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November 17–21, 2025

Hyatt Regency, San Francisco

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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

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

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

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

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

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

Nishant Lakshmikanth

Engineering Manager @LinkedIn, Leading Infrastructure for "People You May Know" and "People Follows", Previously @AWS and @Cisco

Nov 18

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amit Navindgi

Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience @ Zoox, Leading Applied AI Initiatives

Nov 19

The Ironies of AAII

Details coming soon.

Paul Reed

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

Maggie (Kun) Hu

Group Product Manager for the Core AI Platform @Intuit, 15+ Years Building Generative AI and Machine Learning Platforms

Merrin Kurian

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

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

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

Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan

Senior Software Engineer @AWS Agentic AI, Previously Core Team @AWS SAM, AWS Cloudwatch, Core Developer @Openstack

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