The Ravit Show

Only 17% of enterprise executives say they have clear clarity on their AI strategy!!!! That is from a survey of 500 leaders at Global 2000 companies. I spoke at Dreamforce with David Cushman, Executive Research Leader at HFS Research, and Gurvinder Singh Sahni, CMO at Altimetrik on The Ravit Show, to talk about what that gap actually looks like!!!! What we covered: - The shift at Dreamforce itself...

DREAMFORCE last week was a blast!!!! Most AI agent projects fail for the same reason. The foundation was not ready. That came through clearly in my Dreamforce conversation with Jyoti Chaudhary, Global Head of Salesforce Practice at Altimetrik, and Jeff Sneeringer, Service Delivery Director at Huntington National Bank. What we covered: - Salesforce is unifying its AI strategy across the ecosystem,...

Last week Dreamforce was a blast!!!! 2024 was the year of AI pilots. 2025 was the year agents went into production. 2026 is about scaling them. That framing came up in my Dreamforce conversation with Vala Afshar, Chief Digital Evangelist at Salesforce, and Gurvinder Singh Sahni, CMO at Altimetrik on The Ravit Show. Some numbers from the discussion: Dreamforce 2026 brought 50,000 people in person f...

Most enterprises have already spent heavily on Salesforce. The real question now is how to get more value out of it. That was the heart of my conversation at Dreamforce with Bryan Schappell from Emerson and Nripendra Tamang from Altimetrik. We got into what it actually takes to move Salesforce and Agentforce from pilots into production, and where AI is starting to change how companies engage custo...

Most enterprises are not held back by AI models. They are held back by their data. That was the focus of my conversation with Savinay Berry, EVP and GM of Data Management, at @Salesforce’s Dreamforce. #AdSavinay also highlighted common data readiness mistakes. We explored what AI-ready data means for Salesforce customers and why enterprises need an AI infrastructure layer built to outlast today’s...

AI is moving out of the back office and into the products people use every day. That was the thread running through my conversation with Velia Carboni, CIO of SharkNinja, here at Dreamforce on The Ravit Show. #sponsored SharkNinja is taking AI beyond internal productivity and into its products and customer experiences. That shift changes what a CIO is responsible for. Technology leadership now sit...

Most companies don't have a data problem. They have a data readiness problem. They already have plenty of data. What they don't have is data an AI task can actually use. I sat down with Ho Bae, CEO of CUBIG on The Ravit Show, to talk about what it takes to make enterprise data ready for AI. Here are my takeaways: 1. Having data and having AI-ready data are 2 different things. The right inf...

What does it actually take to make AI work inside the enterprise? I recently sat down with Philip Miller from Progress to talk about the challenges companies are facing as they move AI from experiments into real production environments. We talked about Progress Data Platform, PDP Studio, context layers, AI guardrails, data governance, AI agents, cost optimization and what enterprises need to build...

Last week, I had a blast at 1st Equinix Horizon. Sat down with Paul Dehnert, Vice President of Sales at Equinix on The Ravit Show. He runs the global sales team behind Equinix's interconnection portfolio, the internal wiring inside data centers that quietly makes up the network of networks we call the internet. Sharing the takeaways while they are fresh. The theme running through this entire e...

Great conversation from Equinix Horizon, this time with Kaladhar Voruganti, VP and Senior Technologist on the Global Value Advisory Team at Equinix on The Ravit Show. He runs field CTOs and 20 global solution validation centers, basically AI labs where customers and partners go to test what actually works. Sharing the takeaways while they are fresh. Most enterprises are not chasing exotic AI use c...

Always a blast chatting with Harmeen Mehta, Chief Digital and Innovation Officer at Equinix, live from Equinix Horizon on The Ravit Show. It is always fun meeting her and chatting with her, she is one of the best. Sharing the biggest takeaways while they are still fresh. Equinix Horizon itself is being positioned as an iconic customer event, built around co-creation, not just announcements. That f...

This one is so so important!!!! I spoke to with Madhu Narasimhan, CIO at DaVita Kidney Care, at Glean:GO 2026 in San Francisco on The Ravit Show. Most companies ask whether AI is good enough to scale. A healthcare CIO has to answer a harder question first. What happens when it is not. That difference ran through the whole conversation. DaVita operates at real scale in kidney care. When you are tha...

