Summary
Every engineering org is being asked to "do more with AI" — but most teams struggle to tell a genuinely valuable use case from an expensive distraction. In this roundtable, we'll share frameworks and hard-won lessons for evaluating AI opportunities: how to stress-test the business case, spot the red flags early, and build the organizational confidence to say no to the wrong bets.
Host
DineshKumar Lakshmanan
Senior Director of Engineering @ IPSY
DineshKumar Lakshmanan is a Senior Director of Engineering with 25+ years leading data, platform, and AI organizations at scale. At IPSY, he built IPSYMatch — an AI-powered personalization engine — and drove a 50% reduction in data infrastructure costs. Previously at PayPal, he operated systems at 1T+ transaction scale across 200+ countries. He's passionate about helping engineering leaders cut through AI hype and focus on bets that actually move the business.
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