Sessions

Every session of Agentic Engineering Days Zurich 2026 — talks, hands-on sessions, lightning talks and the panel. Times and rooms are published in October.

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Talk · 25 min

"YOU MUST NOT ssh!" and Other Stories from Building Our SRE Agent

Everyone is building SRE agents. Most of them are barely junior sysadmins in a trench coat — useful for "how…

David Pech David Pech Wrike
Lessons Learned & Anti-Patterns · AI Observability & Production · AI for Legacy & Refactoring
Talk · 25 min ★ Spotlight

21 million exceptions a day: getting Bedrock and AgentCore right

BLP Digital's agentic platform resolves more than 21 million exceptions a day across 550+ enterprise customers in…

Sven Beck Sven Beck BLP Digital Marco Kuendig Marco Kuendig copebit
Multi-Agent Architectures · AI Security · Enterprise AI Adoption & Governance
Lightning Talk · 7 min

A Practical Guide to Fast and Private LLMs

A set of practical tips and tools for hobbyists and teams to run their own LLM in a private and sustainable setup…

Lena Fuhrimann Lena Fuhrimann bespinian
Local AI, Inference & Open Models
Hands-On Session · 75–90 min

ADK Crash Course - From Beginner To Expert

You're about to step into the exciting world of AI agents. Forget simple chatbots that just answer questions…

Abdel Sghiouar Abdel Sghiouar Google Cloud
Agent Frameworks · Multi-Agent Architectures · MCP & Agent Protocols
Hands-On Session · 75–90 min

Agent on the Wire: Looking Inside an AI Coding Agent

What actually happens between giving an AI coding agent a task and receiving working software? In this hands-on…

Vincent G Vincent G letsboot
Lessons Learned & Anti-Patterns · Agent Frameworks · AI Evals & Testing · AI Observability & Production · AI Coding Tools
Talk · 25 min ★ Spotlight

Agentic AI at Migros Online: Autonomous Engineering Agents and Conversational Shopping

AI agents are arriving at both ends of e-commerce at once. Inside product engineering organizations, they are…

Sven Scheffel Sven Scheffel Migros Online Gabriel Dinant Gabriel Dinant Migros Online
Lessons Learned & Anti-Patterns · MCP & Agent Protocols · Software Architecture with AI · Enterprise AI Adoption & Governance · Industry & Vertical Use Cases
Talk · 25 min

Agents Speak Protocol: Why Standards Are the Real Infrastructure of AI

Every major computing revolution eventually standardized how things talk to each other. Before TCP/IP, networks…

Stefano Maestri Stefano Maestri IBM Alessio Soldano Alessio Soldano IBM
Agent Frameworks · Multi-Agent Architectures · MCP & Agent Protocols
Talk · 25 min

AI & Agility: Is Spec-Driven Development Bringing Back Waterfall? And How to Move Beyond It

With the rise of LLMs, a new promise has emerged: software development driven by specifications. Multi-agent…

Baptiste Macé Baptiste Macé Arolla
AI-Assisted Coding Practice
Talk · 25 min

Beyond Prompts & Models: Evolving Enterprise Agentic Systems

As organizations experiment with enterprise agentic systems, discussions often center on models, frameworks, and…

Manisha De Manisha De Swisscom
Lessons Learned & Anti-Patterns · Agent Frameworks · Multi-Agent Architectures · MCP & Agent Protocols · RAG & Knowledge Retrieval · AI Coding Tools · Software Architecture with AI
Hands-On Session · 75–90 min

Build Your Own Production-Ready Agentic Apps

Most agentic AI demos stop at "hello world." In this lab, attendees will build a real agentic application using…

Kevin Dubois Kevin Dubois IBM Dimitris Andreadis Dimitris Andreadis Red Hat / IBM
Agent Frameworks · Multi-Agent Architectures
Talk · 25 min

Building Authorization for Agentic RAG Systems

We’ve recently seen the rise of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. With the proliferation of AI…

Sohan Maheshwar Sohan Maheshwar AuthZed
RAG & Knowledge Retrieval · AI Security · Enterprise AI Adoption & Governance
Panel Discussion · 25 min

Can We Trust Autonomous Agents? (Panel Discussion)

Panel discussion. How much autonomy can we hand to agents in production — and what has to be in place before we…

