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Friday’s Briefing · October 23

Tech Field Day, Tuesday, October 13th, 2026

Considering All the Costs of AI

A Tech Field Day panel weighs AI's hidden costs: technical debt, maintainability, convergent answers and accountability. more →

Considering All the Costs of AI

You've Been Heard, Monday, October 5th, 2026

462- How Do We Get to Right? w/Christopher Childs (70:43)

The skill Christopher Childs credits most for his success has nothing to do with technical ability: listening more than he speaks and meeting people where they are. The CIO of Evans Army Community Hospital, speaking for himself, explains how a master technician can also become a master isolationist, and why he tells his branch chiefs to use IT as a force multiplier and a healthcare enabler. more →

462- How Do We Get to Right? w/Christopher Childs (70:43)

O'Reilly Radar, Thursday, October 15th, 2026

Agentic Code Quality

Addy Osmani argues code quality for agent-written code must move from human review into harness constraints. more →

Agentic Code Quality

Martin Fowler, Tuesday, October 13th, 2026

Are Harnesses Worth the Cost?

Experiment finds a behavioral harness made a cheap coding model as reliable as a frontier model at 33% lower cost. more →

Are Harnesses Worth the Cost?

Contact Center Pipeline, Tuesday, October 13th, 2026

Why CX Increasingly Requires Outbound

CX is shifting from reactive inbound service to proactive outreach as AI blurs the lines between CRM and contact center platforms. more →

Why CX Increasingly Requires Outbound

Upcoming Event · Thu, Nov 12 · 10:00am

5 Game-Changing AI and Innovation Trends for Global CIOs

This webinar explores five breakthrough AI and innovation trends emerging from China that are shaping the global technology landscape. By examining open-source models, outcome as agentic solution, agentic UX, commerce and ecosystem, AI-native business models, and AI-confidential computing, the session provides actionable insights for CIOs and AI leaders. more →

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5 Game-Changing AI and Innovation Trends for Global CIOs (Nov. 12th)

Upcoming Event · Wed, Nov 4 · 1:00pm

The Economics of Infrastructure Modernization

In this session, Evolve Cloud Services will examine the economics of moving Microsoft workloads toward open-source & license-free infrastructure and databases, and container-based architectures on AWS. We'll discuss how to establish a baseline for current infrastructure and licensing costs, identify modernization opportunities, evaluate the trade-offs of different target architectures, and build a defensible TCO and ROI case for modernization. more →

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The Economics of Infrastructure Modernization (Nov. 4th)

Salesforce, Friday, October 16th, 2026

CRM for Non-Techies

A jargon-free primer explaining what a CRM is and how AI makes it accessible to non-technical small business owners. more →

CRM for Non-Techies

Salesforce, Wednesday, October 14th, 2026

Managing Agentic Security at Scale

Salesforce security explains how it triages the flood of vulnerability findings that frontier models and agentic harnesses now surface. more →

Managing Agentic Security at Scale

Upcoming Event · Mon, Oct 26 · 10:00am

Beyond Tokens: A CIO's Guide to What Really Drives the Total Cost of AI

This webinar explores the broader costs of AI and helps CIOs develop a more complete understanding of where spending and value creation occur as AI adoption expands. Learn how to evaluate AI investments beyond technology costs, improve cost visibility, strengthen business accountability and make more informed decisions that balance innovation, risk and enterprise value. more →

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Beyond Tokens: A CIO's Guide to What Really Drives the Total Cost of AI (Oct. 26th)