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9:30am PDT

[Virtual] KEYNOTE (AI): Toyota -- Toyota's Agentic Journey
Wednesday June 4, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Main Stage
Ravi Chandu Ummadisetti, Toyota, Generative AI Architect
Kordel France Toyota, AI Architect

Toyota applies the Multi-Agentic framework, powered by Generative AI, to revolutionize car manufacturing, battery production, paint design, and anti-corrosion strategies. In manufacturing, AI-driven agents collaborate to optimize production lines. For battery production, Generative AI designs efficient layouts and predicts performance, enhancing durability and sustainability. In paint design, AI generates custom finishes with superior aesthetics and durability, while simulations ensure precision and reduce waste. Anti-corrosion efforts leverage AI to develop advanced coatings tailored to environmental and material conditions, extending vehicle lifespan and minimizing environmental impact. 
Speakers
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Kordel France

AI Architect, Toyota
Kordel brings a diverse background of experiences in robotics and AI from both academia and industry. He has multiple patents in advanced sensor design and spent much of the past few years founding and building a successful sensor startup that enables the sense of smell for robotics... Read More →
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Ravi Chandu Ummadisetti

Generative AI Architect, Toyota
Ravi Chandu Bio (Generative AI Architect): Ravi Chandu Ummadisetti is a distinguished Generative AI Architect with over a decade of experience, known for his pivotal role in advancing AI initiatives at Toyota Motor North America. His expertise in AI/ML methodologies has driven significant... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

9:30am PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session: The Rise of Small Language Models: Unlocking Efficient & Secure AI
Wednesday June 4, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage
Shrinath Thube, IBM, Software Developer
Vaibhav Tupe, Equinix, Technology Lead

As AI adoption grows, the need for efficient, cost-effective, and privacy-conscious solutions has never been greater. Small Language Models (SLMs) are emerging as a powerful alternative to resource-intensive Large Language Models (LLMs), addressing challenges like high computational costs, latency, and environmental impact while also enhancing security and compliance.

This session will explore the evolution of small language models, covering their training, fine-tuning, and deployment for key NLP tasks such as text generation, summarization, and question-answering. We will also examine the security implications of using SLMs, including on-device processing for data privacy, reducing attack surfaces, mitigating prompt injection risks, and ensuring robust model governance. Techniques like model distillation, quantization, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) will be discussed in the context of optimizing both performance and security.

Attendees will gain insights into leading open-source models like Mistral, Gemma, Phi, and IBM Granite, learning how to harness them for real-world applications while implementing best practices for AI security and compliance. We will also discuss strategies for integrating SLMs into enterprise environments, edge computing, and secure on-premise AI deployments to achieve scalable, efficient, and trustworthy AI solutions.
Speakers
avatar for Shrinath Thube

Shrinath Thube

Software Developer, IBM
IEEE Senior Member | Software Developer, IBM | Technology Advisory Board MemberShrinath Thube is a Software Developer at IBM with 8+ years of experience in security, cloud, microservices, observability. An IEEE Senior Member, he is part of the IEEE CISOSE 2025 Organizing Committee... Read More →
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Vaibhav Tupe

Technology Lead, Equinix
Vaibhav Tupe is a distinguished Technology Advisory Board Member and Engineering Leader specializing in cybersecurity, cloud, and AI-ready data center infrastructure. With over 13 years of experience, he currently serves as a Technology Leader at Equinix USA, where he drives high-performance... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage
  AI DevSummit

9:30am PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Software Architecture for Everyone: Be a Boundless Engineer!
Wednesday June 4, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
Vrushanki Patel, Oracle, Software Engineer

When discussing technology, we as software engineers perceive software architecture and system design as advanced concepts reserved for later stages of the career—perhaps at senior levels or after years of experience. But is that really the case? If yes, then why is there often a disconnect between engineers, tech leads, and managers? A lack of clarity in system architecture and its design decisions—understanding not just the how but the why behind implementations—can narrow a developer’s perspective and limit collaboration across roles.

Seeing engineers across teams and levels struggle with architectural decisions during the development phase—whether junior developers or experienced professionals. Through discussions with engineers in various organizations, one thing is clear: the lack of architectural thinking often leads to confusion, unnecessary rework, increased refactoring cycles, and reduced productivity. Let's all join in and start creating an environment where architectural thinking becomes second nature, driving better software and innovation at every level. When I say every level, it means from junior engineer to senior developer to tech lead to manager. This gap exists everywhere, and addressing it early can transform how we build software when the tech industry is rising exponentially to AI.

