AI & Analytics Insights: Curing AI Amnesia with Sports Cars and Semi-Trucks

To ring in 2026, host Andrew Miller revisits the topic of the decade—AI!—with Ian Saunders. He’s a true practitioner in the space who works directly with customers on a daily basis.

We’ll wander through:

• AI hype cycle - We’re a couple years in and what lessons have we learned. 
• New AI challenges - AI forgets who you are (aka “the need for Context Engineering”) and preparing enterprise data for LLMs (today’s biggest challenge for enterprise AI adoption).
  • Heard of the MIT study that 95% AI initiatives fail? We’ll unpack the reasons.
• How Pure Storage helps with today’s AI challenges
  • FlashArray™ + FlashBlade® + Portworx® to help with the real underlying challenges around Context Engineering (in some scenarios with 20X performance boost, thanks to KVA).
  • Pure Storage Data Stream solves for today’s biggest challenge facing enterprises around successful AI PoCs.

And don’t worry, we’ll fully deliver on curing AI amnesia and where sports cars and semi-trucks fit into the picture!

Overview of Coffee Break by Pure Storage

Who knew that the best coffee break conversations would end up happening online? Each month, Pure’s Coffee Break series invites experts in technology and business to chat about the themes driving today’s IT agenda—much more “‘podcast”’ than “webinar.” This is a freewheeling conversation that’s as fun as it is informative and the perfect way to break up your day. While we’ll wander into Pure Storage technology, our goal is to educate and entertain rather than sell.