I attended RenderATL in June 2025, it was a 2 day tech conference and it was a great experience.

AI Tinkeeres Atlanta sponsored the ticket for me and thanks to them for that.

Few pointers from the conference:

1. GitLab hosted a three-hour interactive workshop on AI-native development with GitLab Duo, where participants built a functional app. Slides are attached below.

   Gitlab Workshop Slides

2. AgenticRAG and Deep Research sessions highlighted emerging AI trends, particularly Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP). Having used MCP in personal projects, I expect it to become the standard for agents. Other sessions addressed key agent components: Context, Caching, Memory, Tools, Router, and Input Guardrails.

3. One of the most enriching session for me was from Hamza Farooq on n8n and Agents Running the workflows. I was unfamiliar with n8n and now started experimenting with that. Hamza is the Founder of https://traversaal.ai/ and I got to talk to him for a few minutes on new SDK’s for Agents and guidance on building Agentic workflows.

4. I connected with team from MastraAI and got to read the book “Principles of AI Agents”.

Overall, I gained practical insights into AI agents and learned a lot on building agents, workflows, tools that I plan to integrate on the personal projects.

Additional Pic:

Walking Robot on action at the conference!