SPEAKERS
Practitioners and builders sharing real-world insights on agentic AI systems, distributed engineering, and what it takes to ship AI at scale.
Mic Neale
Principal Engineer
Block
What If You Never Needed an API Key Again? Building a Mesh LLM From Spare Compute
Jerome Brown
Principal Consultant
Mantel
Opening the Black Box: Tracking, Troubleshooting, and Auditing AI Agents in Production
Mal Curtis
Principal Software Engineer
NVIDIA
Why LLMs Fall for Stories (And 5 Production Patterns That Actually Stop Them)
David Curlewis
Senior Engineering Manager
Canva
You're the Principal Engineer of an Agent Squad. Not a Manager.
David Sickmiller
Principal Product Engineer
AskNicely
We built a conversational AI. Our customers built a report generator.
Darshit Pandya
Senior Principal Engineer, Platform
Serko
Intent Is Not Policy: The Two-Layer Contract for Production Agents
Josh Wulf
Technical Lead, Production Line Engineering
Camunda
Software Factories: From Success to Scale
Amir Mohtasebi
Head of Engineering Architecture
Trade Me
Lightweight Architecture Governance in the Age of AI
with Brian Wang
Brian Wang
Enterprise Architect
Trade Me
Lightweight Architecture Governance in the Age of AI
with Amir Mohtasebi
WORKSHOPS
Hands-on, half-day sessions the day before the conference — build something end to end with the people who run these systems in production.
Otto Jongerius
Senior Backend Engineer
Tempo by Forsyth Barr
Instrument your MCP server: audit, signing, and policy enforcement in half a day.
Jerome Brown
Principal Consultant
Mantel
From Concept to Control Plane: A Hands-On Guide to Microsoft Foundry Agent Service
Ricky Gummadi
Senior Solution Architect
Microsoft
AI-Powered Incident Response: A Hands-On Workshop with SRE Agents
with Igor Jovovic, Charlie Kake-White
Igor Jovovic
Senior Solution Architect
Microsoft
AI-Powered Incident Response: A Hands-On Workshop with SRE Agents
with Ricky Gummadi, Charlie Kake-White
Charlie Kake-White
Cloud Solution Architect
Microsoft
AI-Powered Incident Response: A Hands-On Workshop with SRE Agents
with Ricky Gummadi, Igor Jovovic
More workshops to be announced soon