The talk will provide a deep dive into:

1. A step-by-step guide to bridging the architectural thinking gap with a live walkthrough of an example architecture, building confidence in engineers.
2. A roadmap for developers to take self-initiative in understanding the architecture of the systems they work on.
3. Strategic action items for tech leads and managers, as the driving force of any team, to foster architectural thinking at every level and across organizations.
 
Speakers
avatar for Vrushanki Patel

Vrushanki Patel

Software Engineer, Oracle
Vrushanki wears multiple hats in her work: Software Developer, Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Micro-Architect, QA, ML & AI Engineer. Her work comprises end-to-end Cloud-native Software development & DevOps for building & running AI microservices for the Hospitality Global Business... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 9:30am - 9:55am PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
  DeveloperWeek Leadership

10:00am PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session: 10 Commandments for Vibe Coding
Wednesday June 4, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage
YK Sugi, CS Dojo, Founder

Since the launch of GPT-4, I've spent an intense and insane amount of time coding with AI. In this talk, I’ll distill everything I’ve learned from this into 10 practical rules. I’ll end with a look ahead—what the future holds as we move into the agentic future of coding and software engineering.

1. Thou shalt not rely on it too much if you are a junior.
2. Thou shalt write lots of tests.
3. Thou shalt not exceed 400 lines of code for each file.
4. Thou shalt organize your codebase well.
5. Thou shalt move slow so that you can go fast.
6. Thou shalt make architectural decisions carefully.
7. Thou shalt provide or let AI collect necessary context.
8. Thou shalt keep the provided context to a minimum.
9. Thou shalt break down a large problem into smaller ones.
10. Thou shalt go agentic.
 
Speakers
avatar for YK Sugi

YK Sugi

Founder, CS Dojo
Founder of CS Dojo, a leading programming education platform with over 1.9 million subscribers on YouTube, dedicated to empowering individuals with the skills needed for a successful career in tech. Beyond YouTube, he actively shares insights and tips on coding, AI, and tech career... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 10:00am - 10:25am PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage
  AI DevSummit

10:00am PDT

[Virtual] KEYNOTE (AI): Nebius -- Key Factors When Choosing an AI Cloud Provider
Wednesday June 4, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Main Stage
Aaron Miller, Nebius, Senior Cloud Solutions Architect
Speakers
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Aaron Miller

Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, Nebius
Wednesday June 4, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

10:30am PDT

CANCELLED -- [Virtual] OPEN Session: Leadership Changes, What’s Next?
Wednesday June 4, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
Pankaj Thakkar, Kloudfuse, CEO & Co-founder 

Leadership changes, sometimes too often, sometimes unexpectedly. These transitions can impact not only you but also your teams, remote employees who feel the shift, stakeholders, investors, and even customers.

In this session, we will share lessons from our own experiences and offer tips for managing these changes. We'll discuss how to build trust and empowerment within your team, communicate effectively, align on priorities, and ultimately, how to focus on the bigger picture despite uncertainty and change.
Speakers
avatar for Pankaj Thakkar

Pankaj Thakkar

CEO & Co-founder, Kloudfuse
Pankaj is the CEO & Co-founder CEO of Kloudfuse, a leader in unified observability. Having transitioned from CTO to CEO, he brings extensive experience in observability, distributed systems, virtualization, and infrastructure platforms. As a business leader, Pankaj oversees go-to-market... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
  DeveloperWeek Leadership

10:30am PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session: You Code. Let AI Agents Do the Testing. Rethinking Software Quality in the Era of AI Generated Code
Wednesday June 4, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage
Sharon Barr, Early Technologies, Co-founder & CEO

As generative AI tools increase developer output, the volume of shipped code is skyrocketing, yet quality isn’t keeping pace. Manual testing can’t scale, and traditional automation wasn’t designed for this velocity. In this session, we’ll explore how collaborative AI agents for testing are emerging as a practical solution to ensure code quality and enable fast, reliable delivery in the era of AI-generated development. 
Speakers
avatar for Sharon Barr

Sharon Barr

Co-founder & CEO, Early Technologies
Sharon Barr is a veteran engineering and product leader who led AI initiatives at Yahoo—well before “AI” became a buzzword. He was the VP of Engineering at Couchbase, now a publicly traded company. Sharon later served as CTO at a life sciences startup acquired by Roche, where... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage
  DeveloperWeek Leadership

10:30am PDT

[Virtual] PRO Session: Evolving the Engineer: A Leadership Roadmap for the AI Era
Wednesday June 4, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Main Stage
Andrew Park, Edensoft Labs, Founder

