Ignite Talks: AI & Agentic Systems

Twin Cities Startup Week '26

CSE AI Makerspace at the UMN, located inside Walter Library on the Twin Cities East Bank campus: Walter Library, Room 125, 117 Pleasant St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 — ROOM: Enter the Walter Library from the Pleasant Street NE entrance, The CSE AI Makerspace room is the first room on your left.

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Part of Twin Cities Startup Week 2026, September 14–18.

AI is moving quickly from individual tools and prompts toward systems that can take on larger pieces of work. In this rapid-fire Ignite series, AI practitioners will each have five minutes to share one lesson from their experience building, deploying, or working with AI and agentic systems, followed by two minutes of audience Q&A. Together, the talks will cover practical questions around building reliable AI systems, deciding what work to automate, structuring agentic workflows, evaluating AI performance, and moving AI from experimentation into real-world use.

Speakers:

Yasmin Ramzy - Founder, Clarent AI
Masaood Yunus - Founder & CEO, FRCTN AI
Sage Faraday - Partner & Fractional CTO, Rosenblatt AI
Nici Nelson - Founder of Nsquared Insights

Getting here on Monday. Parking, Basecamp, lunch, and the rest of the day: tcstartupweek.com/monday

Location

CSE AI Makerspace at the UMN, located inside Walter Library on the Twin Cities East Bank campus: Walter Library, Room 125, 117 Pleasant St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 — ROOM: Enter the Walter Library from the Pleasant Street NE entrance, The CSE AI Makerspace room is the first room on your left.

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