On 2025-11-18, this session covers agentic AI concepts, autonomous reasoning and task execution, and their impact for business leaders and practitioners. It includes a demo of the Strands framework to build AI agents at scale, with deployment in AWS Cloud using AgentCore services.

AI agents are a new class of software applications that use AI models to reason, plan, act, learn, and adapt in pursuit of user-defined goals with limited human oversight. Building AI agents that can reliably perform complex tasks has become increasingly accessible thanks to open source frameworks like Strands Agents. However, moving from a promising proof-of-concept to a production-ready agent that can scale to thousands of users presents significant challenges.

Through hands-on demos, we'll build a system from scratch and progressively deploy it to production using the comprehensive enterprise-grade services provided by AgentCore. You'll learn to implement key production capabilities, including secure session isolation, persistent memory, identity management, and real-time observability. The learnings can be applied to any framework and model, hosted on Amazon Bedrock or elsewhere.

Generative AI has incredible potential, but turning that potential into real-world impact requires more than just a proof of concept. Join Matheus Guimaraes for a journey into what it takes to bring generative AI into production — from adoption and development to testing, deployment, and observability. Along the way, you’ll see how new patterns like agentic AI, open-source frameworks like Strands, and AWS services like AgentCore are reshaping the way we build with AI.