What does an agent actually cost? Designing for token economics before you ship

For our August meet-up, we will be welcoming Dieter Gobeyn, who will be delivering a talk on "What does an agent actually cost? Designing for token economics before you ship"

Most agent demos skip the question: what does an agent actually cost to run? A REST call costs the same every time. An agent doesn't, since the same prompt varies with reasoning depth, tool calls, retries and context growth. We'll map what you really pay for in Microsoft Foundry beyond model tokens and then look at several architectural options for controlling spend.. plus when NOT to build an agent at all. Expect some live demos in AI Foundry portal, and you'll leave with a FinOps checklist.

Food

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Schedule

Doors open from 18:00
Pizza at 18:20
Intro and welcome 18:40
Speaker Starts 19:00

Close ~21:00 (Don't feel bad if you have to leave early for a train/bus/lift home - no one will be offended)

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Train - James Street station is a 10 minute walk from the Lab. Liverpool Lime Street is approx 15-20 minutes walking distance.

Driving - Underground parking available at Liverpool One.