Full house at Personalizing Agents

Agentics Spotlight

Personalizing Agents

July 22, 2026 · Modal Offices, SoHo

Agentics Spotlight is our recurring series where each meetup shines a light on one startup building in New York and drills into a single aspect of working with coding agents. This edition, with the team at Sentience: personalizing agents — agent memory, personality, and tone, and how to make them actually work for you instead of sounding like everyone else's model.

The room settles in as the first talk begins
First speaker presenting from the front table
Everyone sounds (and thinks) the same.
Sam Kececi, CEO @ Sentience
Faces in the front rows
Attendees mid-discussion
Speaker with microphone mid-answer
Speaker against the window
One Person Is Many Voices on screen
One person is many voices.
Ben Carsley, Eng @ Sentience
Audience member takes the mic during Q&A
7:21 PM — Q&A
Cliff from Nori presenting
7:30 PM — Cliff @ Nori
The Shoggoth slide
7:36 PM — Shoggoth
Simulacra quote slide over the audience
A question from the audience
Conversations around the table after the talks
7:53 PM — Winding down

Talks

More from the night

Crowd rows during a talk Everyone Sounds The Same slide Audience close-up Speaker gesturing by the window Selfie with the crowd Speaker presenting beside the screen Audience and screen Wide view of the room Speaker at the screen Audience watching

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Organized by @theahura & @sam_kececi