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How we built an AI-first culture at Ably

Most companies talk about being “AI-first.” At Ably, we decided to actually become one. We build realtime infrastructure for AI applications. To do that credibly, we need to live and breathe AI ourselves – not just in our product, but in how we work every day. Two years ago, we began a company-wide push for AI adoption.

From Design to Deployed: Introducing the Figma Plugin for Sauce Visual for Pixel-Perfect Releases

Bridge the disconnect between design and development. The new Figma plugin for Sauce Visual automates baseline creation, enables shift-left testing, and guarantees visual consistency with your approved Figma designs.

Leveraging ThoughtSpot and LLMs for Business Insights

- Building a prototype is easy—but scaling reliable, secure AI is the real challenge. In this demo, we show you how to move past basic chat and into the era of Agentic AI with the ThoughtSpot MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server. The MCP Server acts as a bridge between your data and external LLMs like Claude, OpenAI, and Gemini. It doesn't just answer questions; it reasons through your data model to automatically generate governed, mission-critical Liveboards.

AI x Testing Leadership | Jaydeep Chakrabarty | Ask Me Anything

AI is not just changing how we test it's redefining how we lead. This high-impact AMA explores how testing leadership must evolve in an AI-first world. Whether you're managing a lean QA team or scaling quality across a large enterprise, the session offers frameworks and insight to help you lead, not just adapt, through transformation. What you'll take away: About Jaydeep Chakrabarty.

Ask Me Anything with Harinee Muralinath

AI tools are getting smarter, and many of them now have access to more than you realize. From test scripts to config files to internal APIs, what starts as "just a helper" can become a hidden risk. In this AMA, Harinee will share where things go wrong when tools are trusted too quickly. We’ll look at real examples, permission pitfalls, and ways to keep your systems safer. If you’re using AI in testing or automation, this session will help you ask better questions. Bring your curiosity and your concerns. Let’s talk about what your tools can do, and what they shouldn't.

AI in State and Local Government: Impact Starts with Process, Not Hype

Why “standalone AI” falls short AI works best when embedded in a process Guardrails are not a limitation—they’re an enabler Process-driven AI in action How leaders should be thinking about AI now Artificial intelligence is no longer optional in state and local government—it’s essential for meeting public expectations amid staffing shortages and budget constraints. AI is showing up across agencies and programs.

Qlik 2026 Trends - Powering the Future of AI

Somehow, another year has passed and we’re back again to deliver our Trends Outlook for 2026. As Qlik’s first milestone of the year, it’s a busy but exciting time that hugely energizes me after the holiday break. We weren’t short of inspiration. The world has given us a far from a blank canvas on which to illustrate our Trends and in particular, conversations around AI have firmly evolved from future-gazing to wrestling with the formula for harnessing its power.

AI Agent with Strands SDK, Kong AI/MCP Gateway & Amazon Bedrock

In one of our posts, Kong AI/MCP Gateway and Kong MCP Server technical breakdown, we described the new capabilities added to Kong AI Gateway to support MCP (Model Context Protocol). The post focused exclusively on consuming MCP server and MCP tools through Kong MCP Gateway. Now, it's time to check how an AI agent can leverage the AI and MCP infrastructure exposed and protected by Kong AI/MCP Gateway.

AI in Action: Powering the Future of Testing | Xray Webinar

A quick overview of Xray Test Management - cutting-edge test management app for Jira. Xray is the leading Quality Assurance and Test Management app for Jira. More than 4.5 million testers, developers and QA managers trust Xray to manage 100+ million test cases each month. Xray is a mission-critical tool at over 5,000 companies in 70 countries, including 137 of the Global 500 like BMW, Samsung and Airbus.

Supercharge your LLM Using Production Data Context

Are your LLM coding agents (like Cursor or Claude Code) hallucinating fixes because they don't know what's actually happening in production? In this video, Matt from Speedscale shows you how to bridge the gap between your local IDE and live production traffic using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Most observability tools just give you telemetry. Speedscale’s MCP server gives your agent the "inner workings" of actual API calls and payloads, so it can check its assumptions against reality. No more "vibe-coding" and hoping it works; let your agent find the 500 errors and rate limits for you.