Insight Type: Events

Oracle AI World: Oracle Introduces Deep Trust AI to Enforce AI Safety at the Database Tier
November 2, 2026

Oracle AI World: Oracle Introduces Deep Trust AI to Enforce AI Safety at the Database Tier

Brad Shimmin analyzes Oracle Deep Trust AI Architecture, examining how embedding security policies, identity tokens, and SQL assertions into the database tier resolves autonomous agent write-back risks....
Cisco Partner Summit 2026 An Energized Cisco Bets on Partner-Led AI
October 30, 2026

Cisco Partner Summit 2026: An Energized Cisco Bets on Partner-Led AI

Alex Smith, GM Futurum Research, shares insights on Cisco Partner Summit 2026, where Cisco IQ, Model Foundry, and new deal registration move partners toward AI services....
Amazon Ads unBoxed 2026 Amazon Positions Its Ad Business Around Agents
October 27, 2026

Amazon Ads unBoxed 2026: Amazon Positions Its Ad Business Around Agents

Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Amazon Ads unBoxed 2026, where Amazon merged its DSP and console into Amazon Ads Agent and pushed sponsored ads into...
NetSuite Autonomous Suite: Is Zero-Day Close Real or Roadmap?
October 27, 2026

NetSuite Autonomous Suite: Is Zero-Day Close Real or Roadmap?

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP, Research at Futurum, shares his insights on the NetSuite Autonomous Suite unveiled at SuiteWorld 2026, and whether its promise of a zero-day close is ready for finance...
Google Cloud Marketplace Can It Become Gemini's Front Door to the Enterprise
October 23, 2026

Google Cloud Marketplace: Can It Become Gemini’s Front Door to the Enterprise?

Alex Smith, Analyst at The Futurum Group, shares insights on how Google Cloud Marketplace is becoming the commercial engine for Gemini, industry agents, and agentic ISV solutions....
At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA Puts the AI Factory in an Actual Container
October 22, 2026

At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA Puts the AI Factory in an Actual Container

Nick Patience, VP and Practice Lead for AI Platforms at Futurum, shares his insights on NVIDIA GTC Berlin, where DSX POD, OpenShell, and physical AI anchored a pitch to Europe...
IFS Ties Its Industrial AI Platform to a Governance Layer Built to Contain It
October 16, 2026

IFS Ties Its Industrial AI Platform to a Governance Layer Built to Contain It

IFS paired a new conversational AI platform with a governance layer at Unleashed 2026 — and admitted, in the same breath, where its differentiation claims still fall short....
Microsoft FabCon And SQLCon Europe: Microsoft Looks to Modernize Disparate Database Estates
October 15, 2026

Microsoft FabCon And SQLCon Europe: Microsoft Looks to Modernize Disparate Database Estates

Brad Shimmin, VP & Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, analyzes how Microsoft's database announcements at FabCon 2026 modernize relational estates, fleet governance, and vector indexing for enterprise agentic AI....
AI-defined fabs
October 14, 2026

NVIDIA's cuPotential Takes the CUDA Moat Down to the Atom in the AI-Defined Fab

Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines NVIDIA's SEMICON West 2026 launch of cuPotential and the AI-defined fab, weighing 30x vendor speedups against the absence of fab output data....
Microsoft FabCon And SQLCon Europe Elevating Semantic Models to an Enterprise AI Control Plane
October 14, 2026

Microsoft FabCon And SQLCon Europe: Elevating Semantic Models to an Enterprise AI Control Plane

Brad Shimmin examines how Microsoft Fabric elevates Power BI semantic models and ontologies into an authoritative operational control plane for enterprise AI agents....
CoreWeave Fully Connected 2026 Forge Brings Frontier Lab RL to Every AI Team
October 6, 2026

CoreWeave Fully Connected 2026: Forge Brings Frontier Lab RL to Every AI Team

Brendan Burke and Nick Patience of Futurum share insights from CoreWeave Fully Connected 2026, where CoreWeave Forge packaged frontier lab RL for every customer while enterprises enter the AI loop...
Synopsys Investor Day 2026 Turns EDA Into a Royalty and AI Model Revenue Share Business
October 2, 2026

Synopsys Investor Day 2026 Turns EDA Into a Royalty and AI Model Revenue Share Business

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights on the Synopsys Investor Day 2026, where a $1 billion Amazon royalty deal and GPT-Synopsys with OpenAI reprice EDA around customer volumes...

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