Agenda

November 3Pier 27, San Francisco

  1. 08:00–09:00

    Doors

    Registration & Coffee

  2. 09:00–10:30

    Glow

    Keynote

    Lin Qiao, CEO & Co-founder, Fireworks

    Fireside Chat

    Jensen Huang, President & CEO, NVIDIA | Lin Qiao, CEO & Co-founder, Fireworks

  3. 10:30–10:50

    Coffee Break

  4. 10:50–11:10

    • Glow

      Fireside Chat with Jay Parikh

      Executive Vice President, Microsoft

      Hosted by Lin Qiao

    • Flare

      Fireworks Nexus: Pushing the Intelligence Frontier Beyond Models

      Chris Harris, VP, Product Engineering, Fireworks

    • Workshop

      Train Your Own System One Model Router

      80-minute workshop

      10:50–12:10

  5. 11:10–11:30

    • Glow

      Gen-1 Slides: Frontier Quality Without Frontier Costs

      Kay Zhu, CTO & Co-founder, Genspark

    • Flare

      Building DNA Computers to Cure Disease

      Steph Nevins, Chief Operating Officer, Pantheon Bio

    • Spark

      UiPath and Fireworks: Enterprise-Grade Automations

      Taqi Jaffri, VP of Product & Kevin Koehncke, Principal Machine Learning Engineer, UiPath

  6. 11:30–11:50

    • Glow

      Fireworks Labs: Building Models That Win In Your Domain

      Pranav Jain, Product Lead, Fireworks & Joe Xavier, CTO, Rogo

      15-minute session

      11:30–11:45

    • Flare

      Every Token Is A Budget Line: How to Forecast and Optimize AI Spend

      Eléonore Crespo, Co-CEO & Co-founder, Pigment

    • Spark

      Frontier Quality, Efficient Inference: Fine-Tuning for Production Agents

      Nate Yohannes, President of Data and AI Labs & Sardhendu Mishra, Lead AI Engineer, Zeta Global

  7. 11:50–12:10

    • Glow

      Fireside Chat with DHH & Thomas Wolf

      Co-founder, Ruby on Rails & Co-founder, Hugging Face

      Hosted by Dwarak Rajagopal, Fireworks

      25-minute session

      11:45–12:10

    • Flare

      Sovereign Data Is the Future of Open Intelligence

      Eno Reyes, Co-founder & CTO, Factory

    • Spark

      How Open Models Win

      Nathan Lambert, Co-founder & Executive Director, Trillium Labs

  8. 12:30–13:30

    Lunch

  9. 13:30–13:50

    • Glow

      Replit & Fireworks

      Michele Catasta, President & Head of AI, Replit

    • Flare

      Teaching the Company Brain How Moody’s Thinks

      Ari Lehavi, General Manager - Head of Applied AI, Moody’s

    • Spark

      Closing the Loop: Building Online & Offline Eval Pipelines

      Alon Brimer, AI Infrastructure Group Lead, Monday.com

    • Workshop

      Designing Agentic RL Environments That Work

      100-minute workshop

      13:30–15:10

  10. 13:55–14:15

    • Glow

      Fireworks Inference: Inference in the World of Agents

      Dima Dzhulgakov, CTO & Co-founder, Fireworks

    • Flare

      When does Post-Training Pay Off for Production Agents?

      Max Lu, Head of Research, Decagon

    • Spark

      Agents with Native Memory

      Jessy Lin, Co-founder & CPO, Engram

  11. 14:20–14:40

    • Glow

      Fireside Chat with Phil Mui

      SVP Technology, AI Cloud, Salesforce

      Hosted by George Hu, Fireworks

    • Flare

      Lessons from Scaling SWE-Models

      Silas Alberti, Chief Research Officer, Cognition

    • Spark

      Turning Enterprise AI into Business Results

      Martin Harrysson, Senior Partner, Leader of Software Product Development, McKinsey

  12. 14:45–15:05

    • Glow

      When the Stakes Demand Specialized Intelligence

      Jeff Tangney, CEO & Co-founder, Doximity

    • Flare

      How Mercor Turns Open Models into Frontier Specialists

      Brendan Foody, CEO & Co-founder, Mercor

    • Spark

      Inference Engineering Breakthroughs on Consumer Hardware

      Sherif Cherfa, Applied Research, Sybil Solutions

  13. 15:10–15:30

    • Glow

      Fireside Chat with Noah Shinn

      Founder, Instinct

      Hosted by Dima Dzhulgakov, Fireworks

    • Flare

      The Value Frontier: Building PayPal’s Own Benchmarks, Router and Governance for AI at Scale

      Srinivasan Manoharan, Director, AI Platform & Junhua Zhao, Staff Software Engineer, PayPal

    • Spark

      From Base Models to Business Outcomes: Meta Post-Training and Muse on Fireworks

      Junbiao Tang, Senior Director of Engineering, Meta

  14. 15:30–15:45

    Coffee Break

  15. 15:45–16:05

    • Glow

      Fireside Chat with Misha Laskin

      CEO, Reflection AI

      Hosted by Benny Chen, Fireworks

    • Flare

      Homegrown Intelligence: How Zillow Trains AI That’s Uniquely Its Own

      Josh Weisberg, Senior Vice President of AI, Zillow

    • Spark

      Domain Specific Everything

      Shawn Wang (swyx), Curator, ai.engineer and latent.space

    • Workshop

      Open Workshop

      75-minute workshop

      15:45–17:00

  16. 16:10–16:30

    • Glow

      Fireworks Training: Training is 10x More Accessible Than You Thought

      Benny Chen, Co-founder, Fireworks

    • Flare

      Mercado Libre & Fireworks

      Oscar Mullin, Technology Sr Vice President, Mercado Libre

    • Spark

      From Silicon to Services

      Dylan Patel, Founder & CEO, SemiAnalysis

  17. 16:30–17:00

    Fireside Chat with Gavin Baker & David Sacks

    Managing Partner/CIO, Atreides Management & Co-chair, President’s Council of Advisors on Science & Technology

    Hosted by Lin Qiao

  18. 17:05–17:25

    • Glow

      Fireworks for Enterprise

      George Hu, President, Fireworks

    • Spark

      Superhuman Safety: Monitoring Offensive Security Agents at Scale

      Yonatan Oren, Founding Researcher & Sebastian Pilarski, Head of AI, Armadin

  19. 17:30–17:45

    • Glow

      Fireside Chat with Anush Elangovan

      CVP of AI Software, AMD

      Hosted by Lin Qiao

    • Spark

      Owning Enterprise Intelligence: Building Specialized AI with Open Models

      Vishwanath Taware, Vice President, Unit Technology Officer, Infosys

  20. 17:45–19:30

    Closing Reception + Fireworks on the Water