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[2025 - Day 2 - MLOps & Platforms] Vignesh Chadramohan shares insights from building SlateDB, an embeddable storage engine built on object storage, exploring how to leverage properties like conditional writes for stream processing and durable execution. Whether you're working with disaggregated data systems or building on S3-like storage, this talk offers valuable perspectives on implementing features like checkpoints, writeable clones, and remote compaction in Rust-based storage engines.
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Vignesh Chadramohan, Engineering Manager, DoorDash -
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[2025 - Day 2 - MLOps & Platforms] Vignesh Chadramohan shares insights from building SlateDB, an embeddable storage engine built on object storage, exploring how to leverage properties like conditional writes for stream processing and durable execution. Whether you're working with disaggregated data systems or building on S3-like storage, this talk offers valuable perspectives on implementing features like checkpoints, writeable clones, and remote compaction in Rust-based storage engines.
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Vignesh Chadramohan, Engineering Manager, DoorDash -
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![From Concurrency Control to Concurrent Scheduling
[2025 - Day 3 - Databases] Natacha Crooks explores how database concurrency control has evolved from traditional locking mechanisms to modern concurrent scheduling approaches in distributed systems. Drawing from her research at the intersection of databases and distributed systems, she examines the practical tradeoffs between performance and fault-tolerance when coordinating parallel operations at scale, providing actionable insights for engineers building high-throughput systems where classic coordination methods often fall short.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Natacha Crooks, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley; Visiting Researcher, Azure Systems Research -
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![The Art of Data: Reimagining Creative Processes with Data Culture
[2025 - Day 3 - Lightning Talks] Michael Cohen shares insights from bridging the gap between artistic creativity and data intelligence, exploring strategies to foster a culture where data fuels rather than stifles creative expression. For leaders working across creative and analytical teams, this talk offers valuable perspectives on overcoming perception barriers, fostering data literacy among creatives, and implementing data storytelling approaches that enhance impactful creativity and collaboration.
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Michael Cohen, Global Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Plus Company -
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![What comes after Deep Learning? | Incept Labs
[2026 - DAY 1 - INFERENCE SYSTEMS] I will go over the history of building blocks that are underlying the foundations of modern learning algorithms. These building blocks are outdated and the recent agentic revolution makes them ripe to be disrupted. This has potential to disrupt existing AI ecosystem and the way we do AI research.
SPEAKER:
Yaroslav Bulatov - Principal Researcher, Incept Labs
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![The Open Layer: How Open Models, Routing, and Inference Are Reshaping Agentic Engineering
[2026 - DAY 2 - CODING AGENTS] Closed frontier models get the headlines, but the agentic revolution is being built on something more flexible and more interesting: a hybrid stack of open-weight models, intelligent routing, and high-throughput inference infrastructure. In this panel, founders building the open AI ecosystem — from fine-tuned model deployment to multi-model orchestration to optimized routing and serving — get into what open actually means in 2026, and where it falls short.
Well dig into the real engineering tradeoffs: when open models win in agentic pipelines, when they dont, how routing and inference choices shape latency and cost at scale, and what it takes to build reliable agents in this open ecosystem as always-on agents become an increasingly core part of agentic engineering.
PANELISTS:
Chris Clark - Co-Founder & COO, OpenRouter
Dima Dzhulgakov - Co-Founder & CTO, Fireworks AI
Lucas Atkins - CTO, Arcee AI
Scott Breitenother - Co-founder & CEO, Kilo Code (moderator)
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![How to Build Your Own Model Router
[2025 - Day 3 - Lightning Talks] Tomas Kofman shares insights from building model routers that optimize LLM selection, exploring how to improve accuracy up to 25% while reducing costs up to 90% through intelligent routing methodologies. For engineers working with multi-model systems, this talk offers valuable perspectives on evaluation techniques and scalable implementation strategies to overcome common technical hurdles in deploying cost-effective, high-performance AI applications.
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Tomas Kofman, Co-Founder & CEO, Not Diamond -
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![Failure is a Funnel
[2025 - Day 1 - Data Science & Algos] Bryan Bischof shares insights from systematic approaches to evaluating and improving LLM performance, exploring practical frameworks for transforming experimental models into production-ready systems. This talk offers valuable perspectives on identifying failure patterns, establishing reliable production environments, and moving from experimental slop to scalable production systems, essential for teams assessing LLM quality or building robust deployment pipelines.
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Bryan Bischof, Head of AI, Theory Ventures -
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![AI Launchpad 2025: Quesma
[2025 - Day 1 - AI Launchpad] Jacek Migdal and Piotr Migdal share insights from Quesmas database gateway for smarter queries, exploring how to tackle the legacy and underbuilt side of data ecosystems through interoperability layers. Drawing from decades of experience with enterprise data transformations and modernization projects that save millions annually, this session offers valuable perspectives on untangling complex data platforms and bringing order to chaos without greenfield assumptions.
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Jacek Migdal, Co-Founder & CEO, Quesma
Piotr Migdal, Founding Engineer, Quesma -
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![Inference for Async Agents in Production | Doubleword
[2026 - Day 1 - AGENT INFRASTRUCTURE] As models improve, we are starting to build long-running, asynchronous agents such as deep research agents and browser agents that can execute multi-step workflows autonomously. These systems unlock new use cases, but they use orders of magnitude more tokens and compute, creating scaling bottlenecks.
This talk discusses practical strategies builders can use to maximize async agent performance while keeping inference costs under control. Topics covered include context engineering, compaction, cache maintenance, model routing, and batch inference. This talk is aimed at use case developers, with secondary relevance to platform engineers.
SPEAKER:
Meryem Arik - Co-founder & CEO, Doubleword
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