Ready, Set, Runtime

Ready, Set, Runtime is an AHEAD podcast series featuring technology leaders who are actively shaping the industry. Each episode explores emerging innovations across key technology domains and examines their impact on enterprise practices, strategies, and operations, as seen through the eyes of those doing the work.

Join us for Series 1 of Ready, Set, Runtime, with Michael “MK” Kolbrener, AHEAD's Field CTO for Financial Services and Capital Markets, as we deep dive into how AI is not just changing what software does, it is changing how software gets built, secured, shipped, and funded. Trace the full impact of AI across the software development lifecycle: from accelerated development and agentic engineering to security, executive decision-making, enterprise deployment, developer tooling, and the infrastructure layer beneath it all.

No vendor pitch. No hype. Just practitioner-level conversation about one of the most consequential shifts in enterprise technology.