Joe Barrow is a Senior Research Scientist at Adobe Research, working on training and efficiently serving VLMs for document tasks. He previously led the machine learning team at Pattern Data, building document processing pipelines for hundreds of millions of pages. His open source ML projects include commonforms (making PDF forms fillable), tinyhnsw (building a vector database for fun and no profit), and LambdaNet (Haskell deep learning framework).

Hamel Husain is a ML Engineer with 20+ years of experience. He has worked with innovative companies such as Airbnb and GitHub, which included early LLM research used by OpenAI, for code understanding. He has also led and contributed to numerous popular open-source machine-learning tools. Hamel is currently an independent consultant helping companies build AI products.