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Rudra Mitra, vice president of security services at AWS discusses why we need to rethink cybersecurity in order to tackle AI-powered attacks

Getting tech infrastructure right is just one piece of a complex puzzle that needs to be solved to deploy AI safely in business

We speak to AWS’ Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec about S3 growth, DuckDB and how AI is helping people understand their data

Brian McKenna and Paul Roehrig, chief strategy officer, Ascendion discuss AI and the future of the economy, avoiding the Scylla and Charybdis of catastrophism and boosterism

We speak to Starling Bank’s deputing CIO, Fred Laurent, about smart tools for the bank’s customer facing AI agent

In June, MP Jess Asato began a legal case over AI-generated explicit images of herself generated without her permission by the xAI Grok AI engine

We speak to Peter Byford, chair of the LEO Computer Society about the world’s first business computer and his experiences programming it

We speak to Przemek Czarnecki, chief technology officer of Asos, about how the company is deploying AI and agentic AI

We speak to Reema Jain, CIO of Unilever about how to ensure IT teams remain focussed while innovating with new technology

We speak to Joel Hron, chief technology officer at Thomson Reuters about how MCP-connectivity into Claude to streamline legal work

We speak to Gartner analyst Helen Poitevin about why business leaders should not use AI to reduce headcount

A discussion on why, in spite of industry best practices, IT projects are still failing

We speak to Jakob Freud, CEO of Camunda about who business processes are being reinvented in the age of agentic AI

We speak to Jill Luber, CTO of academic publisher, Elsevier, about creating AI tools to support researchers and protecting against fake science

We speak to Griff Parry, CEO and co-founder of m3ter about why billing based on consumption sometimes fails