Building AI Systems with DSPy - Beyond 101

Amir Feizpour is the founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Aggregate Intellect building a generative business brain for service and science based companies. Amir has built and grown a global community of 5000+ AI practitioners and researchers gathered around topics in AI research, engineering, product development, and responsibility. Prior to this, Amir was an NLP Product Lead at Royal Bank of Canada. Amir held a research position at University of Oxford conducting experiments on quantum computing resulting in high profile publications and patents. Amir holds a PhD in Physics from University of Toronto. Amir also serves the AI ecosystem as an advisor at MaRS Discovery District, works with several startups as fractional chief AI officer, and engages with a wide range of community audiences (

Ian Yu works as LLM Engineer at Pixomondo while independently working with multiple startups for agentic applications and RAG solutions. He's led design and deployed work across eCommerce, creative industry, legal tech, and affiliate marketing. These include high-QPS semantic search, high-fidelity RAG problems, data enrichment agent, to building systems from scratch. While not his only tool, Ian has deployed DSPy in various patterns to adapt to different team patterns and requirements.