James Drayson, Co-Founder & CEO of Locai Labs and Mark Boost, Founder and CEO of Civo, explains how Locai Labs, the UK’s sovereign AI company, and Civo, the British sovereign cloud provider, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to undertake Project Mercury - a programme to build the UK’s first pre-trained, sovereign large language models (LLMs), With the aim of empowering UK enterprises and government with secure, home-grown frontier models designed to drive innovation and...
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Dom Selvon, Chief Technology Officer, at Valliance, an AI consultancy, argues that, with boards and leadership teams under pressure to deploy AI quickly, many organisations are investing in agents that aren’t aligned with how their business actually works. Dom explains that, when it comes to deploying agentic AI, what truly matters is the enterprise intelligence stack underneath agents and agentic platforms – how an organisation defines truth, makes decisions, and governs risk - ontologies...
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Laurent Gil, President of Cast AI, discusses the findings of the company’s 2026 State of Kubernetes Optimisation Report, a comprehensive analysis of GPU, CPU, and memory utilisation across non-optimised Kubernetes clusters. Drawing on data from tens of thousands of clusters, the report delivers a clear and urgent message: GPU are poorly utilised despite their cost, at 5%; the efficiency gains that Kubernetes was designed to unlock are not emerging naturally with scale, and the gap between...
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In this interview, Emma Acton, EMEA VP Marketing at Zendesk, discusses how marketing is evolving across a highly diverse regional landscape. She explores the tension between brand building and demand generation, the realities of account-based strategies, and the challenge of making complex martech ecosystems work seamlessly. Acton also shares her perspective on how AI and automation are reshaping marketing across EMEA markets.
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In this interview, Lee Clark, Cyber Intelligence Production Manager at RH-ISAC, discusses the evolving role of threat intelligence. He explores how organisations are shifting from reactive security approaches toward more actionable, collaborative intelligence sharing models. Clark also reflects on emerging threats, the role of AI in cybersecurity, and the importance of cross-industry cooperation in strengthening collective defence.
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In this conversation with Vishnu Parimi, VP Employee Service at Zendesk, we explore how organisations are responding to rising customer and employee expectations through more connected, scalable service models. It examines the balance between AI-driven efficiency and keeping employee service human-centric, along with the role of integration, data, and automation in improving speed and experience across global teams.
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