Webinar: Laying the groundwork for AI agent development by Techstrong Learning

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Laying the groundwork for AI agent development

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Developing AI agents is the fastest-growing trend in software development, but how do development and testing teams prepare to make it happen? Whether you’re exploring AI-driven automation, virtual assistants, or autonomous decision-making systems, understanding the fundamentals is crucial. This roundtable will demystify AI agents and provide a practical roadmap for teams looking to build and deploy them effectively.

Join us for an interactive discussion with industry experts as we break down the core concepts, types of AI agents, and essential skills needed to embark on AI agent development.

What You’ll Learn:
• What AI agents are and why they matter – Understand how AI agents differ from traditional software and explore their real-world applications.
• Different types of AI agents – Learn about reflex, goal-based, utility-based, and learning agents, with examples of how they are used in various domains.
• Building the right team – Identify the key skills required for AI agent development, from machine learning expertise to software testing.
• How to get started – Learn practical steps for ideation, experimentation, and defining a pilot project with clear scope and success metrics.
• Live audience discussion – Bring your questions and insights to engage with peers and experts on the challenges and opportunities of AI agent development.

Who Should Attend? This roundtable is designed for developers, QA engineers, data engineers, platform engineers, and technical leaders looking to understand the practical aspects of AI agent development and deployment. If you’re preparing your team for the AI-driven future, this session is for you.

"Laying the groundwork for AI agent development" is the first of our four-part DevOps Unbound series on Getting Ready for AI Agent Development.

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Presenters

Tracy Ragan

Creator & CEO - DeployHub

Tracy is CEO and Co-Founder of DeployHub. DeployHub is the first microservice catalog designed to facilitate the sharing, relationship mapping and versioning of microservices. Tracy is expert in configuration management and pipeline life cycle practices with a hyper focus on microservices and cloud native architecture. She currently serves as a board member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) where she is the elected General Member Representative. Tracy is a recognized evangelist in microservices and the continuous delivery pipeline. She is the creator of the Continuous Delivery Foundation Interactive Landscape, a blog contributor for the CDF and speaks at many DevOps events such as KubeCon and DevOpsWorld. Tracy is also a DevOps Institute Ambassador and speaks at AWS Marketplace webinar educational events.

Mitch Ashley

VP and Practice Lead DevOps and AppDev - The Furuturm Group

Mitch Ashley is VP and Practice Lead of DevOps and Application Development for The Futurum Group. Mitch has over 30+ years of experience as an entrepreneur, industry analyst, product development, and IT leader, with deep expertise in software engineering, cybersecurity, DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud, and AI. An in-demand CTO, CIO, engineering, and DevOps leader, Mitch has the pulse on the latest in software engineering, including the AI's impact in development, testing and security, cloud-native architecture, application and software supply chain security, platform engineering, ITOps, SecOps, AIOps, and DataOps. In his career, Mitch has brought to market multiple industry-impacting software-based products, including cybersecurity products, SaaS applications, Internet services, large telecommunications and financial applications, mobile applications, managed PKI services, and broadband networks. At Futurum, Mitch advises and guides leaders in delivering contemporary and next-generation software and security strategies critical to their business strategies.

Alan Shimel

Founder & CEO - Techstrong

Alan is founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, the company behind DevOps.com, Container Journal, Security Boulevard and Digital Anarchist, as well as co-founder of the DevOps Institute. As such, he is attuned to the world of technology, particularly cloud, DevOps, security and open source. With almost 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Alan has been instrumental in the success of several organizations. He is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at industry and government conferences and events. In addition to his writing, his DevOps Chats podcast, DevOps TV and Digital Anarchist audio and videos are widely followed. Alan attributes his success to a combination of a strong business background and a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality. He is a graduate of St. John's University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics, and holds a JD degree from NY Law School.

Dave Colwell

VP - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - Tricentis

David Colwell is a credible voice in the field of AI, having built Tricentis’ AI team from the ground up and with over a decade of deep experience in developing, testing, and deploying AI, Machine Learning and neural networks to production. He is the co-inventor of the Vision AI product, an AI-based test automation feature in Tricentis’ flagship intelligent test automation product, Tosca, for which he received a patent from the USPTO for a new method for single-pass optical character recognition, with the aim of accelerating and enabling faster AI text recognition.

Guy Currier

Analyst - The Futurum Group

Guy is the CTO at Visible Impact, responsible for positioning, GTM, and sales guidance across technologies and markets. He has decades of field experience describing technologies, their business and community value, and how they are evaluated and acquired. Guy’s specialty areas include AI, DevOps/cloud-native/12-factor, enterprise applications, application integration, Big Data, governance-risk-compliance, containerization, virtualization, HPC, CPUs-GPUs, xPUs, and systems lifecycle management.