Since I was a kid I have loved building stuff with my hands. 

My dad having his own workshop, let me play around with tools and various materials. 

It lead to a passion for technology and creating stuff. 

My dad got me into racing gokarts and formula/car racing from when i was 12 till i was 18. 

When I was 17 I got into MMA and have been having fights as well. 

I studied Mechanical engineering at Aalborg University for 3 years before I started my own company, DIC Group, during the summer before my 4th year. It was an incredible experience and I quickly saw that in the first 2 months of starting my own company that summer, I made more money that I would in half a year as a mechanical engineer. This, combined with my extensive background growing up in a workshop, allowed me to bet on myself and take the leap into DIC Group full time instead of finishing my studies. 

By age 22, I scaled DIC Group to 22 employees, $2 million (USD) in revenue, and made my first million in profit (DKK). Then, I experienced by biggest business hardship at the time when a massive contract went south. In the end it unfortunately cost me my company and ended in bankruptcy. Even though I felt like giving up, I refused to do so. I simply believe that the way to win is through perseverance. So, I got back up and took all of my learnings and experience into my next venture, Airflight.

Shortly after the bankruptcy I founded @Airflight together with a team ( now we are only 2 founders) with the aim of making ordinary people get an extraordinary experience by flying in a flying car.

We flew the flying car and got a lot of media attention that showed us an market opportunity within the Wind turbine industry for flying spare parts and tools. 

Airflight now applied for grants and investment to convert the flying car into an unmanned 100kg payload drone called the AF100. One of the largest quadcopters in the world. 

With the AF100 flying we raised capital and got more grants to build the AF200 a 200kg payload drone that would be able to solve multiple industry headaches. 

Unfortunately we crashed the AF200 in the midst of a funding round, forcing us to scale down operations. This crash seemed to be the end of Airflight. 

I have now partnered up with one of the best companies in Denmark, Jack Foged A/S, to head their sales efforts and deliver even more value to even more customers. 

If you want a serious partner to build your piping project, then reach out to me and let's talk. 

I love the game of business and will probably work till the day I die, because I just cant stop.

Mikkel K.

Something that most whitecollar workers will never experience in their lives is how much a welder can get into a flow state when welding a pipe. 

Having your headphones in with some of your favorite music and the just using share electricity to melt metal together. 

It is actually truly impressive. 

Shout out to all welders.

Mikkel Karsgaard

Welded piping experts: Design → installation | 39+ yrs | @JACK FOGED A/S

Det er blevet mandag morgen og du har gået og tænkt hele weekenden "hvordan fanden skærer vi de rør smartere" 

Jamen du skal  tage og skrive til mig da vi hjælper flere kunder med at spare tid og penge på skæring og slibning af rør. 

Især store rør og tykke rørtykkelser kan vi skære og skærpe for jer samt lave udskæringer på Danmarks største 3D plamaskærer. 

Skriv til mig her på LI eller på 20151715 og få et tilbud.

Kunde ringer med en opgave, men du har ikke kapacitet så du siger nej, men hvad hvis der er en løsning, hvor du kan sige ja med ro i maven?

Hos os har vi lige løst en opgave for en af vores kolegaer i industrien som er klar til levering. Fuldt ansvar fra start til slut. 

De sidste 6 måneder har jeg brugt tid på at brede budskabet til mange af vores konkulegaer: Vi hjælper gerne med røropgaver.

Det giver mere værdi at sige ja til en ordre når man har en samarbejdspartner man kan stole på. Som tager hele opgaven uden mange administrative timer.

I værste fald tager man en opgave ind som ikke går som den skal. Fordi man ikke havde de rigtige folk. Eller ens projektleder bliver for overloaded. 

Det at kunne skrue kapaciteten op og ned fleksibelt og hurtigt, samtidig med at ansvaret ligger hos en pålidelig partner. Det er værdifuldt.  

Så selvom vi måske byder mod hinanden på projekter eller arbejder tæt op af hinanden i industrien. Tøv ikke med at række ud.

Det handler ikke om at tage hinandens kunder det handler om at yde service og hjælp til hinanden. 

Jeg kommer gerne forbi til en snak og ser om der kan være grobund for et samarbejde. 

De gode lange samarbejder starter med kemi og tillid. Noget vi i Jack Foged A/S ikke går på kompromis med.

Ræk ud. Så tager vi en kop kaffe.

ms@jack-foged.dk | 20151715

Jack Foged — Vi elsker rør.

Nogengange så kræver store opgaver og store rør stort ansvar. 
Det ansvar er vi klar til i Jack Foged A/S. 

Har du et projekt med store rør og kræver en stabil og seriøs samarbejdspartner til design, fremstilling, installation og dokumentation så er vi her. 
Vi har eksisteret i 40 år og vi er frisk på 40 år mere.

Det er ikke kun vores kunder som opnår en fordel når vi præfabrikere store rør spools til montage det er også vores folk. 

