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At QCon San Francisco 2025, discover how senior engineering teams are making AI reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient, turning prototypes into systems that drive measurable business impact.
November 17–21, 2025
Hyatt Regency, San Francisco
Early Bird Deadline November 11th
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AI & ML sessions at QCon San Francisco 2025
Nov 17
Designing AI Platforms for Reliability: Tools for Certainty, Agents for Discovery
Modern AI platforms don’t have to choose between deterministic precision and probabilistic exploration—they need both.
Aaron Erickson
Senior Manager and Founder of the DGX Cloud Applied AI Lab @NVIDIA, Previously Engineer @ThoughtWorks, VP of Engineering @New Relic, CEO and Co-Founder @Orgspace
Nov 17
The Future of Engineering: Mindsets That Matter When Code Isn’t Enough
Since the first compiler, software has been a stack of human-friendly abstractions translated into machine instructions. The engineers who understood at least some of what was going on under the hood were essential—indispensable even. But now?
Ben Greene
4X Founding CTO, Co-Founder and CTO @Tessi, Co-Creator of FreeFormula.Exchange, CTO-in-Residence at Techstars Boston
Nov 17
From Monolith to Mosaic: Strategies for a Safe and Successful Polyglot Migration
Details coming soon.
Adrian Cockcroft
Technology Advisor and Consultant @OrionX.net, Previously VP Open Source and Sustainability @Amazon, Cloud Architect @Netflix, Distinguished Engineer @eBay
Nov 18
Engineering at AI Speed: Lessons from the First Agentically Accelerated Software Project
Claude Code is the first developer tool built specifically to maximize AI development velocity.
Adam Wolff
Engineer and Individual Contributor to Claude Code @Anthropic, Previously @Robinhood, @Facebook
Nov 18
Deep Research for Enterprise: Unlocking Actionable Intelligence from Complex Enterprise Data with Agentic AI
Deep Research as a consumer product redefined the AI space delivering true impact to many by searching through hundreds of websites, deeply thinking through the content, and generating a comprehensive report.
Vinaya Polamreddi
Staff ML Engineer; Agentic AI @Glean; Previously @Apple, @Meta, and @Stanford
Nov 18
Modernizing Relevance at Scale: LinkedIn’s Migration Journey to Serve Billions of Users
How do you deliver relevant and personalized recommendations to nearly a billion professionals—instantly, reliably, and at scale? At LinkedIn, the answer has been a multi-year journey of architectural reinvention.
Nishant Lakshmikanth
Engineering Manager @LinkedIn, Leading Infrastructure for "People You May Know" and "People Follows", Previously @AWS and @Cisco
Nov 18
Improving Meta Generative Ad Text using Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning with Performance Feedback (RLPF) unlocks a new way of turning generic GenAI models into customized models fine-tuned for specific tasks. This approach is especially powerful when combined with in-house data and performance metrics.
Alex Nikulkov
Research Scientist (RL lead for Monetization GenAI) @Meta
Nov 18
Designing Fast, Delightful UX with LLMs in Mobile Frontends
Delivering AI-powered features in mobile apps is not just about calling an LLM API. It's about crafting fast, reliable, and engaging user experiences.
Balakrishnan (Bala) Ramdoss
Senior Android Engineer @Amazon - Building Camera-Based AI Features, Specializes in Scalable Solutions for Complex Challenges
Nov 18
From Content to Agents: Scaling LLM Post-Training Through Real-World Applications and Simulation
This talk presents a comprehensive journey through modern AI post-training techniques, from Pinterest's production-scale content discovery systems to enterprise agent training through Veris AI’s simulation.
