Presents
WHAT WE WILL DISCUSS
AI-native startups are in a race to turn intelligent features into production-ready products. But that journey is often blocked by GPU gridlock, unpredictable inference times, and dependency on external APIs. In the age of autonomous agents and LLM-based applications, developer velocity is everything—and owning your AI stack can be the difference between scaling smart and stalling out.
This executive dinner brings together technical founders, CTOs, and AI leaders at fast-scaling startups to explore what it takes to move from prototype to production—without compromising on performance or flexibility. We’ll unpack how emerging players are leveraging next-gen infrastructure to fine-tune open-source models, deploy agentic workflows at scale, and stay ahead of competitors reliant on public cloud bottlenecks.
We’ll also examine how technologies like Model Context Protocol (MCP) are enabling more efficient agent orchestration—by improving context management, routing, and stateful execution across multi-agent systems.
Discussion Highlights:
- From demo to deployment: Real-world examples of coding agents driving core product features.
- Extreme inference performance: Why speed matters more than ever for agent orchestration.
- Owning the stack: Lessons from teams building on cloud-native LLM infrastructure (like SambaNova Cloud).
- Beyond ChatGPT: How startups like Parasail and Blackbox are customizing open models to automate internal ops and accelerate releases.
- MCP in action: How emerging agent protocols like MCP are powering more intelligent, adaptive workflows.
- Defensibility through infrastructure: Building a stack that scales with you—not against you.
Who Should Attend:
Founders, CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and Heads of AI/ML at Series A–C startups with AI-native products and deep technical teams looking to scale agent-based applications with speed and strategic control.
AGENDA
6:00 PM – 6:15 PM
Welcome
6:15 PM – 7:00 PM
Roundtable Discussion
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Dinner
8:00 PM – 8:20 PM
Networking
8:20 PM – 8:30 PM
Closing
SOLUTION EXPERTS
Vasanth Mohan
Director, Technical Product Marketing and Developer Relations at SambaNova
Vasanth Mohan serves as Director of Technical Product Marketing and Developer Relations at SambaNova.
In previous roles, he has worked with thousands of developers to empower them to build the best scalable solutions across many emerging technologies, including VR/AR, Edge Computing, and AI.
At SambaNova, he is now focused on enabling developers and enterprises to unlock the value of Agentic AI with SambaNova Cloud to solve today’s business challenges quickly and efficiently.
Anton McGonnell
VP of Product at SambaNova
Anton McGonnell is SambaNova’s Head of SW Products and leads the team defining their cutting-edge full-stack chips-to-model platform. Prior to SambaNova, Anton played a pivotal role in shaping the development and implementation of advanced machine learning technologies at UIPath. Anton received his Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Queens University in Belfast and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Nicole Siegal Fuselier
Vice President Demand and Growth at SambaNova
Nicole is all about Building Scalable Growth Engines Passionate about transforming sales performance by strategically applying AI to unlock new revenue streams and accelerate deals. She architect GTM strategies that turn cutting-edge AI (like SambaNova’s enterprise platforms) into tangible sales results.Proven track record scaling revenue at high-growth SaaS startups (Magento-acq, Matterport-IPO, Dremio, Wurl-acq) and driving growth within established tech giants (Cisco, Viavi).
