Agentic AI Day: From Models to Systems That Act

10 Demos · Keynote · Panel · 80 people in the room Agentic AI Day is a focused gathering for the founders, engineers, researchers, investors, and enterprise leaders building that future. This program gives selected teams time to demonstrate a real product or workflow, explain the technical decisions behind it, and receive useful feedback from experienced operators and investors. 🙌 Speaker & Judge Line Up Brett Liu, Investment Lead @ Sixty Degree Capital Brett Liu, investment lead at Sixty Degree Capital, backs AI companies founded by university researchers and professors and hosts researcher-founder office hours. He advises nonprofit AItonomy and led its Annual Summit, supports university AI commercialization as an ARC Program Ambassador, and serves as Berkeley SESE’s VC liaison. Previously, he co-founded and exited a deeptech startup and worked in corporate development and engineering consulting. Benny Liao, Investor @ Acorn Pacific Ventures 10 years of combined experience in entrepreneurship and venture investing across AI, Enterprise SaaS, and consumer sectors, spanning both local and multinational environments. Founder-turned-VC: previously built and scaled a fintech startup in Southeast Asia to 140+ employees, leading it to a successful exit at a $30M valuation. Patrick Blumenthal (Remote Judge), VC @ Draper Associates Patrick Blumenthal is working in Venture Capital at Draper Associates, an early-stage venture capital firm behind 60+ unicorns including SpaceX, Tesla, and Coinbase. Before VC, he worked across several startups and helped build an accelerator from scratch. He backs founders building things that most people today think are too early, too weird, or totally impossible. Vandon Duong, Investor @ DCVC Dan Ndombe, Staff Developer Success Advocate @ Docker Dan is a Developer Success Advocate at Docker, helping developers build and ship software faster. He is a two-time founder and former engineer-turned-product manager with experience across companies including Netflix, Pinterest, and Calm. George Trushevskiy, Founding GTM @ Keenable Keenable is a web search API built for AI agents, in production at several AI labs. In a short live demo, we'll show an agent that searches the live web and reads any page as clean text in a fraction of a second, through a REST API or an MCP server that works in Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. More speakers / judges confirming… What to Expect A keynote and a panel on the infrastructure required for autonomous applications10 live product and technical demosAn intentionally curated room of approximately 80 attendees Interested in Speaking? Please let us know through partnership@openstagesai.com Agenda 1:00 PM — Doors open, registration and networking1:50–2:00 PM — Opening2:00–2:30 PM — KeynoteThe Future of Connected and Collaborative AI Systems2:30–3:45 PM — Talk & Demo Round I - 5 Teams3:45–4:15 PM — Workshop + Coffee Served4:15–5:20 PM — Talk & Demo Round II - 5 Teams5:20–6:00 PM — GIFTS Panel DiscussionFrom Models to Autonomous Systems: What Infrastructure Will Agents Need?6:00–7:00 PM — Networking Talk & Demo Format Each selected team receives: 10 minutes for a live technical or product demo + 5 minutes for moderated Q&A and feedback Areas We’re Exploring Agent runtime, tool use, and multi-agent orchestrationContext, memory, retrieval, and agent-accessible dataInference, serving, routing, caching, and schedulingEvaluation, observability, security, and permissions Applying to Demo Companies applying for a demo should be prepared to show a real product or workflow. Demo slots are limited. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Submitting an application does not guarantee a demo slot or event admission. Please apply through partnership@openstagesai.com Judge Feedback We will invite a selected group of judges to evaluate the demos and provide direct feedback to each team. The judging group will include senior AI and infrastructure leaders, investo…