Post by Matthew Connor

Nico Stein, SVP of IT at Signal Financial Federal Credit Union, told his board point blank that ransomware is coming, he cannot stop it, and the only question is how fast they can recover, then built the immutable storage foundation to back that up while calling out AI vendor noise for exactly what it is: a PowerPoint with a label on it unless it solves a real problem. Keith Trawick, CIO of Stretch Zone, is mid-rollout on a voice agent system across 420-plus franchise locations and makes the case that non-deterministic AI on top of inconsistent data fails before it starts, which is why the data foundation and governance layer have to come before the agent. Kelley Kage, CIO of EMPLOYERS, achieved 77% companywide AI adoption and 90% training completion in under two months by treating it as a change management problem rather than a technology rollout, and the ROI is already paying for itself multiple times over because the ideas came from the business leaders, not the tech team. Check out their episodes on: https://lnkd.in/eXvtzDyb