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?? AI + Engineering = The Future! Are You Ready? ?? Curious about how AI is transforming engineering, careers, and product innovation? Don’t miss this powerhouse event featuring CxOs and top AI/engineering leaders from Google , NVIDIA, Amazon, Cisco, Waymo, Palo Alto Networks, Fiddler AI, and more! ??? Register here prices increase: https://lnkd.in/gMaDaj3v ?? CxO Fireside Chat – Insights from Google, Ladder, and Treasure Data execs on AI-driven leadership. ?? Panel 1: Foundational Models & DeepSeek – AI pioneers share what’s next in ML and infrastructure. ?? Panel 2: AI Execution, Safety & Ethics – How to balance innovation with responsibility. ??? Panel 3: Autonomy with AI Agents – The future of self-learning AI in engineering. ?? Lightning Talks Featured speakers include: Shibani Sanan, CTO Ladder Aysha Khan, CIO Treasure Data Rohit Jain, CIO Harvard Business School Mala Ramakrishnan, Managing Partner Progressive Ventures Ram Senthamarai, ML Engineer Sentry Meghana Puvvadi, Director NVIDIA Raymond Peck, CTO Intertru Inc Geeta Pyne, Chief Architect TIAA Manasi Joshi, Director Waymo Srividhya Narayanan, Director Google Swati Ranganathan, VP IT Uniphore Mitalee G., Director Amazon Web Services (AWS) Meena Rajvaidya, Splunk Cisco Sendil Thangavelu, Eng Leader Amazon Harsh Verma, Staff AI Engineer Palo Alto Networks Sachin Joshi, VP Eng Cisco Tillman Elser, AI Eng Leader Sentry Sameer Merchant, Distinguished Eng Palo Alto Networks Sandeep Kaipu, Eng Manager Broadcom Krishna Gade, CEO Fiddler AI Akash Saraf, CEO TheAgentic Ahsan Mir, CEO Rapticore Jeroen Domensino, VP Qualizeal This is where AI and engineering innovation collide—don’t miss out! ?? Join 75+ engineering leaders for game-changing insights, expert discussions, and real-world AI applications that will define the next decade of engineering: https://lnkd.in/gMaDaj3v

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Create the best product that your customers will love. That does not change with AI. AI agents, Agentic AI, how to define and categorize them, this space has matured significantly in the past 9 months but will continue to evolve (from production quality, to evaluating and testing agents) we discussed them all last night at Founders Creative AI Innovators Forum. Over 75 people packed the Multiverse in Palo Alto, and from an executive panel, to a VC chat and to listening to 5 fantastic founders pitch their ideas, the room was brimming with energy that only humans can create. I loved that we addressed the dose of today's necessary tactics - which is to focus on the following skills that will prepare us for the future: adaptability, creativity, problem solving, prompting and evaluation. And then a reminder on what to do when we ultimately solve for productivity: exercise. Because as powerful as AI will be, it won't be moving you anytime soon. So for exercising, we are on our own. Excited to see all of this transpire and happen right in front of my own eyes. Ah to be human at this time! Thank you to Irina Pragin and Sandeep Kaipu for chairing and Mala Ramakrishnan and Raymond Lee at Progressive Ventures. FWIW, this post was written with zero AI assistance.

Chatbots automate, copilots assist, and AI choreographers orchestrate. As multi-agent systems unlock new levels of human-AI collaboration, how can product leaders turn this into real impact? What are the most promising use cases, and are you ready to drive the change? #ProductLeadership #AI Founders Creative More in my blog here: https://lnkd.in/gH2rhQ99

Ram Senthamarai does a great job in this 3-part series in explaining what DeepSeek AI's R1 is, how it is build and how it works. Learnt a lot from it, even for a non-engineer like me. If you would like to meet him & other like-minded folks and talk more about the latest advances in #LLMs (or anything else under the AI sun), go to the Founders Creative AI Engineering Summit on 3/28 in Palo Alto. Early bird tickets are available here: https://lu.ma/engsummit

"In a 100 years from now, there has to be a movement that’s happened because of my work, that’s going to take a woman IPO on Wall Street every single year. That’s my vision." - Mala Ramakrishnan Thank you Prakash Narayan and Lena Kannappan to lead the keynote at the International Women's Day event by American Tamil Entrepreneurs Association Syamala R. Anjana Manian Divya Raghavan Riya Shanmugam Ritu Jha https://lnkd.in/gDQxmbe6

Looking forward to the Venture Capital Fireside Chat next week at the AI Innovators Forum timed with Nvidia GTC Ashmeet Sidana, Chief Engineer from Engineering Capital Elena Itskovich, PhD, Founding GP at Nest Catalyst Mala Ramakrishnan, Founder & Managing Partner, Progressive Ventures Where is venture money flowing in this new world of everything AI? And where should it go? Join us for the after party and dinner sponsored by TheAgentic Thank you Founders Creative and the amazing volunteers for driving this event of a few hundred people!

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Dive Deeper, Achieve More | This week from Founders Creative The power of specialized focus groups: where tech execs unite VENTURE CAPITAL EVENTS * Session with a VC | Online | Wednesday, February 26 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PST | https://lu.ma/88kei5mh * Making a break into Venture Capital | Palo Alto | Friday, Feb 28 2-3:30pm PST | https://lu.ma/6qvzg02r DEEP DIVE COUNCIL SESSIONS * AI Engineering Summit | Palo Alto | Friday March 28 12-5:30pm PST | https://lu.ma/engsummit * AI Cybersecurity Forum | Palo Alto | Thursday Feb 27 2-5pm PST | https://lu.ma/cyber1 * AI Product Salon | Palo Alto | Friday Feb 28 3:30-5pm PST | https://lu.ma/productsalon * International Women's Day Tea | Palo Alto | March 9 2-4pm PST | https://lu.ma/01eadkaf FOUNDER FOCUS EVENTS AI Innovators Forum | San Francisco | March 13 2-5pm PST | https://lu.ma/5h87f3pq BLOG OF THE WEEK Model Architecture Behind DeepSeek R1 | Ram Senthamarai | https://lnkd.in/gu465AXS COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT SERIES |?Raymond Lee?and Sophie Vu | https://lnkd.in/gkmyBAsU Click on our newsletter to see how else you can join us for more fun, learning, and networking.

"In a 100 years from now, there has to be a movement that’s happened because of my work, that’s going to take a woman IPO on Wall Street every single year. That’s my vision." - Mala Ramakrishnan Thank you Prakash Narayan and Lena Kannappan to lead the keynote at the International Women's Day event by American Tamil Entrepreneurs Association Syamala R. Anjana Manian Divya Raghavan Riya Shanmugam Ritu Jha https://lnkd.in/gDQxmbe6