What’s in the SOSS? Podcast #74 – S3E26 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.

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

Intro & Music (00:00)
It becomes a point in time in an open source project or standard’s life where it’s like this is bigger than the company that created it. And so that’s what Agentic AI Foundation is, That neutral home where these critical technologies can live.

Sally Cooper (00:28)
Hello, hello, and welcome to What’s in the SOSS? The OpenSSF podcast, where we get to talk to amazing people and talk about the ingredients that work together to secure open source software. I’m your host, Sally Cooper. And whether you’re building software or just curious about the future of agentic AI, we have a fantastic guest for you. Joining me today is Angie Jones.