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From AI Demos to Production AI Agents

60 min

Oct 2, 2026 8:30 AM

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What you'll learn

Design Production-Ready AI Agent Architectures

Learn how orchestration, tools, memory, state, APIs and RAG fit together in a production-grade agent system.

Build Evaluation, Observability and Reliability

Understand how evals, tracing, monitoring, retries and failure handling help agents operate reliably in production.

Secure Agents for Real Enterprise Deployment

Learn where permissions, guardrails, data security and prompt-attack protection fit into production agent design.

Map Your Production AI Engineer Career Path

Understand the core skills, portfolio projects and hiring expectations for emerging Production AI Engineer roles.

Why this topic matters

AI agents are moving rapidly from demos to real production systems, but production demands far more than prompting and tool calling. Reliability, memory, state, evaluation, observability, security and failure handling become critical. Understanding these foundations helps engineers build systems that work in the real world and prepares them for emerging Production AI and Agentic AI roles.