
Conference Talks 2026
Workshops
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Multi-agent Architecture using ADK (Google)
Hamza Farooq — Traversaal AI (Ex-Google), CEO
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Mastering Agentic Coding & GPUs
Anton Alexander — AWS, Sr. GenAI Specialist for NVIDIA
Agent Optimization & Deployment
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Devcontainers for AI/ML Workflow Optimization
Steven Pousty — Red Hat, Principal Community Architect
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Designing Fast & Cost-Efficient Agents: The Power of Caching
Jen Agarwal — Redis, Senior Principal Product Manager
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From Localhost to Real World: Engineering Production-Ready Agentic Systems
Victor Calderon — Intuit, ML Engineer
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Disaggregated Intelligence: Scaling AI Agents with Dynamo and Kubernetes
Avinash Ahuja — NVIDIA, Hyperscale Solution Architect
Vivek Kolasani — NVIDIA, Solution Architect
Akhil Sai Devunoori — Expedia, Software Developer
Uday Reddy Malgireddy — USAA, Sr. Decision Scientist
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Mastering LLM Training Optimizations
Muhammad Ali Shafique — Kansas State University/Traversaal AI, PhD Candidate/Research Fellow
Agentic Applications – Industry Use Cases
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Rebuilding Search for the AI Era
Mallika Rao — Netflix, Engineering Manager
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The Hidden Layer of AI Adoption: Content Design for Internal Marketing Agents
Cordelia Chadwick — Autodesk, Principal Content Designer
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Build Your Own Developer Advocate with DeepAgent!
Justin Castilla — Elastic, Sr. Developer Advocate
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Agentic Memory Architectures (Redis)
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Building Agentic AI Workflows with xAI on Vertex AI
Manai Mohamed Mortadha — Netflix, Senior AI Engineer
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NVIDIA Hackathon – Agents for Impact
Carter Abdallah — NVIDIA, DevTech Engineer
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From Copy-Paste to Composition: Building Agents Like Real Software
Jake Mannix — Walmart Global Tech, Tech Fellow
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Building AI Agents with Azure AI Foundry
Jared Rhodes — EPAM Systems, Principal Consultant
Lamar Rhodes — The Home Depot, Staff Software Engineer
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Automated Red-Teaming: Engineering Evaluation Pipelines for Clinical GenAI
Priyadarshni Natarajan — Walmart Global Tech, Tech Fellow
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Standardizing the Chaos: Model Context Protocol for LLM Apps
Aniket Wattamwar — Lumen Technologies, Software Engineer II
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Furniture.com's AI-Powered Personalized Discovery with Graph Search and VLM-Enhanced Embeddings
Briana King — Furniture.com, Machine Learning Engineering Manager
Anwaar Msehli - Furniture.com, Sr. Machine Learning Engineer
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Turning Claude into a Football Opposition Analyst
Adam Cowley — Neo4j, Developer Advocate
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Building Agentic AI Systems for Wearables
Surya Teja — Meta, Sr. Staff Engineer/Tech Lead
Agentic Strategy & Leadership
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Building with Open Models: Owning Your Stack and Your Career
Carter Abdallah — NVIDIA, Dev Tech Engineer
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The Future of Media in an AI First World (Netflix)
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How Agentic AI is Reshaping Data Careers (Panel)
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Agentic AI Playbook: A Pragmatic Strategy for Developing and Deploying Agentic AI in the Enterprise
Yuvraj Singla — Google, SWE Manager, Google Ads
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Beyond Orchestration: An Open Source Architecture for Agentic Systems
Ashok Prakash — Apple, Staff ML Engineer
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Building the Agentic Enterprise
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Beyond the Demo: The Hard Truths of Deploying AI Agents in Enterprises (Panel)
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How Much AI Computer Does the Enterprise Really Need?
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Beyond the Sledgehammer: Unlocking Agentic Efficiency with Specialized Small Language Models (SLMs)
Nithin Mohan - Hewlett Packard Enterprise - AI & Supercomputing Leader
Evals & Observability
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Pattern to Reduce Hallucinations from LLMs
Aaron Otto — Wells Fargo, Executive Director of Insights
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Agentic AI Under Siege: Verifiable Safety Envelopes for Micro-LLMs and MCP
Vaishnavi Gudur — Microsoft, Senior Software Engineer
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Evaluating the Unpredictable: Observability for Production-grade LLM Agents
Vrinda Bhatia — Block, Senior ML Engineer
Sujata Sridharan — Bolt Financial Inc, Senior Software Engineer
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Evaluating LLMs under Concept Drift in Production
Siddarth Ranganathan — Microsoft, Director, Data Science
Manisha Arora — Google, Data Science Leader
Multi-Agent Architectures
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Rethinking CI & CD for Agentic Workflows
Shibashis Mishra — Adobe, Senior Engineering Manager
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From Pipelines to Agents: Intelligent Self-Managing Data Products on Kubernetes
Alexander Chernov — AstraZeneca, Associate Principal Data Engineer
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Architecting AI Systems: Hidden Infrastructure Bottlenecks Behind Enterprise-Scale AI
Santosh Appachu Devanira Poovaiah — NVIDIA, Senior SoC Verification Engineer
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Crafting an Enterprise-Scale Agent Mesh
Stanislav Stolpovskiy — GridDynamics, Search and AI Architect
