Event

Apica Ascent Night Charlotte:
Building Agentic‑Ready Infrastructure

An Evening for the Teams Building AI‑Ready Infrastructure

Limited Seating Available Tuesday, May 19, 2026 4:00 PM – 7:30 PM Fahrenheit — Private Dining Room 222 S Caldwell St., 21st Floor, Charlotte, NC
About the Evening

An Intimate Conversation About What's Really Happening in AI Infrastructure

Join Apica for an intimate evening in the heart of Charlotte designed for the people doing the real work: the engineers, architects, and operations leaders responsible for building infrastructure that can actually support AI.

Apica Ascent Night brings together a small, focused group for honest conversation, practical insights, and a clear look at what it really means to be Agentic-Ready in 2026. Over great food and drinks, we'll dig into how infrastructure teams are preparing for AI agents in production — and where most organizations are still falling short.

What to Expect

Designed To Be Useful — Not Just Another Event

You'll hear directly from Apica's CPTO Andi Mann on where AI infrastructure is heading, see live product demos built around real customer scenarios, and spend the rest of the evening talking with peers facing the same operational challenges — from rising observability costs to AI‑driven complexity.

Evening Agenda

Tuesday, May 19 · Charlotte, NC

4:00 PM
4:30 PM
Guest Arrival & Welcome Drinks
Settle in, meet the Apica team, and start the conversation early.
4:30 PM
4:45 PM
Welcome Remarks
A short introduction from Apica on what being Agentic-Ready actually means for modern infrastructure teams.
4:45 PM
5:30 PM
How to Be Agentic Ready
Presentation by Andi Mann, CPTO. Andi breaks down the infrastructure gaps that prevent AI agents from performing reliably and what teams can do about it now, not in the next budget cycle.
5:30 PM
6:00 PM
Apica Ascent Product Demo
Live demonstrations showing how customers are using Apica today to reduce observability spend, build AI‑ready telemetry pipelines, and avoid vendor lock‑in.
6:00 PM
7:30 PM
Networking & Dinner
The part where real conversations happen.
Why Come

Reasons This Evening Is Worth Your Time

Hear from Andi Mann, CPTO
Andi has spent decades at the intersection of enterprise IT and emerging technology. His perspective on Agentic AI infrastructure is both practical and timely.
See the Business Case, Live
No slide‑only demos. Real customer scenarios with real numbers — what changed and what teams were able to build as a result.
Meet Your Peers
A small, curated audience of people dealing with the same challenges you are. Designed for conversation, not collecting business cards.
Walk Away with Something Actionable
Not a brochure. Practical ideas you can bring back to your team the next morning.
Andi Mann
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The gap between enterprises that thrive with AI and those that struggle comes down to data readiness. Agentic-Ready isn't a product feature — it's an infrastructure decision you make now.

Andi Mann
Chief Product & Technology Officer, Apica
FAQs

Common Questions

Who should attend Ascent Night?
Engineering leaders, cloud architects, and operations teams dealing with observability complexity, rising vendor costs, or preparing infrastructure for AI agents.
Is this a sales event?
There will be a product demo — we're not hiding that. But the evening is structured around real conversation and practical takeaways, not a pitch deck.
What is Apica Ascent?
Apica Ascent includes a modern observability stack covering telemetry pipelines (Flow), agent management (Fleet), data storage (Lake), and analytics (Observe). The demo shows how customers use these together today.
How do I register?
Click "Reserve Your Spot" above or in the sidebar. Seating is limited — reach out to your Apica contact directly if you have questions.
What does "Agentic-Ready" mean?
It means your telemetry, data pipelines, storage, and routing are built to support AI agents reliably at scale. Andi's session covers what that looks like and where most teams fall short.
Reserve Your Spot
Apica Ascent Night — Charlotte
Space is limited. Register now to secure your seat at this exclusive evening.
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
4:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Fahrenheit, Private Dining Room
222 S Caldwell St., 21st Floor, Charlotte, NC 28202
Reserve Your Spot
⚑ Limited seating — first come, first served

Reserve Your Spot

Space is limited. If you’re an engineering or operations leader looking to build that Agentic infrastructure and want an evening of straight talk and practical insight, you won’t want to miss this.

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