AI is here—and it’s transforming software engineering faster than most leaders are prepared for. GenAI tools like Copilot and Cursor are boosting productivity by automating routine coding tasks, but they’re also contributing to significant layoffs. Pure software engineering roles are under threat, and leaders urgently need a plan to evolve their teams.
In this talk, Andrew Park—a longtime Engineering and Product Leader—delivers a clear, field-tested roadmap for evolving engineers in the AI era. He shows how to help your teams harness AI for speed—while leveling up in the areas GenAI can’t touch: product thinking, system design, craftsmanship, maintainability, and the collaboration skills needed to work across product, design, customers, and dependent teams.
You’ll walk away with a practical strategy for transforming engineering roles and building smaller, more capable teams—enabling your organization to meet executive demands to do more with less, without sacrificing product quality or long-term agility. This is how you secure engineering careers—and your product’s future—in an AI-driven world.
 
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Park

Andrew Park

Founder, Edensoft Labs
Since joining G3 Technologies as a startup, Andrew has worn two hats simultaneously: Engineering Leader and Product Leader, leading cross-functional teams to deliver software that delights customers. Since 2006, he has shaped and refined Product Oriented Software Engineering (POSE... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 10:30am - 10:55am PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Main Stage
  DeveloperWeek Leadership

11:00am PDT

[Virtual] KEYNOTE (Leadership): Stealth Startup -- Rapid Decisions, Rapid Deployment: Transforming Delivery Through Empowerment
Wednesday June 4, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Main Stage
Vilas Veeraraghavan, Stealth startup, Technical Leader

Platform teams tend to start out being lean but tend to slowly lose agility as they grow and expand their scope. This typically results in delayed rollouts of tools and other enablement needs that Dev teams have. However, these delays in decision making in critical tooling development within DevEx or Platform teams results in developer frustration and slows down delivery to the end customer (which impacts revenue). In my past life as a leader of Dev Platforms, I have experienced this and developed some techniques to prevent this slowdown over time. I have seen how distributing the decision making using engineering rigor allows DevEx/Platform teams to empower themselves and drive outcomes. In this talk, I will share the framework I have honed over years of leadership at Comcast, Netflix, Walmart and Bill with the audience. The framework relies on 4 key pillars - Always lead with data/reasoning, Know the business needs, Own and invest in your decisions, Empathize with the developer.

This talk will equip engineering leaders with a tool to create effective delivery enablement within their engineering organizations.

Speakers
avatar for Vilas Veeraraghavan

Vilas Veeraraghavan

Technical Leader, Stealth startup
Strong technical leader with 15+ years of demonstrated history of success in building and scaling high performing engineering teams in global tech organizations. Passionate about building Resilient distributed systems at Scale.Expertise in Hybrid cloud deployments (AWS, Azure, GCP... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

11:00am PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Scaling AI Impact: Productizing AI Agents to Optimize Enterprise Operations
Wednesday June 4, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
Ram Venkatesh, Sema4.ai, CTO and Co-Founder

Enterprises are pouring billions into AI, yet most deployments fail to scale beyond pilot projects. Traditional automation tools like RPA and co-pilots fall short when it comes to complex, knowledge-driven tasks—leading to stalled adoption, wasted investment, and missed opportunities for true business transformation. Without a smarter approach, AI initiatives will remain stuck in experimentation mode.

In this session, Ram Venkatesh, CTO and co-founder of Sema4.ai, will reveal how AI agents can bridge the gap between business expertise and cutting-edge technology to unlock real, sustainable enterprise value across industries. Unlike traditional automation, AI agents are adaptable, intelligent, and capable of delivering measurable ROI within weeks without disrupting existing systems. By autonomously managing critical end-to-end workflows such as invoice reconciliation, regulatory compliance, and supply chain optimization, these agents accelerate productivity, reduce time to market, and empower organizations to operate with agility and efficiency.

Drawing on decades of experience in enterprise software, distributed systems, and data management, Ram will cover:

• What is the enterprise opportunity for AI - separating out the myth from reality

• Always be shipping - how to get AI implementations all the way to production

• Real-world use cases from Fortune 1000 companies like Koch and Emerson showcasing AI-driven cost savings, operational efficiency, and faster decision-making.

