Rob Strechay

VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push

Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival is the next step in a deliberate move at VentureBeat toward deeper specialization: analysis built for the technical decision-makers — the directors, VPs, CIOs, and CTOs — who are evaluating, buying, and deploying enterprise AI.
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Scaling AI agents requires three things: Inventory, contracts and maintained context

Enterprises that run more than a handful of AI agents in production face risk, cost and oversight burdens that grow exponentially with every agent they add, says Felix Van de Maele, founder and CEO of data governance company Collibra. In a conversation with VentureBeat founder and CEO Matt Marshall at VentureBeat's AI Week event in New York, Van de Maele traced most agent failures to the business context those agents receive — and said companies need deterministic controls on agent behavior before their agent count grows.