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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.

Hiring AI: How to Build the Right Agent and Keep It Out of Trouble promotional image

2 min walk. 6 locations within 5 min.

When
Monday, September 21, 2026
09:00 to 10:00, Pacific Time (PCT)
Where
Fort Tectoria (its map, in a new tab)
777 Fort Street, Victoria, BC
Cost and entry
Free
Talk · AI · In person
Area
Victoria (YYJ)

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

VIATEC (their website, in a new tab)
Rob Cooper on LinkedIn, in a new tab
Mike Anderson on LinkedIn, in a new tab

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From VIATEC’s page on eventbrite.ca (the organizer’s page, in a new tab) · Listed Aug 26