For years, the promise of “no-code” artificial intelligence has felt a bit like a “some assembly required” IKEA desk — sure, you aren’t sawing the wood yourself, but you’re trying to decipher how to assemble dozens of parts, many of which seem to fit poorly. With communications, low-code often had a nice user interface, but information technology pros were still knee-deep in complex flowcharts, Session Initiation Protocol trunk configurations and professional services.
I had been waiting for the 2026 edition of Zoom Communications Inc.‘s Perspectives, its recently held annual get-together for industry analysts, because I find Zoom to be the most interesting vendor in the communications business today. Though it has many competitors, its product roadmap has been markedly different.
While security eyes are on the RSAC conference in San Francisco this week, the compute world is focused on KubeCon EU in Amsterdam. But the theme of artificial intelligence is the pervasive across both, as in enterprise information technology we’ve reached a point where “AI curiosity” has officially been replaced by “AI urgency.”
For years, the relationship between cybersecurity and business innovation has been a zero-sum game. Security teams were the “Department of No,” tasked with slowing down adoption to ensure safety. Given the business pressure to get artificial intelligence deployed, the security industry has been trying to flip this script by rethinking security along platform lines.
As an industry, healthcare tends to be slow-moving and significantly behind others. There are many reasons for this, including budgets, availability of technology and the fact that any errors in healthcare can result in lost lives. Healthcare transformation has been a big part of past Nvidia GTC conferences, and it was again this year.