Agentic Mesh with Eric Broda

About this episode

Eric Broda discusses the challenges and future of deploying AI agents as core infrastructure in enterprises.

AI agents are evolving from individual productivity tools into distributed systems components inside enterprises. The next frontier is coming into focus, and it involves large-scale ecosystems of collaborating agents embedded directly into business processes. However, multi-agent architectures introduce serious challenges around orchestration, state management, trust, governance, and observability. Eric Broda is a veteran of the software industry, and he’s the co-author of the new O’Reilly book, Agentic Mesh: The GenAI-Powered Autonomous Agent Ecosystem. In this episode, Eric joins Sean Falconer to discuss the architectural challenges of deploying agents as core infrastructure, how distributed computing principles apply to multi-agent systems, why trust and explainability are foundational, and what enterprises may look like as agents become full participants in business processes. Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from AI to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is an AI Entrepreneur in Residence at Confluent where he works on AI strategy and thought leadership. You can connect with Sean on LinkedIn. Please…

People in this episode

Host: Sean Falconer

Guest: Eric Broda

Topics covered

• AI agents
• distributed systems
• multi-agent architectures
• business processes
• trust and governance
• observability

Keywords

• AI
• autonomous agents
• ecosystems
• orchestration
• state management
• explainability
• distributed computing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: O’Reilly, Confluent

Products: Agentic Mesh

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