Agent Context Without the Round Trip

​A small room of engineers building agent and RAG infrastructure, talking through the real tradeoffs: latency, ownership, and what happens when retrieval and inference stop assuming an API call away is fast enough.

​No sales decks, no vendor pitches, just people who've actually shipped the thing they're talking about.

​Short talks, lightning talks, open Q&A, food and drinks.

​Speakers:

• ​Ravi Madabhushi, CTO, Scalekit

​"The Round Trip Nobody's Fixed Yet"
Retrieval got faster: caching, pre-fetch, embeddings at the edge. Identity didn't. What it takes to stop hand-building token exchange and tenant isolation per integration before it becomes the real bottleneck.

• ​Yisui Hu, CTO, Crafting

​"What Breaks When Agents Go Enterprise" Cost, access, orchestration, context: the hidden tax of running agents at real scale.

• ​Carlos Volante, CTO, Runtime

​"From Demo to Production" Skills, guardrails, evals, and the edge cases that only show up once agents hit the real world.

​Lightning talks:

• ​Alex Novotny, Head of Developer Growth, Actian

• ​Hendrik Krack, Developer Advocate, CodeRabbit

• ​Dev Chandra, Growth & DevRel, Octen

• ​Nikhil Rao, Co-founder, Reflex

​Venue: CodeRabbit

​Timeline:

• ​6:00 PM: Doors open

• ​6:30 PM: Program starts (talks + lightning talks)

• ​7:30 PM: Q&A

• ​8:00-9:00 PM: Food, drinks, networking