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Agentic AI, in production, without getting burned

I talk about what happens when AI meets production infrastructure, and I bring thirty years of running it to the stage: Red Hat, ThoughtWorks, AWS, KodeKloud, and now Accenture LearnVantage, where I lead AI workforce transformation. Next is the keynote at MCP Dev Summit Toronto on governing MCP for a workforce the size of a city, then KubeCon North America and Agentic Engineering Days Zurich. With Whitney Lee I run Unleash an Agent, Watch It Burn, a workshop where the room tries to make an agent break a real cluster, and co-host The AI Inevitable, one falsifiable question about AI per episode.

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MCP Dev Summit Toronto 2026 (keynote)

6 October 2026

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Deep Dive: I Let Claude Build the Entire IDP. Here's What That Actually Looks Like.

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Ignite Talk - The Day Claude Code Deleted My Cluster - A Cautionary Tale About AI Guardrails

15 May 2026

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The AI Inevitable, with Whitney Lee. Evidence-based answers to the questions everyone is asking about AI. One falsifiable question per episode, reviewed against the papers.

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Agentic Covenants

Guardrails enforced by the AI tool are bypassable. Guardrails enforced by infrastructure are not.Read the covenants