Your dashboard tells you revenue dropped 8% last quarter. It cannot tell you why. The why is sitting in a Slack thread, 3 support tickets, and a deal review nobody wrote up properly!!!! That split is the most underrated problem in enterprise AI, and it is what I got into with Jayanth Mysore, Product Manager at Glean, at Glean:GO on The Ravit Show in San Francisco. Jayanth co-founded Iris, an AI an...

The model is not the expensive part of your AI stack. The missing context is. That is the argument at the centre of everything Glean announced this week, and I got into it with Emrecan Dogan, Chief Product Officer at Glean, on site at Glean:GO on The Ravit Show in San Francisco. Here is why it matters beyond one vendor's launch. When AI does not know how your company works, every task starts f...

AI adoption is moving faster than most enterprise data architectures can handle. I just sat down with Sergio Gago, CTO, Cloudera on The Ravit Show to discuss what their latest global survey reveals about the state of enterprise AI. The survey covers 1,500 enterprise architects, cloud infrastructure leads, and data architects across 9 markets. A few findings stood out: * 77% of organizations are al...

We built a working AI agent in 5 minutes. Not a demo. Not a prototype. A live agent managing my inbox. I sat down with Akshhat at the Kore.ai office in Hyderabad, and one thing became very clear. The prototyping era is over. Organizations in healthcare and banking, some of the most regulated industries on the planet, are now deploying 50 to 100+ agents to run complex, real-world workflows. This is...

900 people. Two floors. One question I kept asking everyone at Kore.ai's Hyderabad office: what happens when the AI is wrong. The answer I got back, again and again, is why I think this company is built differently. Most companies bolt AI features onto old infrastructure. Kore.ai didn't. Santhosh Kumar Myadam, who has been there 9 years, told me they rebuilt the entire stack from scratch t...

Very few people in the world can say banks trust them with their core. Arun Jain is one of them. He is the man behind Intellect Design Arena, the force who helped put India on the global fintech map, and one of the most influential product minds this country has ever produced. Founders study his playbook. Banking leaders across continents run on his technology. And an entire generation of Indian e...

What happens when the AI SOC becomes more expensive, less private, and harder to control? We talk a lot about AI transforming cybersecurity. But there are some questions that don't get enough attention. Where does AI genuinely add value in the SOC? Does the cybersecurity industry actually have a talent shortage, or a productivity problem? What happens when security teams start paying for every...

Can AI actually solve alert fatigue, or are we expecting too much from it? Every security team wants faster investigations, fewer false positives, and less manual work. AI promises all of that. But the reality inside the SOC is far more nuanced. In my latest conversation with *Monzy, CEO and Co-Founder of Crogl*, we discuss: * What is actually working with AI in the SOC today * Why alert fatigue c...

I had a blast chatting with Jithendra Vepa, CTO and Co-founder of Observe. AI, on The Ravit Show at MongoDB.local Bangalore. Jithendra has a PhD in speech technology and has spent years deep in speech recognition, NLP, and voice AI. He is not someone who got into AI because it became trendy. He has been building domain-specific AI systems long before the current wave, and it shows in how he thinks...

Sat down with Mukund Jha, Founder and CEO of Emergent, on The Ravit Show at MongoDB.local Bangalore. Mukund is not new to building. He was part of the team that built Dunzo, founded startups before that, and has deep technical roots in ML and NLP. What he is doing now with Emergent is one of the most interesting vibe-coding stories happening right now. The company recently crossed $100 million in...

What does it actually take to build AI products at scale in India? That was the focus of my conversation with Shrey Batra, Head of Engineering, Platforms at HROne and Founder of Cosmocloud, during MongoDB.local Bangalore. We started with the latest MongoDB announcements, including voyage-context-4, Hybrid Search, Native Reranking, and the expansion of Search and Vector Search. But the discussion q...

Last week at MongoDB.local Bangalore, I sat down with Basavadarshan G N, or Darshan as most people know him, Senior Academia Partnership Manager for APAC at MongoDB, on The Ravit Show. Darshan sits at the intersection of two things I care a lot about. Developer education, and India's push to actually build for the AI era instead of just consuming it. His work with MongoDB for Academia is quiet...

Last week at MongoDB.local Bangalore I sat down with Sejal Khanna, Senior Developer Advocate at MongoDB, on The Ravit Show. Loved hosting her!!!! Sejal spends her days helping developers move from AI curiosity to actually shipping. Workshops, hands-on sessions, product storytelling, community. She works at the layer where hype meets reality, which makes her one of the most useful voices to hear fr...