Agent Context Without the Round Trip

A small room of engineers building agent and RAG infrastructure, talking through the real tradeoffs: latency, ownership, and what happens when retrieval and inference stop assuming an API call away is fast enough.

No sales decks, no vendor pitches, just people who've actually shipped the thing they're talking about.

Short talks, lightning talks, open Q&A, food and drinks.

Speakers:

• Ravi Madabhushi, CTO, Scalekit

"The Round Trip Nobody's Fixed Yet"
Retrieval got faster: caching, pre-fetch, embeddings at the edge. Identity didn't. What it takes to stop hand-building token exchange and tenant isolation per integration before it becomes the real bottleneck.

• Yisui Hu, CTO, Crafting

"What Breaks When Agents Go Enterprise" Cost, access, orchestration, context: the hidden tax of running agents at real scale.

• Carlos Volante, CTO, Runtime

"From Demo to Production" Skills, guardrails, evals, and the edge cases that only show up once agents hit the real world.

Lightning talks:

• Alex Novotny, Head of Developer Growth, Actian

• Hendrik Krack, Developer Advocate, CodeRabbit

• Dev Chandra, Growth & DevRel, Octen

• Nikhil Rao, Co-founder, Reflex

Venue: CodeRabbit

Timeline:

• 6:00 PM: Doors open

• 6:30 PM: Program starts (talks + lightning talks)

• 7:30 PM: Q&A

• 8:00-9:00 PM: Food, drinks, networking