• Why AI agent architecture must center around business owners while also enabling developers—and how this balance drives successful adoption and scale

For business and AI leaders struggling to move beyond proof-of-concept, this session delivers an urgent, actionable roadmap for getting AI agents into production—driving efficiency, reducing costs, and ensuring AI delivers on its full potential.
Speakers
avatar for Ram Venkatesh

Ram Venkatesh

CTO and Co-Founder, Sema4.ai
Ram Venkatesh is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Sema4.ai. He is responsible for the long-term technology strategy and vision, collaborating closely with the largest customers, engineering, product, and go-to-market functions. With over 25 years of experience in the... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 11:00am - 11:25am PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
  AI DevSummit

11:30am PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Turning AI Vision into Reality: Delivering AI Success with Inceptica
Wednesday June 4, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage
Srineha Korugundla, Inceptica, Co-Founder
This session explores how Inceptica helps enterprises turn AI strategy into measurable business outcomes. It will cover the end-to-end journey of delivering intelligent agents—from identifying the right use cases and aligning with business goals to selecting the right technologies and executing with speed and precision. Attendees will gain insights into Inceptica’s proven delivery approach using tools like LangChain, OpenAI, and Milvus, and learn how to design scalable agent-based systems. The session also shares best practices for team enablement, stakeholder alignment, and ensuring that AI investments lead to lasting operational impact and strategic advantage.
Speakers
avatar for Srineha Korugundla

Srineha Korugundla

Co-Founder, Inceptica
Co-Founder at Inceptica, leading AI services for enterprise automation through intelligent agents. Combines strategy, customer success, and solution delivery to build systems using LangChain, OpenAI, Claude, and Milvus. Passionate about harnessing AI to drive efficiency and smarter... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage
  AI DevSummit

11:30am PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Incident Readiness with AI-Simulated Failures
Wednesday June 4, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
Ruchir Jha, CardinalHQ, CEO and cofounder

Alert fatigue. Blind spots. Constant tuning. Managing alerts in modern observability stacks is harder than it should be. As systems evolve, telemetry changes with your code and business logic — yet alerts are still handcrafted, brittle, and often stale.

In this talk, we’ll explore the common pitfalls of traditional alerting: the lack of semantic consistency across telemetry, the overhead of keeping alerts in sync with evolving systems, and the deluge of low-signal symptoms that drown out meaningful incidents. We’ll show how OpenTelemetry (OTEL) can help standardize signal collection, and more importantly, how it can enable autonomous alerting — where your system continuously adapts, learns from your telemetry, and only raises its hand when it really matters.

Whether you’re drowning in dashboards or just starting your observability journey, this talk offers a vision for how alerting can be smarter, leaner, and less manual
Speakers
avatar for Ruchir Jha

Ruchir Jha

CEO, Cardinal
Wednesday June 4, 2025 11:30am - 11:55am PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
  DeveloperWeek Leadership

12:00pm PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Efficient Serverless Inferencing: Scaling and Optimization
Wednesday June 4, 2025 12:00pm - 12:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Main Stage
Yann Léger, Koyeb, Co-Founder

Today, AI Infrastructure doesn’t rhyme with efficiency. Massive investments are made in GPUs sold mainly by a single vendor and these GPUs end up underused due to poor software solutions.

This is not a fatality and we, as an industry, are working on increasing average utilization and increasing diversity of accelerators. I’ll walk you through the different technical solutions to implement Serverless Inferencing and the trade-offs, from the chips to the virtualization software through the storage layers.
Speakers
avatar for Yann Léger

Yann Léger

Co-Founder, Koyeb
Yann Leger is co-founder of Koyeb, a serverless platform for AI workloads, and spent the last 12 years building large-scale cloud service providers from scratch.Passionate about cloud computing, he has a deep understanding of the underlying infrastructure, from data centers to the... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 12:00pm - 12:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Main Stage
  4. Hackathon

12:00pm PDT

[Virtual] PRO Session: The Next Frontier in AI Development: Why Agent Experience (AX) Matters
Wednesday June 4, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Main Stage
Dana Lawson, Netlify, CTO
Julianna Lamb, Stytch, Co-founder and CTO
Aiden Ba, Million.js, Founder
Sean Roberts, Netlify, Distinguished Engineer

Agent experience (AX) is the holistic experience AI agents will have as the user of a product or platform. AI agents are reshaping software development, but today’s developer tools and platforms weren't built for them. For AI agents to truly be effective, we need to craft our products with AX in mind. How do we design platforms, APIs, and workflows that help AI agents operate effectively? While DX optimized tools for humans, AX challenges us to rethink systems for AI-first development.
This panel brings together experts in AI infrastructure, developer tooling, and LLMs to discuss:
-Introduction to Agent Experience (AX)
-The current limitations of AI agents when building, deploying, and iterating software.
-How platforms might need to evolve to support AI-native workflows.
-The tensions between human-driven and AI-driven development—and what collaboration could look like.
-The early signs of AX in today’s AI-powered development landscape.
Speakers
avatar for Aiden Ba

