Summary
This is a practical look at building AI agents that drive business impact with Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI and co-creator of PyTorch. She’ll share strategic frameworks for agent design (from product-model co-design to sustainable data flywheels), plus case studies from customers Cursor, Uber and UiPath. Learn how top engineering teams approach model selection, fine-tuning, and scaling to outperform closed-source solutions. This session covers the full agent lifecycle, with insights for evaluating agent opportunities, deploying to production, and adapting to the fast pace of model evolution.
Speakers
Lin Qiao is the CEO and co-founder of inference platform Fireworks AI, which empowers developers and businesses like Uber, Verizon, Cursor and Notion to build highly optimized and production-ready genAI applications. Prior to founding Fireworks, Lin was the head of Meta’s PyTorch.
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