Building Reliable AI Systems: Tech Talk, Panel, Book Launch and Mixer
What does it take to build AI systems that work reliably in the real world?
Join us at Book Passage in San Francisco’s Ferry Building to celebrate the launch of Building Reliable AI Systems by Rush Shahani, with a panel of founders and engineering leaders working on that question every day.
We’ll explore the journey from promising prototype to production: what breaks, what teams learn along the way, and what it takes to build AI people can depend on. Bring your questions for an open Q&A with the panel.
Meet the speakers
Rush Shahani — Author and AI Lead at Tribe AI; former co-founder and CTO of Persana AI
Kaushik Srinivasan — Platform Engineering Lead at Eve; co-founder of CompliantLLM; previously at Uber and Google
Michelle Marcelline — Co-founder of The Prompting Company; former co-founder of Typedream, acquired by beehiiv
Shraddha Agrawal — Enterprise FDE at Handshake AI; previously at Vercel
The panel and Q&A will be facilitated by Nicolina Nanni, Forward Deployed PM Lead at Tribe AI. The event will be organized by Sriya Maram, an exited YC founder and Product Lead at Eve Legal.
Whether you’re building AI products, bringing them into your organization, or curious about what makes them work, come for practical perspectives and a thoughtful conversation.
📍 Book Passage · 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco
🗓️ Monday, October 26, 2026 · 5:00–6:30 PM PT
📚 Book raffle: We’ll raffle off several free copies of Building Reliable AI Systems at the event.