Aiden Ba

Founder, Million.js
avatar for Julianna Lamb

Julianna Lamb

Co-founder and CTO, Stytch
avatar for Dana Lawson

Dana Lawson

CTO, Netlify
avatar for Sean Roberts

Sean Roberts

Distinguished engineer, Netlify
Wednesday June 4, 2025 12:00pm - 12:50pm PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Main Stage

1:00pm PDT

[Virtual] KEYNOTE (AI): Hasura -- Path Towards 100% Accurate & Repeatable Data Agents for AI
Wednesday June 4, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Main Stage
Praveen Durairaju, Hasura, Field CTO

Achieving 100% accuracy in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is critical for AI agents handling complex workflows. But most RAG architectures fail due to goal drift, incomplete reasoning, and multi-step errors.
In this session, we will cover:
Why traditional RAG and tool-calling approaches break down in real-world AI workflows.
Agentic query planning: A structured approach to eliminate errors and improve reliability.
Benchmarking results: The path to achieve 100% accuracy where existing approaches fall short, backed by benchmarks.
Engineering strategies for verifiable, repeatable AI workflows.
We’ll walk through real-world examples and show how structured planning and separate execution fixes common RAG failures.

Live Demo: See how PromptQL ensures accurate, repeatable AI actions in production environments.
Speakers
avatar for Praveen Durairaju

Praveen Durairaju

Field CTO, Hasura
Praveen is a Field CTO at Hasura with over 10 years of full-stack web dev experience. Praveen was a core contributor to open source projects like hasura/graphql-engine and works on solving data access for the AI world. Besides the day job, Praveen runs community meetups like GraphQL... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

1:00pm PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session: From LLM to SLM - How and Where to Use Specialized Language Models
Wednesday June 4, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage
Iddo Gino, Datawizz, CEO

LLMs have transformed many applications - putting advanced AI within any developers reach. This unlocked amazing progress - but also introduced a dependency on model providers and ballooning inference costs. This talk will discuss an alternative approach - fine tuning and deploying smaller, specialized language models to cut costs & improve performance. We'll discuss how to identify the right use cases for SLMs, evaluate their performance and deploy them effectively. 
Speakers
avatar for Iddo Gino

Iddo Gino

CEO, Datawizz
Part of Forbes 30 Under 30 list, he's a 2017 Thiel Fellow. Previously, he was a Co-organizer of Hacking Gen Y. Iddo has been programming since he was a kid and continues to contribute to open-source projects. Originally from Haifa, Israel, Iddo is based in San Francisco, CA.
Wednesday June 4, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage
  AI DevSummit

1:00pm PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Leading With Impact: Cultivating Ownership & Transparent Team Dynamics
Wednesday June 4, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
Shailvi Wakhlu, Shailvi Ventures, Data Leader

Learn how to foster a culture of ownership and transparency that drives both individual and team success. This session provides leaders with actionable strategies to empower employees, enhance communication, and create an environment where everyone contributes confidently and effectively. Strengthen team dynamics and align efforts with business goals for lasting impact. 
Speakers
avatar for Shailvi Wakhlu

Shailvi Wakhlu

Data Leader, Shailvi Ventures
Shailvi Wakhlu is a Technology Leader and International Keynote Speaker. She is the author of the book "Self-Advocacy: Your Guide to Getting What You Deserve at Work". She is the former Head of Data & Analytics at Strava and Komodo Health. Her sixteen-year data and engineering career... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 1:00pm - 1:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
  DeveloperWeek Leadership

1:30pm PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session:The Dual Edge of Multimodal AI: Advancing Accessibility While Navigating Bias
Wednesday June 4, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage
Naman Goyal , Google Deepmind, Machine Learning Engineer

