QCon AI New York 2025

Session

Taming Agentic AI: Lessons from Streaming Architecture for Scalable, Safe Systems

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

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

Speaker

Tyler Akidau

Chief Technology Officer @Redpanda Data

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Abstract

Agentic AI is everywhere—but deploying it safely and reliably inside production systems is another story. The move from clever demos to autonomous agents that operate within enterprise infrastructure introduces new risks and architectural challenges. This talk explores how event-driven, streaming architectures can provide the resilient foundation agentic AI demands—enabling observability, scalability, and control in systems that evolve faster than their human overseers. Attendees will learn practical design principles for integrating AI agents into real-world systems without sacrificing reliability or maintainability.

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 Redpanda is a simple, powerful, and cost-efficient streaming data platform that is compatible with Kafka® APIs while eliminating Kafka complexity.