Diagnosing agent failures in production
Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 10:45am-11:05am
- Track/room: Track M · Track M
- Speaker(s): Pamela Fox
- Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed
- Track: Track M
- Room: Track M
- Session type: sponsor
- Status: confirmed
Session Description
Agent behavior changes in production. Learn common failure modes and how to debug, test, and improve performance using real evaluation techniques.
Media Evidence
Running AI Application in Minutes w/ AI Templates: Gabriela de Queiroz, Pamela Fox, Harald Kirschner (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).
- Source video:
youtube-1t-9-s1brcg - Slide deck: 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).
- Additional slide evidence: Slides: Running AI Application in Minutes w/ AI Templates: Gabriela de Queiroz, Pamela Fox, Harald Kirschner, 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
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
Diagnosing agent failures in production ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 10:45am-11:05am - Track/room: Track M · Track M - Speaker(s): Pamela Fox - Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed - Track: Track M - Room: Track M - Session type: sponsor - Status: confirmed ## Session Description Agent behavior changes in production. Learn common failure modes and how to debug, test, and improve performance using real evaluation techniques. ## Media Evidence Running AI Application in Minutes w/ AI Templates: Gabriela de Queiroz, Pamela Fox, Harald Kirschner (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions). - Source video: youtube-1t-9-s1brcg - Slide deck: 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).
Speaker And Company Context
- Pamela Fox — Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft.
Topics Covered
- Topic links are pending transcript-backed classification.
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.