END OF YEAR EVENT

2025 in review: Hype, hope, and the things you’ll need to remember into 2026

December 10, 2025

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST

In this webinar we’ll do a quick rewind of 2025 so that you can look forward to 2026 with confidence.

What to expect

As 2025 comes to a close, what do you remember the most in IT? Is it the hype of AI and autonomous network management? The hope of automations finally giving you some work/life balance? Or the many many instances of outages, breaches, and Microsoft updates?

In this webinar we’ll do a quick rewind so that you can look forward to 2026 with confidence.

Additionally, attendees will get a preview of PDQ Connect features coming early in 2026!

What you'll learn

What Windows 10 end of life teaches us about future releases
Whether AI’s early hype is worth the short-term investment
What core sysadmin skills are recession-proof
Which lessons ripped from the news can make for an easier new year

Speakers

Greg Wood

Host, PDQ

Greg partners closely with customers to make webinars practical, helpful, and worth their time.

Brock Bingham

Senior Content Engineer, PDQ

Brock is a professional breaker of things turned sysadmin. After 15 years fixing what he broke, he now teaches others how to avoid his mistakes, and why backups are a sysadmin's best friend.

Andrew Pla

Community manager, PDQ

Andrew loves automation, PowerShell, and building tools that last.