Insight Type: Events

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...
Cohesity Extends Cyber Resilience to the AI Agents Themselves
September 28, 2026

Cohesity Extends Cyber Resilience to the AI Agents Themselves

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes Cohesity's Agent Resilience launch at Catalyst 2026, which brings backup and rollback to AI agents and ties recovery to business continuity....
Splunk .conf26 Trust is Key for the Agentic Era
September 22, 2026

Splunk .conf26: Trust is Key for the Agentic Era

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes Splunk .conf26, where Cisco made trust and cost the gate on the agentic SOC and positioned the data and control layer beneath the agents...
AI Infra Summit 2026 – Can Optics Break the AI Power Wall by 2028?
September 22, 2026

AI Infra Summit 2026 – Can Optics Break the AI Power Wall by 2028?

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares insights from AI Infra Summit 2026, where power-capped data centers pushed vendors toward optics, near-memory silicon, and physical AI ahead of a 2028...
AIforce Turns Salesforce Into an Everywhere Intelligence Layer
September 16, 2026

AIforce Turns Salesforce Into an Everywhere Intelligence Layer

Salesforce's AIforce platform delivers CRM data, workflows, and governance to any AI interface, positioning Everywhere Intelligence Layer as the next interface revolution for enterprises seeking faster time-to-value....
AWS Marketplace Evolving to Support All Stages of the Sales Cycle
September 14, 2026

AWS Marketplace Evolving to Support All Stages of the Sales Cycle

Alex Smith, Analyst at The Futurum Group, covers the AWS Marketplace Seller Conference 2026, detailing strategies like 'Marketplace Everywhere', new GEO storefronts, and commercial upgrades such as 0% fees for...
Can Qualtrics Close the AI-Widened Experience Gap
September 11, 2026

Can Qualtrics Close the AI-Widened Experience Gap?

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP, Research, Enterprise Software & Digital Workflows at Futurum, shares his insights on whether Qualtrics' new XM Data & AI platform can close the AI-widened Experience Gap....
Beyond Raw Compute Equinix’s Strategic Bet on AI Infrastructure
September 9, 2026

Beyond Raw Compute: Equinix’s Strategic Bet on AI Infrastructure

Nick Patience, VP & AI Platforms Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, examines Equinix Fabric One and Inference Exchange, and asks whether neutral infrastructure solves a problem enterprises have today...
CrowdStrike Bets on Its Own Models to Secure the AI Revolution
September 8, 2026

CrowdStrike Bets on Its Own Models to Secure the AI Revolution

Fernando Montenegro, VP at Futurum, analyzes CrowdStrike's Fal.Con 2026: an ambitious, largely defensible push into its own AI models and agent security, anchored to the endpoint and the promise to...

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