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Sep 2026 · Forbes Tech Council Signs Your Software Is No Longer Delivering Value Forbes Technology Council expert panel on the signs that software has stopped delivering value. Dennis's contribution: when engineers spend more hours maintaining wrappers around a tool than the tool saves, add those hours to the subscription cost before renewal.
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Sep 2026 · Forbes Tech Council Redesigning Entry-Level Tech Roles To Build Better Judgment Expert panel on redesigning entry-level tech roles to build judgment. Dennis argues for putting juniors on real production incidents in code they did not write: reviewing AI drafts teaches taste, inheriting a mess teaches judgment.
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Jul 2026 · Forbes Tech Council Questions To Ask To Better Understand Nontechnical Stakeholders' Needs Expert panel on questions that reveal what nontechnical stakeholders need. Dennis's contribution: ask what the cost of doing nothing is. A lost client or a missed deadline means a real problem; vague anxiety about competitors means the project should not be built.
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Jun 2026 · Forbes Tech Council Vendor Breach Recovery: How To Earn Back Client Trust Expert panel on how a vendor earns back client trust after a breach. Dennis's test: give the client's engineers access to a staging environment rather than a PDF report or a webinar, because a polished incident report does not show whether the codebase actually changed.
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Jun 2026 · Forbes Tech Council Common IT Issues That Signal Bigger System Problems Expert panel on everyday IT issues that point to larger system problems. Dennis's example: an app that keeps crashing is often a silently pushed driver, runtime, or revoked certificate shipped fleetwide, so check deployment logs and version deltas before blaming the endpoint.
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Jun 2026 · Forbes Tech Council User Agency In Digital Design: Key Factors To Consider Expert panel on design choices that undermine user agency. Dennis's point: grayed-out buttons and locked inputs that say no without saying why generate more support tickets than almost any other UI choice, while a label that names the reason lets people solve it themselves.
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Jun 2026 · Forbes Tech Council Biometric Technology: What The Public Needs To Know Expert panel on what the public should know about biometric technology. Dennis separates biometric authentication, a choice you make, from biometric surveillance, a choice made for you, and suggests asking whether you opted in or were opted in.
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Jun 2026 · Forbes Tech Council What LLMs Are And What They're Not: A Practical Guide For Leaders Making Real Decisions About AI The Forbes piece, "What LLMs Are And What They're Not" (Jun 2026), explains to leaders how a large language model works: not a database or a search engine, but a system that generates answers from patterns learned in training, with knowledge frozen at that point.
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Jun 2026 · Forbes Tech Council Launching A Tech Startup? Here Are Today's Most Common Challenges Expert panel on the most common challenges for new tech startups. Dennis's contribution: building got cheaper but enterprise procurement got harder, with SOC 2 audits and security questionnaires hundreds of questions deep, so budget for enterprise readiness from day one.
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Sep 2024 · Forbes Tech Council 20 Emerging Strategies And Trends In Project Management Expert panel on emerging strategies and trends in project management. Dennis describes the shift toward relying on senior talent with less traditional oversight, and toward product ownership skills that keep projects aligned with business goals.
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Aug 2015 · Financial Times New world of work: digital marketplace reshapes casual labour The FT piece, "New world of work: digital marketplace reshapes casual labour" (Aug 2015), explored how platforms like Upwork were reshaping global employment, with a focus on the Ukrainian tech freelance boom.
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