AI ENGINEER / NYC 2026 ↗
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13
19talks in one route
11parallel talk backups
ET onlyNew York times throughout
BROWSER AUTOMATION & AGENT CONTROL

The closest matches to your interests

Prioritize real web workflows, programmable execution, and independent verification.

TOP MATCH · PRIMARY
3:20PM - 3:38PM ET

How to build financial agents that work across the web

Shannon Room (NY Ballroom E)
Jay Sahnan, Arik Bird

Real browser agents navigating portals and retrieving documents directly fit GuardDog and Birdie automation.

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PRIMARY
3:45PM - 4:03PM ET

Give the Model a Computer: The One Thing Every AI Agent Framework Agrees On

Sutton Room (NY Ballroom W)
Mislav Ivanda

Programmable execution and isolation offer the closest adjacent match to giving agents reliable control over a computer.

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BACKUP · OVERLAPS BROWSERBASE
3:20PM - 3:38PM ET

Your agent fix just broke something else

Turing Room (Riverside Ballroom)
Sofia Jakovcevic

Trace-based regression testing connects to independent action verification and evidence-led debugging.

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Your highest-value stretch

2:55 PM · Attack demo → 3:20 PM · Browser agents → 3:45 PM · Give the model a computer (voice is the backup).

For philosophy: 9:54 AM code quality, 11:55 AM what evals justify, and 1:40 PM human intention and craft.

AI-EO: adjacent, useful picks

11:30 AM Exa Snapshot + 12:20 PM Your Next User Is an Agent connect retrieval and agent discovery to GolfTroop’s web presence.

These picks cover retrieval and agent discovery; AI recommendation and ranking signals are useful questions to bring.

YOUR ATTENDANCE PLAN

Follow the route. Keep a backup.

Full talks · no overlaps · exact rooms

Filters highlight interests within the route; backups are alternatives, not extra talks to attend.

9:00AM - 9:18AMNEW YORK · ET
Recommended01

Vault: Making Unstructured Data Work for Investing

↗ Simons Room (Metropolitan East)
Aaron Linsky, Sam Green

A shared repository of source documents is a useful model for GuardDog evidence retrieval and Birdie’s access to business context.

GuardDogBirdie
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Networking or a break

No parallel talk is listed; use this slot to recharge or discuss browser automation, AI-EO, or agent trust with attendees.

9:18AM - 9:36AMNEW YORK · ET
Recommended02

Anthropic: Accelerating frontier AI in Financial Services.

↗ Simons Room (Metropolitan East)
Belinda Neal, Keon Shahab

Reusable connectors, skills, and controls could help Birdie expand from individual tasks into repeatable GolfTroop workflows.

Birdie
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Networking or a break

No parallel talk is listed; use this slot to recharge or discuss browser automation, AI-EO, or agent trust with attendees.

9:36AM - 9:54AMNEW YORK · ET
Recommended03

Balancing Acceleration and Safety for AI Agents

↗ Simons Room (Metropolitan East)
John Feminella

This examines how to give GuardDog and Birdie more useful autonomy while keeping their actions within trustworthy boundaries.

PhilosophyBirdie
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Networking or a break

No parallel talk is listed; use this slot to recharge or discuss browser automation, AI-EO, or agent trust with attendees.

9:54AM - 10:12AMNEW YORK · ET
HIGH PRIORITY04

Does Code Quality Even Matter?

↗ Simons Room (Metropolitan East)
Max Kanat-Alexander

Its principles for deciding what humans should review directly address how you judge and govern AI-generated software.

Philosophy
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Networking or a break

No parallel talk is listed; use this slot to recharge or discuss browser automation, AI-EO, or agent trust with attendees.

10:12AM - 10:30AMNEW YORK · ET
Recommended05

What does an AI engineer do?

↗ Simons Room (Metropolitan East)
Aparna Dhinakaran

Defining what counts as good and done is central to Birdie’s product behavior and your role as an agent builder.

PhilosophyBirdie
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Networking or a break

No parallel talk is listed; use this slot to recharge or discuss browser automation, AI-EO, or agent trust with attendees.

10:40AM - 10:58AMNEW YORK · ET
Recommended06

The Intelligence Plane: What your agents know, remember and learn

↗ Sutton Room (NY Ballroom W)
Richmond Alake

Business semantics, permissions, and durable memory map directly to Birdie’s context and GuardDog’s interpretation of records.

