Speaker: Daniel Tian
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CEO & Co-founder @Photon
Daniel Tian is the CEO and co-founder of Photon, the distribution layer for AI agents, backed by Google Gradient, HongShan, A*, Vercel and more. Photon's open-source SDK lets developers build an agent once and deploy it to iMessage, WhatsApp, SMS/RCS, Telegram, email and voice, and it powers production agents at companies including Rho, Corgi Insurance, Ditto and Flip. Daniel studied at Penn's M&T program.
Session
Bring AI Agents to Millions of People Where They Already Text
Most agent architectures stop at the model call. Getting a response to a person on iMessage, WhatsApp, SMS/RCS, Telegram or a phone call is its own distributed systems problem, with its own latency budget, failure modes and state.