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Maribel Lopez
Founder and Principal Analyst at Lopez Research LLC
Mount Pleasant, United States
I'm a technology industry analyst, speaker, podcaster and author at Lopez Research focused on AI, mobile, future of work technology (collaboration, CCaaS etc). I'm the author of a John Wiley & Sons book called Right-time Experience and contributor to Forbes.com. My podcasts are AI with Maribel Lopez and Reimagine Technology at Work.
Available For: Speaking Travels From: Charleston SC
Speaking Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Future of Work, Customer and Employee Experience
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HPE Updates Hardware, Private Cloud And Networking For Agentic AI Era
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June 24, 2026
HPE Discover 2026 makes the case for private and sovereign AI — why hybrid infrastructure, not public cloud alone, is the future for regulated industries and governments.
Tags: Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology
Enterprise AI’s Security Time Bomb Is Ticking. Cisco Shares Its Plan.
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June 04, 2026
Cisco warns AI is cutting attack timelines from weeks to minutes. Agents, identity gaps, and scale are creating risks most enterprises aren't equipped to handle.
Tags: Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology
The Privacy Paradox: Navigating Ethical AI Implementation in the Age of Data
Linkedln
April 01, 2025
AI ethics and privacy have become critical concerns as artificial intelligence transforms businesses worldwide. With increasing regulatory scrutiny and consumer awareness, organizations must balance innovation with responsible AI practices. This article discusses AI privacy frameworks, ethical considerations, and implementation strategies.
Five9 Elevates Genius AI Suite With Knowledge Integration
Forbes
August 08, 2024
Five9 updated its Genius AI suite with a new knowledge feature, shared its 4 step process for leveraging generative AI and acquired Acqueon to broaden its CX portfolio.
Exploring AI Governance With IBM's Heather Gentile
LinkedIn
March 28, 2024
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), governance has emerged as a critical imperative for organizations worldwide. As AI technologies continue to proliferate across industries, the need for responsible, transparent, and explainable AI has never been greater. In a recent LinkedIn Live session, I sat down with Heather Gentile, Director of watson.X.Governance at IBM, to explore the frontiers of AI governance and its implications for businesses in 2024. (You can view the conversation
Lopez Research Analyst Perspective: AI and Growth Drive HPE’s Strategic Acquisition of Juniper, But It’s Too Early to Declare Victory
Linkedln
January 11, 2024
The new year is off with a bang, with the first of what I predict will be many acquisitions in 2024, with HPE acquiring Juniper Networks for $14 billion. Industry analysts sometimes feel rushed to share commentary on an acquisition because of its news. However, one of the benefits of being an analyst is that you can contemplate a story for more time if necessary. In this case, it was required. Indeed, I’ve gone back and forth on whether the HPE-Juniper deal will achieve its promises.
Tags: Analytics, Digital Transformation, Future of Work
Apple Targets AI And Gaming With Turbocharged M3 Chips And New Macs
Forbes
October 30, 2023
After years of record sales and supply chain shortages that kept demand high, computing vendors found themselves on the offensive. The past several financial quarters have been rough for computing manufacturers, with many tech vendors experiencing double digital declines of 20 percent or more. Despite weak sales, market leaders continue to invest in innovation as software and gaming performance demands continue to push the need for more efficient and performant architectures.
T-Mobile Bolsters Its Edge Computing Offering With Google Cloud Deal
Forbes
July 07, 2023
Partnerships between cloud computing and telecom companies, such as T-Mobile and Google Cloud, are needed to help enterprises deliver AI-drive business applications.
Four Google Cloud Customers Share How They Use AI To Deliver Value
Forbes
July 06, 2023
Google Cloud customers shared how they are combining search, chat and LLMS to create content, synthesize data, automate processes, and build new customer experiences.
Tags: Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology
HPE Dives Into Supercomputing As-A-Service With GreenLake For AI LLMs
Forbes
June 28, 2023
HPE teamed up with Aleph Alpha, an AI startup, to offer ready-to-use large language models (LLMs) as part of its on-demand, multi-tenant supercomputing cloud service.
