Released: The Story Behind the Software

Digital.ai

Released: The Story Behind the Software pulls back the curtain on the high-stakes world of enterprise software delivery. Join Derek Holt, CEO of Digital.ai, as he interviews top execs from Global 5000 enterprises who are tackling today’s toughest transformation challenges. From navigating risks to driving continuous innovation, discover the trends and strategies that are fueling seamless software delivery and defining what success looks like in an AI-driven world. 

Episodes

  1. Jun 22

    Vulnerable Isn't the Same as Exploitable: How AI Has Upended the Enterprise Risk List

    AI isn't just making attackers more effective — it's changing the economics of cyberattacks entirely. For decades, attackers were constrained by talent, time, and scale. AI has changed all of that. The attackers now have unlimited shots on goal. Snehal Antani is one of the sharpest minds in offensive cybersecurity, and someone who has been in rooms most people never get access to. His path took him through leadership roles at IBM, GE Capital, Splunk, and ultimately to the most elite special operations unit in the world. He's now the CEO and Founder of Horizon3.ai. In this conversation, Snehal explains the distinction every enterprise security leader needs to hear — the difference between vulnerable and exploitable. He breaks down what AI has actually handed every threat actor on the planet, why organizations that thought they weren't a target need to think again, why the only perspective that matters in cybersecurity is the attacker's — and what to do about it.

    40 min

  2. Jun 2

    From Roles to Intent: Rethinking Identity in the Age of AI

    What happens to identity when the entity logging in isn’t a person? That’s the question at the center of this conversation between Derek Holt, CEO of Digital.ai, and Chandra Shirashyad, Director of Engineering at Okta.    As AI agents take on more autonomous roles inside enterprise workflows, the traditional model of identity — based on who you are and what role you hold — is giving way to something more dynamic: access based on intent, granted just in time, and revoked the moment the task is done.    Chandra and Derek cover the shift from static authentication to continuous verification, why standing permissions are incompatible with an agentic world, and what it means to treat AI agents as a new class of identity.    Chandra’s “over-eager intern” analogy is one of the most useful framings of AI risk you’ll hear. And his advice on unifying identity infrastructure before AI agents make the problem unmanageable is the kind of forward-looking take that makes this episode worth saving.

    35 min

  3. Apr 15

    Faster Code, Slower Delivery: The AI Productivity Trap

    What does it really take to deliver software at global scale in the world's most regulated industries?  In the premiere episode of Released: The Story Behind the Software, Digital.ai CEO Derek Holt sits down with Eric Baran — who leads developer platform and Gen AI for Amazon Web Services's global financial services business — for a wide-ranging conversation on AI, agentic workflows, and what enterprise software delivery actually looks like in 2026.  The takeaway most people aren't talking about: writing code faster is only a small part of the story. For the world's largest banks, insurers, and financial institutions, the real bottlenecks live in the release pipeline, in governance, in security — and AI is starting to change all of that.  🎧 SUBSCRIBE to Released for new episodes featuring technology leaders from the world's most influential enterprises.

    50 min

  4. Season 1 Trailer

    Released: The Story Behind the Software Series Intro

    Everyone's talking about AI transforming software development. But for global enterprises operating at scale, the reality is far more complicated than the hype suggests. Released: The Story Behind the Software is where those real conversations happen. Host Derek Holt, CEO of Digital.ai, sits down with the engineers and technology leaders doing the hard work — and gets into the stories, the hard-won lessons, and where they see things heading next.

    1 min

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Released: The Story Behind the Software pulls back the curtain on the high-stakes world of enterprise software delivery. Join Derek Holt, CEO of Digital.ai, as he interviews top execs from Global 5000 enterprises who are tackling today’s toughest transformation challenges. From navigating risks to driving continuous innovation, discover the trends and strategies that are fueling seamless software delivery and defining what success looks like in an AI-driven world. 

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