Maxim Salnikov Maxim Salnikov Microsoft Jose Luis Latorre Millas Jose Luis Latorre Millas Swiss Life Serena Sensini Serena Sensini TheRedCode Markus Leutwyler Markus Leutwyler VisionPilot
AI Evals & Testing · AI Observability & Production · AI Ethics & Responsibility
Talk · 25 min

Caveman and the Empty Room: Designing Agents for an Audience of Zero

One Saturday night, I published a Claude Code skill that made an agent talk like a caveman. Three weeks later…

Julius Brussee Julius Brussee Caveman
Lessons Learned & Anti-Patterns · Multi-Agent Architectures · AI-Assisted Coding Practice
Talk · 25 min ★ Spotlight

Close the Lid: Coding with AI Agents from Your Phone

We've all done it: speed-walking through an airport, laptop cracked open, praying the build finishes before…

Sebastian Witalec Sebastian Witalec Namespace
AI Coding Tools · Computer-Using Agents & Automation
Talk · 25 min

Deploying Agents at Scale: What Enterprise Adoption Actually Looks Like

I spend my days inside enterprise AI rollouts — standing up the platforms, watching what agents do at scale, and…

Michael Forrester Michael Forrester Accenture
Lessons Learned & Anti-Patterns · AI-Assisted Coding Practice · Enterprise AI Adoption & Governance · AI Strategy & Value Realization
Lightning Talk · 7 min

From a RAG Demo to a RAG System

Everyone's building agents right now and almost every agent that looks something up is doing RAG underneath. When…

Richa Dinesh Tamhane Richa Dinesh Tamhane amnis
Lessons Learned & Anti-Patterns · RAG & Knowledge Retrieval
Talk · 25 min ★ Spotlight

From Copilot to the Dark Factory

AI coding tools make developers faster, but they do not automatically make organisations ship faster. PR volume…

Pini Reznik Pini Reznik re:cinq
Multi-Agent Architectures · Spec-Driven & Agentic SDLC · Enterprise AI Adoption & Governance
Talk · 25 min ★ Spotlight

FSI Transformation at Scale: Sovereignty, Compliance & Production Realities

Every financial institution aspires to become 'AI-native.' They promise hyper-automated engineering, autonomous…

Sergiu Petean Sergiu Petean Atlassian
Hands-On Session · 75–90 min

Hands-on Spec-Driven Development

In this lab, participants will learn how to develop software efficiently and systematically using Spec-driven…

Simon Martinelli Simon Martinelli martinelli.ch
Lessons Learned & Anti-Patterns · Spec-Driven & Agentic SDLC
Talk · 25 min

Human-in-the-Loop Is You: A Guide to Working With Multiple Coding Agents

"Human-in-the-loop" is supposed to mean a person makes the judgment calls a model can't. In practice, when Claude…

Oleksandra Bovkun Oleksandra Bovkun Databricks
Lessons Learned & Anti-Patterns · AI Coding Tools
Hands-On Session · 75–90 min

Just Build — Orchestrating your Agents with Codex

A hands-on lab guided by OpenAI: see how you can orchestrate your agents with Codex. Follow along step by step on…

Abbas Tutcuoglu Abbas Tutcuoglu OpenAI Arsenii Gavrilenko Arsenii Gavrilenko OpenAI
Agent Frameworks · AI Coding Tools · AI-Assisted Coding Practice
Talk · 25 min

Let's build our own Claude Code

Coding agents can feel like magic: point one at a codebase, ask it to fix a bug, and it reads files, edits code…

Max Gfeller Max Gfeller Sutro
MCP & Agent Protocols · AI Coding Tools · AI-Assisted Coding Practice · Software Architecture with AI
Talk · 25 min

Migration or migraine: What no one tells you about using LLMs

We had a task stuck forever in our backlog. A task so simple, yet so tedious that our team just kept postponing…

Warren Parad Warren Parad Authress
Lessons Learned & Anti-Patterns · Spec-Driven & Agentic SDLC
Talk · 25 min

OCR at Swiss Post: The Case for Small Language Models

Everyone reaches for a frontier LLM by default — and then the bill, the latency, and the data-privacy questions…

Huriel Reichel Huriel Reichel Swiss Post Oliver Hofmann Oliver Hofmann Swiss Post
Local AI, Inference & Open Models · Software Architecture with AI · Enterprise AI Adoption & Governance
Talk · 25 min

Reachy mini: Giving a body to AI

Large language models can reason, generate code, and hold conversations. But they remain trapped behind screens…

