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[2026 - DAY 3 - MODEL SYSTEMS] Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is increasingly common in post-training pipelines, but the practical details are often glossed over. How do you design reward functions that programmatically verify model outputs? What makes synthetic training data effective? How do you build a custom RL environment that doesn't silently break your training?
SPEAKER: Chris Alexiuk - Product Research Engineer, NVIDIA
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[2026 - DAY 3 - MODEL SYSTEMS] Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is increasingly common in post-training pipelines, but the practical details are often glossed over. How do you design reward functions that programmatically verify model outputs? What makes synthetic training data effective? How do you build a custom RL environment that doesn't silently break your training?
SPEAKER: Chris Alexiuk - Product Research Engineer, NVIDIA
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![Optimizing Model Training End-to-End: A Tiny MoE Case Study Lambda
[2026 - DAY 3 - MODEL SYSTEMS] Cloud compute is expensive, and wasting runs on the guise of a just scale will fix any problems leaves you with less time to fix errors, and less compute to train the model you want. In this talk, I will discuss what are the easy optimizatiosn you might miss (minimizing communications, using the most effective algorithms, ensuring youre getting the most FLOPs possible) at the small scale, before ensuring that when you do scale up nothing is going to waste. In this particular talk, Ill be focusing on what worked at home, that then let me scale it further onto the cloud.
SPEAKER: Zach Mueller - Head of Developer Relations, Lambda
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![Agentic AI: From Risk Awareness to Practical Control | Noma Security
[2026 - DAY 3 - AI SECURITY & SAFETY] If you would not hand an intern your credentials, payment data, and production access, do not hand them to an AI agent without understanding the risk. Agentic systems do more than generate content. They take action across tools, data stores, and workflows with delegated authority. That shifts the trust boundary, expands identity and data risk, and stretches governance. This session explores practical controls security teams can apply now.
SPEAKER:
Diana Kelley - CISO, Noma Security
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![Guardrails for the Future AI Safety and Responsible AI in Practice
[2025 - Day 2 - Keynote] Jake Brill, Rachad Alao, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, and Daniel Olmedilla share insights from implementing responsible AI safeguards at scale, moving beyond theoretical discussions to explore the practical realities of deploying ethical AI systems. This panel offers candid perspectives on the complex trade-offs and technical challenges of responsible AI deployment, essential for anyone building trust and safety protocols or managing AI governance.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Jake Brill, Head of Product - Integrity, OpenAI
Rachad Alao, Senior Engineering Director, Meta
Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Chief Scientist - Clinical AI, Oracle Health
Daniel Olmedilla, Distinguished Engineer - AI & Trust, LinkedIn (Moderator) -
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![AI Launchpad 2025: Mooncake
[2025 - Day 1 - AI Launchpad] Pranav Aurora and Zhou Sun share insights from Mooncake, a real-time search and analytics system built on object-store for GenAI applications, exploring open development principles on open table formats. Like the delicacy its named after, this system offers valuable perspectives on building shared, open-source solutions that everyone can enjoy, particularly relevant for teams developing search and analytics capabilities for AI-powered applications.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Pranav Aurora, Co-Founder, Mooncake
Zhou Sun, Co-Founder, Mooncake -
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![The Middle Ground: Balancing Batch and Real-Time Processing in a Data Lakehouse
[2025 - Day 3 - Lightning Talks] Brenna Buuck shares insights from bridging batch processing and real-time streaming through data lakehouse architectures, exploring how to support both processing types with efficiency and flexibility on the same platform. For teams whose needs lie between these traditionally polar opposite approaches, this talk offers valuable perspectives on handling high-frequency, low-latency queries alongside resource-intensive batch analytics in modern data infrastructures.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Brenna Buuck, Developer Evangelist, MinIO -
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