DataFest Tbilisi 2025: the agentic economy, worked by hand
DKAI Lab and Real AI backed the ninth DataFest Tbilisi and ran a workshop on day two, where about thirty people filled in an AI Strategy Canvas by hand.
DataFest Tbilisi ran from 27 to 29 November 2025 under the line AI In Focus. ForSet organised it. Days one and two sat in the Pullman on Chavchavadze Avenue, day three moved to the Stamba and Lolita. The opening put the sponsor walls up in order, eight seconds apart. Partners first: the UN Joint Programme for Gender Equality, EPAM, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the British Embassy Tbilisi, the Alliance of Democracies, autodraft, ibccs.tax and Social Innovations Lab. Then sponsors, Startupbootcamp and Cellfie Mobile. Then supporters, nine logos in three rows, with deepkapha AI Research and Real AI along the bottom.
Day one Tarry Singh watched. The main hall holds a few hundred seats under a steel grid hung with bare bulbs, and by early afternoon there were no empty ones. He shot it from the middle rows: heads, the stage small at the far end, purple wash on the curtains. In the foyer, volunteers in blue DataFest 2025 shirts worked a table by the lifts.
Day two was his. Just before noon on 28 November a side room at the Pullman was laid out with red chairs, round standing tables and a screen. The deck ran to fifty-six pages. Its second section gave the session its name: The Architect's Handbook for the Agentic Economy, a workshop series from DK AI Labs and Real AI, dated November 2025. The file had been saved at 06:32 the previous morning.
Almost none of it was lecture. Everyone took a printed AI Strategy Canvas, broke into threes and fours, and worked it through with pens. On round tables, on wall ledges, on their knees. Then they presented back. One woman took the front and talked the room through the section on screen. A man in a white jumper did the same with a page of notes in his hands. About thirty people were still in the chairs at the end, and in the photograph of them most hands are up.
The camera stops on 28 November. Day three at the Stamba and Lolita is not in this set, and there is no frame of the main stage with Tarry Singh on it.
Photographs: Tarry Singh, iPhone 14 Pro Max. No EXIF Artist or Copyright field is set on any frame.
Supporters slide on the main screen, nine logos in three rows with deepkapha AI Research and Real AI along the bottom 
The main hall filling before a session, purple stage lighting over rows of red seats 
The workshop room mid session, participants at tables and in rows of red chairs, seen from the back 
Three participants talking over a printed canvas in the red chairs, other groups working behind them 
Three participants standing at a high round table, filling in the printed canvas with pencils 
Four participants standing around a round table, writing on the canvas handout 
A cluster of participants in red chairs working through the canvas together 
Participants gathered around a laptop at the back of the workshop room 
Three participants leaning over a wall ledge, working on the printed handout 
The main hall audience seen from a middle row, every seat taken 
Conference foyer between sessions, volunteers in blue DataFest 2025 shirts at a table by the lifts 
Conference foyer with sponsor stands, roll-up banners and delegates at the coffee break 
Partners slide on the main screen listing the UN Joint Programme for Gender Equality, EPAM, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the British Embassy Tbilisi 
Sponsors slide on the main screen reading Startupbootcamp and Cellfie Mobile, a crew member standing beside it 
A participant standing at the front of the workshop room with printed notes in his hands
Fifty-six pages, section two titled The Architect's Handbook for the Agentic Economy, footed DK AI Labs & Real AI, November 2025. Filename agentic_ai_keynote_2025_20251127063219.pdf, read off the projection in KEY 722. Not in this folder.
Printed worksheet worked in small groups on 28 November, title legible in KEY 713 and KEY 715. Paper only, no digital copy in this folder.
