AI Agents
Actors for Agents: Patterns for Production AI
Tuesday Jun 2 / 01:20PM EDT
We started with the obvious stack: a prompt-chain framework, some glue code, a queue for the slow parts. It demoed beautifully.
Manju Rajashekhar
Founder & CEO @Mad Labs, Entrepreneur, Engineering Executive, Founder, Investor
Context Engineering at LinkedIn: How We Built an Organizational Context Layer for AI Agents with MCP
Monday Jun 1 / 11:30AM EDT
AI coding agents are powerful out of the box, but they don't know your company. They can't navigate your services, understand your frameworks, query your data systems, or follow your organizational processes.
Ajay Prakash
Senior Staff Software Engineer @LinkedIn
Beyond the Prototype: Scaling Framework Agnostic AI Agent Infrastructure with Ray
Monday Jun 1 / 02:30PM EDT
Building an AI agent is easier than ever. However, moving from a local notebook to a production-grade "Agent Engine" that serves large scale web services poses complex problems.
Deepak Mohanakumar Chandramouli
Senior Machine Learning Engineer @Apple, 20+ Years in Distributed Systems and Scalable Data/Compute/ML Infrastructure
Bhumik Vinodkumar Thakkar
Senior Software Engineer @Apple, Expert in Artificial Intelligence and Large-Scale Distributed Systems
Beyond Prompting: Context Engineering for Production-Grade AI
Monday Jun 1 / 10:20AM EDT
If you're building production-grade AI apps, you may know an uncomfortable truth: reliable model outputs require far more than clever prompting.
Ricardo Ferreira
Principal Developer Advocate @Redis, Expert in Distributed Systems, Databases, and Software Development, Previously @AWS, @Elastic, and @Confluent
Opening the Black Box: Critical Explainability for AI Agent Tool Selection with Kiji Inspector
Monday Jun 1 / 02:30PM EDT
AI agents that autonomously select and invoke tools are becoming ubiquitous—yet their decision-making remains a black box. When an agent chooses to query a database instead of searching the web, what internal representations drive that choice?
Hannes Hapke
Head of 575 Lab @Dataiku, Google Developer Expert for ML/AI, Member of the Google Developer Board, Previously Principal ML Engineer @Digits