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Akinobu Shimada and the Quiet Machinery of Trust
He spent more than three decades learning what happens beneath the software. Now Hitachi Vantara's CEO is betting that the most important promise in artificial intelligence is not magic, but machinery people can trust.
Paul Lewis Has a Rule for Enterprise AI: Make It Useful, Then Make It Replaceable
After three decades across banking, industrial technology, cloud and data, Pythian CTO Paul Lewis has arrived at a blunt test for AI: does it change the work, and can the architecture survive what comes next?
Gopalakrishna Kuppuswamy
Gopalakrishna Kuppuswamy is Co-Founder and CTO of Cognida.ai, an enterprise AI company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that raised a $15M Series A from Nexus Venture Partners in February 2025. With 30+ years in technology - starting at CMC Limited in 1994 and spending a decade as VP at Hitachi Vantara - he now leads the engineering behind Zunō, Cognida's agentic AI platform that cuts enterprise AI deployment timelines from 6-8 months down to 10-12 weeks. Based in Hyderabad, he holds master's degrees from both the University of Hyderabad and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and has helped grow Cognida.ai to 250+ employees and $37.7M ARR.