Multimodal AI systems—capable of processing text, images, audio, and video simultaneously—present transformative opportunities for accessibility while introducing complex challenges related to bias and fairness. This presentation explores this duality through evidence-based analysis of current implementations and future directions.
For individuals with disabilities, multimodal AI creates unprecedented opportunities: visual recognition systems achieve high accuracy for common objects, real-time speech-to-text transcription operates with minimal error rates, and adaptive learning technologies significantly improve information retention for neurodivergent learners. However, these same systems exhibit concerning bias patterns: recruitment algorithms show substantial ranking disparities across demographics, speech recognition error rates vary considerably across accents, and many images containing gender bias can be traced to problematic relationships between visual elements and text annotations.
The presentation outlines a comprehensive framework for responsible development including: inclusive design principles (with evidence that disability consultants identify many more potential accessibility barriers), representative dataset curation (addressing the reality that images in computer vision datasets rarely include people with visible disabilities), rigorous testing methodologies (conventional sampling typically captures very few users with disabilities), and ethical governance considerations (most AI practitioners want clearer accessibility standards).
Through case studies including image description technologies (showing notable accuracy disparities between Western and non-Western cultural contexts), diverse speech recognition (where community-driven data collection reduced error rates for underrepresented accent groups), and emotion recognition systems (with higher error rates for non-Western expressions), the presentation provides practical insights for developing multimodal AI that enhances accessibility without reinforcing existing inequities.


Speakers
avatar for Naman Goyal

Naman Goyal

Machine Learning Engineer, Google Deepmind
Naman Goyal is a distinguished Machine Learning Engineer and Researcher specializing in Large Language Models (LLMs), Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and Multimodal Learning. With a proven track record at leading technology companies including Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, Apple, and innovative... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 1:30pm - 1:55pm PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage
  AI DevSummit

2:00pm PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Evolving Databricks’ Kubernetes Infrastructure to Scale AI Workloads via Principled Platform Abstrac
Wednesday June 4, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
Sourav Khandelwal, Databricks, Software Engineer

In the age of large-scale AI—where workloads like LLM model serving and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) demand massive compute capacity on short notice—efficient, reliable, and self-service infrastructure is essential. At Databricks, we faced the challenge of orchestrating a rapidly growing fleet of Kubernetes clusters spanning multiple clouds, regions, and use cases to power AI-driven solutions. The result was a patchwork of manual processes that were both costly in engineering hours and prone to human error.

In this session, you’ll learn how at Databricks, we overcame these challenges by building principled platform abstractions—clean, self-serve interfaces that application teams can use to provision, configure, and manage their Kubernetes clusters in a standardized, automated way. We’ll detail our journey from fragmented workflows to a scalable infrastructure platform that underpins products such as LLM model serving and RAG, allowing for quick, repeatable scale-out of AI-driven workloads.

We’ll also share the hard lessons learned, including the trade-offs between flexibility and uniformity, as well as strategies for ensuring consistent cluster management patterns across diverse environments. By highlighting how these platform abstractions free up engineering resources and streamline high-demand AI use cases, we’ll showcase how this approach accelerates product development cycles while simplifying day-to-day operations.
Speakers
avatar for Sourav Khandelwal

Sourav Khandelwal

Software Engineer, Databricks
I am a seasoned software engineer with over 12 years of experience in designing and managing large-scale platforms in cloud-native environments. At Databricks, I have led and contributed to several innovative projects that have scaled and automated our Kubernetes Compute Platform... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
  AI DevSummit

2:00pm PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session: The Age of Industrial AI Agents: Opportunities & Challenges
Wednesday June 4, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage
Apurv Sibal, Wiley, Author

An AI Agent is an intelligent ‘computer’ system capable of agency, i.e. independent decision making and autonomous action based on contextualized situational awareness using sensing, perception, (causal) world modeling and a nuanced understanding of one's own agency and its impact on the world. Communicative AI agents are set to revolutionize human-machine collaborative systems and workflows whereby humans and agents can engage in natural multimodal communication in the same way as humans do. The agents can operate in a continuum of delegated autonomy modes, offloading data-intensive tasks needing high throughput, invoke backend tools to carry out a series of sophisticated actions, while not compromising human oversight or judgment. While such agents are poised to transform industries as diverse as healthcare and manufacturing, significant challenges remain in creating industrial strength agents that can operate robustly in open-world settings, exhibit both common sense reasoning and formal, domain-specific knowhow, are instructable and conform to human expectations, and communicate with high precision and accuracy backed by domain-specific grounded explanations. Our technical session will draw on Apurv's own experiences, and he will will present and discuss the opportunities and the challenges to creating industrial-strength agents that can provide real-value to the industry and the society at large, in a risk-free and safe fashion. 
Speakers
avatar for Apurv Sibal

Apurv Sibal

Author, Wiley
With a background in machine learning and data science, Apurv has published two books with Wiley and Springer Nature and has 7 years of experience working with AWS, Shorthills, and WorldQuant. He is an open-source contributor to Elastic, Azure, and AWS Data and have co-authored Pybanking... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 2:00pm - 2:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage
  AI DevSummit

3:00pm PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session: The Road to Use OpenTelemetry for LLM Observability
Wednesday June 4, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage
Nir Gazit, Traceloop, CEO

If 2024 is the year of LLMs, then 2025 will be the year Agents. With the rise MCP, A2A and numerous other protocols, the need to monitor and comprehend their behaviors intensifies.

