Inside Emergent | EP2: The Life of an Agent

Sundays were made for doing very little, and we're doing it in style. Slow Weekends is back with a midday hangout hosted by Pooja Sinha & Abhimanyu. Think easy energy, good company, and a one-hour reset before the week starts creeping back into your head. Come as you are. Roll in, find a spot, say hi to someone new or settle in with the people you came with. The mood is relaxed, the kind of party where nobody's checking the clock (even though it's only an hour, so make it count). Bring your good vibes and your best Sunday-mode self. The location is still to be announced, so keep an eye on this page for the details.

Paytm × AI Garage | Bengaluru Most Voice AI demos stop at having a conversation. In this buildathon, we’ll go one step further: build Voice AI agents that interview people, understand what they’re saying, and turn conversations into useful structured outcomes. We’ll start with a walkthrough of a real AI hiring automation built by AI Garage. Then, you’ll choose one of two challenges and build your own interviewer agent. No slide-deck hackathon. We end with working demos. Part 1 | Host Walkthrough: AI Hiring Automation We’ll start by breaking down a real workflow: Candidate applies → AI voice agent calls → conducts screening interview → transcript is evaluated → structured candidate data is generated → next action is triggered We’ll look at how the different pieces work together: Voice AI conversational prompting follow-up questions structured data extraction LLM evaluation workflow automation human review downstream actions The goal isn’t to copy the hiring use case. It’s to understand the primitives well enough to build your own interviewer agent. Part 2 | Buildathon Choose one of two challenges. Challenge 1: Personal Interviewer Agent What if you never had to fill another application form manually? Build an agent that can take an application/form, understand what information is required, and interview the user over voice to produce the answers. For example: Application/Form → Agent understands questions → Voice interview → Follow-up questions → Draft answers → User review The agent shouldn’t simply read every form field aloud. A strong agent should understand what information is missing and probe for better answers. If a form asks: Tell us about something you've built. The agent might ask: What exactly did you build? What part did you personally own? Who used it? What happened as a result? Is there a number or outcome we can include? At the end, the user should receive a structured draft ready for review. Human approval stays in the loop before anything is submitt

Variance is a one-month deep-tech residency in Bengaluru - free, equity-free, and built for people who want to spend every waking hour on hard problems. From 750+ applications, we selected 14 founders working across foundational AI, robotics, aerospace, and biotech, and for the last month they've been living and building together under one roof. On Sunday, October 18, the cohort presents what they've built. Expect live demos, honest conversations about what worked and what didn't, and a room full of people who care about deep tech in India. Presenting: - Harsh Joshi - India's First Hybrid-Electric STOL Aircraft - Sachin M Yaragal - Computational Layer to solve Cancer - Piyush Jha - A Bio-Electrical Off-Grid Reactor for Affordable Water Treatment - Rhitam Dutta - Custom Actuators for Robots - Lakshya Shishir Khandelwal - Foundation Models for the Earth's Subsurface - Pallavi Saha - Vision Models for Outdoor Autonomy - Tarini Sai Padmanabhuni - Foundation Models for Voice Authenticity - Prateek Gupta - Data Pipeline for Autonomous Drones - Jerry Swamynathan - Water from the Atmosphere - Ansh Mishra - Bionic Hand for Humans and Robots - Nitu Joseph - Transforming Underutilized Biological Resources into Advanced Biomaterials that Improve Healthcare - Harshit Chellani - Continuous non-invasive tracking of biomarkers via urine. e're expecting venture partners, angels, founders, and friends from the ecosystem. Whether you're investing, building, or just curious about what the next generation of Indian deep tech looks like - come see it for yourself. Sunday, October 18, 4:00 - 7:00 PM Attendance is free, but we're keeping the room small - 50 to 70 people we really want there. Request an invite and we'll confirm your spot.

The Residency - BLR Demo Day - founders track Join us for the closing showcase of Residency Bangalore - Founders Track This demo day brings together a curated set of founders who have spent the last few months living and building together. You will see live demos and presentations from builders working across AI, consumer hardware, biotech, physical AI and more. Expect 8 teams presenting sharp 5 to 7 minute demos, honest conversations, and high signal interactions with founders, operators, and investors from Bangalore’s startup ecosystem. Agenda • Founder demos • Open networking • Snacks and drinks on the terrace post event Who should attend Founders, early operators, angels, VCs, and anyone curious about what ambitious builders are shipping right now. Entry is free. Limited seats. Approval required. Looking forward to hosting you. Apply to our next builders cohort here Join our community here Powered by - Lightspeed India Partners and Banking partner - IDFC

Embedded Swift: From Code to Hardware Join us for a hands-on Embedded Swift workshop where we explore how Swift can go beyond app development and interact with real hardware. In this session, participants will learn the basics of Embedded Swift and build small projects using a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W along with sensors and actuators. Date & Time Saturday, 24 October 2026 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM What we’ll cover Introduction to Embedded Swift Setting up the Embedded Swift development environment on macOS Understanding GPIO and hardware interaction Controlling an LED Reading input from an LDR/light sensor Working with an ultrasonic distance sensor Controlling a servo motor Using a buzzer Combining multiple components into a small final project Building and running Embedded Swift code on Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W Who can join? This workshop is suitable for: Swift and iOS developers curious about embedded systems Developers interested in hardware and IoT Students and makers who want to experiment with Swift on microcontrollers Anyone interested in exploring Swift beyond Apple-platform apps Basic programming knowledge is sufficient. Prior embedded-systems experience is not required. What to bring Please bring: A MacBook USB cable for connecting the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W Swift/toolchain setup as shared before the workshop Hardware for the hands-on exercises will be used during the session. Format This is a hands-on workshop, not just a presentation. Participants will write code, connect hardware, compile projects, and test them directly on the Raspberry Pi Pico. Seats are limited to 20 participants so that we can keep the session interactive and provide hands-on support. Organized by SwiftBengaluru.

About the Event A curated gathering for researchers, engineers, founders, and technical builders exploring recursive self-improvement and self-learning AI systems. AI agents are becoming more capable, but the harder question is how they learn from experience, retain useful knowledge, evaluate their own work, and improve safely over time. The RSI Research Mixer brings together people working across research, infrastructure, developer tools, reinforcement learning, evaluations, memory, and agentic systems for an evening of practical conversations and shared learning. This is not a pitch night. It is a research-led gathering for people actively building, experimenting, or trying to understand what self-improving AI systems could look like in real-world environments. What we’ll explore Recursive self-improvement and self-learning agents Memory, feedback loops, and continual learning RL environments and world models Evaluations, verification, and agent reliability Developer infrastructure for long-running agents Moving research ideas into practical systems Event format Spotlight Talks Short sessions from researchers and builders sharing what they are working on, what they have learned, and where they are still stuck. Research Discussion An open conversation around the technical opportunities, limitations, and safety considerations of self-improving AI systems. Open Networking Meet researchers, founders, engineers, independent builders, and people exploring the next generation of agentic systems. Who should attend? AI and ML researchers Engineers building agentic systems Founders and startup operators Developers working on AI infrastructure and tooling People exploring RL, evaluations, memory, or world models Independent builders and open-source contributors 📍 Paytm Office, Bellandur 📅 October 24th 2026 Hosted by AgentR Ecosystem Partner: Paytm AI Interested in presenting your research, sharing an experiment, or joining the discussion? Contact the host and tell us what yo