Agentic AI is the talk of the industry, but what does it actually mean, and how do you build an agent? In this workshop, we’ll walk you through spinning up your own simulated support agent for a physician's inbox, using easy-to-use OSS tools like LangGraph and Granite Guardian. In the process, you’ll get a basic understanding of agent architectures, understand how to protect critical data being served to an LLM, and get an introduction to responsible AI agent behavior. You’ll walk out with a first agent that can run on your laptop using open source AI technologies, and an understanding of what it looks like to build AI agents that behave responsibly. Designed for developers who are new to AI agents.

Attendees should be familiar with Python. The open source tools (LangGraph, ContextForge and the Granite Guardian models) will all be taught for users who have not previously used them.