Panel and reception | BY INVITATION | SAN FRANCISCO

What the platform teams disagree about in public

Four platform leaders take positions they have avoided taking publicly. The reception afterwards is where the argument actually gets settled.
Date
Nov 12, 2026
Time
17:30 to 21:00
Location
San Francisco
By invitation only
60 spots, 22 open

Key speakers

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Head of platform

A frontier model lab

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Director of ML infrastructure

A public fintech

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Principal engineer

A large commerce platform

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Research engineer

Meridian Labs

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Agenda

  • Are evals ready to replace human review, and where are they still lying to you?

  • Is the cost curve breaking the business case, or fixing it?

  • What is the one thing every team is doing right now that will look wrong in a year?

  • Where does the next hire come from when the field is picked clean?

Who will be there

40 to 60 practitioners building agent platforms and evaluation systems, with a smaller panel at the front.

Head of AI or machine learning
Engineering leadership
Product leadership
Four platform leaders take positions they have avoided taking publicly. The reception afterwards is where the argument actually gets settled.

Further details

Moderated by an independent journalist. No product demo, no roadmap slide.

Venue in SoMa. Doors 17:30, panel 18:00, reception 19:15, close 21:00.

Drinks and food during the reception are covered by the host.

About Meridian Labs

Meridian Labs builds evaluation and observability tooling for teams shipping agents into production. We host these rooms because the questions that matter are the ones nobody wants to put on a slide.