The rise of AI tooling and agents in the enterprise has created a gap with identity security platforms. Addressing that gap remains challenging when so much is still unclear about how users and agents interact. In this episode of the Tech Field Day podcast, brought to you by 1Password, Tom Hollingsworth is joined by Kate Scarcella, Jack Poller, and Sanjay Ramnath of 1Password.

The panel discusses the shift from client-server models to the new agentic landscape. They talk about the challenges of tracking activity and how static credential management is unable to keep up. They also talk about the need for business to lead the change in IT and enable security to keep up with the current velocity of features. They also discuss how there needs to be a shift in the way that companies develop and apply security policy to users, both physical and digital.

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1Password Representative: Sanjay Ramnath, VP, Product & Solutions Marketing

Guests:

Jack Poller, Principal Analyst at Paradigm Technica

Kate Scarcella, Chair Person at the CD Foundation, a Cybersecurity Foundation

Hosts:

⁠⁠Tom Hollingsworth⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Event Lead for Tech Field Day

⁠⁠⁠Alastair Cooke⁠⁠⁠⁠, Event Lead at Tech Field Day

⁠⁠⁠Stephen Foskett⁠⁠⁠⁠, President and Organizer of ⁠⁠⁠⁠Tech Field Day⁠⁠⁠⁠

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AI has driven your datacenter designs and is now moving outwards through your whole network. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Lee Peterson from Cisco discussing AI and networks with Andy Banta, Jack Poller, and Alastair Cooke. The discussion explores how AI is "escaping the data center" and becoming pervasive across the network, necessitating a dual focus on “networking for AI” and “AI for networking.” The former involves building robust, high-performance, and secure infrastructure, particularly at the edge, to support AI workloads like real-time inference. The goal is to support new applications such as robotics, fraud detection, and small language models, moving beyond traditional cloud-centric deployments to a more federated model. The latter leverages AI to manage, optimize, troubleshoot, and secure the network itself, with Cisco utilizing deep network learning models, historical data, and expertise to create AI assistants that enable intent-based networking and streamline operations. Additionally, the conversation emphasizes the critical role of advanced security, including hardware-accelerated post-quantum cryptography, to protect data in this evolving, AI-driven environment from future decryption threats.

Cisco Representative: Lee Peterson, VP of Product, Cisco

Andy Banta, Storage and Infrastructure Consultant

Jack Poller, Principal Analyst at Paradigm Technica

Hosts:

⁠⁠⁠⁠Tom Hollingsworth⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Event Lead for Tech Field Day

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Alastair Cooke⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Event Lead at Tech Field Day

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The big headlines that we're seeing around the massive funding of large AI companies are a distraction from the reality that AI is being built and used in business applications. This episode of the Tech Field Day podcast features Frederic Van Haren, Chris Grundemann, Brian Martin, and Alastair Cooke reflecting after AI Infrastructure Field Day in Santa Clara. Popular news often covers the creation of large, general purpose AI models, yet the real-world application of AI through inference is where most companies see a return on their investment. Similarly, the common understanding of "AI" is as a single topic, without a more granular view that differentiates between rules-based systems, traditional machine learning, and emergent generative models like Large Language Models (LLMs). Specialized AI models will be vital for cost-effective applications with enhanced efficiency and the integration of diverse AI capabilities into agentic architectures. Advanced security protocols and regulatory frameworks are vital to mitigate novel vulnerabilities, organizations must adapt to an extraordinarily rapid pace of technological evolution. AI has already had a profound impact on software development, potentially enabling widespread custom application creation.

Panelists:

Frederic Van Haren, CTO and Founder of HighFens, Inc.

Brian Martin, VP of Data Center Performance at Signal 65

Chris Grundemann, Executive Consultant at Khadga Consulting

Hosts:

⁠⁠⁠Tom Hollingsworth⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Event Lead for Tech Field Day

⁠⁠⁠⁠Alastair Cooke⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, Event Lead at Tech Field Day

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