Diagrid and Dapr at NDC London 2026

Catch Marc Duiker at NDC London speaking on how durable execution plays a critical role in making agentic systems production-ready, with real-world patterns you can apply immediately.

Speaking session:

Reliable Agentic Systems Need Durable Execution

Marc Duiker, Diagrid | Wednesday, 5:40 PM | Room 5

Everybody seems to be building agentic AI systems these days. But can these systems be put in production easily and work reliably under a heavy load? Agentic systems are essentially distributed applications, involving communication across LLM providers, services, and data stores. Luckily, we have been building distributed systems for decades, so let's apply this knowledge!

In this session I'll show how Dapr, the Distributed Application Runtime, a graduated CNCF project, helps to build and run agentic systems reliably using the durable execution principle that is provided by Dapr Workflow. I'll demonstrate various patterns in .NET for building effective agents such as Prompt Chaining, Routing, Parallelization, Orchestrator-Workers and Evaluator-Optimizer. I'll also use the new LLM Conversation API in Dapr to interact with different LLM providers.

By the end of the session, you'll have a good understanding of how to build agentic systems with Dapr, and when to apply the different agentic patterns.