Evaluating AI Agents before Users Break Them

Aki Wijesundara is an AI leader with a PhD in Machine Learning and extensive experience mentoring startups at Google’s AI Accelerator. With a career spanning both research and applied AI, Aki has taught 5,000+ students worldwide how to design and deploy production-ready AI systems.

He has worked across cutting-edge areas of applied AI, from LangChain and RAG pipelines to observability and large-scale deployment. As a researcher and educator, Aki bridges the gap between theory and practice, making complex systems approachable and actionable for engineers, founders, and product leaders.

Aki is also a frequent speaker and advisor to organizations adopting AI, helping them transition from experimentation to production at scale.

Career highlights

• Ex–Google AI Accelerator researcher focused on respo

Marc Klingen is a technology entrepreneur, engineer, and the Co-Founder & CEO of Langfuse, an open-source LLM engineering platform that helps developers build, debug, monitor, and improve large language model (LLM) applications with observability, prompt management, evaluations, and analytics at scale. Langfuse was part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 batch and has seen rapid adoption across developers and enterprise teams.

At Langfuse, Marc leads product vision, engineering, and go-to-market strategy, bringing together full-stack development, product leadership, and business intelligence experience from both large organizations and early-stage environments.

Under his leadership, Langfuse has grown into one of the most widely adopted LLM observability platforms globally — used by thousands of

Lotte Verheyden is a Developer Relations specialist at Langfuse, the open-source LLM engineering platform that helps teams build, monitor, evaluate, and improve production-grade large language model (LLM) applications. Langfuse provides observability, prompt management, evaluations, and analytics tooling that accelerates real-world LLM workflows.

At Langfuse, Lotte’s work focuses on bridging the gap between the product and the developer community — helping users understand, adopt, and make the most of Langfuse’s capabilities through documentation, community engagement, and developer outreach. Her role spans supporting educational resources and fostering active participation in the open-source ecosystem around the platform.

Lotte is passionate about empowering developers and technical audienc