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# Running Operations Without Humans in the Loop


- **Date:** Friday, Sep 25, 2026
- **Time:** 16:50–17:20 (30 min)
- **Room:** Tech Leaders Stage
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

Agents are moving into operations: triaging incidents, rolling back deploys, patching systems - work that used to page a human. Handing production to machines raises the stakes: they act faster than people can review, and they need far better runtime signals than dashboards built for human eyes. What it takes to let agents operate production safely, and where a human still has to stay in the loop.

## Speakers

### [Edward Aryee](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@edward-aryee)

Co-Founder and CTO of Laminar
### [Ryan Ries](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@ryan-ries)

Chief AI and Data Scientist at Mission Cloud
### [Yaron Schneider](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@yaron-schneider)

CTO / Co-Founder at Diagrid


## Related talks at this congress

- [Shipping AI Features People Actually Use](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1883-shipping-ai-features) — Ben Kus, Eric Simons, Wayne Liu
- [Managing GPUs by Just Asking, Infrastructure in the Age of MCP](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1812-managing-gpus-by) — Jessica Garson Beauchemin
- [Loop Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1767-loop-engineering) — Li Yin
- [Loop Engineering: Designing and Observing the Loops That Run Your Agents With Opik](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1868-loop-engineering) — Abigail Morgan

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