Agentic
Engineering Day NZ
World-class AI engineering content - hands-on workshops and expert-led sessions, right here in Aotearoa New Zealand.
- AI Agents
- Context Engineering
- MCP Servers
- Production Ready
- Evals
- Multi-Agent Orchestration
- Observability
- Agent Identity
- Agent Memory
- Prompt Injection
- Guardrails
- Audit Trails
- Subagents
- Durable Execution
- Sandboxing
- Agent Skills
- Model Routing
- Human Review
- LLM-as-Judge
- Tool Calls
- Policy Enforcement
- Coding Agents
- Spec-Driven Development
- Signed Receipts
- Agentic Workflows
- Autonomy
- AI-DLC
- Enterprise Systems
- Software Factory
Powering AI engineers & architects
Agentic Engineering Day New Zealand is an independent, community-driven conference for anyone building with AI — software engineers, architects, product folks, and builders from non-technical backgrounds putting AI to work in real ways.
The deep-technical track covers what it takes to move AI systems out of the lab and into reliable production:
Whether you're shipping your first agent or scaling complex systems, this is a space to learn, share, and help shape the future of the local industry — together.
Speakers
World-class practitioners sharing real-world insights on agentic AI systems, present and the future of software development.
Randy Shoup
SVP Engineering
CircleCI
KeynoteAI Won't Eat Your Stack: Why Robust Components Matter More Than Ever
Mic Neale
Principal Engineer
Block
What If You Never Needed an API Key Again? Building a Mesh LLM From Spare Compute
Jerome Brown
Principal Consultant
Mantel
Opening the Black Box: Tracking, Troubleshooting, and Auditing AI Agents in Production
Mal Curtis
Principal Software Engineer
NVIDIA
Why LLMs Fall for Stories (And 5 Production Patterns That Actually Stop Them)
David Curlewis
Senior Engineering Manager
Canva
You're the Principal Engineer of an Agent Squad. Not a Manager.
David Sickmiller
Principal Product Engineer
AskNicely
We built a conversational AI. Our customers built a report generator.
Darshit Pandya
Senior Principal Engineer, Platform
Serko
Intent Is Not Policy: The Two-Layer Contract for Production Agents
More speakers to be announced soon
Workshops · October 20–21, 2026
Level up your skills with hands-on, half-day workshops focused on real-world AI engineering.
- Build, break, and learn by doing
- Small, collaborative sessions
- Led by engineers shipping AI in production
- Focused on agents, MCP, skills, and production workflows
Ricky Gummadi
Cloud & AI Architect
Microsoft
AI-Powered Incident Response: A Hands-On Workshop with SRE Agents
Otto Jongerius
Senior Backend Engineer
Tempo by Forsyth Barr
Instrument your MCP server: audit, signing, and policy enforcement in half a day.
Jerome Brown
Principal Consultant
Mantel
From Concept to Control Plane: A Hands-On Guide to Microsoft Foundry Agent Service
- AI-Powered Incident Response: A Hands-On Workshop with SRE AgentsRicky GummadiTue 20 October
- Agentic App Development With AspireSinan NarTue 20 October
- Durability Meets Autonomy: Sandboxing AI AgentsTao GuoWed 21 October
- Instrument your MCP server: audit, signing, and policy enforcement in half a dayOtto JongeriusWed 21 October
- From Concept to Control Plane: A Hands-On Guide to Microsoft Foundry Agent ServiceJerome BrownTue 20 October
- Why Agentic WorkflowsJason LiTue 20 October
Workshops are free to attend. However, for the two workshops taking place on October 21 at Auckland University of Technology, we ask for a NZ$50 koha from those who are able to contribute towards the costs of the venue.
Your contribution is greatly appreciated and helps us keep these community workshops free for those who genuinely need the support of the community.
Register to the main conference to have early access to Free workshops
Backed by
The companies supporting Agentic Engineering Day and the wider community.
Built in production? Talk about it.
Apply to give a 10- or 25-minute in-person talk, panel, or workshop on how you and your team are building, shipping, or using agentic and AI-powered systems in the real world.
- Agents and applications in production
- Interesting problems solved with agentic or AI-powered approaches
- Real-world architecture, implementation details, and lessons learned
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Regular pricing
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Final release
Coming Soon(*) Prices exclusive of GST (15%). Conference only — October 22, 2026. Workshops: We ask for a NZ$50 koha from those who are able to help support the costs of running the workshops. Otherwise, all workshops are free to attend.
Back the community building the future
Becoming a partner at Agentic Engineering Day New Zealand is a great opportunity to connect with the tech community. Our sponsors play a key role in supporting it.
Contact community at mate dot dev or submit your interest below.
Aotea Centre
50 Mayoral Drive, Auckland · New Zealand
Located in the heart of Auckland, it keeps you close to the city's attractions while delivering seamless logistics for both workshop and conference days.
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