While we’ve talked a lot about the general aspects of digital transformation, in manufacturing there are an additional set of concerns and benefits. Consulting analyst, David Immerman joins host Eric Hanselman to explore where technology improvements are improving efficiency and how they’re looking at addressing a set of new challenges. Adoption of new technologies is more complex than in the IT world and issues like sustainability weigh heavily.

The modern digital business is wrestling with how to balance competing concerns across data management, privacy and security. Sheryl Kingstone, Paige Bartley and Justin Lam return to the podcast to look at how organizations are addressing them with host Eric Hanselman. Data is needed to improve customer and employee experience, but regulations are imposing restrictions on its use. At the same time, data security concerns are driving the adoption of new technologies. What’s a business to do?

With all of the furor surrounding generative AI, a more fundamental understanding of the technology can provide better insights. Peter Licursi and Chris Tanner of Kensho return to look at the history and technology on which all of the AI hype rests with host Eric Hanselman. Language models have been with us for years, but the combination of lower cost computing and the ready availability of large volumes of training data have transformed the types of problems that we’re able to address. https://pages.marketintelligence.spglobal.com/Next-in-Tech-Podcast-Subscribe-Options.html

With the attention given to the metaverse, it’s worth digging into the more practical details of how it’s impacting the need for infrastructure, and what the market impacts can be. Ian Hughes and Neil Barbour return to look at recent research, market forecasts, and the evolution of advertising in this new realm with host Eric Hanselman. As practical applications extend from gaming to the industrial metaverse and investment strategies change, branding and advertising are changing along with them.

The RSA Conference in San Francisco is a major event for the information security industry and this year will have the risks and benefits of generative AI to add to the conversations. Research director Scott Crawford and security analysts Garrett Bekker and Dan Kennedy join host Eric Hanselman to explore the realities of the trends and technologies at the conference. AI has the in improving security operations, but the attacker community is already weaponizing it for their own ends.   