Lunch-N-Learn: 2026 Industry Outlook, Shifts, & Strategies

Nth Generation
Feb 23
2 min read

Updated: 2 days ago

AI Initiatives, Shadow AI, VMware Cost Mitigation, and the Inbox, Your Fastest Growing Emerging Security Risk Lunch-N-Learn Tour

Riverside | April 2 | Mission Inn Hotel

Bakersfield | April 23 | The Padre Hotel

Temecula | May 7 | Ponte Winery

Ontario | June 11 | Top Golf

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For qualified IT & cybersecurity professionals only. One location per person, max.

TOPICS OF DISCUSSION

VMWARE COST MITIGATION

VMware licensing has fundamentally changed, and IT budgets are feeling it.

Enterprise VMware customers are reporting renewal increases ranging from 150% to more than 500%. Source

What You’ll Learn

Real client examples of complimentary workload and cost comparisons between VMware and solid enterprise-grade alternative(s)
Hear about working with Nth Generation’s subject matter experts to:
- Build practical road-mapping
- Tailored to your environment
- In the timing that works best for your organization.
- Unlock migrating VM’s at you your own pace, cost cutting as you go

DESPITE MASSIVE INVESTMENT, 80–95% OF AI PROJECTS HAVEN’T SCALED OR DELIVERED BUSINESS VALUE.

Take your AI from a hypothetical, “cool” demo or pilot, to real measurable outcomes.

Most fail not because of the technology—but because of how AI is planned, misaligned with key workflows, governed, and operationalized. Source

What You’ll Learn

The most common reasons AI initiatives stall or fail
Where organizations misjudge readiness, data, and integration
What successful teams do differently
How to align AI use cases with real business and security requirements
The Nth Generation AI Journey tailored to your organization.

SHADOW AI, THE FASTEST GROWING EMERGING THREAT IN 2026.

These risks are systemic, not hypothetical.

Shadow AI isn’t a future concern, it’s happening inside organizations right now, and it’s the root cause behind most AI related security and compliance failures

What You’ll Learn

Address AI governance gaps in real environments
Explore emerging approaches to AI TRiSM and AISPM
Gain practical insights into how organizations are regaining visibility and control as AI adoption accelerates

THE INBOX: STILL YOUR WEAKEST LINK.

Cyber enabled fraud, largely email driven, has overtaken ransomware as the #1 cybersecurity concern for business leaders.

AI increases risk scale, speed, and appeared credibility. Phishing doesn’t look like phishing anymore. Source

What You’ll Learn

How Nth and our technology partners are:

Detecting AI driven email threats that bypass legacy controls
Using self learning AI to identify behavioral anomalies in real time
Reducing fraud risk before money moves or credentials are lost
Closing the gap between email security, identity, and incident response
Helping to ensure backups will NOT fail when you need them most and explain why frequent recovery testing is critical for business continuity