Agentic Engineering Evenings

No lectures, no fixed curriculum. Just people sharing what they’ve tried, what broke, and what surprised them. The format is deliberately light because the field moves faster than any one person can track alone — the point is collective sense-making.

This is the deep end. The AI Builder Nights are the open evening: one speaker, accessible tools, anyone can walk in. This one has no stage: everybody demos, it is for practitioners who already build with agents in their daily work, and it stays small. Starting out? Start with the AI Builder Nights.

How an evening runs

• Check-in — new people introduce themselves; everyone says what they’ve been trying, building or reading about since last time.
• Lightning demos and stories — 5 to 10 minutes each. Someone shows a tool, shares a workflow, or tells the story of something that worked, or didn’t.
• Open discussion — reactions, questions, and working out together what any of it means.
• Next time — before we leave the room, we set the topics for the next session and who brings what.

What we expect

This is a working group, not an audience. Everybody brings something each time: a demo, a finding, a workflow, a failure worth learning from. The group stays with the people who contribute; if you would rather listen, you are very welcome at the AI Builder Nights.

How to join

The group stays small on purpose — around ten people, twenty at the most, and one or two per company, so the room is a mix of hands-on people from different places rather than one team. Joining goes through a short application. Write to agentic@hagenberg.international and say what you have been building or breaking. That is the whole process.

Who it’s for

Developers, students and researchers who use agentic coding tools in real work, from Softwarepark Hagenberg and beyond. In most companies that is one or two people - which is exactly why it helps to meet the others. You don’t need to be an expert, but you need to be building, and willing to show it.

The focus is applied and practical: maximising real value for the people in the room, whether that’s a personal project or a business problem. Academic and research perspectives are welcome as long as they stay grounded in something we can try together.

The bigger picture

The immediate focus is day-to-day coding assistants, but this feeds a broader horizon. The biggest limitation of the exploding LLM market is a lack of correctness. By experimenting with agentic orchestration, tool use and standard protocols now, we’re exploring the integration layers needed for a much bigger breakthrough in generating correct code. We’re not just keeping up with the state of the art — we’re feeling out what comes after it.

Who runs it

The format comes from a concept Endre Szasz-Revai wrote in May 2026 together with Felix and Vlad, and the three of them gave the demos at the first evening. Endre owns the calendar and reads the applications. The evenings themselves are not his: responsibility for each session rotates, and somebody volunteers or is picked to own the next one before we leave the room.

Members can bring friends and colleagues, within the one or two per company, though warm introductions are preferred. Sessions are in person only. Notes and resources are shared afterwards so nothing gets lost.