At VMware Explore Las Vegas 2026, the Tanzu Division of Broadcom will unveil its latest innovations in deploying AI agents in the enterprise. Join us for sessions covering agentic AI delivery, architecture, best practices for agents, apps, data, and enterprise-ready solutions that help organizations safely build and deploy AI agents and business-critical applications in the era of Frontier AI. Explore Las Vegas is right around the corner and there is still time to customize your agenda by adding sessions to your schedule. Below, we’ve highlighted not-to-miss sessions featuring Tanzu experts and customers.
Featured Sessions
Shaping the Future of Private AI Cloud and Agentic Innovation [PLE1837LV]
Monday, Aug 31 | 4:00 PM PDT
Discover the latest in VMware Private AI Cloud at the VMware Explore 2026 Keynote. Scale cost-effectively, operate securely against AI threats, and rapidly innovate with secure agentic AI pipelines. Seating in the Plenary Session will be limited to attendees with a Full Event Pass only and on a first-come, first-served basis. Overflow viewing will be available in The Hub or Bellini 2103.
Speakers:
Ram Velaga, President, Infrastructure Software Group, Broadcom
Paul Turner, Vice President of Products, VMware Cloud Foundation Division, Broadcom
Purnima Padmanabhan, Vice President and General Manager, Tanzu Division, Broadcom
Governance at Scale: Securing the App Estate [APPB1390LV]
Monday, Aug 31 | 2:00 PM PDT
Visibility is the foundation of governance, yet most enterprises struggle to see the risk hidden in their app estate. Are your apps running on vulnerable Java versions? What is your Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) exposure before code hits production? For platform teams, answering this usually requires manual audits and fragmented tools. Join us to hear how a leading global financial institution (FSI) leverages VMware Tanzu® Platform for a comprehensive view of their application landscape. We explore the value of automated app assessment to identify risks—from outdated runtimes to repo vulnerabilities—in real time. Learn how this FSI moved beyond infrastructure metrics to a deep understanding of app health and security posture. Discover how Tanzu Platform transforms compliance into a proactive, transparent, and scalable enterprise asset.
Speakers:
Valentina Alara, Director, Technology Product Management, Broadcom
Erik Scales, Sr Manager, Cloud Engineer Lead, Charles Schwab
Breakout Sessions
Defending the Open Source Software Supply Chain in the Era of Frontier AI [APPB1860LV]
Monday, Aug 31 | 3:00 PM PDT
With the rise of frontier AI, the security landscape has shifted under our feet. To counter the exploding volume of AI-driven threats, enterprise platform and infrastructure teams must evolve from manual security operations to a continuous security model. This session explores how to secure your open source software (OSS) supply chain, including your Spring/Java application estate and upstream OSS packages and helm charts, from commit to runtime by compressing the loop between vulnerability detection, assessment, and remediation. We’ll dive into how running apps on VMware Tanzu Platform helps reduce threats and allows you to assess the risk profile of your application and services estate and prioritize your remediation efforts. We’ll also detail how teams can leverage solutions like VMware Tanzu Spring, Bitnami Secure Images and Tanzu Platform to turn fire drills into predictable, continuous operational rhythms.
Speakers:
Kevin Strohmeyer, CMO, Tanzu Division of Broadcom, Inc., Broadcom
Valentina Alara, Director, Technology Product Management, Broadcom
Quickly Tackle Vulnerabilities and Tech Debt with App Portfolio Assessments [APPB1465LV]
Monday, Aug 31 | 3:00 PM PDT
We will walk through methodologies and demonstrate how teams assess the current state of their application portfolio, including vulnerabilities and framework versions, while providing curated guidance to either quickly patch in-place or automate app modernization. We will review common patterns seen from technical debt, security vulnerabilities, and the migrations into containerized deployments onto Tanzu Platform or vSphere Kubernetes Service. This session includes recipes impacting popular application frameworks and modernizing workflows for legacy frameworks like J2EE and COBOL frameworks to Spring Boot.
