Techstrong Gang

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.

In today's Techstrong Gang, Alan is joined by Jon Swartz and Lisa Martin.  They discuss the recently announced merger of Omnicon and Interpublic advertising agencies. What impact did AI have on this? What about big tech? The gang also dives into the "scheme issues" with the latest model from OpenAI. Are we expecting perfection? Is that reasonable? Finally, the gang looks at a recent DevOps.com article on whether shift left has stalled -- and, if so, why. It's another great episode of Techstrong Gang. 

Alan, Mike, Jon, Amanda and Guy Gurrier, CTO for Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, discuss how global trade tensions with China will impact IT. Then, they discuss the degree to which artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting healthcare insurance in the wake of the tragic murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. Finally, the gang turns its attention to how technology is being used to make driving in snowy winter conditions safer.

Alan, Mike, Bonnie and special guests Traci Bannon and Camberly Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group debate the merits of the Trump administration appointment of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Crypto Czar before discussing how AI in combination with satellite technology is being used to save forests. Then the gang turns its attention to a Tech Field Day event that shines a spotlight on the networking challenges that organizations now face.

Alan, Mike and special guests John Willis, Tracy Ragan and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visual Impact arm of The Futurum Group, dive into the debate about remote work following reports from Stanford University and Sen. Jodi Ernst (R-IW). Then, the gang takes a look at what it might or might not mean to be an artificial intelligence (AI) engineer before delving deeper into the latest customer retention report from CrowdStrike in the wake of the infamous Windows outage.

Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor at The Futurum Group, delve into just how catastrophic the breach of telecommunications networks being attributed to China really is. Then, the gang turns its attention to the record amount of spending that occurred on Cyber Monday before discussing the impact the Heroku platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment from Salesforce might have on accelerating the development of cloud-native applications destined to run on Kubernetes clusters.

Today’s Techstrong Gang is a bit different -- it is an intimate lineup of just Alan Shimel and Jon Swartz in person from the Techstrong TV studio at AWS re:Invent. Jon and Alan discuss what AWS's end goal is and assumptions they are making that are driving many of the product and service announcements. Then, they discuss how the AWS ecosystem works in the AWS model.