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by Michael Krigsman
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C-Suite Conversations on AI and Strategy. Join industry analyst Michael Krigsman for unfiltered discussions with the leaders shaping the future of business. From AI implementation to digital transformation, hear directly from CIOs, CTOs, CEOs, and more from the world's largest companies. No scripts. No PR fluff. Just real questions from our live audience and honest answers from the C-Suite.
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- Can Open Weight AI Compete with Frontier? Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian explains. · 56 min · Episode 933Companies running AI must decide which work to send to the frontier labs and which to run on open-weight models. Raffi Krikorian, Mozilla's Chief Technology Officer, explains…
- AI Agents: Why You Need to Be at the Helm | Salesforce's Chief Ethical and Humane Use Officer · 53 min · Episode 931AI agents now act on more decisions than any manager can review, so the choice of which work goes to an agent and where a person stays in charge decides the result. Paula…
- Why Most AI Pilots Fail (And How to Fix It) · 46 min · Episode 932Patrick Bangert, Chief AI Officer at Occidental Petroleum, advises enterprise leaders to avoid running AI pilots altogether. He explains that most enterprise AI initiatives fail…
- Atlassian Chief AI Officer: Building Products for Agents and Humans · 54 min · Episode 930Check out Gartner Symposium: https://cxo.news/KGg8XY === Tamar Yehoshua is Chief Product and AI Officer at Atlassian, where AI agents are now direct users of the software her…
- How Snap Built a Production System Where Agents Write 90% of Code · 54 min · Episode 929Check out Gartner Symposium: https://cxo.news/KGg8XY ======== More than 90% of the code at Snap is now written by AI agents, and a code review agent checks most of it within ten…
- Enterprise AI Biggest Opportunities: A Top VC's Take · 55 min · Episode 928Enterprise AI has moved past experimentation and now has to prove its return. Ed Sim, Founder and General Partner of boldstart ventures, ranked the No. 1 seed investor in the…
- Why Your Enterprise AI Pilot Won't Scale (with Nate B. Jones) · 55 min · Episode 927Most enterprise AI pilots stall or fail before production, and the blocker is rarely the model. Nate B. Jones, an AI analyst and advisor who works with Fortune 500 companies and…
- AI Agents in Banking: UBS Former Chief Information Officer · 54 min · Episode 925Are AI agents ready for banking and financial services? Former UBS Group CIO Oliver Bussmann explains the risks to trust and reputation in banking. This session examines the…
- Palo Alto Networks EVP: Securing AI Agents in the Enterprise · 22 min · Episode 925Enterprises are running more AI agents than their security teams realize, and attackers only need to be right once. Anand Oswal, EVP of Network Security at Palo Alto Networks…
- The CIO Agenda for AI (with IBM Consulting) · 56 min · Episode 924CIOs are accountable for AI results but often not in control of how AI is actually used across the business. Andy Baldwin, Senior Vice President of Consulting Offerings and…
- Eric Ries: Can AI Startups Stay Ethical? · 54 min · Episode 923Can AI startups keep their promise to benefit humanity? Eric Ries explains why business success often leads to corporate "corruption" of the founder's mission. Eric Ries…
- McKinsey: Why Agentic AI Pilots Stall · 54 min · Episode 922Fewer than 100 companies have scaled enterprise AI from pilots to production to capture great value. Alexander Sukharevsky, who leads QuantumBlack, McKinsey's AI practice, joins…
- Aaron Levie, Box CEO: Advice for CIOs on AI Agents · 54 min · Episode 921Agentic AI has taken off in software engineering, but most CIOs still cannot make agents work in everyday knowledge work in the enterprise. Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of…
- Mozilla CTO: Why Most Enterprises Don't Control Their AI · 57 min · Episode 920Most enterprises are renters, not owners, of their technology and AI. Raffi Krikorian, Chief Technology Officer of Mozilla, explains why dependence on a handful of closed model…
- Enterprise AI: Shadow AI and Agentic Risk - CIO advice · 42 min · Episode 919AI agents are entering enterprise AI faster than CIOs can govern them. Line-of-business users are vibe-coding their own tools, agents are operating with employee credentials, and…
- Autonomous Software Development at Enterprise Scale: Inside a 1,000-Developer Pilot (with Blitzy) | CXOTalk #918 · 18 min · Episode 918Enrique Ibarra, CIO and Head of Business Transformation at GNP, Mexico's largest insurance company, walks through an enterprise-scale pilot of autonomous software development…
- How AI Swarms Weaponize Disinformation | CXOTalk #915 · 57 min · Episode 915AI swarms are now considered the most dangerous influence weapons ever created, actively fabricating grassroots consensus and corrupting enterprise AI training data through…
- AI-Enabled Software Development: AI Coding at a Global Insurer, with Blitzy | CXOTalk #917 · 21 min · Episode 917Autonomous software development creates a dilemma for leaders in regulated industries: adopt AI coding at scale or fall behind on product velocity without compromising…
- Agentic AI in the Enterprise 2026 | CXOTalk #916 · 56 min · Episode 916Agentic AI is reshaping enterprise software faster than most CIOs, CFOs, and vendors are prepared for. Praveen Akkiraju, Managing Director at Insight Partners, joins Michael…
- AI Agents in Finance with HPE's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) | CXOTalk 914 · 56 min · Episode 914Marie Myers, Chief Financial Officer of HPE, explains how she measures business value while deploying agentic AI across a 3,600-person finance organization. Her framework…
