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Simon Schrottner

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Simon Schrottner

OpenFeature Maintainer & CNCF Ambassador · Flagsmith

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I help teams release faster and with more confidence — through open standards, feature flagging, and the communities that make both possible. I am a software engineer and CNCF Ambassador based in Austria, and a maintainer of OpenFeature — the CNCF vendor-neutral standard for feature flagging. I contribute across the full organisation in Java, Python, Go, and JavaScript, spanning the open standard itself, testing automation across a polyglot environment, and guiding teams and individuals in adopting OpenFeature in production. I am passionate about developer experience, open standards, and building communities where people help each other grow. I regularly speak at conferences and mentor individuals taking their first steps in the open source world. Open to conversations about open source, feature flagging, observability, and what comes next.

Session

Two Standards Walk Into an Agent: Runtime Agent Control with OpenTelemetry and OpenFeature

Talk

Autonomous agents are being deployed without runtime control. No open, vendor-neutral way to change what they do. No visibility into why they decided. We can fix that. A physical party game. A Raspberry Pi. An agent that adapts and evolves the game in real time. Without a single proprietary platform. Sounds fun. But it's also the argument. We've been here before. Every vendor built their own observability stack. We paid the price - so we built OpenTelemetry. Same with feature flags - we built OpenFeature. Now agents are here. The control layer is emerging again, often as vendor-specific infrastructure. Nobody designed OpenTelemetry to be an agent's eyes. Nobody designed OpenFeature to be its conscience. Turns out they work anyway: OpenTelemetry becomes observation, OpenFeature becomes control. This talk explores agent control on open standards — physical system control, infrastructure management, live model switching, permission changes, and rollback without redeployment. Every autonomous agent needs a control layer. Vendors are racing to own it. You already have it.

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