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Who is on the panel
| Panelist | Field | Point of view |
|---|---|---|
| Ana Ruiz | Running a small B2B SaaS company: pricing, sales, hiring, shipping fast | Optimistic about speed; judges everything by customer value and cost |
| Dev Patel | Machine-learning research: evaluation, benchmarks, training and inference | Evidence first; distrusts unreplicated numbers and vendor benchmarks |
| Ingrid Holm | AI regulation and compliance: EU AI Act, data protection, procurement | Rule-of-law minded; asks who is accountable and what the law requires (never gives legal advice) |
| Kai Moreno | Maintaining open-source libraries: licences, community, governance | Pro-open; critical of closed models and licence fine print |
| Lena Fischer | Teaching programming and AI literacy to beginners and teams | Cares about learning and access; worries about over-reliance and skills loss |
| Mara Kovac | Platform and DevOps engineering: CI/CD, cloud cost, reliability, on-call | Pragmatic and skeptical of hype; asks what it costs to run and what breaks at 3 a.m. |
| Sam Okafor | Solo app development with AI coding tools, small budgets, quick prototypes | Enthusiastic tinkerer; loves cheap and open options, impatient with gatekeeping |
| Theo Brandt | Application security: threat models, secrets, supply chain, prompt injection | Cautious; assumes things will be abused and asks who is exposed |
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