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AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026: five takeaways

Two days at RAI Amsterdam (17–18 September), nearly a hundred sessions, and energy throughout the hallways. AGNT Con + MCPCon Europe is the Agentic AI Foundation's flagship event under the Linux Foundation, and this year it consolidated the European MCP content that previously lived at MCP Dev Summit Europe. If you care about MCP, this was the place to be.

AI Workspace + Playwright: Deploy Playwright tests from Jira requirements

Connect AI Workspace, the Tricentis Quality Agent, and Playwright so a Jira requirement generates test cases and runs them as an unattended web test. In this walkthrough, you will see how a ticket drives test case generation, triggers a Playwright run over MCP, and returns a pass/fail report to Jira. Key highlights.

SeaLights for ABAP: Mapping SAP Risk and Closing Test Gaps

Pair SAP change tracking with automatic test mapping to know exactly what a transport touches, and what still needs coverage. In this walkthrough, Kateryna Serdinsky, Product Marketing Manager at Tricentis, demonstrates how to set up a test cycle, run risk-based impact analysis, and close coverage gaps in SeaLights for ABAP.

[Webinar] Delivering HIPAA X12 Compliance with EDI Agent

Fixing 834 enrollment files, rejected 837 claims, and HIPAA X12 validation errors can consume hours every week. Every new trading partner or requirement can mean more mapping, validation, testing, and troubleshooting for healthcare EDI teams. Astera EDIConnect helps take that work off your team. Teams can automate workflows that parse and validate HIPAA X12 transactions in a no-code, drag and drop interface. Its built-in EDI Agent helps teams create and adapt flows faster, without relying on custom code or specialized EDI resources.

Introducing ARIA

What if you could build a data pipeline by just describing it in plain English? Sudais sits down with Maha, Astera's AI evangelist and one of the thought leaders behind ARIA, to talk about Astera's helper agents: what they are, why we built them, and where they're heading. ARIA is a set of specialized agents for Astera products like Centerprise and ReportMiner. Describe what you want, like migrating data from a SQL database to Snowflake, and the agent configures the pipeline for you.

Connect Bolt.new to On-Prem SQL Server Without Exposing Sql Server to the Internet

Connect Bolt to an on-prem SQL Server database without opening a single firewall port or handing over a database password. In this video I put DreamFactory in front of a SQL Server database on my local network, generate a REST API from it, lock that API down with a read-only role and a scoped API key, then I have Bolt build a live delivery operations dashboard on top of it. Bolt calls the API from a Bolt server function, so the key never reaches the browser.

The Campaign Brief Agent That Saved Weeks of Work

Every campaign launch comes with the same overhead: write the brief, rewrite it for creative, rewrite it again for email ops, digital, and whoever else needs a version of it. Multiply that by every campaign your team runs, and weeks disappear before the work even starts. In this clip from the Thought Tank: Marketing in the Age of Agents, ThoughtSpot SVP Marketing EMEA Katie Marcham and CMO Micheline Nijmeh share the agent that changed that.

Life after App Center: how we rebuilt CodePush from the ground up

In March 2024, Microsoft announced it would retire App Center in March 2025. For a lot of mobile teams, the first question was simple: what now? I was on the Release Management team at the time, and we thought CodePush was worth pursuing. We wrote up the case, got it onto the roadmap, and then waited. Nobody could say yet whether it would become a valuable product, and a team our size has to pick its bets carefully.

Your Manual Tests Are Already Automation

Here's the idea I want to leave you with. Your manual test library isn't documentation. It's automation that has been waiting for something that can read it. And you shouldn't have to move it, rewrite it or migrate it to set it free. The clearest version of this came up in a customer conversation a few weeks ago. The head of quality at a fast-growing fintech told me his company pays an outside firm to run its manual regression, and the firm bills per test executed.