This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
CrowdStrike acquired Pangea and launched Threat AI, a system of AI agents designed to take on cybersecurity and intelligence workflows.
Threat AI falls under the umbrella of CrowdStrike's Agentic Security Workforce, an effort that will inject digital labor throughout its platform. CrowdStrike announced Threat AI and its latest acquisition at its Fal.Con conference.
Microsoft is building a new quantum computing center in Maryland and line up with its work with DARPA on evaluating and funding quantum systems.
In an interview, Charles Tahan, Partner, Microsoft Quantum, said the facility is a partnership with the state of Maryland, which has built a quantum computing corridor built with IonQ as an anchor tenant along with the University of Maryland.
MongoDB said it will bring its search and vector search tools to MongoDB Community Edition and MongoDB Enterprise Server. The move provides enterprises full-text search and vector search features on MongoDB on-premises and self-managed deployment.
The new capabilities are in public preview for developers. MongoDB announced the news at its MongoDB.local NYC developer conference.
Google launched the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) in a move that will flesh out how AI agents will handle commerce and transactions. AP2 is an extension of Google's Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol.
While the grand vision of agentic AI is that various agents will carry out tasks for you, commerce was a big sticking point. Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) and A2A have developed quickly so AI agents can communicate and trade information, but anything revolving money was an issue.
Let’s skip the TED Talk energy and get real. You’re an executive. You don’t need another podcast telling you to “lean in” or “find your why.” You need clarity, traction, and results. Here’s the short list:
1. Move.
Not “plan.” Not “circle back.” Move. Pick something and act. Momentum beats perfection every time. You already know this—now apply it to the thing you’ve been avoiding.
Workday has acquired Sana, an AI agent startup that surfaces knowledge in enterprise systems, for $1.1 billion in a bet that the HCM and finance software provider can become "the front door to work."
The news, announced at Workday Rising 2025, touches on a few themes worth noting.
Workday launched Workday Data Cloud, Workday Build as well as a set of Illuminate AI agents as it aims to build a larger ecosystem around its platform.
At Workday Rising, the company rolled out Workday Data Cloud, which puts the human capital management and financial software company in the center of data flows. Workday Data Cloud has zero-copy access to data lakes, data warehouses, applications and business intelligence tools.
MongoDB launched MongoDB AMP (Application Modernization Platform) as the vendor becomes the latest to take on enterprise code transformation needed to migrate workloads.
Shilpa Kolhar, SVP of Application Modernization, said MongoDB AMP includes tools and techniques that can move workloads to its Atlas platform. Kolhar argued that MongoDB AMP moves beyond enterprise code transformation. MongoDB announced the news ahead of its MongoDB.local NYC conference.
SAP is making progress with its cloud and AI strategy with customers as enterprises are allocating more budget to S/4HANA Cloud.
That's the high-level takeaway from the latest investment survey from the German-speaking SAP User Group (DSAG). The survey incorporates responses from DSAG members as well as large enterprises that aren't part of the group.
The results were released at the DSAG Annual Congress.
Enterprise software vendors appear to be coalescing around the idea that process mining is an enabler for agentic AI and should be built into platforms.
In recent days, process mining, task mining and process automation have all received some play. ServiceNow, which has been acquiring process mining and task mining capabilities as well as partnering with Celonis, has built in more process knowhow into its platform.
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In this episode of DisrupTV (Episode 410), host R “Ray” Wang engages with cybersecurity experts to explore the multifaceted threats facing modern enterprises. The discussion centers on three critical areas: chip-level security vulnerabilities, the dual-edged nature of AI in cybersecurity, and the overlooked risks associated with space technologies.
OpenAI and Microsoft put out a joint statement that they've reached a detente and may have raised more questions than they answered. Simply put, the OpenAI and Microsoft relationship is a little more clear but not by much. I'm sure it'll all work out great.
In a joint statement, the companies said:
Adobe reported better-than-expected third quarter earnings and raised its outlook for the rest of the fiscal year.
The company reported third quarter net income of $1.77 billion, or $4.18 a share, on revenue of $5.99 billion, up 11% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were $5.31 a share.
Wall Street was expecting third quarter non-GAAP earnings of $5.18 a share on revenue of $5.91 billion.
Box rolled out new tools to extract data from unstructured content, automate workflows and orchestrate work and layered more AI features in Box Apps.
At the company's BoxWorks conference, CEO Aaron Levie outlined Box Extract, Box Automate and new Box Apps features to address the day that AI agents outnumber people. Levie said:
Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar said agentic AI use cases can create a self-funding flywheel for enterprises starting with the software development cycle and moving through other processes.
Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference, Kumar laid out a framework for AI agents across multiple vectors. He added that Cognizant is seeing benefits now that 30% of its code is written by machines, up from 18% just a quarter ago.
Alex Franco, Chief Risk Officer and CTO at Jeitto — and a SuperNova Award 2025 finalist — is on a mission to democratize credit for underserved populations.With over 11 million customers, Jeitto focuses on low-income individuals who often struggle to access traditional banking. By leveraging AI and alternative data, Jeitto has:
✅ Reduced loan defaults by 20%
✅ Increased credit approvals by 10%
✅ Cut decisioning cycle time from 1.5 minutes to 30 seconds
Alex Franco, Chief Risk Officer and Chief Technology Officer at Jeitto, artificial intelligence and alternative data can democratize access to credit at a faster pace.
Microsoft announced a set of Copilots for sales, service and finance in a move that brings role-based assistants to Microsoft 365 Copilot.
The role-based Copilots will be available in preview for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers in October via the Copilot Agent Store.
Microsoft's offering is the latest in a trend of copilots and AI agents aimed at specific roles and processes.
This week on ConstellationTV episode 113, co-hosts Liz Miller and Holger Mueller kick things off with the latest enterprise technology news from SAP, HPE, and HubSpot, diving into how #AI is driving real business value across sectors—from marketing to customer service and beyond.
ServiceNow launched its Zurich release of its platform with tools to build AI apps and agents more easily, attach identities to digital workers and integrate process and task mining into agentic workflows.