Ved at præfabrikere rørspools så store som muligt opnår vi mindre svejsning på pladsen. 

Det betyder mindre svejsning i stilling som betyder bedre arbejdsmiljø for vores folk. 

Vi skal passe på vores medarbejdere og vi skal forsøge at lave den højeste kvalitet muligt samtidig med vi driver forretning. 

Derfor tror vi på præfabrikation. 

Som du kan se på billedet så er begejstringen stor når nogle af de største spools køres ud til montering. 

Her er det et spool på omkring 3tons. 
Passede som hånd i handske takket været vores dygtige folk. 

Jack Foged A/S Vi elsker rør.

Som den gode gruppe minds og 99 synger: Alle skuffer over tid. 
Denne dag skuffede jeg mig selv og mine kollegaer. 

Jeg svejste et rør sammen som ikke skulle svejses sammen. 

Jamen hvor dum kan man være tænkte jeg selv efter skaden var sket. 

Men et øjebliks uopmærksom og for meget iver om at komme i gang gjorde det. 

Måtte blive ekstra og rette min fejl på egen regning da det var det eneste rigtige at gøre efter sådan en fejl 40 ! 

moral of the story, vi fejler allesammen det er mere hvordan vi retter dem eller rejser os.

Fra ide til opmåling til fremstilling til montage til aflevering. 

Endnu et læs rør skal nu ud og monteres. 

Vi er stolte over endnu engang at være med til at bidrage til industriens spillere der bygger en bedre fremtid for os alle. 

Tak for tilliden. 

Vi elsker rør.

En af de bedste følelser er når solen står højt og blænder dig samtidig med der er rør der er færdig skåret klar til produktion. 

Arbejder du i industrien så kender du nok følelsen af at være med til at bygge ting og hvor tilfredsstillende det er.

Tænker at det er det som motiverer os i Jack Foged A/S. 

At bygge rør som bidrager til en bedre hverdag. 

Samtidig med vi hele tiden udvikler os og investere i vores folk og produktion. 

Opskriften på en god solid virksomhed som elsker det som de laver. 

Håber solen skinner på dig idag. 
Jeg ved den gør det her på Fyn 🙏

For 10 år siden byggede jeg denne aluminiums afskærmning for en kunde. 
Det fik mig til at tænke på hvor langt jeg er kommet på ren og skær:

Vilje. 

Viljen til at forsøge. 

Viljen til at forsætte. 

Viljen til at lykkedes. 

10 år med hårdt arbejde og mange timer. 
Men den dag idag så mærker jeg frugten af det arbejde. 

Aldrig være bange for at ligge mere i det end hvad du umiddelbart ser du får ud af det, om ikke andet så får du erfaringen og den kan ingen tage fra dig.

Så er det blevet mandag morgen og det er blevet tid til at smelte rør sammen igen. 

Ethvert procesanløg med respekt for sig selv har svejste rør. 
Det kan være:

- Sort rør
- Rustfri rør
- Plastik rør

Allesammen med hver deres formål og applikation. 
Det som de alle har til fælles er at de alle sammen godt kan lide når vi i Jack Foged A/S svejser dem sammen. 

Står du med et projekt som skal have svejset rør sammen så ræk ud til mig og som minimum få et ekstra sæt øjne på projektet. 

Det har aldrig skadet nogen at få en mere konkurrencedygtig pris eller få en bekræftelse i at man har en god pris. 

Skriv eller ring til mig på ms@jack-foged.dk eller 20151715. 

God uge til alle jer byggere der hjælper Danmark med gode grønne projekter.

Mandag morgen. 07.00.
Svejseren er tændt. Kaffen er sort. Og der er flere tons rør der venter.
Jeg hører folk sige de hader mandage.
Jeg forstår det ikke.
Mandag er den dag ugen nulstiller. 
Den dag du kan beslutte hvem du vil være den næste uge. 
Den dag konkurrenterne sidder og venter på fredag.
Mens vi allerede er i gang.
Jeg tror ikke på work-life balance som koncept. 
Jeg tror på at finde det arbejde hvor mandag føles som en gave og ikke en straf.
Det har taget mig 15 år at finde det. 
Men jeg fandt det i stål, svejsning og folk der møder op og leverer.
Hver eneste mandag.
Hvad er den første ting du gør mandag morgen?

AI + Robotsvejsning af rør = Jack Foged
Du læste rigtigt! 

Men selvom vi hele tiden fornyer os så ved vi godt at vi ikke kan leve uden vores dygtige medarbejdere. 
Dem som hver dag møder ind og sætter en ære i at være med til at bygge fremtidens proces anlæg. 
Dem som ofre timer fra deres familie når tidsplanerne på diverse projekter skrider. 

Selvom teknologien gør vores arbejde nemmere så skal vi ikke glemme det menneskelige i at gå på arbejde og yde en indsats for fælleskabet. 

