Ignasi Barrera

Conferences, workshops and meetup presentations.

• Your Agents Need a Router: One Integration for Every Model and Tool

  AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026

  A live agent workload end-to-end: routing, failover, cost visibility, and tool governance, and the operational pieces you need before running agents in production.

• Bringing the power of Envoy extensibility to Go and Rust developers

  Virtual EnvoyCon 2026

  Extending Envoy without C++: how Go and Rust filters open the platform to a broader audience.

• Rescue Agents from Prototype Purgatory: Operationalize Agent Readiness

  Agentics Day: MCP + Agents. KubeCon EU 2026 Co-Located Event

  How Agent Readiness pairs qualitative standards with enforceable control points to rescue agents from infinite prototype loops.

• Do you need an AI Gateway?

  MCP Dev Summit Europe, London 2025

  Framing MCP pain points and how an MCP gateway provides a solid foundation to leverage MCP at scale in enterprise environments.

• The Role of NGAC and Service Mesh for Enterprise-wide Authorization

  Zero Trust and High Assurance for Cloud Native Applications, NIST 2023

  Introducing NGAC and Service Mesh for enterprise-wide authorization, with a demo of Policy as Code at scale.

Issued and pending patents.

• NGAC Graph Evaluations

  US-11811771-B2 · November 7, 2023

  A technique to bind authenticated principals to policy classes allowing all policy classes to be evaluated in a single access decision.

• Repeatable NGAC Policy Class Structure

  US-20220156393-A1 · May 19, 2022

  A Policy Class structure for safely introducing new NGAC Policy Classes and gradually migrating existing objects to them.

Podcast appearances and recorded interviews.

• How 'Secure' Your Cloud Native Can Be

  The New Stack · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, 2018

  Discussing the growing security focus at CNCF, how it approached security in the past, and how it continues to focus on it.