Agentic + AI Observability Meetup - Bellevue

Agentic + AI Observability's Bellevue meetup is a practitioner evening for Data and AI engineers, machine-learning people, and technical founders who need governance and runtime evidence for agents they are actually shipping. The August 27 edition focuses on Omnigent, Databricks' open-source meta-harness for orchestrating agents and sandboxes across vendors, with live demos plus two named talks. You get architecture, approval gates, traces, and how teams improve production agents from operating evidence, then a closing hour of food and conversation.

The series is a recurring Luma calendar, hosted in this metro by Yufa Li, for people going deeper on agents, failure modes, and tooling. Bellevue editions have used Databricks' office as the room, including earlier 2026 nights with Databricks and Anthropic speakers. August's slate is Databricks software engineer Zeyi Fan on the Omnigent API, then OpenAI AI deployment engineer Wesley Pasfield on governing production agents with Omnigent and Codex, using MLflow traces and a synthetic incident. Named company speakers and a 26th-floor Databricks tower are why the series keeps drawing practitioners.

Bellevue and Redmond already concentrate a large share of diaspora and H-1B tech households. An Eastside office night often matches where people work better than pulling everyone across the lake. This meetup is right if you already experiment with agents and want Omnigent, policy, and observability depth, whether you sit at an early-stage startup or a larger company. The night is a poor fit if you wanted a founder happy hour, a pitch session, or a consumer AI mixer. Bring a concrete failure mode from production or a prototype question.

Thursday, August 27, 2026, 5:00 to 8:00 PM PDT at Databricks Bellevue, 500 108th Avenue NE #2600. Registration and mingling open at 5:00, welcome remarks are at 6:00, talks run about 6:15 to 7:15, and mingling with bites and dessert runs until 8:00. RSVP on Luma. Registration needs host approval. Confirm lobby, floor, and security instructions in the reminder email before you go up.

Paid parking is in the building garage. The host also points to apps such as SpotHero for nearby lots. I-405 evening traffic is real, so leave a buffer from Seattle or Redmond. Arrive by 5:00 if you want conversation before the talks. Treat the approval as required rather than a walk-up, and leave vendor decks at home unless you are on the speaker slate.