Arizona AI & Emerging Technology: Agent Harnesses and Systems Engineering
August 13 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Free
Agent harnesses are becoming the way teams turn nondeterministic AI into something worth trusting in real work. This talk gets into what it actually takes — the engineering patterns, the failure modes that only show up after many runs, and the design choices that matter most — based on agentic AI work in security and infrastructure. Trust in agents isn’t a property of the model. It’s something you engineer around it.
Speaker:
Bryan Starbuck
Principal AI Research Engineer with 25+ years of experience, focused on building agentic AI systems for critical infrastructure. The interesting problem in agentic AI right now isn’t capability — it’s reliability over long horizons. My work centers on the scaffolding around models: verification agents, adversarial testing, and regression frameworks that enable empirical trust-building in agents over time.
Event Details:
- Location: 1951@Skysong @ Scottsdale, AZ
- Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM – talk will begin at 6:00pm (we get kicked out promptly at 7:30pm)
- Free Parking: Easily available (free)
- Food: Simple Pizza and Water