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Stop Building AI Castles on Sand: Foundations First, Agentic AI Can Wait
Rahul Verma
Senior Consultant & AI Coach
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Session Outline
Agentic AI is in fashion. Too many testing teams are sprinting straight for Agentic AI, only to trip over weak prompts, fractured context, and brittle integrations. In this talk, we’ll reframe Agentic AI as the ultimate learning and implementation goal, not Day 1. You’ll learn why learning and mastering each foundational layer builds the scaffolding you need for reliable, maintainable agents. There are more than a dozen incremental steps—everything from prompt hygiene and custom-assistant patterns to API function-calling and vector-search—before ever designing an agent. These are not the foundations you want to skip. By the end, you’ll have a clear learning roadmap that ensures your first agentic experiment is a triumph, not a train wreck.
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What you’ll learn
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Rahul Verma is an awarded thought leader for his contributions to the testing community. He is a Senior Coach and Consultant with trendig technology services gmbh. He is the creator of Swayam – an LLM framework for layered prompting and Arjuna – a free, open-source Python based modern test automation framework. He is a contributing author and reviewer for various certification bodies including Artificial Intelligence United, Selenium United, ISTQB and CMAP.
His software testing experience includes using Large Language Models in testing, building test automation frameworks in Python, web security, white box testing and web performance testing. His research work focuses on exploring meta-programming and object oriented design patterns as applied to automating activities in all these areas.
He has presented, published articles and educated thousands of testers in the said areas. His testing ideas and work are deeply influenced by his deep interest in poetry and spirituality.
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Sobhitha Neelanath is an accomplished Engineering Leader with diverse technology experience of almost two decades.In her current role at Salesforce India, she leads the engineering team for Service Cloud. She is passionate about DEI and contributes actively to multiple technical and women specific communities and mentoring initiatives.She is a Google Women Techmakers Ambassador and has delivered sessions for global audiences.
A recipient of multiple accolades for her contributions towards women in tech ,she was recently selected for the Top 50 Asia Women Tech Leaders Award.
Her Mantra for life is “Explore, Believe, Achieve”.
Connect with her at https://www.linkedin.com/in/sobhitha-neelanath/
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Sobhitha Neelanath
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