Alan Shimel

Alan Shimel

About the Author:

Alan Shimel is founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, a Futurum company, and a member of Futurum's executive leadership team. A technology entrepreneur, media executive and industry commentator, Shimel has spent more than three decades building businesses, communities and media platforms serving enterprise technology professionals, including co-founding StillSecure, a network security company, and the DevOps Institute, a DevOps certification and training body. At Techstrong, he leads a portfolio of media brands including DevOps.com, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Techstrong AI, Techstrong IT, Digital CxO, Platform Engineering, Techstrong Semi and Techstrong TV, along with a growing portfolio of events, educational programs and digital communities. With more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, Shimel is a familiar voice in the space and was an early advocate of the DevOps movement, helping bring DevOps practices into mainstream enterprise technology. His work today spans cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud-native technologies, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and digital transformation, and he hosts popular programs including Techstrong Gang, Shimmy Says and Still Cyber, After All These Years. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics from St. John's University and a Juris Doctor from New York Law School.

Articles by Alan Shimel

The Week AI Got Real

April 9, 2026

Certain moments in history become reference points. People of an […]

When AI Comes to Town

April 7, 2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) may be the hottest topic in technology, […]

The First AI War is Already Being Fought

March 23, 2026

The era of AI warfare is here. From drone swarms in Ukraine to algorithmic targeting in the 2025 Israel-Iran 12-day war, explore how Silicon Valley software is reshaping the modern battlefield, compressing decision cycles, and redefining the future of global conflict.

AI Sucks the Life Out of the Metaverse

March 20, 2026

Meta didn’t just pivot away from the metaverse. It liquidated it. As AI spending explodes into the hundreds of billions, even trillion-dollar tech giants are shutting down moonshots to feed an insatiable infrastructure arms race. Horizon Worlds is not a surprise casualty. It is the first of many.

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