Jul 08, 2026

The 100,000 Sandbox Problem — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO

Modal CTO Akshat Bubna discusses the company's shift from developer to agent experience, highlighting why traditional cloud infrastructure fails for bursty AI workloads. He details Modal's primitives like elastic inference with GPU snapshotting and speculative decoding, agent sandboxes for RL rollouts, multi-node training with RDMA, and a "supercloud" strategy across 17 providers. The conversation also covers the importance of observability, hard guardrails for production agents, and AI's role in making infrastructure exciting again.

Jun 18, 2026

The Production AI Playbook: Deploying Agents at Enterprise Scale — Sandipan Bhaumik, Databricks

Sandipan Bhaumik presents a five-pillar framework for successfully moving AI systems from demos to production, inspired by a retail bank's failed chatbot PoC. The framework covers defining numerical success (Evaluation), tracing every AI decision (Observability), building robust data pipelines (Data Foundation), managing multiple AI interactions (Multi-agent Orchestration), and ensuring accountability and security (Governance). He illustrates these concepts with a banking chatbot case study, emphasizing continuous evaluation, data quality, and a proactive incident playbook.