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Cliff DeWyze, Manager, Solutions Engineering, Kaseya Cliff Dewyze has been with Kaseya for over a decade, and currently manages solutions engineers for the Endpoint, Security, Risk/compliance and Operations product suites. Prior to Kaseya, he ran support for call-center operations of a fortune 100 bank, where he supported a telephony infrastructure of 1200 servers and 30,000 desktops worldwide.

Coffee Talk | An Expert's Take on Modern Windows Deployment Date: Tuesday, October 13 at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET Join us live to qualify to receive a $10 Starbucks gift card!* Microsoft pulled the plug on the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit early this year, so it's way past time for you to update your Windows provisioning playbook. In this Coffee Talk, you'll get an expert's view into the modern strategies IT needs to know to reshape their Windows deployment and management playbook.

Tech Talk | When Agents Go Rogue: Building a Recovery Plan for the AI Age Date: Thursday, October 29 at 11am PT / 2pm ET AI agents are gaining access to applications, files, configurations, and other critical enterprise resources. But what happens when an agent is misconfigured, exploited, or otherwise crosses security boundaries? Recovering from an AI-related incident presents a difficult problem: You might not know exactly what changed, when it changed, or in what order.

What Does IT Look Like in Five Years? The Problem Is, Nobody Knows Date: Wednesday, October 7 at 9:00 AM MT / 8:00 AM PT The multi-trillion-dollar question has one very unsatisfying answer: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Join us on October 7th at TK TIME for an in-depth conversation with Patch My PC Director of Product, Emerging Technology Russ Wilson about how an application management company, and the IT industry at large, prepares for an unpredictable future. Because the pace of change is accelerating.

Tech Spotlight | Beyond Passwords: Modern Authentication Strategies for the AI Age Part One of the Cybersecurity Tech Spotlight Series Date: Wednesday, October 7 at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET Passwords are cracking under the pressure of an AI-powered world. With AI agents increasingly interacting with enterprise systems, traditional authentication is no longer enough. Learn about the next generation of identity and access security to strengthen defenses without sacrificing AI adoption.

Beyond the Cluster: What It Really Takes to Run Kubernetes Successfully in the Public Cloud Date: Thursday, October 15 at 11am PT / 2pm ET Public cloud has become a popular destination for Kubernetes deployments, offering the agility, scalability, and speed organizations need to modernize applications. But as Kubernetes adoption grows, IT leaders and platform teams must navigate new challenges around operational complexity, governance, security, and cost management.

Tech Spotlight | What AI Means for Identity Security Part Two of the Cybersecurity Tech Spotlight Series Date: Wednesday, October 28 at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET Technology moves fast, and IT departments need to move at least that fast just to keep up. The LAN, the WAN, virtualization, the cloud, and now AI have all been seismic shifts of technology that have each reshaped the way successful IT departments run.

Tech Spotlight | Balancing Zero Trust and AI: A Playbook for Modern Enterprises Part One of the Cybersecurity Tech Spotlight Series Date: Wednesday, October 14 at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET Enterprise AI creates a critical trust challenge: adopting powerful new capabilities while protecting sensitive data, identities, and infrastructure. Traditional security models are no longer sufficient, but overly restrictive controls can limit AI's business value.

Salesforce Backup: Protect the Data That Powers Your Business Date: Friday, September 25 at 11am PT / 2pm ET Your Salesforce data is one of your organization's most valuable assets, and protecting it is still on you. Join us for a fast, practical look at how modern Salesforce backup and recovery can help reduce risk, streamline compliance, and keep your business running when data loss, human error, or cyberthreats occur, with Veeam Data Cloud for Salesforce simplifying protection along the way.

Tech Talk | IT Divergence in the Age of AI: Why Manual Patching Fails to Achieve Endpoint Resilience Date: Wednesday, September 30 at 8 am PT / 11 am ET What was once an afterthought for thinly spread IT teams has become one of the most popular exposure vectors among attackers today. Third-party application vulnerabilities are involved in an enormous number of data breaches each year.