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Built For Trust With Nick Lippis
The Built for Trust Podcast will explore the critical elements of creating trusted enterprise infrastructures that are reliable, scalable, secure, and cost efficient. Join your host, Nick Lippis, as he delves into the intricacies of building a reliable and secure IT foundation while streamlining the complexities that have emerged in the rapidly evolving technological landscape. In this podcast series, Nick and his guests will navigate the challenges faced by enterprises as they strive to meet…
Episodes
Built For Trust With Nick LippisScaling AI Agents: Is Your Infrastructure Ready?
Most enterprises run 20 to 50 AI agents today. Soon, that number could reach thousands. Is your infrastructure ready? Nick Lippis sits down with Anuraag…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisThe AI Reckoning: Why Hardened Software Is No Longer Enough
This episode is part of a seven-part sponsored series with Cisco focused on the technologies defining the next era of enterprise networking, with new episodes…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisFrom Firefighting to Self-Healing: Building Trust in Agentic NetOps
Network teams have spent years running infrastructure around a few gurus and a lot of cutting and pasting. Bernadette Nixon, CEO of NetBrain, says that model…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisWhy Isn't ISP Management Automated?
When a construction crew cut a backup circuit with the primary already offline, flights stalled across five airports for eight hours. Enterprise networks have…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisFrom Automation to Autonomy: Building Trust in AI-Driven Networks
Enterprise networks carry decades of legacy gear, dozens of OS variants, and change processes that can take a hundred signatures to approve. AI promises to…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisSONiC, Delivers Open Networking Choice and Options with Enterprise Level Operations
This episode is part of a seven-part sponsored series with Cisco focused on the technologies defining the next era of enterprise networking, with new episodes…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisFrom Quantum Advantage to Enterprise Value
Quantum computing has moved beyond theoretical possibility. The next challenge is turning that progress into applications that create real enterprise value. In…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisFrom Infrastructure as Code to Autonomous Operations
AI agents can move at machine speed, but speed without trusted data, structured workflows and clear controls creates risk. In this episode of the Built for…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisSecuring AI Agents at Machine Speed: Building Trust Through Segmentation
AI agents are accelerating application development, but the infrastructure and security teams supporting them are struggling to keep pace. In this episode of…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisBuilding the Reference Architecture for AI-Enabled Security Operations
As AI drives cyberattacks to machine speed, traditional Security Operations Centers can no longer rely on human response alone. In this episode of Built for…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisReimagining the NOC: Building the Path to Autonomous Infrastructure
In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis and Peter Campbell, ONUG’s Security Researcher & Agentic AI Working Groups Lead, take an inside look at ONUG…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisInside ONUG's Collaborative Working Groups: Building the Future of Enterprise AI
In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis and Peter Campbell, Security Researcher & Agentic AI Working Groups Lead at ONUG, provide an inside look at…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisWhy Container Networking Is the Foundation of AI Infrastructure
This episode is part of a seven-part sponsored series with Cisco focused on the technologies defining the next era of enterprise networking, with new episodes…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisThe View From Here: The Enterprise AI Power Shift
Two forces are colliding, and by fall they'll reshape how enterprise IT operates and spends. In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis shares…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisFrom Complexity to Consumption: Rethinking Enterprise Networking
The campus and branch network hasn't fundamentally changed since the 1990s. Shashi Kiran thinks that's the biggest liability sitting inside enterprise IT. In…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisThe View From Here: Why Enterprise Operations Will Never Be the Same
The next era of enterprise infrastructure won't be defined by AI alone. It will be defined by how organizations adapt to operating it. In this episode of the…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisFighting AI with AI: Security, Governance, and the Future of the Enterprise
Cyber is the one disruption FedEx Freight can't route around. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with Michael Milligan, CISO of FedEx…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisThe Summer of Turbulence: How AI Is Rewriting Infrastructure Operations
This episode is part of a seven-part sponsored series with Cisco focused on the technologies defining the next era of enterprise networking, with new episodes…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisAI Changed the Network: Inside the Ethernet Fabric Powering AI Infrastructure
AI is pushing networking into territory it has never seen before. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with Hasan Siraj, Vice President of…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisHybrid AI Infrastructure and the Rise of Non-Human Identity
Agents don't log in. They connect. And that changes everything about access control. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down with Tom Gillis…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisThe Token Economy: eBay's Build vs. Buy Playbook for AI
eBay has been running its own private cloud for decades. So when AI spending started accelerating, the calculus didn't change. It got more complicated. In this…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisFrom Observability to Reasoning: How AI Is Transforming Network Operations
Traditional tools can detect problems. They can’t reason about them. That gap is becoming one of the biggest challenges in enterprise network operations. In…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisWho Let All the Agents In? Securing the Agentic Era
This episode is part of a six-part sponsored series with Cisco focused on the technologies defining the next era of enterprise networking, with new episodes…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisMythos and the Coming Patch Storm: Are You Ready?
