Tuesday, September 1st | 10:30a.m.

The role of a VMware administrator has expanded beyond simple virtualization management. As VMware environments become more complex, the training and knowledge required to manage their environment is effectively more complex. Today, the environments encompass cloud integration, automation, security hardening, and performance optimization. This session will discuss social media experts' sites available to address these diverse needs. To ensure a robust, efficient, and secure virtual environment—and navigate this complexity—requires a suite of powerful tools, capable of streamlining processes, enhancing system visibility, and optimizing resource utilization.

Tuesday, September 1st | 3p.m. | The Hub Theater

As organizations accelerate the adoption of AI across hybrid and private cloud platforms, security architectures must evolve to address new risks introduced by data-intensive pipelines, model lifecycles, and distributed inference services. This session explores how AI security principles can be operationalized within VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF). You will learn how to protect sensitive datasets, secure model training pipelines, enforce Zero-Trust segmentation for GPU-accelerated workloads, and strengthen compliance posture across the AI lifecycle. The presentation also examines emerging risks such as model poisoning, data leakage, and supply-chain vulnerabilities in AI infrastructure—and demonstrates how VCF’s integrated security architecture helps mitigate them.

Wednesday, September 2nd | 12:30p.m. | The Hub Theater

Unblock the enterprise utility of large language models (LLMs) by safely connecting them to private data, tools, and workflows. This session details a reference architecture for deploying operational AI services using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) on VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF) 9. We explore how MCP standardizes access, while VCF 9 Private AI Services provide the secure, scalable runtime, data indexing, and governance framework. Learn to build and secure mission-critical AI agents, transforming isolated model usage into governed, production-ready copilots for IT operations and platform engineering. We cover architecture, security warnings, and a 90-day pilot roadmap for operationalizing trusted enterprise AI.

Wednesday, September 2nd | 1:30p.m. | The Hub Theater

• • Performance validated on real workloads
• • Predictable economics that scale
• • Sovereignty built in by design

Wednesday, September 2nd | 3 p.m. | The Hub Theater

In this fast-paced, data-driven session, VMUG shares what its community of practitioners is genuinely experiencing as the VMware landscape evolves. From survey data to live audience reactions, we'll resurface the trends, the workarounds, and the hard questions people are wrestling with right now – and turn them into clear, actionable guidance. If you're a VMware software admin or architect trying to stay ahead, this session is built for you.