Sanjay Kalra of Zscaler and Randy DeFauw of Amazon Web Services explore the hidden dangers of generative AI security—from invisible text manipulation and deep fakes to data poisoning and dark AI models—while offering practical strategies for protecting your enterprise in this era of generative AI. Topics Include: AI security threats grouped into data, malicious use, trust/safety Data security critical for SaaS-based AI services Model training data vulnerable to poisoning and manipulation GenAI l...
Dec 24, 2024•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast This illuminating conversation with CyberArk's SVP of Finance, Nili Serr-Reuven , reveals how the 25-year-old cybersecurity leader successfully transformed from a traditional software company to a SaaS business model in just five quarters - far faster than the industry standard of 2-2.5 years - while maintaining strong margins and customer trust throughout the transition. Topics Include: Introduction to SaaS transformation challenges and opportunities. Tomaz Perc introduces Nili Serr Reuven from...
Dec 19, 2024•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Soumya Banerjee , Associate Partner at McKinsey and Company , shares a comprehensive data-driven exploration of how generative AI is transforming the cybersecurity landscape, revealing emerging threats, organizational challenges, and strategic opportunities for security professionals. Topics Include: AI's transformative potential in cybersecurity Survey of 500 cybersecurity professionals Generative AI's impact on security landscape Rising sophistication of phishing attacks Threat actors leveragi...
Dec 17, 2024•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brendan Ittelson, Chief Ecosystem Officer of Zoom and Fedrico Torreti of AWS share how Zoom and AWS are leveraging generative AI to revolutionize application development, enhance cross-app personalization, and streamline user experiences with intelligent communication tools. Topics Include: Introduction of speakers and session overview. Generative AI's disruptive impact across industries. Reimagining customer experiences with generative AI. Driving productivity through AI-powered applications. C...
Dec 10, 2024•33 min•Ep 68•Transcript available on Metacast Jonathan Shulman, Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company , highlights the transformative potential of AI in the software industry and the evolutions needed to capture emerging market opportunities. Topics Include: AI's transformative potential in the software industry. Why AI is a massive business opportunity. Software industry evolution: Mainframe to Cloud SaaS eras. Potential entrance into a new AI-driven era. AI spend forecast: $15B to $200B by 2026. Most AI spend repurposed from existing I...
Dec 03, 2024•27 min•Ep 67•Transcript available on Metacast AWS's Miguel Álava and BoardWave's Phill Robinson explore how European software companies can overcome market fragmentation, leverage cloud and generative AI, and adopt global strategies to scale competitively. Topics Include: Introduction of Miguel Álava and Phill Robinson Overview of BoardWave's mission and community Challenges for European software companies in scaling globally Comparison of US and European software market dynamics Cloud adoption benefits for European software scalability Mod...
Nov 28, 2024•27 min•Ep 66•Transcript available on Metacast Richard Borstein of RingCentral and Richard Sonnenblick of Planview discuss how AI-driven innovations enhance customer and employee experiences, and unlock organizational growth through cutting-edge tools and strategies. Topics Include: Importance of integrated communication tools for businesses. Challenges caused by disconnected communication platforms. Role of data in enhancing business operations. How RingCentral addresses communication and data integration issues. Benefits of real-time conve...
Nov 26, 2024•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Benjamin Flast , Director, Product Management at MongoDB discusses vector search capabilities, integration with AWS Bedrock, and its transformative role in enabling scalable, efficient, and AI-powered solutions. Topics Include: Introduction to MongoDB's vector search and AWS Bedrock Core concepts of vectors and embeddings explained High-dimensional space and vector similarity overview Embedding model use in vector creation Importance of distance functions in vector relations Vector search uses k...
Nov 19, 2024•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast David Gildea of Druva shares their approach to building cost-effective, fast generative AI applications, focusing on cybersecurity, data protection, and the innovative use of LLMs for simplified, natural language threat detection. Topics Include: Introduction by Dave Gildea, VP of Product at Druva. Focus on building generative AI applications. Emphasis on cost and speed optimization. Mention of Amazon's Matt Wood keynote. AI experience with kids using "Party Rock." Prediction: GenAI as future wo...
Nov 12, 2024•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Urmila Kukreja of Smartsheet and Nick Simha of AWS discuss leveraging Amazon Q ’s Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solution to enhance productivity by enabling employees to quickly access relevant information within secure, integrated workflows like Slack, improving efficiency across the organization. Topics Include: Introduction by Nick Simha, AWS. Overview of Amazon Q ’s role in data analytics and Gen AI. Gen AI’s impact on productivity, ~30% improvement backed by Gartner study findings. G...
