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PRESENTS

Closing the Agentic Loop

June 11, 2026

11:45 AM PST

Terra Gallery, San Francisco

Terra Gallery,
san francisco, CA

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About the Summit

Sapphire Ventures Hypergrowth Engineering Summit is a community-focused event, convening technical leaders (VPEs, CTOs, CIOs, CISOs, Heads of AI) from some of the most impactful hypergrowth startups and enterprises on the planet.

Together, we explore the intersection of engineers simultaneously creating AI agents while also being enhanced by them - fostering collaboration, networking, and shaping the future of engineering excellence.

Key Themes

FRONTIER REASONING & MULTIMODAL INTELLIGENCE

Unpacking the latest advances in model reasoning, multimodal perception, and world models - from training and post-training breakthroughs to chain-of-thought architectures - and what they unlock for the next generation of agent capabilities

FRONTIER REASONING & MULTIMODAL INTELLIGENCE

Unpacking the latest advances in model reasoning, multimodal perception, and world models - from training and post-training breakthroughs to chain-of-thought architectures - and what they unlock for the next generation of agent capabilities

THE RECURSIVE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING LOOP

Examining the recursive frontier where AI agents write, test, debug, and improve their own code and systems - from code generation agents accelerating development velocity to the compounding dynamics of AI building better AI

THE RECURSIVE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING LOOP

Examining the recursive frontier where AI agents write, test, debug, and improve their own code and systems - from code generation agents accelerating development velocity to the compounding dynamics of AI building better AI

AGENT ENGINEERING & RELIABILITY AT SCALE

Building the infrastructure to take AI agents from demo to production - covering orchestration, durable execution, context and memory management, tool use, skill composition, model routing, evaluation, guardrails, and observability required to operate autonomous agents at scale

AGENT ENGINEERING & RELIABILITY AT SCALE

Building the infrastructure to take AI agents from demo to production - covering orchestration, durable execution, context and memory management, tool use, skill composition, model routing, evaluation, guardrails, and observability required to operate autonomous agents at scale

GENERATIVE UX & THE HUMAN-AGENT INTERFACE

Redefining product design for an agentic world - exploring generative interfaces, progressive autonomy models, trust and control patterns, and the new metrics for measuring success when AI is no longer a feature but the primary mode of interaction

GENERATIVE UX & THE HUMAN-AGENT INTERFACE

Redefining product design for an agentic world - exploring generative interfaces, progressive autonomy models, trust and control patterns, and the new metrics for measuring success when AI is no longer a feature but the primary mode of interaction

Meet Our Speakers

We have an incredible roster of luminary speakers in store for our 5th annual. Stay tuned as we will be adding more each week!!

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Felix Rieseberg

Head of Claude Cowork & Code Desktop



Anthropic
Anthropic
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Sarah Sachs

AI Eng Lead



Notion
Notion
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Michael Grinich

CEO & Founder



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Shao-Qian (SQ) Mah

Technical Staff, Codex



OpenAI
OpenAI
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Jake Stauch

CEO & Founder



Serval
Serval
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Maxim Fateev

CTO & Co-Founder



Temporal
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Brace Sproul

Head of Applied AI



LangChain
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Bryce Schmidtchen

Founder & CTO



Anthropic
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George Salakirov

Head of Engineering



Wetravel
Wetravel
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Anders Ranum

Partner, Infrastructure



Anthropic
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Cathy Gao

Partner, Applications



Anthropic
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David Carter

Partner, Eng Excellence



Anthropic

Summit Attendees

We are honored to be joined by CTOs, VPEs, CISOs and Heads of AI representing a diverse ecosystem of market leaders.



2025 Highlights

Past Speakers

About the Venue

Location

Terra Gallery

Address

511 Harrison Street
San Francisco, CA 94105

Nestled on Rincon Hill in the SOMA, Terra Gallery is easily accessible from the greater Bay Area. Parking is available nearby, and the venue is easily accessible by public transportation, including BART.

We hope to
see you there!