What happens when you bring network leaders together at Mercedes-Benz World to talk about the future of connectivity?🏎️ A few highlights from #RBBNINSIGHTS London👇 🇺🇸Next stop Fort Lauderdale 🎸Hard Rock Hotel 🗓️ Nov 10–12 👉 bit.ly/4xknXEO #RBBNAmbassador @ribboncomm

AI recommending something for you to buy is one thing. Giving it permission to actually buy it is something else entirely. That’s where agentic commerce starts to get super interesting. Imagine telling an AI agent: Find me the best nonstop flight to New York next Thursday, keep it under $700, make sure I can change it, and book it. The technology is increasingly moving toward being able to do exactly that. But the moment an AI goes from recommending an action to actually taking one, an entirely different infrastructure has to sit underneath it. How does the agent prove it’s acting on your behalf? What exactly is it authorized to spend? Which payment methods can it access? How do you prevent a compromised agent from making unauthorized purchases? What happens if it makes the wrong decision? Who is responsible? Identity, permissions, authentication, spending limits, audit trails and human approval are paramount. This gets even more interesting when you take it beyond consumer shopping. An enterprise AI agent could eventually reorder inventory, purchase cloud capacity, renew software, book logistics or transact with another company's agent. At that point, we’re not just talking about AI assistants anymore. We’re talking about software with real economic authority. For the last few years, the big question has been: What can AI do? I think the next question might be: What are we comfortable letting it do for us? Where would you draw the line? PS: Yes, this is an AI generated image of me shopping. And yes, it gave me an extra toe 😂

Coverage alone doesn’t mean readiness. A network can cover an area and still come under enormous pressure when demand surges. Watch my 60-second take, then dive deeper into what operational resilience really requires here: linkedin.com/pulse/beyond-co… @T_Priority Partner

Last week, our co-founder @BevEve attended @ribboncomm INSIGHTS London 2026 🙌 Big themes? AI in networking, cloud-native voice, migration and one clear takeaway: Innovation only works if the network underneath it can keep up. Next stop US 👉 bit.ly/4xknXEO #RBBNINSIGHTS #Telecoms #AI #RBBNAmbassador

The NFL generates more than 500 million data points every season, powered in part by tiny UWB RFID tags embedded across the field, from players’ shoulder pads and officials’ uniforms to pylons, first-down markers and even the football. Those sensors capture location, speed, acceleration, movement and more, helping power everything from Next Gen Stats to player safety analysis and coaching insights. But what interests me most is the architecture underneath it all. The NFL has essentially turned the field into an instrumented environment where one underlying layer of telemetry can support multiple applications. There’s a lesson here for enterprises: the same IoT and sensor data collected for one purpose may be able to create value across safety, operations, maintenance, customer experience and more. I broke down the technology in my latest article: lnkd.in/p/gWJd99vF What data is your organization already collecting that could be creating value somewhere else?

I will never walk past a robot dog without stopping to watch. 😂 This @ericsson subway maintenance demo at Mobile World Congress was a fun glimpse at how AI + robotics could be used in the physical world, from inspecting infrastructure to navigating environments that may be difficult or dangerous for people.

TechMode Explains: Edition 4 - Complex tech. Clearly explained. This edition: Zero Trust Security 🔐 Traditional network security often worked like an office. Show your pass at reception and, once inside, you were trusted more broadly. Zero Trust works differently. Access is continually evaluated based on who you are, the device you’re using and what you actually need access to. Think of it like having your pass checked before entering each room, not just at the front door. In simple terms: 🔐 Don’t trust automatically 🔐 Verify continuously 🔐 Only give access to what’s needed That’s Zero Trust. #ZeroTrust #Cybersecurity #EnterpriseTech

AI agents are getting smarter. But is enterprise data ready for them? After a year of hearing the same challenge across podcasts, telco events, data conferences and IBM Think, I did a temperature check. 🗞️ New Tech on Tour: what’s really holding the agentic enterprise back? linkedin.com/pulse/tech-tour…

Well, this is a lovely bit of news… 🏆 TechMode has been named Best Experiential Technology Marketing Partner 2026 in the Corporate Vision Corporate Excellence Awards 🎉 And this one feels particularly special because so much of what we do is about bringing technology stories to life. Whether we’re on the ground at major industry events, creating conversations between enterprise leaders and trusted voices, producing content, or helping brands turn very complicated technology into something people actually want to engage with, the goal is always the same: Make tech marketing feel more human, relevant and memorable. A huge thank you to our brilliant team, clients, partners and creators who make the work possible. We’re very proud of this one 💙 Best Experiential Technology Marketing Partner 2026. Not a bad title to add to the TechMode collection 👀🏆

One thing I always love about industry events is seeing different parts of the ecosystem come together to share knowledge, compare perspectives and tackle shared challenges 💪 Great to see such a strong mix of partners here at INSIGHTS London today. #RBBNINSIGHTS #RBBNAmbassador @Ribboncomm

The goal of "Saving the Earth with the Internet of Things" is to empower people to tackle #sustainability use cases that align with causes that are near and dear to their hearts. Learn more in the comment below:

Seriously impressive goodie bag from the folks at @ribboncomm 👀 👏 Don’t know what I love more, the branded cadburys or the Mercedes-Benz World sports top. And there’s more..! Bring on INSIGHTS London 26 🙌 #RBBNAmbassador

Welcome back to Tech Term of the Week! 🥳 This week's term → AgentOps - /ˈeɪ.dʒənt ˌɑps/ Definition → an emerging set of practices focused on the lifecycle management of autonomous AI agents. Why it matters → AI agents operate across complex workflows with many potential failure points, making them difficult to monitor and optimize without proper visibility. This helps devs improve efficiency and trust in agent systems by providing the tools to trace behavior, audit decisions, and measure performance and cost in real time.

AI is eating books now. Quite literally 📚🤖 Amazon is reportedly buying rare and out-of-print books, removing the spines and scanning them to train AI models. Once a company owns a rare book, should it be free to destroy it for AI training? Or should some human knowledge stay off the menu? Have a read here: techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/am… via @TechCrunch

Managing 7,000 vehicles takes more than guesswork. Working with @GEOTAB's fleet management platform and the @TMobile network, TopBuild connected 95% of its fleet in three months. The results? A 45% reduction in speeding events in just the first few months of deployment. secure.t-mobile.com/yGVpYx8I…