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17-18 September | Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Thursday, September 17
 

10:15 CEST

Sponsored Workshop: Total Recall: Agent Memory and Harness Engineering - Ignacio Martinez, Oracle
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:15 - 11:50 CEST
In this hands-on workshop you'll build a working autonomous agent from the harness up, in a notebook, then see it live in a full working web application and leave with one that can write and run its own automations. You'll implement every surface area yourself: a set of predefined tools, persistent memory through the Oracle AI Agent Memory package, orchestration with LangChain and LangGraph, and LLM access through OCI GenAI Service, composing the full set of Oracle primitives into one harness you understand end to end.

Most teams assemble that harness from a dozen disconnected services: one store for vectors, another for state, a separate reranker, a bolt-on memory layer. We take the opposite approach, on a single unified memory core. The organizing principle is optionality by default: you shouldn't have to choose your memory substrate up front. With Oracle AI Database you get file system and database memory in one place, embedding models and rerankers running inside the database kernel, and every retrieval strategy an AI workload needs without leaving the core.

And consolidating onto one core is what keeps the whole thing tractable. You know the drill: a production harness has you holding all those moving parts in your head at once, and most of your attention goes to keeping them in sync rather than improving the agent. Pull that sprawl into a single core and the cognitive load drops. You get to think about what the agent does, not where its state lives. That's the difference between controlling your harness and renting its pieces.
Speakers
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Ignacio Martinez

AI Developer Advocate, Oracle
Nacho Martínez is an AI Developer Advocate at Oracle, specializing in AI agent memory and generative AI. He contributes to Oracle’s AI Agent Memory package and is a co-author of the Agent Memory course, helping developers build more capable and context-aware AI agents.
Thursday September 17, 2026 10:15 - 11:50 CEST
G106 + G107 (1st Floor)

12:00 CEST

Sponsored Workshop: The Buzz-Word Is Collaboration - Morgan Martin, Tyler Longwell, Wes Billman & Bradley Axen, Block
Thursday September 17, 2026 12:00 - 13:35 CEST
Most teams made a person the API between their agents and everyone else: copying the output into chat and pasting the reply back into the harness. This hands-on workshop shows the alternative: put the agents where the work is. We use Buzz, Block's open source, channel-driven workspace where people and AI agents share conversations, repositories, and reviews.

We begin in the middle of a live project, with four people and a swarm of agents working across shared channels and code. Then we rewind and bring the room in. Attendees will join a shared Buzz community, work with an agent, form channels with other participants, and practice delegating, steering, reviewing, and coordinating work as it happens. Along the way, we examine how Buzz approaches portable identity, scoped capabilities, signed work, and collaboration across different agent runtimes and models.

By the end, the room itself becomes part of the workflow: everyone contributes code, assets, and reviews to one shared project in a Buzz-hosted Git repository. Bring a laptop. Leave with practical experience running many agents in one shared workspace, where the whole team can see, steer, and use them.

Pre-work: Please download:  https://buzz.xyz/
Speakers
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Bradley Axen

Creator & Maintainer of Goose; Tech Lead, Block
Brad is Tech Lead for Data and Machine Learning at Block. He built and maintains Block’s open source AI agent framework that automates repetitive tasks for more than 1,000 engineers in the company. He also leads company-wide initiatives to optimize data and ML workflows and evolve... Read More →
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Wes Billman

Engineer, Block
Wes Billman is a software engineer at Block on the AI Substrate team, building the platforms where humans and AI agents work side by side. As a core engineer on Buzz, Block's agent-native communication platform, he ships across the full stack — from the Rust relay and event protocol... Read More →
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Morgan Martin

Design Lead, Block
Morgan Martin is a design lead and builder at Block, working at the intersection of infrastructure, intelligence, and human workflows. Using agentic coding as her primary design method, she has shipped end-to-end product surfaces across Block's agent ecosystem, including goose, Berd... Read More →
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Tyler Longwell

Engineer, Block
Tyler Longwell builds Buzz at Block, a messaging platform where people and AI agents work in the same channels. He is a core contributor to goose, Block’s open source agent, and built the Slack-homed agents Block runs internally. His background in platform infrastructure and infosec... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 12:00 - 13:35 CEST
G106 + G107 (1st Floor)

16:20 CEST

Workshop: Governing AI Agent Actions: MCP and Beyond - Shannon Williams & Chris Urwin, Obot AI
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:20 - 17:55 CEST
Enterprise adoption of the Model Context Protocol is accelerating, and MCP has become the primary way agents connect to enterprise tools and data. But MCP is only part of how agents act. Agents also run CLIs, execute Skills, and generate code that calls APIs directly. Governing MCP well matters. Governing everything else agents can do matters just as much.

Building MCP servers and writing Skills isn't particularly hard. The real challenges are deciding which actions agents are allowed to take, controlling who can take them, and proving it all later. These are architectural questions, and they need answers before agents scale across an organization.

In this workshop, we will:
1.⁠ ⁠Show how to control agent actions with policies that apply across MCP servers, CLIs, Skills, and agent-generated code — including allowlists, access control by users and groups, and human-in-the-loop approvals.
2.⁠ ⁠Explain why enterprises need managed registries for MCP servers and Skills, and how admin review and approval change the trust model.
3.⁠ ⁠Work through audit and compliance requirements: capturing complete logs of agent and tool activity, exporting to enterprise storage, and generating reports.
4.⁠ ⁠Demonstrate how to discover shadow AI — unmanaged agents, MCPs, and Skills already running in your organization — and how to block them or bring them under management.
5.⁠ ⁠Look at token usage and spend visibility by agent, user, and group.
You'll leave with a clear picture of the architectural decisions ahead of you, and a better sense of what your security team will require before signing off on scaling AI agents across your organization.

Speakers
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Shannon Williams

President, Obot AI
I am the President and co-founder of Obot AI, and have been building open source software for the last 20 years. Prior to starting Obot, I co-founded Cloud.com (creator of CloudStack) and Rancher Labs (creator of Rancher, k3s, Longhorn, etc). I was a board member of the CNCF for 4... Read More →
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Chris Urwin

VP of Field Engineering, Obot AI
Chris Urwin is VP of Field Engineering at Obot AI and a veteran engineering leader. With deep hands-on experience in cloud‑native platforms, Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, and developer tooling, he builds and scales global technical teams. Chris bridges product, engineering, and... Read More →
Thursday September 17, 2026 16:20 - 17:55 CEST
G106 + G107 (1st Floor)
 
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