QCon AI New York 2025

Session

The Modern Application Stack: Orchestrating Workflows, Agents, and Governance for Adaptive Systems

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

Tuesday Dec 16 / 01:20PM EST · Room 21, 2nd Flr

Speaker

Otavio Souza

Lead Solutions Engineer @OutSystems

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Abstract

Modern applications behave less like codebases and more like distributed, adaptive systems. In this talk, we’ll break down the architectural stack behind that shift: workflow orchestration, autonomous agents, scalability patterns, runtime governance, and experience design that responds to continuous change.Through a live build-and-run demo, we’ll dissect how these components integrate—how agents coordinate state, how workflows evolve without re-deployment, how governance constraints are enforced automatically, and how UX adapts intelligently at runtime. We’ll then stress-test the system with dynamic scenario changes to surface trade-offs, failure points, and architectural decisions you should consider. You’ll leave with a practical blueprint for designing systems that remain resilient and adaptive even as features, data, and operational conditions shift.

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