Harness Engineering: How to Build Software When Humans Steer, Agents Execute — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI

Presenters Ryan Lopopolo Vibhu Sapra Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Harness Engineering: Building Software with Humans Steering and Agents Executing 🚀 The world of software development is undergoing a seismic shift, and at the forefront of this revolution is Ryan Lopopolo, a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI. For the past nine months, Ryan has been living and breathing a new paradigm: building software exclusively with agents. He’s a self-proclaimed “token billionaire,” not in the financial sense, but in his belief that everyone should have access to the power of AI models to accomplish complex tasks. ...

April 16, 2026 · 6 min

Building pi in a World of Slop — Mario Zechner

Presenters Mario Zechner Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 🚀 Beyond the Slop: Why I Built Pi and Why We Need to Slow Down Hey there, I’m Mario Zechner. Recently, I’ve been wearing a t-shirt covered in paid ad space to raise money for charity, but when I’m not being a human billboard, I’m thinking about the “tragedy” of modern AI development. We are currently living in a world of slop, and I’m here to tell you how I built Pi to escape it. ...

April 16, 2026 · 5 min

Zoom CPO on Rebuilding the Future of Work with Agentic AI

Presenters Carlos González de Villaumbrosia Jeff Smith Source Product School podcast 🚀 The Future of Work: How Agentic AI is Rewriting the Productivity Playbook In the fast-paced world of enterprise tech, few companies have navigated the turbulence of the last five years as dynamically as Zoom. From its COVID-era hypergrowth to its current evolution into an agentic AI-first platform, Zoom’s journey offers a masterclass in product strategy. I sat down with Jeff Smith, Chief Product Officer at Zoom, to discuss how the company is moving beyond the “video call” to own the entire work life cycle. ...

April 15, 2026 · 4 min

Model Context Protocol(MCP) Authorization for Enterprise Use Case With Keycloak - Yutaka Obuchi

Presenters Yutaka Obuchi Source KeycloakCon Europe 2026 Unlocking Enterprise AI: How Keycloak and ID Jot Streamline Authorization 🚀 In today’s increasingly complex digital landscape, enterprises are leveraging AI agents to automate tasks and interact with a multitude of tools. But how do we ensure these agents have secure and efficient access to the resources they need, especially within the strict confines of an enterprise environment? Yutaka Obuchi, a dedicated Keycloak contributor and software engineer at Hitachi, dives deep into this critical question, exploring the challenges and presenting an elegant solution using Keycloak and the emerging ID Jot standard. ...

April 13, 2026 · 7 min

Lightning Talk: Airgap-native Identity Management: Lesso... Sebastian Łaskawiec & Michał Szynkiewicz

Presenters Sebastian Łaskawiec Michał Szynkiewicz Source KeycloakCon Europe 2026 Navigating the Unseen: Deploying Keycloak in Air-Gapped Environments 🚀 In the high-stakes world of national security and critical infrastructure, systems need to be as invisible as a submarine in the deep or as impenetrable as a nuclear power plant. This is the realm of air-gapped environments – systems physically disconnected from external networks, prioritizing security above all else. But how do you deploy and manage complex software, like the identity and access management solution Keycloak, in these isolated spaces? ...

April 13, 2026 · 6 min