Biography
Co-founder and CEO of CheckedAgent, a Barcelona-based security company building runtime protection for AI agents. CheckedAgent inspects traffic between AI agents and the tools they call, over MCP, catching prompt injection, data exfiltration and malicious tool servers before anything acts. Career founding and leading technology companies across IT service management, hospitality technology and climate tech.
Session
- AI For BuildersSpeaker
Debate 1 — Agents: The Real Platform Shift, or 2026's Most Overhyped Demo?
Tuesday 22 September, 12:00 – 12:55Auditorium StageEvery deck in 2026 says 'agentic.' Most agents still break the moment they touch a real workflow. Side A: agents are the genuine platform shift — the jump from copilots that suggest to systems that actually do the work, and the teams already shipping them in production are pulling ahead. Side B: 'agentic' is this cycle's most oversold demo — brittle, expensive, badly governed, a thin wrapper over the same models we already had. 55 minutes, two builders, one moderator who has actually run agents in prod, and an audience vote before and after.
With Damien Acheson, Maanas Mediratta, Dave Garcia, Simon Bosch, Barnaba Barcellona, Emma Rees