The Signal Loop: What to BUILD when you can build anything

Part of Global AI Builder Series: by The Gen Academy

Hosted by Aishwarya Srinivasan & Arvind Narayan and Lena Hall

Tue, Sep 8, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (1 hour)

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Building a career in AI as a non-coder
Aishwarya Srinivasan
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What you'll learn

Engineer Product Signal That Stands Out

Learn why customers choose some AI products over others, even when the technology is similar.

Measure and Minimize Signal Loss

Discover how to define a practical loss function for your product and identify where you're losing your ideal customers.

Build Feedback Loops That Drive Adoption

Learn how continuous feedback loops help refine positioning, strengthen differentiation, and increase customer adoption.

Why this topic matters

Building AI products has become easier than ever, but getting people to choose them is now the real challenge. As AI products begin to look and sound alike, success depends on your signal, not just your technology. Learn how to define a measurable loss function for product signal and build feedback loops that help the right customers discover, trust, choose, and champion what you build. every day.

You'll learn from

Aishwarya Srinivasan & Arvind Narayan

AI Engineers | Building & Teaching @ The Gen Academy

Aishwarya Srinivasan is the co-founder of The Gen Academy and one of the world's most recognized AI educators, with a community of over 1.2 million AI professionals across social platforms. Previously, she led AI Developer Relations at Fireworks AI and spent over a decade building AI products and ecosystems at Google, Microsoft, and IBM. She holds a Master's in Data Science from Columbia University. Known for breaking down complex AI concepts with clarity and honesty, Aishwarya teaches builders how to move beyond demos and develop production-ready AI systems that solve real business problems.


Arvind Narayanamurthy is the Co-founder of The Gen Academy, Previously AI Solutions Architect at Ema, and Founder of Eikos Health. He has built and deployed enterprise AI systems across Microsoft, IBM, Adobe, and high-growth startups, leading initiatives that translated machine learning into measurable business impact. Arvind holds a Master's degree from Carnegie Mellon University. His teaching focuses on first-principles thinking, practical engineering, and helping builders design, evaluate, and deploy reliable AI systems for production.

Lena Hall

Senior Director, Developers & AI - Akamai

Lena Hall is Senior Director of Developer & AI Strategy at Akamai, where she helps organizations adopt and scale AI in production. Previously, she led Developer Experience at AWS and held engineering and developer advocacy leadership roles at Microsoft, following her work as a software engineer at Microsoft Research. With over 15 years of experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and AI, Lena is a recognized international speaker known for her practical insights on coding agents, AI engineering, and building reliable production AI systems. 

Previously at

Akamai
Google
Microsoft
Fireworks AI
Adobe
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