5 Essential Practices for Production-Ready AI Agents

While AI agents are hailed as the engine for true business value in Generative AI, moving them from proof-of-concept sandboxes to production systems is a major engineering hurdle. Unpredictable reasoning, context drift, security risks, and governance gaps routinely keep agentic projects grounded in the lab.
In this 60-minute session, we break down the five core practices required to build, govern, and scale enterprise-grade AI agents:

1. Architecture Strategy: Choosing between Agent Harnesses and Frameworks based on operational complexity.
2. Enterprise Grounding: Decoupling knowledge from the LLM using structured semantic data layers and real-time context.
3. Multi-Layered Guardrails: Implementing behavioral, data, tool, and human-in-the-loop safety boundaries.
4. Platform Engineering: Scaling through reusable building blocks, standardized tool bindings, and IDP integration.
5. Lifecycle Observability: Tracking tool trace execution, context degradation, token health, and continuous evaluation in CI/CD.

We will then put these practices into action with a live demonstration on Mia-Platform AI Foundry, showing how to bind user intent to structured enterprise context, enforce active guardrails, and manage production agent workflows from a unified developer interface.

⏲️ Agenda
6:00 Pizza and drinks
6:30 Welcome
6:45 Talk
7:30 Q&A
7:45 Networking and Pizzas! 🍕
8:30 Wrap up & See you at the next Meetup!

*You will receive detailed information on how to access the building close to the date.

🎙️Speakers
Giulio Roggero CTO @ Mia-Platform
25 years of experience in software engineering, serial entrepreneur with more than 10 business initiatives launched, today is co-founder and CTO at Mia-Platform, the Internal Developer Platform named by Gartner Cool Vendor for Software Engineering Technologies and in the Cloud Application Platforms Magic Quadrant.

Principal focus: cloud native, platform engineering, data fabric and omnichannel experience. He likes to paint Blood Bowl miniatures, construct Lego, build and drive RC Cars and learn piano.

Alessio Bertazzo - Senior Principal Engineer @ Mia-Platform
A Software Engineer with solid roots in Java and Spring/Spring Boot backend development, he currently holds the position of Senior Principal Engineer in Mia-Platform's R&D team. In this role, he helps define the technical and strategic vision of the products, bridges the gap between the Product division and other company departments, and drives innovation with a strong focus on Generative AI.