Observability plays a crucial role in this context. It involves the systematic collection and analysis of data to enhance LLM performance, identify and correct biases, troubleshoot issues, and ensure AI systems are both reliable and trustworthy.

In this discussion, we will explore the concept of LLM observability in depth, focusing on how OpenTelemetry can fit into the world of LLM observability . Additionally, we will talk about challenges around modeling of prompts, completions, events, semantic conventions, and basically our path with the llm-sem-conv working group.  
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Nir Gazit

CEO, Traceloop
CEO @ traceloop; ex-chief architect @ Fiverr, ex-tech lead @ Google; OpenTelemetry contributor
Wednesday June 4, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage
  AI DevSummit

3:00pm PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Leading for Value: Platform Economics in the AI Era
Wednesday June 4, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
Pavan Tallapragada, Stealth Startup, Platform Engineering Leader & Co-Founder


Engineering leaders must balance technical innovation with cloud cost efficiency while scaling AI workloads. This session delivers a practical blueprint for engineering teams to thrive in this environment. You'll get a leadership playbook for embedding economic awareness into engineering decisions, designing technical governance that promotes both innovation and efficiency, and building systems that make cloud spending transparent and actionable. I'll share techniques for measuring engineering value streams, optimizing infrastructure resources, and creating technical feedback loops that drive continuous improvement. You'll walk away with a structured approach to transform platform economics from an engineering challenge into a strategic advantage. 
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Pavan Tallapragada

Platform Engineering Leader & Co-Founder, Stealth Startup
Pavan is an AI entrepreneur and CTO of a stealth-mode startup, with extensive experience running platform engineering and public cloud infrastructure across high-growth companies including Zoom and Anaplan. He specializes in cloud-native transformations, implementing FinOps practices... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
  DeveloperWeek Leadership

3:30pm PDT

[Virtual Exclusive] OPEN Session: Hacking the Machine: Unmasking the Top 10 LLM Vulnerabilities and Real-World Exploits
Wednesday June 4, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
Reet Kaur, Sekaurity, CISO

Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing industries, but they also introduce a new and rapidly evolving attack surface. The OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications (2025) highlights the most pressing security vulnerabilities that organizations face today. From Prompt Injection to System Prompt Leakage, Data Poisoning, and Excessive Agency, these vulnerabilities are actively exploited by threat actors in ways that many security teams are unprepared for.

This talk will be interactive, example-driven, and packed with visuals, ensuring that every attendee walks away with a clear understanding of LLM threats and actionable steps to defend against them.
Speakers
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Reet Kaur

Executive Director of IT Risk Management & Security, Merck
Reet Kaur is a seasoned information security professional experienced in both public and private sectors. She is currently a leader of a consulting company offering CISO services. She was recently an Executive Director of IT Risk Management & Security at Merck Co. & Inc. Formerly... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
  DeveloperWeek Leadership

4:00pm PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session: AI Cloud Advisor: Applying Domain-Specific Intelligence for Scalable Cloud Optimization
Wednesday June 4, 2025 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage
Sumit Bhatnagar, Vice President - Software Engineering
Roshan Mahant, LaunchIT Corp, System Architect

This talk will explore the architecture and real-world deployment of AI Cloud Advisor — a custom-trained AI assistant built to optimize multi-cloud environments using Natural Language Processing (NLP), Reinforcement Learning (RL), and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Unlike general-purpose models, AI Cloud Advisor is engineered for live, production-ready decision support across AWS, Azure, and GCP. The session will cover the technical challenges and solutions involved in unifying multiple ML paradigms for actionable, contextual insights that have driven up to 69% cloud cost savings and a 50% reduction in troubleshooting time. Ideal for ML engineers and DevOps leaders. 
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Sumit Bhatnagar

Creator, AI Cloud Advisor
Sumit Bhatnagar is an experienced engineering leader and AI strategist with 18+ years of experience in building cloud-native systems. He is the creator of AI Cloud Advisor, a real-time AI assistant for optimizing cloud workloads and architectures. Sumit is a member of the Forbes Technology... Read More →
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Roshan Mahant

System Architect, LaunchIT Corp
This talk will explore the architecture and real-world deployment of AI Cloud Advisor — a custom-trained AI assistant built to optimize multi-cloud environments using Natural Language Processing (NLP), Reinforcement Learning (RL), and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Unlike... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Expo Stage
  AI DevSummit

4:00pm PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Debugging Your Career: Identifying Bottlenecks and Unblocking Your Growth
Wednesday June 4, 2025 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
Shrinath Thube, IBM, Software Developer
Vaibhav Tupe, Equinix,  Teechnology Lead

Every engineer knows how to debug code, but what about debugging your career? Many developers hit invisible bottlenecks—whether it’s stagnation, lack of recognition, or unclear next steps—without knowing how to fix them. In this talk, we’ll break down common career blockers and use a debugging framework to identify and resolve them effectively.

