Thinking About AI, with AI

Dror Poleg is an economic historian, author and keynote speaker on how technology changes work, cities and markets. His book Rethinking Real Estate examines how technology reshapes the places where people live and work. A former technology and private equity executive, he has briefed organisations including UBS, Bank of America and Indeed, and spoken at MIT, Wharton and Columbia. His essays and research on work examine how technological change affects hiring, business models, cities and the distribution of economic opportunity. He combines economic history with questions about how people, businesses and institutions can adapt.

Eleanor Berger is an AI and software engineering expert.

A former principal engineering leader at Microsoft and Google, Eleanor also spent years in startups and consulting.

As Member of Technical Staff at Jimini Health, she is helping build clinical evidence-based AI for behavioural health. Through Agentic Ventures, she helps power users, engineers, and teams 10x their capabilities and redefine what's possible with agentic AI.

Eleanor's approach: technically rigorous, practically grounded, focused on results, and free of hype.

Hugo Bowne-Anderson advises and teaches teams building AI-powered systems, including engineers from Netflix, Meta, and Amazon. He hosts Vanishing Gradients, where he works with practitioners at the frontier of agent engineering, context engineering, evaluation, and AI-assisted software development.

Career highlights

His work in data science and AI education has reached more than 6 million learners.

Hugo Bowne-Anderson and Eleanor Berger are co-instructors of Build Your Agentic Software Factory.