Daytona & Oracle AI Builders - SF, October 2026

An event dedicated to exploring all things AI Engineering! Event partner: Oracle ​​​​​🕒 5:30 pm – 6:00 pmWelcome and Opening Remarks 🎤 Marijan Cipcic, Principal Events Manager at Daytona ​​​​​​​🕒 6:00 pm – 6:15 pmTalk "Building an agent is easy. Deciding where its code runs is the part that follows you to production"​ 🎤 Mislav Ivanda, DeEx Engineer at Daytona ​​​​​​​Outline: This talk comes from a year of building Daytona integrations across the agent ecosystem: LangChain, CrewAI, Google ADK, Mastra, Pydantic AI, the OpenAI Agents SDK, and a long tail behind them. Integration after integration, the same pattern kept surfacing. Frameworks that agree on nothing, not even the language, not the mental model, not who controls the flow, all converge on one identical primitive: give the model a computer. We'll trace why. Every framework ends up facing the same question: where does the model's code actually run? Only three answers exist, and two of them stop holding once real users show up. That's why the past year went the way it did, with frameworks deleting their own code interpreters rather than defending defaults they couldn't. And that's why the computer keeps growing: first a tool call, then the place the agent lives, then a thousand machines at once. You'll leave with one rule: pick the boundary before the framework. Frameworks are opinions. The boundary is a commitment. ​🕒 6:15 pm – 6:30 pmTalk "Building AI for the Real World: From Infrastructure to Scale" 🎤 Balraj Kadaikal, Senior Manager, Cloud Engineering at Oracle 🎤 Srikanth Kodali, Master Principal Cloud Architecture at Oracle ​​​​​​​Outline: AI applications are evolving rapidly as developers face increasing demands for performance, scalability, access to data, and reliability in production. In this session, we’ll take a practical look at the infrastructure and architectural considerations behind building and scaling modern AI applications. We’ll explore how compute, networking, storage, models, and data come together to support different AI workloads, including inference, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic applications, and model training. We’ll also discuss how architectural requirements change as applications move from experimentation to production, using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to illustrate these patterns and tradeoffs. This talk aims to provide architectural insights, lessons learned, and real-world considerations for developers, engineers, architects, and technology leaders building and scaling AI applications. ​🕒 6:30 pm – 6:45 pmTalk "TBA" 🎤 Speaker TBA ​​​​​​​Outline: TBA ​🕒 6:45 pm – 7:00 pmTalk "Compute on Loan: Giving AI Agents Memory They Can't Steal From" 🎤 Vasilije Markovic, Founder at Cognee ​​​​​​​Outline: Two AI agents, each in its own throwaway cloud sandbox, share a persistent memory. The supervisor writes a briefing, the worker picks it up, does the job, and reports back — and even though the worker gets the whole memory on disk, it cannot read the supervisor's private notes. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​🕒 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm ​​Networking With pizzas and beverages About event This is dynamic gathering for AI enthusiasts, innovators, and professionals to collaborate, share ideas, and explore the latest advancements in artificial intelligence. Whether you're building AI products, researching cutting-edge algorithms, or simply passionate about the field, join us to connect, learn, and drive the future of AI forward.