Platform engineering

2 sessions on Platform engineering at APE XXL 2026 — 8 December at Dierenpark Apenheul.

Azure Architect at Xebia · Microsoft MVP

300

Why is your AI agent ignoring the instructions you just wrote?

copilot-instructions.md, AGENTS.md, SKILL.md, prompt files — they all tell the agent how to behave. So why does one get followed immediately while another disappears into the void? A practical mental model for how AI instruction files are actually loaded and applied — and how to spot guidance that is being ignored versus never loaded.

en 15:00–15:50 · Gibbon

Alina Astapovich

Platform Engineer at Storytel

Keynote

How Memory Works, from the Human Brain to AI Agents

AI agent memory sounds complicated until you realize there is already a perfect example of it: your own brain. Each type and technique of agent memory matched to the part of the brain it mirrors — then shown at work in a real agentic system in production: how it decides what to remember, how it recalls the right thing at the right moment, and how it forgets the rest.

en 17:15–18:00 · Auditorium

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