Speakers:
Ken Rider, Director Platform Solutions, Capstone IT
Ryan Conley, Global Field Principal, Broadcom
From Core to Edge: A Unified Approach for Sovereign Data and Agentic AI [INVB1832LV]
Tuesday, Sep 1 | 9:00 AM PDT
Government and national security agencies face a defining moment in AI adoption. Mission outcomes depend on fusing vast repositories of unstructured data with high-performance AI engines inside secure, accredited enclaves. The Broadcom Data and AI Portfolio (BDAP) integrates Broadcom’s AI, data, and security software with VMware Cloud Foundation®, providing a model-agnostic toolkit for hardened private AI. BDAP brings AI to the mission, avoiding public cloud data movement, reducing costs, and eliminating egress fees. Rather than piecemeal software, BDAP consolidates these elements into a single platform. What you will learn: – How BDAP brings model-agnostic AI and inference to secure enclaves – Strategies for maintaining sovereign data control from core to edge – How a unified platform simplifies lifecycle orchestration
Speakers:
Siva Edaichamy, Solutions Architect, Broadcom
Alex Mershon, Account Director, Broadcom
What Is MCP and Why Does It Matter to VMware Cloud Foundation Administrators? [APPB1629LV]
Tuesday, Sep 1 | 9:00 AM PDT
As Model Context Protocol (MCP) becomes the industry standard to connect AI agents to enterprise data, VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF) admins must host these new apps. This session explains MCP’s role as the open-standard connector between AI models and agents. We will explore how MCP eliminates integration complexity, letting agents securely access databases, APIs, and file systems without custom “glue code.” In this session, you will learn: • MCP fundamentals: A simple breakdown of hosts, clients, and servers. • App platform + infrastructure governance for MCP: How Broadcom uses VMware Tanzu® Platform to control MCP-connected services, preventing “wandering agents” from unauthorized data access. • Practical prep: Steps to align your infrastructure for autonomous agents Join us to understand how Tanzu Platform on VCF transforms MCP into a governed engine for autonomous enterprise agents.
Speakers:
Morgan Fine, Product Manager, Broadcom
Adib Saikali, Distinguished Engineer, Broadcom
0 Code Agents: From AGENTS.md to Running App on VMware Tanzu Platform [APPB1669LV]
Tuesday, Sep 1 | 10:00 AM PDT
What if deploying a production AI agent on your private cloud looked exactly like deploying any other app—same push, same bindings, same guardrails, same data-locality guarantees? In VMware Tanzu® Platform 10.4, it does. The new agent buildpack turns an AGENTS.md file and a manifest into a running agent with a single cf push. The same cf bind-service workflow your developers already know wires it to a platform-hosted large language model (LLM) via the AI services tile, and to tools via the MCP gateway—no bespoke plumbing, no data leaving your private cloud. You get unified prompt, tool-call, and token-level observability in the dashboards you already use. We will demo it live: push, bind, and watch an agent do real work—grooming a backlog, cross-referencing tickets, pulling in external research—all from a cold start, zero code written.
Speakers:
Nick Kuhn, Applications Marketing Engineer, Broadcom
Build an Infrastructure—Over Lunch—That Developers Want to Use [APPB1356LV]
Tuesday, Sep 1 | 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM PDT
Building a modern app platform is notoriously difficult, especially when balancing the needs of microservices and new AI agents with enterprise security. Virtual Infrastructure (VI) admins and platform teams often face a choice: spend months stitching together a complex DIY ecosystem of tools, or find a better way. In this session, we show you how to deliver a complete App Platform as a Service (PaaS) on your private cloud using VMware® Tanzu Platform 10.4 and VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF) 9. Discover how to provide a predictable, self-service experience that developers actually want to use, while maintaining the governance and compliance your enterprise requires. See how to manage IaaS, CaaS, and PaaS from one place and walk away knowing how to provide the “path to production” for your app teams—all before your lunch break is over.
Speakers:
Chris McClanahan, Senior Manager of Product Management, Broadcom
Darin Zook, Product Marketing Engineer, Broadcom
Extend Your Private Cloud into an AI-Ready Data Powerhouse [APPB1355LV]
Wednesday, Sep 2 | 9:00 AM PDT
As AI agents drive a surge in demand at the data tier, relying on the public cloud makes controlling costs increasingly difficult. VMware Cloud Foundation solves this with a unified storage and data platform that pairs vSAN with comprehensive data services—including relational databases, data lakehousing, messaging, and streaming—delivering fast, governed data access for applications and agents. This session provides an approach for optimizing total cost of ownership via secure open source data engines and workload-specific vSAN policies, while leveraging automation. Learn how unified data services on VCF can simplify your operations while delivering the agility and AI-ready data your business requires.
