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Either the “design tax” disappears and their work gets automated away, or designers become glorified directors and critics — the arbiters of good taste while AI builds everything for us. The truth sits somewhere in-between: production will become easier, but pre-production -- the ideation, context gathering, and creative iteration -- will become even more important. 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Today, Airfoil is a team of 40+ creatives across Singapore, San Francisco, Seoul, and Toronto.\n\nPhil also co-organizes Mahjong Society, a collective of AI builders across Asia which hosts hacker houses & community programs in Shanghai, Singapore, KL, and HCMC.\n\nWhile still in college, Phil founded & exited a psychometric testing software company and then began a career working as a product designer for startups across Silicon Valley. 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Originally from France and now based in San Francisco, he works at the intersection of framework infrastructure, developer experience, and AI-native software — from making the web faster to shaping how developers build apps and agents. He joined Vercel in 2022 as a Next.js maintainer after working at Meta in London on React Native framework performance and web performance for Workplace.","imageUrl":null}],"links":{"canonical":"https://ai.engineer/singapore#schedule"},"source":"main-stage-schedule","updatedAt":null,"lineup":{"scenarioId":"official-ai-engineer-singapore-schedule","scenarioName":"Official AI Engineer Singapore schedule","slotId":"talk-may-16-may16-07","speakerKey":"talk-may-16-may16-07","lineupOrder":9,"dayOrder":9,"speakerName":"Jimmy Lai","company":"Vercel","locked":true,"profileMatchStatus":"exact"}},{"id":"talk-may-16-may16-04","sourceId":"talk-may-16-may16-04","title":"Why Sandboxes Are Non-Negotiable for Autonomous AI Agents","description":"Autonomous coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, Codex) now have shell access, filesystem control, and network capabilities on your machine with the same privileges as you. This talk explores why running these agents unsandboxed is a ticking time bomb, and how isolation-first architecture eliminates entire classes of risk.\nAgent skills and MCP servers are community-shared, unaudited code that agents follow blindly. A malicious skill can instruct an agent to exfiltrate secrets and credentials through legitimate-looking tool calls. A poisoned MCP server is worse. It runs as a sidecar with full network access, silently proxying data to an attacker while appearing useful. And prompt injection in fetched content can trigger these paths without the user installing anything malicious at all.\nWe'll show how Daytona's custom-built open-source agent wrapper uses Sandboxes to prevent a compromised agent from touching your machine or credentials, with advanced isolation and secrets management.","format":"talk","track":"Software","topics":["agents","coding agents","main stage","software"],"status":"public","day":"2026-05-16","startsAt":"2026-05-16T11:03:00+08:00","endsAt":"2026-05-16T11:13:00+08:00","timezone":"Asia/Singapore","durationMinutes":10,"venue":{"name":"The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore","room":null},"speakers":[{"name":"Vedran Jukic","company":"Daytona","title":"Co-founder & CTO","bio":"Vedran Jukic is the co-founder and CTO of Daytona, one of the fastest-growing infrastructure companies of its generation. He leads the engineering behind Daytona’s agent-native cloud platform, enabling AI agents to securely run, fork, and manage stateful runtime environments at scale. 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Vaishant and Rohan look at what Greptile has learned from reviewing millions of these PRs: agent-written code is holding up about as well as human-written code, but each agent fails in its own distinctive way. The bugs aren't going away — they're just moving somewhere new.","format":"talk","track":"Software","topics":["main stage","software"],"status":"public","day":"2026-05-16","startsAt":"2026-05-16T11:16:00+08:00","endsAt":"2026-05-16T11:26:00+08:00","timezone":"Asia/Singapore","durationMinutes":10,"venue":{"name":"The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore","room":null},"speakers":[{"name":"Vaishant Kameswaran","company":"Greptile","title":"Co-founder","bio":"Vaishant Kameswaran is a co-founder of Greptile, the AI code review platform used by 9,000+ engineering teams including NVIDIA, Scale AI, and Brex. Greptile reviews three billion lines of code and a million pull requests every month. 