Nov 05, 2024•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Harold Rivas – Chief Information Security Officer at Trellix , discusses the role of generative AI in cybersecurity, focusing on Trellix's adoption of AI for threat detection and model governance, while emphasizing the importance of privacy, responsible innovation, and cross-functional collaboration. Topics Include: Introduction to generative AI and its impact on cybersecurity Harold’s background in financial services and cybersecurity roles Trellix’s focus on product feedback through the Custom...
Oct 29, 2024•59 min•Ep 61•Transcript available on Metacast Executive leaders from Arctic Wolf , Docker and Illumio share insights on fostering a strong security culture, balancing innovation with security, and addressing challenges in data protection and AI model development. Topics Include: Overview of security culture in different company teams Importance of guidelines and secure IT infrastructure for AI models Challenges of accessing customer data while maintaining security Need for anonymization in early AI model development Docker's open-source eco...
Oct 22, 2024•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Hear the generative AI journeys of Cohere , Epiq , and Forcura , including their market assessments, use case prioritization, responses to ethical and security considerations, while discussing generative AI's impact on healthcare, legal industries, and business applications. Topics Include: Panel Introductions by David Cristini Where is Focura at in their AI journey Summary of Epiq’s AI journey to date Cohere’s AI journey to date Where did each company begin and assessing the market opportunitie...
Oct 16, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast J.B. Brown , VP of Engineering at Smartsheet , shares how integrating Amazon Q with Smartsheet's flexible work management platform has streamlined productivity and enhanced employee support through AI-driven automation. Topics Include: Introduction by J.B. Brown, VP of Engineering at Smartsheet. Story about improving productivity Context about Smartsheet as an enterprise-scale work management platform. Examples of Smartsheet use in healthcare, TV streaming, and small businesses. Focus on not cha...
Oct 08, 2024•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast AWS's Shahid Mohammed and Darktrace's Michael Beck discuss how generative AI innovations are transforming cybersecurity by both enhancing defences and introducing new, sophisticated threat management strategies. Topics Include: Shahid Mohammed introduces himself as a lead solution architect at AWS. Mike Beck is Global Chief Information Security Officer at Darktrace . Darktrace specializes in AI-driven cybersecurity solutions for digital environments. Darktrace secures multiple digital data pots:...
Oct 01, 2024•23 min•Ep 57•Transcript available on Metacast Daryl Martis of Salesforce and Rashna Chadha of AWS share how Amazon Bedrock integrates with Salesforce to enhance AI applications, highlighting the partnership's strategic benefits, AI model customization, and secure deployment options. Topics Include: Introduction to Amazon Bedrock and Salesforce partnership. Overview of Amazon Bedrock as an API-based generative AI service. The strategic collaboration between AWS and Salesforce. Salesforce Data Cloud and its integration with Amazon Bedrock. Ov...
Sep 24, 2024•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ashish Arora , Head of Engineering & Machine Learning, Product Analytics at Autodesk , shares how personalized AI-powered experiences and real-time data can drive product adoption, featuring insights into Autodesk’s transformation journey, leveraging machine learning, and delivering actionable recommendations to millions of users. Topics Include: Real-time data description and examples Leveraging AWS for real time and generative AI services Autodesk’s journey leveraging AWS to transform arch...
Sep 17, 2024•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast A panel discussion on presenting on security and data to Boards of Directors, focusing on metrics, ROI, generative AI, securing intellectual property, and strategic board engagement. Topics Include: What security metrics are most valuable for Board of Directors Articulating ROI of security program Quantifying benefits of security program Sales enablement of the security team Driving efficiencies within the business with generative AI and more Quantifying business and template-based reporting to ...
Sep 10, 2024•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lacework ’s VP and Head of Engineering Arash Nikkar, and Product and Security Software Engineer Teddy Reed , discuss their work with generative AI and Amazon Bedrock, focusing on threat detection, chat interface improvements, and the rapid development of AI-driven solutions. Topics Include: Introducing Lacework with Arash Nikkar Working with AWS and Bedrock Focusing on threat detection Lacework ingests over a trillion events each day Composite alerts for detecting anomalies Developing and improv...
Sep 03, 2024•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Massimo Ghislandi from AWS interviews Frank Contrepois, Chief Innovation Officer of Strategic Blue and Dvir Mizrahi, Head of FinOps for WIX sharing perspectives and best practices for FinOps, implementation, challenges and future FinOps trends for software companies. Topics Include: FinOps is a new approach to managing cloud finances, bridging the gap between finance, engineering, and business stakeholders The implementation of FinOps can take a top-down or bottom-up approach, requiring collabor...
