San Francisco, CA
Community & networking

Vertical Agent Meetup

Hosted by Monaco + Mihail Eric + Dustin Dolginow

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The gathering

What to look forward to

Agent builders from Thinking Machines, Applied Compute, Braintrust, Judgement Labs, and other leading teams will share practical lessons from deploying specialized agents, covering evaluations, harnesses, memory, training data, and real-world failures. Talks will feature Applied Compute founding engineer Vinjai Vale, Micro1 VP of AI Andrew Maas, and Monaco Head of AI Mihail Eric.

From the organizer

Inside the event

The future of agents are specialized systems for vertical domains like customer support, finance, healthcare, sales, and more. For one night, we're bringing together the best agent builders in the Bay Area from companies like Thinking Machines, Applied Compute, Braintrust, Judgement Labs, and more.

Expect real technical depth and field notes from people shipping agents in production including leaders at top agent startups. All signal, no hype.

What we'll dig into

  • ♦️ Evals: how to know your agent actually works, and how to catch regressions before your customers do
  • ♦️ Harnesses: skills, tool design, context engineering, and more
  • ♦️ Memory design: what agents should remember, forget, and retrieve, and how to keep it useful over long-running work
  • ♦️ Post-training data and environments: where the data for fine-tuning and RL on your domain comes from, and what's worth collecting
  • ♦️ Lessons from deployment (forward deployed and beyond): what breaks when agents meet real customers, and what the best teams do about it

Wed, Nov 18, 6:30 to 9pm

  • 6:30pm: open networking
  • 7pm: talks
  • Vinjai Vale - Founding Engineer @ Applied Compute
  • Andrew Maas - VP of AI @ Micro1
  • Mihail Eric - Head of AI @ Monaco
  • 8pm: open networking

Food and drinks provided.

Location revealed upon RSVP.

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43 Dore St

43 Dore St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. Confirm the venue with the organizer before traveling.

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Last checked: Nov 7, 2026. Confirm current availability before making plans.

Organizer page checked: Nov 7, 2026. Check registration for the latest details.

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