When an AI model can discover and exploit decades-old vulnerabilities in hours, enterprise security changes fast. In this episode, Nick Lippis is joined by…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisRethinking IT Operations: The $250 Billion Problem AI Is About to Fix
Enterprise IT operations have long scaled by adding people. L1 teams, offshore support, and manual response became the norm. But as infrastructure grows more…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisThe View From Here: The Infrastructure Ceiling Holding Enterprise AI Back
In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis shares findings from a recent ONUG community survey of senior practitioners managing large-scale…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisProgrammable Silicon to Drive Cisco AI Networking Innovations
This episode is part of a six-part sponsored series with Cisco focused on the technologies defining the next era of enterprise networking, with new episodes…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisRethinking the Network for AI at the Edge
As AI moves beyond the data center into real-world environments, the network is being pushed into entirely new territory. In this episode of the Built for…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisAI for Networking & Networking for AI: Both Are Big Markets
As AI reshapes enterprise infrastructure, most conversations focus on models, agents, and applications. But beneath it all, the network is being fundamentally…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisMeet Todd Nightingale, Co-President at Arista for a discussion on Enterprise AI Infrastructure Build
AI is moving fast, but most enterprises are still trying to answer a fundamental question: should you build your own AI infrastructure or buy it? In this…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisMicroservices, AI Agents and the Telemetry Explosion
Modern applications generate more operational data than ever before. Microservices architectures, cloud infrastructure, and rapid development cycles have…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisThe View From Here: Agentic AI will not Happen at Enterprise Scale; Unless…
Agentic AI is rapidly moving from experimentation to real enterprise deployments. As organizations begin running hundreds or even thousands of AI agents across…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisAgentic AI Without Intent Is Just Guesswork
Everyone is talking about agentic AI in the NOC. Fewer are asking whether the foundation is ready. Nick Lippis sits down with Damien Garros, founder of…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisThe Telecom Industry Meets the AI Economy
The digital economy runs on connectivity. But while cloud infrastructure became programmable, elastic, and API-driven, telecom workflows remained manual…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisThe View From Here: What’s Blocking Agentic AI in the Enterprise
In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Nick Lippis breaks down the real barriers preventing large enterprises from deploying agentic AI at scale…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisObservability Is the Foundation of AI-Ready Networks
As enterprises rush to prepare for AI, most of the attention is focused on models, GPUs, and applications. But what if the real starting point isn’t AI at all?…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisThe View From Here: AI First Enterprises vs Everyone Else
In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis shares firsthand observations from ongoing conversations with enterprise IT leaders and technology providers…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisDesigning AI-Driven Customer Experience for the Real World
Most companies are experimenting with AI in customer experience. Very few are actually transforming it. In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis is…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisBuilding the Agentic AI Overlay
Agentic AI is redefining how work gets done. But without the right architecture and controls, autonomy becomes risk. In this episode, Nick sits down with Peter…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisThe Future of Enterprise AI: Key Predictions for 2026
In this episode, Nick reviews lessons from 2025 that shift from POC to production in enterprise AI. Then he discusses key predictions for 2026 and discusses…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisAI Remembers Everything: The Sovereignty Dilemma
When a model learns your secrets, it never forgets. In this episode, Nick sits down with Tom Gillis from Cisco to explore one of the most pressing challenges…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisWhy Every AI Transformation Needs a Framework for Trust
