​You asked. We listened. So we’re doing it again.

​FDE Conference I and II filled up within a week, bringing together hundreds of FDEs, founders, and operators building at the forefront of AI.

​Now we’re back for round three.

​​The FDE Conference III + Hiring Fair

​Join us in San Francisco on October 29th from 3-9 PM for a day dedicated entirely to the people building, leading, and scaling forward deployed teams.

​Expect candid fireside chats, tactical breakout sessions, small-group conversations, and a dedicated FDE Hiring Fair + Company Showcase bringing together companies building forward deployed teams and people looking for their next role.

​​FDE Hiring Fair + Company Showcase

​A major part of this year’s conference will be our FDE Hiring Fair, bringing together companies actively building and growing forward deployed teams with FDEs, engineers, and technical operators interested in what’s next.

​Whether you’re actively looking for a new role, curious about which companies are hiring, or building an FDE organization yourself, you’ll have dedicated time to meet companies and candidates in person.

​More than anything, this is a chance to meet other people building in a function that is still being defined in real time.

​Space is limited. Register today!

​​Schedule

​3:00 - 3:30 pm: Arrival

​3:30- 4:15 pm: Breakouts

​4:30 - 5:15 pm: Fireside chat

​5:15 - 5:45 pm: Company spotlights

​5:45 - 9:00 pm: Hiring Fair and Happy Hour Networking

​Speakers

​Rochelle Mattern leads field engineering at Together AI, running the pre-sales and post-sales technical team embedded in Together's largest customers. Her team owns the technical outcomes across the full customer base and serves as the voice of the customer into Together's product, engineering, and research teams. She also works directly as a technical advisor to several key accounts, focused on the reliability and performance of production AI workloads at scale.

​Jetashree Ravi leads part of the Applied ML Engineering team at Fireworks, where she focuses on making inference fast, reliable, and production-ready. She works across the stack—from improving deployment performance and reliability under load to helping customers successfully fine-tune and launch models. When a workload is slow, unstable, or not behaving as expected, she works with teams to diagnose the issue and build a scalable solution.

​Jove Zhong is Head of Forward Deployed Engineering at Cresta, a $100M ARR enterprise AI company building the AI operating system for customer experience. In less than a year, he scaled Cresta’s FDE organization from 2 to over 50 people across seven countries, earning recognition as FDE Team of the Year at Propel 26. With 20+ years of enterprise software experience at IBM, EMC, and Splunk, and as co-founder of Timeplus, he shares practical FDE leadership lessons through his newsletter and video podcast, Forward Deployed Caffeine.

​​About Nixo

​Nixo helps forward deployed teams increase deployment capacity. Nixo brings customer context, engineering work, and project delivery together so FDE teams can ship faster, reuse what they build, and turn custom deployments into repeatable leverage.