Enrich, Optimal AI and Okta Take Agents Into Production
A customer incident still needs a human owner when an agent wrote the code. That responsibility gives When Agents and Humans Ship: The New Engineering Playbook its focus: the permissions, review practices and operating choices that follow AI agents into production.
Enrich, Optimal AI and Okta are convening the San Francisco event on November 4, 2026, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. PST. The program combines a panel with dinner and conversation among engineering leaders. The exact address is withheld by the organizer, and registration requires host approval.
The people carrying the production consequences
Iba Masood, co-founder and CEO of Optimal AI, will moderate. The organizer lists Kinnar Vora, VP of AI at Forward Financing; Rebecca Yang, Senior Director of Engineering at HubSpot; Jaehyun Yeom, Principal Software Engineer at Bear Robotics; and Mitch Mikusek II, Software Engineering Manager at Verkada.
The announced subjects include failures after deployment, integration work, permissions, human approvals and security in regulated environments. The spread of industries gives those questions several operating contexts. A financial workflow, a robotics system and a SaaS product can each expose a different limit on how much autonomy a team is prepared to grant.
Review and ownership remain engineering work
The event’s relevance rests in the decisions around agents rather than a general prediction about their future. Engineering leaders can ask which changes need human review, where auditability must be preserved and who can intervene when a system behaves unexpectedly. Those choices belong in the delivery process before a production problem makes them urgent.
The organizer plans dinner and mingling after the panel, with discussion prompts for comparing production lessons. Use the official registration page to request a place and receive location details after approval. Enrich describes its broader network as private membership; this event publicly accepts requests to join, with admission controlled by the hosts.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who will moderate and speak?
Optimal AI co-founder and CEO Iba Masood moderates. The announced panel includes Kinnar Vora of Forward Financing, Rebecca Yang of HubSpot, Jaehyun Yeom of Bear Robotics and Mitch Mikusek II of Verkada.
What operating issues will the panel address?
The organizer lists post-deployment failures, integrations, permissions, human approvals, regulated environments and code ownership. These subjects concern the engineering work around agent autonomy.
Can anyone arrive at the venue?
No. Registration requires host approval and the exact San Francisco address is withheld. Request admission through the official page and wait for confirmation.
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