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
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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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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
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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
Official session info ↗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.
Official session info ↗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
Official session info ↗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.
Official session info ↗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
Official session info ↗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.
Official session info ↗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
Official session info ↗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.
Official session info ↗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
Official session info ↗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.
Official session info ↗12:38–1:40 PM ET · Lunch & reset62 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
Official session info ↗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.
Official session info ↗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
Official session info ↗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.
Official session info ↗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
Official session info ↗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.
Official session info ↗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
Official session info ↗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.
Official session info ↗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
Official session info ↗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.
Official session info ↗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
Official session info ↗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.
Official session info ↗4:03–4:25 PM ET · Break & moveMove 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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Networking or a break
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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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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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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.