TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

This workshop introduces how to use open-source LLMs on-premise for enhanced data control, privacy, and cost efficiency. It highlights Ollama for simplified LLM management (downloading, running models offline) and FastAPI for efficient local hosting, enabling fast API development and seamless integration. This combined approach offers superior security, regulatory compliance, and customization compared to cloud-based solutions.

As artificial intelligence evolves from simple task automation to autonomous agents capable of independent decision-making and task execution, enterprises face new identity and access management (IAM) challenges. In this interactive workshop, participants will explore and apply strategies to secure AI agents as they consume business services on-behalf-of users or own their own.Through hands-on exercises, real-world scenarios, and a guided technical tutorial, you’ll learn how AI agents can:- Be treated as managed, first-class entities within the business systems- Authenticate and obtain authorisation independently or on behalf of users- Leverage and extend standards such as OAuth 2.0 and OpenID ConnectBy the end of the workshop, attendees will have actionable skills and a framework for securing AI agents while preserving their autonomous capabilities, ensuring enterprise adoption without compromising security or compliance.

Learn how to build a production-ready Model Context Protocol (MCP) server running on Cloudflare Workers. This hands-on workshop walks attendees through creating an MCP server, exposing tools, integrating external APIs, and deploying globally so AI assistants can call your tools in real time.Workshop outcome: By the end of the session, attendees will have a deployed MCP server and the knowledge to extend it so AI assistants can call their tools securely and efficiently.