A deep dive into Despegar's GenAI travel agent, Sofia. Explore its multi-agent architecture, the custom orchestration layer 'Chappi' built before MCP was a standard, and the strategy of decentralizing agent development across company squads to cover the entire five-phase travel arc.
Bilge Yücel explains that true AI sovereignty is a technical challenge, not just a policy issue, built on four pillars: data, model, infrastructure, and operations. This talk explores the common pitfalls of retrofitting sovereignty—from performance regressions after swapping models to discovering deep vendor lock-in when moving on-prem—and presents a checklist for building genuinely sovereign systems.
AI agents are having a moment, and understanding MCP and ADK is key to building them well. Cedric Clyburn and Anna Gutowska explain how MCP powers tool integration while ADK structures reliable multi‑agent systems 🤖. Learn when to use each to build more capable and predictable AI agents.
Haytham Abuelfutuh, CTO of Union.ai, argues that the key to production-ready AI agents is not preventing failure, but embracing it. He introduces the '3 D's' framework—Dynamic, Durable, and Defended—for building agents that can fail cheaply and recover automatically, grounded in a real-world case study of an agent system indexing over 250,000 products on Flyte.
Zach Lloyd, CEO of Warp, explains why the future of software development is moving from local, interactive agents to cloud-native, collaborative systems. He discusses the flaws in the "dev box" sandbox model, the decline of traditional SaaS interfaces in favor of "just-in-time apps," and how platforms like Warp's Oz are providing the necessary orchestration, observability, and access control for teams to effectively deploy AI agents at scale.
As the number of AI agents grows, humans become the bottleneck. This talk introduces AgentCraft, a game-inspired orchestrator that draws lessons from Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games to enhance human-agent collaboration, improve visibility, and increase agent autonomy, ultimately raising the ceiling of what's possible.