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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Cost: FREE
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