Aug 04, 2026

Front End Testing with GitHub Actions • Amy Kapernick • YOW! 2025

This presentation by Amy Kapernick at YOW! Australia 2025 details how to implement robust front-end testing using GitHub Actions. It covers the rationale for comprehensive front-end testing, the necessity of a live deployment preview, and practical steps for automating tests like Lighthouse for performance/accessibility and Playwright for UI validation. The talk also delves into continuous deployment workflows and explores GitHub Actions' broader utility for workflow automation beyond testing, such as generating issues from code comments.

Jan 12, 2026

Introducing Our Approach to Design Document Review Using Business-Specific Large Language Models

Hitachi's Financial Business Unit developed a specialized LLM to automate the review of system design documents, addressing the inadequacy of general-purpose AI for mission-critical systems. This presentation details the model's development using Continued Pre-training and LoRA on proprietary data, its integration into a multi-agent architecture, and the use of Weights & Biases for MLOps, which led to a 70% reduction in manual review workload.