Future of AI Search: Lightning Talks + Dinner (SF)

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​Join us at Databricks for an evening with AI leaders and engineers shaping the future of search, intelligent agents, and production AI.

​Through a featured fireside chat and three fast-paced lightning talks, we’ll explore how search is evolving, why AI agents struggle in production, how post-training improves model performance, and what it takes to build AI systems people can trust.

​Dinner will be served.

​Agenda
​5:00–5:30 PM · Networking & Dinner

​Meet fellow AI engineers, founders, researchers, and technical leaders over dinner.

​5:30–6:00 PM · Fireside Chat: From Prototype to Production: Building AI Agents People Can Trust

​Nancy Wang, Chief Technology Officer, 1Password

​Saurabh Sharma, Chief Product Officer, You.com

​Nancy and Saurabh will explore how companies can move AI agents from promising prototypes into production while maintaining security, reliability, human control, and user trust.

​6:00–6:30 PM · Lightning Talks

​From Keywords to AI Agents: The Evolution of Search

​Mariane Bekker, Head of Developer Relations, You.com
Founder, Founders Bay

​A fast-paced look at how search evolved from directories and keywords to semantic retrieval, generative answers, and intelligent agents—and what this shift means for developers.

​Why AI Agents Fail in Production

​Srivardhan Jalan
Engineering Leader, Meta

​An engineering-focused look at the gap between an impressive AI demo and a dependable production system, including reliability, orchestration, evaluations, and scale.

​Beyond Pretraining: How RL and Evals Improve AI Models

​Ryan Hu
Applied Research, Mercor

​Ryan will explain how reinforcement learning, evaluation systems, and high-quality training data are shaping post-training and helping models perform more reliably in real-world environments.

​Zairah Mustahsan, Engineering Manager, You.com

​Royston Monteiro, Engineering Leader, Meta

​Amey Banarse, Field Engineering Leader, Databricks

​6:30–8:00 PM · Networking

​Continue the conversation and connect with speakers, builders, founders, and AI leaders from across the Bay Area.

​Who Should Attend

​AI and machine learning engineers

​Software engineers and engineering leaders

​Founders building AI-native companies

​AI researchers and data professionals

​Product leaders working on AI systems

​Builders interested in search, agents, RL, evaluations, and post-training

​About You.com

​You.com is the leading AI search infrastructure built for developers.

​Our APIs help developers build intelligent agents and applications powered by live, factual information from the web, news, and research. With just a few lines of code, teams can provide their LLMs with current, citation-backed results instead of relying exclusively on static training data.

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​You.com is the leading AI search infrastructure — built for developers.

​Our APIs let you build intelligent agents and applications that use live, factual data from the web, news, and research, in real time.

​With just a few lines of code, you can power your LLMs with up-to-date, citation-backed results instead of static training data.

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