YouCode Forum: Building What's Next in The Agentic Era
Join us in SoHo for an intimate evening with James Kaplan, CTO of McKinsey, and Bryan McCann, CTO of You.com, alongside enterprise builders and technical leaders.
These are the people shipping agentic systems, advising the world’s largest organizations, and building the infrastructure that powers it all. Expect sharp talks, real conversations, and a curated room of developers and technical leaders who are done with demos and ready to build.
🗓 Agenda
6:00–7:00 PM — Networking, Drinks & Food
Meet fellow developers, technical leaders, and AI builders while enjoying appetizers and drinks before the talks begin.
7:00–8:00 PM — Lightning Talks
Building AI Agent Skills Without Creating Chaos
Mariane Bekker, Head of Developer Relations, You.com
Deploy agentic skills in enterprise workflows without burning down existing systems — from unpredictable outputs to broken integrations, learn what actually sticks.
What Enterprise Developers Get Wrong About Agentic AI
Andi Partovi, Co-Founder & CTO, Veris AI
Enterprise teams often tackle the wrong problems. Andi shares patterns that separate teams shipping agentic AI in production from those stuck in pilot mode.
8:00–8:40 PM — Fireside Chat
Scaling Agentic Systems: CTO Insights from McKinsey & You.com
Bryan McCann, CTO & Co-Founder, You.com × James Kaplan, Partner & CTO, McKinsey Technology
Two CTOs. One building a unicorn from the inside, one advising the largest enterprises globally. They go head-to-head on technical bets, infrastructure decisions, and leadership challenges shaping the next decade of AI-native enterprises.
8:40–9:00 PM — Networking, Drinks & Food
Wrap up the evening making connections, sharing insights, and enjoying more food with fellow builders and enterprise developers.
About Us
Veris AI accelerates agent development and deployment with a simulation sandbox that delivers robust, compliant AI systems at speed. Veris sandbox is pre-loaded with test scenarios, simulated tools, and personas. Using the sandbox, you can run thousands of simulated interactions across routine workflows, challenging edge cases, and adversarial scenarios. Veris AI creates root-cause analysis reports, regression testing gates, and prompt or RL optimization loops to improve the agent using these interactions before the agent touches the first real system or customer.
You.com is the AI Search Infrastructure company for enterprises. We build the intellectual backbone that enables organizations to reason like experts, decide with confidence, and act at scale through intelligent agents and workflows.
We deliver real-time, accurate, and citation-backed answers—enabled by our proprietary vertical-specific web indices, which integrate public and domain-specific data for the deepest, most relevant search experience available.
Founders Bay is a membership community of 150,000+ founders, executives, investors and operators coming together to grow their market through curated weekly events, expert-led virtual workshops, mentorship programs and educational resources. Proudly woman-owned and operated by Mariane Bekker, we are dedicated to empowering a diverse and inclusive startup ecosystem.
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