Why Do We Need an Agent Framework?

Friday Oct 3

14:15 –

15:00

TAP1, Main Stage

Aren’t LLMs smart enough to solve our problems directly? Aren’t MCP tools all we need to allow them to solve complex problems?

The founder of Springsource Rod Johnson has a new Open Source project: Embabel; an agent framework, initially for the JVM, that is intended not just to play catchup with Python agent frameworks, but to leapfrog them.

Rod Johnson

Building the future of agent frameworks at Embabel

Keynotes

Thursday Oct 2 @ 13:00

Things You Thought You Didn’t Need To Care About That Have a Big Impact On Your Job

Holly Cummins

Friday Oct 3 @ 16:30

Getting Buy-In: Overcoming Larman's Law

Allen Holub

Thursday Oct 2 @ 09:00

AI, Corporate Responsibility, and Democratic Legitimacy – Is DevOps the Answer?

Joanna Bryson

Friday Oct 3 @ 09:00

Beyond Sonic Pi: Tau5 and the Art of Coding with AI

Sam Aaron

Wednesday Oct 1 @ 17:15

13 years of cryptocurrency de-anonymization (and counting)

Sarah Meiklejohn

Friday Oct 3 @ 13:00

Beyond Chat: Bringing Models to The Canvas

Lu Wilson

Wednesday Oct 1 @ 09:00

Connection is Everything

Ken Hughes

Thursday Oct 2 @ 17:15

The Way the Future Was

Kevlin Henney

James Lewis

Wednesday Oct 1 @ 13:00

Gen AI Grows Up: Building Production-Ready Agents on the JVM

Rod Johnson