Harness Engineering with Amazon + FIFA โฝ๏ธ Semis Screening: ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ x ๐ฆ๐ท
โAgentic AI is moving quickly from impressive demos to real production systems. But reliable agents require more than strong models and clever prompts and tools.
โ๐งฐ They need a harness. Harness Engineering is hottest ๐ถ๏ธ topic of the 2026.
โฝ๏ธ FIFA World Cup Semi Final happening on the day so we will wrap up the main event before 8 PM and ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ England are playing and we are live streaming the semi final from the event venue.
โ๐ซ Please bring a valid photo ID with you for venue entry as it's mandatory requirement.
โA production agent harness is the engineering layer around the model: runtime, tools, memory, identity, permissions, security boundaries, evaluations, observability, debugging, deployment workflows and feedback loops. It is the difference between an agent that works in a demo and an agent that can safely operate in the real world.
โJoin London Agentic AI hosted by Amazon for a deep technical evening on Harness Engineering: the practical discipline of building, deploying, testing and operating production-ready AI agents.
โThis event will explore how agent builders design the full operating environment required for reliable agentic systems.
What Weโll Cover
โWhat Harness Engineering means and why it matters now
โHow production agents differ from prototypes
โAgent runtime, tool access, memory and identity patterns
โSecure execution, sandboxing and enterprise system integration
โEvaluation, tracing, observability and debugging for agents
โReal-world lessons from building and operating agent harnesses
โSpeakers and Talks
โ๐๏ธ Talk 1: Agents FC: Harness Your Agents Into a Winning Team
Speaker: Anisha Malde : Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon
โAbstract: Multi-agent orchestration is powerful, but without a defined harness around it, it's a black box. Agents route dynamically, hand off silently, and hallucinate. Harness engineering is about designing the scaffolding around your agents: the environments they work in, how context gets delivered, how outputs get verified, how plans get captured, how the agents coordinate, and where & when humans can intervene.
What if you could organise & coach your agents like a World Cup football team? "Agents FC" is our analogy for harness engineering and orchestration as a football team. Each agent role maps to a tested orchestration pattern: the Captain coordinates routing, the Playmaker retrieves context, the Striker delivers the output, the Defenders run mid-flight verification, and the Goalkeeper catches failures at the output boundary before they escape. And then there's the harness: how they pass the ball between each other, what tools each one carries on the pitch, how the team learns from a missed shot, and how every move gets logged so you, as the manager, can change formation mid-task to restructure the orchestration, make substitutions when a strategy isn't working, or call a "half-time team talk" to review progress.
โ๐๏ธTalk 2 : Pydantic AI Harness Engineering
Speaker: Samuel Colvin: CEO of Pydantic AI
โAbstract: Coming soon
๐๏ธ Talk 3 : Omnigent: A meta-harness for AI Agents
Speaker: Sultan Al Awar : Solutions Architect at Databricks
โAbstract:ย Coding agents are everywhere, but enterprises face fragmented tooling, security risk, and hard choices of models and harnesses. This talk introduces Omnigent, a Databricks open source meta-harness that enables agent composition, enforces contextual policies that keep security and cost in control, and supports real-time human collaboration across live agent sessions.
Bio: Solutions Architect at Databricks, working with Digital Natives Businesses in energy, health-tech and insurance industries.
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Agenda
โAs FIFA semi-final on the same day we are planning to wrap up the event on the same day.
โ18:00 โ 18:30
Registration, networking, food and refreshments
โ18:30 โ 18:40
Welcome from London Agentic AI, Amazon
โ18:40 โ 19:00
Title: Intro to Harness Engineering
๐๏ธ Anisha Malde : Intro to Harness Engineering at Amazon
โ19:00โ 19:20
๐๏ธSamuel Colvin : Pydantic AI Harness
โ19:20 โ 19:40
๐๏ธ Sultan Al Awar : Omnigent: A meta-harness for Al agents
19:40 โ 20:00
Main Event end & prepare for the FIFA โฝ๏ธ Semi Final Preparation England ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Vs Argentina ๐ฆ๐ท live streaming ..๐ฅ
โ20:00 โ 20:45 : Watch England ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Vs Argentina ๐ฆ๐ทuntil Half -Time
โ20:45 - 9AM ( Half time and Walk to Pub Downstairs)
Informal pub networking and FIFA Semi Final watch at downstairs pub. The Light Bar & Dining ..
โWho Should Attend?
โThis event is for AI engineers, agent builders, cloud architects, platform engineers, CTOs, technical founders, product engineering leaders and enterprise teams working on real-world agentic AI systems.
โThe session is designed for practitioners who want to understand how to build agents that are not only impressive, but reliable, observable, secure and production-ready.
โAbout London Agentic AI
โLondon Agentic AI is the UKโs original and highly technical community for agent builders, AI engineers, researchers, founders and technical leaders building production-grade agentic systems. Our events are high-signal, implementation-focused and designed for people building real systems.
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Venue Entry Requirement
โPlease bring a valid photo ID with you for venue entry. This can be a passport, driving licence, or another government-issued photo ID. The venue security team may need to verify your ID before allowing entry.
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Sponsor
โThis event is sponsored by Amazon London. The venue, food and drinks provided by Amazon.
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