GUIDE · CODING · #1433
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.
KEY POINTS
- 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.
- The program highlights concrete production practices and controls for agentic systems, a key operational challenge as agents gain the ability to act in customer-facing systems.
WHY IT MATTERS
The program highlights concrete production practices and controls for agentic systems, a key operational challenge as agents gain the ability to act in customer-facing systems.