Mary Grygleski

VP of Global (Western Hemisphere)-AI Collective, Technical Architect and Advocate, TED/x Speaker, Java Champion, President of Chicago-JUG, Organizer of AI Collective-Chicago

October 28-30, 2026Oakland University, Rochester, MI

About Mary

Mary is a Technical Solutions Architect and Advocate in the Emerging Technology area. She started as an engineer in Unix/C, then transitioned to Java around 2000 and has never looked back since then. After 20+ years of being a software engineer and technical architect, she discovered her true passion in developer and customer advocacy. Most recently she has serviced companies of various sizes such as IBM, US Cellular, Bank of America, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, in topic areas that included Java, GenAI, Streaming systems, Open source, Cloud and Distributed messaging systems. She is also a very active tech community leader outside of her day job. She is the President of the Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG), and the Chicago Organizer of the AI Collective Chicago Chapter.

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Conference Sessions

Conference SessionIntermediate60 min

Building Scalable Multi-Agentic AI Systems: Orchestrating Agents with Event-Driven Approach

Multi-agent AI gets harder when agents need to coordinate at scale. Coordination patterns matter once agents have to share state, communicate, and keep work moving across a system. Mary Grygleski uses "Building Scalable Multi-Agentic AI Systems: Orchestrating Agents with Event-Driven Approach" to follow that thread into event-driven patterns for communication, memory, workflow state, and MCP, giving attendees a practical way to bring the lesson back to their own systems.

Topic: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Time: Oct 30, 2026, 1:15 PM
Room: Room F