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Feroz
Kadar
Principal Engineer
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Feroz is a Principal Engineer with over two decades of experience designing large-scale systems and solving complex, ambiguously defined problems. He specialises in developing unifying technical architectures, shaping product-centric technology roadmaps, and leading engineering organisations of more than 200 people. His experience spans supply chain, personalised semi-autonomous retail experiences, geographic information systems, machine learning, computational biology, and mathematical modelling. Alongside building systems, Feroz mentors senior engineers and technical leaders, develops new domain frameworks and writes about engineering leadership, stewardship and systems thinking.
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26 August 2026 16:00 - 16:30
Panel | Why do agent systems break in production? The gap between design and reality
Agent systems rarely break in the way the architecture diagram suggested they would. On paper, the workflow is clean: context comes in, the agent reasons, tools are called, actions happen, and the system improves. In production, inputs are messier, tool calls fail, context drifts, users behave unpredictably, and small errors compound across multi-step workflows. This closing panel looks at what actually breaks once agent systems move into real environments. From evaluation gaps and observability blind spots to orchestration failures, latency, cost, and recovery, the discussion will unpack why production exposes problems that design rarely anticipates and what teams are learning about building agent systems that can hold up under real usage. Key takeaways: → Where agent systems most often break once they move beyond controlled testing → Why evaluation, observability, and debugging become harder in multi-step workflows → What teams are doing to build more reliable, recoverable, production-ready agent systems