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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Ketan Umare is Co-Founder and CEO of Union.ai, an AI development infrastructure company helping organizations build, deploy, and scale production AI. Union.ai provides a single platform that unifies infra-aware orchestration, model training, inference, and compliance, enabling teams to escape pilot purgatory and ship AI faster.
Ketan is also a leading contributor to Flyte, the open-source, Kubernetes-native AI/ML orchestrator used by 3,500+ companies. He led the original engineering team behind Flyte, building it to power dynamic, large-scale, and fault-tolerant AI workflows. Today, Union builds on that foundation to help enterprises operationalize mission-critical AI systems with lower costs, faster iteration cycles, and production-grade reliability.
Prior to founding Union, Ketan held senior engineering leadership roles at Amazon, Oracle, and Lyft, where he worked on large-scale distributed systems and data platforms.
In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his two daughters and exploring the outdoors.
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Agent demos are easy; durable production agents are not. While tools like Claude Code and OpenClaw simplify prototyping, teams still need to manage the code, context, tools, and infrastructure that make agents work in real environments. This talk breaks down the orchestration stack behind production agents: how to make them observable, debuggable, and durable, and how to design for recovery when failures happen across reasoning, tool use, networking, and execution. Drawing from real-world engineering experience, the session will outline practical patterns for building self-healing agent systems that can operate reliably in production.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
Business Leaders: C-Level Executives, Project Managers, and Product Owners will get to explore best practices, methodologies, principles, and practices for achieving ROI.
Engineers, Researchers, Data Practitioners: Will get a better understanding of the challenges, solutions, and ideas being offered via breakouts & workshops on Natural Language Processing, Neural Nets, Reinforcement Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Evolution Strategies, AutoML, and more.
Job Seekers: Will have the opportunity to network virtually and meet over 30+ Top Al Companies.
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The result is a fun and engaging five-minute presentation.
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