Backprop Summit

A summit on frontier models and AI infrastructure. backprop by tokens& brings together founders, investors, technical leaders, and AI engineers for a day of conversations on the technologies shaping the future of AI. Hear directly from the teams advancing the frontier, what's working in production, and where the industry is headed. What to expect Expert keynotes, technical deep dives and panels and more throughout the day. Come early for breakfast, stay late for mingling and happy hour.

Speakers Sam Bhagwat, Founder and CEO @ Mastra Sara Hooker, Co-founder @ Adaption Labs Michael Grinich, Founder @ WorkOS Wes McKinney, Founder @ Kenn Software & Creator @ pandas/Apache Arrow Michel Tricot, CEO & Co-Founder @ Airbyte Gagan Bhat, Member of Technical Staff @ Anthropic Ethan Kurzweil - Co-Founder and Managing Partner @Chemistry Chaked R. J. Sayedoff - Co-Founder @ SpecificAI Nicholas (Nick) M. - Member of Product Staff @ Metaview Robert Hommes, Founder @ Moyai Saptarshi Banerjee, Sr. Applied AI Engineer @ OpenAI Vineeth Kalluru, Gen AI Solutions Architect @ NVIDIA Aditya Grover, Co-founder & CTO @ Inception Labs Yaniv Markovski, Head of Ecosystem Engineering @ Nimble Nikolay Rodionov - Co-Founder @Alpic Simon Tiu, Senior VP Finance @ VGS Saroop Bharwani, Co founder & CEO @ Senso.ai

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Who's in the Room A curated summit for the engineers building agent runtimes and the engineers securing them. Engineers, researchers, founders, executives and investors from leading labs, AI-native companies, and security and enterprise teams. Attendance is highly curated for founders, technical relevance, and decision makers.

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Follow us on X · LinkedIn · Newsletter Note for this event: All guests must be 18+ and present a valid government-issued physical photo ID at check-in (digital IDs will not be accepted). Scooters and bikes are not permitted in any Amazon building with no on-site parking available.