Andrés Marafioti Andrés Marafioti Hugging Face
Local AI, Inference & Open Models · Voice & Multimodal Agents · Industry & Vertical Use Cases
Lightning Talk · 7 min

Running Secure Agents at Scale

Building secure and scalable agents at scale is hard. From multi-tenancy and noisy-neighbor risk to tool access…

Carlos Sanchez Carlos Sanchez Adobe Alex Carol Alex Carol Adobe
Lessons Learned & Anti-Patterns · Agent Frameworks · AI Security · AI Community, Open Source & Education
Lightning Talk · 7 min

Securing MCP in the Enterprise: OAuth, Token Exchange, and Real-World CI/CD Integration

This talk shares a hands-on experience integrating the Model Context Protocol (MCP) into an enterprise CI/CD…

Valentin Delaye Valentin Delaye ELCA
MCP & Agent Protocols
Talk · 25 min

Something New from NVIDIA

Ricardo Silveira Cabral joins us from NVIDIA with something new and awesome — topic and abstract follow closer…

Ricardo Silveira Cabral Ricardo Silveira Cabral NVIDIA
Talk · 25 min ★ Spotlight · aws

Specs first, code later (or how I build software in the AI-DLC era)

As AI-driven software development became part of our lives, writing specs before touching anything code-related…

Alessandra Pasini Alessandra Pasini AWS
Talk · 25 min

The Agentic Lab Factory: How I Stopped Writing Labs and Started Reviewing Them

For years, getting new contributor SMEs to write labs was an uphill battle. The learning curve was too steep, the…

Raphaël Pinson Raphaël Pinson Isovalent
AI Evals & Testing · AI-Assisted Coding Practice
Talk · 25 min

The next frontier - agentic collaborative environments.

AI-agentic developer tools like Claude Code or GitHub Copilot CLI have emerged as a primary way to develop…

Krzysztof Cieślak Krzysztof Cieślak GitHub Next
AI Product UX & Human-Agent Collaboration
Talk · 25 min ★ Spotlight

Tie a Metric to Every Release

AI writes more of our code every week, which means we ship a lot more than we used to. But we don't fly blind…

Matt Elwell Matt Elwell Flagsmith
Lessons Learned & Anti-Patterns · AI Observability & Production · AI Coding Tools
Talk · 25 min

Watching Agents for Trouble

Once an agent can touch a database, send email, or deploy something, the interesting question shifts from "is the…

Natalie Pistunovich Natalie Pistunovich HTW Berlin
Multi-Agent Architectures · AI Observability & Production · AI Security
Talk · 25 min

We Rolled Out GitHub Copilot… How Do We Prove It Helps?

AI-assisted development tools like GitHub Copilot are being adopted quickly. Many organizations have already…

Yuliya Khadasevich Yuliya Khadasevich Xebia Liuba Gonta Liuba Gonta Xebia
Lessons Learned & Anti-Patterns · AI Coding Tools · Enterprise AI Adoption & Governance · AI Strategy & Value Realization
Lightning Talk · 7 min

Welcome Session

Doors open, coffee's poured — let's kick things off. Join Barbara and Jonas Felix, co-founders of letsboot, as…

Jonas Felix Jonas Felix Co-Founder Agentic Days / letsboot.ch Barbara Felix Barbara Felix Co-Founder Agentic Days / letsboot.ch
Talk · 25 min

When Software Stops Being Deterministic: Rethinking Engineering Practices for AI-Native Systems

For decades, we've built software around a simple assumption: the same input produces the same output. If behavior…

Susanna Wong Susanna Wong Typeform
Lessons Learned & Anti-Patterns · Multi-Agent Architectures · AI Evals & Testing · AI Observability & Production
Talk · 25 min

You Can't Ctrl-Z a Robot: Coding Agents in Embedded Systems

Coding agents work well in the terminal because feedback there costs nothing. Compiler errors, failing tests…

Syrian Hadad Syrian Hadad adesso Schweiz Alexander Büchel Alexander Büchel adesso Schweiz
Lessons Learned & Anti-Patterns · AI Evals & Testing · AI-Assisted Coding Practice
Talk · 25 min

Your Biggest New Customer Can't See Pixels

For decades we've argued that accessibility is the right thing to do. The argument just got a lot easier, because…

Tim Damen Tim Damen ABN AMRO
AI Product UX & Human-Agent Collaboration · AI Ethics & Responsibility

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