SpeakersAgendaPartnersWhy attendVenue
Locations ▼

Register your interest

Get your ticket

Partner with us

Secure your pass

Event starts in:
0

days :

0

hours :

0

minutes

0

until summit begins

February 25, 2026
Hilton Austin
500 East 4th Street
Austin

View the
agenda

Sponsor

Secure your pass

View full summit page

We'll be composing the 2025 agenda over the coming weeks.

To take to the stage yourself, please complete the 'Request to speak' form (for end-users) or 'Request to partner' form (tech-vendors)

Main Stage
Networking opportunities
Workshops
February 25
February 25
February 25
08:00
Networking opportunities
Registration and welcome breakfast
See the details
09:15
Main Stage
Welcome to Generative AI Summit Austin
Sriharsha Makineni, Senior Business Engineer, Meta
See the details
09:30
Main Stage
Moving beyond pretraining: When and how to fine-tune language models
Nikhil Pinnaparaju, Machine Learning Engineer, Stability AI
See the details
10:00
Main Stage
Human-in-the-loop for generative AI: Building reliable systems
Sriharsha Makineni, Senior Business Engineer, Meta
See the details
10:30
Networking opportunities
Coffee Break
See the details
11:00
Main Stage
The 1P pivot: Gen AI and the monetization of first-party content in media
Ramkumar Shanker, Director, Data Science, Gannett/USA TODAY Network
See the details
11:30
Main Stage
Architecting the agentic enterprise: From systems of record to systems of work
Matt Wursta, Founder & CEO, Wursta, Wursta
See the details
12:00
Main Stage
Panel | Hardening genAI systems for production, reliability and scale
Prathap Raghavan, Director of Product Management, Santander
Gayathri Venkat, Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture, Cigna Healthcare
Bhavana Sajja, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Expedia Group
Swetha Ranganath, Principal Product Manager (AI), Microsoft
See the details
12:30
Networking opportunities
Lunch break
See the details
13:30
Main Stage
Architecting adversarial loops in multi-agent orchestrations for +500x returns
Tanmay Kayande, Principal, AI Strategy & Orchestration, Google
See the details
14:00
Main Stage
From data silos to AI excellence: Building enterprise feature stores on unified foundations
Surya Karri, Engineering Manager, Pinterest
See the details
14:30
Main Stage
Data debt : the hidden malaise stalling your genAI investments
Sayantan Ghosh, Senior Engineering Manager, LinkedIn
See the details
14:30
Workshops
Workshop | Architecting & deploying an agentic AI workflow from scratch
Prasanna Palanikumar, Senior Product Lead, Generative AI, ADP
See the details
15:00
Networking opportunities
Coffee break
See the details
16:00
Main Stage
Infinite generation. Finite judgment.
Eden James, Technical Director, Meta
See the details
16:30
Main Stage
Panel | Architecting genAI for production: Infrastructure, evaluation & reliability
Fabio Lissi, Former Engineering Director - 3D Design, Nike
Preetham Sunilkumar, VP, Software Development Manager, LPL Financial
Rama Samantapudi, Principal Data Scientist, Walmart
Krishna Yarlagadda, Director, Data Science & AI, Atlanticus
See the details
17:00
Networking opportunities
Happy hour
See the details

Returning this February:
Austin's premier summit for AI's builders & execs

#AIAIAustin

Build value at scale. Deploy apps and agents that are efficient, intelligent, & responsible.

Join your applied AI community for a day of deep exchange & connection.

Walk away with:

→ A clear view of what’s working now: the systems, teams, and workflows driving real performance at scale.

→ Benchmarks against live architectures - see what’s actually working across inference, evaluation, and continuous fine-tuning.

→ Connections that accelerate progress; peers, partners, and innovators building industry-ready applied AI.

Hilton Austin
Feb 25 , 2026

Secure your pass

Useful links

Contact us

Privacy

made with Acara

Join the conversation