Webinar Description
Key Takeaways
- Explores governance strategies for managing decentralised automations and AI-generated code across enterprise environments
- Features a case study from Headspace demonstrating practical implementation of centralised automation oversight
- Addresses shadow IT challenges arising from rapid AI adoption and citizen development
- Designed for IT leaders, security architects, and automation engineers in medium to large enterprises
- Examines the balance between enabling innovation velocity and maintaining operational risk controls
Introduction
The proliferation of AI-assisted development tools has fundamentally changed who can build software within organisations. Business units now create applications, automations, and agents at unprecedented speed, often without centralised IT oversight. This phenomenon—sometimes called “wild code”—presents significant governance challenges for enterprises attempting to maintain security, compliance, and operational stability while fostering innovation.
Taming Wild Code with Tines 3B: The Headspace Story is a webinar examining how organisations can establish visibility and control over decentralised automations without stifling the agility that makes them valuable. The session combines a product overview of Tines 3B with a practical case study from Headspace, the digital health company, offering attendees concrete strategies for addressing modern IT governance challenges.
About This Event
This one-hour virtual webinar is hosted by Tines and features insights from Headspace’s implementation of the Tines 3B platform. The format combines product demonstration with real-world application, providing attendees with both conceptual understanding and practical guidance on deploying automation governance at scale.
The Shadow IT Challenge in the Age of AI
Traditional shadow IT concerns centred on unauthorised SaaS applications and departmental databases. The current landscape presents a more complex challenge: AI tools have democratised development capabilities, enabling employees across business functions to create sophisticated automations, workflows, and lightweight applications without formal IT involvement.
While this democratisation accelerates digital transformation and reduces bottlenecks, it creates blind spots for IT and security teams. Unmonitored automations may access sensitive data, create integration dependencies, or introduce operational risks that remain invisible until something fails. The challenge lies not in preventing this innovation but in establishing governance frameworks that provide visibility without imposing friction that drives development further underground.
Centralised Visibility and Governance
The webinar explores how Tines 3B approaches this governance challenge through centralised visibility mechanisms. Rather than attempting to restrict who can build automations, the platform focuses on providing IT and security teams with comprehensive oversight of what exists across the organisation, how it operates, and what risks it may present.
Headspace’s implementation serves as the primary case study, illustrating how a digital health company—operating in a regulated industry with significant data protection requirements—manages the tension between rapid innovation and compliance obligations. The session examines specific strategies for cataloguing distributed automations, enforcing governance policies, and mitigating operational risks while preserving the speed advantages that motivated decentralised development in the first place.
Who Should Attend
This webinar is designed for technology leaders and practitioners in medium to large enterprises, particularly those experiencing rapid AI adoption or digital transformation initiatives. IT managers and directors responsible for infrastructure stability will find relevant content on operational risk management. Security architects and professionals concerned with compliance and data protection can explore governance frameworks for distributed automation environments. Automation engineers and leads seeking to scale their practices while maintaining oversight will benefit from the practical implementation insights. Product managers involved in internal tooling decisions may also find value in understanding how governance platforms integrate with existing technology stacks.
Balancing Innovation and Control
The fundamental tension the webinar addresses—enabling teams to build quickly while maintaining appropriate safeguards—reflects a broader challenge facing enterprise IT organisations. Overly restrictive governance drives innovation into ungoverned channels, while insufficient oversight creates unacceptable risk exposure. The session positions effective automation governance not as a constraint on innovation but as an enabler of sustainable, scalable development practices across the enterprise.