# From Idea to Agent: Infrastructure and the New Pace of Agentic Development | DC Fintech Week 2026

- Channel: [DC Fintech Week](https://streameth.org/dc-fintech-week)
- Date: 2026-10-25
- Duration: 12:43
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-jK9iQPWGVDc
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK9iQPWGVDc

## Description

A behind-the-scenes look at how a complex financial workflow became a working AI agent and at the infrastructure underneath the agentic economy: how agents are developed, deployed, and permissioned at cloud scale, and what that architecture means when agents operate inside regulated financial systems, where every action must be authorized, auditable, and traceable to its source.

• Chris Knott, Head of Solution Architecture, Federal Financial Services, Amazon Web Services