AI/ML
From Founding Engineer to CTO to CEO – At the Same Startup
Monday Nov 17 / 10:35AM PST
As a college sophomore, I founded Pointz, initially building its core routing engine from scratch. I architected the platform’s safety rating algorithm, integrating geospatial data structures, crowdsourced inputs, and multi-criteria decision-making to deliver context-aware routing.
Trisha Ballakur
Co-Founder and CEO @Pointz, Forbes 30 Under 30 2025, Previously @Techstars and @Adobe
Driving Innovation with a Polyglot Platform
Monday Nov 17 / 01:35PM PST
Details coming soon.
Bishwajeet Paul
Architect, Platform Engineering @JPMorgan Chase - Specializing in Solving Complex Challenges for the Developer Community
From Monolith to Mosaic: Strategies for a Safe and Successful Polyglot Migration
Monday Nov 17 / 05:05PM PST
Details coming soon.
Adrian Cockcroft
Technology Advisor and Consultant @OrionX.net, Previously VP Open Source and Sustainability @Amazon, Cloud Architect @Netflix, Distinguished Engineer @eBay
Modernizing Relevance at Scale: LinkedIn’s Migration Journey to Serve Billions of Users
Tuesday Nov 18 / 11:45AM PST
How do you deliver relevant and personalized recommendations to nearly a billion professionals—instantly, reliably, and at scale? At LinkedIn, the answer has been a multi-year journey of architectural reinvention.
Nishant Lakshmikanth
Engineering Manager @LinkedIn, Leading Infrastructure for "People You May Know" and "People Follows", Previously @AWS and @Cisco
Improving Meta Generative Ad Text using Reinforcement Learning
Tuesday Nov 18 / 01:35PM PST
Reinforcement Learning with Performance Feedback (RLPF) unlocks a new way of turning generic GenAI models into customized models fine-tuned for specific tasks. This approach is especially powerful when combined with in-house data and performance metrics.
Alex Nikulkov
Research Scientist (RL lead for Monetization GenAI) @Meta
Automating the Web With MCP: Infra That Doesn’t Break
Tuesday Nov 18 / 05:05PM PST
AI agents are only as strong as the infrastructure beneath them. In this talk, we’ll walk through the architecture behind Browserbase’s model context protocol (MCP), built to support stateful browser automation at scale.
Paul Klein
Founder @Browserbase, previously Director of Self-Service & Engineering Manager @Mux, Co-Founder & CTO @Stream Club, Technical Lead @Twilio Inc.
Producing the World's Cheapest Tokens: A How-to Guide
Wednesday Nov 19 / 10:35AM PST
AI inference is expensive, but it doesn’t have to be. In this talk, we’ll break down how to systematically drive down the cost per token across different types of AI workloads.
Meryem Arik
Co-Founder and CEO @Doubleword (Previously TitanML), Recognized as a Technology Leader in Forbes 30 Under 30, Recovering Physicist
Choosing Your AI Copilot: Maximizing Developer Productivity
Wednesday Nov 19 / 10:35AM PST
The AI coding agent landscape evolves weekly. This talk compares today’s frontrunners, shows where each shines, and shares prompts, policies, and “rules templates” that turn code suggestions into production-quality output.
Sepehr Khosravi
Machine Learning Platform Engineer @Coinbase, Award Winning Instructor @UC Berkeley - Gen-AI Bootcamp, Founder @ AI Scouts
Accelerating LLM-Driven Developer Productivity at Zoox
Wednesday Nov 19 / 11:45AM PST
Over the past year, Zoox has invested in integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into internal developer workflows through a company-wide initiative called Zoox Intelligence (ZI).
Amit Navindgi
Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience @ Zoox, Leading Applied AI Initiatives
Powering the Future: Building Your GenAI Infrastructure Stack
Wednesday Nov 19 / 01:35PM PST
Behind every productivity leap is a rock-solid platform. Go under the hood with Intuit’s GenOS team to see how vector stores, prompt management, RAG pipelines, and agent orchestration come together to serve ~100 million users.
Maggie (Kun) Hu
Group Product Manager for the Core AI Platform @Intuit, 15+ Years Building Generative AI and Machine Learning Platforms
Merrin Kurian
Distinguished Engineer @Intuit