Managing Multicloud: A Conversation With VMware
LinkedIn
January 23, 2023
Companies of all sizes embraced cloud computing, with organizations deploying workloads and applications across a mixture of private infrastructure and public clouds. The terms multi-cloud and hybrid cloud are part of today’s technology lexicon. Multi-cloud refers to using multiple cloud computing services from different vendors in a hybrid infrastructure. Instead of relying on a single vendor for all its cloud computing needs, a business may use multiple clouds to access best-of-breed cloud services, diversify infrastructure risk and minimize vendor lock-in.
Wendy's Cooks Up New Experiences With AI, Cloud And Edge Computing
Forbes
January 12, 2023
Wendy's new restaurant design standard, Global Next Gen, use AI, edge computing and a new optimized layout to deliver more convenience, speed, and accuracy for its customers and delivery partners.
Making Employee Resource Groups And ESG Work Better Delivers Business Value
Forbes
October 10, 2022
Companies are increasingly working to address significant workplace and global challenges through wellness, environmental and social governance (ESG) programs. Many organizations have signed up for wide scale ESG goals. Others recognize the difficulties of creating engagement and culture in a distributed environment. In boardrooms across the globe, companies are posing the question of how they will execute, measure, and monitor progress. To find out how companies were addressing this challenge, I interviewed Susan Hunt Stevens, the CEO of WeSpire.
AI And CCaaS Help Marshall McLennan And McKesson Build Business Efficiencies
Forbes
September 08, 2022
Firms have a pressing need to enhance their digital sales and support solutions to address new customer demands. Businesses look to AI and CCaaS to support these efforts.
Microsoft’s Viva Sales Opens Up CRM Prospects By Easing Sales Woes
Forbes
June 23, 2022
Microsoft's Viva Sales aims to eliminate CRM data siloes for salespeople. The companion app integrates with Microsoft solutions and will support third-party CRM suites.
The Data and Culture Transformation Imperative
linkedin
May 06, 2022
In 2022, every IT leader Lopez Research speaks with has embraced digital business concepts for at least part of their workloads. Today, these leaders understand that being digital isn't enough. We're moving beyond digital transformation to an environment where companies need to accelerate their ability put data its data into action. Companies also need insights to help them proactively support the business. I call this the digital acceleration era.
Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation, Sustainability
Tech Offerings Aim To Help Businesses Realize Sustainability Goals
LinkedIn
April 07, 2022
Over the past five years, it's become vogue for companies to sign up for aggressive climate change goals. There are some simple methods that companies have adopted to demonstrate progress, such as cutting back on travel, switching to virtual conferences, and allowing employees to participate in hybrid work. However, these shifts were driven more by the pandemic than robust sustainability plans.
Tags: Cloud, Digital Transformation, Sustainability
Delivering the Right Retail Experience Requires an Edge Strategy That Connects to the Cloud
LinkedIn
April 06, 2022
It’s clear that market expectations have changed for retailers in the past several years. Many retail experiences can’t fulfill today’s changing customer expectations. Retailers must reimagine and evolve digital and in-person experiences to create what Lopez Research calls right-time experiences. An RTE delivers the right information to the right person at the right time. These experiences are contextual, learning, predictive and prescriptive. To enable new experiences, retailers need to create a distributed infrastructure that supports analytics from the edge to the cloud. The architecture must be high-performing, resilient, and scalable – even at the edge.
New Tech Offerings Aim To Help Businesses Realize Sustainability Goals
Forbes
February 15, 2022
Over the past five years, it's become vogue for companies to sign up for aggressive climate change goals. There are some simple methods that companies have adopted to demonstrate progress, such as cutting back on travel, switching to virtual conferences, and allowing employees to participate in hybrid work. However, these shifts were driven more by the pandemic than robust sustainability plans.
NVIDIA Broadens Focus On Women In STEM At GTC
Forbes
October 25, 2021
Diversity and inclusion strategies remain a hot topic in board rooms across the globe. Over the past several years, technology companies have been heavily criticized for the low representation of women and minorities in technical and leadership roles. Many of these companies have since created hiring metrics and programs to recruit new talent. However, this isn’t a problem that can be fixed overnight. While women comprise nearly half the workforce, they hold only 28% of the jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), according to the National Girls Collaborative Project.
