Enhanced Observability and Correlation for Hybrid Networks with AIOps from Selector AI

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Selector AI Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Selector AI

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Personnel: Deba Mohanty

Selector AI, presented at Cloud Field Day, showing an AIOps solution providing comprehensive visibility and intelligence into the complex networks, cloud infrastructure, and applications of large enterprises.  Unlike existing monitoring tools focusing on single data sources (metrics, logs, events), Selector ingests diverse data types from various sources including existing databases and monitoring tools,  config events, alerts, topology information, and even CSV files. This unified approach allows for advanced event correlation, drastically reducing alert volume and the associated workload on operations teams.

Selector’s natural language interface is a key differentiator, enabling users to query the platform using plain English rather than complex SQL queries.  This, coupled with a digital twin capability for operational insights and “what-if” analysis, provides a significantly more user-friendly and accessible experience. The platform integrates with various communication channels like Slack and Microsoft Teams and ITSM tools, enabling proactive alerting and reactive querying across different teams and workflows, breaking down the typical siloed approach of NOC centres.

Selector’s deployment model offers flexibility, supporting public and private cloud environments, on-premise installations, and even integration directly into existing Google Cloud or AWS instances.  Importantly, their pricing model is not tied to data volume or user count, instead focusing on a predictable cost structure based on monitored devices and use cases. This allows for more straightforward budgeting and encourages the ingestion of larger datasets, which in turn improves the accuracy and effectiveness of Selector’s insights.  While Selector integrates with existing tools, its ultimate aim is to provide a single source of truth, eventually replacing the need for multiple, disparate monitoring systems as customers realize its efficiency and comprehensive capabilities.


Deploy Critical Network Services with Infrastructure-Free DDI with Infoblox NIOS-X as a Service

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Infoblox Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Infoblox

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Personnel: Glenn Sullivan, Jason Radebaugh

Businesses are embracing hybrid (i.e., on-premises, public and private cloud) and multi-cloud deployments to modernize their infrastructures and IT operations for greater agility, speed and simplicity. These trends are driven by the need to innovate faster, streamline operations, modernize workloads and even integrate environments during and after mergers and acquisitions. However, deploying and managing critical network services such as DDI in these environments has become a major challenge.

To address this, enterprise organizations increasingly reduce hardware footprints in distributed locations and seek true cloud solutions as they modernize and scale their networks. These requirements have become foundational and span network infrastructures, from cloud workload migrations and new cloud deployments to private data centers and branch offices. By embracing such flexible solutions, businesses can enhance their operational efficiency and adaptability in today’s dynamic IT landscape.

Infoblox has introduced NIOS-X as a Service, the industry’s most advanced cloud delivery solution for the deployment and management of critical network services for hybrid, multi-cloud environments. NIOS-X as a Service combines operational efficiency with exceptional reliability and leverages a new as-a-service model to reduce management overhead while ensuring the ease and simplicity of infrastructure-free delivery.

We’ll also demonstrate common use cases how NIOS-X as a Service modernizes infrastructure, reduces management overhead and utilizes an infrastructure-free deployment model for efficient and reliable critical network services delivery, supporting network automation and network transformation.


Discovery and Analysis for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Visibility with Infoblox Universal Asset Insights

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Infoblox Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Infoblox

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Personnel: Glenn Sullivan, Jason Radebaugh

Organizations continue to adopt cloud strategies and are challenged by the mix of disparate systems for managing network services across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, partner networks and a multitude of underlying physical devices. The absence of centralized visibility exacerbates these challenges, resulting in a lack of awareness of what is on the network, what is happening on the network and who is responsible for it.

Limited visibility into subnets and other network resources provisioned can lead to misconfigurations and outages. Manually tracking the IP addresses and resources using spreadsheets or other in-house tools can lead to visibility gaps or resource conflicts, resulting in longer troubleshooting times and the inability to manage growing environments at scale.

Lack of centralized visibility across hybrid networks is also a security risk. Cloud sprawl is a significant issue for organizations, and the inability to track what is on the network and its usage can result in undiscovered zombie assets and orphaned resources and services, leading to increased costs or exploitation by malicious actors.

