AI agents are powerful, but production agent workflows are fragile: tools time out, model calls fail, workers restart, human approvals take hours, and long-running tasks can lose state halfway through execution.

Cadence Workflow is a CNCF sandbox project for durable workflow orchestration. In this 5-minute project lightning talk, we will show how Cadence helps make agentic workflows more secure, reliable, and recoverable by giving them persisted state, retries, timeouts, human checkpoints, worker failure recovery, and observable execution history.

Attendees will leave with a simple mental model for when an agent should become a durable workflow, where Cadence fits in the AI-native cloud native stack, and how to get involved with the project through docs, samples, developer tooling, and AI workflow examples.