Agentic Engineering & ToolingBuilding an Agent Ready Platform
This session explains how to move AI agents from demo to production using platform engineering: secure model access, agent identity, inherited guardrails, and observability for actions and cost. It shows what developers should ask for from platform teams, and what platform teams should build first.
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tools, point it at your data and watch it do something that felt impossible two years ago. The demo lands well.
Then you try to put it in front of real customers, and the questions start.
Which model are you allowed to use in production? Where do the credentials live now? What stops the agent
from calling a tool it should never touch? What does one conversation cost?
None of this is about the model. It is about the platform underneath it, and it looks a lot like the problem
developers hit when they first tried to ship containers.
This session shows what platform engineering has to offer next. Model access as a paved road, identity for
agents, guardrails you inherit instead of build, and observability that shows every step and what it cost. You will
leave knowing what to ask your platform team for, and if you are the platform team, what to build first.
Timo Salm
Timo Salm is a Principal Solutions Engineer at VMware Tanzu by Broadcom with over a decade of experience in customer-facing roles, modern applications, DevSecOps, and AI. In his roles, he ensures that the most strategic customers in the EMEA region achieve their goals with VMware Tanzu's Spring, developer platform, AI, and data products. Another essential part of his role is continuously learning through experimenting hands-on with innovations and sharing the outcomes with colleagues, customers, and the community via, for example, conferences. Before Timo joined Pivotal, which VMware and now Broadcom acquired, he worked for consulting firms in the automotive industry as a software architect and full-stack developer.