AI & Machine Learning

AgentCon - London 2026

AgentCon - London is part of the AI Agents World Tour, a global series of one-day conferences designed for developers building the future with AI agents. The event features deep-dive talks from AI pioneers and industry leaders, technical workshops on agent development and deployment, live demos of open-source frameworks, and networking with a global develope…

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14Speakers
6Sponsors
12On the bill · sessions
16Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at AgentCon, in alphabetical order.
Albert-Jan Schot
CTO & MVP · Blis Digital
Alexandru Turcu
AI Engineer · TNO
Barbara Forbes
Azure Architect @ Zure | Azure MVP | GitHub Star · Zure
Bert Jan Schrijver
CTO · OpenValue
Claartje Barkhof
Machine Learning Researcher · TNO
Daniel Laskewitz
Principal Cloud Advocate · Microsoft
Douwe van de Ruit
Lead GenAI Cloud Europe · Capgemini
Eduard van Valkenburg
Senior Software Engineer on the Semantic Kernel team · Microsoft
Hari Rangarajan
Developer Advocate · Solace
Jesse Wellenberg
Software Engineer · Xebia
Marco Casalaina
VP of Products, Azure AI · Microsoft
Olaf Molenveld
Technology advisor · CircleCI
Oleksandra Bovkun
Developer Advocate · Databricks
Stuart van der Lee
Software Engineer · Sopra Steria
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
AvePoint
Global AI Community
LSBU
MaivenPoint
Microsoft
Singapore Global Network
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Agenda

Selected from 12 sessions on the bill.
  • 09:45–10:45

    The Evolution of Agents at Microsoft and Everywhere

    Agents are changing fast. They are moving from basic chat tools to systems that can plan work, use integrations, hand tasks to other agents, and operate inside real apps and workfl…

  • 11:00–11:25

    Cascading Failures in Multi-Agent Systems: Tracing and Evaluating Multi-Agent Deployments

    Multi-agent systems shift the evaluation challenge from individual model outputs to the integrity of the coordination layer. When a supervisor agent delegates a task with flawed co…

  • 11:30–11:55

    Coding smarter with GitHub Copilot

    Are you still wondering what the point is of custom instructions and skill files? Or how to use them in the best way? Come by and let's find out through live demo's. In this sessi…

  • 12:00–12:25

    Agent Framework v1 and what's next!

    Since a few weeks Microsoft Agent Framework has been released as a stable package with the v1.0 release, in this session Eduard, one of the core python developers, will talk about …

  • 13:15–13:40

    Agentic DevOps for the Real World

    In this session, “Agentic DevOps for the Real World,” we’ll cut through the noise of the hype cycle to explore how ML and AI are actually reshaping the Software Development Life Cy…

  • 13:15–14:40

    Building the 80%: Architecting Agentic AI with Event-Driven Design and Solace Agent Mesh

    This hands-on workshop shows you how to build autonomous Agentic AI systems that communicate in real time across platforms and environments. You will build and run agent-based sys…

  • 13:45–14:10

    GPT-NL: Lessons learned from training the first lawful Dutch LLM from scratch

    In this effort, NFI, Surf and TNO joined forces to develop the first Dutch-centric large language model (LLM) that complies with the European AI Act, trained from scratch on Surf’s…

  • 14:15–14:40

    Bringing 750 years of Amsterdam history to life

    Accessing Amsterdam’s historical archives once required specialized expertise and on-site visits — a slow, expert-only process. Now, large language models orchestrated through mult…

  • 15:00–15:25

    Context is all you need: building reliable long-running agents

    If you have used an LLM agent, you probably have noticed that at the start of a new conversation the agent is smart, helpful and to the point. But as the conversation goes on it st…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 16 companies show up — and 1 bet on three roles at once?

Sixteen companies. one are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
1All threespeak · spons · exh
5Sponsoringsponsor only
10Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Microsoft

Speakers by seniority

21% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite214%
  • VP-level17%
  • Manager / Lead214%
  • Engineer · IC750%
  • Research / Science17%
  • Advisor / Investor17%

Of 14 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01MicrosoftSp3V
  2. 02AvePointSp
  3. 03Global AI CommunitySp
  4. 04LSBUSp
  5. 05MaivenPointSp
  6. 06Singapore Global NetworkSp
  7. 07TNO2V
  8. 08Blis Digital1V
  9. 09Capgemini1V
  10. 10CircleCI1V
  11. 11Databricks1V
  12. 12OpenValue1V
  13. 13Solace1V
  14. 14Sopra Steria1V
Sponsors by tier
unspecified6
100% of 6
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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