Alan, Mike, Mitch and special guests Tracy Ragan and Guy Currier, CTO for Visible Impact, an arm of The Futurum Group, revisit the major issues, starting with artificial intelligence (AI) that impacted the technology industry most in 2024.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guest Lisa Martin debate the degree to which agentic artificial intelligence (AI) might one day soon make application developers obsolete. Then, they discuss whether society may become too dependent on AI for emotional support, even to the point of being a surrogate for Santa Claus and loved ones that have passed on.

Lastly, the gang turns its attention to how airtags might significantly reduce the amount of lost luggage during a holiday travel season.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and Camberley Bates, a chief technology advisor for The Futurum Group, dive into the implications of a digital labor workforce enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) agents. Then, they debate how popular NVIDIA's $249 developer kit for building AI applications might be this holiday season.

Finally, the gang delves into how DevSecOps is evolving in the wake of a spate of mergers and alliances.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Amanda and special guests Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, and Stephen Foskett, president of The Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, dive into why leaders of the technology industry are making a concerted effort to curry favor with the incoming Trump administration.

Then, the gang turns its attention to a survey that shows most IT leaders are now resigned to the inevitability of more major outages of IT services in 2025. Lastly, we review some of the biggest lessons learned during Tech Field Day events in 2024.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Bonnie and special guest Stephen Foskett, president of the Tech Field Day arm of The Futurum Group, debate the degree to which a lack of training is holding back adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) before discussing the opportunities AI will present to women.

Then, the gang turns its attention to the kind of mindset that's really required to successfully embrace platform engineering.

Alan, Mike and special guests John Willis, Tracy Ragan and Guy Currier, CTO for the Visible Impact arm of The Futurum Group, debate the degree to which application development is going through a Renaissance period thanks the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) before discussing how vulnerably AI models are to jailbreaks.

The then gang turns its attention to Willow, a quantum computing processor from Google that may or may not be opening up access to a parallel universe.

Alan, Mike, Mitch, Jon and special guests Anne Ahola Ward and Lisa Martin, CMO Advisor for the The Futurum Group, dive into the current state of cybersecurity as outlined during the Black Hat Europe 2024 conference. Then, they discuss the rise of drones as a security concern following a wave of espionage and reports of unidentified drone sightings in New Jersey.

Finally, the gang turns its attention to what’s really happening with artificial intelligence (AI) at organizations such as Wells Fargo, AstraZeneca, Airbnb and NASA.

In today's Techstrong Gang, Alan is joined by Jon Swartz and Lisa Martin. They discuss the recently announced merger of Omnicon and Interpublic advertising agencies. What impact did AI have on this? What about big tech? The gang also dives into the "scheme issues" with the latest model from OpenAI. Are we expecting perfection? Is that reasonable? Finally, the gang looks at a recent DevOps.com article on whether shift left has stalled -- and, if so, why. It's another great episode of Techstrong Gang.