Putting AI to Work: Governing Enterprise Agents in Production

2026 is being called the year AI gets to work — and enterprises are racing to move autonomous agents from pilots into real production workflows. But once agents gain read-write access to sensitive systems and data, the challenge shifts from building agents to controlling them. Without the right architecture, agentic workflows can drift, improvise, and fail in ways that are difficult to observe, govern, or recover.

In this Tech Talk, Redpanda CTO Tyler Akidau and Principal Software Engineer Tyler Rockwood will break down what it takes to run agentic systems safely at scale. To take AI initiatives beyond individual productivity to meet team and organizational goals while ensuring governance and security integrity.

The session will explore Redpanda ADP's core building blocks of governed autonomy: a centralized access layer between agents and enterprise systems, unified authentication and fine-grained authorization, policy enforcement, and full observability through replayable agent transcripts.

Attendees will leave with a clear framework for deploying agents as reliable, auditable infrastructure.