Universal Asset Insights automates the discovery and analysis of IP-based and non-IP-based assets across public clouds, on-premises networks, IoT/OT devices and third-party applications and keeps IP address management (IPAM) updated without manual intervention. The expanded asset discovery provides unparalleled, contextualized and near–real-time visibility into the extensive on-premises assets and multi-cloud network assets. Combined with Infoblox critical network services, including DNS, DHCP and IPAM (DDI), Universal Asset Insights enhances the scope of network visibility and accuracy of IPAM. NetOps, CloudOps and SecOps now have a trusted infrastructure-wide central repository of assets and connectivity details, which improves network visibility, network automation, operational efficiency and contextual awareness across the entire environment.

We’ll also demonstrate how Infoblox Universal Asset Insights helps identify and remediate zombie assets across multi-cloud networks.


Mastering Network Services in Hybrid and Multi-Cloud with Infoblox Universal DDI Management

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Infoblox Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Infoblox

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Personnel: Glenn Sullivan, Jason Radebaugh

Are you among the many IT professionals, CloudOps teams, and NetOps teams struggling to manage your hybrid and multi-cloud environments effectively? While multi-cloud environments promise faster innovation, best-of-breed solutions and streamlined operations, they also introduce complexity in providing critical network services, such as DNS, DHCP and IP address management (DDI).

As organizations expand their multi-cloud deployments, CloudOps and NetOps teams often juggle multiple DNS solutions across various clouds and on-prem locations. Most cloud providers offer DNS services that are limited to their own environments and lack cross-cloud and on-premises integration. This fragmented approach makes network automation impractical and leads to increased management overhead, manual update processes, configuration errors, and ultimately, service outages and higher costs.

As an integral part of your organization, how do you consistently deliver critical network services like DNS and DHCP across your entire environment? Public cloud DNS solutions, such as AWS Route 53, Azure DNS and Google Cloud DNS, work well within their respective clouds but fall short when extending services across other clouds or on-premises environments. This often results in CloudOps teams managing each service separately, sometimes even requiring isolated account management within a single cloud. Meanwhile, NetOps teams must maintain additional DNS services for on-premises locations.

Hybrid, multi-cloud infrastructures are an absolute necessity in today’s fast-paced world, and reliable network services are critical to their success. Learn how Infoblox Universal DDI Management modernizes the delivery and management of these services, while also improving business operations at scale, and how it unifies DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management across all on-premises, private and multi-cloud deployments, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

We’ll demonstrate its powerful capabilities by showcasing its seamless integrations with AWS Route 53, Microsoft Azure DNS, and Google Cloud Platform DNS. This approach also facilitates network transformation, ensuring your organization stays ahead in the dynamic IT landscape.


Reinventing Critical Network Services with Infoblox

Event: Cloud Field Day 22

Appearance: Infoblox Presents at Cloud Field Day 22

Company: Infoblox

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Personnel: Mukesh Gupta

Mukesh Gupta, Infoblox EVP and Chief Product Officer, introduces the Infoblox Universal DDI Product Suite. This suite offers groundbreaking solutions for unifying critical network services management across hybrid, multi-cloud environments, providing in-depth visibility and insights with infrastructure-free deployment.

Infoblox, a leader in DNS, DHCP, and IPAM (DDI) services, simplifies network management to enhance responsiveness and cybersecurity. Organizations adopting hybrid, multi-cloud infrastructures face challenges like human errors, increased costs, and security vulnerabilities. Infoblox addresses these with innovative solutions that improve efficiency, consistency, and resiliency.

The presentation highlights Infoblox’s journey since 1999, focusing on uniting networking and security. Key features include Universal DDI Management for efficient service delivery, Universal Asset Insights for comprehensive network visibility, and NIOS-X as a Service for modernized, infrastructure-free deployment.

Infoblox’s approach to network automation and transformation ensures seamless cloud networking and modernization, enhancing overall network performance and security.


Cisco Hypershield: AI-Driven Security for Dynamic Environments

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Appearance: Cisco Presents Day 2 at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Andrew Ossipov, Jeroen Wittock

This session explains how you can use Cisco Hypershield for autonomous segmentation in dynamic ever changing environments. The presenters cover how Cisco Hypershield uses AI to detect and prevent CVE’s from being exploited by an attacker.


