AI & Engineering - Where AI Engineering Meets Product Design

​Alexandre Djerbetian (Joko), Erica Beavers (Alpic), and Romain Vuillez (BackMarket) come together for one evening to get into the weeds of building AI into real consumer products.

​Building an AI product is nothing like building software used to be. It's open-ended, largely uncharted, and full of new technical and product-design challenges no playbook covers yet. Which is exactly what makes it so exciting to build right now.

​Three companies, at three different stages, with three different ways of building with AI:

• ​Joko is building Juno, an AI shopping assistant over a universal catalog of hundreds of millions of products.

• ​BackMarket is building an AI assistant on top of their refurbished-tech marketplace.

• ​Alpic is building a framework and a platform to build and deploy ChatGPT / Claude apps.

​One evening to dig into what's already changing and anticipate what's coming:

• ​Raw, no-fluff field stories from people who actually build

• ​A room full of engineers building AI products

• ​Drinks & snacks 🍻

​Programme

• ​18:30 — Doors open

• ​18:45 — Introduction: quick presentation of Joko, the speakers, and the panel themes

• ​19:00 — Panel with:

  • ​Alexandre Djerbetian — AI Engineer at Joko, building Juno, their AI shopping assistant. Previously 4 years at Google as a Research Software Engineer on Applied AI.

  • ​Erica Beavers — Co-founder at Alpic. 15 years in B2B tech across product, GTM & partnerships — first employee at Streamroot (acquired by Lumen), now a repeat founder.

  • ​Romain Vuillez — Senior Data Scientist at BackMarket, building their AI shopping assistant. Ex-Criteo & BCG GAMMA.

  • ​Moderated by Alexandre Hollocou — Co-founder & CTO at Joko

• ​19:45 — Q&A

• ​~20:00 — Drinks, snacks & networking 🍻

​Practical info

​📅 Tuesday, June 30 · 18:30–21:00

​📍 Joko offices, Paris 3rd district (Ⓜ️ Strasbourg-Saint-Denis)

​🖥️ No replay, you have to be there

​🎟️ Free, but registration required