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Ep 43 | Mike Walsh Returns: Are AI Agents the New Workforce?

Fresh off his keynote at Cloudera’s EVOLVE NYC, futurist and author Mike Walsh returns to The AI Forecast to share bold insights on the rise of AI agents and what they mean for business, culture, and society. In this wide-ranging conversation, Mike explores how AI is evolving from simple automation into a limitless digital workforce, and why the real disruption lies in the second- and third-order consequences of this transformation.

Should I automate tests for applications that have been around for a while?

For long-lived applications the decision to automate depends on how often they change and how often tests must be re-run. If releases are regular and you need repeated validations, automate the repeatable checks to gain speed and consistency. If the app rarely changes and tests run once in a while, manual can be enough. Choose based on release cadence, rerun frequency, and ROI. — Alex Martins, VP of Strategy at Katalon.

Data Masking for Oracle Tutorial with Perforce Delphix

Discover how to accelerate secure application development with Perforce Delphix's powerful data masking for Oracle. Watch our demo to see how you can protect sensitive information in large, complex Oracle environments while ensuring compliance with regulations like LGPD and GDPR. In this video, Delphix Sales Engineer Ilker Taskaya demonstrates how to: This solution is essential for large enterprises in regulated industries looking to secure data, accelerate cloud migrations, and enable faster innovation without compromising on compliance or security.

The Future of Coding: How Cursor and WarpStream Power AI Productivity | Life Is But A Stream

Software development is changing fast. With Cursor, Anysphere is building an AI-forward IDE that fuses human creativity with machine intelligence. At the heart of this transformation is data streaming—making it possible to train models responsibly, deliver lightning-fast Tab completions, and scale telemetry without breaking engineering velocity. In this episode, engineer Alex Haugland shares how WarpStream gives Cursor sovereignty over user data, how telemetry and accounting pipelines strengthen product decisions, and why “coding is really just a bug” in how we interact with computers.

MCP Tutorial: Connect OpenAI Agent Builder to Enterprise Data in 60 Seconds | DreamFactory MCP

Most teams testing OpenAI’s new Agent Builder hit the same wall: connecting to their real enterprise data securely. In this 3-minute tutorial you’ll learn how to: DreamFactory MCP bridges the gap so you can move from demo to production-ready agent on real data — fast, secure, and with no new infrastructure. Deploy locally: npx @dreamfactory/create-df-mcp.

Mitigate Security Risks with Data Masking: Tutorial with Perforce Delphix

Discover how Perforce Delphix provides a powerful solution to secure sensitive data in non-production environments. This comprehensive demo showcases how you can seamlessly identify, mask, and provision data while maintaining referential integrity to accelerate application development and ensure compliance. Learn to mitigate security risks and address the challenges of regulatory pressures like GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA.

Data Virtualization Explained in Under 3 Minutes: The Perforce Delphix Approach

Struggling with slow, complex, and costly data provisioning for development and testing? Meet data virtualization from Perforce Delphix! Delphix accelerates the delivery of secure, space-efficient data — transforming the process and economics of data delivery. With Delphix, you can: Provision full data copies in minutes, not days or weeks. Create lightweight, virtual databases that consume a fraction of physical storage.

Snowflake: The Platform For The AI Era

The age of AI has arrived, bringing unprecedented opportunities and complex new challenges. The Snowflake AI Data Cloud is the unified platform and connected ecosystem built for this new era of innovation. Our platform empowers organizations to break down silos, activate their data and build powerful AI applications with speed and trust. Join us and discover why Snowflake is the place where data does more.