Agents in Production: State, Security, and the Data Layer

An official SF Tech Week session, hosted with Pebblebed.

The Frontier Research Club is a curated forum for rigorous, technical discussion at the frontier of AI. This session focuses on what happens when agents leave the sandbox: the state, memory, and database infrastructure that lets autonomous systems read and write production data, and the authorization, isolation, and evaluation methods that determine whether that's safe.

We convene researchers from the frontier labs, Stanford, Berkeley, and the teams running agents against real systems to examine concrete work, papers, methods, and results, with a bias toward assumptions, evaluation methodology, failure modes, and what would count as convincing evidence.

Each session features 2 talks selected for rigor and discussion value. Presentations are intentionally brief so the majority of time is reserved for questions and critique. Papers and supporting materials are shared in advance to ensure a high-baseline conversation.

Agenda

5:30pm: Doors open5:30pm – 6:30pm: Networking + light dinner6:30pm – 8:00pm: Research presentations + discussion8:00pm – 8:30pm: Networking

Presenters & topics

Talk 1, TBA

Talk 2, TBA

Want to present your work?

If you have a research paper you’d like to discuss at one of our next sessions, please submit it for consideration. ​Submit your paper here!

Who should attend

  • Engineers running agents against production data, and wrestling with state, permissions, and rollback

  • Platform and data-infrastructure teams: databases, transactional systems, multi-tenant architecture

  • Researchers working on agent memory, environments, evals, and reliability

  • Founders and technical leaders building agentic products on real customer data

Capacity is limited.

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Hosted by

The Frontier Syndicate is a venture community connecting frontier tech researchers, builders, and investors through curated convenings and early-stage capital. Across the Bay Area, we host a recurring series of research forums, builder nights, and intimate investor dinners, and back exceptional companies emerging from the labs, communities, and technical networks we convene.

Pebblebed is a technical early stage VC founded by Pam Vagata (cofounder of OpenAI, ran AI for Stripe, inventor of FBLearner Flow); Keith Adams (founded Facebook AI Research, was chief architect at Slack, 20th engineer at VMWare) and Tammie Siew (former Sequoia Southeast Asia investor, former Sequoia & Notable Capital backed founder).

Constructive, secure-by-default Postgres for agents. Constructive builds databases from versioned, composable modules, schemas, policies, functions, and roles, with row-level security, multi-tenancy, and AI-native pipelines enforced directly at the database layer: the production data foundation for teams putting agents on real data.