Talks I’ve given, newest first, with a link to the recording where there is one.

2026

  • What an Agent Needs to Remember, Tokyo AI (TAI), Tokyo
  • Evaluating AI models: What I learned and what I’d do differently, Assembling 2026, Builder Stage, San Francisco
  • Agents talk at Build Like a Frontier Lab Engineer (Qodo + Bond AI), San Francisco
  • Rust Confessional: Durable Agentic Loop on Temporal, with Melissa Herrera, Rust AI Begins! (Rust AI and Data Ecosystem By the Bay), San Francisco (watch)
  • The Human Is an Async API, AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026, San Francisco (watch)
  • AI as Your Open Source Partner, Women in Open Source Day 2026, hosted by Snowflake (watch)
  • When Voice Agents Roll Initiative, lightning talk at She Ships: AI Demo Night (watch)

2018

  • Reinforcement, PyCon Russia 2018 (watch)

2017

  • Keynote, M3 Conference (watch)
  • Reinforcement Learning Overview, O’Reilly AI Conference, San Francisco (watch)

2016

  • What is AI?, Software Circus: Cloudnative Applications (watch)
  • Deep Learning and NLP with Spark, with Andy Petrella, Scala Days (watch)

2015

  • Deep Learning keynote, Strata + Hadoop World Singapore (watch)
  • Attention Neural Net Model Fundamentals, MLconf SF (watch)
  • How to run Neural Nets on GPUs, Strange Loop (watch)
  • Neural Nets for Newbies, PyCon 2015 (watch) and Bay Piggies, May 2015 (watch)

2014

  • Real World Application of Machine Learning for Social Change, Stanford Seminar (watch)
  • How to Get Started with Machine Learning, PyCon 2014 (watch)

Podcasts and interviews

  • What’s AI with Melanie Warrick, GCP Podcast #93, 2017 (watch)
  • Vibe Check, the livestream I host at Temporal on AI tools, agentic coding, and building AI in production