Aug 27, 2024•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast We feature a panel of executives from ASAPP , Glean , Smarsh , Socotra and AWS sharing essential strategies, including the role of Generative AI, trust-building, and addressing legal challenges to secure executive buy-in for transformative initiatives. Topics Include: Introductions to panel Example of ideal Executive Seller Depth of business acumen and problem solving are important skills for Executive Sellers Framing a customer problem and create the argument Making selling to a C-Suite a team ...
Aug 20, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today Anthropic ’s Zach Witten takes us on a deep dive into Anthropic’s cutting-edge AI models— Claude Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus —exploring their safety-first approach to generative AI and sharing essential tips for prompt engineering. Topics Include: Introductions, about Anthropic 3 models: Haiku, Sonnet and Opus Scaling laws for hardware, data and compute Competing to be safest AI solutions, safety-first organization Leader in jailbreak resistance Interpretability features and breakthroughs for ...
Aug 13, 2024•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today, Dr. Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja of Pure Storage takes us through how his organization is leveraging Amazon Bedrock to enrich the digital experience for end users and increase returns for the company. Topics Include: Introductions Generative AI activity within Pure Storage Ownership and expertise of team, role of generative AI Rapid changes require dedicated team reporting to office of CTO Where Pure Storage is investing – Productivity gains, Customer Experience, R&D Vision starts with t...
Aug 06, 2024•32 min•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast Federico Torreti and Tom Sly of AWS discuss how application developers can leverage Generative AI to enhance cross-app experiences, minimize custom integrations and increase the value-add of enhanced communication features. Topics Include: Federico Torreti intro: What is AWS’ vision for applications Focus of Machine Learning & AI Ability to build rapid prototypes, experimentation Cambrian explosion of SaaS applications The challenge of toggling of multiple applications Bringing the world of ...
Jul 30, 2024•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sara Yamase , Partner at Simon-Kucher & Partners , Head of Software, Internet and Media Practice shares guidance and industry examples on generative AI pricing and GTM strategies. Topics Include: What percentage of companies are developing Gen AI features for customers Projected returns on Gen AI investment Articulating the value is 1st step in building pricing and monetization strategy Almost half of VC funding in last 5 quarters were for AI solutions Getting through the hype cycle and trou...
Jul 23, 2024•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Today Nicole Eagan , Chief Strategy and AI Officer and Michael Beck , Global CISO of Darktrace AI Research centre share experience, predictions and guidance on the future of AI and Cybersecurity. Topics Include: A brief history of Darktrace Applying AI to the challenge of cyber security Changes and evolution of cyber security threats What are the key security challenges business are facing? Generative AI provided a seismic shift with threat actors Best practices for managing and scaling security...
Jul 16, 2024•31 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast A panel discussion with executives from ActionIQ , FloQast and Wiz on experiences and best practices for working and selling to customer C-suites. Topics Include: Panel introductions Keeping products and sellers focused on C-Suite outcomes Customer C-suite focus, identifying internal champions Keeping sales motion concise for key C-Suite Connecting value for enterprise space Impact of Generative AI and inventing on behalf of customers Customer impressions of GenAI and going beyond the hype Helpi...
Jul 09, 2024•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast We feature a conversation with Yuelin (李玥琳)Li , Chief Product Officer of Onfido and Phil Le-Brun - Enterprise Strategist, Amazon Web Services, about the pivotal role of AI, machine learning, and generative AI in fraud prevention and security in the identity verification industry. Topics Include: Yuelin Li career journey Overview and mission of Onfido Use of AI and Machine Learning at Onfido Successes in reducing fraud with identity verification Challenges faced and overcome with Machine Learning...
Jul 02, 2024•30 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast Executive Leaders from Proofpoint , Sumo Logic and Zendesk share their experiences and best practices for collaboration with AWS to deliver transformative impact to their business using Generative AI. Panelists: Patrick Wheeler , Director, Product Management, Proofpoint Bashyam Anant , Senior Director, Product Management, Sumo Logic Patrick Copeland , Chief Engineering & Product Officer, Zendesk Olawale Oladehin , Director ISV Solutions Architecture, North America, AWS Topics Include: Introd...
Jun 25, 2024•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jimmy Hillis , Head of Engineering at Airtable , shares examples, guidance and major themes for how businesses can successfully build and leverage AI within their enterprise applications and workflows. Topics Include: Introductions and Airtable overview Challenges businesses have articulating how AI will add value Core insights: AI needs to leverage your own data AI functionality needs to live within existing tools and workflows Have workflow and business experts building prompts for the desired...
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