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Software Engineer, Creator of Gas Town

Veteran software engineer (Google, Amazon, Sourcegraph) and creator of Gas Town, a multi-agent orchestration framework for coordinating 20-30 parallel AI coding agents. Known for provocative, long-form blog posts on the future of coding agents and multi-agent coordination.

Miguel Lannes Fernandes

CAIO at EXAME

Chief AI Officer at EXAME and one of Brazil's most prominent AI evangelists. Former CTO of Witseed (acquired by EXAME). Known as 'Inventor Digital' with 240K+ Instagram followers, making AI accessible to business audiences in Portuguese.

Former IBM Executive, Author, Professor

Former IBM Brazil Director and one of the most respected voices on AI and digital transformation in Latin America. Author of 14 books on technology, visiting professor at top Brazilian universities (FDC, PUC-RJ, PUC-RS), and Founder & CSO of Redcore.

Swyx (Shawn Wang)

AI Engineer, Latent Space Host

AI Engineer, writer, and host of the Latent Space podcast. Former developer experience engineer at AWS, Netlify, and Temporal. Co-founder of smol.ai and author of \"The AI Engineer\" worldview. Known for coining terms like \"The Rise of the AI Engineer\" and building in public.

Creator of Datasette, Open Source Developer

Creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django. Prolific blogger and open-source developer focused on LLM tooling and practical AI applications. Known for documenting his experiments with AI tools and building useful utilities like llm, shot-scraper, and many more.

Sebastian Raschka

AI Researcher, Author of "Ahead of AI

LLM research engineer with 10+ years in machine learning. Author of \"Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn\" and the Ahead of AI newsletter (166k+ subscribers). Known for making deep technical ML concepts accessible through detailed, code-driven explanations.

CEO of OpenAI

CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, and DALL-E. Former president of Y Combinator. The most visible figure in the AI industry, driving both the commercial adoption of large language models and ongoing debates about AI governance and safety.

Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks

Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks and one of the most influential voices in software architecture. Author of 'Refactoring', 'Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture', and a signatory of the Agile Manifesto. His blog at martinfowler.com is a canonical reference for design patterns and development practices.

Research Lead at OpenAI

Research Lead at OpenAI. Author of the influential Lil'Log blog, known for comprehensive and accessible explanations of complex ML topics. Her posts on transformers, reinforcement learning, and LLM prompting are widely cited references in the AI community.

Co-founder of Anthropic, Author of "Import AI

Co-founder of Anthropic and author of the Import AI newsletter. Former Policy Director at OpenAI. One of the most influential voices at the intersection of AI research, safety, and policy, with deep expertise in understanding the trajectory of AI capabilities.

Co-founder & CEO, LangChain

Co-founder and CEO of LangChain, the most popular framework for building LLM applications. Previously at Robust Intelligence and Kensho. Leading the development of tools for LLM orchestration, agents, and production-ready AI applications.

Chief Scientist for SE at IBM Research

Pioneer of software engineering and co-creator of UML (Unified Modeling Language). Chief Scientist for Software Engineering at IBM Research. Known for decades of work on software architecture, design patterns, and thoughtful perspectives on AI's role in software development.

AI Educator, Founder of Mogglia

AI educator, LinkedIn Top Voice, and founder of Mogglia — a community for non-technical professionals mastering AI. Has delivered 250+ AI consulting sessions and worked at 3 AI startups. Top 2% worldwide in AI Education on LinkedIn.

Francois Chollet

Creator of Keras, AI Researcher

Creator of Keras, the most widely-used deep learning API. AI researcher formerly at Google. Known for the ARC (Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus) benchmark for measuring genuine AI intelligence and for challenging hype around LLM capabilities with rigorous reasoning.

Tech Educator

Educador de tecnologia brasileiro e criador do canal Akitando. Conhecido por explicações profundas sobre programação, arquitetura de software e, mais recentemente, tópicos de IA. Traz perspectivas únicas sobre tecnologia para a comunidade de desenvolvedores de língua portuguesa.

Wharton Professor, Author of "Co-Intelligence

Professor at the Wharton School studying AI's impact on work, entrepreneurship, and education. Author of the NYT bestseller \"Co-Intelligence\" and the One Useful Thing newsletter. Runs rigorous experiments on AI capabilities and translates findings into actionable advice.

CEO & Co-Founder of Google DeepMind

CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind. Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (2024) for AlphaFold's protein structure predictions. A pioneer in artificial general intelligence research, leading breakthroughs from AlphaGo to Gemini.

CEO & Co-Founder of Anthropic

CEO and co-founder of Anthropic. Former VP of Research at OpenAI. Leading advocate for responsible AI development and the 'race to the top' on AI safety. Under his leadership, Anthropic has built Claude and pioneered constitutional AI.

Caio Kyle Gomes

Data/AI Lead at Magazine Luiza

Data and AI leader at Magazine Luiza, one of Brazil's largest retailers. Creator of AI-PAVE-Br, a specialized LLM system for product attribute extraction in Brazilian e-commerce. Expert in data governance, privacy, and AI at scale.

ML Engineer

Software and Machine Learning Engineer focused on GenAI infrastructure. Built GAIA, Pier's first production generative AI application. Background from USP (Universidade de São Paulo) with experience at Samsung R&D Brazil.

Software Engineer, Author

Software engineer and author of 'Programming TypeScript' (O'Reilly). Known for work on developer experience, type systems, and building AI-powered development tools.

Andrej Karpathy

AI Educator, Ex-Tesla/OpenAI

Renowned AI educator and researcher. Former Director of AI at Tesla and founding member of OpenAI. Known for his exceptional ability to explain complex deep learning concepts through his YouTube lectures and educational content. Creator of popular courses on neural networks and transformers.

Alexandre Messina

AI Engineer at Lovable, MBA Professor

AI engineer at Lovable and professor of Business with AI at Faculdade EXAME's MBA program. Bridges the gap between AI engineering and business application in the Portuguese-speaking market.

Engineering Leader at Google

Engineering leader at Google and author of the influential 'Agentic Engineering' article that defined the distinction between vibe coding and disciplined AI-assisted development. Author of 'Learning JavaScript Design Patterns' and a widely-followed voice on web performance and developer tooling.