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Past event · Apigee North America Roadshow · New York

The AI Agent Evolution: Powering Tomorrow’s Enterprise

On October 13, Google Cloud brought its Apigee roadshow to Pier 57 in New York. The conversation we wanted to have there was a practical one: what it takes to get an AI agent out of pilot and into production.

DateTuesday, October 13, 2026
Time11:30 AM to 6:00 PM ET
VenuePier 57, New York

Where most teams are

Agent pilots are common now, and many of them work in the demo. The platform underneath, Apigee, Gemini Enterprise, Vertex AI and BigQuery, is production-grade.

Where they stall

The pilot meets governance review. Nobody can show who or what made a decision, who owns the next step, or what a completed task costs. The model was rarely the problem. The review was.

What we brought to the room

Ten principles drawn from production work on Apigee, Vertex AI and BigQuery, and a five-question check you can run on your own workflow before the review board does.

Production readiness check

Five questions about one agent workflow

Pick a single agent workflow, live or planned, and answer for that one. Be strict. A reviewer will be.

01If a reviewer pointed at one agent decision from six months ago, could you rebuild how it was made from your logs?
02Does every agent call pass through a gateway that enforces authentication, quotas and logging?
03Is the agent attached to a named workflow, with a named owner at each handoff?
04Have your governance and legal review requirements been written into the design, rather than saved for the end?
05Do you measure cost per completed task, rather than cost per model call?
Answer all five to see your result.

Take the argument back to your team

The ten principles, with a field note on each, in one page you can pass to the people who sign off on your roadmap.

See where we are next on our events page. Or read how we work on Google Cloud.

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