AI AGENTS WATERLOO / TECH WEEK / Context Engineering Talk & Social mixer

​Guest speakers:

Mike Bird who runs the Tool Use AI podcast and will talk about 'context engineering'.
Check out his recent show The Best AI Advice for 2025 - Ep 50 https://youtu.be/1UhI6prApEw?si=dsij3ZpfvOMoObze

Debadyuti (Deb) RoyChowdhury
Deb is a builder from Brant who is part of the Builders Club community with a background in distributed compute, real time analytics, and production multi-modal machine learning and deep learning applications in health tech, surveillance tech, automotive, and eCommerce.
Deb is currently building and contributing to 2 projects. Relevant to this talk is CoAgent a next generation infrastructure for production ai applications to interoperate with enterprise SaaS and legacy software and data stores with a focus on operational testing, evaluations, monitoring. The other project is on decentralized data sourcing for training autonomous humanoid robots.
Deb will share about the current landscape of agentic AI and LLM applications in enterprises -  strategies for effective testing, evaluation, and monitoring to ensure successful adoption of generative AI and avoid project failures.

social mixer/after party-hangout session.

We are an official event host with Waterloo Tech Week 2025, a celebration of what’s been built here, and what’s still to come. September 8-11, 2025. waterlootechweek.ca