Utilizing Tech Season 6 - Utilizing AI

About Utilizing Tech Season 6 - Utilizing AI

Utilizing Tech is a weekly podcast exploring practical technology in the modern enterprise. Each season spotlights an emerging area: three seasons on AI, plus dedicated seasons on CXL and Edge. Season Six revisited AI, while Seasons Seven and Eight—presented by Solidigm—examined AI Data Infrastructure and AI at the Edge. Now, Season Nine turns to Agentic AI.

Publisher

Tech Field Day - Part of The Futurum Group

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Aug 2020

Latest episode

24 Nov 2025

Latest episodes

38 of 166 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   24 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   09x09: AI Gets Personal with Agents Acting on Our Behalf

   Agentic AI is an autonomous system that learns, adapts, and uses tools on the behalf of its users. This final episode of Season 9 of Utilizing Tech brings hosts Stephen Foskett, Frederic Van Haren, and Guy Currier together to reflect on the lessons we've learned over the last few months. AI keeps advancing incredibly rapidly, and we timed this season with the emergence of practical agentic AI platforms, AI Field Day 7, and a report on enterprise AI from The Futurum Group. During the conversation, the panel references Kamiwaza, Articul8, ApertureData, NetApp, Perplexity, OpenAI, and more. Agents have to be personal, focused yet flexible, and capable of integrating with each other, data, and tools. We also discussed the need for platforms, with companies like OpenAI and Microsoft positioning themselves to be the platform for AI applications even as enterprise software companies like ServiceNow and Salesforce are trying to do the same. We also have many companies developing platforms for orchestration and operation of AI, and data platforms designed to support agents. Ultimately, agentic AI will be a core capability of next-generation applications, with autonomous agents interacting with tools and helping us perform daily tasks. Hosts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Stephen Foskett⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeniecewnorowski/), President of the Tech Field Day Business Unit and Organizer of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Tech Field Day Event Series⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://techfieldday.com/) ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Frederic Van Haren⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fredericvharen/), Founder and CTO of HighFens, Inc. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Guy Currier⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/guycurrier/), Chief Analyst at Visible Impact, The Futurum Group. For more episodes of Utilizing Tech, head to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠the dedicated website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://utilizingtech.com/) and follow the show ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on X/Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://twitter.com/utilizingtech), ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://bsky.app/profile/utilizingtech.bsky.social), and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on Mastodon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://techfieldday.net/@UtilizingTech).

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   17 Nov 2025

   09x08: A Realistic Approach to Agentic AI with Nick Patience of The Futurum Group

   As customers try to figure out how to present data to Agentic AI applications, many of them are realizing that it’s time for the storage infrastructure team to step up and take a seat at the table. In this episode of Utilizing Tech, recorded live at NetApp Insight in Las Vegas, hosts Stephen Foskett and Guy Currier from The Futurum Group sit down with Ingo Fuchs, Chief Technologist for AI at NetApp, to explore the critical role of data infrastructure in supporting enterprise AI and agentic AI applications. As organizations move AI workloads into production, traditional infrastructures—especially storage teams—must take a more active role in enabling performance, efficiency, and governance. Ingo emphasizes the emerging needs for data quality, control, compliance, and currency, particularly as AI agents begin making decisions and interacting with sensitive enterprise data. The conversation highlights how NetApp’s capabilities, such as AI Data Engine and native infrastructure integrations, enable real-time data pipeline management, enforce guardrails, and ensure consistent and secure data delivery. This shift represents a transformative intersection of storage, infrastructure, and AI operations, paving the way for scalable and reliable enterprise AI solutions. Guest: Nick Patience (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickpatience/?originalSubdomain=uk), VP and Practice Lead for AI at The Futurum Group (https://www.futurumgroup.com/) Hosts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Stephen Foskett⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeniecewnorowski/), President of the Tech Field Day Business Unit and Organizer of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Tech Field Day Event Series⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://techfieldday.com/) ⁠⁠⁠⁠Frederic Van Haren⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fredericvharen/), Founder and CTO of HighFens, Inc. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Guy Currier⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/guycurrier/), Chief Analyst at Visible Impact, The Futurum Group. For more episodes of Utilizing Tech, head to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠the dedicated website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://utilizingtech.com/) and follow the show ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on X/Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://twitter.com/utilizingtech), ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://bsky.app/profile/utilizingtech.bsky.social), and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on Mastodon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://techfieldday.net/@UtilizingTech).

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   10 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   09x07: Achieving Business Outcomes using Agentic AI with Luke Norris of Kamiwaza AI

   Although there's a lot of skepticism around generative AI, companies are finding incredible practical uses for these new capabilities. This episode of Utilizing Tech brings Luke Norris of Kamiwaza to discuss business outcomes that can be achieved by AI applications with hosts Guy Currier and Stephen Foskett. Agentic AI is an autonomous system that has a schedule, and action, or an interface to interact with it. Apps should represent the data rather than vice versa, so a dashboard should reconfigure and recompute to serve the needs of a user. Kamiwaza recently announced a capability to make applications accessible to people with disabilities, and this represents the kind of real-world benefit that can be delivered by AI. They previously worked with NOAA to make historic data more accessible to modern users. Luke Norris (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukenorris/), CEO and Founder of Kamiwaza AI (https://www.kamiwaza.ai/) Hosts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Stephen Foskett⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeniecewnorowski/), President of the Tech Field Day Business Unit and Organizer of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Tech Field Day Event Series⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://techfieldday.com/) ⁠⁠⁠⁠Frederic Van Haren⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fredericvharen/), Founder and CTO of HighFens, Inc. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Guy Currier⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/guycurrier/), Chief Analyst at Visible Impact, The Futurum Group. For more episodes of Utilizing Tech, head to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠the dedicated website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://utilizingtech.com/) and follow the show ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on X/Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://twitter.com/utilizingtech), ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://bsky.app/profile/utilizingtech.bsky.social), and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠on Mastodon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (https://techfieldday.net/@UtilizingTech).

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09x09: AI Gets Personal with Agents Acting on Our Behalf

Published 24 Nov 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It's just got AI in it. Maybe oversimplification, but... It seemed to me that if you just think of it as an agent that uses AI, then that helps. It helps you understand what it is that you would do with it. That was clearly wrong because the way you build it, the way you run it, how it works is different than a standard agent. It's still an agent. It's a kind of agent, but it's different enough that it's not just an agent that includes AI. Definitely not. It can do things on its own. It can learn, which is to say it can be self-trained. It can interact in ways that are not just unpredictable, but what do they call it? […]

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• Alan McSeveney
• Patrick Scateni
• Micah Jordan
• Steen Graham
• Dr J Metz

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