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SPEAKER
BACKGROUND

Compact context for who each speaker is and why they are plausibly on this program.

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Alisa Fortin

Google DeepMind • Product Manager Google AI Studio

Alisa Fortin

Product Manager at Google DeepMind for Google AI Studio, helping bring frontier generative capabilities into usable product surfaces.

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Alvin Pane

OutRival • Engineering Lead

Alvin Pane

Engineering Lead at OutRival, working on memory systems and challenging default assumptions around retrieval-first AI architectures.

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Anna Juchnicki

Pinterest • Sr. Software Engineer

Anna Juchnicki

Senior Software Engineer at Pinterest, bringing an enterprise systems perspective on governed agents, infra safety, and operational automation.

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Ben Davis

T3 • Theo's Manager

Ben Davis

Known from T3 and adjacent developer-media circles, bringing a sharp, opinionated angle on SDK choices and what developers should actually build with.

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Ben Vinegar

Modem • Founder

Ben Vinegar

Founder of Modem and longtime developer tooling leader, known for pragmatic workflows and an operator’s perspective on how tools fit real teams.

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Dave Kiss

Mux • Sr. Community Engineering Lead

Dave Kiss

Senior Community Engineering Lead at Mux, focused on APIs, developer ergonomics, and what it means to design products for agents as first-class users.

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David Gomes

Cursor • Software Engineer

David Gomes

Software Engineer at Cursor, working inside one of the most visible AI coding products and thinking about how the IDE is mutating rather than disappearing.

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David House

G2i • Engineering Manager

David House

Engineering Manager at G2i, close to real-world adoption stories and the human side of agentic development inside teams.

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Dax Raad

OpenCode • Co-Founder

Dax Raad

Co-founder of OpenCode and a recognizable voice around coding agents, context engineering, and practical AI-assisted software workflows.

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Dexter Horthy

HumanLayer • CEO and Co-Founder

Dexter Horthy

CEO and co-founder of HumanLayer, focused on production agent workflows, human-in-the-loop systems, and making AI actions accountable inside real organizations.

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Erik Thorelli

CodeRabbit • Head of DX

Erik Thorelli

Head of DX at CodeRabbit, focused on code review, workflow quality, and the shape of useful agentic engineering primitives.

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Gabe Greenberg

G2i • CEO and Founder

Gabe Greenberg

CEO and founder of G2i, the engineering talent platform behind AI Engineer events and the broader React Miami / Frontier Tech Week ecosystem.

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Geoffrey Huntley

Latent Patterns • Founder

Geoffrey Huntley

Founder of Latent Patterns, known for strong takes on software economics, AI-enabled development, and the shifting leverage profile of engineering teams.

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Guillaume Vernade

Google DeepMind • GenMedia Developer Advocate

Guillaume Vernade

GenMedia Developer Advocate at Google DeepMind, focused on helping developers work with Google’s generative media stack in practice.

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Hassan El Mghari

Together AI • Director of Developer Experience

Hassan El Mghari

Director of Developer Experience at Together AI, known for shipping popular AI apps and speaking concretely about idea-to-product loops.

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Jesse Willman

Cohere • Manager, Engineering Program Management - Machine Learning

Jesse Willman

At Cohere leading engineering program work around machine learning, with a vantage point on what it takes to build and ship strong general-purpose models.

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Kent C. Dodds

Kent C. Dodds Tech LLC • Software Engineer and Educator

Kent C. Dodds

Independent software engineer and educator, widely known in the JavaScript world and increasingly active in agent workflows, DX, and pragmatic tooling.

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Laurie Voss

Arize AI • AI Engineer / Head of Devrel

Laurie Voss

AI Engineer / Head of DevRel at Arize AI, with a strong systems and evaluation lens on tooling patterns, observability, and agent performance.

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Lech Kalinowski

CallStack • Senior AI System Engineer

Lech Kalinowski

Senior AI System Engineer at CallStack, working near the edge of mobile, on-device AI, and practical deployment constraints.

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Lena Hall

Akamai • Senior Director of Developer Relations

Lena Hall

Senior Director of Developer Relations at Akamai, with a practical bent toward developer platforms, demos that move, and embodied AI experimentation.

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Max Stoiber

OpenAI • ChatGPT Apps

Max Stoiber

At OpenAI working on ChatGPT Apps; previously known for frontend infrastructure and developer tooling, with sharp opinions on developer experience and product taste.

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Nnenna Ndukwe

Qodo • AI Principal Developer Advocate

Nnenna Ndukwe

AI Principal Developer Advocate at Qodo, working at the intersection of AI-assisted coding, workflow quality, and developer education.

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Nyah Macklin

Neo4j • Senior Developer Advocate

Nyah Macklin

Senior Developer Advocate at Neo4j, bringing graph and knowledge representation ideas into the discussion around AI context and memory.

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Philip Kiely

Baseten • Head of Developer Relations

Philip Kiely

Head of Developer Relations at Baseten, translating model serving and inference tradeoffs into practical guidance for builders shipping AI products.

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Rick Blalock

Agentuity • Founder

Rick Blalock

Founder of Agentuity, focused on agent-native product design and the argument that coding environments are becoming the universal runtime for useful agents.

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Rita Kozlov

Cloudflare • VP of Product

Rita Kozlov

VP of Product at Cloudflare, working on infrastructure that supports internet-scale workloads and the next wave of agentic compute.

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Sarah Chieng

Cerebras • Head of DevX

Sarah Chieng

Head of DevX at Cerebras, with a systems-level perspective on performance, developer experience, and the real cost of inference bottlenecks.

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Shashank Goyal

OpenRouter • Founding Engineer

Shashank Goyal

Founding engineer at OpenRouter, close to real-world model traffic and practical tradeoffs in inference, reliability, tool use, and cost.

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Stefan Avram

OpenCode • Head of Business

Stefan Avram

Head of Business at OpenCode, speaking from the front lines of how enterprises choose coding tools, models, and degrees of openness.

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Tejas Bhakta

Morph LLM • Founder

Tejas Bhakta

Founder of Morph LLM, exploring specialized model systems and what multi-model architectures can do better than a single generalist.