Men stadig også lidt fedt med robotter og AI (Brugt rigtigt)

An 8-inch (NPS) Schedule 80S 316L stainless steel pipe field weld. 
Performed in 2G position. 

For most people this is just rubbish talk. 

But for the skilled welders this is candy. 

At Jack Foged A/S we build pipesystems for your projects. 

Stainless or carbon steel, high pressure or low pressure. 

We cover it all. 

We love building pipesystems. 

This weld I personally performed. 

Get in contact with me if you have a project that needs a great partner on the pipebuilding part.

As I woke up with a new 3.4 firmware update this morning I was again reminded about something important about life for me: 

It is much much less important WHAT you have.
it is much much more important WHO you have! 

Cherish the people around you. 
without them life is not as good I am sure. 

Thank you to all of you great people I have around me and all the great people I have met over the years for this incredible life.

picture from new years in Brazil 🇧🇷 
amazing experience!

Something that I have struggled with for years and still do sometimes is the feeling of not feeling good enough. 

Like whatever you are doing and how great you are doing it seems to never be enough? 
It is also what makes you push hard to achieve big results but even when you reach the bar and look up again the bar have moved. 

Over the years I have found that it helped me to realize AND relate the bar not to where I want to go but to where I have been. 

Our minds can be our biggest asset or our enemy it really comes down to what we choose. 

Thought I would share a mental struggle for once.

En af de mest frusterende ting der kan ske som totalentreprenør er at tabe i et udbud men noget som er meget værre end det:

At vinde og tabe penge på projektet. 

Alle i industrien har prøvet det.... 

Det sucks ass ( som min bedste makker ville sige det) 

Som totalentreprenør så kan du ikke vide alt.
Samtidig er det ikke sikkert udbudsmaterialet er det bedste ( sorry til jer der laver udbud ). 

Men efter 40 år i branchen har Jack Foged A/S et hav af projekt data. Det data har Philip og Jacob udviklet en metode til at beregne priser på rørentrepriser. 

Derfor opfordre vi alle vores kunder og samarbejdspartnere om at involvere os tidligt i tilbudsfasen så vi sammen kan sikre at hvis i vinder udbuddet så taber i ihvertfald ikke penge på den del af projektet der har med rør at gøre. 

Vi tror på tidlig involvering da vi ved og har set gennem tiderne at det kan gøre forskellen på jubel eller gråd. 

Så sidder du lige nu med et projekt, så tag fat i mig så vi uforpligtende kan hjælpe dig med dit projekt så vi sammen sikre os at det bliver et godt projekt. 

Skriv her på Linkedin eller på min mail ms@jack-foged.dk eller ring til mig på 20151715.

Advarsel Nørdet svejste teknik:
Fundamentet for en god svejsning starter i bundstrengen. 

Her er det en af vores dygtige folk der i sammenspil med vores robot svejser får leveret en bundstreng i allerhøjeste kvalitet og ensartethed. 

Forandring er uundgåeligt. 
Derfor investerer vi løbende i Jack Foged A/S i ny teknologi der kan optimere vores produktion til gavn for medarbejdere og kunder.

Jeg var til et netværksevent i går og jeg kørte derfra med en tanke jeg havde svært ved at slippe. 

Hvorfor er det vi har så stor modstand på forandring når vi alle godt ved det oftest er der hvor vi vokser som individer eller organisationer. 

Er det frygten for at fejle? 
Hvis ja, så skal man måske kigge på om det man er i gang med at forandre om det er en to vejs dør eller en vejs dør. 

To vejs døren der kan du bare gå tilbage ud af døren. 
En vejs døren der kan du ikke komme tilbage. 

Jeg har været skyldig i at tænke mange situationer var en vejs døre hvor de reelt set var to vejs døre. 

Stærke ledere formår at skabe organisationer der kan trives i konstant forandring hvilket er et påkrav mere end nogensinde når du kigger ud af vinduet på den verden vi lever i pt.

Patience is NOT something I have alot of but this quote made me think twice: 
"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit."

POV: You love your job and you just realized it's already Friday.....

Helen Yu

CEO @Tigon Advisory Corp. | Host of CXO Spice | Board Director |Top 50 Women in Tech | AI, Cybersecurity, FinTech, Insurance, Industry40, Growth Acceleration

I'm passionate about human-AI amplification rather than replacement.



As the founder & CEO of Tigon Advisory, I help tech companies multiply growth through responsible AI, cybersecurity, IoT, supply chain, and CX strategies. Offering CXO-as-a-service in digital transformation, risk management, GTM, and thought leadership. Clients include NVIDIA, Salesforce, Microsoft, Cisco and innovative startups in Cybersecurity, SaaS, Fintech, etc. Also serve as board director and VC advisor on ethical tech and governance. 