Google Splits Its TPU Chip in Two. Here’s Why That Decision Matters for Enterprise Buyers.
Linkedin
May 27, 2026
The AI chip acronym soup of CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, etc., shows how the computing landscape continued to expand and change over the past decade. At Google Cloud Next, the company released two distinct TPUs (Tensor Processing Units) instead of one — TPU-8t, built for training, and TPU-8i, built for inference and the emerging demands of agentic workloads.
The AI Operating Model: IBM's Answer to Enterprise AI's Hardest Problems
Linkedin
May 06, 2026
This week I'm at IBM's Think to learn more about how they are addressing AI. This is a shorter version of my thoughts on IBM's releases. Each component could've been it's own newsletter but here is the s
Harness Engineering, Orchestration, and Compound (Multi) Agents: The Enterprise AI Vocabulary You Need
Linkedin
May 04, 2026
Most enterprise AI practitioners are running multiple AI models. The question was never how many models or whether they were open models. The question that's harder to answer — and the one that determines whether your AI investments compound or fragment — is which system those models are part of, and what you are actually evaluating when a vendor puts a platform in front of you.
Amazon Connect Is Now a Family of Products That Adds Agentic AI to CX, HCM, Supply Chain and Healthcare
Linkedin
April 28, 2026
AWS is betting that Amazon Connect agentic AI belongs in supply chain, hiring, and healthcare — not just customer service. The branding is smart. Here’s my quick take.
Managing a Fleet of Thousands of AI Agents Is the Real Problem. Google Cloud Showed Its Answer.
Linkedin
April 24, 2026
Enterprises spent most of 2025 figuring out what AI agents are and which tools could build them. The conversation in 2026 is different. The question now is how to govern, monitor, and scale fleets of agents across the enterprise — without losing control of what they’re doing or why.
AI Has Two Data Problems. Most Companies Are Only Solving One.
Linkedin
April 17, 2026
Ask most enterprise technology leaders about their biggest obstacle to AI, and the answer is data. The data isn’t clean enough, accessible enough, or consistent enough to feed AI with confidence.
Why Your AI Mandate Is Running Out of Money Before It Runs Out of Ideas
Linkedin
April 07, 2026
Most organizations aren’t failing at AI because the technology doesn’t work. They’re failing because of decisions made before a single model was deployed. Decisions such as how to scope and fund an initiative, what success was supposed to look like, and whether anyone was measuring whether they got there.
The Rules for Scaling AI Have Changed. Yum Brands Proved It.
Linkedin
March 31, 2026
Picking a use case, proving value, and expanding is the standard advice for getting started with AI. For the early stages of AI deployment, this advice is still sound. But at NVIDIA GTC, Cameron Davies, Chief Data Officer of Yum Brands, made the case that large enterprises need to think differently—and he had the results to back it up.
Why AI Tool Adoption Without Workflow Redesign Is a Waste of Money
Linkedin
March 06, 2026
Most enterprises are layering AI tools on top of broken processes and wondering why the ROI never materializes. Cisco took a different approach. Instead of adding more tools to existing workflows, Cisco built a methodology for redesigning workflows from the ground up.
Right-Time Experiences: Driving Revenue with Mobile and Big Data
Amazon
October 06, 2014
Grasp how mobile, big data, and analytics are combining to change business processes
Right Experience, Right Results: Improving Profits, Margin, and Engagement with Mobile and Big Data illustrates how businesses can use mobility, big data, and analytics to enhance or change business processes, improve margins through better insight, transform customer experiences, empower employees with real-time, actionable insight, and more. The book depicts how companies can create competitive differentiation using mobile, cloud computing big data, and analytics to improve commerce, customer service, and communications with employees and consumers.
