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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Friday Apr 03, 2026
Friday Apr 03, 2026
MCP just became the de facto agentic AI spec—and enterprises are scrambling to keep up. Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Tracy Ragan and Jack Poller dig into the AI boom stories shaping your buildout strategy.
They break down the 2026 MCP roadmap and what “scaling agentic AI” really demands from ops teams, assess the Linux Foundation’s plan to make the x402 protocol the micropayments layer for autonomous agents, and react to LexisNexis research that says synthetic identities are already infiltrating hiring pipelines.
Thursday Apr 02, 2026
Thursday Apr 02, 2026
Alan Shimel is joined by Jon Swartz, Fred Wilmot, Gina Rosenthal and Futurum Group analyst Guy Currier to unpack the stories driving today’s enterprise headlines.
First up: developers leaning on Anthropic’s Claude Code are running out of tokens mid-sprint, forcing teams to rethink how they budget AI-assisted workflows.
Then the Gang looks at the construction crunch hitting hyperscale data centers as electricians, pipefitters and HVAC crews struggle to keep pace with AI buildouts.
Finally, they break down the unanimous Supreme Court ruling that shields Cox Communications—and other ISPs—from billion-dollar piracy claims when subscribers share bootleg content.
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Wednesday Apr 01, 2026
Wednesday Apr 01, 2026
Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Andi Mann, and Teri Robinson dissect the “AI showdown” between statehouses and the White House—why California, Colorado, and New York are rushing their own rules, and what that fragmentation means for every SaaS vendor and compliance team.
They also explore the Sanders/AOC call for a national data-center moratorium and Google’s Q-Day 2029 warning, laying out how energy politics, sustainability mandates, and post-quantum cryptography planning now collide for anyone running cloud infrastructure.
Tuesday Mar 31, 2026
Tuesday Mar 31, 2026
Alan Shimel, Chris Blask, Kate Scarcella, and Sid Nag
break down how Microsoft and Anthropic are bolting multi-model
critiques onto Copilot so enterprises can trust every response.
They also dig into new telemetry showing bots and autonomous agents now
outnumber humans on the public internet, and the cascading Trivy
supply-chain attack that just jumped into Checkmarx and LiteLLM.
Monday Mar 30, 2026
Monday Mar 30, 2026
On Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Garima Bajpai, Jeff Reich and Stephen Foskett break down three stories shaping tech right now: GitHub’s move to use Copilot interaction data for AI model training unless users opt out, Wikipedia’s new human-first policy banning AI-generated or AI-rewritten article content, and the biggest security themes coming out of Tech Field Day Extra at RSAC 2026.
Friday Mar 20, 2026
Friday Mar 20, 2026
On Techstrong Gang, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Jack Poller and Guy Currier break down three stories shaping enterprise tech right now: SAP’s shift toward premium AI-driven workflows, the renewed privacy clash over FBI purchases of location data, and Meta’s struggle to contain a rogue AI incident after an internal data leak.
Thursday Mar 19, 2026
Thursday Mar 19, 2026
On Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Jon Swartz, Fred Wilmot, Anne Ahola Ward and Gina Rosenthal dive into the implications of a $12.5 million initiative backed by major tech companies to help open source maintainers manage security pressures intensified by AI. The gang then unpacks a growing wave of AI-related lawsuits, including Nippon Life’s suit against OpenAI, before looking at Mistral Forge and its push to make it easier for enterprises and governments to build custom models on proprietary data.
Wednesday Mar 18, 2026
Wednesday Mar 18, 2026
On Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Jon Swartz, Teri Robinson, Jack Poller and Andi Mann dive into OpenAI’s push to create an adults-only version of ChatGPT before debating the Trump administration’s effort to combat cybercrime. The gang then looks at how a software engineer inadvertently gained access to thousands of robot vacuums, exposing just how fragile connected devices can be.
Tuesday Mar 17, 2026
Tuesday Mar 17, 2026
On Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Mitch Ashley, Jon Swartz, Chris Blask and Kate Scarcella dive into NVIDIA’s latest artificial intelligence initiatives, including a general-purpose AI agent alternative to OpenClaw, before unpacking what it now means to be an application developer in the age of AI. The gang also looks at a new industry alliance designed to combat criminals using AI to power the next wave of scams.
Monday Mar 16, 2026
Monday Mar 16, 2026
On Techstrong Gang, Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Stephen Foskett, Garima Bajpai and Blake Hendricks break down three major stories shaping tech right now: how prediction markets can start influencing the outcomes they are supposed to forecast, why Ukraine is offering battlefield data to drone partners to train AI models, and the latest cloud computing insights coming out of Tech Field Day.