​Second Opinion by Alan

​Everyone has an agent demo. Very few have agents running in production, at scale, without surprises. For the first edition of Second Opinion, Alan's new tech event series, we're digging into what it actually takes to get there, with the people building the infrastructure and the guardrails.

​Talks

​🌥️ Cloudflare: Léo Arsenin, Solutions Engineer

​Billions of Agents Are Coming and We Don’t Have Enough CPUs for Them

Billions of AI agents will create unprecedented demand for compute. This talk explores why today’s VM- and container-based infrastructure may not have enough CPU capacity—and how isolates provide a smaller, faster, and more efficient way to run agent workloads.

​🛡️ Rippletide: Yann Bilien, Co-founder & Chief Scientist

​Let Agents Take Consequential Actions Autonomously – Building Runtime Controls into the Agent Harness

​Most agents today aren’t autonomous, or they ask for human review at every turn. Enforcing business rules in the harness lets agents act autonomously within clear boundaries, with human review reserved for exceptions. We’ll demo it on a real production customer-support agent using Cloudflare’s agentic stack.

​🩺 Alan: Camille Marini, Engineering Lead & Matthieu Delsart Data

​How Alan automated 40% of its customer support and our plan to reach 60% by the end of the year

​We'll present the key bricks we built to scale from 0 to 40% of automated contacts and our main challenges to reach 60%. After this presentation, you'll know everything about end-to-end evaluation, decentralized agent ownership and how we think about the future of our agentic architecture to integrate it with other AI systems.

​Agenda

• ​6:00 PM — Doors open

• ​6:30 PM — Talks + Q&A

• ​8:00 PM — Drinks & networking

​About our speakers

​Léo Arsenin helps startups and scale-ups build on Cloudflare, the platform powering ~25% of the Internet, and now one of the leading places to run AI agents at the edge.

​Yann Bilien is co-founder & Chief Scientist of Rippletide, building the reasoning-first foundation that makes enterprise AI agents deterministic, auditable, and far less prone to hallucinations.

​About Rippletide

​Rippletide is the action runtime for AI agents. It checks consequential actions against business rules and evidence before execution, enabling agents to act autonomously within clear boundaries, route exceptions to humans, and explain every decision.

​About Second Opinion

​Second Opinion is Alan's tech event series: meetups and hackathons all year round, bringing together builders from startups and scale-ups. Come get a second opinion from the builders solving the hardest problems in tech.