BirdieGuardDog
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BACKUP · 10:40AM - 10:58AM ET

Can Any Model Write Like Me? Building a Benchmark for Creative Writing

Turing Room (Riverside Ballroom)
Louis-François Bouchard

Its human-calibrated style benchmark could help Birdie produce GolfTroop messages in a consistent brand voice.

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11:05AM - 11:23AMNEW YORK · ET
Recommended07

Write the Answer First: Generating Eval Datasets for Agents With No Benchmark

↗ Turing Room (Riverside Ballroom)
Nathanael Weill

You can apply its dataset-building approach to GuardDog extraction and Birdie workflows that lack an off-the-shelf benchmark.

GuardDogBirdie
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BACKUP · 11:05AM - 11:23AM ET

Inside Arca’s long-horizon agents that run the business

Simons Room (Metropolitan East)
Aman Singh

Long-running goals and human/agent collaboration map to Birdie’s multi-step business workflows.

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11:30AM - 11:48AMNEW YORK · ET
HIGH PRIORITY08

Search the Web as It Was: An Introduction to Exa Snapshot

↗ Shannon Room (NY Ballroom E)
Ryan Ahern

Understanding web retrieval over time can inform GolfTroop visibility experiments and GuardDog source provenance, though this is not an AI-ranking tutorial.

AI-EOGuardDog
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BACKUP · 11:30AM - 11:48AM ET

Your Financial Agent Passed Every Eval. Can You Defend Its Decision?

Turing Room (Riverside Ballroom)
Anirudh Veeraragavan

Source provenance and defensible decisions are directly useful for GuardDog evidence and Birdie audit trails.

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11:55AM - 12:13PMNEW YORK · ET
HIGH PRIORITY09

Lies, Damned Lies, and Evals: How to trust your agents when the stakes are high

↗ Turing Room (Riverside Ballroom)
Stephanie Jarmak

It challenges whether an eval score really justifies autonomy, a critical question for consequential GuardDog findings and Birdie actions.

PhilosophyGuardDogBirdie
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BACKUP · 11:55AM - 12:13PM ET

Can Your AI Analyst Keep a Secret?

Shannon Room (NY Ballroom E)
Aaron Linsky, Nikhil Benesch

Permission-aware retrieval is useful for keeping Birdie customer data and GuardDog restricted records properly scoped.

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12:20PM - 12:38PMNEW YORK · ET
HIGH PRIORITY10

Your Next User Is an Agent

↗ Sutton Room (NY Ballroom W)
Isabelle Williams

Agent discovery, onboarding, and authorization are the closest match to making GolfTroop usable by AI visitors, with ranking signals outside the stated scope.

AI-EOBirdie
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BACKUP · 12:20PM - 12:38PM ET

1,368 AI Failures: What They Teach Us About System Evals

Turing Room (Riverside Ballroom)
Vishal Srivastava, Tanmay Sah

System-level failure analysis helps assess harm and authority boundaries beyond a successful agent output.

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12:38–1:40 PM ET · Lunch & reset

62 minutes free between talks; the official lunch window is 12:00–2:00 PM.

1:40PM - 1:58PMNEW YORK · ET
HIGH PRIORITY11

Factories of Loving Grace

↗ Sutton Room (NY Ballroom W)
Zack Proser

Its focus on human intention, craft, and judgment offers a philosophical lens for building agents that serve people well.

Philosophy
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BACKUP · 1:40PM - 1:58PM ET

From RAG to Memory: Building Agents That Remember

Shannon Room (NY Ballroom E)
Wojciech Pluta

Memory design and prompt reconstruction can help Birdie retain useful context without an ever-growing token bill.

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2:05PM - 2:23PMNEW YORK · ET
HIGH PRIORITY12

Hunt before you're hunted: SonarQube Hunter Agent in action

↗ Sutton Room (NY Ballroom W)
Taylor Luttrell-Williams

The live access-control and business-logic investigation is a direct ethical-hacking match for testing GolfTroop and Birdie integrations.

SecurityBirdie
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BACKUP · 2:05PM - 2:23PM ET

Why Are We Still Governing AI Like Software?

