Fireside Chat with Avinav Pashine (Product Lead @ Meta)

Part of Global AI Builder Series: by The Gen Academy

Hosted by Aishwarya Srinivasan & Arvind Narayan and Avinav Pashine

Mon, Sep 7, 2026

3:00 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

From Digital Context to Physical Context

AI is moving from understanding screens to interpreting our bodies, movement, and surroundings.

The Future of Agentic AI in Wearables

Explore how wearable AI can become proactive, contextual, and responsive to the world around us.

Building AI That Understands the Real World

See how vision, sensors, and multimodal models help AI reason about real-world environments.

Why this topic matters

AI is moving beyond screens. The next generation of systems will increasingly understand where we are, what we are doing, and what is happening around us. This conversation explores how wearables, multimodal AI, and physical context could reshape agents, interfaces, and the way humans interact with intelligent systems.

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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.

Avinav Pashine

Product Lead AI for Wearables (CV/LLM) @Meta

Avinav Pashine is a Product Lead for AI Wearables at Meta, working at the intersection of computer vision, large language models, and next-generation computing experiences. He has spent more than a decade building 0→1 products, with a focus on turning emerging technologies into products people can use in the real world. His work explores how AI can move beyond screens to understand our environment, movement, and physical context.

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