Global IT professional and strategist for digital workplace, AI, chatbots, collaboration, communications & conversational workspaces. CIO.com Columnist

Joined September 2008
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Jensen Huang @Nvidia joins @Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen at Adobe Summit
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Tune in to #TheCrunch for a great discussion with @Zoho's chief strategy officer Vijay Sundaram, recorded at the recent #ZohoDay26. We discuss Zoho’s growth strategy and the evolving role of AI and SaaS. Tuesday, March 17 at 12 noon ET. youtube.com/watch?v=ZcEV2z3z… #PPN #AI #SaaS
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Join us on Thurs, 3/12 for a special episode of #TheCrunch live from #irl26, the conference from #PPN. Our guest will be Robert Fernekees from Information Today Note time: 1:10 pm ET. Register here: irl26.com #Valoir#PPN#TechTrends
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Join me and @DaveMario on #TheCrunch for an overview of #ZohoDay26. We'll discuss @Zoho's push into the enterprise market, the continued impact of AI and insights from our time with the Zoho team. Tuesday, March 3 at 12 pm ET. linkedin.com/events/74346022… #PPN #Valoir #Zoho #AI
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Data-rich organizations are often workflow-poor. Deploying naked agents without context incurs a daily friction tax. A Universal Context Layer turns static data into kinetic value. Movement begets movement. My latest article for CIO cio.com/article/4129620/agen…
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Excited to be a featured in @Zoom’s 2026 CX Trends report! We're moving toward the Universal Context Layer, where Agentic AI & humans speak the same language to solve problems instantly. No more silos, no more please hold zoom.com/en/blog/customer-ex…
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Let’s go #AdobeMAX Sneaks!!!
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Within @Adobe Firefly and across Adobe Creative Cloud you can choose your own model #AdobeMAX @adobemax
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And we’re off at #AdobeMAX main keynote. @Adobe always comes through with the visuals @adobemax
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Everyone’s filing in for #AdobeMAX
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Everyone is filing in! #webexone Main keynote loading…
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At the @Zoho #smz25 Welcome Reception with the amazing @sandraklo
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26 Aug 2025
Have you heard? #smz25 is next week! We are cooking up something new here at @Zoho 😬🤫
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Join @DaveMario and me today for our monthly wrap-up on #TheCrunch. In addition to recent news, including the @NICELtd acquisition of @cognigy, we'll discuss what AI-first actually means Tuesday, July 29 at 12 noon ET: linkedin.com/events/thecrunc… #AIFirst #AI #Valoir
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Data Engineers and Business Analysts definitely need to work together! @databricks announces Lakeflow Designer! #DataAISummit
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Unity Catalog from @databricks impacts businesses by unifying data governance across various formats like Delta Lake & Apache Iceberg, eliminating data silos & enabling seamless interoperability. So, centralized control, auditing & discovery of data and AI assets #DataAISummit
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12 Jun 2025
Today, at #DataAISummit @matei_zaharia introduced major innovations that expand Unity Catalog to business users! - Unity Catalog Metrics: A single source of truth for business metrics across data engineering, ML and BI - Unity Catalog Discover: New curated internal marketplace with certifications and metadata See what's new: databricks.com/blog/whats-ne…
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Great conversation with @alighodsi and Jamie Dimon CEO of @jpmorgan on AI, data, strategy and geopolitical issues. #DataAISummit
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So this is interesting! @alighodsi @databricks announces Lakebase, an evolution of the database with a new architecture for Postgres. It’s an operational database as a service offering and a layer to their Data Intelligence platform #DataAISummit
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Open source is the backbone of this conference @databricks #DataAISummit
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