Haunted Agent + Infra Horror Night @SF Tech Week

😱 Three true stories of AI and agentic nightmares, hosted by Heavybit, SVB and Tailscale during SF Tech Week.

👻 Every team has one story that haunts them. On October 6, three infrastructure leaders take the stage for 12 minutes each, one scary scenario apiece.

• Matt Lenhard (Founder of Vectoral) on the unintended consequences that lead to inference theft and token fraud.

• J. Paul Reed (Senior Applied Resilience Engineer at NVIDIA) on AI agents, org dynamics and international state actors, told from incident command.

• Dr. Jennifer Prendki (Founder, Dyssonance.ai; former Head of AI Data, Google DeepMind) unpacks the horrors of frontier labs building on frontier infrastructure, where failures proliferate across organizations, products, and entire categories.

🫣 Doors open at 6:30 with food and drinks, and Q&A and open networking follow the talks. No pitches, no roadmap slides. Just chilling tales from the stack trace.

About the hosts:

Heavybit ​is the leading investor in enterprise infrastructure with an unrivaled track record of helping technical founders achieve breakout success. Since 2013, their global portfolio of companies has redefined how teams build, deploy, secure, and scale mission-critical technology.

SVB a division of First Citizens Bank, is the bank of some of the world's most innovative companies and investors. SVB provides commercial banking to companies in the technology, life science and healthcare, private equity, and venture capital industries.

Tailscale is the best secure connectivity platform for devs, IT, and security. A Zero Trust identity-based connectivity platform that replaces your legacy VPN, SASE, and PAM and connects remote teams, multi-cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, Edge & IoT devices, and AI workloads.