Aug 08, 2026

Realtime multiplayer, automation, and you! — Idan Gazit, GitHub

Idan Gazit, head of GitHub Next, discusses the future of AI in software development, moving beyond personal productivity to enabling group collaboration and advanced automation. He introduces two prototypes: "Agentic Workflows" for autonomous, secure code upgrades and task execution using natural language, and "ACE," a real-time collaborative development environment designed to integrate AI into team workflows, addressing the 95% of development work beyond mere typing.

Jul 13, 2026

From fork() to Fleet: Designing an Agent Sandbox Cloud — Abhishek Bhardwaj, OpenAI

This talk by Abhishek Bhardwaj from OpenAI details the architectural considerations for building secure and scalable AI agent sandboxes in the cloud. It explores runtime isolation technologies (from basic process execution to containers, GVisor, and microVMs), emphasizing the superior security of hardware-virtualized microVMs. The speaker then highlights the critical need for persistent storage, outlining explicit (copy-on-write snapshots) and always-on (tiered block storage) solutions as the next major unlock for agent capabilities. Finally, it touches on orchestration challenges for fleet-level management, including low-latency sandbox creation and snapshot-driven scheduling.

May 10, 2026

Two Roads to Durable Agents: Replay vs. Snapshot — Eric Allam, Trigger.dev

This talk explores the architectural shift required to build durable, long-running AI agents. It argues against traditional replay-based durability, proposing a two-part solution: treating LLM context as a durable, append-only log and managing the compute state (memory, files, processes) with OS-level snapshot and restore, implemented efficiently using Firecracker microVMs.