About this event
Summary: A one-day, cross-disciplinary workshop in New York (May 8, 2026) uniting ML, systems, and HCI researchers to share early-stage work and shape the design of reliable, scalable AI agents.
Why attend? If you’re building or evaluating AI agents, this event offers a focused forum to exchange progress, identify collaboration opportunities, and establish robust evaluation setups. The day is designed to surface common problems, align on evaluation practices, and foster interdisciplinary connections that can accelerate real-world AI agent deployments.
What to expect:
- Format: One-day workshop with technical talks, posters, and demos focused on AI agents, their design, and evaluation.
- Content focus: Interdisciplinary collaboration across ML, systems, and HCI; tackling reliability, scalability, and debuggability of AI agents; sharing early-stage research and concrete use-cases.
- Submission process: Participating researchers are invited to submit abstracts (up to one page); the organizers will open a submission site soon (check the linked website for updates).
- Audience: Researchers, PhD students, postdocs, and industry researchers in the Northeast region who work on AI agents or related disciplines.
Event details (as announced):
- Date: 2026-05-08
- Location: Jane Street offices, New York, NY
- Website: https://lnkd.in/e-g2Fr2Q
Organisers and focus: The post frames this as a collaboration and knowledge-sharing day led by Tianyi Peng, with emphasis on sharing progress, discussing cross-cutting problems, and establishing robust evaluation setups for AI agents. Attendees will have opportunities to present technical talks, posters, and demos, and to connect with peers working on ML, systems, and HCI interfaces for AI agents.
Registration/participation: Abstract submissions are encouraged, with space for posters and demos. Details about submission timing and format will be announced on the website. This is a great opportunity for researchers at the early-to-mid stage of AI-agent work to gain feedback and form collaborations that can advance practical AI agent systems.
Cross-links: For more on AI agent-related events and cross-disciplinary opportunities, explore related listings and resources on Create With. Find more AI events in New York and look for upcoming automation/ai-agents themed gatherings.

