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What happens when agents can talk to agents—securely, asynchronously, and at scale? We sit down with Edward Funnekotter Chief Architect and AI Officer from Solace to unpack the architecture behind an open agent mesh and why event-driven design is the key to turning AI hype into dependable workflows. Instead of a single chatbot, imagine a network of specialized agents that advertise their skills, discover each other, and coordinate like a high-functioning team. They fetch data from Salesforce and support systems, compile a customer health report, rank the urgent accounts, and hand you the three actions that matter.
We get practical about where to start. Dynamic dashboarding and interactive analysis are low-lift, high-impact wins, and they translate smoothly into scheduled reports and triaged alerts. Using an event broker lets you subscribe to only the events you need, template them into agent requests, and run parallel tasks without disturbing existing integrations. The philosophy is simple and powerful: make LLMs do less. Reserve the model for judgment and planning, then let deterministic tools handle transformations, queries, and updates. You’ll cut latency and cost while improving reliability.
Security isn’t an afterthought. We dig into prompt injection, data leakage, and how to enforce tainted-context policies so confidential data never escapes to public tools—and external data never triggers risky internal actions. Lineage and audit trails make decisions explainable. We also explore the role of standards like A2A and MCP, why big-tech sponsorship accelerates adoption, and how open-source on-ramps paired with enterprise hardening create trust. Looking ahead, we see an AI org chart that mirrors the human one: layered roles, clear responsibilities, and shared context running on faster, cheaper infrastructure that prioritizes answer quality over raw speed.
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