Credentials include cybersecurity certification from MIT Sloan, MBA from Loyola University Chicago, WSJ/Amazon bestselling author ("Ascend Your Start-Up"), keynote speaker, and host of CXO Spice podcast where I explore leadership in emerging tech.



On LinkedIn, my daily posts (300+ in 2025, 136k+ reactions, 38k+ comments) share practical insights on ethical AI scaling, voice agents, bias mitigation, and building trust in human-AI teams.



I'm passionate about mentoring the next generation, especially women and underrepresented leaders in tech.

If you're shaping responsible AI strategies, navigating cyber risks in AI, or debating amplification vs. automation, let's connect. Comment below, share your take, or reach out. Excited to amplify together.



#ResponsibleAI #HumanAI #AIEthics #Cybersecurity #DigitalTransformation

Director Board of Directors

CEC is a security service integrator with focus markets in manufacturing, healthcare, SLED and Corporate Campus.  Customers with complicated organizations and physical plants rely on CEC as extensions of their teams in making strategic investment and management decisions related to their technology and infrastructure. I serve as Culture and Compensation Committee Chair. 

What would the world look like if we truly accelerated action for women?

Right now, full gender parity won't arrive until 2158 according to the World Economic Forum.

That’s 132 years away.

We have the power to move that date forward.

In this special #IWD2026 newsletter edition, I reflect on the progress we’ve made, highlight the women who inspire me, and share actions we can take to accelerate change.

Inside you’ll find:
✅ Highlights from a powerful Women in Technology panel at the Acumatica Summit
✅ Books and podcasts that expand perspective
✅ Simple actions anyone can take to move the needle

Over the past year, I’ve been incredibly fortunate to learn from many inspiring women leaders across technology, financial services, manufacturing and communications.

Now I want to hear from you 👇
Tag one woman who inspired you and tell us why.

Let's amplify women’s voices together. 
Happy International Women’s Day 🌸

#IWD2026 #AccelerateAction #WomenInLeadership #GenderEquity

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Bridging Responsible AI Innovation | Advisor to Tech Leaders | Host, CXO Spice | Human-AI Amplification Advocate

Every March 8th, the world pauses to honor the achievements, resilience, and brilliance of women. But this year’s theme, Accelerate Action, reminds us

Open article: Accelerating Change: Celebrating Women and the Work Still Ahead by Helen Yu • 4 min read

Accelerating Change: Celebrating Women and the Work Still Ahead

What lights you up about the work you do?

For me, it's this.
Fresh off Conga Connect in Orlando and straight into Enterprise Connect in Vegas, I hosted "Hot Takes & Cold Drinks" with two women who are redefining what leadership looks like in communications and technology.
⭐️ Millicent McIntyre, MSOB — 2026 Spotlight Award Winner, Senior Director, Buyer Services IAA
⭐️ Lori Wodrich — 2025 Winner & this year's judge, Senior Systems Engineer Amerisure Insurance

What resonated with me most was HOW they got there.
🔥Millie started in a contact center after cosmetology school.
No title. No roadmap.
She became the person everyone came to through curiosity, consistency, and caring deeply about people.
"Culture is the foundation of everything we do."
She meant every word.

🔥Lori's defining moment was A hackathon.
Surrounded by engineers far more technical than her, she almost changed her answer to fit in.
She didn't.
She held her ground. Shared her reasoning. And the entire panel shifted to her choice.
That's confidence backed by data.

Lori's Three S's I'm taking with me:
✅ Speak Up
✅ Say Yes — to growth, not every task
✅ Share Results

And here is Millie's closing wisdom:
Don't try to be like every other leader.
Be authentically, unapologetically YOU.

These are two women who didn't wait for a title to lead.
They showed up. Over-delivered. Built trust.
And the title eventually followed.

My biggest takeaway: Leadership is earned, not assigned.
Here is my personal hot take:
Sometimes you need to put down your to-do list and focus on your to-be list.
Who do you want to BE? Let that guide everything else.

Thank you, Millie and Lori, for being so open, so real, and so generous with your stories. You reminded all of us of what's possible. 🙌

And a heartfelt thank you to Erica Marois and Cheryl Kahan-Radhuber at Informa and Enterprise Connect for creating this space for women in communications. This is exactly the kind of platform our community needs. 💜

▶️ Watch the full 15-minute conversation below!

#EnterpriseConnect #WomenInTech #Leadership #EC2026 #Communications 

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What did I learn from the OECD - OCDE Responsible AI Due Diligence Guidance?

Responsible AI is shifting from principles to accountability; clarifying who is responsible, at what point, and across the value chain.

👉 The real shift is from “Do we use AI responsibly?” to “Can we prove it — continuously?”

AI governance is becoming a core business capability rather than a compliance exercise.

I’ve broken down the insights that stood out to me me most in the carousel including where responsibility escalates, when scrutiny should be deeper, and why disengagement is sometimes the responsible choice.

