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Speaker

Niko Matsakis

Senior Principal Engineer @Amazon, One of the Lead Designers of the Rust Programming Language, Creator of Symposium (symposium.dev), Project Director on the Rust Foundation Board,

Niko Matsakis is one of the lead designers of the Rust programming language and co-lead of the Rust language design team. He is a Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon and a Project Director on the Rust Foundation Board. He is the creator of Symposium (symposium.dev), an open-source platform for agent mods built on the Agent Client Protocol.

Session

There's a Mod for That: Opening Up AI Agent Development

AI agents are moving amazingly fast — but they could be moving even faster. Today's agents are monolithic: one vendor controls the model, the tools, and the context pipeline. That works, but it leaves an enormous amount of potential on the table.

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