Built For Trust With Nick Lippis

The next era of enterprise infrastructure won't be defined by AI alone. It will be defined by how organizations adapt to operating it. In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis shares his perspective on the changes reshaping enterprise infrastructure. He explores why continuous software updates are driving a new approach to operations, what organizations need to prepare for as hy...

Cyber is the one disruption FedEx Freight can't route around. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with Michael Milligan, CISO of FedEx Freight, to discuss how AI is reshaping enterprise security from the boardroom to the front lines of enterprise operations. Michael breaks down the two questions dominating board conversations today: how risk is being managed and how the compa...

This episode is part of a seven-part sponsored series with Cisco focused on the technologies defining the next era of enterprise networking, with new episodes released each month. Networking is entering its "summer of turbulence." Frontier AI models can now identify and exploit vulnerabilities in massive, decades-old codebases faster than traditional security and operations teams can respond. Cisc...

AI is pushing networking into territory it has never seen before. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with Hasan Siraj, Vice President of Products at Broadcom, to talk about how AI workloads are rewriting the rules of Ethernet, optics, and data center architecture. They dig into why AI traffic is fundamentally different from traditional TCP/IP traffic. Think massive elephant...

Agents don't log in. They connect. And that changes everything about access control. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with Tom Gillis of Cisco and Robert Kim of Presidio to discuss hybrid AI infrastructure and the operational challenges no one has fully solved yet. They explore why on-prem AI is becoming practical for enterprises that can't easily retrofit their data cente...

eBay has been running its own private cloud for decades. So when AI spending started accelerating, the calculus didn't change. It got more complicated. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with John Feldmeier, CIO at eBay, to talk about what a build-first philosophy actually means in the age of AI. They discuss why eBay is doing both, buying to move fast and bringing things in...

Traditional tools can detect problems. They can’t reason about them. That gap is becoming one of the biggest challenges in enterprise network operations. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with David Mann, Global Services Leader at NetBrain, to discuss what AI-driven network operations actually looks like in practice. They explore why context and intent are foundational to e...

This episode is part of a six-part sponsored series with Cisco focused on the technologies defining the next era of enterprise networking, with new episodes released each month. AI agents don't have passwords, MFA tokens, or biometrics. They're proliferating across enterprise environments faster than any technology we've seen before, often without IT even knowing they're there. In this episode of...

When an AI model can discover and exploit decades-old vulnerabilities in hours, enterprise security changes fast. In this episode, Nick Lippis is joined by Peter Campbell, Senior Director of Cloud Security at Cigna, and Dev Awasthi, AI Security Advisor at Accenture, to unpack what Anthropic’s Mythos model and Project Glasswing mean for enterprise defenders. They discuss how vulnerability timelines...

Enterprise IT operations have long scaled by adding people. L1 teams, offshore support, and manual response became the norm. But as infrastructure grows more complex and fast-moving, that model is breaking. In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis sits down with Assaf Resnick, CEO of BigPanda, to unpack the $250 billion problem behind modern IT operations. They discuss: Why oper...

In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis shares findings from a recent ONUG community survey of senior practitioners managing large-scale, regulated enterprise infrastructure. The results paint a clear picture: the hype around AI is real, the investment is real, but production deployments are lagging far behind. And the primary reason may be the network itself. Nick walks throug...

This episode is part of a six-part sponsored series with Cisco focused on the technologies defining the next era of enterprise networking, with new episodes released each month. AI infrastructure is entering a new phase, and the shift starts at the silicon layer. In this episode, Nick Lippis is joined by Cisco leaders Tom Gillis and Nick Kucharewski to explore how advances in networking silicon ar...

As AI moves beyond the data center into real-world environments, the network is being pushed into entirely new territory. In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis speaks with Allwyn Sequeira, CEO of Highway 9 Networks, about how AI, mobility, and edge computing are converging to reshape enterprise infrastructure. They explore why traditional wireless approaches fall short in AI-...

As AI reshapes enterprise infrastructure, most conversations focus on models, agents, and applications. But beneath it all, the network is being fundamentally redefined. In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis speaks with Vishal Shukla, Co-Founder and CEO of Aviz Networks, about the two dimensions shaping the future: building networks for AI workloads and using AI to operate th...

AI is moving fast, but most enterprises are still trying to answer a fundamental question: should you build your own AI infrastructure or buy it? In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis speaks with Todd Nightingale, from Arista, and they break down how leading organizations are approaching that decision and why the answer increasingly comes down to one thing: data. They explore...

Modern applications generate more operational data than ever before. Microservices architectures, cloud infrastructure, and rapid development cycles have created a world where systems emit massive volumes of logs, metrics, and traces, often far more than teams can realistically analyze. In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis speaks with Jad Naous, Founder of Grepr, about how t...

Agentic AI is rapidly moving from experimentation to real enterprise deployments. As organizations begin running hundreds or even thousands of AI agents across hybrid environments, the challenge becomes how to govern them safely at scale. In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis walks through a demonstration of the ONUG Agentic AI Overlay and the control framework designed to pr...

Everyone is talking about agentic AI in the NOC. Fewer are asking whether the foundation is ready. Nick Lippis sits down with Damien Garros, founder of OpsMill, to unpack what’s missing from most AI-in-operations conversations: structured intent data. Observability tells you what is happening. But intent defines what should be happening. Without that context, AI systems are left reacting to signal...

The digital economy runs on connectivity. But while cloud infrastructure became programmable, elastic, and API-driven, telecom workflows remained manual, fragmented, and stuck in decades-old procurement processes. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with Ben Edmond, Founder and CEO of ConnectBase, to explore why that is finally changing. As AI workloads accelerate and enterpr...

In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis breaks down the real barriers preventing large enterprises from deploying agentic AI at scale. After gathering direct input from enterprise leaders across the ONUG community, a clear pattern emerged: the blockers are not model performance or innovation. They are trust, security, and governance. Nick outlines the prioritized requirements e...

As enterprises rush to prepare for AI, most of the attention is focused on models, GPUs, and applications. But what if the real starting point isn’t AI at all? In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis sits down with Patrick Heinz from Ameriprise to explore why observability is the true foundation of AI-ready infrastructure. Patrick draws on decades of experience spanning service...

In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis shares firsthand observations from ongoing conversations with enterprise IT leaders and technology providers across the industry. Nick explores the growing divide between AI-first enterprises that are moving aggressively into large-scale deployments and organizations that are still evaluating where AI fits, how to justify the investment, and how to m...

Most companies are experimenting with AI in customer experience. Very few are actually transforming it. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis is joined by Puneet Mehta, Founder and CEO of Netomi, to explore what it really takes to design AI-driven customer experience that works in the real world at enterprise scale, under regulatory constraints, and without breaking trust. Puneet shares...

Agentic AI is redefining how work gets done. But without the right architecture and controls, autonomy becomes risk. In this episode, Nick sits down with Peter Campbell to explore the emerging Agentic AI Overlay and what enterprises must build to support secure, scalable agentic workflows. From multi-agent communication and trust boundaries to identity, governance, and responsible AI enforcement,...

In this episode, Nick reviews lessons from 2025 that shift from POC to production in enterprise AI. Then he discusses key predictions for 2026 and discusses why it is such a pivotal year for enterprises to embrace AI. New episodes of the Built for Trust Podcast come out every Thursday. Subscribe to get notified. See you next week!