Building Durable, Production-Ready Agents with the OpenAI Agents SDK and Temporal

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Cornelia has spent a career at the forefront of technological innovation, starting with image processing algorithm development, moving to web-centric computing in the late 1990s, and then more than a decade working in cloud-native software and DevOps platforms. As Senior Staff Developer Advocate for Temporal, she is now helping to drive the expansion of the “durable execution” distributed systems paradigm.

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Josh Smith is a Senior Staff Solutions Architect at Temporal, where he helps enterprises such as financial services, telecom, and ecommerce teams design and develop resilient, reliable systems. He began his career as a C developer and has held roles ranging from development team lead to chief architect, with deep experience in infrastructure and developer operations.

Prior to Temporal, Josh brought his expertise to companies like S&P Global and Red Hat. His favorite part of the job is helping developers succeed with Temporal and build software they’re proud of.

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Recommend the html-view in the editor to ensure proper tags. Use <p> tags. Alternating between software engineering and technical education roles, Tom Wheeler's career spans more than 25 years in the financial, healthcare, aerospace, and tech industries. Prior to joining Temporal, he created and taught training courses at Cloudera, developed engineering software at Boeing, helped design and implement a high-volume data processing system for WebMD, and served as senior programmer/analyst for a brokerage firm. Tom enjoys learning new things and teaching them to others, which has led him to present at several conferences, including Strange Loop, OSCON, JavaOne, Strata, and, of course, Replay. When he manages to step away from the computer, you can probably find him cooking, traveling, or playing guitar.

About the presenter <h3> tag

Recommend the html-view in the editor to ensure proper tags. Use <p> tags. Alternating between software engineering and technical education roles, Tom Wheeler's career spans more than 25 years in the financial, healthcare, aerospace, and tech industries. Prior to joining Temporal, he created and taught training courses at Cloudera, developed engineering software at Boeing, helped design and implement a high-volume data processing system for WebMD, and served as senior programmer/analyst for a brokerage firm. Tom enjoys learning new things and teaching them to others, which has led him to present at several conferences, including Strange Loop, OSCON, JavaOne, Strata, and, of course, Replay. When he manages to step away from the computer, you can probably find him cooking, traveling, or playing guitar.

About the presenter <h3> tag

Recommend the html-view in the editor to ensure proper tags. Use <p> tags. Alternating between software engineering and technical education roles, Tom Wheeler's career spans more than 25 years in the financial, healthcare, aerospace, and tech industries. Prior to joining Temporal, he created and taught training courses at Cloudera, developed engineering software at Boeing, helped design and implement a high-volume data processing system for WebMD, and served as senior programmer/analyst for a brokerage firm. Tom enjoys learning new things and teaching them to others, which has led him to present at several conferences, including Strange Loop, OSCON, JavaOne, Strata, and, of course, Replay. When he manages to step away from the computer, you can probably find him cooking, traveling, or playing guitar.