From Stateless LLMs to Stateful Agents: Building Production-Grade Memory with MongoDB and Voyage AI

Presenters Mickey Source MongoDB.local San Francisco 2026 🚀 Level Up Your AI: Building Agentic Applications That Actually Deliver Value 💡 The buzz around AI agents is huge, but let’s be honest, a lot of AI pilot projects fall flat. A recent MIT study revealed a sobering statistic: only 5% of AI pilots actually deliver significant value. Why? According to Mickey, a Staff Developer Advocate, the culprit is often a lack of statefulness, personalization, learning, and memory – the very things that make applications truly useful. ...

January 22, 2026 · 4 min

Agentic Innovation: Meet the Hackathon Finalists

Presenters Jim Scharf MongoDB Source MongoDB.local San Francisco 2026 🚀 Agentic Orchestration Takes Center Stage: MongoDB’s Record-Breaking Hackathon! 💡 The future of AI isn’t just about individual agents; it’s about collaboration. That’s the core message coming out of MongoDB’s recent Agentic Orchestration and Collaboration Hackathon, a wildly successful event that brought together some of the brightest minds in AI and data. Held at Shack 15 in San Francisco, the hackathon saw a staggering 350 attendees out of 800 applicants, culminating in a record-breaking 109 submissions – a testament to the growing excitement around this field. Let’s dive into what made this event so special and the innovative solutions that emerged! ...

January 22, 2026 · 4 min

How AI Agents are Changing the Way Revenue Teams Work

Presenters Shriram Shridharan Source MongoDB.local San Francisco 2026 🚀💡 Revolutionizing Revenue: How AI Agents are About to 10x Your Customer-Facing Teams 🤖✨ Shriram Shridharan, co-founder and CTO of Rocks, recently delivered a compelling presentation outlining a future where AI agents dramatically reshape how revenue teams operate. The vision? To achieve a 10x productivity boost for account executives, customer success managers, SDRs, and BDRs – mirroring the transformative impact coding agents have had on engineering. Rocks’ mission is ambitious: to “secure and grow the world’s revenue” through an AI-native operating system. Let’s dive into the details! ...

January 22, 2026 · 4 min

Building Intelligent Video Search Pipelines with Multimodal AI

Presenters Ken Hong Source MongoDB.local San Francisco 2026 Beyond Keywords: Unlocking Intelligent Video Search with Voyage Multimodal 3.5 🚀 Ever felt frustrated trying to find that one specific video clip amidst a sea of content? Traditional search often relies on clunky metadata, leaving us digging through irrelevant results. But what if search could understand the actual content of your videos, just like you do? That’s the exciting promise of multimodal AI, and the recent dive into Voyage Multimodal 3.5 at a recent tech conference blew us away with its potential! 🤯 ...

January 22, 2026 · 6 min

From Local to Cloud: An Intelligent Developer Tool Suite for Every Stage of Development

Presenters MongoDB Team Source MongoDB.local San Francisco 2026 MongoDB: Supercharging Developer Innovation in the Age of AI 🚀💡 The tech landscape is evolving at lightning speed, and the driving force behind this acceleration? Artificial Intelligence. AI isn’t just a buzzword anymore; it’s fundamentally changing how quickly software needs to adapt and innovate. But here’s the critical question: can our software development foundation keep up? According to the insights from a recent tech conference, the answer is a resounding yes, thanks to the incredible advancements in MongoDB’s developer toolkit. ...

January 22, 2026 · 5 min