Prolific Meetup #1 – Researchers Building Real-World AI Tooling

​About the Event

​Prolific is bringing the AI community together in San Francisco to explore the evolving role of humans in post-training, alignment, evaluation, and AI at large.

​This series is designed to foster thoughtful exchange between researchers, practitioners, and builders, highlighting the evolving involvement of humans in AI.

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​This Month's Theme: Researchers Building Real-World Tooling for AI

​For our inaugural event, we’ll spotlight researchers who have taken their academic work beyond the lab, creating tools that are now part of real-world AI workflows.

​Confirmed speakers:

• ​Phelim Bradley – CEO & Co-Founder, Prolific. Sharing the Prolific founding story and lessons from building the infrastructure for human inputs powering today’s AI.

• ​Jiaxin Pei – Postdoc at Stanford HAI & incoming Assistant Professor at UT Austin. His research focuses on LLMs, agentic systems, and HCI. At UMich, he co-created Potato, an open-source data labeling system for effective and responsive human computation.

• ​TBA – A third panelist will be announced soon.

​​🗓️ Agenda

• ​5:30 – 6:30 PM – Arrival & networking (light snacks provided)

• ​6:30 – 6:40 PM – Intro

• ​6:40 – 7:20 PM – Panel discussion: Researchers Building Real-World Tooling for AI

• ​7:20 – 7:30 PM – Audience Q&A

• ​7:30 – 8:30 PM – Open networking

​👉 Reserve your spot now! Space is limited.