eHeads 23: Shipping with LLMs Under Real Constraints
Everyone can demo an LLM. Far fewer can keep one running in production.
For our 23rd meetup, we're moving past the demo and into the deployment — the part where latency budgets are real, failure modes are real, and "it worked in the notebook" doesn't count.
This is not a theoretical AI talk.
It's a builder-focused night where engineering leaders share what shipping with LLMs actually looks like once real constraints kick in — cost, accuracy, evaluation, reliability, and the unglamorous work of keeping AI dependable under real traffic.
👈 Who Should Attend
This room is for CTOs, engineering managers, AI builders, and founders shipping LLMs into production — or leading the teams who do.
🎤 The Panel
This edition runs as a moderated panel: three builders, real production stories, honest answers.
Ragde Falcis — CEO & Co-founder, ChatGenie Topic: Picking an LLM That Survives Production Benchmarks tell you which model wins on paper. Production tells you which one survives. Ragde shares how ChatGenie evaluated LLMs for its agentic customer support stack — and what actually mattered once real traffic hit.
Glenn Santos — Director of Engineering, Behaviorally Topic: Using Image Frontier Models in Production A few lessons learned from running image generation and vision frontier models in production — some familiar, some new, and some that might be obsolete soon.
💡 What to Expect
Moderated panel discussion with live Q&A
Lean Coffee roundtables — small-group, honest dialogue on your real engineering hurdles
Structured networking and socials
👥 About eHeads
eHeads is a fellowship for engineering leaders growing through real-world challenges. We believe leadership is a craft — and we get better at it together, through stories, shared wisdom, and honest dialogue.
📍 Venue
eHeads #23 will be hosted at Acceler8 by UnionSPACE, Legazpi Village — a coworking hub for founders, builders, and teams scaling new ideas.
🅿️ Parking
Parking is available at the Legazpi carpark and Greenbelt, with street parking along Gamboa St. on a first-come, first-served basis. We recommend arriving close to 6:00 PM to settle in.
🎟️ Spots are limited — RSVP now and join a room of builders trading hype for the real work of shipping LLMs.