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Dispatches from the room — conferences, summits, and briefings
On-the-ground analysis from Google Cloud Next, KubeCon, AWS re:Invent, Davos, and analyst summits. What was said, what it means, and what the stage-managed version left out.
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I/O 2026 was the second half of a sentence Google began at Cloud Next — and the real news sat in two quiet decisions: where the agent runs…
Google Cloud Next ’26 and the three-year verdict on the agentic enterprise.
Reflections on Google Cloud Next ’25
Disclaimer: Google Cloud is providing me with a conference pass and support for travel and accommodation, as with the cases with all…
I will be in Davos all of next week around the WEF annual meeting 2025 and will be focusing on/ talking about building responsible GenAI/…
Every year, scores of startups find themselves to be replaced by feature announcements at AWS re:Invent 2024. Not this year — it was less…
Introduction
AWS is innovating across its GenAI stack, but it’s Day 1.
Reflections on Google Cloud Next ’24
Redis/ Redis Labs
--- !(https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/00F8V60Dn0P7gQngq.jpg) AWS re:Invent(https://reinvent.awsevents.com/) was a well attended one with more than 43K attendees. Here are my observations from the event. Discla