Valon AI Series: Practical AI Adoption at Scale

​We're back for the second event in our AI series, this time in New York!

​Join us at Valon's NYC office for an afternoon with our engineering team on what practical AI adoption actually looks like in the real world: tools, workflows, and systems we're actively building and deploying today.

​What we'll get into:

• ​Gestalt — our open-source agent integration platform. Why we built it instead of stitching MCP servers

• ​Nicolebot — the internal Slack agent that's become a daily-driver coworker: triages Intercom, runs BigQuery investigations, hands off oncall.

• ​The harness debate — Claude Code vs. Codex vs. Cursor on a mature codebase. Sub-agent gotchas, permission modes, code review bots, and the workflow patterns that actually move the needle

​The engineers presenting are the ones who built it!

​Agenda

• ​3:00-3:15pm: Arrivals and networking

• ​3:20-3:30pm: Welcome and kickoff

• ​3:30-5:30pm: Talks/demos with Valon's engineers

  • ​Hongxia Zhong, VP of Engineering

  • ​Hugh Han, Staff Software Engineer

  • ​Nicole Foster, Senior Software Engineer

  • ​Jon Kruger, Staff Software Engineer

• ​5:30-6:00pm: Fireside chat

• ​6:00-7:00pm: Social with light drinks and bites