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Presentation: Zero Trust Agent Systems that Pass Audits and Still Ship

Advait Patel — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Advait Patel shares a playbook for securing AI agent systems in production. He discusses moving defense boundaries from the prompt to the tool layer, enforcing scoped workload identities, and mitigating prompt injection via tool outputs. He explains how to structure audit-ready observability and implement kill switches to protect critical data while keeping deployment fast and compliant.

By Advait Patel

Presentation: Beyond the Harness: Canvas for AI Agents

Nimisha Asthagiri — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Nimisha Asthagiri shares how applying proven product engineering and architecture principles creates a bounded canvas for AI agents. She explains how this model provides agents with bounded autonomy, continuous drift detection, and decision records to scale software development resiliently.

By Nimisha Asthagiri

Presentation: The Ladder is Missing Rungs: Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle

Alasdair Allan — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Alasdair Allan discusses empirical research from METR and Anthropic on AI coding adoption. He explains the "supervision paradox," where reliance on AI tools disrupts junior skill development, risks institutional context loss, and threatens the long-term engineering pipeline needed to oversee autonomous systems effectively.

By Alasdair Allan

Presentation: Serving LLMs at Scale: the Hidden KV Cache Advantage

Khawaja Shams — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Khawaja Shams shares a distributed systems perspective on scaling LLM inference stacks efficiently. He discusses practical strategies for optimizing GPU utilization, managing KV cache memory cliffs, leveraging tiered storage, reducing tail latency, and implementing disaggregated prefill and decode architectures to improve overall fleet performance, cost economics, and availability.

By Khawaja Shams