Europe's power grid buckles under record heat: outages, nuclear cuts, and soaring prices

A continent-wide heatwave is straining Europe's electricity networks, forcing nuclear cutbacks in France, grid alerts in the UK, and a major outage in Germany.

AI and automation fuel a new wave of real estate and property tech investment

From construction robotics to property tax appeals, proptech startups are pulling in fresh capital as AI reshapes every corner of real estate.

Strong AI governance can lower insurance premiums and board liability

The insurance industry has long rewarded responsible behavior with lower premiums. Nonsmokers pay less for health coverage. Safe drivers pay less for auto policies. Homeowners with security systems ge…

Ascendion's CTO: Design thinking, not coding speed, is engineering's future

Ascendion CTO Wesley Pullin has spent more than 34 years in software development, working across large software companies and most recently at CloudBees, where the Jenkins ecosystem touched upward of…

From broadcast journalism to talent recruiting: Jed Gifford on finding the sizzle factor

Jed Gifford's career path does not fit a conventional HR mold. After earning a broadcast journalism degree from the University of Texas and spending seven years in television, covering events ranging…

How Do You Work Around Hospital Operations?

Hospitals never stop operating. Patients still need care, medical staff need access to every part of the facility, and critical services can't pause while restoration or renovation work is underway. T…

How Raptor's StudentSafe tackles behavioral threat assessment and student well-being

Raptor Technologies built its reputation on visitor management, but the company's expansion into student well-being reflects a deliberate response to what its school district customers were already as…

Building Stadium Experiences for Everyone

At InfoComm 2026 in Las Vegas, Josh Barney, CEO of the Sports and Entertainment Alliance in Technology (SEAT), stepped off the Spotlight stage after delivering a talk that touched on one of the indust…

Crafted Journey How To: Bringing Consent, Choreography, and Mental Health to Performance

Sales team management is being reshaped by AI, incentive design, and the return of human judgment

HBR's latest research reveals that AI adoption, incentive structure flaws, and client relationship missteps are converging to redefine how B2B sales teams opera

CFOs tighten AI budgets as agentic platforms and hardware deals reshape enterprise AI in 2026

Enterprise AI enters a new phase of financial discipline, with CFOs demanding ROI while agentic infrastructure bets accelerate across cloud, chips, and capital

Digital healthcare's four pillars: how hardware, software, platforms, and enablers are reshaping medicine

From AI-powered diagnostics to electroceuticals, digital health's four core sectors are drawing global investment and reshaping care delivery.

Global energy investment surges while Washington retreats from climate action

From Norwegian gas fields to Bulgarian battery farms, capital keeps flowing into energy projects even as U.S. climate policy unravels.

Data centers drove half of U.S. electricity demand growth in 2025, and opposition is mounting

Data centers accounted for 50% of all new U.S. electricity demand in 2025, and Goldman Sachs projects that share will keep climbing through 2027.

Enterprise AI moves from pilot to production in 2026, but gaps in governance and talent persist

Two major 2026 AI surveys show enterprise adoption accelerating fast, while governance, talent, and operational readiness struggle to keep pace.

The reshoring boom that wasn't: U.S. factory construction keeps falling despite tariff push

New factory construction in the U.S. has fallen steadily since 2024, even as tariffs and political pressure push reshoring commitments.

Dodge Construction Network: how 130 years of data is reshaping construction intelligence

Dodge Construction Network tracks 700K+ projects annually and its Momentum Index rose 6.2% in April, driven by data center construction.

Prince SCADA System case study

For years, operators on Prince's shop floor faced a familiar but costly problem: the information they needed to do their jobs was scattered. Programs lived in one place, blueprints in another, operati…

AI demand, nuclear strategy, and grid innovation reshape the global energy sector

From Ukraine's AI-powered grid to Canada's nuclear push, energy operators are racing to meet surging power demand driven by AI infrastructure.

Enterprise AI moves from pilot to infrastructure as agentic platforms define the next buying cycle

Enterprise AI spending is accelerating fast, and agentic platforms are raising the bar on what production-ready deployment actually requires.

The "Sizzle Factor": What Actually Makes a Candidate Stand Out

Benchmark Search President Troy Ashby on the "sizzle factor": what separates a strong resume from a candidate a hiring team actually remembers.

Health tech's next phase: AI partnerships, virtual care wins, and the push for real interoperability

From AI agent integrations to virtual nursing wins and CMS interoperability mandates, health tech's mid-2026 moment is defined by execution.

Industrial automation accelerates: AI tools, certifications, and smarter asset management reshape the factory floor

Honeywell, Infinite Uptime, Schneider Electric, and Carlo Gavazzi signal a new wave of industrial automation advances in mid-2026.

The DisruptED World of Cyber Security with James Faxon at NukuDo

Autonomous trucks, warehouse robots, and drones converge as supply chain automation accelerates

PepsiCo runs 35 driverless trucks commercially, Volvo targets Q1 2027 for full autonomy, and Amazon's new warehouse robot joins a wave of supply chain automatio

Mobile health clinics move care to the community as budget pressures and access gaps mount

From college campuses in California to Kansas City schools, mobile health clinics are closing care gaps—but funding pressures threaten the model's reach.

Factory automation's deployment gap: new products flood the market as 80% of US facilities remain unautomated

A striking automation gap persists in US manufacturing even as vendors roll out edge AI, resilient edge platforms, and smarter vision systems at Automate 2026.

