As enterprises scale AI into production, the variable that determines whether AI delivers measurable ROI is increasingly the data layer. In this Six Five On The Road conversation at Dell Technologies World 2026, Ihab Tarazi, ISG CTO at Dell Technologies, and Jason Hardy, VP of Storage Technology at NVIDIA, join Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman to examine how the token economy is reshaping enterprise AI infrastructure strategy, what the Dell AI Data Platform and Exascale Storage announcements change about production AI architecture, and why co-engineering between Dell and NVIDIA produces outcomes that standard integration partnerships cannot match.

Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman cover Daniel's acquisition of Enterprise Technology Research, IBM's historic $15 billion single-day commitment spanning quantum and open-source security, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8, and the heaviest single earnings night of the season featuring Dell, Marvell, Salesforce, Synopsys, Snowflake, HP, and Micron crossing $1 trillion in market cap.

AI is restructuring how enterprise buyers discover, evaluate, and engage with technology providers, compressing timelines and shifting the discovery layer before any human conversation begins. Gerri Tunnell, CMO at Dell Technologies, joins Six Five at Dell Technologies World 2026 to examine how organizations must rethink speed, discoverability, and trust as AI becomes embedded in both the buying process and the customer experience itself.

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Industrial AI is crossing the line from deterministic automation into systems that can see, think, act, and learn. Honeywell CTO Suresh Venkatarayalu, who studied neural networks 31 years ago when he joined the company, calls it a physical AI transformation, and at Dell Technologies World 2026, he joined Sam Grocott, SVP of Product Marketing and AI Product Management at Dell Technologies, to break down what Honeywell Forge chapter two looks like, why the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA was the right infrastructure foundation for scaling AI across 50 to 60 million industrial and commercial assets, and what the shift from AI pilot to enterprise-scale deployment actually requires.

Layering AI onto legacy service architecture produces incremental improvements on a model that was not designed for autonomous resolution at scale. In this Six Five On The Road conversation at Zendesk Relate 2026, Vishnu Parimi, VP of Product at Zendesk, joins Keith Kirkpatrick and Melody Brue to examine what AI-native service operations actually require: unified resolution systems, specialized agents built for domain-specific workflows, and governance embedded into the architecture from the start rather than retrofitted after deployment.

Accenture and ServiceNow launched the Forward Deployed Engineering program at Knowledge 2026 to address the delivery gap that keeps 88% of enterprise AI initiatives from reaching scale production. David Kanter, Senior Managing Director and Global Head of the ServiceNow Business Alliance at Accenture, and Miku Jha, GVP of Applied AI and Forward Deployed Engineering at ServiceNow, outline how embedding co-engineering teams inside customer environments from day one, backed by 300+ agentic AI workflows and a governance-first architecture, changes what enterprise AI deployment actually produces.

Ryan Shrout and Mitch Lewis of Signal65 walk through their independent validation of the Lenovo Knowledge Superagent with Sarah Lundgren, Director of Technical Enablement for Hybrid Cloud and AI at Lenovo. The conversation covers why agentic AI addresses knowledge management failures that wikis and enterprise search could not, how Lenovo deployed the platform internally to drive organic adoption, and what Signal65 measured: 30% reduction in retrieval time, 81% employee adoption, 120 hours saved per employee annually, and up to $17 million in potential productivity value at scale.

Technology access is no longer the constraint for enterprise AI. Execution is. In this Six Five On The Road conversation at Dell Technologies World 2026, Dell COO Jeff Clarke and Future Tech CEO Bob Venero join Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman to examine how aligned go-to-market partnerships accelerate enterprise AI adoption, where customers are making progress and where ambition breaks down, and what the agentic AI inflection point demands from both enterprise leadership and the partner ecosystem over the next 12 to 24 months.

Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman return from Dell Technologies World to unpack Google I/O's Gemini-as-operating-system moment, the Blackstone-Google TPU joint venture nobody saw coming, NVIDIA's $81.6 billion quarter with a $91 billion guide, and debate whether or not the “SaaSpocalypse” is finally over.

The gap between AI strategy and AI execution is where competitive advantage is won or lost. In this Six Five On The Road conversation at Dell Technologies World 2026, Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Technologies, joins Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman to examine what separates organizations that successfully operationalize AI from those stuck in the pilot phase, how leaders should balance urgency with discipline, and what infrastructure decisions will define enterprise competitive position over the next 12 to 24 months.

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