In this episode, Nick sits down with David Reilly from World Wide Technology to explore how trust and structure must guide every AI transformation. Riley…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisThe Hyperscaler Playbook: Building an AI-Ready Network for The Enterprise
Hyperscalers have redefined what modern networking looks like, and now those same principles are reshaping how enterprises build for the AI era. In this…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisThe AI Bottleneck No One Wants to Talk About
AI is advancing fast, but the networks underneath it aren’t. In this episode, Nick and Andy Bechtolsheim from Arista Networks break down the real bottleneck…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisTurning Tech Debt into AI Transformation
In this episode of Built for Trust, host Nick Lippis talks with Holland Barry, Global Field CTO at DXC Technology, about how AI is transforming the way…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisDesigning AI That Engineers Can Trust
In this episode of Built for Trust, host Nick Lippis sits down with Ben Hickey of IBM to explore how AI is transforming network operations, automation, and…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisWhat To Do About The Human in the Loop
In this episode of Built for Trust, host Nick Lippis is joined by Jason Edelman, founder of Network to Code, for a conversation about the evolution of network…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisCan AI Keep Itself Safe?
In this episode of Built for Trust, host Nick Lippis sits down with Ritesh Agrawal from Zscaler, to explore how AI is reshaping the future of cybersecurity…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisThe Human Side of AI Transformation
In this episode of Built for Trust, host Nick Lippis sits down with Susie Wee, founder and CEO of DevAI and creator of Cisco DevNet, to explore what happens…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisAI, Security, and the Autonomous Networks of 2030
In this episode of Built for Trust, host Nick Lippis sits down with Chalan Aras to explore how AI is reshaping the future of networking and IT operations. From…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisHow to Use AI to Transform Healthcare Operations
Artificial intelligence is reshaping healthcare from groundbreaking cancer research to everyday clinical operations. In this episode of the Built for Trust…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisThe Risk and Reward of Trusting AI
In this episode of Built for Trust, host Nick Lippis sits down with Eric Hanselman to explore the fine line between innovation and risk in today’s enterprise…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisFrom Toil to Trusted Automation: Enter the Agentic AI SoC
What do nuclear submarines and modern security operations centers have in common? More than you'd think. In this episode, Peter Campbell joins host Nick Lippis…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisInfrastructure Operations Automation Is Here, Thanks to MCP and Agentic AI
What happens when you stop scripting and start reasoning? In this episode of the Built for Trust Podcast, Itential CTO Chris Wade joins Nick Lippis to explore…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisNavigating the AI Age and the Future of Innovation
In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick sits down with legendary Cisco CEO and JC2 Ventures founder, John Chambers, a tech visionary known for accurately…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisInfrastructure First: Building the Foundation for Trust in AI
In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick sits down with Jeremy Rossbach from Broadcom to unpack what’s really driving (and blocking) progress in enterprise AI…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisZero Trust in an Agentic World
What happens when AI agents, cloud infrastructure, and increasingly complex threat vectors collide? In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick sits down with…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisA Wide Ranging Discussion on Enterprise AI and Trust
What does it really take to scale AI responsibly and why is trust at the center of it all? In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick and Kevin from NVIDIA dive…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisWhat’s Not Working in AI Infrastructure (and How to Fix It)
What happens when AI meets the limits of real-world infrastructure? In this episode of Built for Trust, host Nick Lippis sits down with Darren Thomason from…
Built For Trust With Nick LippisTrusting AI in Cancer Research: It’s All About The Data
What happens when cutting edge AI meets the high stakes world of cancer research? In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis sits down at the AI…