Building the Business Behind Open Source AI - May 14th @ AWS San Francisco

​Building the Business Behind Open Source AI

​Get the blueprint for Open Source AI success. Network with fellow builders and hear firsthand accounts of how to navigate deployment and monetization in the wild.

​The Logistics

• ​Date: Thursday, May 14, 2026

• ​Location: AWS San Francisco (525 Market St)

• ​Time: 1:30pm – 4pm PT (Happy Hour to follow)

​Agenda

​1:30 PM–2:00 PM    Networking

​2:00 PM–4:00 PM

​2:00 - 2:10 Host Welcome

• ​Sathya Balakrishnan, Sr. Manager, Solutions Architecture, AWS

​2:10 - 2:30  ZepAI: Daniel Chalef, Founder

• ​Signed is Not Shipped: Deploying AI into the Fortune 500

​2:30 - 2:50  Scalar Labs: Joe McCunney CEO

• ​Removing the AI data bottleneck

​2:50 - 3:10  Command Prompt: Joshua Drake, Founder

• ​Open Source Survival in the age of AI

​3:10 - 3:20  StreamNative: Matteo Merli, CTO

​3:20-3:40  Omnistrate, Kamal Gupta, CEO & Founder

​3:40-4:00 Data Robot: Romi Datta, VP Product

​Closing remarks

​4:00 PM–5:00 PM    Sponsored happy hour onsite