Waterloo Tech Week || ROBOHAX: Waterloo Region Robotics Event

Most people barely track their finances ... The ones who do are usually stuck in spreadsheets, Mint, QuickBooks, or some combination of the three. It works, sort of. But it rarely feels good. What if there’s a better way? ChatGPT just released a tool for analyzing finances, and a growing number of people are quietly building agents and workflows that actually understand their accounts, expenses, and goals without turning money management into another full-time job. AI Builders is back, and this time we're going deep on AI x Money. We want the work, not slide decks. Show us the system that reconciles without the usual pain. The agent that surfaces what actually matters. The workflow that replaces the spreadsheet you’ve been maintaining for years. This one’s for you if you’ve built something that makes personal or operational finance feel lighter, or if you’re still living in spreadsheets and curious whether these new tools are finally useful. 📅 Event Schedule 🚪 6:00 PM Doors Open 🎤 6:30 PM Talks kick off (first half) 🚪 7:00 PM Doors close (last call for latecomers!) 🍕 7:30 PM Break: pizza, drinks & networking 🎤 After the break - Talks resume (second half) 🎉 9:00 PM Talks wrap, networking before we close out Want to present? We're saving spots for short demos and lightning talks - automations, agents in the loop, internal tools, decision engines, all of it. Drop us a note when you RSVP - lineup fills up quick. Spots are limited. Sponsored by Builders Club

Every tech team can use AI to speed up single tasks. Few can build an agentic system that actually runs complex, multi-step work without constant hand-holding, repeated mistakes, and lost context. Scaling AI beyond basic prompting isn't about using larger models—it's about structure, control and turning human expertise into reusable ways of working. The most effective systems preserve human judgment while giving agents the autonomy to drive long-horizon tasks to completion. In this hands-on one-hour session, we’ll dive into five core practices that tech teams need to master to build dependable AI workflows: Identify where simple planning breaks: Uncover the exact failure modes where heavy preprocessing and elaborate prompting reach their limits. Codify expertise into reusable skills: Capture operational procedures, domain judgment and validation rules that agents can execute across unfamiliar tasks. Keep long-horizon tasks coherent: Apply proven patterns for managing shared context, explicit decisions and inspectable state during complex handoffs. Balance agent autonomy with control: Layer automated checks, independent reviews and human-in-the-loop checkpoints to guarantee acceptable outcomes. Make every task improve the next: Turn real-world failures and feedback into vetted updates that continually sharpen your team's agentic workflows. This session is tailor-made for technical leaders who are ready to stop babysitting AI outputs and start scaling reliable systems. You’ll leave with practical tactics you can immediately apply to your own tech stack. Agenda: 9-9:10 a.m. - Registration & networking 9:10-10 a.m. - AI Session with Atif Khan 10-11 a.m. - Optional Q&A Speaker: As CTO at DataBraid, Atif Khan leads the development and application of agentic AI frameworks across software development, product lifecycle management and operations. Having delivered technical sessions for enterprise engineering teams and led the winning entry in a world-renowned data science an