Date: Thursday, January 22, 2026
Time: 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Location: Bellevue, WA
Description:
The world has been captivated by large language models. But what happens when we reach the limits of next-token prediction?
Join us as we explore the shift from AI systems that simply talk to systems that can reason, act, and interact with the physical world.
Industry experts and leaders from big tech, startups, AI research, investment, and entrepreneurship will examine what comes next—and what it means for organizations, builders, and decision-makers navigating the post-LLM landscape.
HyperbeeAI
Myan Sudharsanan is an AI engineer and founder focused on advancing intelligent systems at the intersection of machine learning, hardware, and real-world applications. He holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering and a B.S. in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, along with a B.A. in Mathematics from Whitman College.
Myan’s graduate research centers on Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in the automotive domain, and he has experience developing and training AI models at the corporate level. He is the Founder and CEO of SchematicSense, an AI-centric hardware design platform specializing in analog circuit design. SchematicSense was a finalist in the Skandalaris Venture Competition at Washington University in Spring 2025.
His work reflects a strong interest in applying advanced AI techniques to complex, high-impact engineering problems, bridging theory, systems, and practical deployment.
Microsoft
Sharad Bajaj is a senior engineering executive with over two decades of experience building and scaling enterprise software, cloud platforms, and AI-enabled systems used by millions worldwide. A founding member of Microsoft Teams, Sharad has led global engineering organizations at Microsoft and AWS across data platforms, generative AI, and large-scale distributed systems.
His work focuses on building trustworthy, explainable enterprise AI by operationalizing semantic foundations, business ontology, and decision-grade platforms. At Microsoft, Sharad leads engineering efforts to advance Microsoft Dataverse as the semantic core of enterprise AI—enabling consistent business meaning, governance, and auditable AI across Copilot, agents, analytics, and applications.
Sharad is passionate about helping enterprises move from experimental AI to systems that can reason, act, and deliver real business value with confidence, security, and compliance.
Founder and CEO at Hitech Advisors
Haresh Sangani is the CEO of Hitech Advisors, leveraging technology to improve business and life. Prior to that, Haresh co-founded Faira, the most modernized e-commerce platform for buying and selling homes in the US. He held leadership roles at Amazon, AT&T, Kronos, and several startups before turning founder and entrepreneur. Also serves as an advisor to select executives and founders.
Jigar Mody has been a working on AI for past 25 years. He has over 2 decades of experience in big tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle with building AI services and platforms. His last corporate gig was creating and leading the AI services for Oracle Cloud as VP. He has also been a cofounder of multiple start-ups and currently is an advisor and investor in many start-ups focused on AI.
VP and Field CTO at Braintrust
Ameya is the VP and Field CTO at Braintrust, where he works directly with customer AI teams to help them understand and improve how AI and ML systems behave in production through observability and evaluation. He brings over two decades of experience building and shipping large-scale intelligent systems, leading multiple 0→1 efforts across Dropbox, Microsoft Office and Windows, and Facebook’s family of apps.
Previously, Ameya led AI and ML Engineering at Dropbox, overseeing search, discovery, recommendations, and agentic conversational systems, and also ran Dropbox’s Incubation organization, managing a portfolio of AI-centric product bets. He built AI-powered productivity features at Microsoft and developed large-scale safety systems at Facebook and Microsoft that protected users from abuse, fraud, and socially engineered attacks.
President of the Seattle Technical Forum
Hitech Advisors
