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Breaking Things: An Off-the-Record AI Delivery Brunch

Hosted by Impact.AI

When
9:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Where
Downtown
Format
Breakfast, Brunch or Lunch, Networking and Panel / Fireside Chat
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Everyone talks about the AI they shipped. Nobody talks about where it broke.

This is a brunch for the people who actually have to deliver: AI application owners, product managers, GTM leaders and platform owners. It runs strictly off the record.

SPEAKERS Alan Aqrawi, AI Safety & Red Teaming, Accenture.com linkedin.com/in/aaqrawi

Arian Abbasi, Responsible AI R&D, Accenture.com linkedin.com/in/arianabbasi

Mario Schlener, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Evolver.ai linkedin.com/in/mario-schlener-4659964

Luis Tong, Enterprise Sales Leader, ex- Reducto.ai , ex- Atlan.com, ex- Mongodb.com linkedin.com/in/luistong

Melanie Rosenberg, Senior AI Engineer, Theoryvc.com linkedin.com/in/mrosenb

Tiffany Ly, Senior Technical Program Manager (Operations & Escalations Lead), Search AI, Google.com linkedin.com/in/tiffanly

Hosted by Anna Maria Brunnhofer-Pedemonte, CEO & Co-Founder, Impact.AI linkedin.com/in/anna-maria-brunnhofer

HOW THE MORNING RUNS 9:30 Arrivals and warm-up, placing the roundtables. 10:00 Panel: Blitzrounds of what might go wrong on the way to production, and what might go wrong in production itself. 10:45 Roundtables with each Panelist: small groups, where also guests can add their own story anonymously and we talk through them. The eval suite that burned through $$$, only ever showed green, and never moved the application forward. The voice feature a colleague vibecoded that landed on your desk. Whatever you live(d) through. 12:00 Wrap

No slides, no redemption arcs, no AI transcripts. Chatham House Rule, phones away, no press.

Start your Tuesday with food for the 🧠 and the 🫃🏻.

Small group only. We screen for people who have shipped and know what it takes to keep things running at scale.

Hosted by Impact.AI Co-hosted by OPEN AUSTRIA, linkedin.com/company/openaustria

This event is part of #SFTechWeek, a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.

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