Ray Liao
Cofounder · Inkbox
Tonight in Boston
AI Agentic Architectures
Monday, May 11, 2026 · doors 6:30 PM · close 9:15 PM
📍 Kendall Square, Cambridge MA
Two practitioners on the production engineering of AI agents. Ray Liao (Inkbox) on rethinking identity and trust when agents self-register. Michael R. Schulte (HBS) on the three questions every AI deployment dies on — with a live deploy into a real codebase.
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Two practitioners. Two production stories.
Michael R. Schulte
AI Builder · Harvard Business School
Agenda
How the night runs
- 6:30 Doors open · informal mingling
- 7:00 Welcome — Kranthi Manchikanti
- 7:05 Talk 1 · Ray Liao — AI Agent Self-Signups (25 min + 10 Q&A)
- 7:40 Talk 2 · Michael R. Schulte — The Greenfield Delusion (25 min + 10 Q&A)
- 8:15 Open discussion · networking
- 9:15 Close
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