Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman discusses the company's journey from a contrarian bet on wafer-scale computing to a $63 billion public company. He details the technical breakthroughs, the challenge of being ahead of the market, and how the recent explosion in AI demand for fast inference validated their architecture, leading to a landmark $20 billion deal with OpenAI.
Tianyi Zhu from MathWorks explains the key differences between AI agents and chatbots, highlighting how agentic AI acts as a powerful amplifier for engineers. The discussion covers practical use cases in MATLAB and Simulink, measurable ROI in automotive workflows, and strategies for safely integrating non-deterministic AI into high-stakes engineering environments.
Patrick Löber from Google DeepMind provides a technical walkthrough of the Gemini API's "any-to-any" capabilities. The session covers multimodal understanding of complex documents, video, and audio; an agentic loop using function calling to trigger native image and speech generation; and the real-time, audio-to-audio Live API.
John Glasgow, founder of AI-native ERP Campfire, discusses his journey from a Google Sheets MVP to displacing NetSuite. He covers the importance of founder-led sales to $1M ARR, using a narrow feature set as a wedge into the market, and how the rise of AI flipped the script on what constitutes a "safe" enterprise software choice.
Rafael Borger and Daniel Wolbert from iFood discuss the engineering and product strategy behind ILO-Agent, their conversational AI for 200 million users. They cover hyper-personalized recommendation systems, the "Latency Goldilocks Zone" where AI responses can be too fast for users to trust, and the architectural challenges of building multi-channel agents for text and voice.
A deep dive into Despegar's GenAI travel agent, Sofia. Explore its multi-agent architecture, the custom orchestration layer 'Chappi' built before MCP was a standard, and the strategy of decentralizing agent development across company squads to cover the entire five-phase travel arc.