What if the network was the sandbox?#
AI Engineer Europe 2026 digest Program Adjacent pick 8–10 April 2026
Speaker not listed in the program (expo session)
- Why: The talk's thesis is a networking one: sandboxing conflates execution isolation with access control, and the network layer — identity-based access — can be the enforcement point for what autonomous agents can reach. That is zero-trust/segmentation thinking applied to agent fleets.
- What: A framing that agent blast radius is a network and identity problem: identity-based access at the network layer to define precise boundaries for agent behavior, remove the need to distribute API keys and credentials, and give complete visibility into what agents are actually doing.
- How: Network-layer identity enforcement in place of (or alongside) runtime sandboxing, so an isolated runtime that still reaches a sensitive system is caught at the network.
- Where applicable: Any org letting agents touch internal systems. No speaker or affiliation is given and it reads as a sponsor expo pitch — take the pattern (network as the policy plane for agent access), not the product.