Guest Panel Discussion: Leading Engineering Teams in 2024 & Beyond: Tackling AI, Remote/Hybrid Work, and Economic Turbulence

Leading engineering teams in 2024 & beyond looks a whole lot different than it did just a few years ago: AI skill proficiency & tool availability, remote/hybrid work environments, and economic turbulence have completely changed the game when it comes to building & scaling high-performing engineering orgs. 

This panel, moderated by Lucas Mendes, Co-founder and CEO at Revelo and brings together a seasoned group of senior engineering leaders from Included Health and other companies who have seen it all. We’ll go deep into how they’re navigating these changes today and share actionable insights to help today’s leaders prepare for a very different future.

Panelists:

Ken Koa 

Ken is an executive leader with 12+ years leading engineering and product across early, mid-stage startups and public companies. He is currently the VP of Engineering at Rad AI pushing the frontier of applying Gen AI to healthcare to help make physicians more efficient and improve patient outcome. Prior to that, he was at Meta driving VR Device performance, emulation, and development tooling & Infrastructure. He has also previously held engineering leadership roles at Airbnb, Flatiron Health, and Palantir. Ken holds M.S. and B.S degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Anant Gupta 

Anant is the SVP of Engineering and Data Science at Included Health, where he leads technology initiatives aimed at redefining healthcare. Anant believes in the transformative power of technology to fundamentally alter how we live and interact with the world around us. He oversees initiatives that harness AI, comprehensive data platforms, and consumer technology to make healthcare more predictive, personalized, and accessible—aligning with the company's vision of personalized, all-in-one healthcare. 

Before joining Included Health, Anant held significant roles at pre-IPO giants such as Uber and LinkedIn, where he managed large, multidisciplinary teams. His leadership is characterized by a commitment to leveraging technology for impactful solutions and a dedication to team development. By fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence, Anant consistently drives substantial innovations, reinforcing his commitment to transforming how we experience and benefit from advanced technology.

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Speaker

Lucas Mendes

Co-founder and CEO @Revelo

Lucas Mendes is the founder and CEO of Revelo, the leading platform that helps US companies find, hire and pay full-time remote software engineers in Latin America. Revelo boasts a network of 400,000 pre-vetted engineers, and has placed developers from 15 LatAm countries in hundreds of US companies. Holding a Computer Engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), Lucas previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Bain & Company. He holds an MBA from Stanford University.

 

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Monday Nov 18 / 05:05PM PST ( 50 minutes )

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