Agents After Hour: Inside AAIF
In town for AGNTCon+MCPCon Europe? Come a day early.
In collaboration with JetBrains
The night before the conference opens, the AAIF Community Amsterdam and JetBrains are hosting an evening at the JetBrains Amsterdam office focused on the what and why of the Agentic AI Foundation: its projects, working groups, and how to get involved.
The agentic AI conversation is moving fast, and most of it is happening in the open. This is a chance to meet the people doing the work, including maintainers, working group participants, and folks from member companies—and to find your own way in. That might mean contributing to a project, joining a working group, or simply understanding the landscape before two days of conference talks.
What to expect
What AI-native software engineering looks like in practice
An inside look at the AAIF, its projects, and its working groups
A panel on why people and companies participate in open foundations
Practical ways to contribute and get involved
Drinks, food, and good company
Who should come
Developers, engineers, and technical leaders who are building with agents or want to—and anyone curious about how open standards for agentic AI get made.
No AAIF membership or prior involvement is needed. All experience levels are welcome.
Schedule
17:00 — Doors open, food, drinks, and networking
18:00–18:05 — Welcome and program begins
18:05–18:35 — When Agents Become Infrastructure: AI-native engineering and why open foundations matter — Ibrahim Malik & Jake Pineda
Agents change software engineering by shifting effort beyond code generation toward structured intent, context, verification, orchestration, and judgment. Ibrahim Malik explores what AI-native engineering looks like in practice and why these changes create demand for open interfaces and shared infrastructure. Jake Pineda then shows how developers, maintainers, and companies can participate in AAIF’s growing ecosystem.
18:35–19:00 — Inside the AAIF — Alex Salkever
A closer look at the foundation’s growth, projects, and working groups—and what contributing to the AAIF means in practice.
19:00–19:10 — Short break
19:10–19:45 — Panel: Building an open ecosystem for agentic AI
A conversation about why people and companies participate, what they contribute, what they gain, and how open collaboration can shape the agentic AI ecosystem.
With:
Nick Veenhof — Director of Contributor Success at GitLab
Katherine Druckman — Head of Community and Partnership Engagement at JetBrains
Miguel Luna — Product leader focused on agentic AI observability at JetBrains
Alessandro Vozza — AI Platform Engineer at VOLT Datacenters
19:45 — Wrap and open networking
21:30 — Event closes
Meet the speakers
Jake Pineda is Head of Membership Development at the Agentic AI Foundation. He helps companies, maintainers, and individual contributors find practical ways to participate in the foundation and its open ecosystem.
Ibrahim Malik is an AI/ML engineer and the London Community Organiser for the Agentic AI Foundation. His work focuses on agentic systems, evaluation, production AI, and how software engineering workflows are changing as engineers increasingly build with AI agents. He is also an official technical reviewer for O’Reilly’s AI-Native Software Engineering by Alfonso Graziano.
Alex Salkever is Editor-in-Chief at the Agentic AI Foundation and the Linux Foundation. An author, speaker, and technology executive, he focuses on open collaboration and the adoption of emerging technologies.
Nick Veenhof leads Contributor Success at GitLab. Drawing on 19 years in open source, he brings a practical perspective on maintainership, governance, community building, and collaboration with autonomous tools.
Katherine Druckman is Head of Community and Partnership Engagement at JetBrains and a longtime open-source community builder. Her work connects developer experience, partnerships, security, and open collaboration.
Miguel Luna is a product leader at JetBrains focused on agentic AI observability, cloud-native infrastructure, and systems thinking. He explores the telemetry, context, and controls teams need to understand autonomous systems in production.
Alessandro Vozza is an AI Platform Engineer at VOLT Datacenters, working on infrastructure for training, inference, agents, and private AI. He is also a leader in Amsterdam’s cloud-native community.
Location: JetBrains N.V. (Main Building), Gelrestraat 16, 1079 MZ Amsterdam