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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.

Nikhil Pentapalli is an AI Lead Engineer specializing in Agentic AI, production LLM systems, AI evaluation, and enterprise AI engineering. At Adobe, he works on AI applications using multi-agent systems, RAG, evaluation frameworks, and structured workflows. He is also the Founder of Tunable Labs, helping enterprises design and deploy production-ready AI solutions. Nikhil has built large-scale AI platforms, delivered major performance improvements, and worked across document intelligence and automation. He is also a speaker, mentor, and educator whose AI and ML courses have reached 100,000+ learners.