The Future of Agentic AI & MCP - #SFTechWeek
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Our venue, Groundfloor SF, is conveniently located less than a block from 16th St Mission BART station!
Brought to you by HubSpot Developers, Barndoor AI, and AI Adventurers.
Topics we’ll explore:
⦿ Why every org needs an MCP strategy
⦿ Local vs. hosted vs. third-party MCP approaches
⦿ How to manage security guardrails that unlock safe orchestration
⦿ Designing workflows that span apps, APIs, and services
⦿ Taking agentic AI from POC ➡️ production
Panelists:
🎤 Neil Mansilla – Platform Strategy, Barndoor AI (formerly with Atlassian, Intel, Mashery)
🎤 Chris Riley – Head of Developer Advocacy, HubSpot
🎤 Rishav Paul – Technical Lead - AI Connector Platform, HubSpot
🎤 Darpan Dinker – VP, AI/ML and PaaS, DigitalOcean
🎤 Jenna Pederson – Staff Developer Advocate, Pinecone
⦿ HubSpot Developers (developers.hubspot.com/community)
⦿ Barndoor AI (barndoor.ai)
⦿ AI Adventurers (tinyurl.com/bdhffbw9)
Agenda
🚪 Doors open: 6PM
🎤 Panel Q&A: 6:30PM - 7:30PM
👯 Science fair demos, network & mingle: 7:30PM - 9PM
🔬 MCP and Agentic AI demo tables from Galileo, Hivekind.AI, Chalk.AI, HubSpot and Barndoor
🍽️ Food & drinks provided
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
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