# How to Raise Your Agent Episode 1 | Ian Forester, Head of Abaxx Labs at Abaxx Technologies

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Podcast: [SmarterMarkets™](https://stenobird.com/podcast/smartermarkets-1365693)
Published: 2026-05-09T13:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://smartermarkets.podbean.com/e/how-to-raise-your-agent-episode-1-ian-forester-head-of-abaxx-labs-at-abaxx-technologies/
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Duration seconds: 2432

## Resource

This week, we kick off our new series, How to Raise Your Agent, with Ian Forester, Head of the recently launched Abaxx Labs at Abaxx Technologies. David Greely sits down with Ian to discuss how AI agents are changing how humans interact with computers and the internet – and why Abaxx Labs introduced its Agents++™ open source library for using digital identity and verifiable credentials for the identity and authorization infrastructure needed for working with agents.

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