Key Topics Covered:
- Recognizing career bottlenecks and why they happen
- The growth trap: Why strong engineers don’t always get promoted
- How to get unstuck in mid-to-senior transitions
- A step-by-step debugging approach for career challenges

Takeaways for the Audience:
- A framework to diagnose and fix career slowdowns
- Insights into what managers look for when promoting engineers
- Actionable strategies to accelerate your career growth
Speakers
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Shrinath Thube

Software Developer, IBM
IEEE Senior Member | Software Developer, IBM | Technology Advisory Board MemberShrinath Thube is a Software Developer at IBM with 8+ years of experience in security, cloud, microservices, observability. An IEEE Senior Member, he is part of the IEEE CISOSE 2025 Organizing Committee... Read More →
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Vaibhav Tupe

Technology Lead, Equinix
Vaibhav Tupe is a distinguished Technology Advisory Board Member and Engineering Leader specializing in cybersecurity, cloud, and AI-ready data center infrastructure. With over 13 years of experience, he currently serves as a Technology Leader at Equinix USA, where he drives high-performance... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
  DeveloperWeek Leadership

4:00pm PDT

[Virtual] KEYNOTE (AI): Scale AI -- Ignore Previous Instructions: Embracing AI Red Teaming
Wednesday June 4, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Main Stage
David Campbell, Scale AI, AI Risk Security Platform Lead

In this talk, we will explore the journey of Red Teaming from its origins to its transformation into AI Red Teaming, highlighting its pivotal role in shaping the future of Large Language Models (LLMs) and beyond. Drawing from my firsthand experiences developing and deploying the largest generative red teaming platform to date, I will share insightful antidotes and real-world examples. We will explore how adversarial red teaming fortifies AI applications at every layer—protecting platforms, businesses, and consumers. This includes safeguarding the external application interface, reinforcing LLM guardrails, and enhancing the security of the LLMs' internal algorithms. Join me as we uncover the critical importance of adversarial strategies in securing the AI landscape. 
Speakers
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David Campbell

AI Risk Security Platform Lead, Scale AI
David Campbell is a seasoned technology leader with nearly 20 years of experience in Silicon Valley's startup ecosystem, now spearheading Responsible AI initiatives at Scale AI. As the Lead AI Risk Engineer, David has been pivotal in developing a cutting-edge AI Red Teaming platform... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm PDT
VIRTUAL AI DevSummit Main Stage
  5. KEYNOTES & FEATURED

4:30pm PDT

[Virtual] OPEN Session: Revolutionizing App Development with AI: Streamlining Efficiency, Creativity, and Quality
Wednesday June 4, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
Doug Kadlecek, Grio, President & Co-founder

This session explores how AI is transforming the app development process, empowering developers to achieve greater efficiency, foster creativity, and ensure higher-quality outcomes. We will examine the integration of AI at every stage of app development, from ideation and design to coding, testing, deployment, and monitoring. Real-world case studies will highlight the tangible benefits of AI-powered tools, such as faster go-to-market times, cost savings, and enhanced user satisfaction.

Attendees will also gain insights into the challenges of AI adoption, including ethical considerations, technical limitations, and strategies for successful implementation. The session concludes with a forward-looking discussion on emerging trends and actionable steps for leveraging AI effectively. By embracing AI as a collaborator, developers can unlock their full potential and innovate at an unprecedented pace.
Speakers
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Doug Kadlecek

President & Co-founder, Grio
Doug Kadlecek is the Founder and President of Grio, a full-service app development agency based in San Francisco. In his 15 years at Grio, Doug has participated in building dozens of MVP apps.Prior to founding Grio, Doug served as the Director of Engineering at several Internet startups... Read More →
Wednesday June 4, 2025 4:30pm - 4:55pm PDT
VIRTUAL DeveloperWeek Leadership Expo Stage
  DeveloperWeek Leadership
 
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