Redefining Universal Zero Trust Network Access

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Appearance: Cisco Presents Day 2 at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Nitin Kumar

In this session, Cisco covers Zero Trust Access accelerates zero trust access for all users, wherever they work and no matter where resources reside – powered by highly performant network access, modern identity security, and resilient architecture for “Five 9s” availability. One of the only SSE vendors to provide cross-platform identity context, Cisco enables IT teams to achieve zero trust maturity faster and with more resilient architecture.


Cisco Meraki Access Manager: Cloud-Native Zero-Trust

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Appearance: Cisco Presents Day 2 at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Alex Burger, Stephen Orr

In this session, Cisco unveils Meraki Access Manager, a new product providing highly-scalable, single pane of glass zero-trust network access controls within the Meraki cloud management platform. Access Manager’s key features have been built to ensure rapid adoption of micro-segmentation, reduction in OpEx, and immediate enablement of dynamic authorization for least-privileged security architectures.


Exploring Wi-Fi 7 Access Points and Wireless Innovations

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Appearance: Cisco Presents Day 2 at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Dave Benham, Minse Kim

Discover the latest Wi-Fi 7 Access Points and explore new Cisco Wireless software innovations, including intelligent wireless services.


Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric: A New Cloud-Controlled Data Center Fabric as-a-Service

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Appearance: Cisco Presents Day 1 at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Dan Backman, Minako Higuchi

In this session, Cisco discusses new cloud-driven Data Center Network as-a-service.  They cover how the product works, key use-cases and how this also relates to new Hyperfabric for AI offerings from Cisco.


Unleash AI Potential with Cisco’s Scalable GPU Server Solutions

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Appearance: Cisco Presents Day 1 at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Jason McGee, Nishant Shrivastava

Discover Cisco’s advanced AI servers designed to handle demanding workloads with dense GPU capabilities and scalable, future-ready architecture. Built on the latest NVIDIA platforms, these solutions offer exceptional performance and flexibility, supporting up to eight GPUs for AI model training, fine-tuning, and inferencing. Join our session to learn how Cisco’s AI technology empowers enterprises to accelerate innovation and transform data-driven operations across diverse industries.


Cisco Nexus Smart Switch and Hypershield Integration

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Appearance: Cisco Presents Day 1 at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Jacob Rapp, Javed Asghar, Maurizio Portolani

In this session, Cisco introduces a new family of Nexus data center Smart Switches with DPUs, enabling stateful services to be embedded directly into the data center fabric at scale. Hypershield security services are integrated into the Smart Switch, covering a variety of use cases. Cisco provides a technical overview of Nexus Smart Switches, Hypershield, and their use cases, and also presents a demo.


Transforming Service Provider Networks Through AI-Powered Connectivity

Event: Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Appearance: Cisco Presents Day 1 at Tech Field Day Extra at Cisco Live EMEA 2025

Company: Cisco

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Personnel: Brian Meaney, Mustafa Bostanci, Phil Bedard

Join us for an interactive Tech Field Day session focused on launching Cisco’s new Agile Services Networking, discussing why it’s important and the power of AI to drive transformation. Cisco’s Senior Technical Engineering experts, Mustafa Bostanci, Phil Bedard and Brian Meaney will walk through the new solutions Cisco is introducing across our Silicon One, Routing, Optics, Automation and Assurance portfolio, and also demonstrate how Cisco is helping customers monetize network capabilities, remove complexity, and assure experiences through AI-powered automation and assurance. Cisco will delve into the technicalities of Agile Services Networking, key customer challenges and use cases, and discuss some of the marquee customers already partnering with Cisco.


Design First or Build First? – AI Field Day 6 Delegate Roundtable

Event: AI Field Day 6

Appearance: AI Field Day 6 Delegate Roundtable Discussion

Company: Tech Field Day

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Personnel: Stephen Foskett

This AI Field Day 6 delegate roundtable, moderated by Stephen Foskett, grappled with a fundamental question: is the current proliferation of AI tools driven by genuine need, or simply by the “cool” factor and the profit potential? The conversation highlighted a parallel with earlier technological advancements, such as the initial excitement surrounding desktop publishing, where functionality often outpaced practical application. Delegates debated whether the current focus on rapid development and deployment of AI solutions prioritized innovation over careful design, raising concerns about unintended consequences and ethical implications. The discussion touched upon the potential for misuse and manipulation, echoing historical parallels like the printing press and genetic engineering, where the potential for both immense good and catastrophic harm existed.

