AI Systems & Infrastructure @ SURF

Seattle AI Week @ SURF x SWELL: AI Systems & Infrastructure, Thursday 29 OctoberSURF Incubator, 999 3rd Ave, Suite 700, Seattle. $10 garage parking, passes at the Floor 7 front desk of SURF. 10:00 to 10:30am | From Prototype to Certified: Building Safety Into Robots Before It’s ExpensiveAkshay Chalana, co-founder and CEO, Saphira AI (YC S24). How to design safety into robots and physical AI early, before the cost of fixing it climbs. For robotics and hardware founders, systems engineers, and anyone whose product has to pass a safety assessment.https://luma.com/vpxnz4xo 10:30 to 11:00am | KEYNOTE: Inference Hardware That Keeps Up With the ModelsSaman Naderiparizi, CTO, Elastix.ai. Why fixed-function inference accelerators fall behind fast-moving LLMs, and how reconfigurable silicon that adapts to the model at runtime cuts latency and lifts throughput in production. For ML engineers, infra leads, CTOs and technical founders. Q&A included.https://luma.com/ilonzhkx 11:00 to 11:30am | Shipping Agentic AI in Production: What Actually BreaksRainy Jain, Senior Software Developer, Amazon Digital Acceleration. Why agents that look great in demos fall over at scale, the common failure modes, and the patterns Amazon uses to fix them. For engineers, founders and product leads building with agents.https://luma.com/xtwpzq8s 11:30am to 12:00pm | Cyber Security 101 for AI BuildersHosted with Maksim Akifev.