Personal AI & Always-On Agents | Waterloo Agentic Techtoberfest
Still managing every step, even with AI helping?
Explore what you could hand off to a personal AI agent that keeps working after you step away, and what it takes to make that useful.
Explore how people are using personal AI, always-on agents and Google products in real life, through practical examples and two interactive discussions. What worked? What needed checking? And what could you try in your own work or life?
Bring a real task or question. We’ll explore challenges such as checking AI answers, keeping useful context and following through, including where a person still needs to provide direction or approval. Leave with a clearer next step and people you can keep learning with.
We’re keeping this gathering intentionally small so there’s room for your questions and time with the speakers. Reserve your place if you’d like to be part of those conversations.
🥨 Make an evening of it
Come for the ideas, stay for the conversations over food. Beertown Waterloo is treating us to pretzels with mustard, with enough for everyone. We’ll also have their sausage-and-pear flatbread from the Oktoberfest menu to share, plus an assortment of German beer varieties, low-alcohol beer and non-alcoholic refreshments. It’s all included in your ticket.
🎉 Oktoberfest outfits welcome; come as you are. Lederhosen optional.
All experience levels welcome. Come solo or with a friend who registers too. No paid AI account needed. Watch, ask questions or explore alongside the speakers.
Part of Canada Agentic
Waterloo Agentic is part of Canada Agentic, a national network of local meetups where builders, founders, developers, creators, business leaders, and the AI-curious come together to explore the next wave of agentic AI.
Thank you to our sponsor: Beertown Waterloo
Thank you to Andrew and the Beertown Waterloo team for helping bring our Techtoberfest evening together! I was already a fan of their pretzels, so I’m happy to introduce more of our local community to them.
Thank you to our sponsor: Block Three Brewing
Thank you to Scott and the Block Three team for supporting our Techtoberfest evening!
I stopped by for a Hollinger Helles and wanted to introduce more of our community to them. Their St. Jacobs taproom has beer brewed on-site, crokinole and board games, plus two patios for patio-weather days. Well-behaved, leashed dogs are welcome inside the brewery and on its patios. You can order nearby pizza or sushi to your table, and there are non-alcoholic options too.
Bring a friend, settle in for a game, and pick up a favourite to take home.
Plan a St. Jacobs stop at Block Three
Thank you to our sponsor: IHP Marketing
Thank you to IHP Marketing for supporting our Techtoberfest evening! This Toronto marketing agency helps businesses connect their strategy, campaigns and automation to support growth.
Thank you to our community partner: Google Developer Group Markham
Thank you to Google Developer Group Markham for joining our Techtoberfest evening and supporting shared learning. This independent community brings people together to explore technology, build and connect.
Keep building with the community at Build & Connect: GDG Markham Hackathon + Social 2026 on Saturday, October 24, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Explore a local challenge with AI, teammates and mentors. Beginners welcome. Free, with registration subject to host approval; plan to attend the full day.
Explore the hackathon and request to join
🗓 Friday, October 16 · 5:30–9 p.m.
Builders Club kitchen · Third floor
165 King Street West, Kitchener
Arrivals from 5:30. The program begins at 6:30.
5:30–6:30 · Arrive & connect
Settle in, enjoy refreshments and meet people informally. Coloured wristbands help you see who’s who and start conversations.
6:30–6:40 · Welcome & the questions we’re exploring
A short introduction to the evening and the practical questions we’ll explore together.
6:40–7:20 · Interactive conversation 1: practical examples
Explore real uses of personal AI, always-on agents and Google products through practical examples, facilitated discussion and audience questions.
7:20–7:40 · Refreshment & connection break
Take a break, enjoy refreshments and continue a conversation.
7:40–8:20 · Interactive conversation 2: practical examples
Continue exploring practical examples together. Bring your own use case or question, compare approaches and discuss a realistic next step.
8:20–9 · Takeaways & open conversation
Share useful ideas and open questions, then keep the conversations going informally from 8:30.
Getting here
Find Builders Club on Maps, near King and Gaukel/Young. It’s roughly a 3–5-minute walk from ION’s Victoria Park or Kitchener City Hall stations.
Driving? City Hall garage has an entrance on Young Street and a posted $6.25 evening maximum after 5 p.m. Parking details
🎟 $11 CAD total, including fees
Your ticket includes practical AI examples, interactive discussion and useful connections, plus Beertown pretzels with mustard, Oktoberfest flatbread to share, and beer, low-alcohol and non-alcoholic drink choices.
Estimated ticket breakdown:
About $9.83 available to help cover food and refreshments
$0.55 Luma fee
About $0.62 Stripe processing
Our sponsors’ contributions also help support the evening. Processing is estimated for a standard Canadian card. No extra fees added at checkout.
Hosted by Waterloo Agentic, part of Canada Agentic.
Bring your curiosity. Reserve your ticket for our Techtoberfest evening.
Tickets & transfers
Tickets are non-refundable but transferable. If you can’t make it, contact the host through Luma to arrange for someone else to attend in your place.
Photos & video
We may take photos and short videos to share event highlights and promote future Canada Agentic events on our website and social channels. Prefer to stay off camera? Let a host know at check-in.
Audio recording during facilitated discussions
We’ll audio record the facilitated discussions to create a shareable recap and actionable takeaways to send attendees after the event, so you don’t have to remember everything. We’ll also use the recordings for our own market research. Open conversation time, including arrival, breaks and informal conversations, will not be audio recorded.
Prefer not to be recorded? Please let a host know before the discussion. We’ll do our best to accommodate you and discuss how you can still participate collaboratively.