A key point of contention revolved around the design process itself. Several delegates challenged the notion of a strictly linear “design first” approach, arguing that many successful products and technologies emerged from experimentation and serendipitous discoveries. The examples of TikTok and Twitter were cited to illustrate how initial intentions can drastically diverge from the final outcome, shaped more by user adoption and unforeseen applications. However, this didn’t negate the primary concern: the need for careful consideration of ethical implications and potential societal impact, particularly concerning the generation and use of data, the influence of marketing, and the risks of unchecked technological advancement.

Ultimately, the delegates concluded that the rapid pace of AI development necessitates a proactive and multi-faceted approach. They emphasized the importance of ethical considerations, a need for guardrails to mitigate potential harms, and a focus on understanding the motivations behind the development and deployment of AI tools. While acknowledging the potential for positive transformation, the discussion underscored the crucial role of technologists in shaping the narrative around AI, preventing its misuse, and ensuring that future advancements serve genuine human needs rather than merely capitalizing on novelty or hype. The delegates suggested conferences like All Things Open and events like South by Southwest as potential avenues to track both technological developments and their societal impact.


We’re Still in the Early Innings of AI – AI Field Day 6 Delegate Roundtable

Event: AI Field Day 6

Appearance: AI Field Day 6 Delegate Roundtable Discussion

Company: Tech Field Day

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Personnel: Stephen Foskett

This AI Field Day 6 roundtable discussion centered on the surprisingly nascent stage of artificial intelligence development, despite significant advancements and investment. Participants compared the current state of AI to the early days of personal computing, noting that while impressive progress has been made, we’re far from widespread, user-friendly applications. Analogies ranged from “Wiffle Ball” to “batting practice,” highlighting that even recent breakthroughs like the DeepSeek model, which gained unexpected mainstream attention, represent only a small step in a long journey. The rapid pace of current innovation, fueled by readily available computing power and massive datasets, was emphasized as a key factor in the current perception of rapid advancement.

The discussion highlighted the crucial role of data, particularly referencing the impact of ImageNet and Fei-Fei Li’s work, as a catalyst for recent progress. However, ethical concerns, especially regarding data ownership and the lack of informed consent in utilizing various languages and cultural data, were prominent. The potential for legal challenges related to data privacy violations was anticipated, mirroring the trajectory of legal battles following the emergence of other disruptive technologies. The lack of standardized benchmarks for measuring AI performance and the ongoing evolution of model architectures further underscored the field’s immaturity.

Ultimately, the delegates agreed that while the underlying mathematical concepts have been around for decades, the application and integration of AI into everyday life are still in their infancy. The current “pre-Cambrian explosion” of AI models presents a landscape rife with experimentation, with participants expressing skepticism about the near-term prospects of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The focus needs to shift from the race for AGI towards addressing fundamental challenges and establishing clear definitions for key AI terminology to avoid misleading anthropomorphism. The panelists emphasized the importance of approaching AI development with an engineering mindset, concentrating on its practical applications and addressing ethical considerations proactively, rather than solely focusing on the hype surrounding AGI.


Kamiwaza Model Context Protocol for Private Models – Inferencing and Data Within the Enterprise

Event: AI Field Day 6

Appearance: Kamiwaza Presents at AI Field Day 6

Company: Kamiwaza.AI

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Personnel: Luke Norris, Matt Wallace

In this segment, we demonstrated how MCP (Model Context Protocol) enables enterprises to integrate and manage private models and agents through Kamiwaza. The presentation showcased a simple chat interface capable of handling complex tasks, such as interacting with GitHub to review and fix code. This was achieved through the open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) and accompanying tools, all of which are designed to simplify the integration of private AI models into existing workflows. The demo highlighted the platform’s ability to bridge the gap between AI innovation and practical enterprise solutions.

