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Panel and reception | BY INVITATION | SEATTLE | NOV 17, 2026

Too Dangerous to Ship? How AI Builders Decide When a Model Is Ready to Act

We've reached the point where AI doesn't just write text and code. It books our travel, moves our money, and taps "confirm" on our phones for us. That leaves all of us, from consumers to businesses, facing the same question: do I trust this thing with my data, my money, and my name? Every lab says it tests for dangerous behavior before release, and every enterprise says it won't deploy what it can't stand behind. So what does "safe enough" actually look like once a model can act on its own, and who gets to decide? This panel brings together people who build models, ship them into products used by millions, and study how AI agents behave on real devices. They'll get specific about what they test before launch, the failures that keep them up at night, where benchmarks and red-teaming fall short, and when an agent should stop and hand control back to a human.
Date
Nov 17, 2026
Time
6:00 PM PST
Location
Seattle
By invitation only
40 spots, 16 open
VenueLotte Hotel Seattle809 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104, USAGet directions

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Agenda

  • 6:00 PM

    Arrival and welcome reception. Registration and networking.

  • 6:30 PM

    Welcome and introduction.

  • 6:40 PM

    Panel discussion, 45 minutes. Too Dangerous to Ship? How AI Builders Decide When a Model Is Ready to Act

    Mikhail Parakhin, Chief Technology Officer at ShopifyMikhail ParakhinChief Technology Officer, Shopify
    Olga Megorskaya, Chief Executive Officer at TolokaOlga MegorskayaChief Executive Officer, Toloka
    Tommy Guy, CEO and Co-founder at Enderis (Ex Microsoft)Tommy GuyCEO and Co-founder, Enderis (Ex Microsoft)
    Siddhant Bhambri, Senior AI Research Engineer at Samsung Research AmericaSiddhant BhambriSenior AI Research Engineer, Samsung Research America
  • 7:25 PM

    Q&A, 15 minutes.

  • 7:40 PM

    Dinner and Networking.

Who will be there

30 to 40 heads of AI, research leads and engineering leaders from labs, applied teams and enterprise buyers deciding when AI models and agents are safe enough to act on their own.

Head of AI or machine learning
Head of Applied AI
Head of Data
Head of Product
Research lead
Engineering leadership

Further details

Moderated panel hosted by Toloka. No slides, no product demo, no roadmap. Just conversation.

Lotte Hotel Seattle. 809 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104.

Reception, dinner and wine are covered by the host.

About Toloka

Toloka builds the data, evaluation and fine-tuning pipelines behind frontier and open model teams. We host these events because the honest questions about model quality do not fit into a keynote. toloka.ai