McCarthy Room (Riverside Suite)
Tim Tyler

Delegating authority using lessons from human governance is a strong philosophy alternative for GuardDog and Birdie.

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2:30PM - 2:48PMNEW YORK · ET
Recommended13

Who is making the request? Agent Auth 101 via gateways + SDKs

↗ McCarthy Room (Riverside Suite)
Kamil Potrec

Tracing delegated identity through MCP tools can help prevent Birdie from performing a valid-looking request for the wrong user.

SecurityBirdie
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BACKUP · 2:30PM - 2:48PM ET

From Sharing Code to Sharing Agents

Sutton Room (NY Ballroom W)
Richard Feldman

Persistent histories linking code, conversations, and collaborators are relevant to Birdie’s development workflows.

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2:55PM - 3:13PMNEW YORK · ET
HIGH PRIORITY14

Your Agent Just Paid for Nothing (6 Attacks on x402 Payments)

↗ Turing Room (Riverside Ballroom)
Ishween Kaur

Six concrete attack classes and a safe test lab offer useful threat models for Birdie’s future purchasing or payment actions.

SecurityBirdie
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BACKUP · 2:55PM - 3:13PM ET

State of the Agent: Reliability, Observability, and the Gap Between Them

McCarthy Room (Riverside Suite)
Shy Ruparel

Unattended-agent crashes, lost progress, and silent failures map directly to GuardDog and Birdie operations.

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3:20PM - 3:38PMNEW YORK · ET
HIGH PRIORITY15

How to build financial agents that work across the web

↗ Shannon Room (NY Ballroom E)
Jay Sahnan, Arik Bird

Browserbase’s production portal workflows are today’s closest match to hands-on browser automation for GuardDog document retrieval and Birdie external-system tasks.

Browser useGuardDogBirdieAgent control
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BACKUP · 3:20PM - 3:38PM ET

Your agent fix just broke something else

Turing Room (Riverside Ballroom)
Sofia Jakovcevic

Its trace-driven observe, evaluate, and test loop is closely related to verifying browser actions and catching GuardDog or Birdie regressions.

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3:45PM - 4:03PMNEW YORK · ET
HIGH PRIORITY16

Give the Model a Computer: The One Thing Every AI Agent Framework Agrees On

↗ Sutton Room (NY Ballroom W)
Mislav Ivanda

Giving agents an isolated computer and choosing execution boundaries closely matches programmable browser control and is useful for GuardDog portal automation and Birdie tools.

Agent controlBrowser useGuardDogBirdie
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BACKUP · 3:45PM - 4:03PM ET

Building Humanlike Voice Agents for Financial Services

Shannon Room (NY Ballroom E)
Jesse Hall

Natural turn-taking, latency, and conversation-level testing are useful if Birdie handles customer calls or voice interactions.

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4:03–4:25 PM ET · Break & move

Move to Simons Room (Metropolitan East) for the 4:25 PM welcome and featured keynotes.

4:30PM - 4:48PMNEW YORK · ET
Recommended17

A Hedge Fund as a Function

↗ Simons Room (Metropolitan East)
Frank Long

Its framework-oriented approach may offer transferable ways to think about AI systems, although the published description is brief.

Philosophy
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BACKUP · SAME TIME

Networking or a break

No parallel talk is listed; use this slot to recharge or discuss browser automation, AI-EO, or agent trust with attendees.

4:48PM - 5:06PMNEW YORK · ET
Recommended18

Frontier Models for Acting in Space and Time

↗ Simons Room (Metropolitan East)
Pim de Witte

Models that act in space and time are adjacent to visual computer-use agents, with browser and CAPTCHA coverage unconfirmed.

Browser use
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BACKUP · SAME TIME

Networking or a break

No parallel talk is listed; use this slot to recharge or discuss browser automation, AI-EO, or agent trust with attendees.

5:06PM - 5:24PMNEW YORK · ET
Recommended19

Hermes gives you wings: Build on open foundations.

↗ Simons Room (Metropolitan East)
Dillon Rolnick

Open agent foundations could inform your choices about Birdie’s control, extensibility, and self-hosted components.

Birdie
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BACKUP · SAME TIME

Networking or a break

No parallel talk is listed; use this slot to recharge or discuss browser automation, AI-EO, or agent trust with attendees.