Session

The Agentic Stack: A Founder Conversation on the Open Infrastructure Powering AI Agents

Overview

ExperienceIn Person
TrackArtificial Intelligence & Agents
IndustryEnterprise Technology
TechnologiesDatabricks Agents
Skill LevelIntermediate

The next great platform shift isn't a model. It's the infrastructure that turns models into autonomous action. Just as cloud produced a layered stack of open technologies, the agentic era is producing its own, defined right now, in the open.

 

This panel brings together the founders building each layer: how agents are constructed, how they collaborate as teams, how context is processed and made agent-ready, and how they're governed at scale. Together, they'll discuss what the "Linux moment" for agents looks like and what it means when the most consequential software in an enterprise writes itself.

 

The big questions:

  • Where does the open platform stack land in next 2-3 years - a thriving ecosystem or a consolidated stack?
  • What happens when agents become the primary consumers of infrastructure, not humans?
  • When does multi-agent coordination actually outperform a single well-built agent and when is it just complexity for complexity's sake?
  • Who owns accountability when an open-source agent takes an autonomous action on production data?
  • How do agents process context differently than humans? What are the implications on how context must be processed and exposed through tool interfaces?

Session Speakers

Hanlin Tang

/CTO - Neural Networks
Databricks

Harrison Chase

/LangChain

Jerry Liu

/Co-founder and CEO
LlamaIndex

Joao Moura

/CEO
CrewAI, Inc