Quick facts
- Date and time: Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 5:00–8:30 p.m. PST (America/Los_Angeles)
- Where: Databricks, 500 108th Ave NE, Suite 2600, Bellevue, WA
- Cost: Free
- Organizer: Hosted by Yufa Li, calendar “Agentic + AI Observability”
- Registration: Approval required. The listing shows 12 spots remaining.
- Official listing: luma.com/Agentic_AI_11-17
What it is
A pitch-free technical evening on deploying agents in production with controls and observability. Agenda: registration at 5:00, welcome at 6:00, then two talks, then food and mingling until 8:00.
- Mary Solbrig, Software Engineering Manager at Databricks, on how the Genie Agents team uses evals, monitoring, and A/B tests to hold quality as models and data change
- Savannah Longoria, Senior Developer Advocate at Databricks, on building agentic apps with Neon Realtime: live SQL subscriptions so UIs update when agents write data in the background, demonstrated with a geospatial map
The page says previous series speakers have included people from Databricks, Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI. Those names are about prior events, not this one.
Who it's for
Software engineers, ML developers, and founders already shipping or preparing to ship agents, especially people in the Seattle Eastside.
Worth it if / Skip it if
- Worth it if those two talk abstracts match your work and you can get approved while seats last.
- Skip it if you wanted a vendor-neutral agenda; both listed talks are from Databricks staff, in a Databricks office, on Databricks-related systems.
Verdict
Worth it for engineers who get a seat. The abstracts are specific and technical. Capacity is tight, and the program is clearly hosted inside the Databricks/Neon ecosystem, which is either a feature or a reason to pass.
Source: Luma, “Is Agentic + AI Observability Meetup Seattle Worth Attending? (Bellevue, November 17, 2026)”
