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AI OCR: Read every code, every time | Zebra

High-volume manufacturers—spanning food, beverage, cosmetics, and consumer goods—operate under rigorous regulatory and quality requirements, yet many still rely on manual inspections or outdated technologies to validate packaging date and lot codes. They need a faster, more dependable system to ensure every product leaving the facility is correctly marked. Zebra’s AI OCR vision system combines the power of Aurora Focus software with our NS42 and FS42 smart cameras to deliver a fast, accurate solution.

Agent Observability Deep Dive Demo | Grafana Cloud

Grafana AI Observability is our new database and platform for observing AI Agents. Over the past year at Grafana Labs, we built Agents and we needed a way to understand how they are performing, what are the costs associated with them, what's the error rate or time to the first token as well as how they are behaving. Grafana Staff Engineer, Ivana Hučková provides a deep dive demo on how Grafana AI Observability connects our experience building Agents with our experience building observability systems.

Your platform is your business, encoded onto your infra, with Syntasso's Abby Bangser

Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Abby Bangser, a platform engineering leader at Syntasso and former lead of the CNCF Platforms Working Group, to talk about why AI agents need real platform APIs, not raw cloud credentials.

Say You're Struggling - People Want to Help

Being honest about what you're struggling with isn't weakness — it's the fastest way to get real help. This IT leader says it's okay to tell your team "I'm struggling with X, can I just vent for 15 minutes" and skip the technical fix for a minute. Most people want to help — you just have to let them. Watch the full IT Leadership Lab session.