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# Context is king.

Talks and demos from engineers shipping AI agents in production.

Co-organized by Flow AI & Aiven.

## Stats
- Editions: 5
- Cities: 3
- Speakers: 24
- Attendees: 400+

## Editions

### Context is King #5 — Jun 8, 2026, London

The next edition. Details to come.

- Venue: Atomico
- Capacity: TBD
- Organized by: Flow AI & Aiven
- Status: Registration open
- Registration: https://luma.com/context-5mfo

### Context is King #4 — May 5, 2026, San Francisco

Context windows, tool use, memory, retrieval, MCP, agent harnesses — the engineering substrate that turns models into agents.

- Venue: Digital Jungle SF
- Capacity: 80 seats
- Organized by: Flow AI & Aiven
- Status: Registration closed
- Registration: https://luma.com/24jez9g5
- Recordings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhIUNebwd8KTqJg0fVRMdqoUcKqmwAf4H

**Speakers**

- Itai Smith — Member of Technical Staff, Chroma
  - A live preview of Chroma's specialized 20B-parameter agentic search model — frontier-level retrieval at a fraction of the cost and up to 10× the inference speed.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/itai-smith-0a2587299/) · [Chroma](https://www.trychroma.com/) · [Watch the talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aEFfdDc6z8)
- Bernardo García del Río — Co-Founder & AI Lead, Flow AI
  - A look at the harness Flow AI built for production data agents — search structure, memory pointers, multi-tenancy.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernardo-garcia-del-rio/) · [Flow AI](https://flow-ai.com/) · [Watch the talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFAovr3Y1wQ)
- Romain Sestier — Founder & CEO, StackOne
  - A demo of building production integrations for AI agents.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/romainsestier/) · [StackOne](https://www.stackone.com/) · [Watch the talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSVJOUbu91g)
- Otso Veisterä — Founder, The Token Company
  - A demo about the effects of compressing context for real-world use cases.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/otso-veistera/) · [The Token Company](https://www.thetokencompany.com/) · [Watch the talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piC20PE9NVM)
- Nathan Burg — CPO & Co-Founder, GitHits
  - A live demo of source-grounded context for coding agents — canonical code examples with citations to upstream libraries, and live code navigation over open source codebases.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-burg-bb514b175/) · [GitHits](https://githits.com/) · [Watch the talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXCPSueyWvk)

### Context is King #3 — Apr 23, 2026, Helsinki

How agents understand massive, legacy codebases — the context they need to go from prompt to PR without hallucinating, breaking architecture, or ignoring business rules.

- Venue: Wolt HQ
- Capacity: Sold out
- Organized by: Flow AI & Aiven
- Status: Registration closed
- Registration: https://luma.com/gah9jmxx
- Recordings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo6PI-0mPVLv088HA0N_LfedUpEZc_uO4

**Speakers**

- Esko Vähämäki — Co-Founder & CTO, ConfidentialMind
  - How context becomes the real interface between humans, agents, and production systems – powering workflows across engineering, product, and sales.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eskovahamaki/) · [ConfidentialMind](https://www.confidentialmind.com/) · [Watch the talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uScLSOU1Bs)
- Erik Kaunismäki — Software Engineer, Hugging Face
  - Rewriting developer tools so AI agents can actually use GPU infrastructure without misconfiguration and bugs.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-kaunismaki/) · [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/) · [Watch the talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnnOSbtBv2o)
- Sami Salonen — VP Product Engineering, F-Secure
  - Bridging the gap between vision and practice in company-wide context engineering, with live demos featuring Claude Code.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samisalonen/) · [F-Secure](https://www.f-secure.com/en) · [Watch the talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoEkU3jm9fk)
- Olena Babenko — Staff Software Engineer, Aiven
  - Comparing rules and skills through AI-driven unit test refactoring – with real results from Aiven's experiments.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/melhelen/) · [Aiven](https://aiven.io/) · [Watch the talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNHQJ48sHh4)
- Olli-Pekka Heinisuo — Co-Founder & CTO, GitHits
  - Demo: Open-Source Code as Context for Coding Agents.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ollip/) · [GitHits](https://githits.com/) · [Watch the talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsX_hJ9OOA4)
- Graham Daw — Co-Founder & CTO, Kaiku
  - Demo: Shared Context Across Teams and AI Agents.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-daw-4b328624/) · [Kaiku](https://www.kaikucrew.com/) · [Watch the talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOBLUIl6glI)
- Dilna Panchara — Wolt
  - Demo: From JIRA Ticket to PR – Autonomous Agent Orchestration.
  - [Wolt](https://wolt.com/) · [Watch the talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lGMYGknyp0)

