Agents in NYC Puts Deployment, Evals, and Physical AI in the Same Datadog Room
Agents in NYC is scheduled for October 28 at Datadog's New York office. It is framed as the opening night of a recurring agent meetup, but its first agenda already lands on a practical divide in the market: building an agent is becoming faster; operating one responsibly in production remains work.
Datadog is listing sessions on evaluation, voice agents, bidirectional agents, and physical AI. The program names Datadog, OpenAI, and Strands from AWS, followed by dinner and networking. That is a useful mix because the conversation is not contained inside a single model, tool, or use case. It crosses from observing an agent's behavior to deciding when a human needs to intervene, and from software workflows into systems that interact with the physical world.
Why the conversation is bigger than a meetup
The most important agent work is not only about getting a system to produce an answer. It is about whether the business can explain the answer, monitor what happened, protect the systems the agent touches, and recover when the implementation meets conditions nobody modeled in the demo.
That is why evaluation belongs beside voice, deployment, and physical AI. Each creates a different version of the same operating question: what has to be true before an organization can trust an agent to carry meaningful work?
What the organizer has confirmed
- Doors open at 5:30 PM
- Speaker presentations are scheduled from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- The listed program includes Datadog on evaluations, OpenAI on voice agents, and Strands on bidirectional agents and physical AI
- Dinner and networking follow from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
The official registration page lists the event at Datadog in the New York Times Building, 620 8th Avenue. Registration is approval-required, so the organizer remains the source of truth for access and any last-minute program changes.
Event details
- Date: October 28, 2026
- Time: 5:30 PM ET
- Location: Datadog, New York Times Building, 620 8th Ave, New York, NY 10018
- Organizer: Datadog
- Registration: Approval required
DevCuration is preserving the announced agenda without implying confirmed attendance beyond the organizer's public listing.
Frequently Asked Questions
When is Agents in NYC?
The organizer lists October 28, 2026, with doors opening at 5:30 PM ET.
Where is the event?
Datadog in the New York Times Building, 620 8th Ave, New York, NY 10018.
What is on the agenda?
The organizer lists sessions from Datadog, OpenAI, and Strands (AWS), followed by dinner and networking.
How do I attend?
Use the official Luma page. Registration is subject to host approval.
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