Adam Azzam
Appearances by year
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)
- AWS re:Invent
- MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon
- QCon
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 2026 | AWS re:Invent 2026 | AWS re:Invent | lightning talk | Don't build agents, build environments instead (sponsored by Modal) as Modal The hard part of background agents is the background, not the agent. We'll talk about the common design that software factories have converged to and why…Show lessThe hard part of background agents is the background, not the agent. We'll talk about the common design that software factories have converged to and why building environments for agents is still hard. | |
| Jun 29, 2026 | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | speaker | Don’t build agents, build environments as Modal | |
| Apr 2, 2026 | MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 | MCP Dev Summit / AGNTCon + MCPCon | speaker | Call Now, Fetch Later: MCP Tasks and SEP-1686 as Prefect MCP made agents portable. But it also made them fragile—every tool call lives or dies by its network connection, and long-running work has been a liability…Show lessMCP made agents portable. But it also made them fragile—every tool call lives or dies by its network connection, and long-running work has been a liability we've all been working around in different (incompatible) ways. SEP 1686 introduces native task orchestration to the protocol. This talk covers... | |
| Jun 13, 2023 | QCon New York 2023 | QCon | speaker | LLMs in the Real World: Structuring Text with Declarative NLP as Prefect Building machine learning pipelines to extract structured data from unstructured text is a popular problem within an unpopular development lifecycle. |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornelia Davis | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Abhishek Hingnikar | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Alex Hancock | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Anil Nadiminti | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Aparna Dhinakaran | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Carlos Santana | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Chris Swan | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Clare Liguori | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Dominik Kundel | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Harald Kirschner | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Ido Salomon | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Jan Curn | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Jeremiah Lowin | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Jess Wang | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Jim Clark | 2 | — | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.