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The Future of IT Is Conversational: Insights from CEO Leandro Silva at HDI Experience 2026

At HDI Experience, held September 16–18, 2026, Almaden’s CEO explained how AI and DEX are transforming enterprise support—and why the traditional service desk model has reached its limits. The traditional support model can no longer keep pace with the complexity of modern IT. Leandro Silva, cofounder and CEO of Almaden, opened his presentation at HDI Experience with this straightforward observation. “The traditional model can no longer keep pace with the complexity of modern IT.

Devart Python Connectors add support for Python 3.15 and the latest database versions

We are pleased to announce a new release of Devart Python Connectors, bringing support for Python 3.15, Microsoft SQL Server 2025, Oracle 26ai, and MySQL 9.7.x. The update also introduces new authentication methods, connection options, and improvements to data type handling across multiple connectors.
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The SAP Automation Advantage: What High-Performing SAP Teams Have in Common

Every Basis team has a list. The tasks nobody schedules because they get done by hand, by a Basis miracle worker who knows the sequence. System refresh. Parameter settings across multiple production systems. The cloud invoice with a number nobody can explain. The teams with a short list of manual tasks got there with automation. What separates them isn't enthusiasm for automation as a concept. It's automation covering every system they're responsible for, including the ones without a server login.

Asset Infinity for Power and Energy: Full Demo for Generation and Transmission (11 min)

Asset Infinity for power and energy: a 11-minute walkthrough on Tamarack Energy Cooperative, a generation and transmission cooperative in Kansas with a 620 MW combined-cycle plant, a peaking station, a 62-turbine wind farm, a solar farm with a 50 MW / 200 MWh battery, 345, 115 and 69 kV substations and lines, and a line operations center. A G&T is judged on keeping the lights on, safely, at a price its members can afford. We walk through the nine problems that keep a generation and transmission operations team up at night, and how Asset Infinity solves each one.

Fixed Asset Depreciation, Capital Projects & Budgets | Asset Infinity

What your assets cost, and what they are worth. This walkthrough covers the Finance module in Asset Infinity: depreciation in as many books as you need, capital projects that collect their costs until they become assets, budgets that track every commitment against them, and the capital and FF&E plans where the money starts. It's shown on a demo hospital system around Austin, Texas, with a new hospital under construction.

Room Booking, Lost & Found, Visitors and Gatehouse | Asset Infinity

The everyday running of a site, in one place. This walkthrough covers the Site services module in Asset Infinity: booking rooms and equipment with charges and clash checks, a lost and found desk that matches what was lost to what was handed in, a gatehouse that knows which visitors are on site and which of their devices may leave, a knowledge base of guides and lessons, a controlled document library, and messages tied to your records. It's shown on a demo hospital system around Austin, Texas.

Scaling Agentic ITOps: From AI pilots to autonomous IT operations

For enterprise IT leaders, the question is no longer whether AI agents can help run IT operations, but how to scale them beyond pilots and into the everyday work of keeping the business online. It’s no coincidence that this year’s Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference (IOCS) opens with a keynote dedicated to scaling agentic AI to enable autonomous IT operations. At BigPanda, we’ve seen a shift from the ITOps leaders we work with every day.

Self-Healing Endpoints with DEX | Ivanti

Digital employee experience shouldn't just be a metric — it's the result of how well endpoints are managed, secured, and remediated in real time. In this teaser, see how Ivanti transforms reactive IT into proactive, autonomous operations. Today's IT teams are stuck in reactive mode. Employees suffer through slow laptops, dropped VPN connections, and crashing apps — and most never report it. Ivanti Neurons for Digital Experience (DEX) changes that by monitoring real-time DEX scores across devices and user groups to uncover issues before they impact productivity.

Can One Building Hold a Country Full of Experts? | Civo Navigate London 2026

AI factories don't sell floor space. They produce tokens, the currency of intelligence, and every jump from Hopper to Vera Rubin packs in up to 4x the density. Training wants one giant site. Inference wants to be as close to you as physics allows. So the panel maps out what comes next: edge data centres of 5 to 50MW, handing work between your watch, your phone and the cloud at the lowest possible latency.