Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

Ryan Green kicks off the new year with the latest updates across Snowflake and the AI Data Cloud. Learn about three Snowflake capabilities now generally available, including Interactive Analytics on AWS, Snowpark Connect for Apache Spark, and next-generation Snowpipe Streaming across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

A Shifting Left Success Story” takes you inside a real-world transformation where test automation was intentionally moved earlier in the development lifecycle — with measurable and lasting impact. This session unpacks the how, why, and key lessons learned from embedding Shift Left practices within a cross-functional team. You’ll discover what made the approach successful, where challenges emerged, and how a thoughtful Shift Left strategy can dramatically improve code quality, shorten feedback loops, and build greater trust between developers, testers, and product stakeholders.

You can’t test 10x more code with the same old tools. As AI dramatically increases code volume and speed, traditional testing becomes a bottleneck. Teams need AI embedded across the entire testing lifecycle to scale testing, boost productivity, and keep releases moving fast without sacrificing quality — Alex Martins, VP of Strategy at Katalon Follow Katalon for more insights in our series!

Learn more at speedscale.com or check out https://docs.speedscale.com/proxymock/how-it-works/mcp/

Learn more at speedscale.com or visit https://docs.speedscale.com/proxymock/how-it-works/mcp/

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.

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.

Agentic AI marks the next evolutionary leap in artificial intelligence - systems that don’t just answer prompts or generate content, but plan, decide, and act on our behalf with minimal oversight. In this webinar, we’ll demystify what “agentic” really means, trace the shift from single‑step chatbots to multi‑step autonomous agents, and explore the architectures—sense‑plan‑act loops, large‑language‑model reasoning layers, and tool‑integrations—that make true agency possible.

Implementing the Playwright Framework with AI explores how to enhance test automation by integrating AI capabilities. This approach minimises code writings, eliminates traditional locator strategies, and ensures low test maintenance. The session will demonstrate how AI-driven solutions can simplify and optimise test automation, making it more efficient and scalable.

AI can feel like a black box, but when it is tested like any other system, unexpected weaknesses begin to surface. This session explores how large language models can be pushed into unsafe or unintended behavior, revealing that AI is not immune to flaws, poor decisions, or broken assumptions.