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In this talk, we'll walk through what it took to ship the SonarQube Remediation Agent, an autonomous agent that fixes static analysis issues across enterprise codebases on SonarQube Cloud. We'll cover the UX design, security hardening, and trust-building that made adoption possible. We'll then turn to a growing challenge across the industry: as more code is written by agents, reviewing it at scale becomes critical. We'll present c-CRAB, a benchmark that evaluates AI code review tools using executable tests derived from real human reviews. Current tools solve about 40% of benchmark tasks, and they tend to focus on different concerns than human reviewers — suggesting that the path forward is human-agent collaboration, not replacement.","format":"talk","track":"Software","topics":["agents","coding agents","design","evals","main stage","software"],"status":"public","day":"2026-05-16","startsAt":"2026-05-16T11:29:00+08:00","endsAt":"2026-05-16T11:39:00+08:00","timezone":"Asia/Singapore","durationMinutes":10,"venue":{"name":"The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore","room":null},"speakers":[{"name":"Yuntong Zhang","company":"Sonar","title":"Research Consultant","bio":"Yuntong Zhang is a Research Consultant at Sonar, where he works on integrating coding agents into SonarQube at scale. He is the creator of AutoCodeRover, one of the first LLM agents to autonomously resolve real-world GitHub issues, and co-founded the startup behind it before its acquisition by Sonar in 2025. 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At Featherless, he scales and optimizes AI inference across more than 20,000 fine-tunes on a single platform, driven by a vision of making AI universally accessible regardless of language or income. His work on RWKV explores hybrid RNN-transformer architectures that unlock powerful long-context capabilities at significantly lower compute costs, an approach now emerging in models from Qwen, NVIDIA, and others. 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For the first time, AI agents could autonomously navigate real codebases, reason about tradeoffs, fix multi-system bugs, and produce production-grade software that outperformed elite human engineers on Anthropic's own take-home exam. This was not an incremental improvement. It was a phase transition. When a model can write better code than most of the people paid to write code, the economics of an entire industry begin to unravel. The value of fluency in a programming language — long the defining skill of the knowledge economy — is collapsing toward the price of tokens.\nSo what comes next? If everyone can conjure software from a sentence, the bottleneck is no longer implementation. The value shifts upstream: to agency, taste, idea generation, to knowing what is worth building and for whom. The new scarce resource is not the ability to write code but the ability to specify intent — to hold a clear, opinionated vision of what should exist in the world and why.\nThis talk explores the emerging meta of the post-implementation era: the rise of the \"product mind\" over the \"engineering mind\", statistics as a core competency for all engineers, the incoming bottleneck in go-to-market, the compression of the idea-to-prototype cycle from months to minutes, and of course the question of what happens to an industry of ten million developers when their core craft becomes a commodity.","format":"talk","track":"Software","topics":["agents","main stage","software"],"status":"public","day":"2026-05-16","startsAt":"2026-05-16T11:55:00+08:00","endsAt":"2026-05-16T12:05:00+08:00","timezone":"Asia/Singapore","durationMinutes":10,"venue":{"name":"The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore","room":null},"speakers":[{"name":"Max Buckley","company":"Exa AI","title":"Head of Knowledge Research","bio":"Max Buckley is Head of Knowledge Research at Exa, where he opened and leads the company’s first European office in Zurich. 