Join us at The Conduit to talk some code, network with your fellow developers and eat some delicious food.

**Talks and Speakers**

**What Makes an AI App Successful?**
What makes some AI/LLM applications successful and others not? Join us to hear from Rajiv Menon - Founder of AIAR - the world's first full self-paced, AI-driven startup accelerator. Demo included!

*About Rajiv*
Rajiv Menon is an entrepreneur, speaker, and mentor. He is the Founder of Informulate – a technical consultancy that uses Lean Startup and Agile methodologies to help clients build innovation capacity and execute high return initiatives. He has served in a variety of technical and management roles in organizations from Fortune 500 companies to pre-funding startups that span the spectrum of scale, technology, and types of teams.

**How to tell if it IS the network!**
Practical troubleshooting for public facing web applications. We'll go through how to validate DNS, CDN, and Reverse Proxies then determine where the break is via a live demo. Attendants should leave with some useful shell commands and good understanding of the systems that front many public facing services.

*About Rob Schneider*
Rob is a Senior Software Engineer working on the Edge Traffic team at GitHub! He's been in the Network/Cloud/SRE space for over 10 years now with exposure from everything to physical switches all the way to high performant reverse proxies.

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