

Agents in Production: Experts Unplugged
About this Event
Join us at the Toronto AI Practitioners Network for a special event diving deep into the frontier of agentic AI and evaluation. We've invited two leading experts at OpenAI to share their knowledge on the convergence of coding agents and real-time voice interaction. Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn about the reality of building trustworthy agents beyond the hype, the intricacies of modern evaluation frameworks and the future of "always-on" AI companions, and expand your network in Toronto's thriving AI community!
Speakers
Noah MacCallum leads the Applied Evals team at OpenAI, where he focuses on building evals for coding agents and other high-priority API use cases. He was previously a Khosla-backed startup founder working on accelerating clinical research, an engineer at Forward Health, and a biomaterials researcher at MIT and Harvard.
Bill Chen is a member of the embedded applied evals team where he focuses on coding capabilities. He was previously a a YC founder. He holds a CS and Economics degree from Columbia where he also conducted research in unsupervised machine learning, condensed matter physics and material science.
Agenda
1. Introduction
2. Guest Speaker Presentations
3. Speaker-Led Discussion
4. Audience Q&A
Who Should Attend?
AI Practitioners who are:
Technologists
Researchers
Product leaders
Founders
Investors
About US
Toronto AI Practitioners Network (TAPNET) is founded in 2024. We are created to provide high-quality content and networking opportunities for AI practitioners located in Toronto.
Currently we have a couple hundreds of active members and have successfully hosted three in-person events in the last year.