Insight Type: Events

Cisco Live EMEA 2026 Can a Networking Giant Become an AI Platform Company
February 16, 2026

Cisco Live EMEA 2026: Can a Networking Giant Become an AI Platform Company?

Nick Patience, AI Platforms Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights direct from Cisco Live EMEA 2026 on Cisco’s ambitious pivot from networking vendor to full-stack AI platform company, and where...
SuiteConnect NYC - Will Embedded Intelligence Redefine ERP Value
February 13, 2026

SuiteConnect NYC – Will Embedded Intelligence Redefine ERP Value?

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP & Research Director at Futurum, covers Oracle NetSuite’s SuiteConnect NYC event, and discusses the key announcements and their respective market implications....
Is 2026 the Turning Point for Industrial-Scale Agentic AI?
February 5, 2026

Is 2026 the Turning Point for Industrial-Scale Agentic AI?

VP and Practice Lead Fernando Montenegro shares insights from the Cisco AI Summit 2026, where leaders from the major AI ecosystem providers gathered to discuss bridging the AI ROI gap...
Dynatrace Perform 2026 Is Observability The New Agent OS
February 2, 2026

Dynatrace Perform 2026: Is Observability The New Agent OS?

Mitch Ashley, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights on Dynatrace Perform 2026, examining how Dynatrace Intelligence and domain-specific agents signal the emergence of observability-led agent control planes....
Will Microsoft’s “Frontier Firms” Serve as Models for AI Utilization
January 26, 2026

Will Microsoft’s “Frontier Firms” Serve as Models for AI Utilization?

Keith Kirkpatrick, VP and Research Director at Futurum, covers the New York Microsoft AI Tour stop and discusses how the company is shifting the conversation around AI from features to...
CIO Take Smartsheet's Intelligent Work Management as a Strategic Execution Platform
December 22, 2025

CIO Take: Smartsheet’s Intelligent Work Management as a Strategic Execution Platform

Dion Hinchcliffe analyzes Smartsheet’s Intelligent Work Management announcements from a CIO lens—what’s real about agentic AI for execution at scale, what’s risky, and what to validate before standardizing....
Brendan Burke, Research Director
December 17, 2025

Brendan Burke

Will a Digital Adoption Platform Become a Must-Have App in 2026?
December 15, 2025

Will a DAP Become the Must-Have Software App in 2026?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director with Futurum, covers WalkMe’s 2025 Analyst Day, and discusses the company’s key pillars for driving success with enterprise software in an AI- and agentic-dominated world heading...
AWS re:Invent 2025: Wrestling Back AI Leadership
December 5, 2025

AWS re:Invent 2025: Wrestling Back AI Leadership

Futurum analysts share their insights on how AWS re:Invent 2025 redefines the cloud giant as an AI manufacturer. We analyze Nova models, Trainium silicon, and AI Factories as AWS moves...
Commvault’s Strategic Shift Redefining Resilience as a Strategic Imperative
November 25, 2025

Commvault’s Strategic Shift: Redefining Resilience as a Strategic Imperative

Fernando Montenegro, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights on Commvault Shift 2025, highlighting the new Cloud Unity platform and the strategic shift to ResOps to unify IT, security,...
Microsoft Ignite 2025 AI, Agent 365, Anthropic on Azure & Security Advances
November 21, 2025

Microsoft Ignite 2025: AI, Agent 365, Anthropic on Azure & Security Advances

Analysts Nick Patience, Mitch Ashley, Fernando Montenegro, and Keith Kirkpatrick share insights on Microsoft's shift to agent-centric architecture, cementing the role of Agent 365 as the operational control plane and...
IFS Industrial X: Will the Focus on Physical World Use Cases for AI Resonate?
November 19, 2025

IFS Industrial X: Will the Focus on Physical World Use Cases for AI Resonate?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at Futurum, recaps IFS Industrial X Unleashed and discusses how the company is focusing on delivering AI benefits in the real world around safety, efficiency, and...

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