# Maribel Lopez

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The New Rules for Scaling AI: What Yum Brands Learned

Picking a use case, proving value, and expanding has been the standard starting point for enterprise AI. For organizations early in their AI journey, that advice still holds. But for large enterprises that are past the pilot stage and trying to scale across business units, geographies, and brands, …

Mixed Big Tech Earnings, Powell Says He'll Stay at Fed as Governor

US equity futures rose, reversing earlier declines, helped along by late-market gains in Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. Meanwhile, Meta Platforms Inc. shares slid in post-market trading alongside Microsoft Corp., keeping alive lingering concerns over artificial intelligence spending. We heard fr…

Four Types of AI Agents With Dell's John Roese. Most Enterprises Are Only Building One

Dell's CTO built a 4-category agent framework from real production deployments. Most enterprises are ignoring two of the categories that matter most. Full Show Notes Enterprise leaders are mapping AI agents to org charts — building digital employees, agentic teams, AI workers — and then wondering w…

Moving Beyond Building AI Agents With IBM's Suzanne Livingston

Enterprises have agents. Most can't run them at scale. IBM's Suzanne Livingston explains what changes when you have hundreds — not two. Full Show Notes Scaling agentic AI is not the same problem as building it. At IBM Think 2026 in Boston, I sat down with Suzanne Livingston, VP of Product for IBM …

Beyond the Hype: What Actually Separates AI Winners from Losers

In this episode of The Bridgecast, host Scott Kinka welcomes Maribel Lopez, founder and principal analyst at Lopez Research, for a deep dive into the practical realities of enterprise AI adoption. Moving beyond the initial wave of boardroom mandates, this conversation explores how organizations can…

From Pain to Purpose

🎙️ From Pain to Purpose: A Journey of Faith, Healing & Hope with Dr. Maribel Lopez What happens when life leaves you carrying wounds no one else can see? How do you find hope when your past feels impossible to overcome? In this powerful episode of A Dose of Reality Show, I sit down with Dr. Maribel…

Evaluating Technologies in the AI Era: Value, Risk, Ecosystem Evaluation

This week's "Coffee with Digital Trailblazers" episode featured industry analyst Maribel Lopez discussing the evaluation of AI technologies. Key topics included the significance of aligning AI selection with business goals, assessing vendor trustworthiness, and managing risks. The panel stressed th…

Neeraj Verma of NiCE on What Separates AI Pilots From Production

Neeraj Verma of NiCE on why AI pilots stall, building agents as small reusable units, and the scale problem personal agents are about to create. Full show notesThis one was recorded live at NiCE World 2026 in Orlando, and Neeraj Verma, Head of AI at NiCE, didn't dodge the hard parts. We started whe…

Beyond the Box Score: AI in Sports with Jono Luk of Sumer Sports

Football franchises run on data. Jono Luk of Sumer Sports explains how AI is changing who wins — on the field and in the stands. Full Show Notes: Most sports AI coverage focuses on stats. Jono Luk, Chief Product Officer at Sumer Sports, is thinking about something harder: measuring what a player de…

Why Traditional IAM Breaks Down in the Age of Agentic AI

In this episode, Jo Peterson, of Cleartech Research, discusses AI security challenges with Maribel Lopez. Her commentary explores how traditional security tools fall short for AI agents and what strategies enterprises can adopt to manage AI risks effectively.  Topics covered AI security challenges…