QCon AI New York 2025

Session

Reference Architecture for Agentic AI

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

Tuesday Dec 16 / 10:20AM EST · Room 21, 2nd Flr

Speaker

Tyler Jewell

CEO & President @Akka and a four-time DevEx CEO

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Abstract

The agentic AI landscape is facing an architectural crisis due to framework fragmentation, bottlenecking the creation of truly reliable autonomous systems. 

This session pivots from individual agent design to the critical challenge of systems architecture and coordination, presenting the essential blueprint and reference architecture for agentic AI – apps that infuse AI and continuously build trust. We will detail how agentic systems are designed and built and how a future global control plane enables disparate, multi-framework agents—operating across diverse networks, clouds, and regulatory regimes—to be dynamically orchestrated and reliably composed into collaborative teams. 

The session will dive into the core engineering hurdles, including cross-framework durability protocols, state management in a distributed world, and providing the necessary compliance and audit trails, offering a vendor-neutral, blueprint-level look at the architecture required for enterprise-grade Agentic AI.

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Akka is used to develop resilient, low latency, large scale, cloud-to-edge distributed applications.