Speakers:
Ivan Novick, Product Management, Tanzu Data Services, Broadcom
Junchi Zhang, Director, Product Management, Broadcom
From Frontier Models to Private AI Agents: The Tanzu Harness on VMware Cloud Foundation [INVB1058LV]
Wednesday, Sep 2 | 11:00 AM PDT
When your agent runs on someone else’s cloud, you are not just outsourcing compute—you are outsourcing judgment. That control lives in the harness—how an agent retrieves data, reasons, and acts. Today, that harness is increasingly delivered as a managed service by the frontier AI labs. In regulated environments, that is a non-starter. This session presents a blueprint for running a full agentic stack inside your boundary on VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF). We will show how to deploy private AI agents using VMware Cloud Foundation® Private AI Services, VMware Tanzu® Platform, VMware Tanzu® Data Intelligence, Symantec®, Layer7 API Gateway, and Automic® Automation. Through a live multi-domain scenario, you will see agents operate in an air-gapped environment—fusing signals and producing explainable outcomes. You will leave with a concrete architecture for deploying regulated AI agents.
Speakers:
Siva Edaishamy, Solutions Architect, Broadcom
Stop Building, Start Vending: Deep Dive into VMware Tanzu and VMware Cloud Foundation 9 [APPB1357LV]
Wednesday, Sep 2 | 11:00 AM PDT
Automation is often a mask for complexity. When you build a DIY platform, you do not just manage the apps—you manage the “plumbing” and the automation that sustains it. But what happens when that custom code breaks? In this technical deep dive, we show how VMware Tanzu® Platform 10.4 and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9 eliminate this plumbing through native integration. We will examine the mechanics of delivering on-demand runtimes for microservices and agents, focusing on how VCF’s infrastructure layer surfaces resources directly into the Tanzu control plane. Learn to configure integrated services and provide developers instant access to models and backing services without manual provisioning. Stop managing automation debt and see how a pre-integrated platform ensures a secure, scalable environment for any modern workload.
Speakers:
Oren Penso, Global Field CTO, Broadcom
Chris McClanahan, Senior Manager of Product Management, Broadcom
Building and Running Enterprise-Ready AI Agents [INVB1683LV]
Wednesday, Sep 2 | 12:00 PM PDT
AI agents are ready for production, if your platform is. This session reviews a VMware reference architecture for enterprise agentic AI. This is a fully integrated stack where VCF provides GPU-virtualized infrastructure, VKS hosts AI middleware, Tanzu Platform manages MCP servers, agent runtimes, and application code, and vDefend enforces zero-trust security at the hypervisor layer. Then we go live. Using the Tanzu Agent Buildpack, we’ll deploy a working agent with cf push, wire it to OAuth-authenticated MCP servers, and demonstrate how platform-managed harnesses let developers ship compliant, production-grade agents fast.
Speakers:
Corby Page, Principal Solutions Architect, Broadcom
Inside the Coding Agent-Powered SDLC: Adapting Your Infrastructure [INVB1690LV]
Wednesday, Sep 2 | 2:00 PM PDT
What happens when coding agents outnumber developers 2:1, creating workloads three times larger with non-stop development cycles? The coding agent-powered SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) is the future, but autonomous agents have fundamentally different infrastructure needs than humans. Agents operate at machine speed, radically changing resource consumption, provisioning, and system stress. The virtual infrastructure (VI) admin must explore and understand these new infrastructure impacts. This session offers a practical guide to evolving your infrastructure: • Agentic SDLC in action: Live demo of autonomous coding agents’ unique footprint and requirements • Infrastructure implications: How agent workloads impact traditional infrastructure and daily operations • Evolving with VMware Cloud Foundation® and VMware Tanzu®: A guided approach to adapting your stack for the AI era
Speakers:
Frank Denneman, Distinguished Engineer, Broadcom
Adib Saikali, Distinguished Engineer, Broadcom
And these are just a few of the amazing sessions from the VMware Tanzu team. To view the rest of the sessions during VMware Explore 2026 this week, you can check them out below.
