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In this episode of Agents of IT, Ari Stowe sits down with Geoff McQueen, four-time founder and CEO of Ascendius, to unpack what it takes to navigate AI-driven disruption. Geoff shares a clear framework for where automation is headed, from individual AI use to agent-driven workflows to AI embedded across the business. Most organizations are still early. The real opportunity is in making AI work at the business level.

From Complex to Simple: How Integrated GRC Transforms Compliance, Risk and ITSM Operations Your teams face a complex regulatory landscape, limited visibility across departments and the need to demonstrate audit readiness and risk accountability. But you’re not alone; over half of global risk leaders say regulatory complexity is their biggest headache, while many struggle with siloed vendor data, fragmented controls and manual GRC processes.

Join us live from GrafanaCON 2026 for the Pyroscope Community Call! We’re kicking things off with a look at everything happening in the Pyroscope ecosystem, alongside special guest Alberto Soto. In this session: We take a look back over the last year in Pyroscope What’s new in continuous profiling What’s coming next From multi-language source code integration and symbolization improvements to OpenTelemetry profiles and performance gains, Pyroscope has evolved rapidly over the past year.

Join us live from GrafanaCON 2026 for the Loki Community Call! We’re kicking things off with a look at everything happening in the Loki ecosystem, alongside special guests Poyzan Taneli, Ben Clive, and Trevor Whitney. In this session: We take a look back over the last year in Loki Explore the brand new “Thor” architecture Dive into what’s coming next for logging at scale From a completely new columnar storage format and Kafka-based ingestion, to a redesigned query engine and improved support for high-cardinality data—Loki is evolving to meet the demands of modern logging.