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Mark Lynd

Mark is the Head of Executive Advisory & Corporate Strategy at Netsync, a global technology reseller. Mark's achievements include being a finalist for Ernst & Young's "Entrepreneur of the Year - Southwest Region, presenting the Doak Walker Award on ESPN and being ranked the #1 Global Security Thought Leader in 2022 by Thinkers360 and a Top 5 Globally ranked Thought Leader for AI. In his role at Netsync, Mark serves as an executive advisor with a particular focus on collaborating with the leadership of over 250 K-12 and higher education institutions. Mark has held various leadership positions, including CEO, CIO, CTO, and CISO, for several global organizations. He has on served on several boards, including serving on the board for SMU’s Cox School of Business. Mark is a sought-after speaker, frequently presenting on cybersecurity, AI, diversity, STEM, and veteran affairs for organizations like Oracle, IBM, Cisco, HP, Intel, and others. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Tulsa and attended The Wharton School. Mark proudly and honorably served in the US Army's 3rd Ranger Battalion & 82nd Airborne.

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[AI Burst] The "Reasoning" Tax: Why your AI bill just tripled

Jan 9, 2026

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[AI Burst] The "Reasoning" Tax: Why your AI bill just tripled

Intelligence" is easy. "Reasoning" is expensive

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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[AI Burst] Your Network Now Fixes Itself.

Jan 7, 2026

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[AI Burst] Your Network Now Fixes Itself.

The shift from "AIOps" to "AgenticOps" is the #1 strategy for 2026

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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[AI Burst] The "Put Up or Shut Up" Year for AI

Jan 5, 2026

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[AI Burst] The "Put Up or Shut Up" Year for AI

The honeymoon is over. CFOs are now in charge"

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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[AI Burst] The "Shadow Agent" Bomb: Your 2026 Wake-Up Call

Dec 31, 2025

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[AI Burst] The "Shadow Agent" Bomb: Your 2026 Wake-Up Call

What’s lurking in your stack as the year closes?

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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[AI Burst] AI Slop is the Word of the Year

Dec 29, 2025

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[AI Burst] AI Slop is the Word of the Year

The "Human Premium" just doubled

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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[AI Burst] Talking to a Human is a Luxury

Dec 26, 2025

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[AI Burst] Talking to a Human is a Luxury

The "Uncanny Valley" is closed. Customer service just split in two

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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[AI Burst] The "Loneliness" Fix

Dec 24, 2025

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[AI Burst] The "Loneliness" Fix

Your New Therapist is an Algorithm

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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[AI Burst] The "Deepfake" Holiday

Dec 22, 2025

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[AI Burst] The "Deepfake" Holiday

Why your family needs a "Safe Word" this year.

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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[AI Burst] AI is Trading its Tiara for a Hard Hat

Dec 19, 2025

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[AI Burst] AI is Trading its Tiara for a Hard Hat

Why 2026 is the year of boring, profitable AI

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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[AI Burst] The 800,000-Person AI Beta Test

Dec 12, 2025

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[AI Burst] The 800,000-Person AI Beta Test

Accenture just turned its entire workforce into AI agents. Is this the future or a disaster?

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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[AI Burst] Your AI Agents Are Leaking

Dec 10, 2025

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[AI Burst] Your AI Agents Are Leaking

Why "Adversarial Poetry" and "Agent Identity" are the CISO's new nightmare

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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[AI Burst] The "Sovereign AI" shift and Open Source commoditization

Dec 8, 2025

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[AI Burst] The "Sovereign AI" shift and Open Source commoditization

China’s DeepSeek V3.2 just matched GPT-5 for free. The "Moat" is dead

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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[AI Burst] The "Anti-Efficiency" Trap

Dec 5, 2025

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[AI Burst] The "Anti-Efficiency" Trap

Why AI budgets are exploding, and why "doing more with less" is a lie in 2026

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd
[AI Burst] The "Reasoning" Arms Race: Claude vs. Gemini

Dec 3, 2025

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[AI Burst] The "Reasoning" Arms Race: Claude vs. Gemini

Why the future of AI is slow, silent, and expensive

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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[AI Burst] The LLM Your Using Is Too Big

Dec 1, 2025

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[AI Burst] The LLM Your Using Is Too Big

The pivot to "Micro-Models" and why the future of enterprise AI runs offline

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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[AI Burst] Transformers Will Be Obsolete: The Simulation Singularity Is Close

Nov 28, 2025

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[AI Burst] Transformers Will Be Obsolete: The Simulation Singularity Is Close

Why Attention was just the warm-up

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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[AI Burst] AI Agents Make Human-Speed SOCs Obsolete

Nov 26, 2025

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[AI Burst] AI Agents Make Human-Speed SOCs Obsolete

Why "Agentic Security" is the only force multiplier that matters

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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[AI Burst] The Chatbot is Dead. Long Live the Agent

Nov 24, 2025

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[AI Burst] The Chatbot is Dead. Long Live the Agent

Why 2026 is the year of "doing," not "talking

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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[AI Burst] Your Job Just Got Automated. Now What?

Nov 21, 2025

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[AI Burst] Your Job Just Got Automated. Now What?

Beyond the hype: Which professions are truly on the chopping block this decade.

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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[AI Burst] Elon Musk on Why the Brain Still Beats the GPU

Nov 19, 2025

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[AI Burst] Elon Musk on Why the Brain Still Beats the GPU

The Stark Reality of AI's Power Problem

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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[AI Burst] Why LLMs "Don't Work Yet"

Nov 17, 2025

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[AI Burst] Why LLMs "Don't Work Yet"

Top expert Andrej Karpathy's take on AI's cognitive gap.

Mark Lynd
Mark Lynd

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