Summary
The gap between an agent demo and an agent you'd put in front of real systems is enormous. The moment an agent stops answering questions and starts acting — logging into services, calling APIs, touching data, kicking off workflows, spending money — three questions show up that never mattered for a chatbot: who is this agent, can the systems it touches trust it, and what is it actually allowed to do? In this roundtable we trade hard-won lessons on identity, trust, and control for agents in production — whether they're operating inside your walls on internal services and data, or out in the world on systems built to keep programmatic traffic out. Bring the problem that's currently blocking you from going to production — the goal is to leave with approaches you can actually try, not just a list of what's hard.
Host
Ankit Agarwal
Chief Technology Officer @ Skyfire
Ankit is the CTO of Skyfire where he designed and launched the KYAPay protocol, and Skyfire’s platform for Agentic Commerce. Previously, he rebuilt the Financial Crime and Fraud Management Platform at Zepz. Leveraging software engineering, data engineering, and machine learning, this platform supported millions of monthly users across the WorldRemit and Sendwave brands. Prior to that he architected and launched the Credit Card Platform at Papaya Pay. His earlier career spans over a decade of entrepreneurial, leadership, engineering and technical product management experience including authoring several patents.
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