Automation is gaining momentum and rapidly becoming a top priority for business leaders looking to drive growth, simplicity and efficiency. Yet developing a comprehensive automation strategy remains a struggle for many. The key lies in prioritizing the right automation initiatives and executing them effectively. Join WWT Senior Practice Lead Phillip Palmer as he presents six fundamental principles to guide organizations on their automation journey. Whether you're just beginning or looking to enhance existing automation initiatives, Phillip's expertise can help you build a successful automation strategy aligned with business goals, empower your teams, and ensure project success.

Businesses across the world are turning to automation to drive efficiency and simplicity. But for many, automation doesn't work as quickly or seamlessly as they'd like. In most cases, that's because leaders are thinking of operations from an operations and infrastructure perspective. There's a third equally critical component — automated platforms — that must be considered. Join WWT Senior Practice Manager for Automation Phillip Palmer as he discusses how automated platforms relate to other core areas of automation, such as infrastructure and operations. Phillip also talks about the teams and roles that stand to be most impacted by automation initiatives and how organizations can work toward automation unlocking a self-service model moving forward.

Cloud marketplaces are designed to help optimize cloud costs. But for all the potential they offer, we've found our client base can struggle to extract the full value of cloud marketplaces. Join WWT's Joshua Bushman and Lauren Fleming, both authors of the recently published Cloud Marketplace Maturity Model report, as they talk about a framework for simplifying, streamlining and scaling how organizations buy, deploy and manage cloud solutions across their business.

Join us for an insightful virtual event focused on Cisco CPaaS (Communications Platform as a Service). This event will delve into how Cisco's CPaaS solutions can revolutionize customer interactions across multiple communication channels, enhancing customer satisfaction while optimizing operational efficiency. Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of how Cisco CPaaS integrates with existing systems to deliver seamless, automated and personalized customer experiences. Whether you're looking to improve customer engagement, streamline processes or leverage AI-driven insights, this event will provide valuable knowledge and practical strategies to help you achieve your goals.

Join us for the Virtual Lab Workshop! During the event, the lab creator will introduce the Okta Foundations Lab, a premier capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC). This innovative lab provides an immersive virtual environment allowing participants to gain hands-on experience with the essential features of the Okta solution, free from the constraints of physical hardware.

As AI adoption accelerates across industries, businesses face unprecedented challenges in securing their AI-driven transformations. In this exclusive fireside chat, Cisco EVP and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel and WWT Co-founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh discuss the latest breakthroughs in AI security and how enterprises can more confidently innovate while safeguarding their AI applications. Jeetu and Jim will also explore the global landscape and its impact on the future of enterprise AI; provide practical guidance on how to craft an AI strategy that balances the need for speed with the necessity of caution; and talk about emerging AI solutions and how they can integrate into your IT strategy.

The relationship between AI and cloud is increasingly sybmiotic. Growing investment in cloud is driving faster adoption and spend on artificial intelligence (AI), while the majority of AI applications are developed in the cloud. AI can be used to automate complex tasks in cloud computing, optimize system performance, and improve user experience; while cloud computing provides the computing resources and infrastructure needed to train and deploy AI models at scale. Join Neil Anderson, who leads WWT's cloud and infrastructure practice, as he dives into the implications AI is having on cloud, and vice versa. Neil talks with detail about how AI is affecting cloud cost management and optimization, how IT leaders can secure use of AI in their cloud solutions, how high performance architectures needed to run AI will impact cloud strategies and common AI applications best suited for the cloud.

Today's digitally savvy consumer expects businesses to know what they want — in some cases before they know themselves. To do that, organizations must adopt a more data-centric approach that can deliver personalized experiences in real time. Join Salena Malik, Director of Digital Products, as she talks about what it means to have purpose-built solutions and the importance of having a product mindset when it comes to planning and executing with strategic intent. She also walks us through real-world examples of where personalization is making an impact in the market.

Great customer experiences increase loyalty, spurs growth and enables you to continue investing in technology to unlock even greater experiences. But too often, disjointed IT systems and siloed data stand in the way. Join WWT Director of Digital Products Chris Douglas as he talks about how unified commerce ties it all together — breaks down silos across IT systems to provide visibility into customer data, e-commerce, order fulfillment, inventory management, customer relationship management (CRM), point-of-sale (POS) systems and more.

In this event, you will gain the knowledge and tools to identify, mitigate, and prevent security risks, strengthening the reliability and security of your AI systems. WWT's Prompt Injection and Training Data Poisoning labs help users understand and defend against two major LLM security threats. The Prompt Injection Lab demonstrates how attackers manipulate LLMs with deceptive inputs to extract sensitive data or execute unintended actions, while the Training Data Poisoning Lab explores how corrupting training or retrieval data can introduce biases , vulnerabilities, or backdoors.

As AI hype continues, the task of implementing and scaling AI initiatives is becoming increasingly complex and daunting. In this executive-led conversation between WWT's Neil Anderson and Cisco Senior Vice President of Compute, Jeremy Foster, learn about how Cisco's AI-ready infrastructure can help you accelerate the introduction of AI into all aspects of your organization. Jeremy and Neil talk about the growing partnership between Cisco, NVIDIA and WWT; new innovations coming out of Cisco like Cisco Nexus HyperFabric; and how you can make sense of the fast-moving AI landscape to make informed decisions that will drive outcomes for your business.

Join us for the Virtual Lab Workshop, where we'll introduce the Infrastructure Source of Truth Learning Series. This series is designed for infrastructure engineers to learn how to manage data for automation effectively. You'll explore the concept of a "Source of Truth" (SoT) and key considerations for building one. The session covers two SoT solutions: Text File-based SoT and NetBox as a SoT. In the Text File module, you'll learn how to manage and use text files in automation. The NetBox module will teach you how to interface with NetBox for managing variable data and inventory. The workshop includes hands-on labs with guided challenges to reinforce these concepts, providing practical experience with both file-based and NetBox SoT solutions.