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Drawn from real deployment lessons across autonomy and robotics, it's a talk about why measuring physical intelligence systematically is the difference between robots that demo well and robots that ship.","format":"talk","track":"Physical AI","topics":["evals","main stage","physical ai","robotics"],"status":"public","day":"2026-05-17","startsAt":"2026-05-17T14:49:00+08:00","endsAt":"2026-05-17T14:59:00+08:00","timezone":"Asia/Singapore","durationMinutes":10,"venue":{"name":"The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore","room":null},"speakers":[{"name":"Aravind (SK) Kandiah","company":"Bifrost","title":"CTO & Co-founder","bio":"Aravind Kandiah (SK) is the CTO and co-founder of Bifrost AI. Bifrost recreates the world in simulation. Their simulation infrastructure powers the world’s largest robotics companies to train and evaluate physical AI at the speed of software, from autonomous Mars exploration with NASA to automating high-risk industrial work and reducing loss of human life. \n\nBacked by Sequoia Capital, Lux Capital, and Airbus Ventures. 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By capturing synchronized multimodal data — spanning vision, motion, and touch — we translate human interaction with the physical world into structured data that machines can learn from.\n\nIt will cover the core challenges of collecting high-fidelity sensorimotor data at scale, and how this approach enables more robust and reliable deployment of humanoid systems in real-world environments.","format":"talk","track":"Physical AI","topics":["main stage","physical ai","robotics"],"status":"public","day":"2026-05-17","startsAt":"2026-05-17T15:02:00+08:00","endsAt":"2026-05-17T15:12:00+08:00","timezone":"Asia/Singapore","durationMinutes":10,"venue":{"name":"The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore","room":null},"speakers":[{"name":"Julia Kim","company":"OpenGraph Labs","title":"Co-founder & CEO","bio":"Julia Kim is the co-founder and CEO of OpenGraph Labs, which builds multimodal data infrastructure for robotics and world models. OpenGraph Labs gives robotics teams turnkey infrastructure to collect, synchronize, and manage multimodal training data at scale, with a focus on high-frequency force and tactile feedback. The company operates a Physical AI Training Center in South Korea and has demonstrated novel egocentric data collection pipelines pairing motion-capture gloves with mobile vision. 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Jay gets honest about what design leadership actually costs, how burnout here isn't tiredness but losing trust in your own eye, and what it practically looks like to take care of yourself when your job is to be the thing AI cannot replace.","format":"talk","track":"Design","topics":["design","main stage"],"status":"public","day":"2026-05-17","startsAt":"2026-05-17T15:43:00+08:00","endsAt":"2026-05-17T15:53:00+08:00","timezone":"Asia/Singapore","durationMinutes":10,"venue":{"name":"The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore","room":null},"speakers":[{"name":"Jay Demetillo","company":null,"title":"Principal Designer, ex-Canva","bio":"Jay Demetillo is a Principal Designer at Canva with 15+ years of experience across New York, San Francisco, China, Singapore, and Australia, designing for Twitter, Pinterest, Yahoo, Grab, and Canva. At Canva, he led Canva Sheets from zero to launch, including Magic Formulas and Magic Insights. 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This makes training, evaluating, and working with AI for design fundamentally harder than tasks with objective ground truth.\nIn this talk, we break down the core units of design tasks and introduce ways to measure them through structured, empirical benchmarks. We explore the kinds of data exposure required across cultures, contexts, and expressions of taste, and how to incorporate this to produce more faithful results.\nWe focus on iterative design as the central paradigm and how to build systems where AI can be steered and refined across multiple steps in graphic design tasks, while humans can seamlessly take over for last-mile edits without resetting the design state.","format":"talk","track":"Design","topics":["design","main stage"],"status":"public","day":"2026-05-17","startsAt":"2026-05-17T16:22:00+08:00","endsAt":"2026-05-17T16:32:00+08:00","timezone":"Asia/Singapore","durationMinutes":10,"venue":{"name":"The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore","room":null},"speakers":[{"name":"Priyaa Kalyanaraman","company":"Lica World","title":"CEO","bio":"Priyaa is the Founder and CEO of Lica World, backed by Accel, where she is building the infrastructure to train and evaluate creative intelligence.\nPrior to Lica, she spent several years at BigTech companies productizing state of the art AI models into consumer applications used by millions around the world. At Microsoft, she led the development of Designer, bringing AI-powered creation to M365 and Copilot. At Snap, she worked on AI-generated AR experiences. Most recently, she led multi-lane maneuver systems at Waymo.\nShe has also been an active contributor to India Stack and broader Digital Public Infrastructure efforts for AI in India.","imageUrl":null}],"links":{"canonical":"https://ai.engineer/singapore#schedule"},"source":"main-stage-schedule","updatedAt":null,"lineup":{"scenarioId":"official-ai-engineer-singapore-schedule","scenarioName":"Official AI Engineer Singapore schedule","slotId":"talk-may-17-may17-45","speakerKey":"talk-may-17-may17-45","lineupOrder":76,"dayOrder":34,"speakerName":"Priyaa Kalyanaraman","company":"Lica World","locked":true,"profileMatchStatus":"exact"}},{"id":"talk-may-17-may17-47","sourceId":"talk-may-17-may17-47","title":"How to build a Company Brain","description":"Every company runs on know-how scattered across people's heads, Slack threads, docs, and databases. Humans navigate that mess fine. AI agents can't. Connecting an agent to your CRM gives it access to your data, but not understanding of your business, which customer matters, which thread is canonical, what your team decided last week. The fix is a Company Brain: a living map of how a business works that turns its artifacts into context any agent can use.","format":"talk","track":"Software","topics":["main stage","software"],"status":"public","day":"2026-05-17","startsAt":"2026-05-17T16:35:00+08:00","endsAt":"2026-05-17T16:45:00+08:00","timezone":"Asia/Singapore","durationMinutes":10,"venue":{"name":"The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore","room":null},"speakers":[{"name":"Conor Brennan-Burke","company":"Hyperspell","title":"Founder","bio":"Conor Brennan-Burke is the CEO and cofounder of Hyperspell, the company brain for AI. Hyperspell connects all enterprise data sources into a single context graph, a source of truth for agents.\n\nBefore Hyperspell, Conor ran a $50m ARR business at Checkr and built new ventures at BCG X. He dropped out of school at 12, started college at 13, and lives in San Francisco, where he DJs in his spare time.","imageUrl":null}],"links":{"canonical":"https://ai.engineer/singapore#schedule"},"source":"main-stage-schedule","updatedAt":null,"lineup":{"scenarioId":"official-ai-engineer-singapore-schedule","scenarioName":"Official AI Engineer Singapore schedule","slotId":"talk-may-17-may17-47","speakerKey":"talk-may-17-may17-47","lineupOrder":77,"dayOrder":35,"speakerName":"Conor Brennan-Burke","company":"Hyperspell","locked":true,"profileMatchStatus":"exact"}},{"id":"talk-may-17-may17-41","sourceId":"talk-may-17-may17-41","title":"Plan, Preview, Orchestrate: Three Primitives for Shipping with Cloud Coding Agents","description":"Cloud coding agents can write code all day, but most teams still struggle to ship with them reliably.\n\nIn this talk, Heng Hong shares lessons from building an AI-native product at YC, and breaks down the three core primitives that will power every team’s cloud agents.\n\nPlan Mode: product design and visual MCQ decision-making, where agents commit to a one-shot plan before they touch code.\nPreview Environments: full-stack sandboxes for every PR, so agent output can be tested the way a human would test it.\nCollaborative Task Orchestration: a Kanban-style interface that lets builders coordinate many agents in parallel while keeping organizational context.\n\nYou’ll leave with a practical mental model for what cloud agents need around them — and why the agent itself is actually the easy part.","format":"talk","track":"Software","topics":["agents","coding agents","design","main stage","software"],"status":"public","day":"2026-05-17","startsAt":"2026-05-17T16:48:00+08:00","endsAt":"2026-05-17T16:58:00+08:00","timezone":"Asia/Singapore","durationMinutes":10,"venue":{"name":"The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore","room":null},"speakers":[{"name":"Heng Hong Lee","company":"Lightsprint","title":"Co-founder","bio":"Heng Hong Lee                                                                                                                                                                                      \n  Co-founder, Lightsprint (YC