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Panel: What Breaks When AI Products Meet Real Users

Grace Liu, Tom Achebe, Kwame Mensah, Aisha Rahman

When
Tuesday, September 153:15 PM – 4:00 PM · 45 min
Where
Main StageFort Mason Center, San Francisco
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About this session

Four practitioners on the gap between the demo and the deployment: the failures that only appear at scale, the support burden nobody budgets for, and what they would build differently. Audience questions from the start.

Speakers (4)

Grace Liu
Grace Liu

AI Product Lead, Meridian

Grace has shipped AI features to twelve million users and killed about as many that never earned their place. She writes about interface design for systems that answer differently every time.

Tom Achebe
Tom Achebe

CTO, Forgeline

Tom co-founded Forgeline after leading platform engineering at two payments companies. He is the reason Forgeline had an evaluation suite before it had a marketing site.

Kwame Mensah
Kwame Mensah

Director of Engineering, Northwind Health

Kwame leads the clinical AI group at Northwind, where every model output is reviewed by a clinician before it reaches a chart. He is candid about what regulation does and does not actually slow down.

Aisha Rahman
Aisha Rahman

VP Engineering, Loomis

Aisha grew Loomis engineering from twelve people to ninety while shipping the company's first AI product. She writes mostly about the parts of that which went badly.

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