Advanced AI Agents & Production Engineering

This 3-day intensive is the 'Level 2' follow-on to the Enterprise AI Accelerator. Where the Accelerator builds foundational fluency across the AI stack, this program assumes that foundation and goes deep on production engineering: multi-agent orchestration with LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, and the Claude Agent SDK; agent-to-agent interoperability via Google's A2A protocol (v1.0, 150+ organizations); complex MCP server architectures; security hardening drawing from the Enterprise AI Security program's six-layer blueprint (agent hijacking, MCP auth/scoping, supply-chain defense); full-stack observability with LangSmith; cost optimization with model routing and token budgets; and a team capstone building a deployable enterprise multi-agent system with A2A connectivity.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Enterprise AI Accelerator or equivalent experience with agents and MCP. Comfort with Python, LLM APIs, basic agent patterns, and MCP concepts. This is not an introductory program.
Consolidates and extends advanced content from the Production Agents (#8), Multi-Agent (#9), Observability (#11), and Security workshops into a cohesive 3-day journey. Approximately 30% lecture, 70% hands-on labs.

About Brent Laster

Hi, I'm Brent Laster - a global trainer and book author, experienced corporate technology developer and leader, and founder and president of Tech Skills Transformations LLC. I've been working with and presenting at NFJS events for many years now and it is always exciting and interesting.

Through my decades in programming and management,I've always tried to make time to learn and develop both technical and leadership skills and share them with others Regardless of the topic or technology, my belief is that there is no substitute for the excitement and sense of potential that come from providing others with the knowledge they need to help them accomplish their goals.

In my spare time, I hang out with my wife Anne-Marie, 4 children and 2 small dogs in Cary, North Carolina where I design and conduct trainings and write books. You can find me on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/brentlaster), Twitter (@brentclaster) or through my company's website at www.getskillsnow.com.

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