A key element of the demonstration involved an agent with a defined persona that could execute a series of tasks based on simple instructions. These tasks included cloning a repository, copying files, analyzing code, debugging, and committing changes, all within a private and controlled environment. This demonstrated the power of MCP in enabling more complex agent interactions while maintaining control and security. The presenters also emphasized the open-source nature of both the front-end application and the back-end server, fostering community contributions and broader adoption of the technology.

The presentation further showcased Kamiwaza’s broader strategy, encompassing both highly customized, enterprise-specific applications and simpler, more general-purpose tools like chatbots and research assistants. The platform aims to simplify the deployment and management of these tools, integrating them with existing data and infrastructure. Kamiwaza plans to release open-source ports of several useful applications to further encourage adoption and collaboration within the community. A significant portion of the presentation also focused on the platform’s potential to replace traditional RPA systems, providing a more flexible, cost-effective, and ultimately more powerful solution for automating enterprise processes.


Move from the AI Pilot Circle of Doom to Achieving Outcomes Today with Kamiwaza Enterprise Outcome Support

Event: AI Field Day 6

Appearance: Kamiwaza Presents at AI Field Day 6

Company: Kamiwaza.AI

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Personnel: Luke Norris, Matt Wallace

Discover how Kamiwaza’s outcome-driven approach ensures measurable success for organizations of any size. This novel approach enables not just break-fix support but true outcome-based support of AI workflows and applications. The Kamiwaza platform facilitates innovation across various sectors, including manufacturing and government, as demonstrated through real-world use cases presented at AI Field Day 6. The presentation showcased the platform’s capabilities through live demos, highlighting its user-friendly interface and powerful features for managing and deploying AI models, even large language models.

A core element of the Kamiwaza platform is its cluster management system, enabling seamless deployment and scaling of models across various environments, from local machines to cloud-based clusters. The platform leverages Ray, a distributed computing framework, for efficient load balancing and resource allocation. Demonstrations included data ingestion and processing pipelines, showcasing the platform’s ability to handle large datasets and distribute workloads effectively across multiple nodes. The presentation also emphasized the platform’s developer-centric design, providing tools and APIs for building and integrating custom AI applications.

Furthermore, the presentation explored the concept of “agents” within the Kamiwaza ecosystem, illustrating how these agents can automate complex tasks and workflows. Examples included automated data conversion, report generation, and even the creation of new applications based on user requests. The agents’ capabilities were demonstrated through live demos, emphasizing their potential to significantly accelerate AI-driven processes and improve efficiency. The presenters highlighted the importance of human oversight and collaboration, emphasizing that while agents automate tasks, human experts can provide crucial guidance, ensuring accuracy and contextual understanding, particularly when dealing with complex or sensitive data.


Kamiwaza – A Single API and SDK for GenAI Applications to Run in the Enterprise

Event: AI Field Day 6

Appearance: Kamiwaza Presents at AI Field Day 6

Company: Kamiwaza.AI

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Personnel: Luke Norris, Matt Wallace

Experience a live demo showcasing Kamiwaza’s capabilities, including how our platform seamlessly integrates third-party applications via our SDK and API across all locations and silicon. A technical demo showed data ingestion for the RAG process and how data and security integrations, such as authentication, are handled for both internal and third-party enterprise applications. Kamiwaza positions itself as a “Docker for Generative AI,” providing a single API and SDK to manage multiple GenAI applications, eliminating the need for individual stacks and security layers for each application. This approach allows for seamless interaction between various applications, significantly boosting efficiency and delivering tangible business outcomes.

The platform boasts hardware agnosticism, enabling large language models to run on diverse hardware, from single servers to large clusters. Bench testing demonstrates impressive throughput, with a 70B parameter model achieving 8,000 tokens per second on a single 8-way AMD MI300 server. Kamiwaza is offered in several tiers: a free community version, a per-GPU licensing model for smaller deployments, and a $25,000 enterprise edition with unlimited GPUs. The enterprise edition includes unique outcome-based support, where a dedicated GenAI architect helps clients achieve specific business goals, ensuring the platform delivers practical value and isn’t just shelfware.

