Everything You Missed from Orkes’ Seattle Developer Meetup 2025 and What’s Coming Next

Orkes hosted a developer meetup in Seattle on May 15, focusing on AI agents and agentic workflows, where attendees gathered at SPIN Seattle to network, enjoy refreshments, and engage in tech discussions. The event featured two main sessions by Orkes team members: Michael, a Senior Developer Advocate, who introduced agentic workflows and demonstrated how Orkes Conductor facilitates smart, scalable workflow design by integrating APIs, large language models, and microservices; and Mrinal, a Software Engineer, who discussed building AI agents with Orkes by managing complexities like timeouts and retries, ultimately simplifying the code and enhancing intelligent behavior. The interactive Q&A session addressed topics such as scaling workflows securely, LLM integrations, and monitoring production workflows, highlighting Orkes' capabilities in managing enterprise-grade orchestration. The gathering concluded with networking, ping-pong matches, and distribution of Orkes-branded swag, leaving participants inspired to explore agentic systems further through Orkes' platform, which offers a managed version of the open-source Conductor with added features like security, scalability, and integrations.