In the past, the technologies used to deliver personalized and contextual services were either unavailable, unaffordable, or reserved solely for the consumer market. Today, however, the next wave of computing—mobile, cloud computing. big data, and analytics—has provided the foundation for businesses to create adaptive, personalized applications and services. Delivered point-of-need, these smarter services allow enterprise products and services to meet the burgeoning demand for always-connected, accurate, and real-time information. Right Experience, Right Results: Improving Profits, Margin, and Engagement with Mobile and Big Data is your guide to the new way of doing things. The book includes:
Real world examples that illustrate how companies across various industries are creating better business processes by integrating new technologies
A three step action plan for getting started and overcoming obstacles
An electronic checklist with numerous actions that help get you up and running with incorporating mobile, big data, and analytics
A guide to drawing insight from mobile, social, and other sources to create richer experiences
If you're a CEO, chief marketing officer, marketing director, or business manager, Right Experience, Right Results gives you everything you need to harness technology to breathe new life into your business.
Lopez Research tracks trends for a wide range of technology topics including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, connected devices and A.I. Our clients range from start-ups to global firms, including 10 of the Fortune 30.
These Who’s Who lists are created using the Onalytica platform which has a curated database of over 1 million influencers. Our platform allows you to discover, validate and categorise influencers quickly and easily via keyword searches. The lists are made using carefully created Boolean queries which then rank influencers by resonance, relevance, reach and reference, meaning influencers are not only ranked by themselves, but also by how much other influencers are referring to them. The lists are then validated, and filters are used to split the influencers up into the categories that are seen in the list.
Interact at Your Digital Edge
Equinix
November 02, 2022
Become demand driven. This session will discuss how building a digital presence alone is not enough to compete. Discover how they bridged the virtual and physical world by establishing a secure edge presence to build business relevant insights and transform the user experience - where business happens.
Let's Talk Shop with Maribel Lopez | All About Edge Computing
YouTube
October 11, 2022
An exciting episode with a fellow analyst and researcher. Maribel is the "queen" of the edge! a can't miss episode. We discussed all things edge computing and even had some fun with the Metaverse. From theoretical to practical applications of the edge, this episode is packed with insights and real world information.
What Cybersecurity Lessons Were Learned in 2021? Maribel Lopez Looks Back with Us | Intel Business
YouTube
January 07, 2022
What were the biggest cybersecurity topics of the past year? What can we learn from them? In this episode of Cyber Security Inside, Camille and Tom get into the biggest cybersecurity topics of the past year with Maribel Lopez, Founder and Principal Analyst at Lopez Research. You’ll learn about: The large scale attacks on infrastructure this year on a wide range of companies. Where the attacks were occurring to have the biggest impact on systems. The development of artificial intelligence and how far along we are in that area. Ways to convince companies and decision makers to focus on cybersecurity. And more! Check it out.
Tags: Cybersecurity, Digital Disruption, Future of Work
Faster to the Future Episode 2: Pat Gelsinger with Maribel Lopez
Soundcloud
October 15, 2020
In episode 2 of the Faster to the Future podcast, industry analyst Maribel Lopez joins VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger. They discuss the business, culture and digital transformation needed to support the massive shift to remote work brought on by the pandemic.
Tags: Digital Transformation, Digital Disruption, Future of Work
IPhone 12 to Create a Good Quarter for Apple: Analyst
Bloomberg
October 13, 2020
Maribel Lopez, founder and analyst of Lopez Research, talks about Apple Inc.'s latest range of iPhones that support 5G. At a virtual event, the company showed off the iPhone 12 in black, red, blue, green and white with a 6.1-inch screen. It starts at $799. A smaller version, the iPhone 12 mini, costs $699. The phones use aluminum sides. There’s also an iPhone 12 Pro, starting at $999 and a iPhone 12 Pro Max that costs at least $1,099, both with stainless steel edges. Lopez speaks on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia." (Source: Bloomberg)
Key Elements of Cyber Security You Can't Ignore
Cyber security Inside
September 10, 2020
Tom: In today's podcast we're going to explore the key elements of cyber security that you just can't ignore. And for that topic, we've got a guest I'm really excited about: Maribel Lopez. She is a founder and Principal Analyst at Lopez Research focused on digital transformation. Maribel Lopez founded the Emerging Technology Research Council, which is a community of business and technical leaders in Fortune 1000 companies focused on driving innovation and business value with mobile and other emerging technologies.
