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In this episode, we share a webinar hosted by Progress about data and AI readiness. 

Here is the webinar description:

In today’s business landscape, data is your most powerful asset, but only if it’s accessible, digestible and ready for implementation. Progress recently surveyed enterprise leaders to understand the state of data readiness, uncovering critical insights across four key areas.

In this on-demand webinar, you'll hear David Loshin, Data and Information expert from Knowledge Integrity, Inc., dive deeper into the findings from Progress’ latest report. The report results highlight that while many organizations recognize the potential of AI, data challenges are still a major barrier.   

You’ll leave the webinar with key takeaways around topics like these:

• Data Literacy & Accessibility: Are teams able to find and use the data they need?
• Business Initiative Support: How well does your data landscape enable innovation and growth?
• Data Readiness for AI: Is your data prepared to fuel AI and advanced analytics initiatives?
• Data Governance & Risk Management: Are proper controls in place to facilitate  compliant, trustworthy AI outcomes?

You can download the full report here: https://www.progress.com/resources/papers/data-trends 

In this episode, Dave interviews Dan Lorenc, CEO and co-founder of Chainguard, about what happens when open source projects are abandoned.

They discuss:

• How to figure out if a project has been abandoned
• The role of companies in sponsoring open source projects
• How foundations play a role in maintaining projects

Dave Rubinstein was recently a guest on Torc's Guidance Counselor 2.0 live stream, and we're sharing that conversation with you here. 

Listen in to this special episode to learn about how community and mentorship are more important than ever as AI adoption continues. 

In this episode, Jenna interviews Woodson Martin, CEO of OutSystems, about how AI only really assists with a portion of the software development life cycle.

They discuss:

• The areas that will still require a human touch
• The evolution of the developer role and how success should be measured differently
• The bottlenecks that still exist even with AI-assisted coding

This episode was originally broadcast in April 2024, and includes discussions that are still relevant to developers today, so we are publishing it again. 

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In this episode, SD Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein discusses how cognitive fatigue is compounding the software productivity problem. 

His guest is Hans Dockter, CEO at Gradle Inc. and lead at Gradle Open Source Project. 

In this episode, Dave interviews Justin Moon, vice president of Core Product Engineering at BlackBerry QNX, providers of a real-time OS for embedded systems. 

They discuss:

• How QNX is working to close the development skills gap for SDVs
• How developers manage complexity in vehicle software designs
• The commercial challenges for autonomous vehicle hardware

In this episode, Dave interviews Mitchell Johnson, chief product development officer at Sonatype, about the notion of a Hippocratic Oath for developers, where you do no harm to the codebase, and how AI is impacting that.

They discuss:

• The responsibility a developer has to keeping their codebase healthy whenever they add a new feature
• How being able to output code faster with AI makes it harder to have visibility into how changes impact downstream systems
• How AI assisted coding may actually slow things down

In this episode, Dave interviews Angie Jones, VP of engineering for AI Tools & Enablement at the financial services company Block.

They discuss: 

• How AI is empowering a new wave of developers from non-traditional roles
• The importance of feeding AI models and agents important business context
• Block's coding agent Goose 

In this episode, Dave interviews Dave Protasowski, a member of the steering committee for Knative, about the project's recent graduation from the CNCF. 

They discuss: 

• An overview of what Knative does
• The history of the project at the CNCF
• What's in store for Knative in the future

In this episode, Jenna interviews Pia Nilsson, senior director of engineering at Spotify, about the company's decision to make its own AI tool to improve developer productivity.

They discuss:

• Why they built their own tool instead of using something that already exists
• How developers are using it day-to-day
• How AI is shaping developer culture at Spotify

Watch Spotify's webinar on October 22 to learn about the latest updates to Portal: https://info.backstage.spotify.com/webinar?utm_campaign=21639556-2025oct-webinar&utm_source=com-banner