---
title: "Build a Platform, Unleash an Agent on it.... and Watch it Burn!"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-06-29"
time: "1:15pm-2:15pm"
track: "Workshops Day 1"
room: "Track 5"
speakers: ["Michael Forrester", "Whitney Lee"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: "Workshops Day 1"
scheduleRoom: "Track 5"
scheduleLabels: ["Workshops Day 1", "Track 5", "sponsor", "confirmed"]
---
# Build a Platform, Unleash an Agent on it.... and Watch it Burn!

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 1:15pm-2:15pm
- Track/room: Workshops Day 1 · Track 5
- Speaker(s): Michael Forrester, Whitney Lee
- Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed

- Track: Workshops Day 1
- Room: Track 5
- Session type: sponsor
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
You get a Kubernetes cluster with an Internal Developer Platform already running: ArgoCD for GitOps, Kyverno for admission control, Falco for runtime detection, Prometheus for observability. Everything is instrumented. Everything is enforced. You also get an AI agent with cluster access. Your job is to get the agent to break something. Deploy a non-compliant workload. Escalate privileges. Modify infrastructure outside Git. Exfiltrate data through an agent response. Some of you will fail because the governance stack catches it. Some of you will succeed because it doesn't. Afterward we regroup and map what got blocked, what slipped through, and why. The 80% that existing CNCF tools already govern becomes obvious. The 20% gap where agent-specific tooling is missing becomes undeniable. You leave with a concrete governance map and the exact list of failure modes your own platform probably isn't covering yet.

## Media Evidence
No related AI Engineer channel video found yet.

These are phone-photo slide captures from the Google Photos `AIE Slides` album. They are supporting slide evidence and do not override official schedule fields.
- [[google-photos-aie-slides-9gWZzS1EpXM1C5eK6-unleash-agent-watch-it-burn-slides]] - Google Photos Slides: Build a Platform, Unleash an Agent on it (confidence: high).

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph is generated from currently linked source material: official schedule text, related video pages, cached transcripts, visible slide text, dense/reconstructed slide pages, and AI slide-classification audits.

### Media Signals
No linked video, transcript, or slide source has been attached yet.

### Agent Reading Notes
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## Transcript Status
No official session recording transcript was found by exact title match on the AI Engineer YouTube channel during this run.

## People
- [[michael-forrester]]
- [[whitney-lee]]

## Notes
- Pending transcript synthesis when an official recording or confirmed matching video is available.

## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# Build a Platform, Unleash an Agent on it.... and Watch it Burn! ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 1:15pm-2:15pm - Track/room: Workshops Day 1 · Track 5 - Speaker(s): Michael Forrester, Whitney Lee - Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed - Track: Workshops Day 1 - Room: Track 5 - Session type: sponsor - Status: confirmed ## Session Description You get a Kubernetes cluster with an Internal Developer Platform already running: ArgoCD for GitOps, Kyverno for admission control, Falco for runtime detection, Prometheus for observability. Everything is instrumented.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[michael-forrester|Michael Forrester]] — AI Workforce Transformation at [[accenture|Accenture]].
- [[whitney-lee|Whitney Lee]] — Senior Technical Advocate at [[datadog|Datadog]].

### Topics Covered
- [[agent-security]]
- [[coding-agents]]

### Derived Links And Source Material

### Novel Concepts / Clever Methods
- No highlighted novel concept has been detected yet.

### Evidence Boundary
This synthesis is based on the official schedule and linked source pages. It should be revisited when exact session recordings or transcript-backed secondary sources are available.