Tags: Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Emerging Technology
196 Podcasts
HPE Updates Hardware, Private Cloud And Networking For Agentic AI Era
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June 25, 2026
The cloud never captured every enterprise workload — and AI won't be any different. Roughly 35–50% of workloads have migrated to public cloud in 15+ years, with cost, regulation, and data sovereignty keeping the rest on-premises. The same forces are shaping AI infrastructure decisions today.
At
The Enterprise AI Time Bomb Is Ticking. Cisco Shares Its Plan.
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June 05, 2026
Cisco delivered a stark security warning at its Cisco Live keynote. AI is compressing attack timelines from weeks to minutes, agents are creating unmanaged attack surfaces, and most enterprises lack the governance infrastructure to respond. Here is what technology leaders need to know.
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Moving Beyond Building AI Agents With IBM's Suzanne Livingston
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May 19, 2026
Enterprises have agents. Most can't run them at scale. IBM's Suzanne Livingston explains what changes when you have hundreds — not two.Full Show NotesScaling agentic AI is not the same problem as building it. At IBM Think 2026 in Boston, I sat down with Suzanne Livingston, VP of Product
Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Future of Work
Moving Beyond Building AI Agents With IBM’s Suzanne Livingston
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May 19, 2026
Enterprises have agents. Most can't run them at scale. IBM's Suzanne Livingston explains what changes when you have hundreds — not two. Full Show Notes Scaling agentic AI is not the same problem as building it. At IBM Think 2026 in Boston, I sat down with Suzanne Livingston, VP of Produc
The New AI Math: Time-to-Token and Cost-per-Token Gets Highlighted at Dell Technologies World
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May 19, 2026
With token consumption projected to grow 3,400% by 2030, how enterprises build and measure AI infrastructure is no longer a technical decision. It is a strategic one. Dell Technologies World Day One showed what the right architecture looks like — and what it costs to get it wrong.
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Dell Shares AI Advances And New Metrics To Evaluate Infrastructure
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May 19, 2026
Agentic AI systems require 100 to 1,000 times more computation than a simple query. That changes the economics of every infrastructure decision. At Dell Technologies World, Michael Dell made the case for measuring AI infrastructure differently — and announced the data, ecosystem, and cooling archi
Four Types of AI Agents With Dell's John Roese. Most Enterprises Are Only Building One
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May 13, 2026
Dell's CTO built a 4-category agent framework from real production deployments. Most enterprises are ignoring two of the categories that matter most.Full Show NotesEnterprise leaders are mapping AI agents to org charts — building digital employees, agentic teams, AI workers — and then wonde
Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Future of Work
Four Types of AI Agents With Dell’s John Roese. Most Enterprises Are Only Building One
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May 13, 2026
Dell's CTO built a 4-category agent framework from real production deployments. Most enterprises are ignoring two of the categories that matter most. Full Show Notes Enterprise leaders are mapping AI agents to org charts — building digital employees, agentic teams, AI workers — and then won
AI Has A Business Context Problem.
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May 06, 2026
Vodafone, Ericsson and Google share insights at an SAP event on business context for AI.
The post AI Has A Business Context Problem. appeared first on Lopez Research.
Why Enterprises Need an AI Operating Model | IBM Think 2026
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May 06, 2026
Most enterprises are using AI. Far fewer are running their business on it. IBM's Think 2026 announcements — spanning agentic development, agent governance, real-time data, security remediation, and sovereign infrastructure — are built around that gap. This analysis examines what IBM announced, w
Harness Engineering, Orchestration, and Compound Agents: The Enterprise AI Vocabulary You Need To Know
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May 04, 2026
What enterprise leaders can learn from LangChain, Thinking Machines Lab, Perplexity, Cursor, NVIDIA and Reflection AI founders about the AI system architecture, harness engineering, orchestration and agentic systems.
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AI Success Requires Redesigning the Future of Work
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April 30, 2026
Cisco’s Systematic Approach to Redesigning Processes for the Future of Work Offers a Blueprint for Enterprise Leaders Struggling with AI ROI Originally posted in the March 6, 2026 “AI Decoded With Maribel Lopez” LinkedIN newsletter that discusses AI and the future of work for enterpris
Amazon Connect Is Now a Family of Products That Adds Agentic AI to CX, HCM, Supply Chain and Healthcare
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April 28, 2026
Amazon Connect is no longer a contact center only product. It's a family of four agentic AI solutions targeting customer experience, supply chain, hiring, and healthcare. The branding logic is sound. But enterprise buyers running SAP, Workday, or Oracle have real questions about integration and disp
Google Splits Its TPU Chip in Two. Here’s Why That Decision Matters for Enterprise Buyers.
