John Bradshaw, Director of Cloud Computing Technology and Strategy at Akamai EMEA, explains how, as enterprises scale AI, traditional cloud infrastructure is being tested in new ways. The solution? AI Grid: specialised infrastructure purpose-built for AI workloads. John outlines how AI Grids can move the industry beyond isolated AI factories and towards a distributed grid for AI inference – and the real-life benefits for enterprises in the UK and beyond.
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Chris Street, Group Chief Revenue Officer of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, discusses the findings of a new regional research study, Mind the Gap: Bridging the AI Infrastructure Readiness Divide, examining how organisations across Asia are progressing from AI ambition to execution. Commissioned by STT GDC with research partner Ecosystm, the study reveals that AI ambition across Asia is high, with nearly 90% of organisations having embarked on their AI journeys. However, a significant 71% remain in the "Builder" stage of maturity, where initial AI pilots struggle to scale into production environments capable of delivering consistent and measurable return on investment (ROI).
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In this discussion, Marie Hargraves, Principal Crisis Advisor at Semperis, explores how organisations can move beyond firefighting to build true cyber resilience. She explores how fragmented communication, unclear ownership, and lack of real-time coordination cause response efforts to break down under pressure. She also unpacks why post-incident reviews so often fail to translate into meaningful resilience improvements, leaving the same mistakes to resurface in the next attack.
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Cyber risk is increasingly being viewed as a business resilience challenge rather than solely an IT concern. In this interview, Helen Barge, Principal at Howden Risk Advisory, discusses the importance of leadership in cybersecurity, the impact of evolving compliance requirements, and how MSPs can help organisations strengthen resilience, improve cyber hygiene, and create long-term business value.
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Rahul Powar, explains that, as cyber threats increasingly target critical infrastructure, a new analysis from Red Sift exposes major email security weaknesses across the US’s largest data center operators. Despite powering the country’s digital economy, more than a quarter of the top 100 data centres fail to enforce basic email authentication, leaving the door wide open to domain spoofing and phishing.
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Andy Bates, CISO/Chief Product Officer at StonesThro, explains how the company, working in partnership with Cornerstone, a leading mobile infrastructure services provider, has successfully executed a groundbreaking Proof of Concept (POC) for micro-edge computing. The trials have demonstrated that distributed architectures can deliver sub-10ms latency, essential for many IOT applications, while significantly reducing the carbon footprint of AI and data processing. As Andy summarises, taking the compute power usually locked away in massive warehouses and deploying it in the regions where it is actually needed and makes the cloud local, sovereign, and sustainable.
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Ross McKerchar, CISO at Sophos, discusses the results of the company’s recent Cybersecurity Trust Reality 2026 report and the State of Identity Security 2026 survey, The report reveals a critical challenge facing CISOs: trust in cybersecurity vendors is fragile, difficult to measure, and increasingly shaping risk posture at both operational and board levels; while the survey highlights the fact that identity has become the primary attack surface in modern cybersecurity, and most organisations are losing ground – with the non-human identity problem being particularly urgent.
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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 accelerate Britain’s AI independence.
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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 which govern agents will be the next stage of unlocking AI’s potential for businesses.
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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 what organisations are paying for and what they are actually using is widening.
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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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