Shadow AI is putting sensitive company data at risk, often without anyone realizing it until it's too late. In this hands-on workshop, you'll step into the role of a security investigator working a real insider threat scenario. Using Microsoft's integrated security suite, you'll uncover unsanctioned generative AI tools running under the radar, trace unauthorized data uploads back to specific users and IP addresses, and follow the evidence trail across three connected Microsoft platforms. You'll trigger and interpret data loss prevention alerts in Microsoft Purview, examine sensitive information matches, and ultimately pinpoint the exact device tied to the user at the center of the investigation using Microsoft Intune. This is a practical, investigation-style look at how Defender for Cloud Apps, Purview, and Intune work together to close the visibility gap that shadow AI creates.

Every LLM call comes with a cost — in dollars, in milliseconds, and in rate-limit headroom. Most applications default to a single model for everything, and that works until it doesn't: costs spike, latency climbs on simple requests, and a single model outage can take down the whole application. In this session, we'll introduce LLM routing — turning model selection from a hard-coded choice into a runtime decision, so a quick lookup goes to a general-purpose model, a deep analytical question goes to a reasoning model, and a debugging request goes to a coding model, with automatic retries across tiers if one fails. Join us for a hands-on walkthrough of the concepts and a live look at configuring a router to put these ideas into practice.

Join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop exploring the foundational concepts of Microsoft Azure cloud computing. This session is designed to give you practical experience with Azure's core services — including compute, storage, and networking — through guided labs within the Azure Portal and CLI. Whether you're new to cloud or looking to solidify your Azure fundamentals, this workshop provides a structured, hands-on path to building real-world cloud skills with expert guidance from WWT's Azure practitioners.

Join us for an immersive, hands-on workshop exploring the mechanics of vector search and semantic retrieval. This session goes beyond simply wiring a vector store into a pipeline — it teaches you to understand why certain queries succeed, why others fail, and which components are responsible. Through four focused Jupyter Notebooks, you will explore how embedding models, distance metrics, and chunking strategies each shape retrieval results. Whether you are building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines or tuning search applications, this lab equips you with the diagnostic skills and evaluation frameworks to improve retrieval quality on your own data. All experiments run locally using open-source models and FAISS — no prior vector search experience required.

Join us for a hands-on introduction to HYPR Identity Assurance, a modern passwordless authentication platform built on FIDO2 cryptographic credentials. In this guided lab experience, you will explore the HYPR Control Center, configure identity verification flows using HYPR Affirm, and authenticate to a Windows workstation via RDP — without a single password. You will also see how HYPR integrates with CrowdStrike for Zero Trust pre-authentication policy enforcement and with Okta for centralized user lifecycle management. Whether you are evaluating passwordless solutions or looking to deepen your understanding of modern identity assurance, this lab delivers a practical, real-world experience that bridges security and simplicity.

Join us for a hands-on exploration of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open-source standard quickly gaining momentum in the world of AI. Whether you are a developer, engineer, or someone curious about how AI systems connect to real tools and data, this lab will walk you through the core concepts of MCP and give you practical skills to build, run, and connect your own MCP servers. This is a fundamentals-level lab focused on giving you a solid, practical understanding of how MCP works and why it is becoming the universal protocol for AI agent tool use — often described as the USB standard of the AI world.

Join us for a hands-on Learning Path and Lab experience designed to help network operations professionals unlock the full power of NetBrain. In this session, we will provide an overview of the Learning Path and explore NetBrain's operational workflow through a hands-on lab. Starting with network discovery and dynamic device mapping, you will then layer discovered data with Intent features such as parsers and diagnostics to enable low-code automation, standards validation, and scheduled rule checks through dashboards. NetBrain is a web-based, SSH-, SNMP-, and API-driven network operations platform that helps teams visualize, automate, document, troubleshoot, and remediate their networks using live data and interactive maps. By the end of this session, you will understand how to use NetBrain not only to view your network, but also to continuously validate it and accelerate troubleshooting through repeatable, map-driven automated workflows.

Join us for an immersive, hands-on Capture the Flag (CTF) experience designed to challenge and sharpen your AI security skills. The Cisco AI Defense CTF lab puts you in the middle of real-world AI threat scenarios, where you will exploit and defend against vulnerabilities including prompt injection, jailbreaking, and misuse of generative AI models. Watch Cisco AI Defense technology intercept and neutralize attacks in real time as you work through progressively challenging scenarios. This lab goes beyond surface-level awareness—giving you direct, practical experience with the tools and techniques used to secure enterprise AI environments.

Join us for a hands-on lab experience designed to help technical professionals get started with NVIDIA NemoClaw, the open-source autonomous AI agent framework. In this lab, you will explore how NemoClaw enables AI agents to take real-world actions — browsing the web, reading and writing files, and executing commands — all orchestrated through a flexible, modular skills system. OpenClaw integrates with leading large language models including Claude, GPT, and DeepSeek, and can be deployed locally or in the cloud for 24/7 operation. By the end of this session, you will understand how to configure, extend, and safely deploy OpenClaw agents to automate workflows and drive productivity across your organization.

Join us for an immersive, hands-on networking workshop focused on configuring and optimizing the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) within Cisco environments. This lab walks participants through core routing concepts, neighbor adjacency formation, metric calculation, and essential EIGRP configuration steps used in real-world deployments. You will examine how EIGRP selects efficient paths, balances traffic, manages convergence, and ensures reliable internal network performance. Whether building foundational routing skills or preparing for Cisco certification, this guided workshop provides the practical, scenario-based experience needed to confidently implement and troubleshoot EIGRP at scale.