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Architecting for Agents: Beneath the Loop Hosted by Julie Amundson Senior AI Infrastructure Consultant, ex-Googler, ex-NetflixerFrom the same track
Wednesday 18 November
10:35 Ballroom BC Session Platform Engineering for Agents Mark Khuzam Senior Software Engineer @Netflix, Previously Led the Consumer Web Platform Team @OpenTable Agentic tools amplify what’s already in the codebase. The agent works through your code, your architecture decisions, and the documentation around them. It follows what it can read and guesses at the rest. 11:45 Ballroom BC Session Avoiding Prompt Debt: Building Resiliant AI Apps that Grow With the Ecosystem Drew Breunig CEO & Cofounder CMPND, Editor of O'Reilly's "Context Management Handbook", Writer on AI & Data at dbreunig.com, Previously Data Science & Product Lead PlaceIQ Details coming soon. 13:35 Ballroom BC Session AI/ML Infrastructure for Agents Details coming soon. 14:45 Ballroom BC Session Dreams on Paper: How Agents Learn from Experience Brian Douglas Co-Founder & CEO @Paper Compute Co., Previously Founded Open Sauced and Led Developer Advocacy @GitHub Agents produce high-fidelity traces of everything they do. But traces alone don't produce memory. This talk introduces three primitives for turning session history into something actionable: 15:55 Ballroom BC Session Continuous Testing and Feedback Loops for Non-Deterministic Systems Details coming soon.