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April 26, 2026
Google's 8th-gen TPUs split training and inference into two chips. Here's what it means for enterprise AI infrastructure strategy in 2026.
The post Google Splits Its TPU Chip in Two. Here’s Why That Decision Matters for Enterprise Buyers. appeared first on Lopez Research.
Managing a Fleet of Thousands of Agents Is the Real Problem. Google Cloud Showed Its Answer.
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April 24, 2026
Enterprises spent 2025 building AI agents. The challenge in 2026 is governing, monitoring, and scaling fleets of them without losing control. Google's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform — which consolidates both Vertex AI and Agentspace — is its answer to that problem. Here's what the announcement
Scaling AI with Proven Strategies and Frameworks
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April 21, 2026
Learn how Yum Brands navigates the complexities of scaling AI across global locations and diverse use cases.
The post Scaling AI with Proven Strategies and Frameworks appeared first on Lopez Research.
Three AI Trends That Change Jobs
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April 17, 2026
Learn about AI trends shaping the future of work and software transformation, with insights from Sam Altman at the Cisco AI Summit
The post Three AI Trends That Change Jobs appeared first on Lopez Research.
Four Enterprise AI Spending Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
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April 07, 2026
Enterprise AI spending is rising fast. Discover four common investment pitfalls and how to ensure your AI strategy delivers measurable business value.
The post Four Enterprise AI Spending Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them appeared first on Lopez Research.
The New Rules for Scaling AI: What Yum Brands Learned
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April 07, 2026
Picking a use case, proving value, and expanding has been the standard starting point for enterprise AI. For organizations early in their AI journey, that advice still holds. But for large enterprises that are past the pilot stage and trying to scale across business units, geographies, and brands, i
Physics AI Explained: Why Hardware Design Requires a Different Kind of AI
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March 31, 2026
Not every AI problem is a language problem. I talk with Vinci CEO Hardik Kabaria about what changes when AI has to reason about the physical world. Full show notes Most of the AI conversation in enterprise circles is about large language models — text, code, maybe images. This episode is about som
NemoClaw, OpenClaw, and the Real Reason Enterprises Haven’t Deployed AI Agents Yet
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March 25, 2026
NVIDIA’s NemoClaw adds enterprise security to OpenClaw. What it does, what it doesn’t, and what CIOs should do before deploying. FULL SHOW NOTES OpenClaw became the fastest-growing open-source project in history. Enterprise buyers watched from the sidelines — not because the technology was
Beyond Models and GPUs: Why Enterprise AI Libraries Matter
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March 20, 2026
By Maribel Lopez NVIDIA GTC 2026 Part 2. Everyone is talking about AI hardware and AI models, but companies need more than that to make AI deployable in the enterprise. Let’s talk about enterprise AI libraries. Enterprise AI spending has grown eightfold over the past three years. The ambitio
NemoClaw Gives Enterprise AI Agents The Security Layer They’ve Been Missing
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March 18, 2026
The NVIDIA GTC announcement of the NemoClaw stack addresses one of the real reasons enterprises haven’t deployed AI agents at scale — and one vendor’s alternative to address those concerns. OpenClaw became the fastest-growing open-source project in history while enterprise buyers watched f
Why Deploying More AI Tools Won’t Fix Your Workflows: Lessons Learned From Cisco
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March 10, 2026
Most enterprises are layering AI tools on top of broken processes and wondering why ROI never materializes. In this solo episode, Maribel breaks down Cisco’s systematic approach to workflow redesign, why visibility into how work actually gets done is the missing first step, and what enterprise lea
SaaS Isn’t Dead — But the “Dead” Narrative Is Leading Enterprise Buyers Astray
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March 03, 2026
Episode Summary: The “SaaS is dead” narrative is generating real confusion for enterprise buyers trying to make procurement decisions right now. In this solo episode, Maribel Lopez breaks down the two legitimate arguments driving the disruption narrative — AI coding tools and agentic A
On the Quest to Unify Data and Analytics
Data Defined
September 23, 2020
There’s so much data being generated, yet much of it remains untapped. Getting in the way of that value are too many platforms, a lack of collaboration, and an abundance of siloes. Why is it so hard to deploy a unified data and analytics strategy?
