Day-Zero: Agents in the Wild

A live adversarial experiment on autonomous agents, compromise, and deceptive success signals.
Autonomous agents are moving into real workflows: using tools, sharing context, making decisions, and acting across systems.
But the success signal can lie.
In Field Report 001: The Penthouse Heist, Day Zero observed multiple AI-assisted attack architectures independently converging on economically meaningful weaknesses within hours.
In Field Report 002: The Infrastructure Strikes Back, the experiment shifted to live defense and showed that raw finding volume was a poor measure of security performance - and that telemetry can miss the failures defenders most need to see.
On June 22, Day Zero returns with Agents in the Wild.
This third experiment places agents in a shared, realistic, multi-tenant environment and attacks the surfaces real deployments expose. Judges and mentors will help evaluate three questions:
Can agents be induced to do compromising things?
Can they continue delivering value while compromised?
Does forewarning create real defense, or just the appearance of defense?
The output will become Field Report 003 in the Day Zero adversarial AI experiment series.
Not a panel. Not a product demo. A field test.
When: June 22, 2026
Where: 1900 Broadway, Oakland, CA
Rules of Engagement: day-zero.dev/rules-of-engagement
Questions: mail@day-zero.dev
Discord Channel: Day-Zero
Judges + Mentors
Apoorv Mehta: Engineering Manager, Product Security
Aritra Banerjee: Principal Product Manager, AI, Intuit
Arjun Chakraborty: Security AI Research, Microsoft
Arun Pandiyan Perumal: Site Reliability Engineer, Adobe
Chetan Jannu: Software Engineer, WhatsApp
David Mazumdar: Staff Lead and Solution Architect, Digital Products Engineering
Hannah Kwon: SWE, CX Benchmarking - Model Evals
Jay Yao: Dev Rel, Memori Labs, Organizer - Gemini Meetup
Neil Kittleson: CEO, VectorForge
Prabir Vora: Technical Chief of Staff, Retell AI
Sujitha Vummaneni: Senior Security Engineer, Ripple
Sumanth Shiva Prakash - Group Product Manager, Adobe
Thanat Jatuphattharachat: Co-Founder, HolyShred
Thiyagarajan Palaniyappan: Senior Applied Scientist, AWS
Tosh Rayadhurgam: Head of Advanced AI, Stripe
Tripp Roybal: CEO, Kage - Founder, TenguSec
Tyler D'Silva: Founding AI Engineer, Retell AI
Usha Ratnam: Staff Software Engineer, DevOps, Ripple
Venkat Gattupalli: AI Infrastructure & Networking
More judges announced soon!
All judges and mentors are supporting the event in their personal capacity. Their thoughts and contributions are their own.