The talk archive.

Every AI Company Is Accidentally Building a Bank — Dor Sasson, Stigg

Dor Sasson

Consumption-based pricing · Architecture · Finance

Design at the Speed of Adjectives — Paul Bakaus, Renaissance Geek, Inc.

Paul Bakaus

Everyone Gets A Software Company — Benjamin Guo, Zo Computer

Benjamin Guo

RAG Needs a Map: Using GraphRAG to Retrieve Connected Context — Nyah Macklin, Neo4j

Nyah Macklin

RAG and knowledge systems · Vector search · Agent engineering

GTM Engineering: The Technical Bits — Everett Berry, Clay

Everett Berry

Deploying AI Inside a Bank Is Not an Engineering Problem — Paden Gayle, Applied AI Engineers

Paden Gayle

Safety and governance · Customer discovery · Forward-deployed engineering

We're the bottleneck, but we don't have to be — Ido Salomon, AgentCraft

Ido Salomon

Agents in Orbit: Workflows, Not Autopilot — Eduardo Simon & Javier Casal, Flywire

Eduardo Simon · Javier Casal

Agent orchestration · Code review and verification · Agent permission systems

An AI Research Agent That Runs Your Experiments — Tim Sweeney, Weights & Biases

Tim Sweeney

The End of the Static Screen: Architecting Intent-Driven UX — Gus Iwanaga, commercetools

Gus Iwanaga

Productionizing LLM Gateways: Architecture, Tradeoffs and Hard Lessons — Kanish Manuja, Twilio

Kanish Manuja

Zero Cold Starts: Serverless AI Agents on Akamai Functions — Thorsten Hans

Thorsten Hans

Infrastructure and deployment · APIs, MCP, and protocols · Agent engineering

Scheduled Agents, Dreaming and Q&A: Claude Managed Agents (Part 3 of 4) — Anthropic

Gabe Cemaj · Priyanka Phatak

Agent orchestration · Scheduled tasks · Agent memory

From coding to Knowledge work agents — Karan Vaidya, Composio

Karan Vaidya

Advanced Workshop: Mastering AI Observability — Doug Guthrie, Braintrust

Doug Guthrie

Observability and reliability · Evals · Agent engineering

Why 99% Accurate Browser Agents Still Fail — Derek Meegan, Browserbase

Derek Meegan

Agent engineering · Long-horizon tasks · Evals

How long can your skills be before your agent forgets what you told it? — Laurie Voss, Arize AI

Laurie Voss

AI Evals for Cross-Functional Teams — Nachiket Paranjape & Swaroop Chitlur Haridas, DoorDash

Nachiket Paranjape · Swaroop Chitlur Haridas

The Data Context Layer for Agents — Yoni Michael & Brandon Callender, Typedef

Yoni Michael · Brandon Callender

Context graphs · Coding agents · Program analysis

The Agent Behind the Curtain: Building the Oz Cloud Agent Platform — Safia Abdalla, Warp

Safia Abdalla

From 36% to 100%: How Self-Improving Agents Write Their Own Skills — Rafal Wilinski, Runlayer

Rafal Wilinski

Skill improvement loops · APIs, MCP, and protocols · Tribal knowledge

Skill issue: stop deploying vision language models, use them with Skills — Merve Noyan, Hugging Face

Merve Noyan

The State of AI in Software Development: Data from 400+ Orgs — Justin Reock, DX

Justin Reock

Coding and developer tools · Developer workflows and testing · Observability and reliability

Build a Platform and Watch It Burn — Michael Forrester, Accenture & Whitney Lee, Datadog

Michael Forrester · Whitney Lee

Safety and governance · Agent red teaming · Agent permission systems

One Operator, Many Drones: Inside Skydio's Autonomy Stack — Suchet Bargoti, Skydio

Suchet Bargoti

How We Got LLMs to Recommend Our Open Source Library — Christopher Burns, Inth

Christopher Burns

Turning My Obsidian Vault Into a Local AI Engineer — Filip Makraduli, Superlinked

Filip Makraduli

Document pipelines · APIs, MCP, and protocols · Infrastructure and deployment

Beyond RAG: A Relational Context Engine That Cuts Token Burn — Unblocked

Peter Werry

RAG, context, and search · Coding agents · Agent efficiency

Training Taste — Thais Castello Branco, Taste Labs

Thais Castello Branco

YOLO Mode, Safely: MicroVM Sandboxes for Any Agent — Rowan Christmas, Docker

Rowan Christmas

Safety and governance · Coding agents · Coding harness

Why We Deleted Our MCP Server and Rebuilt It — Abhi Arya, Reducto

Abhi Arya

Agent engineering · APIs, MCP, and protocols · Human-in-the-loop validation

Keyword Search Is Dying. Is Your Catalog Ready for AI Agents? — PayPal

Nixon Dinh

Agentic commerce · Agentic search · Search intent and contextual meaning

Agent Memory Is Solved. Agent Learning Isn't. — Karthik Ranganathan, Yugabyte

Karthik Ranganathan · Heather Downing

Agent engineering · Information and coordination · Knowledge curation

Routing LLM Inference in Production: From Engine Signals to Policy — Qianru Lao & Lu Zhang, OpenAI

Qianru Lao · Lu Zhang

How AI Agents Pay: Checkout in ChatGPT and Google AI Mode — Sam Parsons, PayPal

Sam Parsons

Finance · APIs, MCP, and protocols · MCP Apps

AI Agents Are Just Distributed Systems Now — Salman Munaf, TikTok

Salman Munaf