Blog Cloud Enabling AI Everywhere with Akamai Inference Cloud Adam Karon is Akamai's Chief Operating Officer and General Manager of the Cloud Technology Group. In this role, Adam oversees company strategy and product direction for our media delivery, web performance, cloud computing solutions, and Akamai Cloud to help businesses deliver immersive online experiences with performance, scale, reliability, and simplicity across diverse application architectures. Every technological revolution begins with a moment of centralization. In the early days, factories huddled along rivers, drawn by the irresistible pull of water power. Electrical grids transformed entire economies, funneling energy into a handful of industrial hubs. The film industry followed a similar path, channeling vast sums of capital into marquee studios and their tightly controlled distribution networks. Even content and security started off centralized.…