Ananya Helmich is a Vice President of Software Engineering at Slack, leading the AI, Search, and ML organization. In nearly a decade at Slack, she has guided the company through hyper-growth, landing 0-to-1 business unlocks, scaling infrastructure massively, and building Slack's AI capabilities from the ground up. Ananya's teams build the AI & ML platform underpinning Slack, as well as the search, ranking, and retrieval systems behind Slack AI, including the launch of Slackbot, Slack's conte...