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QCon San Francisco 2026 program spotlights production systems for AI agents

QCon San Francisco 2026 (Nov 16–20) will feature practitioners from Airbnb, OpenAI, Netflix, Honeycomb and others discussing how to run AI agents in production, covering safeguards, verification, observability, and distributed-systems trade-offs. Sessions include Airbnb’s guardrails for a customer-support agent, OpenAI’s case study on building OpenAI Ads with coding agents, and Netflix/Honeycomb talks on storage and making systems legible to agents.