Engineering Leaders Roundtable: Token Mileage, Guardrails & Agent Engineering

​AI teams are burning tokens and budget faster than they're shipping value. This roundtable brings together engineering leads, ML platform owners, and AI product builders for a candid, off-the-record conversation on three interlinked challenges:

​1. Token Mileage — prompt compression, context window discipline, caching strategies, and cost-per-inference governance across production workloads.

​2. Harness Engineering — evaluation pipelines, regression testing for LLM outputs, and building internal tooling that lets teams iterate without breaking things.

​3. Guardrail Architecture for Agents — designing agentic systems with reliable constraints: tool-call limits, fallback logic, human-in-the-loop triggers, and output validation at scale.

​Held under Chatham House Rule. No slides, no sales pitches — just practitioners comparing notes on what's working in production.

​Organised by the Centre for Applied AI Governance (CAIG), in association with Bengaluru Tech Week 2026.