Unlike other solutions focused solely on infrastructure, Kamiwaza also addresses the application layer through its “app garden” and provides integrations with other observability tools. While they are not currently integrating at the prompt level, they leverage existing solutions to provide a robust and scalable platform. Future development includes expanding the app garden to allow third-party developers to easily build and deploy their own applications and agents. The company’s vision is to facilitate a more modular and customizable enterprise GenAI ecosystem, challenging the traditional monolithic approach to enterprise software and enabling rapid development of tailored AI solutions.


The Power of a True Enterprise AI Orchestration with Kamiwaza

Event: AI Field Day 6

Appearance: Kamiwaza Presents at AI Field Day 6

Company: Kamiwaza.AI

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Personnel: Luke Norris, Matt Wallace

Kamiwaza is a groundbreaking platform designed to enable enterprise AI at scale. Its Distributed Inference Mesh and Locality-Aware Data Engine deliver unmatched performance across diverse environments, including cloud, on-premises, and edge locations, while remaining independent of specific silicon technologies. A key focus is inference optimization for the operational aspect of AI, addressing the challenges of increasing inference loads associated with complex applications like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and autonomous agents. The platform tackles the “data gravity” problem, which significantly hinders enterprise AI adoption, by processing data locally wherever it resides to minimize data transfer and maintain data sovereignty.

The Kamiwaza platform distinguishes itself through four key differentiators. First, it provides a complete, opinionated yet loosely coupled enterprise AI stack delivered within Docker containers, allowing for rapid deployment and easy customization. Components like vector databases can be swapped with minimal code changes. Second, the global inference mesh and locality-aware data engine enable distributed inference across multiple locations, intelligently routing requests based on data location and available resources. This approach drastically reduces data movement while maintaining performance and compliance requirements. A global catalog service tracks metadata across all locations, facilitating efficient data access and processing.

Finally, Kamiwaza’s architecture is completely silicon-agnostic, enabling deployment on diverse hardware in various environments. It offers a unified API across all locations, fostering seamless integration with existing enterprise security and authentication systems. This approach, combined with its ability to integrate third-party and in-house Agentic applications, positions Kamiwaza as a “Docker for Enterprise AI,” simplifying the deployment and management of large-scale generative AI solutions across complex, distributed enterprise infrastructures.


How CEOs are Preparing for AI in 2025 – Futurum CEO Insights

Event: AI Field Day 6

Appearance: Futurum Presents CEO Insights on AI Strategies

Company: The Futurum Group

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Personnel: Dion Hinchcliffe

The Futurum Group’s presentation at AI Field Day 6, focusing on CEO perspectives on AI in 2025, revealed a significant disconnect between C-suite leadership and IT teams. While 59% of surveyed CEOs (from billion-dollar revenue companies globally) believe they’re leading AI strategy, this perception is largely driven by board pressure to compete in a rapidly evolving AI landscape. CEOs see AI not merely as a technological tool, but as a strategic imperative for business transformation affecting all organizational levels, understanding that failure to adapt will lead to disruption.

The study, conducted in partnership with Kearney, highlights a notable overconfidence among CEOs regarding AI readiness. Despite widespread recognition of AI’s potential (e.g., $20 trillion injection into the global economy by 2030, potential 5x return on investment), only 25% feel prepared. This unpreparedness stems from challenges like talent acquisition and the immaturity of AI technologies to address CEOs’ long-term strategic goals, which frequently involve developing entirely new products and services. The study emphasizes that successful AI adoption is strongly correlated with a decentralized leadership approach, rigorous ROI tracking, and a culture that addresses employee concerns proactively.

Successful AI implementation, according to the study’s findings on high-performing firms, hinges on several key factors. Decentralized leadership, where the vision is set at the top but execution is delegated, proves far more effective than a micro-management approach. Rigorous tracking of ROI is critical for demonstrating value and securing further investment. Finally, fostering a fearless culture that directly addresses worker anxieties about AI’s impact on jobs is paramount. The study concludes that while many CEOs are forging ahead with ambitious AI plans, a measured, data-driven approach, coupled with effective governance, is crucial to avoid costly failures.


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