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Andre
Kerr
Director, Applied AI Lab
American Express
André Kerr is Director of the Applied AI Lab at American Express, where he leads development of enterprise generative AI products from experimentation to global deployment. He builds high-compliance AI systems for regulated environments, drawing on a background in aerospace engineering and systems engineering. Previously he worked at Raytheon Technologies on propulsion and software systems for aircraft and engine performance. He holds an MS in Systems Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a BE in Mechanical Engineering from City College of New York. He is also an instructor and mentor in AI, focused on practical, scalable and responsible AI systems.
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29 October 2026 14:30 - 15:00
Panel | The new evaluation stack: Measuring reasoning, workflow quality, and real-world performance
How do you know your AI system is actually working? Not in a test environment. Not on a benchmark. In production, across multi-step tasks, where failures don't always throw an error and drift doesn't always announce itself. Most existing tooling wasn't built for this problem. This session gets into how engineering teams are building eval infrastructure for workflow-based AI: catching silent failures, measuring reasoning quality across decision chains, and closing the gap between controlled evals and real-world performance. Key takeaways: - How to measure reasoning quality across multi-step workflows, not just final output accuracy - The patterns that signal silent failure or drift before they surface as visible errors - What a production-grade eval stack looks like when you're evaluating a workflow, not a single model