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Infotech IGNITE Atlanta

Part of Info-Tech Research Group's regional IGNITE conference series, bringing IT leadership research and peer discussion to Atlanta.

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What is Infotech IGNITE Atlanta about?

Infotech IGNITE Atlanta is part of Info-Tech Research Group’s regional IGNITE series, bringing the firm’s IT leadership research and peer discussion to Atlanta. The event’s tagline, gain insights on the challenges shaping IT, sets the tone: this is a conference built around practical research rather than vendor pitches, drawing IT leaders, analysts, vendors, and experts together to compare notes on what is actually working.

The 2026 program runs under Info-Tech’s “Transform IT. Transform Everything.” theme, with sessions organized around IT leadership execution, strategy-to-action frameworks, technology modernization, and enterprise IT transformation. Sessions are also targeted by role, including CIO, security and privacy, data and analytics, and enterprise architecture, so attendees can follow a track that matches their job rather than sitting through generic programming.

For network and DDI teams, the throughline across keynotes and panels is agentic AI: how autonomous systems that reason, plan, and act change what IT organizations need to secure and support. That shift puts a sharper point on an old problem. Before any AI agent can be trusted to act, it needs trustworthy context about the network it is operating on, which makes DNS, DHCP, and IP address management part of the AI readiness conversation, not a side issue to it.

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Inside the event

The agenda is built around technology keynotes rather than a single mainstage track. Davin Juusola opens with “Agentic IT: From Hype to Value,” challenging familiar narratives about what agentic AI actually delivers, and returns the next day with “Become an Exponential CIO,” questioning the assumption that the CIO role itself has to change. Amanda Mathieson covers IT talent trends for 2026 and beyond, then closes the event with a session distilling the five key takeaways from IGNITE. Carlos Rivera addresses securing agentic AI and what autonomous systems mean for security teams. Two client and expert panels, one focused on government and one on commercial sectors, look at how AI is reshaping IT organizations in practice.

BlueCat’s Josh Townsend leads a breakout session on AI and network context, addressing a problem that runs through the rest of the agenda: an AI system can reason and act, but someone still has to give it trustworthy context about the network underneath it.

Info-Tech Research Group’s membership, over 30,000 organizations worldwide, is the backbone of the research shaping these sessions, giving attendees a research base rather than a single vendor’s point of view.

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How BlueCat fits Infotech IGNITE Atlanta

Attendees at this event are weighing how to turn agentic AI from hype into operational value, how to keep pace with talent shifts, and how to secure autonomous systems that can reason and act on their own. Across the keynotes and panels, the thread is the same: IT leaders need infrastructure they can trust before they can layer new intelligence on top of it.

Trustworthy context for agentic AI

Unified DDI

The keynotes on agentic IT and securing autonomous systems both hinge on a basic requirement: AI needs accurate, real-time information about what is actually on the network before it can plan or act safely. Integrity provides that foundation for large, complex, mission-critical environments, consolidating DNS, DHCP, and IP address management into a single authoritative source so AI tools are not reasoning against stale or incomplete data. Micetro offers the same kind of unified visibility for mid-sized enterprises and branch networks, orchestrating existing DNS, DHCP, and IPAM services without ripping out what is already in place. For organizations extending into multiple clouds as part of broader modernization efforts, Cloud DNS Service adds managed, authoritative external DNS resolution across providers, an Integrity extension that keeps that external footprint just as visible as the internal network. And for teams whose transformation agenda is SaaS-first, Horizon unifies DNS, DHCP, IPAM, security, and observability in one control plane built for that model.

Explore: Integrity · Micetro · Edge · Cloud DNS Service · Horizon

Visibility to back up AI-driven decisions

Network observability

Talk of agentic IT and exponential CIOs assumes the network can supply reliable signal, not just raw data, to the systems and people making decisions. LiveNX brings performance monitoring, packet capture, and predictive health tools to that problem, giving NetOps teams a clear read on how the network is actually performing. LiveAssist layers AI-powered insights, intelligent alerting, and automated root cause analysis on top, inside LiveNX, so teams spend less time hunting for the source of a problem and more time acting on it. For deeper forensics, LiveWire gives NetOps and SecOps teams detailed, real-time packet data to accelerate troubleshooting, while Omnipeek supports the same kind of deep protocol-level investigation for engineers resolving complex application issues. LiveSP extends that visibility across every customer network for managed service providers, and LiveAssurance proactively scans for risk before it becomes an outage, surfacing remediation before small issues become the next keynote topic.

Explore: LiveNX · LiveAssist · LiveWire · LiveSP · LiveAssurance · Omnipeek

BlueCat in Infotech IGNITE Atlanta

Josh Townsend of BlueCat joins the agenda with a breakout session on AI and network context. His argument: before an AI system can act on your network, something has to give it trustworthy context about what’s actually there. It’s a fitting counterpoint to the event’s broader AI keynotes, grounding the hype in the infrastructure question underneath it.

Who should attend?

Infotech IGNITE Atlanta is for IT leaders, analysts, and practitioners across roles like CIO, security and privacy, data and analytics, and enterprise architecture who want research-backed insight into the challenges shaping IT.

Solving these challenges with BlueCat

AI systems are only as trustworthy as the network data behind them. Before any agentic tool can plan or act, it needs accurate, real-time visibility into what’s actually on your network, which is where DNS, DHCP, and IP address management come in. BlueCat’s DDI platforms, Integrity and Micetro, give you that trustworthy foundation, so the AI initiatives on this agenda have something solid to stand on.

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