Annie Talvasto

AI agents are hot—but deploying them in production is often an exercise in frustration. In this talk, we’ll show how to run open source LLM agents (like LangChain, Autogen, or CrewAI) reliably on Kube… See more

AI agents are hot—but deploying them in production is often an exercise in frustration. In this talk, we’ll show how to run open source LLM agents (like LangChain, Autogen, or CrewAI) reliably on Kubernetes using tools built for real-world operations: Crossplane for infrastructure orchestration, Ray for distributed compute, Prometheus for observability, and a few homegrown tricks to glue it all together. We’ll walk through the architecture, automation patterns, and gotchas that emerge when you move from demo to deployment. Expect a live demo of a fully autonomous AI agent operating in a cloud-native stack—planning, executing, and scaling tasks with minimal human intervention. If you’re tired of “just works on my laptop” AI and want to see how agents fly in real production airspace, this talk is for you. Sobre Annie Talvasto: Annie Talvasto is an award-winning international technology speaker and leader. She has spoken at over 100+ tech events worldwide, including KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and Microsoft Build & Ignite. She has been recognized with the CNCF Ambassador, Azure & AI Platform MVP awards. She has co-organized the Kubernetes & CNCF Finland meetup since 2017. In the past, she has also served as a track chair for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, Program Chair for Secure AI Summit (powered by Cloud Native) and hosted Cloud Native Live, a weekly livestream by CNCF, for over 3 years. Show less