Let me know what stood out to you 👇

#ResponsibleAI #AIGovernance #RiskManagement #BoardDirectors #CEOs

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5 Key Learnings from OECD Responsible AI Due Diligence

Are you modernizing your systems fast and wondering if you’re doing it securely?

In this short CXO Spice trailer, John Picinich and I touch on the real tension leaders are facing right now; moving quickly to innovate while making sure security, risk, and trust don’t fall behind. It’s a conversation about what works in the real world.

This builds on the themes from the #CXOSpice newsletter I shared three weeks ago on breaking down data silos in financial services, where we explored why governance, secure data movement, and a strong foundation are essential before layering on automation and AI.

I had the chance to host John Picinich at Progress Software to unpack:
✅ Where most organizations misjudge modernization risk
✅ How security teams can become enablers, not blockers
✅ What “secure by design” looks like in practice

🎥 Watch the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/gPq8B8Tg

And stay tuned. I’ll be hosting Progress Software’ Chief AI Officer Ed Keisling on agent orchestration soon.

#FinancialServices #AI #Agents

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What the #WomenInTech stage taught me at Acumatica Summit?

Have you ever walked into a room and felt momentum happening in real time?
Speaking at Acumatica Summit this year was one of those moments.

I left thinking less about the stage and more about the people. Leaders choosing courage over comfort. Learning out loud. Lifting each other higher.

A few lessons that stayed with me
✨ Confidence starts with the story we tell ourselves
✨ Preparation creates clarity when pressure rises
✨ Leadership means sending the ladder down

I shared a few deeper reflections in my latest newsletter. Check out the full story: https://lnkd.in/e2Ad_BXf

What is one lesson that has changed how you show up this year?

#WomenInTech #Leadership #Technology #Innovation

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A FIRST TIMER’S PERSPECTIVE I didn’t know what to expect walking into my first Acumatica Summit. I knew the event was significant, and I felt honored 

Open article: What the Women in Tech Stage at Acumatica Summit Taught Me? by Helen Yu • 7 min read

What the Women in Tech Stage at Acumatica Summit Taught Me?

What does success look like twelve months in if you go all in on a frictionless Commerce Chain?

I asked Lisa Martin, CRO of Conga during our interview at Conga Connect.
Her answer was precise.

Deal velocity accelerates. Deal volume grows. Revenue leakage stops hiding in quarterly post-mortems.

Most organizations look at discounting retrospectively. A scattergram tells you where you bled. Commerce Chain stops the bleeding.

A connected Commerce Chain changes the equation. You see where margin is slipping in the moment. You catch at-risk customers before renewal. You act on upsell signals the data was always telling you.

And when agentic AI matures inside that chain, it executes the insight.
Faster deals. Protected margin. Smarter renewals.

👉 Read the full story in CXO Spice Newsletter 
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#CommerceChain #CRO #CongaConnect #CongaPartner

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“It’s not growth at all costs anymore. It’s growth, but profitable growth , and the thing getting inspected is how easy we are to do business with.” —

Open article: Commerce Chain Is the Revenue Operating System Your Business Has Been Missing by Helen Yu • 5 min read

Commerce Chain Is the Revenue Operating System Your Business Has Been Missing

What does every business leader need to understand about the agentic era?

Here are 5 things I took away from Jensen Huang’s keynote at NVIDIA GTC:

1️⃣ Tokens are the new oil
Jensen redefined what a data center is.
Data centers are no longer places where we store files.
They are factories producing tokens.
Power goes in.
Data goes in.
Intelligence comes out.
Every watt of power you have is either generating revenue or wasting it.
The next metric CEOs may start tracking alongside EBITDA: tokens per watt.

2️⃣ The inference inflection
For years AI was a training story about who had the biggest models and the most parameters.
That era is over.
AI now must think, reason, and act in real time.
That requires inference at massive scale.
Compute demand has grown roughly 1,000,000× in two years.
That’s not hype.
That’s infrastructure reality.

3️⃣ Every SaaS company will become an AaaS company
Just as every company eventually needed:
• an HTTP strategy
• a cloud strategy
• a Kubernetes strategy
Every company now needs an agent strategy.
The question is no longer if.
It’s how fast.

4️⃣ The security model just changed
Agentic systems can:
• access sensitive data
• execute code
• communicate externally
Jensen said that out loud. Slowly.
Let that sink in.
The opportunity is enormous.
So is the risk.
In the agentic era, security and governance are the foundation.
The companies that get this right will win.

5️⃣ Synthetic data will unlock robotics
Real-world data will never be sufficient to train robots for every scenario.
Simulation closes the gap.
Synthetic data allows robots to learn faster than the real world can generate experience.
The GPT moment for autonomous systems may already be happening.
BYD, Hyundai, Nissan, and Geely just joined the platform, representing 18M vehicles per year.

The closing scene of the keynote said everything.
Robots and humans sitting around a campfire in a forest.
Playing music together.
The caption:
“The future’s here. Won’t you come and see.”
Not a warning.
An invitation.

