Hiring AI: How to Build the Right Agent and Keep It Out of Trouble
What you call a system decides how carefully anyone checks it.

- When
- Monday, September 21, 2026
- 09:00 to 10:00, Pacific Time (PCT)
- Cost and entry
- Free
- Area
- Victoria (YYJ)
- Part of
- Victoria Tech Week
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Pretty much every story this year about an agent going rogue turns out, on inspection, to be a story about permissions. Not the model misbehaving: a key left somewhere convenient, a token scoped to everything, an approval step nobody added. A talk that spends its time on access architecture rather than prompt craft is aimed at the right half of the problem.
Who’s involved
- Running the event. Ask them about signing up or changes.
- VIATEC (their website, in a new tab)
- Running things on the day, usually the ones who welcome you.
- Rob Cooper on LinkedIn, in a new tab
- On the program, but the organizer didn’t say what they’re doing.
- Mike Anderson on LinkedIn, in a new tab
From VIATEC’s page on eventbrite.ca (the organizer’s page, in a new tab) · Listed Aug 26
