AI Agent Conference 2025


Overview

The AI Agent Conference 2025 brought together leading AI experts, senior executives, and top founders in New York City. This impactful event was designed for leaders shaping the future of autonomous artificial intelligence, offering a unique platform to connect, share ideas, and explore the next era of agentic AI. The conference featured a lineup of world-class speakers, including prominent AI technologists and top industry executives.

Hosts

  • Managing Partner of FirsthandVC

    Simon Chan

  • former Program Chair of The O'Reilly AI Conference

    Ben Lorica

Featured speakers

AI DEV

Sarmad Qadri

Building and Evaluating Production/Ready Agents in 2025

Malte Pietsch

Agentic AI Systems with Haystack & deepset - From low code to pro code

Vaibhav Gupta

LLMs in Production - How to Keep Them from Breaking

Qingyun Wu

Building Effective AI Agents with AG2

Daniel Liden

AgentOps with MLflow

Aditya Gautam

AI Agent Evaluation: Dimensions, Methods, and Challenges

Oleksandr Kuvshynov

Lessons from Running a Large-scale Agentic System to Progressively Automate Manual Workflows

Diamond Bishop

The Devops Engineer Who Never Sleeps: AI Agents @ Datadog

Sarah Wooders

Letta: Building Stateful Agents with Memory

Jesus Barrasa

Knowledge Graphs to bridge the Prototype-to-production gap for AI applications

Chang She

Agents Need More than Vector Search

Ilan Kadar

IntellAgent: The Open-Source Multi-Agent Framework for Evaluating Agentic Systems

COMMERCE & LOGISTICS

Allen Duan, Dane Atkinson

Brewing Efficiency: Odeko’s AI-Driven Distribution Revolution for Local Coffee Shops

Devang Modi, Joel Maynes

Deploying AI Agents for Advanced Manufacturing

Jeff Smith, Amit Lodha, Daniel Fenton

When AI Agents Met Customers

Gideon Mendels, Daniel Espeset, Jeremy Mumford

Shipping Agents That Actually Work: From Prototype to Production in E-commerce

Ray Grady, Jonathan Poma

The future of autonomous commerce and AI-enabled organizations: How to Prepare, Compete, and Win

Mikkel Holm

Work with AI: A Three-Layered Approach to Automation, Augmentation, and Orchestration.

Sachin Panicker

From Agents to Autonomous Enterprises - The Convergence of World Models, Action Models, and Physical AI

James Cadwallader

Introducing AX (Agent Experience) and the future of AI Driven search, discovery and commerce

Tom Petit, Roy Weiser

How manufacturers are using LLMs to navigate supply chain disruptions

Rish Gupta, Mike Van Horn, Faisal Masud

Beyond Digital: AI That Acts in the Physical World

Manu Tesone

AI-Powered Entrepreneurship: How I Built and Scaled a CPG Brand with AI

BIO & HEALTHCARE

Thomas Fuchs

Agentic AI Revolutionizing Medicine Development - From Discovery to Manufacturing

Iker Huerga

From Molecules to Medicines: How AI Agents Are Transforming Oncology Drug Development

Vaibhav Gupta

LLMs in Production - How to Keep Them from Breaking

Yin Aphinyanaphongs

Approaches for Evaluating AI Agents in Healthcare

Aman Magoon, Sal Brown, Leah Klinke

Leveling the Playing Field for America's Healthcare Providers: The Path to Adopting Agentic AI and Improving RCM Outcomes

Jeremy Schwach

Espresso Machine in a Tent

Mario Schlosser

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Peter McCaffrey

Agentic AI in Healthcare: Vision and Value on the Front Lines

Muthu Alagappan

Counsel’s AI-native clinician cockpit: agentic workflows to improve asynchronous

Jesus Barrasa

Knowledge Graphs to bridge the Prototype-to-production gap for AI applications

Eric Oermann

Multi-agent simulations of healthcare for benchmarking AI and teaching both AI and human physicians

Nassib Chamoun

How predictive and generative AI set the stage for agentic AI in healthcare

Rita Sharma, Anne Hoverson

Reimagining Member Engagement: How AI Agents are Transforming Health Plans

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Anju Kambadur

Lessons Learned: Overcoming Challenges to Scaling Agents for Generative AI Products

In Sik Rhee, Anup Menon, Shane Wey

Opportunity vs Risk Tradeoffs When Developing AI Agents for a Regulated Industry

John Nay, Joel Albarella, Sirisha Kadamalakalva

New AI Agents in Old Financial Services

Thatcher Foster

AI ChatBot 2.0

Narayana Pappu

Mind the Data Gap: Privacy/Data Challenges in Autonomous AI Agents

Jitender Jain

AI as a Strategic Asset: Building Competitive Advantage in Financial Services and Enterprises

Sumitra Ganesh

AI Agents in Finance

Bo Ren, Milton Santiago, Robin Weiss

How to sell enterprise AI into financial services

Mikaela Reyes, Nick Lachman, Vik Scoggins

AI in Fintech: Navigating Innovation and Regulation

Chris Chang

Functional Agents For Investment Research

Vasant Dhar

Systematic Long-Term Investing with the Damodaran Bot

Gautam Solaimalai

Agentic AI in Financial Services: Architecting Intelligent Systems for Trust, Compliance, and Scale

Conference Highlights

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