubble starting to pop.
Friday Dec 19, 2025
Friday Dec 19, 2025
Mike, Alan, Jon, Alastair Cooke and Gina Rosenthal dive into reports that suggest Amazon is about to make a major investment in OpenAI before trying to make sense of Microsoft's latest plans for applying artificial intelligence (AI) to application development.Then the gang delves into a report that suggests the quality of the code being generated by AI coding tools has a lot more defects than most organizations fully appreciate.
Thursday Dec 18, 2025
Thursday Dec 18, 2025
Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon, Teri Robinson and Futurum Group analyst David Nicholson debate the merits of a reported proposed Intel acquisition of SambaNova to gain access to artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator processors, before diving into the degree to which AI agents are actually being adopted in enterprise IT environments.Then the gang turns its attention to a cybersecurity advisory from OpenAI warning that the next generation of its AI models will likely be used by cybercriminals for nefarious purposes.
Wednesday Dec 17, 2025
Wednesday Dec 17, 2025
Alan, Mike, Tom Hollingsworth, Chris Blask, Jennifer Leggio and Dan O'Brien, president of the Futurum Group, dive into the debate over the affordability of artificial intelligence (AI) agents.Then the gang takes a look at the reasons ServiceNow is reportedly looking to acquire Armis before discussing why NVIDIA is acquiring SchedMD to gain control of an open source Slurm scheduler.