

Building and Shipping in the AI Era
How are the best teams using AI to build product?
Operators & Friends together with Confidence, by Spotify and Sierra are bringing together a group of founders, engineers and product builders to share how leading team ship, build and validate product with AI.
In discussion with:
Kristian Lindwall (Senior Director of Engineering, Spotify)
Vijay Edupuganti (Agent Engineering Lead, Sierra)
Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav (Developer Experience EMEA, OpenAI)
Agenda
18:30 - doors open
19:00 - fireside
19:30-21:00 - small bites, drinks, and vibes
21:30 - goodbyes, doors close
💙 Juhana & Michelangelo
About Operators & Friends
Operators & Friends accelerates the next generation of builders emerging with access to talent, distribution, and funding.
We've gathered thousands of company builders across Europe and US and backed 20+ teams alongside a16z, Index, Google Ventures, CRV, Lightspeed and many more.
About Confidence
Our mission is to empower product teams to make better decisions, faster.
We're building the experimentation infrastructure that the world's most data-driven teams rely on: statistically sound, built for scale, and designed so that doing the right statistical thing is also the easiest thing. In a world where the bottleneck has shifted from building to validating, Confidence is how the best teams stay ahead.
Born and battle-tested at Spotify, where 300+ product teams run 10,000+ experiments per year across thousands of different devices.
About Sierra
Sierra helps businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI by building autonomous agents that are smart, safe, and deeply customizable. We’re on a mission to change the way companies serve their customers - starting with the world’s most beloved brands.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit.