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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,"firstSessionId":"talk-may-17-may17-45","firstSessionStartsAt":"2026-05-17T16:22:00+08:00","firstLineupOrder":76,"firstDayOrder":34,"sessionIds":["talk-may-17-may17-45"]},{"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. 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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,"firstSessionId":"talk-may-17-may17-41","firstSessionStartsAt":"2026-05-17T16:48:00+08:00","firstLineupOrder":78,"firstDayOrder":36,"sessionIds":["talk-may-17-may17-41"]},{"name":"Louis Knight-Webb","company":"Vibe Kanban","title":"Co-founder","bio":"Louis Knight-Webb is a co-founder of Vibe Kanban and a self-taught full-stack engineer who has spent the last five years at the intersection of AI and developer productivity. 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,"firstSessionId":"talk-may-17-may17-40","firstSessionStartsAt":"2026-05-17T17:01:00+08:00","firstLineupOrder":79,"firstDayOrder":37,"sessionIds":["talk-may-17-may17-40"]},{"name":"Harsha Khurdula","company":"Interfaze AI","title":"Co-Founder & CTO","bio":"Harsha is the Co-Founder & CTO of Interfaze AI. 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. Previously an AI researcher in computer vision and classification systems with multiple peer-reviewed publications, he now focuses on a new model architecture designed to bring more deterministic behavior to real-world developer use cases—work that has been accepted at IEEE CAI 2026.","imageUrl":null,"firstSessionId":"talk-may-17-may16-24","firstSessionStartsAt":"2026-05-17T17:14:00+08:00","firstLineupOrder":80,"firstDayOrder":38,"sessionIds":["talk-may-17-may16-24"]},{"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. Before Southbridge, he spent five years as CTO at Greywing, building systems that tracked thousands of vessels and seafarers, including AI used to help stranded mariners get home during COVID. 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,"firstSessionId":"talk-may-17-may17-44","firstSessionStartsAt":"2026-05-17T17:27:00+08:00","firstLineupOrder":81,"firstDayOrder":39,"sessionIds":["talk-may-17-may17-44"]},{"name":"Henry Mao","company":"Smithery","title":"Co-founder & CEO","bio":"Henry is the co-founder and CEO of Smithery AI, where he is building tools to accelerate the agent economy. Before Smithery, he co-founded Jenni, an AI academic writing copilot that grew to 300K+ monthly active users and more than $7M ARR after he left a UC San Diego PhD focused on neural networks for music and natural language generation. Earlier, his self-taught programming work in the Minecraft ecosystem reached more than 5 million downloads.","imageUrl":null,"firstSessionId":"talk-may-17-may16-21","firstSessionStartsAt":"2026-05-17T17:40:00+08:00","firstLineupOrder":82,"firstDayOrder":40,"sessionIds":["talk-may-17-may16-21"]},{"name":"Rach Pradhan","company":"Independent","title":"Researcher","bio":"Rach Pradhan is a systems builder working on agentic developer infrastructure. He is the creator of turboAPI, merjs, nanobrew, codedb, and devswarm, tools he actively uses to build software faster with coding agents. His work focuses on improving the systems around AI engineers: codebase context, MCP-native tooling, parallel agent coordination, reproducible environments, low-latency APIs, and better workflows for large software projects.","imageUrl":null,"firstSessionId":"talk-may-17-may17-50","firstSessionStartsAt":"2026-05-17T17:53:00+08:00","firstLineupOrder":83,"firstDayOrder":41,"sessionIds":["talk-may-17-may17-50"]},{"name":"Agrim Singh","company":"65labs","title":null,"bio":null,"imageUrl":null,"firstSessionId":"talk-may-17-speaker-1778403240559","firstSessionStartsAt":"2026-05-17T18:06:00+08:00","firstLineupOrder":84,"firstDayOrder":42,"sessionIds":["talk-may-17-speaker-1778403240559"]}]}