The day before AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe takes over Amsterdam, the city’s AI and cloud-native communities are warming up with something more intimate. On Wednesday, September 16, 2026, the AgentCon Preday Meetup — Agentic AI in the Wild: Securing What Runs in Production brings together the people actually putting autonomous agents into real systems.
I’ll be there, and if you build or operate AI agents in production, this is the room you want to be in the night before the main conference.
Why this meetup matters
AI agents have crossed the demo boundary. They write code, open pull requests, touch dependencies, and run inside CI/CD pipelines. The interesting question is no longer “should we use agents?” — it’s “can we trust what they ship?”
That’s the thread this evening pulls on. The conversations are the ones that rarely fit a conference talk:
- What breaks when an agent holds write access to your dependencies — the supply-chain attack surface a junior engineer never had
- Encoding your team’s standards as machine-readable guardrails — turning tribal knowledge into something an agent can be forced to obey
- What changes when agentic systems run at cloud-native scale — context, governance, and failure modes that only show up under load
No vendor pitches. Just practitioners comparing notes on systems that are live today.
The essentials
- When: Wednesday, September 16, 2026 — doors open 18:00 CEST
- Where: Amsterdam, Netherlands — venue to be announced
- Host: Dana Fine
- Communities: Java Community × CNCF × Codex Community × Qodo Dev Community
- Theme: Security, Quality, and Scale
What’s on the agenda
Doors open at 18:00 local time for drinks and networking, and the program runs until closing remarks at 20:35:
- 18:00 — Doors open, drinks and networking
- 18:30 — Welcome and opening remarks
- 18:40 — Nnenna Ndukwe, Developer Relations at Qodo
- 19:00 — Break, food and networking
- 19:15 — Panel: Agentic AI in the Wild
- 19:55 — Liran Tal, Senior Director of Developer Relations at Snyk
- 20:15 — Speaker TBA
- 20:35 — Closing remarks
Build in time to actually talk to people between sessions — the networking breaks are where the real work happens.
Speakers to watch
The lineup pairs platform-engineering voices with security practitioners:
- Liran Tal — Senior Director, Developer Relations, Snyk. His session sits at the intersection of developer experience and the security reality of agentic systems.
- Nnenna Ndukwe — Developer Relations, Qodo. Qodo’s angle is continuous, AI-powered code review — quality gates that move at agent speed.
- Panel: Agentic AI in the Wild — moderated by Dana Fine, with Brian Vermeer (Java Community), Carlos Mestre del Pin (Microsoft), Alessandro Stefouli-Vozza (Cloud Native Community), and a speaker TBA from OpenAI. Expect concrete lessons on context management, governance, production workflows, and failure modes — not talking points.
Should you go?
If you’re in Amsterdam for AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe the next two days, this Preday is the cheapest networking you’ll do all week — a smaller room, a no-pitch rule, and the people who are furthest along in actually running agents in production. Show up early; the doors open at 18:00.
You can register on the official AgentCon Preday Meetup event page on Luma.
This is a preview — I’ll be back with a full recap and photos once the event happens on September 16. In the meantime, save the date.
