Agent Loop - Chicago

Location

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Website

www.focused.io

About

We are a community focused on hands-on learning through shared experience: each month we will have presentations on real-world projects, lessons learned, tools explored, and challenges overcome.

Events

• December Event - Speaker Needed 2026-12-16 — Chicago
• November Event - Speaker Needed 2026-11-18 — Chicago
• October Event - Speaker Needed 2026-10-27 — Chicago
• September Event - Speaker Selected Details Coming Soon 2026-09-22 — Chicago
• Context is the New Compute: Building Memory-Augmented AI Agents with mem[v] 2026-08-25 — Chicago
• Total Recall Is Overrated: What Agents Should Learn from How We Forget 2026-07-28 — Chicago
• From Agent Card to Executor: Understanding the A2A Protocol 2026-06-23 — Chicago
• Building Nella: An AI Assistant with an Audience of One 2026-05-26 — Chicago
• CIRIS: An Open-Source Ethical AI Governance Framework 2026-04-28 — Chicago
• The Sycophancy Problem: When Helpful Models Stop Being Honest 2026-03-24 — Chicago
• Ishtar AI: Production-Grade RAG + Multi-Agent Orchestration for High-Stakes Journalism 2026-02-25 — Chicago
• Innovation, Oversight, and Opportunity: Panel Discussion on the Outlook of Agentic Engineering in 2026 2026-01-20 — Chicago
• Less Data Lake, More Data LEGO: Safer autonomy in high risk domains by simplifying the agent decision space 2025-12-10 — Chicago
• Goodbye Dashboards: Talking to Your Data with AI 2025-11-19 — Chicago
• Advanced Retrieval Strategies: Beyond Basic RAG 2025-10-23 — Chicago