Bridging the gap between business and technology is not easy and requires discipline and balance between technology, people, and the business. For so many organizations today, technology is the business. Technology needs to be understood as a critical enabler in every part of the organization from the front line to the back office. It creates new value by crunching data to deliver new insights, it spurs innovation, and it disrupts traditional business models.

For business and technology leaders alike, new actions and behavioral changes can help their organizations make this shift. CIOs must take responsibility for problems, they should convey that when technology fails, many people typically share responsibility.

We are at the ground floor of a new innovation curve—the breakthrough of modern AI—that blows past previous limits of what’s possible to build with software. This, coupled with its overlap with the mobile revolution, create an unprecedented moment, and software leaders must build a new set of practices around software development to embrace exponential increases in innovation, but without sacrificing the quality of customer experience that’s table stakes in a post-mobile world.

In this talk, Aled Miles, CEO of Sauce Labs, former CEO of Telesign and executive committee member at Symantec, along with Jim Whitehead, Chief Scientist, AI Research Development and Experiments (AIX) team at Sauce Labs, and a Professor of Computational Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz will leverage their expertise leading companies and research programs at the forefront of these two overlapping innovation cycles to document and explore the convergence of consumer expectations, digital transformation, and innovation in artificial intelligence.

Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have captured the imagination of the world, and the way we work right is getting transformed right in front of our eyes. It is imperative for the modern IT leaders to leverage the power of AI/ML to deliver productive and secure experiences for their organizations. Join us in this executive roundtable to hear about:

• Why a unified approach to SASE is critical for leveraging AI 
• How AI/ML can deliver better security, networking and operational outcomes 
• Best practices to adopt SASE that sets you up for success

In this talk we present two hybrid architecture design patterns that are allowing customers to get better cost, performance, and compliance posture:

• Cloud Adjacent Storage:  Customers are storing their data at a cloud adjacent location while compute still takes place in the cloud to move from a variable cost model to a fixed and more predictable cost model for storage. This is providing more flexibility with respect to a multi-cloud model and cost savings.
• Distributed AI: Customers are moving from a centralized AI model where training and inference take place at the same location to a distributed AI model  where training takes place at a central location and inference happens at the edge for cost, performance and compliance reasons.

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and social engineering has significant implications for businesses in 2023. While AI and ML can enhance threat detection and response capabilities, threat actors are also utilizing these technologies to conduct more advanced attacks. Social engineering attacks continue to be a top concern, and AI and ML can be leveraged to create more realistic and personalized attacks.

As a result, businesses must stay informed about the latest developments in AI, ML, and social engineering to protect their assets and reputation. CIOs and CISOs must work together to implement advanced security measures and ensure their employees are trained to identify and report suspicious activity. Businesses that fail to adapt to this new threat landscape risk falling behind their competitors and experiencing costly breaches.

Data is a differentiator in the digital economy. That's why data has simultaneously become the most valuable and the most targeted business asset. Cybersecurity Ventures expects global cybercrime costs to reach $10.5 trillion USD annually by 2025 and that companies will fall victim to a ransomware attack every 2 seconds by 2031. We have seen plenty of bad things happen due to insufficient security measures. As a species, we tend to wait for those truly significant "black swan" events before making substantial changes.

Move from waiting to anticipating, preventing and being cyber resilient. Hear from Cohesity's Senior Technical Field Director, Bharath Nagaraj, as he will speak to some of his field learnings on what C-levels of large organizations deal with and how you can learn to respond more effectively and strategically.