Bot or Not – Socratic Dialogue Regarding Agents Like Claw
**Debate starts at 7! Door’s open at 6:30.**
**Bot or Not – Socratic Dialogue Regarding Agents (like Claw)**
LOCATION ADDRESS (Hybrid, in person or by zoom, you choose)
Valley Research Park
319 North Bernardo Avenue
Mountain View, CA CA 93043
Don’t use the front door. When facing the front door, turn right along the front of the building. Turn left around the building corner. The 2nd door should be open and have a banner and event registration.
If you want to join remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:
[https://acm-org.zoom.us/](https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/95226212956?pwd=HnAedzSDGcYAYsCzTuavIvMYMFtILa.1)
Join via YouTube:
https://youtube.com/@SfbayacmOrg/streams
AGENDA
6:30 Door opens, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)
7:00 SFBayACM upcoming events, introduce the speaker
7:15 Part 1: Enterprise Prompt Engineering: Grounding, RAG Pipelines, and Tool-Driven Agents
7:55 Part 2: AI Delivery and Control at the Edge
8:30 – 8:45 finish, depending on Q&A
Join SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on:
**Patrick Farry and Ronald Petty** will lead a **Socratic-style dialogue** examining Claw and other emerging agentic systems, using live demonstrations to highlight recent advances in agent architectures, orchestration frameworks, and tool-using models. Through questioning, counter-examples, and audience participation, they will explore alignment, incentive design, robustness, misuse, and governance; asking not only what today’s agents can do, but how rapidly evolving capabilities are reshaping expectations and risks. Real-time demos will ground the discussion in current practice rather than theory, while the session aims to keep attendees up to date on the state of the art and engaged in reasoning about trade-offs, safeguards, and the future role of autonomous systems in technical and social domains.
**Debate starts at 7! Door’s open at 6:30.**
**Bot or Not – Socratic Dialogue Regarding Agents (like Claw)**
LOCATION ADDRESS (Hybrid, in person or by zoom, you choose)
Valley Research Park
319 North Bernardo Avenue
Mountain View, CA CA 93043
Don’t use the front door. When facing the front door, turn right along the front of the building. Turn left around the building corner. The 2nd door should be open and have a banner and event registration.
If you want to join remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:
[https://acm-org.zoom.us/](https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/95226212956?pwd=HnAedzSDGcYAYsCzTuavIvMYMFtILa.1)
Join via YouTube:
https://youtube.com/@SfbayacmOrg/streams
AGENDA
6:30 Door opens, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)
7:00 SFBayACM upcoming events, introduce the speaker
7:15 Part 1: Enterprise Prompt Engineering: Grounding, RAG Pipelines, and Tool-Driven Agents
7:55 Part 2: AI Delivery and Control at the Edge
8:30 – 8:45 finish, depending on Q&A
Join SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on:
**Patrick Farry and Ronald Petty** will lead a **Socratic-style dialogue** examining Claw and other emerging agentic systems, using live demonstrations to highlight recent advances in agent architectures, orchestration frameworks, and tool-using models. Through questioning, counter-examples, and audience participation, they will explore alignment, incentive design, robustness, misuse, and governance; asking not only what today’s agents can do, but how rapidly evolving capabilities are reshaping expectations and risks. Real-time demos will ground the discussion in current practice rather than theory, while the session aims to keep attendees up to date on the state of the art and engaged in reasoning about trade-offs, safeguards, and the future role of autonomous systems in technical and social domains.