Everyone has an agent demo. Very few teams run agents in production, at scale, without surprises. For the second edition of Second Opinion, Alan's tech event series, we look at what it takes to get there, with the people building the infrastructure and the guardrails.
The evening is hosted by Alan with Qovery and AWS, at Alan's office in Paris.
Talks
Medical safety with stochastic parrots - Thomas Humeau, Full Stack Data Scientist at Alan
LLMs know a lot about complex topics, yet fail unpredictably on simple questions. Thomas shows the system Alan built to use LLMs to help members with health questions without those failures putting anyone at risk.
Who gives the agent access to production? - Romaric Philogène, CEO & Co-founder at Qovery
Agents read production all day but rarely change it. Romaric shares what Qovery sees in real agent traffic, why writes to production are so risky, and three layers that let agents act safely, with a live demo.
Every token has a price and an address: context engineering for cost, quality and privacy - Charline Boulie, Senior Solutions Architect, Startups at AWS
Every token in the context window costs money, and it is also data you have sent, cached and possibly retained. Charline shows how to treat context as a budget that balances cost, answer quality and privacy, and where cost and privacy pull in opposite directions.
Agenda
- 6:00 PM: Doors open
- 6:30 PM: Talks and Q&A
- 8:00 PM: Drinks and networking
Details
- Date: Thursday, November 12, 2026, 6pm to 9pm (Paris time)
- Location: Alan, 117 Quai de Valmy, 75010 Paris
- Registration: free, on Luma. Places are limited and the hosts approve each registration.
This evening is for engineers, CTOs and data teams who have an agent working in a demo and want to put it in front of real users.