Cohesity CPO Vasu Murthy breaks down how enterprise data protection has evolved into a 24/7 cyber recovery operation — and why the battle against ransomware is now being fought with AI on both sides.

Topics Include:

• Cohesity protects, secures, and provides insights into enterprise data globally.
• 70% of Fortune 500 companies trust Cohesity with their critical data.
• Cyber attacks are now the dominant threat to enterprise data resilience.
• Cohesity recently merged with Veritas, dramatically expanding its customer base.
• Real-world rescue: a cyber-hit company ran payroll on time anyway.
• Recovery operations run 24/7, with dozens of active rescues at any time.
• The threat landscape is now AI versus AI — and escalating fast.
• Cohesity enables customers to practice cyber recovery drills through automation.
• AI is accelerating product cycles — planning that took months now takes weeks.
• More than a third of Cohesity's latest release was AI-assisted code.
• Flatter teams and less hierarchy are defining the new CPO playbook.
• AWS partnership innovations like Glacier Instant Retrieval delivered 30% cost savings.

Participants:

• Vasu Murthy – Chief Product Officer, Cohesity

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CTO Sam Pierson explains how Qlik’s associative engine and agentic AI are transforming the way businesses uncover insights and what’s next on the data frontier.

Topics Include:

• Qlik is a 30-year-old data analytics and AI company with global customers.
• Qlik's associative engine surfaces insights from data you aren't even examining.
• A paper manufacturer optimized supply chain routing and navigated tariff complexity.
• Generative AI can't easily query databases — Qlik's engine bridges that gap.
• Qlik built an agentic layer enabling natural language conversations with your data.
• MCP integration lets users access Qlik insights directly from tools like Claude Desktop.
• Qlik runs entirely on AWS, with global regions built around local compliance requirements.
• The AWS partnership prioritizes mutual success over transactional service relationships.
• Agents will mature in 2026; some agentic bets will succeed, others will be refactored.
• Fine-tuned, smaller language models will grow in importance alongside larger ones.
• AI adoption requires restructuring workflows end-to-end, from product spec to go-to-market.
• Qlik is hiring for curiosity and agency — people who experiment without waiting for permission.

Participants:

• Sam Pierson – Chief Technology Officer, Qlik

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Sumo Logic's VP of Security Strategy reveals how a ground-up agentic framework transformed their platform, and why clean data and autonomous agents are rewriting the rules of cloud security.

Topics Include:

• Sumo Logic is a cloud analytics platform ingesting data from complex IT stacks.
• Built on AWS from the start, leveraging microservices for scalable solutions.
• Early AI efforts produced a natural language query co-pilot for security data.
• Bolting AI onto existing platforms proved brittle and one-dimensional.
• Customer feedback drove a decision to redesign AI from the ground up.
• The Dojo AI framework unifies purpose-built agents across the entire platform.
• New agents include a SOC analyst agent, knowledge agent, and MCP server.
• New frontier models on Bedrock give the whole platform an instant brain transplant.
• Autonomous agents require rethinking security controls beyond traditional programmatic guardrails.
• Federal and global customers demand rigorous, levelled-up security across all regions.
• Clean, normalized data proved the biggest unlock for reliable AI query results.
• Agent-to-agent communication and MCP will define the next era of AI platforms.

Participants:

• Chas Clawson – Vice President, Security Strategy, Sumo Logic

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