MongoDB.local NYC: For Startups Building What's Next

New York City's top AI minds are building what's next, and MongoDB is bringing them together at .local NYC. Join MongoDB.local NYC for a full day of AI, data, and developer-focused conversations, live demos, workshops, and networking. Get a first look at the latest MongoDB innovations, hear directly from founders, builders, customers, and technology leaders, and explore how teams are building and scaling AI applications in the real world. Agenda Highlights Throughout the day you'll hear from AI leaders, MongoDB experts, participate in workshops, and more. Review out the full agenda here! Featured sessions Building at the Frontier: An AI Founder Conversation Hear directly from founders and builders working at the edge of AI as they break down infrastructure, agentic workflows, and what it actually takes to ship breakthrough products in a rapidly changing landscape. First Look: Agentic Scale in Action with Okta Watch Benjamin Cefalo (Chief Product Officer at MongoDB), Ashish Kumar(SVP at MongoDB), and Okta leadership deliver a live demo putting agentic workloads to the test and  demonstrate real-world developer impact. Evolving the ODL into a Governed AI Semantic Layer Learn how Eric Allen (Chief Partnership Officer at gravity9) unifies operational data on MongoDB Atlas to build a governed semantic layer, enabling autonomous AI agents to reason over application data with high context and low latency. Architecting for Velocity: Agility Lessons from Wayfair & ACI Worldwide Join Rohit Batra (SVP at MongoDB), Anup Thomas (ACI Worldwide), and Wayfair leaders to discover how they eliminated schema bottlenecks and legacy data constraints to accelerate ship cycles and scale self-serve workloads. Introducing the Complimentary Startup Pass MongoDB.local NYC is produced in partnership with MongoDB for Startups, our global program helping startups build and scale AI applications. Through MongoDB for Startups, we're offering eligible startup leaders and builders the opportunity to attend Build Fest at no cost. Apply through this Luma page, and if approved, you'll receive complimentary access to MongoDB.local NYC, including: Technical sessions & live demos Guided workshops & bootcamps Community-driven talks & peer networking 1:1 MongoDB expert office hours The opportunity to be considered for MongoDB for Startups, including eligibility for MongoDB Atlas credits, Voyage AI tokens, and other startup benefits—with no separate application required. ​Compete for up to $15,000 in prizes at The Harness Engineering & Model Wrangling Hackathon Join us on Saturday, September 26th for The Harness Engineering & Model Wrangling Hackathon focused on solving the hardest problem in agentic AI: building harnesses that can adapt, remember, and operate reliably over the long haul. Register here!