Thursday, September 17, 2026
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
ACM Austin Special Workshop: The A to Z of Building AI Agents with MongoDB
About this event
A hands-on, instructor-led evening workshop where attendees build a working AI documentation assistant using LangGraph for orchestration and MongoDB as the agent's vector store, knowledge base, and memory layer.
Build a working agent in one evening
ACM Austin's Enterprise AI & Engineering chapter partners with MongoDB for a hands-on workshop led by Alejandro Mancilla (MongoDB). Rather than a talk about agents, this is a build session: by the end of the evening each attendee should have a functional, AI-powered technical documentation assistant running.
The architecture taught is deliberately conventional so the patterns transfer — MongoDB serves as memory and knowledge store, a supported frontier model (Claude, Gemini, or GPT) acts as the reasoning engine, and LangGraph orchestrates the end-to-end workflow.
What the session covers
- Foundational agent concepts: orchestration, reasoning, tool use, and memory
- Common agent use cases and the architecture patterns behind them
- Using MongoDB as a vector store, knowledge store, and memory provider for agentic applications
- Patterns for making agent workflows more reliable and controllable by adding memory
Practical notes
Bring a laptop — the exercises are hands-on and the venue has Wi-Fi. You will need to reach Instruqt and a browser-based workshop environment. Basic familiarity with Python and Jupyter notebooks is recommended but not strictly required.
The evening opens with Mexican catering (tacos and burritos, with vegetarian options) before the technical content begins. The session runs a longer 2.5 hours to leave room for the build.
Held at the Center for Government and Civic Service on ACC's Rio Grande campus, Building 3000. Free to attend; RSVP through the Meetup listing.
Organized by
The Austin chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, focused on enterprise AI and engineering practice. It runs community tech talks — frequently jointly with IEEE Austin — covering AI and GenAI platforms, cloud-native infrastructure, platform engineering, and security. Chaired by Akshay Mittal.