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Two funding tracks. Up to 10 companies selected. The VB Transform 2026 Innovation Showcase is open to seed through early-stage Series A companies — and to Series B and beyond or mature enterprise units. Whether you're early and scrappy or scaled and shipping we want to see what you've built. Deadline: June 1. https://lnkd.in/gsFC2Fpa

Autonomous agents make decisions. Most security frameworks weren't built for that. Amy Chang, Head of AI Threat Intelligence and Security Research at Cisco, has been mapping the agentic threat surface that most enterprise teams haven't looked at yet, prompt injection, non-human identity management, runtime policy gaps, and governance in systems that don't wait for human approval. She's on the AI security panel at VB Transform 2026. If you're architecting agentic systems, this is the conversation to have before something goes wrong. July 14–15 | Hotel Nia, Menlo Park 🔗 https://bit.ly/49oTA6r

Valid certificates, stolen accounts: how attackers broke npm's last trust signal https://bit.ly/4v3OvcG

AI writes the code. Engineers inherit the consequences. Jared Go,Distinguished Engineer at Symbotic, author of AI Coding: Beyond the Vibe is joining VB Transform 2026 to talk about what actually comes after the prototype: the architectural decisions, the failure modes, and what it takes to ship AI-generated code you'd actually trust in production. July 14–15 | Hotel Nia, Menlo Park Meet him there: https://bit.ly/497VGZt

What does it mean to present at the VB Transform Innovation Showcase? You get on stage in front of hundreds of enterprise AI decision-makers. You get direct feedback from a curated panel of thought leaders. And you get exclusive editorial coverage from VentureBeat — in front of millions of monthly readers. Applications are open through June 1. https://lnkd.in/gsFC2Fpa

VentureBeat's Q1 data shows enterprise AI just hit a wall: cost-per-inference anxiety jumped from 34% to 41% in one quarter while GPU panic dropped. The scramble is over. The audit has begun. But most enterprises aren't ready for it — 72% admit they lack sufficient control over their AI infrastructure. LinkedIn CTO Erran Berger built the answer from the ground up: bare metal, custom GPU kernels, model pruning, embedding compression. The full stack engineered for ROI — not just throughput. What does it actually take to get there? https://lnkd.in/gusYSDne

D&B's database of 642 million businesses was built for humans, not AI agents. So they rebuilt it. https://bit.ly/4fBzSJd

Alibaba's proprietary Qwen3.7-Max can run for 35 hours autonomously and supports external harnesses like Anthropic's Claude Code https://bit.ly/42LpyH9

What does it actually mean to have organizational discipline around AI ROI? Not just dashboards — the mindset that every feature needs an ROI analysis before it ramps to 100% production and the infrastructure to make that analysis possible. LinkedIn CTO Erran Berger built that culture. Here's what it looks like in practice. https://lnkd.in/gusYSDne

A 0.12% parameter add-on gives AI agents the working memory RAG can't https://bit.ly/4fBLjR3