Thought Leadership Dinner "The Retrieval Reckoning"

​Join Us for an Exclusive Evening: Unusual Ventures Thought Leadership Dinner

​We’re excited to invite you to an intimate gathering of forward-thinking engineering executives at the Unusual Ventures Thought Leadership Dinner. This exclusive event is designed to spark strategic conversations around the growing importance of memory-rich architectures—and why engineering leadership in this space is more critical than ever.

​You’ll be joining a select group of 16 technology leaders, including:

• ​Brett Teele, CFO and Partner, Unusual Ventures

• ​Niamh O'Donnell, Director of Programs, Unusual Ventures

• ​André Zayarni, Co-Founder and CEO, QDrant

​Additional guests include top engineering minds from leading Silicon Valley tech companies.

​Venue details will be shared directly with registered attendees.

​The Retrieval Reckoning: How the World's Most Ambitious AI Teams Are Rebuilding the Foundation

​Retrieval has quietly become the hardest problem in production AI. A fashion platform running real-time visual similarity across millions of SKUs. A healthcare system matching clinical concepts across unstructured records and medical imaging. An agentic platform maintaining persistent memory across hundreds of millions of user workspaces. Different industries, same wall, and the teams pulling ahead are the ones who figured this out first.

​Low-latency filtering at billion-vector scale. Multimodal search combining image and text in a single query. Hybrid retrieval intelligently routing between semantic and exact match. These are no longer research problems. They are live infrastructure problems.

​This invitation-only roundtable convenes the engineers and product leaders solving these problems in the real world, across e-commerce, healthcare, media, cybersecurity, and autonomous agent platforms, to compare notes on what's working in production and what isn't.

​Join us as we delve into the critical role of memory and retrieval in enabling truly autonomous, adaptive Agentic AI - and shaping the future of intelligent systems.