Faye Zhang
Staff Software Engineer @Pinterest, Tech Lead on GenAI Search Traffic Projects, Speaker, Expert in AI/ML with a Strong Background in Large Distributed System
Andi Partovi
Co-Founder @Veris AI, Making AI Agents World-Ready
Nov 18
Dynamic Moments: Weaving LLMs into Deep Personalization at DoorDash
In this talk, we’ll walk through how DoorDash is redefining personalization by tightly integrating cutting-edge large language models (LLMs) with deep learning architectures such as Two-Tower Embeddings (TTE) and Multi-Task Multi-Label (MTML) models.
Sudeep Das
Head of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, New Business Verticals @DoorDash, Previously Machine Learning Lead @Netflix, 15+ Years in Machine Learning
Pradeep Muthukrishnan
Head of Growth for New Business Verticals @DoorDash, Previously Founder & CEO @TrustedFor, 15+ Years in Machine Learning
Nov 18
Automating the Web With MCP: Infra That Doesn’t Break
AI agents are only as strong as the infrastructure beneath them. In this talk, we’ll walk through the architecture behind Browserbase’s model context protocol (MCP), built to support stateful browser automation at scale.
Paul Klein
Founder @Browserbase, previously Director of Self-Service & Engineering Manager @Mux, Co-Founder & CTO @Stream Club, Technical Lead @Twilio Inc.
Nov 19
Producing the World's Cheapest Tokens: A How-to Guide
AI inference is expensive, but it doesn’t have to be. In this talk, we’ll break down how to systematically drive down the cost per token across different types of AI workloads.
Meryem Arik
Co-Founder and CEO @Doubleword (Previously TitanML), Recognized as a Technology Leader in Forbes 30 Under 30, Recovering Physicist
Nov 19
Choosing Your AI Copilot: Maximizing Developer Productivity
The AI coding agent landscape evolves weekly. This talk compares today’s frontrunners, shows where each shines, and shares prompts, policies, and “rules templates” that turn code suggestions into production-quality output.
Sepehr Khosravi
Machine Learning Platform Engineer @Coinbase, Award Winning Instructor @UC Berkeley - Gen-AI Bootcamp, Founder @ AI Scouts
Nov 19
Accelerating LLM-Driven Developer Productivity at Zoox
Over the past year, Zoox has invested in integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into internal developer workflows through a company-wide initiative called Zoox Intelligence (ZI).
Amit Navindgi
Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience @ Zoox, Leading Applied AI Initiatives
Nov 19
The Ironies of AAII
Details coming soon.
Paul Reed
Staff Incident Operations Manager @Chime
Nov 19
Powering the Future: Building Your GenAI Infrastructure Stack
Behind every productivity leap is a rock-solid platform. Go under the hood with Intuit’s GenOS team to see how vector stores, prompt management, RAG pipelines, and agent orchestration come together to serve ~100 million users.
Maggie (Kun) Hu
Group Product Manager for the Core AI Platform @Intuit, 15+ Years Building Generative AI and Machine Learning Platforms
Merrin Kurian
Distinguished Engineer @Intuit
Nov 19
From ms to µs: OSS Valkey Architecture Patterns for Modern AI
As AI applications demand faster and more intelligent data access, traditional caching strategies are hitting performance and reliability limits.
Dumanshu Goyal
Uber Technical Lead @Airbnb Powering $11B Transactions, Formerly @Google and @AWS
Nov 19
AI-Driven Productivity: From Idea to Impact
In this session you'll learn how product leaders turn GenAI enthusiasm into an enterprise-ready blueprint for real productivity gains.
Jyothi Nookula
Product Leader Director with 13+ Years Driving AI Product & Platform Innovation, Previously @Meta, @Amazon, and @Etsy
Nov 19
Trustworthy Productivity: Securing AI-Accelerated Development
As AI accelerates delivery, new attack surfaces and compliance risks emerge. This session distills best practices for threat-modeling AI pipelines, guarding sensitive data, detecting prompt-injection, and validating AI-generated code before it merges.
Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan
Senior Software Engineer @AWS Agentic AI, Previously Core Team @AWS SAM, AWS Cloudwatch, Core Developer @Openstack
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Conversations that turn insight into impact
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