Insight Type: Events

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...
Genesys Bets on Agentic Orchestration to Own Enterprise CX
September 8, 2026

Genesys Bets on Agentic Orchestration to Own Enterprise CX

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP and Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Genesys's new four-layer agentic orchestration stack, which aims to make Genesys Cloud the enterprise system of record for...
Broadcom Builds Sovereign Agentic AI Foundations Around VMware Tanzu
September 3, 2026

Broadcom Builds Sovereign Agentic AI Foundations Around VMware Tanzu

Brad Shimmin, Vice President and Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, analyzes Broadcom's VMware Tanzu Platform updates at VMware Explore 2026, covering deny-by-default agent runtimes, AI-ready data foundations, and TrueSource...
NXP Tech Days Can Physical AI Reference Designs Solidify the Neural Axis
August 28, 2026

NXP Tech Days: Can Physical AI Reference Designs Solidify the Neural Axis?

Brendan Burke and Olivier Blanchard, Research Directors at Futurum, share their insights from NXP Tech Days Silicon Valley, where reference designs from humanoid hands to a four-board MCX A5 networking...
A Loud Floor and a Quiet Gap Security Summer Camp 2026
August 13, 2026

A Loud Floor and a Quiet Gap: Security Summer Camp 2026

Fernando Montenegro and Mitch Ashley of Futurum unpack Black Hat and DEF CON 2026: an agentic-AI wave on every booth, a record funding surge, a widening capability gap, and what...

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