As AI adoption accelerates, Zoho's Raju Vegesna argues enterprises must rethink sovereignty beyond data residency to include who owns the models processing that data. Vegesna joins Six Five to explain why retaining AI intelligence, not just information, determines whether a company remains a customer or becomes a hostage to its technology provider.

Mohamad Ali, SVP and Head of IBM Consulting, joins Daniel Newman to discuss how AI is transforming enterprise workflows, why consulting is becoming software, and what it takes to operationalize agentic AI at scale.

As enterprises move from AI experimentation to execution, data is emerging as the primary constraint on scale. Fragmented systems, unclear ownership, and weak governance are limiting outcomes.

This conversation explores why AI success depends on data discipline, orchestration, and treating data as a core enterprise asset.

Abe Dev, Vice President, Digital and Innovation at Riyadh Air, describes building a digital-native airline as "liberating" and "a bit terrifying" at once: no legacy systems to migrate off of, but also no working example to check decisions against. Daniel Newman gets into how orchestration became the discipline that replaced that missing benchmark.

Jason Kelley, GM and Managing Partner at IBM Consulting, and Tim Hatton, Vice President of Global Strategic Alliances at Oracle, tell Daniel Newman what it actually takes to make a multi-vendor AI partnership work: reward sharing, built-in failure prevention, and agreement on the outcome before any partner is assigned a role.

Nestlé's SAP modernization consolidated its global platform — but exposed that technology upgrades alone do not resolve accountability gaps, integration overhead, or execution speed. In this Six Five Virtual Webcast with IBM, David Mullen, Head of Strategic IT Sourcing at Nestlé, details how the company rebuilt its operating model around a vertically integrated delivery structure, outcome-based commercial agreements, and a single prime integrator — redefining what enterprise IT sourcing looks like at 200-country scale

79% of executives expect AI to significantly contribute to their revenue by 2030. Only 24% know what those revenue streams will actually be. Salima Lin, Managing Partner at IBM Consulting, and Dalia Tarabay, EVP of Corporate Strategy at IBM, tell Daniel Newman why that gap, not the technology itself, is what's holding most CEOs back from turning AI into real strategic advantage.

Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman break down a chaotic week that included Jensen Huang's debut on X in defense of open models, a new enterprise agentic reference blueprint from EY, NVIDIA, and LangChain, and a 24-hour market whiplash triggered by a hedge fund's forced liquidation into Citadel. The hosts also cover a stacked earnings week from Microsoft, Meta, Qualcomm, Arm, Apple, and Amazon, plus IonQ's move into vertical integration with its SkyWater acquisition.

QumulusAI CEO Michael Maniscalco joins Six Five following the company’s NASDAQ debut to explain why traditional gigawatt-scale infrastructure cannot keep pace with AI demand and how a portfolio of smaller, faster-to-deploy compute pockets could reshape enterprise infrastructure strategy.

OpenAI files for a trillion-dollar IPO the same week a pre-release model breaches Hugging Face and 42 state attorneys general open a coordinated investigation. Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman also break down AMD's hyperscaler CPU numbers from Advancing AI, the Moonshot distillation accusations, a wave of coordinated AI governance moves in Washington, and a stacked earnings slate spanning TSMC, Alphabet, IBM, ServiceNow, and Intel.

Enterprises are rethinking creative workflows as AI reshapes how content gets produced, governed, and measured. Elliot Sedegah, Director of B2B Product Marketing and Strategy at Adobe, joins Keith Kirkpatrick of Futurum to unpack what separates organizations capturing measurable ROI from generative AI from those still stuck in fragmented experimentation.

Ryan Shrout and Mitch Lewis of Signal65 walk through their independent validation of the Lenovo xIQ platform and Lenovo Super Agent for Retail with Paige Grady, Director of AI Solutions at Lenovo SSG. The conversation covers what stalls retail AI at the pilot stage, how full-stack integration addresses the operational challenges that custom builds cannot, and what Signal65 found across deployment time, agent accuracy improvement, and lifecycle management in testing.