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What Executive Order 14412 Means for Your Organization
August 24, 2026
Executive Order 14412 accelerated post-quantum cryptography across federal systems, contractors, critical infrastructure, and cloud providers, with migration plans due inside 120 days and full migration by December 2030. If you sit anywhere in that supply chain, the obligations may reach you sooner than you expect. Three of our security architects lay out where to start.
Smart, Secure Endpoints with Intel and Microsoft 365
August 11, 2026
AI PCs are reaching clinical environments at the same moment endpoint security is getting harder. This episode looks at where on-device AI helps clinical workflows, what changes in endpoint management, and how Intel and Microsoft 365 fit together.
Industry Trends Sessions, On Demand
Workforce and skillset shortages are pushing manufacturers toward automation, and manufacturing is now among the most attacked industries. Two on-demand sessions with Ryan Spurr and Telit's Ryan Treece cover how industrial IoT platforms turn data-rich plant environments into productivity, and how smart badge technology changes facility and device access control.
Turn AI Ambition into Action
Successful AI initiatives don't begin with technology. They begin with clear business goals, an honest look at your current environment, and data you can trust. CNXN Helix® works across strategy and readiness, executive workshops and use case discovery, and the data orchestration that has to come first.
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August 18, 2026
One hundred healthcare IT leaders spent three days in Boston working through what technology can actually change: cyber resilience across the continuum of care, moving AI from pilot to production, containing costs without compromising care, and modernizing clinical workflows. Here is what happened, session by session.August 14, 2026
Clinicians lose time to slow logins and aging shared devices, and endpoints remain one of the most attacked surfaces in healthcare. Endpoint strategy has quietly become a patient care decision. Practical guidance on where to start, who to involve, and how to build a foundation that is ready for AI.July 26, 2026
Connection and CNXN Helix brought together more than 20 healthcare IT executives to find out how AI adoption is actually going. AI is already in production, ambient documentation stalls on adoption rather than value, governance confidence sits at 3.8 out of 5, and a successful pilot still fails if the vendor cannot last.August 11, 2026
AI-powered endpoints are reaching clinical environments while healthcare IT teams juggle tight resources, regulation, and endpoint sprawl. Intel's Abhishek Khowala and Lenovo's Alexander Stanton join us to talk through local processing, protecting AI models, and what early wins actually look like at the point of care.June 16, 2026
Healthcare IT budgets have fallen from roughly 5% of operating spend to 3% or less, while expectations have not moved. Chance Mixon spent eight years on the provider side before joining Connection, and he is direct about the tradeoffs: where managed services create real breathing room, and where they do not.June 17, 2026
Manufacturing IT, procurement, and P&L leaders are being asked two questions: what is your AI strategy, and what will it cost? Ryan Spurr works through where AI workloads belong, on the laptop or in the cloud, and what has to be true from the plant floor to Azure before either answer holds up.March 16, 2026
Your MES knows production rates, your ERP knows costs, your quality system tracks defects, and none of them talk to each other. Ryan Spurr introduces the Manufacturing Language Model, a framework his team built to sit across all of it, so an operations manager can ask why Line Two is underperforming and get an answer instead of a spreadsheet.March 10, 2026
Plant-floor data sits in historians and SCADA systems, enterprise data sits in ERP and CRM, and neither reaches the people who need it. Ryan Spurr on using Azure and Microsoft Fabric to build one governed data layer, and what that unlocks: real dashboards, trained AI models, and eventually agents that act on their own.January 15, 2026
Manufacturing entered 2026 after eight straight months of contraction, and it has been the most targeted sector for cyberattacks four years running. Ryan Spurr's outlook works through what deserves investment now: IT and OT convergence, OT security, the data foundation underneath AI, and where agentic systems are already delivering.April 15, 2025
Traditional monitoring is reactive and fragmented. Vision AI puts camera feeds and analytics to work in real time: PPE compliance and forklift proximity alerts, inline defect detection, conveyor jams caught before a stoppage. One facility cut safety violations by 83%, and an automotive supplier lifted first pass yield by 12%.January 25, 2026
Ten years ago retailers bought products from technology vendors. Today 76% of IT decision-makers say they are actively consolidating vendors, and Gartner puts the share of CIOs simplifying their supplier portfolios near 80%. Brian Gallagher on what retailers now want from a partner, and why fewer can mean more.December 30, 2025
Retailers added fewer seasonal workers in 2025 than at any point since 2009, and the pressure to do more with less is not letting up. Brian Gallagher looks at the economics behind that shift and the four technologies retailers are leaning on: conversational AI, real-time analytics, computer vision, and AI-driven scheduling.December 15, 2025
Internal process errors cost retailers three times what shoplifting does, and fewer than a quarter of retailers reach 80% inventory accuracy. This breaks down the four places accuracy actually fails, from shelf visibility to network bottlenecks, and what it takes to fix the root cause rather than the symptom.October 7, 2025
Every POS terminal, kiosk, and smart sensor on the sales floor is another endpoint to defend, and they sit unattended across hundreds of stores. Brian Gallagher on why perimeter defenses cannot keep pace at the retail edge, and how hardware root of trust, zero-touch provisioning, and microsegmentation build security in from the start.August 12, 2025
Most edge sites are unattended IT: unmanned, intermittently connected, and left out of the security strategy. This piece makes the case for building trust into every layer rather than bolting it on afterward, and for DevEdgeOps as the way to secure thousands of sites without slowing deployment. Includes four steps to audit what you already have.Empowering organizations with innovative IT solutions through a trusted network of top technology partners
January 19, 2026
Discover how St. John’s Health and Connection have teamed up to tackle healthcare IT challenges and create meaningful solutions to address data security, backup and recovery, cost containment, and IT modernization. In this discussion, we explore how the teams at both organizations have created collaborative strategies to address the unique IT needs of a healthcare center catering to a small year-round population—plus millions of visitors. Watch the video to see how Connection works as an extension of the IT team at St. John’s Health to ensure they have the infrastructure they need to provide the best possible care.
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From Cameras to Insights: Building Real Value with Vision AI
Discover how Vision AI is helping retailers and manufacturers transform video into actionable insight across safety, operations, quality, and customer experience—while laying the groundwork for more autonomous, AI-powered workflows.
Vision AI Webinar: Accelerating Adoption and Outcomes
Join Jeff Minushkin and Ryan Spurr as they discuss an incremental approach to get started with Vision AI, share the technology stack required, and unpack popular horizontally applicable use cases and industry-specific examples across a range of industries, including finance, healthcare, manufacturing, public sector, and retail. Plus, they’ll provide insight into where this technology is quickly headed in the next 24 months.
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At Connection, trust isn't just a promise—it's a proven track record. Year after year, independent industry leaders have recognized our unwavering commitment to delivering exceptional experiences for our customers, creating value for our investors, and fostering a culture where our people thrive. These honors reflect what truly sets us apart: consistent performance, long-term relationships, and a dedication to doing business the right way. When you partner with us, you're working with a team that's not only trusted by industry experts—but trusted to deliver.
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At Connection, trust isn't just a promise—it's a proven track record. Year after year, independent industry leaders have recognized our unwavering commitment to delivering exceptional experiences for our customers, creating value for our investors, and fostering a culture where our people thrive. These honors reflect what truly sets us apart: consistent performance, long-term relationships, and a dedication to doing business the right way. When you partner with us, you're working with a team that's not only trusted by industry experts—but trusted to deliver.
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