Builders Day San FranciscoJULY 24, 2026 · FORT MASON

1. [01]·Welcome

   Opening Remarks

   A short framing of the day from the Goanna team and the founders building it.

   Hosted by Nick Leish, General Partner at Goanna Capital & Tripp Conrad, Head of Talent at Goanna Capital.
2. [02]·Spotlight

   Scaling Agents in Production

   An opening spotlight on what it takes to build and scale customer-facing agents in the wild.

   Sunny Rekhi, CTO at Decagon.
3. [03]·Panel

   Agentic Reliability

   Senior operators on what production agentic systems actually do when they fail — the technical decisions, trade-offs, and failure modes you don't hear on stage.

   Panelists

   • ·Jason Clinton - Anthropic
   • ·Michael Shi - ClickHouse
   • ·Maxim Fateev - Temporal
   • ·Mek Stittri - Stuut
   • ·Ledion Bitincka - Cribl

   Moderator

   ·Jigyasa Grover - Uber
4. [04]·Spotlight

   Mythos & the End of Vulnerabilities

   On the myths, realities, and hard problems of securing AI at the frontier.

   Jason Clinton, Deputy CISO at Anthropic.
5. [05]·Fireside

   Industrial AI & Computer Vision Moats

   An intimate, off-the-record conversation on what it takes to build a defensible applied AI company in real-world environments.

   Reza Zadeh (CEO & Founder, Matroid) in conversation with Rishabh Misra (Principal ML Lead, Atlassian).
6. [06]·Spotlight

   OpenAI Spotlight

   A spotlight from the OpenAI team on frontier security and what it takes to ship agents safely.

   Farooq Sheikh & Clint Gibler, OpenAI.
7. [07]·Panel

   Production AgentsFrom Inference to Trust

   A panel on inference economics, moats in the AI application layer, and what it takes to run agentic systems at production scale.

   Panelists

   • ·Ibrahim Ahmed - inference.net
   • ·Tina Ding - Rillet
   • ·Jonatan von Martens - ElevenLabs
   • ·Philipp Kurz - Serval
   • ·Ali Sadeghian - Astrocade

   Moderator

   ·Angel Ramirez - Cuemby
8. SPONSOR TALK

   

   Langfuse

   Agent Upskilling Program: Lessons from Making Coding Agents Great at Langfuse

   Lotte Verheyden shares what Langfuse learned building an upskilling program that pushes coding agents toward production-grade reliability.

   Lotte Verheyden, Developer Relations at Langfuse (a ClickHouse company).

9. [08]·Spotlight

   AI Inference : State of PlayAre open models the future ? And how is the Inference market likely to play out

   Pavneet Singh Ahluwalia, Product Lead at Together AI.
10. [09]·Panel

    AI Systems for the Physical World

    A panel on building frontier AI that operates in the real world — robotics, climate, manufacturing, and the systems that ship intelligence beyond the screen.

    Panelists

    • ·John Mern - Terra AI
    • ·Robert Moss - Valgo
    • ·Jayesh Kumar Gupta - Silurian AI
    • ·Kangwook Lee - Ludo Robotics + KRAFTON

    Moderator

    ·Raul Romero - Kite ML
11. [10]·Networking

    Networking Reception

    Drinks and conversation to close the afternoon.

    Sponsored byRillet

Private sessions with the people defining what gets built next.