Two stops worth making on the show floor today:
✅ Cisco Booth #1421 - The agentic era needs a secure foundation. I’ll be interviewing Kevin Wollenweber, SVP & GM of Data Center at Cisco, on what Secure AI Factory means at enterprise scale.
✅ Elastic Booth #3200 - Jensen said 90% of the world’s data is unstructured and largely inaccessible. Elastic is building the retrieval layer to unlock it. Don’t miss their sessions on eliminating the data bottleneck and how NVIDIA itself is using it.

The token factory is only as powerful as its security, networking, and data retrieval layers.

That’s the story continuing on the show floor.

#NVIDIAGTC #NVIDIAPartner #CiscoPartner

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What Boards and Security Leaders Must Know about AI-Driven Threats?

Last week, I hosted Mike Riemer, Field CISO at Ivanti on a webinar secure by design: prevent weaponized AI attacks with Kernel security strategies.

Mike put the stakes in sharp focus from the start:

Threat actors can reverse engineer a patch and weaponize it within 72 hours.
In some cases, attacks begin within 90 seconds of code being published.

Let that sink in.

This is not a technology problem you can delegate to your CISO.
It is a governance issue, and boards have a fiduciary duty to act.

In my latest newsletter, I cover:

✅ Why traditional perimeter defenses are failing
✅ What Secure by Design means  and how to hold vendors accountable
✅ Why kernel-level security is the new line of defense
✅ The questions every board and audit committee must be asking now

Knowledge without action leaves your organization exposed.

As AI-driven threats accelerate, kernel-level security has become the new line of defense.

Are you ready for it?

Watch the full conversation with Mike here:
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Join us for the upcoming #LinkedInLive where we'll be continuing this critical conversation. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gF8YcTqf

#CyberSecurity #BoardGovernance #KernelSecurity #AIThreats #CISO #RiskManagement #IvantiPartner

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Open article: What Boards and Security Leaders Must Know About AI-Driven Threats and Kernel-Level Defense by Helen Yu • 6 min read

What Boards and Security Leaders Must Know About AI-Driven Threats and Kernel-Level Defense

Why are companies still using 8 platforms to move money?

I just saw a CFO’s finance stack:
Stripe. Wise. Ramp. Mercury. Chargebee.
Plus 3 international bank accounts.
Eight logins. Eight reconciliations.
And they’re still losing 4–6% on every international transaction.

Here’s the hidden tax 👇
You get paid €100K → converted to USD (≈3% gone)
You pay a European supplier → USD back to EUR (≈3% gone)
That’s 6% lost moving the same money in a circle.
On a $10M business? $600K/year.

This is why Airwallex exists.
One platform to:
✅ Accept global payments
✅ Hold 20+ currencies (no forced FX)
✅ Pay suppliers same-day
✅ Issue cards globally (zero FX fees)
✅ Open accounts in minutes
One integration. One dashboard.
Companies doing $10M+ internationally save $400K–$600K/year just by consolidating.

Airwallex just opened their second HQ in San Francisco. They're bringing global-first infrastructure to companies tired of fragmented stacks and hidden fees.

So Why are you still using 8 platforms to move money?

#AirwallexPartner #CFOs

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How do you prepare for the next frontier of transformation?

AI is reshaping how we build, decide, and serve customers; and getting ready means learning, experimenting, and connecting with others who are doing the same.

You’ll find a mix of business leaders and builders at the #MicrosoftAITour. 
People like me, are focused on turning AI ideas into real impact. What I love about this experience is how hands-on it is. You not only hear about the technology, but also get to explore it, build with it, and learn directly from Microsoft engineers and the community. From secure apps to agents and solutions using tools like Foundry and Copilot, you walk away inspired and ready to apply what you’ve learned.

This 20-second clip is a throwback to my favorite moments from the Chicago tour last September 🎥

I’m excited for the upcoming U.S. stops:
📍 Washington, DC on March 10 - Register here 👉 hhttps://lnkd.in/ebyjqCQb
📍 Atlanta on April 29 (I will be there in person)- Register here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ey83fdKc
📍 Houston on May 28 - Register here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eKVZVvE9

If you’re looking to prepare your organization for this frontier transformation, join a tour near you and start turning possibilities into action.

#MicrosoftAITour #FrontierTransformation #AILeadership #MicrosoftAmbassador Microsoft in Business

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When was the last time a support call made you feel heard?

After 2.3 million miles in the air and more support calls than I can count, I've come to believe we've been measuring customer experience all wrong.
We track resolution time. Handle time. CSAT scores. But nobody measures how it felt to be spoken to.

I've been hung up on agents who said all the right things and still left me feeling dismissed. And I've had problems go unresolved by agents who somehow made me feel taken care of anyway. The difference was never the script. It was tone. Pacing. The small human signals that say I hear you before a single solution is offered.

As executives, we've optimized everything we can see on a dashboard. But the felt experience of a conversation, that's been the blind spot.

That's what made me pay attention when I came across ElevenLabs' emotional voice agent. Because it points at something I've believed for years: conversational quality is product quality. And we're finally at the point where AI can deliver it at scale.

The leaders who get ahead of this won't just have faster support. They'll have support that people remember for the right reasons.

See it in action: https://lnkd.in/eDtV-aGs

#VoiceAgent #ConversationalAI #CX #CustomerOperations #ElevenLabsPartner

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What happens when resilience and operations finally work as one?

Heading to #RSAC2026, and I'm excited to see Commvault bring that answer to life at booth S-0634. Their theme, "The ResOps Rumble," is a live demonstration of how unified resilience holds up against today's real threats: misconfigurations, agentic anomalies, and identity-based attacks.

A few things on my radar this week:
✅ Booth S-0634 - live demos showing ResOps in action
✅ Wednesday, March 25 at 2:25 PM (Moscone South Esplanade) - "When Attackers Swing at You: Recover Fast & Don't Tap Out with ResOps" with Bill O'Connell and Chris B. 
✅ And 1:1 with Chris B. after his session for a deeper dive on ResOps Disciplined Resilience.

If cyber resilience and recovery readiness are on your agenda this week, make time for Commvault booth S-0634.

#RSAC2026 #ResOpsRumble #ResOps #CyberResilience #CommvaultPartner #PowerOfCommunity

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How many of your #security alerts matter?

Last quarter, my team reviewed 14,000 alerts. Only eleven led to investigation.
That's not a security program. That's noise with a compliance checkbox on it.

As a Board Director, the question I keep bringing back to leadership is simple: would we catch it before it happens?

Most organizations can't answer that with confidence. Not because they lack tools. But because they're measuring the wrong things. Volume of alerts. Hours logged. Endpoints covered. 

None of it tells you what the board needs to know: where is the human risk, and is it escalating?

The shift I've been advocating for is moving from reactive reporting to predictive intelligence. Not just flagging what already happened, but understanding behavioral patterns early enough to intervene before damage is done.

When I look at what predictive risk scoring is doing now, platforms like Teramind being able to detect behavioral shifts weeks before an incident occurs, that's the kind of intelligence that belongs in a board briefing.

Rule-based systems catch what you anticipated. Behavioral AI catches what you didn't. In insider risk, what you didn't anticipate is almost always what gets you.

Stop counting alerts. Start asking: what does this pattern mean?

#PredictiveIntelligence #Workforce #AIGovernance #TeramindPartner

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What does a connected, intelligent Commerce Chain look like in action?

At Conga’s 5th Annual Inspire Awards, we celebrated real, measurable business impact with CRO Lisa Martin.

When pricing, quoting, contracting, and revenue operate as one connected system, companies move faster, price smarter, and scale growth.

Here’s what that looked like this year:
✅ Commercial Excellence — IBM
Unified quoting and renewals for 3,000+ sellers and partners worldwide, accelerating deal cycles while improving seller productivity and global customer experience.
 
✅ Future of Commerce — Electronics Digikey
2× market outperformance in 2025 by unifying e-commerce with customer-specific pricing through neural networks and real-time pricing execution.
 
✅ Momentum Leader — Pediatrics Plus
Automated ~50% of monthly billing and reduced DSO from 84 → 54 days.
 
✅ Buyer Experience — Jack Henry 
Eliminated manual pricing errors, unified siloed sales processes, and accelerated time-to-revenue for financial institutions nationwide.
 
✅ Judges’ Choice — Southwest Airlines
Reduced contract creation time to just 5 minutes, delivering enterprise-grade governance with startup speed.
 
✅ Community Champion — Natalie Myers
Amplified peer voices and strengthened knowledge sharing across the entire Conga community.

A connected Commerce Chain unlocks measurable revenue performance across the entire lifecycle.

Stay tuned for my conversation with Conga CRO Lisa Martin with a deeper dive into what the Commerce Chain means for the future of revenue leadership.

#CongaConnect #InspireAwards #CommerceChain #CustomerSuccess #CongaPartner

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What does it take to turn B2B influencer content into qualified pipeline?

I recently had a great conversation with Heather Barnett about this challenge and it’s clear this topic is rising on many B2B leaders’ agendas.

There’s a smarter way to approach it.

The Insight Collective and Custom Influence have put together an ebook that breaks it all down, featuring insights from leading B2B voices.

If you’re focused on making influencer marketing deliver measurable impact, this is worth your time.

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#B2B #Influencer #Marketing 

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When was the last time an AI investment delivered what it promised?

I've sat in enough boardrooms to know that question lands differently depending on who's in the room.

For most enterprises, the pattern is the same; a promising pilot, a growing consulting retainer, and a strategy deck that never quite becomes a production system.

That's the cycle Klika Tech built VELOCITY™ to break.

