July 29 - MCP, Agents and Skills Meetup

Join our virtual meetup to hear talks from experts on cutting-edge topics across MCP, Agents and Skills.

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The Agent Control Plane: Turning Coding Agents into Reliable Engineering Workflows

AI coding agents are powerful but often unreliable — they hallucinate, lose context, and produce inconsistent results across runs. In this talk, Alex introduces Atomic, an open-source control plane that adds persistent memory, deterministic workflow phases (Research → Specify → Implement → Ship), and human-in-the-loop gates around coding agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot. The result: repeatable, auditable engineering workflows that teams can actually trust in production.

*About the Speaker*

Alex Lavaee is an Applied AI engineer at Microsoft Research and the creator of Atomic, an open-source SDK that wraps deterministic, research-to-execution workflows around AI coding agents. He previously conducted AI research at Harvard Medical School and Boston University, and has worked as an MLE and data scientist at companies including Boeing and Themis AI, an MIT CSAIL spinoff.

UISurf: Toward Universal UI Automation with Cross-Environment Agents

In this talk, we introduce UISurf, an open-source multimodal agentic UI automation platform in which agents can perceive, reason, and collaborate across browser and desktop environments to complete end-to-end tasks that require interaction with multiple user interfaces.

UISurf comprises three main components: uisurf-agent, the runtime for UI automation agents; uisurf-admin, the session orchestration and management service; and uisurf-app, the full-stack user application. Its multi-agent architecture includes a planning_agent that transforms natural-language requests into structured execution plans, specialized Browser and Desktop Agents for environment-specific interaction, an automation_agent that coordinates execution and inter-agent handoff through Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication, and a summarization_agent that produces the final task summary for the user. UISurf supports both autonomous execution and human-in-the-loop supervision, offering a practical and extensible framework for studying and deploying cross-environment UI automation.

*About the Speaker*

Dr. Henry Ruiz is a Research Scientist at Texas A&M University @ AgriLife Research, specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Remote Sensing. His work focuses on the development of advanced software systems and computational algorithms for analyzing multi-source remote sensing data, including satellite imagery, UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR).

From Manual Workflows to AI-Assisted Skills: Building Reliable Internal Automation

In this session, I will discuss how teams can turn repetitive manual workflows into reliable AI-assisted and automation-driven “skills.” I will share practical lessons from building internal tools for CAD and engineering workflows, including how automation can reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and support better process control. The talk will also cover why many AI/agent experiments fail when they are not connected to real team workflows, standards, and validation steps. Attendees will walk away with a practical framework for identifying repeatable workflows, designing useful internal tools, and adopting AI assistance without losing accuracy or trust.

*About the Speaker*

Janvi Vijaykumar Saddi \- Janvi Saddi is a Computer Science graduate and CAD/Data Automation professional with experience in data center design workflows\, AutoCAD automation\, process improvement\, and data analytics\. She currently works as a CAD Tech 2 at Astreya\, supporting Google data center design workflows by building internal tools that reduce manual effort\, improve accuracy\, and streamline engineering processes\. Her background also includes SQL\, Power BI\, market research analytics\, and AI\-assisted development\.

Building Safe Agent Sandboxes: Let Agents Act Without Breaking Production

AI agents become truly useful when they can take action, not just generate text. But giving agents access to code, data, and systems raises an important question: how do you let them explore, execute, fail, and improve without putting production at risk?

In this talk, we'll explore the sandbox pattern for agent systems and how to equip agents with tools to read, write, execute, and iterate within controlled environments while using permissions, human approval, and safety guardrails to keep them reliable. We'll cover practical architectures and lessons learned for building agents that can safely evolve from experimentation to production..

*About the Speaker*

Adonai Vera \- Adonai Vera \- Machine Learning Engineer & DevRel at Voxel51\. With over 7 years of experience building computer vision and machine learning models using TensorFlow\, Docker\, and OpenCV\.