The program
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09:00 45 min · Main Stage
The Data Platform Under the Model
Ingrid Solberg · AI Engineering
Every model in production is a thin layer over a data platform somebody has to keep correct. A keynote about the unglamorous half: lineage that survives a schema change, backfills that do not lie, and why the freshness guarantee is the one number the model team should be reading.
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10:15 30 min · Room 2A
Two Years Without a Sev1: What Actually Changed
Tom Bianchi · Platform & Infra
Quanta went two years without a severity-one incident, and it was not because the estate got simpler. A talk about the four habits that did it — fewer knobs, ruthless defaults, a change calendar with teeth, and treating near-misses as the real signal — with the numbers behind each.
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10:15 30 min · Room 2B
Evaluating Model Output When There Is No Right Answer
Olu Adeyemi · AI Engineering
In clinical summarisation there is no gold answer to score against, and accuracy is the wrong question anyway. How Kestrel Health built an evaluation set clinicians agreed with, what inter-rater disagreement told us about the task, and the failure modes that only ever showed up in review.
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11:15 30 min · Room 2A
Retrieval Without the Vector Database
Pavel Horak · AI Engineering
Meridian Freight's retrieval runs on the search index it already had. The talk compares it against the vector database it replaced on the same traffic — recall, latency, cost and the operational surface — and is honest about the two query shapes where the vector store still wins.
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11:15 30 min · Room 2B
The Metrics We Stopped Collecting
Aisha Bello · Developer Experience
Finch House deleted two thirds of its engineering metrics and got better at the job. Which ones went, what replaced them, and how to tell the difference between a measure that informs a decision and one that exists because it was easy to collect.
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