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.

Jun 28, 2026

Building an Autonomous Engineering Org - Angie Jones, Agentic AI Foundation

Angie Jones details Block's journey in transforming its engineering organization into an autonomous one using AI agents. She outlines a five-stage AI maturity model, the strategic implementation of an 'AI Champions' program, and the technical steps taken to make repositories AI-ready and enable seamless agent delegation directly within developer workflows. The talk covers challenges in scaling multi-agent parallelism, including code review bottlenecks and resource management, and the development of an orchestrator ('Builder Bot') and 'Company World Model' to achieve full autonomy. It concludes with a critical reflection on the ethical implications of achieving such high levels of AI-driven automation.

May 20, 2026

Building MCP Before MCP Existed: Inside Despegar's Sofia Agent

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.

May 19, 2026

What Breaks When You Build AI Under Sovereignty Constraints - Bilge Yücel, deepset GmbH

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.

May 18, 2026

MCP vs ADK: How Modern AI Agents Connect and Work Together

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.

May 14, 2026

Building AI Agents That Survive Production

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.