AI-powered coding assistants are rapidly compressing the time it takes to build software and delivering a competitive advantage that can lead to transformational outcomes. But according to WWT Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh, the bigger shift is organizational: companies must rethink leadership, data strategy and workforce skills to compete in an AI-native world. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Jim shares his vision for how coding assistants are emerging as one of the most practical and disruptive use cases in enterprise AI.

This session provided an introductory overview of GitLab's CI/CD capabilities. We also explored key GitLab CI/CD concepts, including the basics of setting up a GitLab pipeline using the GitLab Auto-DevOps one-click feature, modifying a GitLab pipeline using basic BASH shell scripting, and introducing the idea of using docker-in-docker containers as part of a pipeline.

Automation alone will not save you. In this session, we described the five dragons that cause modernization efforts to fail even when you hire excellent people and buy the best tools.

From WWT's DevOps practice, Matthew Perry, Senior Director of DevOps Enablement and Tyler Hatton, Technical Solutions Architect, discuss the challenges that our customers face around DevOps. They also review how WWT can help customers in this practice and WWT's capabilities and solutions in DevOps.