Agents You Can Trust : A COLM Happy Hour

Agents You Can Trust : A COLM Happy Hour

📅 October 08, 2026
🕐 6:00 PM PT
📍 San Francisco
👥 46 attending
🎟️ Free · Approval required

About This Event

Hear from AI leaders at Google, Meta, Salesforce, Glean, and more on what it actually takes to deploy AI agents safely in production.

Join Vinay Rao, VP at Google, for a fireside chat with Anish Das Sarma, CEO of Reinforce Labs, followed by a panel featuring:

  • Nilou Salehi | Professor, UC Berkeley & CEO, Across AI

  • Panagiotis Papadimitriou | Trust & Safety, Meta

  • Nilesh Dalvi | Engineering Leader, Glean

  • Manjeet Singh | Sr. Director, Agentforce AI, Salesforce

  • Moderated by Prasanna Desikan | Head of Healthcare AI, Centific

AI agents can look impressive in demos. Deploying them into real products, where they interact with users, data, and tools, is a much harder problem.

As agent capabilities increase, teams are grappling with a new set of questions: How do you evaluate behavior before deployment? What guardrails actually work in production? Where should accountability sit when an agent takes an unexpected action? And what does it take to earn user trust?

During COLM week, Centific and Reinforce Labs are bringing together researchers, builders, and product leaders for a candid conversation about the practical challenges of deploying agentic AI responsibly.

We’ll discuss agent evaluations, red teaming, guardrails, production safety, accountability, and user trust, with perspectives from teams building and deploying AI at scale.

Come for the speakers. Stay for the conversation.

Schedule

6:00–6:30 PM | Registration & refreshments
6:30–6:45 PM | Welcome & introductions
6:45–7:30 PM | Fireside chat with Vinay Rao, VP, Google
7:30–8:15 PM | Panel: Deploying Agentic AI Responsibly
8:15–9:00 PM | Networking

📍 San Francisco (exact address will be shared after you register)
🗓 October 8, 2026

Attendance is capped at 50 guests. RSVP early to secure a spot.

About Centific

Centific is a global AI data and services company backed by more than two million subject matter experts, providing data infrastructure for some of the world’s most capable AI systems.

Its research arm, Centific AI Research (CAIR) Labs, works across AI agents, reasoning, post-training, safety, evaluation, and alignment, including building and evaluating RL environments for enterprise AI agents. CAIR regularly publishes at leading research venues including ICML, NeurIPS, COLM, KDD, and ICLR.

About Reinforce Labs

Reinforce Labs is a Palo Alto AI startup helping enterprises find how AI agents fail, fix them at the source, and guard them in production. Chatbots, copilots, single and multi-agent systems: from a model behind an API to an agent in front of real patients, regulators and executives.

The team’s research has also appeared at leading venues including ICML and KDD.

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