This is our final installment of a series that studies 20+ tools in the AI cognition landscape rated against organizational requirements. We present a tactical guide for choosing a memory foundation based on your specific needs for persistence, scale, knowledge base, and multimodal data.

Denny Lee is PM Director, Startups & Ecosystem at Databricks, a longtime Apache Spark, MLflow, and Delta Lake contributor — and one of the people behind Omnigent, the open-source meta-harness Databricks just released under Apache 2.0. He joins Demetrios to explain why the industry is moving from models to harnesses to meta-harnesses, why token spend is replaying the CapEx-to-OpEx shift all over again, and why he's using debating AI agents to plan a matcha farm in Taiwan.

AI agents are only as good as the information they can find, retrieve, and remember. In this community roundtable with the Qdrant team, we explored the latest advances in agentic memory, vector search, retrieval systems, and production AI architectures. As AI agents move beyond simple chatbots into systems that can reason across large amounts of information, retrieval is becoming one of the most important layers in the AI stack. The discussion covered the real-world challenges of building agents that remember what matters, forget what doesn't, and consistently retrieve the right context at the right time. If you're building AI agents, RAG systems, or production AI applications, this conversation offers practical insights into where retrieval is headed and what it takes to build reliable, scalable agentic systems.

Kingsley Madikaegbu is the founder of HealID, a startup building agentic AI on top of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for one of the most heavily regulated environments there is: healthcare. Recorded at MCP Dev Summit North America in New York, Kingsley sits down with Alex Salkever of the Agentic AI Foundation to break down how you give patients, doctors, caregivers, and family members each their own agent over the same medical record — without breaching HIPAA, leaking PHI, or letting an agent quietly go off the rails.

Jay Hack is the Head of AI at ClickUp and the founder of Codegen, the autonomous coding-agent startup ClickUp acquired in late 2025. He built one of the first ticket-to-pull-request background agents in enterprise software — before Claude Code existed — and has been working in AI since the SIFT-and-SVM days of 2008. In this freewheeling conversation with Demetrios, he makes the case that coding agents and general knowledge-work agents are converging fast, and that the real battle ahead is over context, not capability.

Sam Partee (CTO & co-founder of Arcade.dev) and Nate Barbettini (Founding Engineer at Arcade.dev) sit down at the MCP Dev Summit to unpack what nobody wants to admit about the Model Context Protocol: the security model is still full of sharp edges. From tool poisoning and prompt injection to why OAuth got bolted onto the spec, this is a builder 's-eye view of where MCP breaks — and how to ship agents safely anyway.

Managing subagent personas across multiple AI coding platforms (like Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Copilot) leads to fragmented configuration files and instruction drift. This article introduces `supagents`, a lightweight, idempotent Python CLI tool that lets developers maintain subagent definitions in a single markdown file with multi-target frontmatter. The tool automatically compiles and distributes these instructions to the correct paths, ensuring a consistent persona across all development environments.

Shahram Anver is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cleric, the autonomous AI SRE that investigates and root-causes production issues like an experienced teammate — often in under two minutes. Before Cleric, Shahram led MLOps, DevOps, and FinOps platform engineering at Gojek, Southeast Asia's super-app. In this conversation, he breaks down why production operations never kept pace with AI-accelerated development, and why the real unlock for an AI SRE isn't faster triage — it's an agent that *learns* and compounds operational memory across your whole org.