AI DEVCON NYC

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Hi [MANAGER NAME],

I’d like to request approval to attend AI DevCon NYC, taking place November 2–4 in Brooklyn.

The conference is focused on the practical challenges engineering teams face as AI coding moves beyond individual productivity and towards agents, multi-agent workflows, software factories, and organization-wide adoption.

It feels particularly relevant to our work on [PROJECT / TEAM PRIORITY].

Why AI DevCon?

What makes this conference stand out is how close it is to the edge of AI-native software engineering.

Engineering leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind are speaking alongside practitioners who have helped shape some of the ideas developers are experimenting with today, including Steve Yegge, creator of Gas Town, and Geoffrey Huntley, creator of the Ralph Loop.

Rather than a broad overview of AI, the program is focused specifically on what developers and engineering organizations are working through now:

Context, harnesses, evaluation, and agent reliability

Multi-agent workflows and software factories

Platforms and infrastructure for AI-native development

Scaling these practices across engineering teams

I’m particularly interested in:

[SESSION / SPEAKER] — [RELEVANCE]

What I’ll bring back

After the conference, I’ll share:

The most relevant lessons with the wider team

3–5 practices or ideas worth testing internally

Tools and approaches we should investigate further

Lessons from teams already solving similar problems

I’ll also use the event to compare how other engineering teams are approaching [PROJECT / CHALLENGE], rather than relying solely on vendor material or our own experimentation.

Cost

Ticket: $[TICKET PRICE]

Travel + accommodation: $[COST]

Total requested: $[TOTAL]

We could also send a small team

If others would benefit, groups of 3+ developers can attend for 50% off the ticket price.

That could make it worthwhile to send people working across different areas, divide up the sessions, and bring a much broader set of learnings back to the team.

I think AI DevCon would give us direct access to people defining and implementing the next generation of AI development practices, with lessons we can apply directly to [PROJECT / TEAM PRIORITY].

Would you be happy for me to attend?

Thanks,

[NAME]