Building the Agentic Future with Angie Jones

In this episode of What’s in the SOSS?, host Sally Cooper interviews Angie Jones, VP of Developer Experience at the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). Angie shares her career journey from software engineering and holding 27 patents at IBM to leading open source protocol and developer relations initiatives. She details the mission of the Agentic AI Foundation as a neutral home for governing open source standards and technologies such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP), Goose, Agents.md, and Google's Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol. The conversation explores how cross-industry collaboration addresses the reliability and security of AI agents in production, key considerations for the shift toward agentic engineering, and what attendees can expect at the upcoming AgentCon and MCPCon North America.

Chapters:

• 00:00 - Introduction
• 00:28 - Welcome Angie Jones
• 01:47 - Angie’s Career Journey: From IBM Patents to Open Source
• 06:56 - Mission of the Agentic AI Foundation & Governing Open Standards
• 11:47 - Preparing for the Era of Agentic Engineering
• 13:20 - Preview of AgentCon and MCPCon North America
• 17:32 - Rapid Fire Questions
• 18:36 - Wrap-up & OpenSSF Resources

Episode links:

• Angie Jones’ LinkedIn
• Angie Jones’ Blog
• Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)
• Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• goose: Open source AI agent
• AGENTS.md
• Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol
• AAIF Working Groups
• AAIF Agentic Commerce Working Group
• OpenSSF AI/ML Security Working Group
• Secure Agentic Framework (SAF)
• Register for AGNTCon + MCPCon North America
• AGNTCon + MCPCon North America: Full Schedule
• Let’s Play the Agentic AI Supply Chain Game! — Sarah Evans and Christopher Robinson (CRob) 
• Workshop: Secure Agentic Framework (SAF) for Agentic AI — Sarah Evans, Jautau “Jay” White, Frederick Kautz, and Laura Guazzelli
• GitHub Octodex: Meet the Octocats
• Linux Foundation Projects
• Get involved with the OpenSSF
• Subscribe to the OpenSSF newsletter
• Follow the OpenSSF on LinkedIn