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Rethinking Software: The AI-Native, Event-Driven, Multi-Agent Paradigm
Software is undergoing a foundational shift, from deterministic systems built through static pipelines to adaptive, event-driven networks orchestrated by intelligent agents. This session explores how adopting an AI-native development model reshapes both team culture and system architecture.
Attendees will learn how to move beyond treating AI as an afterthought and instead design systems where agents, events, and continuous learning form the core. The talk examines how multi-agent collaboration, contextual reasoning, and real-time adaptability redefine what software can do, and how teams build it. By embracing this paradigm, organizations can create applications that evolve autonomously, reason about their environments, and deliver on the promise of intelligent, self-improving software.
What You Will Learn
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How AI-native development changes the architecture and mindset of software teams
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Principles of event-driven, multi-agent system design for adaptive behavior
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Strategies for building systems that learn, reason, and evolve continuously
Who Should Attend
Software architects, engineering leaders, AI practitioners, and developers exploring the convergence of AI, event-driven systems, and multi-agent architectures in next-generation software design.
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About the speaker
Mary Grygleski
Regional Director - East, The AI Collective
Mary is a Technical Advocate, Java Champion, and the Regional Director - East at the AI Collective, a non-profit, grassroots community and think tank in the AI space. Mary started as an engineer in Unix/C, then transitioned to Java around 2000 and has never looked back since then. After 20+ years of being a software engineer and technical architect, she discovered her true passion in developer and customer advocacy. Most recently she was the Director of Emerging Technology, helping to build the new AI practice at a boutique software consultancy. She has serviced companies of various sizes such as IBM, US Cellular, Bank of America, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, in topic areas that included Java, GenAI, Streaming systems, Open source, Cloud and Distributed messaging systems. She is also a very active tech community leader outside of her day job. She is the President of the Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG), the North America East Regional Director and the Chicago Chapter Organizer of the AI Collective.
