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2026 September 10-11 | Tokyo, Japan
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Friday September 11, 2026 12:05 - 12:30 JST
Every agent system is two things: the model, which you rent, and the mask - the character - which is yours. The industry keeps upgrading the model and expecting the mask to improve. It doesn't work that way.

I'm a LAMDA-trained actor turned agent engineer. This talk is the actor's toolkit applied to shipped systems. Case one: a comms pipeline in production at a major crypto protocol - the generating model does Stanislavski table-work (super-objective, through-action, lining) before writing a word; a separate director model audits it blind; and voice is scored by a Laban Movement Analysis classifier that grades the human-written corpus and the machine's output on the same instrument. Brand voice becomes a falsifiable measurement. Case two: the home lab - eleven agents built with a Stanislavski character method, orchestrated over MCP, running my actual work.

You'll leave with the model/mask distinction, a character pipeline you can copy, and the failure modes: drift, voice collapse, paint-by-numbers slop.

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Presentation Language: English

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avatar for Nick Howden-Steenstra

Nick Howden-Steenstra

Agent-Systems Engineer, Independent
Nick Howden-Steenstra trained at LAMDA and spent years building characters on stage; now he builds them as infrastructure. At a major crypto protocol he made brand voice falsifiable - generation gated by Stanislavski table-work, output graded by a Laban Movement Analysis classifier... Read More →
Friday September 11, 2026 12:05 - 12:30 JST
Hall 1F
  Human-Agent Collaboration

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