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title: "The Missing Infrastructure for Production Agents | Atlan"
url: "https://atlan.com/know/the-missing-infrastructure-for-production-agents/"
description: "Prukalpa Sankar's AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 talk on why AI agents fail in production and how a context layer - versioned context repos, simulation environments, agent traces, and open standards like MCP and Iceberg - finally gets them to ship. Watch the full recording, chapter by chapter."
keywords: "context layer, enterprise context layer, AI agents, production AI agents, context engineering, agent architecture, context repos, MCP, Apache Iceberg, contextual intelligence, semantic layer, knowledge graph, AI Engineer World's Fair, Prukalpa Sankar, Atlan"
---

> Atlan is hosting Context Conference, bringing together the leaders and builders at the frontier of giving AI the context it needs to understand their business. It runs online on October 28, 2026, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET. Atlan co-founder Prukalpa Sankar opens and closes the day. Leaders from AstraZeneca, BNY and Verizon share why they invest in context and what they get from it. Registrants get early access to The AI Context Gap, a new study from MIT Technology Review Insights. Register: https://atlan.com/context-conference/

**Why context is the next frontier in AI.** The recording of Prukalpa Sankar's AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 talk, "The Missing Infrastructure for Production Agents": why AI agents fail in production and how a context layer (versioned context repos, simulation environments, agent traces, and open standards like MCP and Iceberg) gets them to ship. About 20 minutes, uploaded 2026-06-01. [Watch the full recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_1-3IO4ZQ)

## Chapters

| Start | Chapter |
| --- | --- |
| 0:00 | [Why Enterprise AI Isn't Paying Off (Yet)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_1-3IO4ZQ&t=0s) |
| 4:05 | [Teaching Agents How Humans Learn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_1-3IO4ZQ&t=245s) |
| 7:17 | [Why Hard-Coding Agents Doesn't Work](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_1-3IO4ZQ&t=437s) |
| 11:06 | [Why You Need a Company Brain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_1-3IO4ZQ&t=666s) |
| 14:23 | [The Architecture of a Context Platform](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_1-3IO4ZQ&t=863s) |
| 19:30 | [Context is Your IP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_1-3IO4ZQ&t=1170s) |

## Related resources

- [The Enterprise Context Layer Architecture](https://atlan.com/live-demo-series-enterprise-context-layer-architecture/)
- [Building Context for Your AI Agents](https://atlan.com/live-demo-full-platform-demo-recording/)
- [Building Production-Ready AI Analysts](https://atlan.com/live-demo-series-context-studio-demo-recording/)

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