### Context is King #2 — Mar 25, 2026, San Francisco

Three main talks plus four lightning demos on agents in production — retrieval, tool design, voice, scraping at scale.

- Venue: House of AI
- Capacity: Sold out
- Organized by: Flow AI & Aiven
- Status: Registration closed
- Registration: https://luma.com/pivvtm6d

**Speakers**

- Eno Reyes — Co-Founder & CTO, Factory
  - Context compression for coding agents. They built an eval framework to measure how much context different compression strategies actually preserve across long-running agent sessions, and tested it against approaches from OpenAI and Anthropic.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/enoreyes) · [Factory](https://factory.ai/)
- Marko Bocevski — Head of Databases, Aiven
  - Why your agent is flying blind without data context. A demo showing the difference between operating with and without rich metadata, and how MCPs are turning static data catalogs into real-time context layers agents can reason with.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/markobocevski/) · [Aiven](https://aiven.io/)
- Severi Tikkala — Co-Founder & CTO, ConfidentialMind
  - Context and RAG in practice. A walkthrough of a real RAG failure, fixed step-by-step using hybrid retrieval, metadata and scope filtering, and retrieval tracing – three practical "context knobs" used in production.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/severitikkala/) · [ConfidentialMind](https://www.confidentialmind.com/)
- Jerry Shu — Co-Founder & CTO, Daylit
  - Context gaps in finance.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerry-shu-8502591b/) · [Daylit](https://www.daylit.com/)
- Varun Singh — CPTO, Daily / Pipecat
  - Short-term and long-term tasks in voice AI.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vr000m/) · [Pipecat](https://www.pipecat.ai/)
- Robin Guldener — Co-Founder & CEO, Nango
  - MCP's production gap: what customer-facing agents actually use.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rguldener/) · [Nango](https://www.nango.dev/)
- Matej Hamaš — Senior Tech Lead, Apify
  - Real-time web data for agent context with Apify MCP.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matejhamas/) · [Apify](https://apify.com/)

### Context is King #1 — Feb 12, 2026, Helsinki

The kickoff edition. Five talks from Helsinki engineers building production agents on real data infrastructure.

- Venue: Aiven HQ
- Capacity: Sold out
- Organized by: Flow AI & Aiven
- Status: Registration closed
- Registration: https://luma.com/4fhwuibu

**Speakers**

- Juha Korpela — Founder, Datakor
  - A Brief History of Context: the Evolution of Metadata.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jkorpela/) · [Datakor](https://datakor.fi/) · [Watch the talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78sUKeBOkWM)
- Stan Dmitriev — AI Product Director, Aiven
  - Why Your Data Catalog is Your AI's Brain.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/standmitriev/) · [Aiven](https://aiven.io/) · [Watch the talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-scRLFwbg8)
- Karolus Sariola — Co-Founder & CTO, Flow AI
  - Building Reliable Data Agents with a Semantic Context Layer.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sariola/) · [Flow AI](https://flow-ai.com/) · [Watch the talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo6IH6zmKnI)
- Edward Kim — Head of AI, ConfidentialMind
  - Context and RAG in Practice.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hjedkim/) · [ConfidentialMind](https://www.confidentialmind.com/) · [Watch the talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8jpiIj4drU)
- Johan Jern — Co-Founder & CTO, Realm
  - Context Management for Agentic RAG.
  - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/johan-jern-270117128/) · [Realm](https://www.withrealm.com/) · [Watch the talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkAe12cdKH8)