Backprop Summit
Hosted by tokens& + Alessandro Amenta + Simon Tiu + Saroop Bharwani + Jacopo Piazza + AWS Builder Loft
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What to look forward to
Backprop by Tokens& will bring AI and security engineers together for expert talks and technical deep dives on agent sandboxing, identity, permissions, tool security, and adversarial testing. Speakers will include Mastra CEO and founder Sam Bhagwat, Adaption co-founder Sara Hooker, WorkOS founder Michael Grinich, and VGS Senior VP of Finance Simon Tiu.
Inside the event
A summit on frontier models and AI infrastructure.
backprop by tokens& brings together founders, investors, technical leaders, and AI engineers for a day of conversations on the technologies shaping the future of AI.
Hear directly from the teams advancing the frontier, what's working in production, and where the industry is headed.
What to expect
Expert keynotes, technical deep dives and panels and more throughout the day. Come early for breakfast, stay late for mingling and happy hour.
Speakers
- Sam Bhagwat, Founder and CEO @ Mastra
- Sara Hooker, Co-founder @ Adaption Labs
- Michael Grinich, Founder @ WorkOS
- Wes McKinney, Founder @ Kenn Software & Creator @ pandas/Apache Arrow
- Michel Tricot, CEO & Co-Founder @ Airbyte
- Gagan Bhat, Member of Technical Staff @ Anthropic
- Ethan Kurzweil - Co-Founder and Managing Partner @Chemistry
- Chaked R. J. Sayedoff - Co-Founder @ SpecificAI
- Nicholas (Nick) M. - Member of Product Staff @ Metaview
- Robert Hommes, Founder @ Moyai
- Saptarshi Banerjee, Sr. Applied AI Engineer @ OpenAI
- Vineeth Kalluru, Gen AI Solutions Architect @ NVIDIA
- Aditya Grover, Co-founder & CTO @ Inception Labs
- Yaniv Markovski, Head of Ecosystem Engineering @ Nimble
- Nikolay Rodionov - Co-Founder @Alpic
- Simon Tiu, Senior VP Finance @ VGS
- Saroop Bharwani, Co founder & CEO @ Senso.ai
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Who's in the Room
A curated summit for the engineers building agent runtimes and the engineers securing them. Engineers, researchers, founders, executives and investors from leading labs, AI-native companies, and security and enterprise teams.
Attendance is highly curated for founders, technical relevance, and decision makers.
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Note for this event: All guests must be 18+ and present a valid government-issued physical photo ID at check-in (digital IDs will not be accepted). Scooters and bikes are not permitted in any Amazon building with no on-site parking available.
San Francisco, CA
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Last checked: Nov 3, 2026. Confirm current availability before making plans.
Organizer page checked: Nov 2, 2026. Check registration for the latest details.