The Enterprise Edge - Chris Stansbury, President & CFO, Lumen

The Enterprise Edge - Chris Stansbury, President & CFO, Lumen

Everyone with a dog in the enterprise AI hunt is obsessing over GPUs, data centers, and foundation models - but Chris Stansbury [linkedin.com/in/chris-stansbury-2b31a024], President & CFO of Lumen [https://www.lumen.com/en-us/home.html], says they're all missing the nervous system. In this episode of The Enterprise Edge® podcast, Chris makes a compelling case that the real bottleneck of the AI era isn't compute - it's data movement. He gives a candid account of how Lumen quietly transformed from a debt-laden legacy telco into the network backbone powering some of the biggest hyperscaler AI buildouts in the world, why 1,728 fibers through a single conduit is a strategic moat, and what the Alkira acquisition signals about where enterprise AI infrastructure is actually heading. Whetheryou're a CIO evaluating AI readiness, a CFO thinking about infrastructure ROI, or an investor still sleeping on networking, Chris leaves you with a piece of advice you can’t ignore: "If your data can't move, your AI doesn't work." Stream the episode now and be sure to LIKE, SHARE and COMMENT!

EdgeBytes: The Enterprise AI Battleground is Operational Gravity - Featuring IBM, SAP, Workday, and Intuit | 5.19.26

Four major enterprise software announcements over the pastweek - from SAP [https://www.sap.com/index.html], Intuit [https://www.intuit.com/], Workday [https://www.workday.com/], and IBM [https://www.ibm.com/us-en] - and on the surface they look unrelated. But dig deeper and they're all pointing at the same shift: enterprise AI value is no longer about which company has the smartest model, it's about which platform owns the operational context, trusted data, and execution workflows that make AI decisions actually stick. SAP is building a governed autonomous enterprise layer. Intuit is quietly becoming an AI-native ERP for the mid-market. Workday is betting on workflow invisibility insideMicrosoft 365. And IBM is making a surprisingly candid argument that most AI transformations are failing not because of bad technology, but because oforganizational drag. In this episode of EdgeBytes [https://www.tee5.ai/edgebytes], Mark Vigoroso [www.linkedin.com/in/markvigoroso] connects the dots across all four - and what emerges is a sharper picture of where enterprise software power is concentrating, and what CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs should be doing about it right now. Stream the episode now, and be sure to LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT!

CLIP from The Enterprise Edge, "The Vision Shift: Reimagining Supply Chain Planning," w/ SAP

(https://lnkd.in/eXqZBrFh [https://lnkd.in/eXqZBrFh]) | “… now with AI - and are rolling this out as we speak - we can do that whole [order volume and frequency] process for you. We can write that initial email. We can send it. We can wait for the response from the retailer. When they come back for clarification, we have all the data to give them clarification. We don't need a person to do that. I think that's where we're seeing a lot of exciting changes from recommendations to actual action. [Retailers] are going to be interacting back with their suppliers and you're going to end up with two agents going back and forth with their respective information. That is a very real thing that we are seeing customers use today. This is not in the future. And I think we're scratching the surface of what's going to be coming in the coming months.” -- Joel Beal [linkedin.com/in/joelcbeal], CEO & Co-Founder at Alloy.ai. Stream the full podcast episode here: https://youtu.be/1VPdWRbDR4k?si=tlFwuZz1_eZu9GS5 [https://youtu.be/1VPdWRbDR4k?si=tlFwuZz1_eZu9GS5]

The Enterprise Edge - Gary Hodsden, Head of IT Digital Products and Projects at Weatherbys Digital Solutions

What do 255 years of thoroughbred bloodlines have to do with the cutting edge of enterprise AI? More than you'd think. In this episode of The Enterprise Edge [https://www.tee5.ai/podcast], host Mark Vigoroso [www.linkedin.com/in/markvigoroso] sits down with Gary Hodsden [linkedin.com/in/garyhodsden], Head of IT Digital Products andProjects at Weatherbys Digital Solutions [https://www.weatherbys.digital/] - the UK firm that has been the backbone of global horse racing data since 1773. Twelve years into his Weatherbys tenure, Gary shares candid insights on how his team built a modern, Microsoft-first, low-code platform called Salio (Latin for "to leap") that is catapulting one of the world's most data-rich but technologically archaic industries into the cloud and AI age - across racing jurisdictions from Saudi Arabia to Germany, navigating data sovereignty rules along the way. Even more fascinating: Gary's team is training a custom LLM on centuries of breeding records so that owners and breeders can simply ask which stallion is most likely to produce a Group 1 winner. But beyond the tech, Gary delivers some of the most honest and practical wisdom you'll hear from any IT leader: 70% of every project lives or dies on people and process, not the platform. If you lead technology strategy at any organization - Fortune 50 or SMB - and you're trying to cut through the enterprise AI noise to deliver business outcomes, stream this episode now and be sure to LIKE, SHARE and COMMENT!

Clip from The Enterprise Edge - "The Vision Shift: Reimagining Supply Chain Planning"

"There's more [supply chain] turbulence ...from a macroeconomic, political, and climate perspective; there's a lot more events than we had in the past. So we need that agility. And ultimately we need to serve our customer... But traditionally we were looking at OTIF (On Time in Full), but now, especially since we partnered with Alloy.ai [https://www.linkedin.com/company/alloy-inc/], In-Stock is the most important metric because the most important thing is to add product on the shelf for the consumers. That's what drives us and that's what drives our [supply chain] planning and execution today. The real metric that we need to follow is In Stock because you can have a perfect OTIF, but the shelf could be empty." -- Xavier Duprat [https://www.linkedin.com/in/xavier-duprat/], Vice President, Supply Chain Planning & Fulfillment at Cascades [https://www.linkedin.com/company/cascades/]. Stream it now and be sure to LIKE, SHARE and COMMENT! Full episode here: https://youtu.be/1VPdWRbDR4k?si=yO422lBRFASNePJk.