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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
Table size
60 seats, 22 open
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Who is at the table

The room

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

Head of AI or machine learningEngineering leadershipProduct leadership

What gets discussed

What the panel is actually arguing about

  1. 01Are evals ready to replace human review, and where are they still lying to you?
  2. 02Is the cost curve breaking the business case, or fixing it?
  3. 03What is the one thing every team is doing right now that will look wrong in a year?
  4. 04Where does the next hire come from when the field is picked clean?

On the panel

  • Head of platform, A frontier model lab
  • Director of ML infrastructure, A public fintech
  • Principal engineer, A large commerce platform
  • Research engineer, Meridian Labs

Confirmed so far

Guests already seated

Named on arrival. Listed by role and company type until then.

  • Series C developer toolsHead of engineering
  • Public consumer platformStaff engineer, ML
  • Series B applied AIDirector of product

How it runs

Format and conduct

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.

Chatham House rule.

Anything said here can be used afterwards. Who said it cannot. Nothing is recorded, and no attendee list is circulated or sold.

Your 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.

Request a seat

Seats are confirmed by the host, not first come first served. We will come back to you within two working days either way.