It's a 16-month, fixed-price program that takes organizations from AI uncertainty to a fully operational, self-sustaining AI capability. One contract. Five structured phases. And your team owns everything they build including the models, the infrastructure and the IP.

Team don't get paid for hours. They get paid for outcomes.

ROI validation begins at Month 8 so you get proof mid-journey
If AI is on your roadmap this year, reach out to see what it looks like in practice.

Drop a “Yes” comment if you want to learn more. 👇

#AI #EnterpriseAI #KlikaTech #VELOCITY #DigitalTransformation

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What does a Secure AI Factory look like in an enterprise run by humans and AI agents?

At NVIDIA GTC, I spoke with Kevin Wollenweber, Cisco SVP, GM of data center and internet infrastructure, about a shift that feels fundamentally different from past tech cycles. We're moving from steady, predictable progress to sudden leaps that reshape everything.

Enterprises are bringing AI closer to home by deploying models alongside their own data, on their own infrastructure. That shift puts new pressure on data control, latency, security, and operational simplicity.

Cisco's Secure AI Factory is a full-stack architecture, built on a deep engineering partnership with NVIDIA, designed to generate tokens at scale while keeping data private and operations manageable. From software and Kubernetes to networking, compute, storage, and security, it takes enterprises from pilot to production with confidence.

We're entering the era of agentic AI, and the infrastructure we build today will define who leads tomorrow.

Watch the full conversation with Kevin: https://lnkd.in/gHwb6jX7
#SecureAIFactory #CiscoPartner #NVIDIAPartner

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“The move into agentic workflows has really forced IT operators to think about what security means in this new agentic world how do I manage tons of t

Open article: Building the Secure AI Factory: Cisco's Vision for Enterprise AI by Helen Yu • 3 min read

Building the Secure AI Factory: Cisco's Vision for Enterprise AI

Ready to launch your #career in #AI in 2026? 

LinkedIn just released its Skills on the Rise 2026 list and the signal is clear: AI is reshaping every role, not just technical ones. 

Here are the fastest-growing skills: Prompt Engineering, RAG, LangChain, Vector Databases, and Model Fine-Tuning along people skills like Stakeholder Management and Leadership Communication. Employers want professionals who can build and lead with AI.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 20% growth in computer and information research roles between 2024 and 2034. The opportunity is real.

I've consolidated what I learned from Coursera and U.S. Bureau of Labor and put together a table of 9 high-demand AI roles with required skills, salary ranges, and core responsibilities to help you find your best fit.

Which role excites you most? Drop it in the comments 👇

#SkillsOnTheRise #FutureOfWork #ArtificialIntelligence #TechCareers
#AI #Jobs #MachineLearning #DataScience #WomenInTech

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9 AI Jobs to Consider in 2026

What are the two things that define a world-class data center?

Here's what I learned from Equinix team at last year's NVIDIA GTC 
(watch the 1-minute clip below)
→ Environment - power, space, and cooling
→ Interconnectivity - dense access to public clouds and GPU-as-a-service

Equinix operates 280 data centers across 77 global markets. The London facility Aaron showcased was built with his in mind: 170,000 sq ft, 100% renewable energy, 99.999% availability, and 200+ cloud interconnection points all water-cooled.

Equinix also announced they'll be the first to offer the NVIDIA Instant AI Factory; fully provisioned AI infrastructure powered by DGX GB300 and B300 systems, across 45 global markets.

This year, I'm going deeper on the #sustainability side of all of this.
I look forward to speaking with Christopher Wellise, Global VP of Sustainability at Equinix to talk about what it takes to build and operate AI infrastructure responsibly; from closing the gap between pledges and results, to whether the industry is measuring the right things.

Tune in to our upcoming CXO Spice from #NVIDAGTC. What would YOU ask Chris? Drop it below 👇

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Where are the real conversations about the future of revenue lifecycle happening right now?

At Conga Connect.

Just arrived at the venue and the energy is already building. This quick clip gives a glimpse of the space and a great catch-up with Amy Williams from the Conga team as things get underway.

Looking ahead to a packed agenda for Day 1:
✅ The future of commerce keynote from David Osborne CEO of Conga
✅ Accelerating Innovation across the commerce chain from Rohit Chhabra, CPO
✅ My 1:1 with Lisa Martin, CRO, diving into Commerce Chain
✅ Tonight’s customer panel and awards
✅ And wrapping the evening with the VIP dinner with Conga executives, select customers and fellow analysts Shelly DeMotte Kramer, Roy Atkinson, Eric Kavanagh.

Events like this are where product vision, customer experience, and strategy come together. I’m interested in hearing how organizations are approaching revenue lifecycle transformation and connected commerce.

Let's connect if you're here at Conga Connect. Or follow #CXOSpice to get the latest updates.

#CongaConnect #RevenueLifecycle #CPQ #CommerceChain #Analysts #CongaPartner

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