---
title: "OpenAI, Anthropic, or agent frameworks: choose the right AI stack"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-06-30"
time: "11:40am-12:00pm"
track: "Track M"
room: "Track M"
speakers: ["Arun Sekhar", "Pamela Fox"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: "Track M"
scheduleRoom: "Track M"
scheduleLabels: ["Track M", "Track M", "sponsor", "confirmed"]
---
# OpenAI, Anthropic, or agent frameworks: choose the right AI stack

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 11:40am-12:00pm
- Track/room: Track M · Track M
- Speaker(s): Arun Sekhar, Pamela Fox
- Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed

- Track: Track M
- Room: Track M
- Session type: sponsor
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
OpenAI SDK, Anthropic SDK, or an LLM-agnostic agent framework. Which one should your next AI app be built on? Starting with Foundry Models, we walk through each option in code, show what you gain and what you give up at every layer, and help you pick the right abstraction for your scenario without overbuilding.

## Media Evidence
[Running AI Application in Minutes w/ AI Templates: Gabriela de Queiroz, Pamela Fox, Harald Kirschner](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t-9-s1brcg) (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).

- Source video: `youtube-1t-9-s1brcg`
- Slide deck: [[youtube-1t-9-s1brcg-dense-slides|Dense Slides: Running AI Application in Minutes w/ AI Templates: Gabriela de Queiroz, Pamela Fox, Harald Kirschner]] — 50 visible slide image(s); 50 HTML recreation(s).
![[assets/dense-slides/1t-9-s1brcg/slide-001.jpg]]
![[assets/dense-slides/1t-9-s1brcg/slide-002.jpg]]
![[assets/dense-slides/1t-9-s1brcg/slide-003.jpg]]
- Additional slide evidence: [[youtube-1t-9-s1brcg-slides|Slides: Running AI Application in Minutes w/ AI Templates: Gabriela de Queiroz, Pamela Fox, Harald Kirschner]], [[youtube-1t-9-s1brcg-reconstructed-slides|Reconstructed Slides: Running AI Application in Minutes w/ AI Templates: Gabriela de Queiroz, Pamela Fox, Harald Kirschner]]
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-1t-9-s1brcg`: azure, proxy, templates, microsoft, startups, founders, startup, faster.

## 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
- `youtube-1t-9-s1brcg` — 6 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-1t-9-s1brcg`: azure, proxy, templates, microsoft, startups, founders, startup, faster.
- Evidence links for `youtube-1t-9-s1brcg`: [[youtube-1t-9-s1brcg]], [[youtube-1t-9-s1brcg-slides]], [[youtube-1t-9-s1brcg-dense-slides]], [[youtube-1t-9-s1brcg-reconstructed-slides]]

### Agent Reading Notes
Use these signals to refine the synopsis, topic links, people/company context, and method notes. If a source is a related external video rather than an exact official recording, keep it framed as supporting evidence.

## Transcript Status
Related video transcript availability: English auto-captions. Treat this as supporting context, not a recording of this exact scheduled session unless later confirmed. Not fetched yet.

## People
- [[arun-sekhar]]
- [[pamela-fox]]

## Supporting Slides
- [[youtube-1t-9-s1brcg-slides]] — extracted from the related public AI Engineer video.

## Slide Evidence
- Slide-only cropped deck: [[youtube-1t-9-s1brcg-dense-slides]] (50 viable slide images).
- Related slide/OCR pages:
- [[youtube-1t-9-s1brcg-dense-slides]]
- [[youtube-1t-9-s1brcg-reconstructed-slides]]
- [[youtube-1t-9-s1brcg-slides]]
- Slide-derived terms: `azure`, `microsoft`, `github`, `startups`, `account`, `workshop`, `boars`, `founders`, `instructions`, `open`, `mode`, `gene`, `they`, `engineer`, `signin`, `login`, `pass`, `will`

## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# OpenAI, Anthropic, or agent frameworks: choose the right AI stack ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 11:40am-12:00pm - Track/room: Track M · Track M - Speaker(s): Arun Sekhar, Pamela Fox - Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed - Track: Track M - Room: Track M - Session type: sponsor - Status: confirmed ## Session Description OpenAI SDK, Anthropic SDK, or an LLM-agnostic agent framework. Which one should your next AI app be built on? Starting with Foundry Models, we walk through each option in code, show what you gain and what you give up at every layer, and help you pick the right abstraction for your scenario without overbuilding. ## Media Evidence [Running AI Application in Minutes w/ AI Templates: Gabriela de Queiroz, Pamela Fox, Harald Kirschner](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t-9-s1brcg) (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[arun-sekhar|Arun Sekhar]] — Principal Product Manager for AI Developer Experience at [[microsoft|Microsoft]].
- [[pamela-fox|Pamela Fox]] — Principal Cloud Advocate at [[microsoft|Microsoft]].

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

### Derived Links And Source Material
- [[youtube-1t-9-s1brcg]] — related YouTube source page.
- [[youtube-1t-9-s1brcg-slides]] — slide evidence.
- [[youtube-1t-9-s1brcg-reconstructed-slides]] — slide evidence.
- [[youtube-1t-9-s1brcg-dense-slides]] — slide evidence.

### 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.