3rd Generation Agentic AI

Name: ArchConf
Start: 2026-12-07T08:00-0500
End: 2026-12-10T14:30-0500
Location: Opal Sands Resort

Michael Carducci

SOFTWARE ARCHITECT & MAGICIAN

01 / ABOUT THIS SESSION

Every generation of system integration has made the same mistake: a standard protocol with bespoke incantations on top. Telnet. CORBA. SOAP. even REST APIs. And now? MCP and tool schemas (the JSON WSDL). We can do better.

This session argues that the challenges of agentic AI are not a model problem or a tooling problem. They're an interoperability problem. And we already know how to solve it, we've been doing it for decades on the world wide web. The problem is tractable.

Through live demos and a real production system, you'll see what anarchic interoperability looks like for AI agents: a single way to talk to any system, without constraining what any system can do.

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02 / SESSION DETAILS

FORMAT

90-minute session

03 / MORE FROM MICHAEL CARDUCCI

01 An Engineer's Guide to the Semantic Layer (Critical Infrastructure) → 02 An Engineer's Guide to the Semantic Layer (Critical Infrastructure) → 03 An Engineer's Guide to the Semantic Layer (Critical Infrastructure) → 04 Architecting the Future: Evolving Legacy Systems with the Tailor-Made Architecture Model → 05 Architecture Blindspots, Biases, and Blunders → 06 Refactoring REST APIs for the Last Time: Strategies for a Future-Proof Design → 07 The Art of Being an Architect → 08 When Code is Cheap, Architecture is Everything → 09 Why AI Acceleration Keeps Slowing You Down →

YOUR SPEAKER

Michael Carducci

SOFTWARE ARCHITECT & MAGICIAN

Michael Carducci spent years learning to see things as they actually are; first as a magician, then as a software architect, now as both simultaneously. And somehow that’s not even the whole story.

He’s the author of Mastering Software Architecture (Apress, 2025) and is currently writing The Semantic Layer (Packt, 2026). He has spent over 25 years following interesting problems; through roles from individual contributor to CTO and back again, across industries and continents.

As a speaker, he applies the same toolkit he uses in close-up magic: attention, misdirection, timing, storytelling, and the instinct to take the long way around when that’s where the truth lives. Audiences at hundreds of conferences across four continents have described his talks as the kind that change how you think about a problem rather than just what you know about it.

He also makes YouTube videos about technology and curiosity with his wife Kate, because some ideas are too important (or too interesting!) to leave only in conference rooms.

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All signal.
Zero fluff.

DECEMBER 7 - 10, 2026 · OPAL SANDS RESORT · CLEARWATER, FL