Key Takeaways
- Lemma is co-hosting The Agent Economy Gala, a black-tie event during SF Tech Week, alongside LlamaIndex, TinyFish, Linq and Obvious, with MongoDB as a sponsor.
- The October 9 gala at The Redwood Room in San Francisco brings together founders, operators, and investors from across the agent stack, with capacity capped at 200–300 guests.
- For Lemma, co-hosting creates an opportunity to connect with engineering leaders and investors working on reliability and other challenges across the agent economy.
San Francisco Tech Week returns this October with a night built for one particular crowd, the people building AI agents. Lemma, the monitoring tool that helps engineering teams catch silent AI agent failures in production, is joining four other companies to cohost The Agent Economy Gala, a black-tie evening on October 9 that brings founders, operators, and investors from across the agent stack into one room.
It offers a different format from the usual Tech Week programming, trading a conference hall for a formal night out. With panels, demos, and networking sessions filling much of the week, a black-tie evening at a historic hotel lounge offers a different way to bring the industry together.
Why This, and Why Now
The timing reflects the broader growth of the agent economy. Companies are building around autonomous work, agent infrastructure, reliability, evals, interfaces, and distribution, creating an increasingly interconnected technology stack. Bringing those companies together in one room gives founders, operators, and investors a chance to connect across the different layers of the market rather than focusing on a single part of it.
Inside The Agent Economy Gala
The gala runs October 9 from 7 to 10 p.m. at The Redwood Room, an Art Deco lounge inside San Francisco’s Clift Hotel. A Gatsby theme dresses the room for the night, styled after the roaring twenties. Lemma joins LlamaIndex, TinyFish, Linq, and Obvious as co-hosts, with Cursor, MongoDB, Daytona, and Arceus joining the gala as sponsors. Attendees span the full agent stack, including application, reliability, agent commerce, infrastructure, and orchestration and tooling companies that have raised between $2 million and more than $60 million. The gala will bring together companies working across the agent economy, from infrastructure and reliability to evals, interfaces, and distribution.
“The agent economy still runs on trust nobody has verified yet,” said Sarah Fan, host and Creative Director for Lemma. “Every company co-hosting this gala is trying to close that gap in its own corner of the stack, from the infrastructure agents run on to the fixes that keep them working once they ship. Getting all of us in one room for a night, dressed up and off our laptops, felt like the right way to mark how far this category has come.”
Fan, Kamila Zak, and Ilias Anwar are producing the event under Maison Noir, their San Francisco events collective, backed by a team with more than 600 events to its name. Capacity is limited to 200 to 300 guests, bringing a relatively focused group of people working across the agent economy together in one setting.
Why Lemma Is In the Room
Founded by Jerry Zhang and Cole Gawin, Lemma helps engineering teams uncover hidden semantic failures, diagnose root causes across thousands of traces, and deploy automated fixes, so AI agents improve from real production use rather than quietly getting worse.
The gala gives Lemma an opportunity to connect with engineering leaders and investors working on reliability and other challenges across the agent economy.
The gala also places Lemma alongside companies building other parts of the agent economy, from infrastructure and applications to interfaces and tooling. For a company focused on what happens after agents enter production, that broader ecosystem is directly connected to the reliability challenges Lemma is addressing.
Readers can find details and RSVP information on the event page.
About Lemma
Lemma is a production monitoring and observability platform for AI agents. Founded by Jerry Zhang and Cole Gawin, who met as freshmen in USC’s startup incubator, Lemma helps engineering teams uncover hidden semantic failures, diagnose root causes across thousands of traces, and deploy automated fixes, enabling AI agents to continuously improve from real-world usage instead of silently degrading. To learn more or book a demo, visit www.uselemma.ai.
