AISE - Indianapolis (North) - May 2026
Agenda
Casual Networking
15 Minutes
Casual chit-chat and food + drink.
Keynote Talks
Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable
Presented By: Ben Cochran
AI agents in Claude Code are powerful but unpredictable — they skip steps, rewrite code you didn't ask them to touch, and spiral when they get stuck. This talk is a hands-on walkthrough of constraining agent workflows with state machine guardrails: defining which tools the agent can use in each phase, enforcing transitions, and getting an audit trail for free. Live demo included, and you'll leave with something you can install in three commands.
Ben is going to take us through his new, open project that has gotten a lot of traction recently on HN and GitHub.
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Using Practical Tools with AI
Presented By: Chris Herczeg
Users of AI coding assistants often neglect to realize the control surfaces that are available to platforms we use everyday. GitHub and GitHub CLI, Azure, AWS, GCP and their CLI tools. This talk will show how you can supercharge CI/CD processes with an incredibly simple tool usage.
Lightning Talks
15 Minutes
Open mic for anyone who wants to do a 3-5 minute informal presentation on an idea, tool, or workflow. No slides needed. No Q/A.
Reserve a spot here.
Sponsors
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