Join us for a hands-on walkthrough of Keeper Security's password management and privileged access platform, framed around a new employee's first week at a fictional financial services firm. Attendees will learn to capture and store credentials safely, defend against phishing attempts, add two-factor protection, and share sensitive records securely. The session also covers Keeper's Privileged Access Manager (PAM), demonstrating how to broker secure RDP and SSH sessions using encrypted tunnels and temporary, just-in-time accounts, all built around Zero Trust and least-privilege principles.

Storage administration is one of the most in-demand skills in today's data centers, and NetApp ONTAP sits at the heart of it. This hands-on lab workshop walks you through the core concepts, terminology, and deployment options behind ONTAP, then puts you in the driver's seat to configure NAS, SAN, and object storage yourself. You'll also explore how ONTAP Snapshots protect your data and how SnapMirror keeps it replicated and recoverable. Whether you're new to storage or already comfortable with the fundamentals but new to NetApp, this session gives you practical, guided experience you can apply right away.

Join us for a live, virtual Hands-On Lab Workshop built around the Network Engineering Foundations learning series from the WWT Advanced Technology Center. This series covers the fundamentals of network engineering through hands-on labs and real-world examples, helping you develop the practical skills needed to build and maintain robust networks. In this session, our ATC instructors will walk you through the series, highlight the key technologies it covers, from network media and Layer 2 switching to OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP, and show you how to put the series to work on your own learning journey. Whether you are an aspiring network engineer, an IT professional, or simply curious about the backbone of today's interconnected world, this workshop is a great place to start.

Join us for a hands-on look at securing non-human identities in Microsoft Entra, with a focus on the unique challenges introduced by agentic AI workloads. This session explores how AI agents authenticate through service principals and managed identities, the security risks that come with misconfiguration, and the practical skills needed to design and govern non-human identity security at scale in AI-driven environments.

Join us for a hands-on look at Check Point's SD-WAN solution, which centralizes routing decisions across multiple WAN links and automatically steers traffic to the best-performing path in real time. In this workshop, you'll see how Check Point builds encrypted tunnels that connect branches, data centers, and cloud networks under a single, centrally managed security policy — improving application performance, increasing resiliency through link diversity, and replacing manual, device-by-device configuration with policy-driven routing intent managed through SmartConsole.

Most AI assistants forget everything the moment you close the tab. In this session, we'll show you an assistant that doesn't: the Nous Research Hermes Agent, powered by NVIDIA's Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B model in WWT's AI Proving Ground. Hermes keeps persistent state on disk, remembering who you are, how you like to work, and what you've taught it, across every session and across surfaces including a desktop app, a chat platform, and the terminal. Join us as we commission the agent as an infrastructure co-pilot, teach it engineering standards, explore built-in skills like architecture diagrams and implementation plans, and save a brand-new reusable skill, then watch it apply everything automatically in a live virtual environment from a completely different surface.

Join us for a hands-on look at Linux Foundations, a learning path that takes you from core Linux fundamentals to confident system administration. In this session, you'll explore how Linux is structured, get comfortable at the command line, and see how engineers manage users, permissions, processes, and storage in real environments. We'll also touch on hardening systems against attacks and automating routine work with shell scripts, giving you a practical view of the core skills every entry-level engineer needs to run Linux systems.

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.