Jason Andersen and Mike Leone, Moor Insights & Strategy, and Brad Shimmin, Futurum, deliver their analyst recap of Google Cloud Next 2026, covering the shift to agentic enterprise workflows, Google's TPU-8 infrastructure strategy, the data platform's evolution into an agent runtime, Agent Gateway and Wiz security governance, and Google Cloud's competitive positioning relative to AWS and Microsoft heading into the second half of 2026.

IBM executives joined Six Five hosts at TechXchange to discuss the latest announcements, AI advancements with watsonx, and how ecosystem partnerships are driving real customer impact—offering a snapshot of key themes and on-the-ground insights.

Sharad Kumar, Field CTO – Data at Qlik, joins host Brad Shimmin to offer insights on how Qlik’s Open Lakehouse on Apache Iceberg empowers enterprises to operationalize AI, streamline data management, and achieve significant cost efficiencies.

Steve Kearns, GM of Search Solutions at Elastic, joins Brad Shimmin to discuss how Elastic is redefining AI search, context engineering, and developer experience to help enterprises build smarter, more relevant AI applications from day one.

Carl Perry, Senior Director of Product Management at Snowflake, joins Brad Shimmin in a keynote discussion for Data As Infrastructure: Decoded to share how Snowflake is blending open data standards, native AI tools, and unified governance to shape the future of enterprise data intelligence.

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