P26)                                          \n                                                                                                                                                                                                     \nHeng Hong is co-founder of Lightsprint, where he's building the work surface for engineering teams to run cloud coding agents across multi-repo, multi-environment workflows. He spent five years at Facebook, then worked on fintech infrastructure in Singapore, building systems at scale. Now at Lightsprint, he's helping teams collaborate, plan, and ship reliably with AI.","imageUrl":null}],"links":{"canonical":"https://ai.engineer/singapore#schedule"},"source":"main-stage-schedule","updatedAt":null,"lineup":{"scenarioId":"official-ai-engineer-singapore-schedule","scenarioName":"Official AI Engineer Singapore schedule","slotId":"talk-may-17-may17-41","speakerKey":"talk-may-17-may17-41","lineupOrder":78,"dayOrder":36,"speakerName":"Heng Hong Lee","company":"Lightsprint","locked":true,"profileMatchStatus":"exact"}},{"id":"talk-may-17-may17-40","sourceId":"talk-may-17-may17-40","title":"All we're going to do is plan and review","description":"Coding agents do the coding. Humans do the planning and review. The history, why this trend will continue. 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His work has ranged from neural code search in 2021 to LLM-based code translation in 2024 to Vibe Kanban today, and he also runs the AI Tinkerers London community.","imageUrl":null}],"links":{"canonical":"https://ai.engineer/singapore#schedule"},"source":"main-stage-schedule","updatedAt":null,"lineup":{"scenarioId":"official-ai-engineer-singapore-schedule","scenarioName":"Official AI Engineer Singapore schedule","slotId":"talk-may-17-may17-40","speakerKey":"talk-may-17-may17-40","lineupOrder":79,"dayOrder":37,"speakerName":"Louis Knight-Webb","company":"Vibe Kanban","locked":true,"profileMatchStatus":"exact"}},{"id":"talk-may-17-may16-24","sourceId":"talk-may-17-may16-24","title":"The AI Model We Built for Deterministic Developer Tasks","description":"Most LLM systems today are built around a single transformer. 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He builds AI systems for developer-facing tasks. His work focuses on architectures that move beyond monolithic transformers through smaller, specialized encoder models, and hybrid system design. 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We've had to meet organizations and people where they are — to build reliable, accountable agentic systems that integrate into the middle of the stack instead of the tip.\n\nFrom sentinels to declarative budgets, here we'll cover the primitives and techniques we learned, once we started from the assumption that legacy isn't waste, and that reliability comes from building surfaces where knowledge can accumulate.","format":"talk","track":"Software","topics":["agents","evals","main stage","software"],"status":"public","day":"2026-05-17","startsAt":"2026-05-17T17:27:00+08:00","endsAt":"2026-05-17T17:37:00+08:00","timezone":"Asia/Singapore","durationMinutes":10,"venue":{"name":"The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore","room":null},"speakers":[{"name":"Hrishi Olickel","company":"Southbridge","title":"CEO","bio":"Hrishi Olickel is the CEO of Southbridge AI, where he builds data agents that can work unsupervised for hours across messy healthcare, finance, and scientific research data. 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He also co-authored ‘Making Smart Contracts Smarter,’ built early multimodal agentic search systems like WalkingRAG, and writes frequently about long-horizon agents and controlled forgetting.","imageUrl":null}],"links":{"canonical":"https://ai.engineer/singapore#schedule"},"source":"main-stage-schedule","updatedAt":null,"lineup":{"scenarioId":"official-ai-engineer-singapore-schedule","scenarioName":"Official AI Engineer Singapore schedule","slotId":"talk-may-17-may17-44","speakerKey":"talk-may-17-may17-44","lineupOrder":81,"dayOrder":39,"speakerName":"Hrishi Olickel","company":"Southbridge","locked":true,"profileMatchStatus":"exact"}},{"id":"talk-may-17-may16-21","sourceId":"talk-may-17-may16-21","title":"Give Agents Agency","description":"Most of the interesting work in AI engineering right now is in the messy layer between a smart LLM and actually getting useful work done in the world. 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