Europe's power grid buckles under record heat: outages, nuclear cuts, and soaring prices

A continent-wide heatwave is straining Europe's electricity networks, forcing nuclear cutbacks in France, grid alerts in the UK, and a major outage in Germany.

AI and automation fuel a new wave of real estate and property tech investment

From construction robotics to property tax appeals, proptech startups are pulling in fresh capital as AI reshapes every corner of real estate.

Strong AI governance can lower insurance premiums and board liability

The insurance industry has long rewarded responsible behavior with lower premiums. Nonsmokers pay less for health coverage. Safe drivers pay less for auto policies. Homeowners with security systems ge…

Ascendion's CTO: Design thinking, not coding speed, is engineering's future

Ascendion CTO Wesley Pullin has spent more than 34 years in software development, working across large software companies and most recently at CloudBees, where the Jenkins ecosystem touched upward of…

From broadcast journalism to talent recruiting: Jed Gifford on finding the sizzle factor

Jed Gifford's career path does not fit a conventional HR mold. After earning a broadcast journalism degree from the University of Texas and spending seven years in television, covering events ranging…

How Do You Work Around Hospital Operations?

Hospitals never stop operating. Patients still need care, medical staff need access to every part of the facility, and critical services can't pause while restoration or renovation work is underway. T…

How Raptor's StudentSafe tackles behavioral threat assessment and student well-being

Raptor Technologies built its reputation on visitor management, but the company's expansion into student well-being reflects a deliberate response to what its school district customers were already as…

Building Stadium Experiences for Everyone

At InfoComm 2026 in Las Vegas, Josh Barney, CEO of the Sports and Entertainment Alliance in Technology (SEAT), stepped off the Spotlight stage after delivering a talk that touched on one of the indust…

Crafted Journey How To: Bringing Consent, Choreography, and Mental Health to Performance

Sales team management is being reshaped by AI, incentive design, and the return of human judgment

HBR's latest research reveals that AI adoption, incentive structure flaws, and client relationship missteps are converging to redefine how B2B sales teams opera

CFOs tighten AI budgets as agentic platforms and hardware deals reshape enterprise AI in 2026

Enterprise AI enters a new phase of financial discipline, with CFOs demanding ROI while agentic infrastructure bets accelerate across cloud, chips, and capital

Digital healthcare's four pillars: how hardware, software, platforms, and enablers are reshaping medicine

From AI-powered diagnostics to electroceuticals, digital health's four core sectors are drawing global investment and reshaping care delivery.

Global energy investment surges while Washington retreats from climate action

From Norwegian gas fields to Bulgarian battery farms, capital keeps flowing into energy projects even as U.S. climate policy unravels.

Data centers drove half of U.S. electricity demand growth in 2025, and opposition is mounting

Data centers accounted for 50% of all new U.S. electricity demand in 2025, and Goldman Sachs projects that share will keep climbing through 2027.

Enterprise AI moves from pilot to production in 2026, but gaps in governance and talent persist

Two major 2026 AI surveys show enterprise adoption accelerating fast, while governance, talent, and operational readiness struggle to keep pace.

The reshoring boom that wasn't: U.S. factory construction keeps falling despite tariff push

New factory construction in the U.S. has fallen steadily since 2024, even as tariffs and political pressure push reshoring commitments.

Dodge Construction Network: how 130 years of data is reshaping construction intelligence

Dodge Construction Network tracks 700K+ projects annually and its Momentum Index rose 6.2% in April, driven by data center construction.

Prince SCADA System case study

For years, operators on Prince's shop floor faced a familiar but costly problem: the information they needed to do their jobs was scattered. Programs lived in one place, blueprints in another, operati…

AI demand, nuclear strategy, and grid innovation reshape the global energy sector

From Ukraine's AI-powered grid to Canada's nuclear push, energy operators are racing to meet surging power demand driven by AI infrastructure.

Enterprise AI moves from pilot to infrastructure as agentic platforms define the next buying cycle

Enterprise AI spending is accelerating fast, and agentic platforms are raising the bar on what production-ready deployment actually requires.

The "Sizzle Factor": What Actually Makes a Candidate Stand Out

Benchmark Search President Troy Ashby on the "sizzle factor": what separates a strong resume from a candidate a hiring team actually remembers.

Health tech's next phase: AI partnerships, virtual care wins, and the push for real interoperability

From AI agent integrations to virtual nursing wins and CMS interoperability mandates, health tech's mid-2026 moment is defined by execution.

Industrial automation accelerates: AI tools, certifications, and smarter asset management reshape the factory floor

Honeywell, Infinite Uptime, Schneider Electric, and Carlo Gavazzi signal a new wave of industrial automation advances in mid-2026.

The DisruptED World of Cyber Security with James Faxon at NukuDo

Autonomous trucks, warehouse robots, and drones converge as supply chain automation accelerates

PepsiCo runs 35 driverless trucks commercially, Volvo targets Q1 2027 for full autonomy, and Amazon's new warehouse robot joins a wave of supply chain automatio

Mobile health clinics move care to the community as budget pressures and access gaps mount

From college campuses in California to Kansas City schools, mobile health clinics are closing care gaps—but funding pressures threaten the model's reach.

Factory automation's deployment gap: new products flood the market as 80% of US facilities remain unautomated

A striking automation gap persists in US manufacturing even as vendors roll out edge AI, resilient edge platforms, and smarter vision systems at Automate 2026.