The Missing Layer: What It Takes to Build Reliable Agents - Happy Hour w/Researchers at Meta, Snowflake, and Microsoft [epam x AI Circle]

epam and AI Circle are bringing together technical leaders from Meta, Snowflake, Microsoft, and EPAM for a conversation on what is still missing between capable models and reliable enterprise agents.

As agents move from demos into real workflows, the hard problems shift. Proprietary environments. Long trajectories. Tool failures. Context loss. Expert intervention. Evaluation. Feedback loops.

This conversation will focus on that missing layer: the data, environments, infrastructure, and evaluation systems required to train and deploy long-horizon agents that can actually work inside complex enterprises.

COLM and SF Tech Week provide a fitting backdrop for a discussion sitting directly between frontier research and real-world deployment.

Agenda

• 6:00 - 6:30 - Arrival and refreshments, sushi and light bites

• 6:30 - 7:15 - Panel Disussion

• 7:15 - 9:00 - Happy Hour and Networking

Speakers
• Mark Hoffman - Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Meta. Connect with Mark.
• Aman Mehta - Senior Researcher at Snowflake AI. Connect with Aman.
• Alena Sorokina - Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft. Connect with Alena.

Moderator
• Shahed Serajuddin - VP & GM, Frontier AI. Connect with Shahed.

This event is designed for researchers, engineers, product leaders, evaluators, founders, and operators working on training, evaluating, or deploying AI agents.

If you are trying to move agents from benchmark performance to reliable work inside real systems, this room is for you.

Feel free to invite colleagues who would find the conversation relevant.
However, they must apply through this invite.

Space is limited.
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About our hosts:

epam is a global digital engineering and AI transformation company working at the intersection of software engineering, cloud, data, and artificial intelligence. The company partners with organizations to build and scale AI-enabled products, platforms, and enterprise systems, with a focus on turning emerging technologies into reliable, production-ready solutions. Learn more about epam.

AI Circle is a community of practitioners across research and deployment that are advancing the frontier of AI. Our members come from frontier AI native startups through large enterprises. We host events at our chapters in SF, NYC, Seattle, London, Paris, MIT and Stanford. Learn more about AI Circle.