QCon AI New York 2025

Session

The Agent Execution Gap: Why Most Agent Systems Don't Go Beyond POC (And How Yours Can)

December 16–17, 2025 · The New York Academy of Medicine

Tuesday Dec 16 / 11:30AM EST · Room 21, 2nd Flr

Speaker

Viren Baraiya

Founder/CTO @Orkes.io. Creator of Netflix Conductor

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Abstract

Agents shine in POCs but fail in production. This session shows how reliable, observable orchestration bridges the gap by embedding agentic behavior into business workflows, and how MCP gateways turn internal services into MCP tools so your APIs are agent ready without glue code.

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Orkes is a modern agentic orchestration platform for automating and scaling complex business processes across agentic AI, human-in-the-loop tasks, and microservices. We empower teams to build AI agents, design workflows, and orchestrate APIs with enterprise-grade security, reliability, and deep observability. Trusted at Netflix scale with open-source roots, Orkes is built for reliability and scale from the ground up