Join us for another episode of Data Defined where we dive into the past, present, and future of unifying data and analytics strategy. Our panel of industry experts will dive into:
Challenges organizations face when converging enterprise products
Solutions to make an end-to-end strategy possible
Benefits of unifying data management and analytics
Edge Computing World; Unapologetically Ambitious: A Discussion on Talent & Diversity
Location: Online Date : October 12, 2020 - October 12, 2020 Organizer: Top
CEOs the world over agree that there is a talent shortage. A high growth sector like edge computing needs to capitalize upon all available talent to maximize its pace & achieve its potential. But how? In conversation with leading tech analyst Maribel Lopez, Shellye Archambeau will discuss her own experiences, lessons learned, the challenges of our time, and why she believes that there’s never been a better time for female tech entrepreneurs.
There’s no one better to answer that question than Shellye Archambeau. Her new book, ”Unapologetically Ambitious,” is the inspiring story of how a woman of color beat the odds and became a Silicon Valley CEO. She now sits on the Board of four major companies – Verizon Communications Inc., Nordstrom Inc., Roper Technologies Inc., and Okta Inc. She was the first woman of color appointed to the Okta board, adding another “first” to a career that has been marked by being the first woman, woman of color, or person of color to achieve a given position.
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HPE Updates Hardware, Private Cloud And Networking For Agentic AI Era
Enterprise AI’s Security Time Bomb Is Ticking. Cisco Shares Its Plan.
Dell Shares AI Advances And New Metrics To Evaluate Infrastructure
Google Splits Its AI Chip. Here’s Why It Matters For Enterprises
The Privacy Paradox: Navigating Ethical AI Implementation in the Age of Data
Five9 Elevates Genius AI Suite With Knowledge Integration
Exploring AI Governance With IBM's Heather Gentile
Lopez Research Analyst Perspective: AI and Growth Drive HPE’s Strategic Acquisition of Juniper, But It’s Too Early to Declare Victory
Apple Targets AI And Gaming With Turbocharged M3 Chips And New Macs
Samsung’s Foldable Line Gets Two Major Improvements
T-Mobile Bolsters Its Edge Computing Offering With Google Cloud Deal
Four Google Cloud Customers Share How They Use AI To Deliver Value
Five Microsoft AI Advances That Business Leaders Should Know About
HPE Dives Into Supercomputing As-A-Service With GreenLake For AI LLMs
Managing Multicloud: A Conversation With VMware
Wendy's Cooks Up New Experiences With AI, Cloud And Edge Computing
Making Employee Resource Groups And ESG Work Better Delivers Business Value
AI And CCaaS Help Marshall McLennan And McKesson Build Business Efficiencies
Honeywell Shrinks The Industrial Skills Gap With AI
Microsoft’s Viva Sales Opens Up CRM Prospects By Easing Sales Woes
Tech Offerings Aim To Help Businesses Realize Sustainability Goals
Delivering the Right Retail Experience Requires an Edge Strategy That Connects to the Cloud
New Tech Offerings Aim To Help Businesses Realize Sustainability Goals
NVIDIA Broadens Focus On Women In STEM At GTC
Google Splits Its TPU Chip in Two. Here’s Why That Decision Matters for Enterprise Buyers.
The AI Operating Model: IBM's Answer to Enterprise AI's Hardest Problems
Harness Engineering, Orchestration, and Compound (Multi) Agents: The Enterprise AI Vocabulary You Need
Amazon Connect Is Now a Family of Products That Adds Agentic AI to CX, HCM, Supply Chain and Healthcare
Managing a Fleet of Thousands of AI Agents Is the Real Problem. Google Cloud Showed Its Answer.
AI Has Two Data Problems. Most Companies Are Only Solving One.
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