Global AI Coimbatore

​Speaker: Rishub C R
LinkedIn: /rishub-c-r
​We'll explore Harness Engineering — the engineering discipline around building the systems, workflows, tools, guardrails, context, and feedback loops that turn capable AI models into reliable software-building agents.
​The session will walk through how a software factory can be designed using modern agent harnesses, and how an idea or engineering ticket can move through an agentic software development lifecycle — from planning and implementation to testing, review, delivery, and observability.
​What we'll explore

• ​Building a software factory and agent-ready software stack from first principles
• ​Designing agents that can work with real engineering workflows and tools such as Jira and Linear
• ​Structuring planning → implementation → testing → review → delivery across an agentic SDLC
• ​Giving agents the right tools, context, permissions, and guardrails to actually get work done
• ​Tracking what agents are doing through traces, tool calls, costs, failures, decisions, and outcomes
• ​Running the same software factory across everything from local Small Language Models (SLMs) to frontier models
• ​Understanding the practical trade-offs between local vs cloud, cost vs capability, speed vs reliability, and autonomy vs control
• ​Exploring where humans should remain in the loop — and where agents can safely operate independently

​This is not a vibe-coding session.
​We're not going to press a button and ask AI to magically build a startup.
​Instead, we'll look at the engineering underneath reliable agentic software development: clear interfaces, good context, tools, evaluations, feedback loops, observability, and human control.
​Expect a mix of first-principles explanations, architecture discussions, practical examples, and technical demonstrations.

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## ​From AI Agents to Real-World Products: What It Takes to Build Beyond the Demo

​Speaker: Rajkamal Mountbatton
CEO & Co-Founder, O2VEND
LinkedIn: /rajkamalmountbatton

• ​Building an AI agent that works in a demo is one thing.
• ​Turning it into a product that can survive real users, real workflows, business constraints, failures, changing requirements, and production environments is something completely different.
• ​As the creator of O2VEND and CEO & Co-Founder of Jeyan Technologies, Rajkamal brings a builder's perspective on what it actually takes to move AI systems beyond experimentation and into real-world products.
• ​The session will look at the challenges that emerge when AI moves from a prototype into production — and the engineering, product, and business thinking required to make that transition successfully.

​Together, the two sessions connect both sides of the problem:
​How do we engineer capable AI agents?
​and
​How do we turn those capabilities into products that actually work in the real world?

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​By the end of the event, you'll have a clearer mental model of Harness Engineering, how modern coding agents actually work, and what it takes to turn AI agents and prototypes into reliable real-world products.