# Johannes Schickling, Co-founder of Prisma

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Johannes Schickling is speaking at Builder's Day on October 26, 2026 at SPIN San Francisco in San Francisco.

## The talk

Declarative Agents

Agents are getting more capable, but helping them succeed still takes too much effort. A year of research at Compounding Technologies has led us to explore declarative agents as a better foundation.

## About Johannes Schickling

Johannes Schickling co-founded Prisma and has spent years building developer tools. He is now doing AI research at Compounding Technologies to explore the building blocks of software factories.

## See Johannes live on October 26

Join Johannes and the rest of the lineup at SPIN San Francisco. Tickets are $250: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8

## More speakers

- [CJ Brewer](https://builders.day/speakers/cj-brewer), Co-founder at Swirls AI and VP Ops at CipherStash: Could this just be a markdown file? Declarative agents for real operations
- [Brian Douglas](https://builders.day/speakers/brian-douglas), Co-founder & CEO at Paper Compute: Dreams, Reflections, and Inceptions
- [Corey Haines](https://builders.day/speakers/corey-haines), Founder at Conversion Factory: How I went from marketer to building AI marketing tools
- [Tyler Benfield](https://builders.day/speakers/tyler-benfield), Platform Architect at Prisma: Talk to be announced
- [Will Madden](https://builders.day/speakers/will-madden), Engineering Manager, ORM at Prisma: Talk to be announced
- [Shane Neubauer](https://builders.day/speakers/shane-neubauer), Product Lead at Prisma: About Our Stack: Integrated Products, Ideal for Agents
- [Boris Tane](https://builders.day/speakers/boris-tane), Chief On-Call Officer at Polylane: Talk to be announced

## Links

- All speakers: https://builders.day/speakers
- Schedule: https://builders.day/schedule
- Tickets: https://luma.com/event/evt-jCJjku9B32NCqB8
- https://x.com/schickling
- https://bsky.app/profile/schickling.dev