AWS Summit New York Welcome Party: Agents at Scale

Join us the night before AWS Summit New York 2026!
Are you ready to explore the future of AI Agents? Join AWS and its leading AI partner TiDB and Arklex AI for an exclusive evening dedicated to Agents at Scale.
Connect with builders, innovators, and industry leaders as we dive deep into the transformative potential of AI agents. This pre-Summit gathering is your opportunity to network, learn, and exchange ideas with the brightest minds in the AI ecosystem.

Featured Talk：

• Benjamin Sherrill (Senior Solution Engineer, TiDB): "The Consolidation Layer: Why AI Agents Need One Database, Not Ten"
  Every company spent the last decade building siloed teams and siloed data models, and the AI era is forcing the reverse. Agents don't just need a faster database; they need one consistent place to hold structured state, long-term memory, knowledge, and real-time analytics, without ETL or sync lag stitching five systems together. In this lightning talk, Benjamin Sherrill (PingCAP) makes the case that the path from agent prototype to production runs through a horizontal consolidation layer, and shows how teams like Dify.AI collapsed a sprawl of 300,000+ databases into a single elastic system to ship faster, cut costs, and give every agent a reliable system of thought.
• Zhou Yu (Co-founder & CEO, Arklex AI): "Evaluating AI Agents at Scale: What Actually Works"
  As AI agents move from demos to production, evaluation becomes the hardest unsolved problem. Zhou will share firsthand learnings from building Arklex, the agent evaluation and testing framework built for teams shipping real-world agentic systems.
  Agenda:
  6:00 PM - Doors Open
  6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Networking
  6:30 PM - 6:40 PM TiDB Talk
  6:40 PM - 6:50 PM Arklex.AI talk
  6:50 PM - 8:00 PM Networking