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June 04, 2026
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13:30 - 14:30, 04 June 2026
Duration:
60 mins
Roundtable | Cheaper, faster agents with inference engineering
With the rise of open models, every company has the opportunity to own their intelligence and optimize models around their production workloads. However, this makes inference strategy essential. This roundtable discussion covers how to navigate technical tradeoffs around latency, throughput, and cost and is a forum to hear from other practitioners in the industry on how their team is making AI work in production.
Alex Ker, Baseten
14:30 - 15:30, 04 June 2026
Duration:
60 mins
Roundtable | From AI pilots to autonomous engineering: What it takes to put agentic systems into production
Let’s discuss the poC-to-production engineering gap. AI leaders are under pressure to move beyond prompt-driven tools, generative chat interfaces and proofs of concept, but most agentic initiatives stall before reaching production. In this executive roundtable, peers will share what is actually working in production and where autonomous workflows struggle to deliver tangible value and fall short of fully replacing human execution. Success requires reliable orchestration, AI-ready data, robust evaluation frameworks, cost controls, governance, and engineering teams that can balance applying expert and institutional judgment with the automation capabilities of AI. We will discuss the orchestration layers and guardrails required to manage access controls and permissions for autonomous software pipelines without choking innovation. Join us to discuss how leaders can build the practical operating model needed to scale AI from experimentation to measurable business impact.
Paul Brownell, Growth Acceleration PartnersSergio Morales Esquivel, Growth Acceleration Partners
14:30 - 15:30, 04 June 2026
Duration:
60 mins
Roundtable | From AI pilots to autonomous engineering: What it takes to put agentic systems into production
Let’s discuss the poC-to-production engineering gap. AI leaders are under pressure to move beyond prompt-driven tools, generative chat interfaces and proofs of concept, but most agentic initiatives stall before reaching production. In this executive roundtable, peers will share what is actually working in production and where autonomous workflows struggle to deliver tangible value and fall short of fully replacing human execution. Success requires reliable orchestration, AI-ready data, robust evaluation frameworks, cost controls, governance, and engineering teams that can balance applying expert and institutional judgment with the automation capabilities of AI. We will discuss the orchestration layers and guardrails required to manage access controls and permissions for autonomous software pipelines without choking innovation. Join us to discuss how leaders can build the practical operating model needed to scale AI from experimentation to measurable business impact.
Paul Brownell, Growth Acceleration PartnersSergio Morales Esquivel, Growth Acceleration Partners
15:30 - 16:00, 04 June 2026
Duration:
30 mins
Workshop | Upskilling everyone: Building AI capability at scale
Building AI capability requires more than technology investment; it requires a skilled workforce. In this session, we'll share real challenges, lessons learned, and practical approaches to identifying skill gaps, aligning training to roles, and driving business outcomes at scale. Come ready for an open discussion on what's working, what isn't, and what it really takes to upskill an entire enterprise.
Charlie Hecht, DataCamp
16:00 - 16:30, 04 June 2026
Duration:
30 mins
Workshop | Ship faster with computer: How perplexity runs on Its own agent orchestrator
In this workshop, Bowen Zhang, Member of Technical Staff at Perplexity, will share how Perplexity is building and operating agentic systems that power real workflows at scale. The session will focus on the design choices behind Perplexity Computer, with a close look at how orchestration, model coordination, and task delegation come together in production. Attendees will learn how a modern agent orchestrator can help teams move beyond isolated LLM calls toward reliable, multi-step systems that research, reason, and act. Bowen will also cover the trade-offs involved in building for speed, transparency, and control, and the engineering lessons learned from shipping these systems inside a fast-moving AI environment. - How Perplexity structures agent orchestration in production. - What it takes to coordinate multiple models, tools, and workflows effectively. - Lessons from building systems that need to be fast, interpretable, and dependable. - Practical ideas builders can apply to their own agentic AI stack. This session is best suited to engineers, AI practitioners, and technical leaders who are building or scaling applied AI systems and want a grounded view of what works in production.
Bowen Zhang, Perplexity

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