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Pulling their weight: Shipping open models to production
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October 8, 2026 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA
Come help the Fastino Labs team warm up our new San Francisco office. Join us for a night of food, drinks, great conversations, and a panel on open-weight models.
Pulling their weight: shipping open models to production
Open-weight models are moving fast. Every week brings a new release, a new leaderboard shuffle, a new claim about parity with frontier closed models. Every team wants an open-weight model strategy, but it's hard to know where to start.
This panel brings together technical practitioners who evaluate, build, and ship models every day. You can expect a tactical and opinionated conversation, plus where the panelists think things are heading.
Panelists:
Venkat Srinivasan, Research Scientist @ NVIDIA
Kathy Koverec, Member of Product Staff @ OpenAI
Man Luo, Senior ML Scientist @ Abridge
Alex Marquez, Global Head of Experian Ventures
Moderated by George Hurn-Maloney, CEO & Co-Founder @ Fastino Labs
Agenda:
5:30 PM - Doors open, food and drinks
6:00 PM - Panel and Q&A
6:30 PM - Mingle the rest of the night
Food will be provided onsite by https://www.tonayense.com/ in our parking lot. Each guest will receive a complimentary meal voucher at check-in.
Date:
October 8, 2026
Time:
5:30 PM
8:30 PM
Event website: https://luma.com/5gcvcaoc
Event type:
Food and Drink
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