Conference Program 2026
Agent Optimization & Deployment
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Devcontainers for AI/ML Workflow Optimization
Steven Pousty — Red Hat, Principal Community Architect
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Designing Fast & Cost-Efficient Agents: The Power of Caching
Jen Agarwal — Redis, Senior Principal Product Manager
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From Localhost to Real World: Engineering Production-Ready Agentic Systems
Victor Calderon — Intuit, ML Engineer
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Disaggregated Intelligence: Scaling AI Agents with Dynamo and Kubernetes
Avinash Ahuja — NVIDIA, Hyperscale Solution Architect
Vivek Kolasani — NVIDIA, Solution Architect
Akhil Sai Devunoori — Expedia, Software Developer
Uday Reddy Malgireddy — USAA, Sr. Decision Scientist
Agentic Applications – Industry Use Cases
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Rebuilding Search for the AI Era
Mallika Rao — Netflix, Engineering Manager
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The Hidden Layer of AI Adoption: Content Design for Internal Marketing Agents
Cordelia Chadwick — Autodesk, Principal Content Designer
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Building Agentic AI Workflows with xAI on Vertex AI
Manai Mohamed Mortadha — Netflix, Senior AI Engineer
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NVIDIA Hackathon – Agents for Impact
Carter Abdallah — NVIDIA, DevTech Engineer
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From Copy-Paste to Composition: Building Agents Like Real Software
Jake Mannix — Walmart Global Tech, Tech Fellow
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Building AI Agents with Azure AI Foundry
Jared Rhodes — EPAM Systems, Principal Consultant
Lamar Rhodes — The Home Depot, Staff Software Engineer
Agentic Strategy & Leadership
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Agentic AI Playbook: A Pragmatic Strategy for Developing and Deploying Agentic AI in the Enterprise
Yuvraj Singla — Google, SWE Manager, Google Ads
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Beyond Orchestration: An Open Source Architecture for Agentic Systems
Ashok Prakash — Oracle, Senior Principal Engineer
Evals & Observability
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Pattern to Reduce Hallucinations from LLMs
Aaron Otto — Wells Fargo, Executive Director of Insights
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Agentic AI Under Siege: Verifiable Safety Envelopes for Micro-LLMs and MCP
Vaishnavi Gudur — Microsoft, Senior Software Engineer
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Evaluating the Unpredictable: Observability for Production-grade LLM Agents
Vrinda Bhatia — Block, Senior ML Engineer
Sujata Sridharan — Bolt Financial Inc, Senior Software Engineer
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Evaluating LLMs under Concept Drift in Production
Siddarth Ranganathan — Microsoft, Director, Data Science
Manisha Arora — Google, Data Science Leader
Multi-Agent Architectures
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Rethinking CI & CD for Agentic Workflows
Shibashis Mishra — Adobe, Senior Engineering Manager
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From Pipelines to Agents: Intelligent Self-Managing Data Products on Kubernetes
Alexander Chernov — AstraZeneca, Associate Principal Data Engineer
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Architecting AI Systems: Hidden Infrastructure Bottlenecks Behind Enterprise-Scale AI
Santosh Appachu Devanira Poovaiah — NVIDIA Corporation, Senior SoC Verification Engineer
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Crafting an Enterprise-Scale Agent Mesh
Stanislav Stolpovskiy — GridDynamics, Search and AI Architect