Backprop Summit

San Francisco — United States

Backprop Summit

When

11/17/2026, 5:00:00 PM

Where

San Francisco, California, US

About

A summit on frontier models and AI infrastructure. backprop by tokens& brings together founders, investors, technical leaders, and AI engineers for a day of conversations on the technologies shaping the future of AI. Hear directly from the teams advancing the frontier, what's working in production, and where the industry is headed. What to expect Expert keynotes, technical deep dives and panels and more throughout the day. Speakers Sam Bhagwat, Founder and CEO @ Mastra Sara Hooker, Co-founder @ Adaption Labs Jürgen Schmidhuber, Co-Inventor of LSTM Amber Yang , Partner @ Lightspeed Michael Grinich, Founder @ WorkOS Wes McKinney, Founder @ Kenn Software & Creator @ pandas/Apache Arrow Michel Tricot, CEO & Co-Founder @ Airbyte Gagan Bhat, Member of Technical Staff @ Anthropic Ethan Kurzweil, Co-Founder and Managing Partner @Chemistry Chaked R. J. Sayedoff - Co-Founder @ SpecificAI Nicholas (Nick) M. , Member of Product Staff @ Metaview Robert Hommes, Founder @ Moyai Saptarshi Banerjee, Sr. Applied AI Engineer @ OpenAI Vineeth Kalluru, Gen AI Solutions Architect @ NVIDIA Aditya Grover, Co-founder & CTO @ Inception Labs Yaniv Markovski, Head of Ecosystem Engineering @ Nimble Benjamin Wilms, Co-founder & CEO @ Steadybit Nikolay Rodionov , Co-Founder @Alpic Simon Tiu, Senior VP Finance @ VGS Saroop Bharwani, Co founder & CEO @ Senso.ai Want to Speak? Apply here. Who's in the Room A curated summit for the engineers building agent runtimes and the engineers securing them. Engineers, researchers, founders, executives and investors from leading labs, AI-native companies, and security and enterprise teams. Attendance is highly curated for founders, technical relevance, and decision makers. Want to Partner? Apply here. Request to attend Spots are limited. Choose a ticket type, and tell us a bit about why you're interested in attending. Requests are reviewed on a rolling basis. Learn more about the summit. See what’s possible. Follow us on X · LinkedIn · Newsletter Note fo

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