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CEOs are Being Lied to About AI Productivity

Is your organization actually driving value with AI, or just scratching the surface? @SPGlobalMarketIntelligence's Saugata Saha joins to share the 4-part journey to real AI maturity. He warns that without a deliberate action plan to completely transform day-to-day employee workflows, any productivity gains will just be "squishy" metrics that fail to impact the bottom line. Head over to your favorite listening platform to catch the full episode!

React Native OTA Updates: What You Can (and Can't) Deploy Over the Air

Over-the-air (OTA) updates are one of the most powerful tools available to React Native teams. The ability to push changes directly to users’ devices without App Store review, without Google Play approval, without any action required from the user, meaningfully changes how fast a team can respond to bugs and iterate on their product. But OTA updates operate within clear boundaries. Misunderstanding those boundaries leads to two distinct problems.

AI Is Either Reshaping Your Business or Decorating It

At Qlik Connect, one question kept coming up in conversations with leaders: “Which AI vendor should we pick?” But I think that’s the wrong starting point. The better question is: What kind of company do you want to become over the next three years? Right now, most organizations are heading down one of two paths with AI. Some are bolting it onto existing workflows to improve efficiency.

Turn Your Agents Into Kafka Experts with Skills. Live from Current London

Most AI agents are generalists that struggle with the nuances of streaming data and Kafka infrastructure, often leading you down a rabbit hole with many tokens spent. In this session, live from Current London, we’ll show you how to close the context gap with Skills for Kafka: structured files that are playbooks and level-ups for agents to handle complex multi-step tasks like reviewing schema changes, critiquing DLQ policies and auditing topics for best practice. We will walk through how these skills work, demonstrate the different ways to use them (including with MCP servers) in Cursor and Claude.

From Analytics Platform to an AI Operating System: Data Lakehouse in the Agentic AI Era

The lakehouse architecture was developed with the mission to combine the unstructured scale of the data lake with the structured performance of the data warehouse. This shift unified enterprise data and delivered the first true "single source of truth". But in 2026, the mission has expanded.

AI-Powered Personalization in Retail Banking: How Banks Can Deliver Hyper-Personalized Experiences at Scale

Retail banking is quietly undergoing one of its biggest shifts in decades. Customers no longer compare banks to other banks. They compare them to Netflix, Amazon, and every digital experience that already gets them. That expectation has changed the game. This is where AI-powered personalization in retail banking comes in. Instead of offering generic products to broad customer segments, banks can now deliver hyper-relevant experiences in real time.