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Context is King #5 - Building Safe AI Agents

As AI agents gain more autonomy, safety can't be an afterthought. In this talk from Context is King in London, Jonatan von Martens (AI Safety Engineer at ElevenLabs) shares what it actually takes to build agents that behave reliably in production. Context is King is a meetup series co-organized by Flow AI and Aiven for engineers shipping AI agents in production. No pitches — just real implementation stories.

Context is King #5 - A Semantic Layer for the Agentic Era

Agents are only as good as the queries they can run. In this talk from Context is King in London, Egor Kraev (Co-Founder & CTO of Motley) breaks down how a well-designed semantic layer becomes the connective tissue between natural language intent and reliable data retrieval. Context is King is a meetup series co-organized by Flow AI and Aiven for engineers shipping AI agents in production. No pitches — just real implementation stories.

Context is King #5 - Ontologies as Executable Context for AI Agents

Can a knowledge graph do more than store facts — can it actually run your agent? In this talk from Context is King in London, Teodoro Baldazzi (Principal AI Engineer at Prometheux) makes the case for ontologies as executable context: structured knowledge that doesn't just inform AI agents, but actively shapes how they reason and act. Context is King is a meetup series co-organized by Flow AI and Aiven for engineers shipping AI agents in production. No pitches — just real implementation stories.

Why Your Agentic Workflow Succeeds and Still Gets It Wrong

Agentic workflows are reshaping how engineering teams operate, fetching context, synthesizing decisions, and shipping results across systems without human intervention. But the same design that makes them powerful adds risk in production. Agents do not crash when they hit bad data; they synthesize around it, substituting a stale value, an empty page, or a missing field for the result they were supposed to capture.

Shipped: You're emitting AI telemetry. Point it at an engine that turns it into allocated spend.

Your AI calls already emit OpenTelemetry: your LLM gateway exports it, and it’s the open standard your own services can speak. But you don’t have anywhere to turn those spans into spend you can allocate to an outcome. Now you can. CloudZero exposes an OpenTelemetry endpoint that doesn’t care what’s on the other end.

The Manufacturing ERP Paradox: Standardization vs Operational Reality

Despite being an integral part of modern manufacturing, standardized ERP processes often conflict with the realities of a plant's day-to-day operations. As a result, manufacturers are forced to rely on manual workarounds and spreadsheets to close operational gaps. What they really instead is a system that's: Modular ERP systems check all of these boxes, balancing standardization with flexibility to put complete operational control back into the hands of manufacturers.

PagerDuty Report Finds Two-Thirds (66%) of Office Professionals Have Used Unauthorized AI Tools at Work

Three-quarters of office professionals (75%) say they would be likely to look for a new job that offered better AI skills development, a figure that climbs to 80% at companies with $1 billion or more in revenue.

Why AI-Powered Asset Audits Are Replacing Manual Physical Verification (And How to Switch)

Picture this. It's the end of the financial year. Your audit team is clipboard in hand, walking floor to floor, cross-referencing serial numbers against a spreadsheet that was last updated six months ago. Three days in, two people are still checking warehouses, and someone has already found a printer that the system says was disposed of in 2022. This is how most enterprises still run their physical asset audits in 2026.