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INTERMEDIATE

Own Your Agent: Building a Fully Sovereign Stack

This talk explains how to build production-grade autonomous agents without closed-source APIs by using open-source models, secure deployment, and full control over data and infrastructure. It covers customizing open-weight models and adding observability with OpenTelemetry and Langfuse to avoid vendor lock-in.

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Henry Lagarde
Henry LagardeMistral AI
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As we transition from conversational chatbots to autonomous agents, relying on closed-source APIs has become a major bottleneck for production-grade applications. To build reliable agents that handle critical tasks, developers need absolute control over their models, their data, and their infrastructure.

In this talk, we will discover why Open Source is the only viable foundation for truly autonomous agents, offering the freedom to customize, the power to secure your data, and the independence to build without boundaries.
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Henry Lagarde

Henry Lagarde

Mistral AI

France

Software Engineer at Mistral AI, one of the world’s leading open-source AI companies. Henry contributed to numerous open-source projects to explore the world of tech.
Worked at Criteo, a leader in retargeting and retail media, and Datadog, the global leader in observability and alerting.