Bare Metal Happy Hour: Autonomous Systems & Agent Fleet Orchestration

Jun 5, 9:00 PM – Jun 6, 12:00 AM (UTC)

New York City

Time Out Market Union Square, 124 East 14th Street, New York, 10003

Join fellow engineers and builders who are running autonomous systems in production — whether you're orchestrating agent fleets through managed APIs or running open source models on your own hardware. Come ready to talk implementation details on scaling autonomous labor.

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About this event

Are you an engineer or builder working on autonomous systems or agent fleet orchestration?

We're bringing together practitioners who are moving beyond individual AI tools and into autonomous, continuously running systems — whether you're maxing out managed API plans or running open source models on your own hardware.

Join us if you're building toward AI as a scalable workforce: agent loops that run for hours, parallelized workflows, and the infrastructure decisions that make or break production systems.

Expect to talk about things like:

  • Scaling agent fleets on managed APIs vs. self-hosted inference
  • Open source models and where local compute actually makes sense
  • State persistence, monitoring, and reliability for long-running agents
  • The real tradeoffs between cost, latency, and control at scale

Whether you're orchestrating agents through Claude or running Llama on bare metal, come ready to talk implementation details with people who are building the same way you are.

This event is a part of #NYTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com

When

When

June 5 – 6, 2026
9:00 PM – 12:00 AM (UTC)

Organizers

  • Joshua Ness

    Fulbright Program

    Director, Startup Grind

  • Tova Feldheim

    York Effect

    Cofounder

  • Paul GUILLARD

    Chief of Staff / BizOps / Project Manager / BD

  • Prianka Ball

  • Michaela Freedman

    Steer Health

  • Payton Shafer

    CAUSE+EFFECT Strategy

  • KT Goldthorpe

    Champ: Building Competitive Brands

  • Bhavnish Walia

    Amazon

  • Rebecca Liang

  • Pushkar Taday

    Opus Training

    Software Engineer (AI Operations)

  • Theophila Lee

    Reitler Law

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