What’s Next in the Agent Stack
🎥 From the MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2025 — Virtual Session (October 7, 2025) Session Title: What’s Next in the Agent Stack Speaker: Shelby Heinecke, Senior AI Research Manager, Salesforce Talk Track: Agents in Production Abstract: What does it take to go from a promising prototype to a production-ready AI agent? In this session, Shelby Heinecke explores the emerging Agent Stack, breaking down the new wave of frameworks and tools designed to tackle key challenges in reliability, reasoning, and scalability. You’ll discover how technologies like: • Promptomatix – for robust, dynamic prompt generation • MCPEval – for protocol-level evaluation and benchmarking • TACO – for multimodal reasoning and task alignment • xLAM – for ultra-fast function calling …are shaping the next generation of enterprise-ready agent systems. Shelby offers a behind-the-scenes look at the research powering these tools and a blueprint for scaling reliable, high-performance AI agents into production. What you’ll learn: • Why evals, latency, and prompt optimization are critical to agent reliability • How to explore open-source frameworks and models to get started • Practical insights from Salesforce research on improving reasoning and orchestration.
