DevPulse #7

On December 3th, DevPulse Zwolle takes place! DevPulse Zwolle unites developers and entrepreneurs in the regional tech scene, fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and insights from experts driving the future of technology!

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🗓 Programma

• 18:00 ⏰ Doors open
• 18:15 👋 Welkom & Dinner!
• 19:00 Jettro Coenradie — From solo agents to AI teams
• 20:00 TBA.
• 21:00 🍺 Drinks & Socialising!

19:00 — From solo agents to AI teams
Jettro Coenradie · Principle Consultant | Search and AI expert · Yuma
A capable AI agent can do a lot, but some tasks benefit from a team. As in software engineering, dividing responsibilities is only the beginning: the interesting challenges lie in how the parts communicate, share information, and coordinate their work.
This talk explores how agents work together, introducing collaboration patterns before looking at the engineering behind an agent team. How do you define responsibilities? Which state belongs to each agent? And how do you involve people in the collaboration?
To make these concepts concrete, I’ll introduce akgents, our homegrown agent framework inspired by the Actor Model. Its agents maintain their own state and communicate through messages, providing a foundation for teams whose members can work independently while coordinating toward a shared goal. I’ll explain why we chose this approach and demonstrate it with a team of agents that arranges a meeting, finds a room, and organises lunch and drinks.
You’ll leave with a practical understanding of multi-agent collaboration, the architectural choices involved in building agent teams, and a clearer sense of when those teams are worth the additional complexity.
About Jettro
Jettro is a software architect, search-relevance geek, and AI enthusiast who wants to know what happens beyond the demo. After more than a decade helping customers build better search engines, his curiosity led him through machine learning and Natural Language Processing into the world of AI agents.
Today, he explores how agents can use knowledge, work together, and collaborate with people to get things done. He brings a software engineer’s curiosity—and healthy scepticism—to turning AI possibilities into useful systems.
Jettro loves sharing what he learns, from architectural choices to experiments that didn’t quite go to plan. He lives by Yuma’s mantra: the only thing that grows by sharing is knowledge.
🚗 Parking
You can park at the De Makersfabriek parking lot; enter the old Philips terrain via the McDonald’s. The meetup is in building ZF (Het Ketelhuis). Or use the following link:
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